Wednesday, August 31, 2005

i was especially lazy today. woke up at 945am but did not do any housework just surf internet and prepared stuff for the visit to TTSH in the afternoon. hee hee,,, came back from there was about 4 pm.... then slept all the way to about 630pm... sound like a pig right... tsk tsk tsk !!!

while waiting for the gang to meet for lunch at Novena Square, i did my normal routine to the music shop, Sembawang. There are so many interesting CDs such as May day's 知足, 品冠's , then there is this eric guy (think he is a japanese) , winter's ... album (Oops forgot the title) anyway it's a red colour cd cover... sounds good .... he uses piano and flute i think... not bad,,, i heard it once over at millenia walk not too long ago. howz ....cannot buy now coz on budget... =( besides that chris spheeris also has one compilation but i already have one of his album that consist of most of his most popular works. hmmm,,,, still looking for the japanese album of the original singer of "sakura". cannot find his mp3 online though... and worse,, i forgot his name again,,, am i getting old? ergh .....

1:26 PM
Caris

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

it's karaoke session today. But before that there was an episode before the session. Leen, Bin and i met up at maxwell market for lunch first. after lunch, leen and i made our way to the tea chapter place at bukit pasoh road. vividly, we remembered where we were heading but hor ... some how or rather we still made blunder at a turn and that led us back to tanjong pagar mrt station. That was also when we found out that the operation time starts at 2pm not 1pm. both of us were prespiring like hell and feeling kinda frustrated though ..so we decided to take mrt back to outram.. luckily on the way we met up with lawrence and D.

the sound system there was not very fantastic.. but was alright lah. but i dun really like the mic .. coz just sound very off when i sing with the mic.. haha ..later we concluded that it is due to skill not person... coz leen and bin have not issue with the mic at all.... ha ha .... well i have never been a good karoke singer ...... i can always sing without music but once i need to follow the screen to sing ,, i dun seem to hit the correct pitch,,, should have practise my guitar and sing with the instruments ,, may be will be much better than following the mtv itself...

we sung many english numbers today... and sounds better than chinese pop songs.. hee hee dunno why leh ..

after all the singing,,throat is feeling a bit sore ..... need to drink lots lots of water liao ..

2:02 AM
Caris

Monday, August 29, 2005

i have made a visit to the changi airport today. there are two purposes of going there. firstly to weigh our modified board. I think most people will raise their eyebrows when they heard it. coz my two brothers at home gave me one kind of look when they heard what i intend to do.. all the way to airport to weigh the board when the weighing scale at home can do the job. However, the normal weighing scale is not that accurate... since there is a way to get accurate measurement why not right. hee hee ..... my perfectionist instinct at work again !!! and proved that there is a 0.5 difference in reading. so worth the trip hor (",)

Anyway, the other purpose of going to the airport was to send david off. He is our sonography lecturer who is going back to his home, sydney, for good. He has been a very good lecturer and imparting us his precious knowledge in sonography as well as imaging. strict and demanding but yet it is a rewarding experience to learn from him. Besides the accelrated students (beng, sh,xy & me), some of the scholars in year three went to. there were many students, ex students there to send him off. he was busy catching up with the various groups. while waiting for him to check in, we were keeping ourselves occupied with shin ann's baby. so cute and adorable. hee hee. Well, he did not cry like they thought he would.

Managed to catch up with chen and ET. hee hee ,,,,, miss them much much manz...

2:59 PM
Caris

Sunday, August 28, 2005


my new addition to my soft toy department... a gift from my mum. ha ha ha ...

can anyone recognise what animal does it resemble?
my younger bro named it "pig". obviously this is not a pig..... ...but becoz "pig" was bought together with a pig softtoy. think that's how "pig" got its name from.. hee hee

"pig" reminds of a song which i love to sing when i was young and it goes like this :

" i can spell hat H-A-T
i can spell cat C-A-T
but i cannot spell HiPPOTHAMUS"

hee hee .... nope baby ,, "pig" is not mopping floor today !!!!

2:59 PM
Caris

finally the long awaited one week break is here!

this week is going to be a busy week coz the final year project report has to be out by this week and nothing has been done so far. hope can cramp everything in by this week. Then there are two quizes, imaging and sonography, the following week. This means another round of mugging away. so sad that there will not be much rest time during the break or rather i will be expecting to waste lots of time in doing unrelated stuff like surfing internet and stuff. Need to hunt for material though... coz need to make a bag for the modified board. dunno have time to sew that or not. yes ,,, i just mentioned sewing .. which pple like me has never been good at. have to get my butt moving if i need to get so many things done in one week. Am i setting unrealistic goals?,,, we shall find out at the end of the week =)

elder bro and i was discussing about trip to KK. he commented that i make the trip sounds so terrible , the cold weather and the preparation of the respective gears i had done before. Maybe i am not as fit as him lor.. but at the point of time when i was climbing mt kinabalu, i was not in my very best coz i was hit on my menses peroid at that time... naturally i felt pretty weak and very afraid of cold lor. yes i agreed that i was not well prepared for the trip... but i make it back lor... anyway... everything i say he is not going to believe me.. so i better keep my mouth shut from now on.... dun believe me then dun ask me lah ... (",)

5:20 AM
Caris

Friday, August 26, 2005

Radiography ica was another flop. The fill in the blanks questions were so foreign to me. Luckily, i was not the only one having the same problem. There was no end result reflected at the end of assessment so i dun know if i managed to pass the paper or not. Keeping my finger crossed. i was so tired after the pathology ica preparation.. could not really concentrate on radiography though.

Anyway, yesterday was a horrible day for me coz firstly i woke up at the wrong side of my bed in the morning. i wasn't feeling very good at all. sighz. after the radiography ica, was feeling even worse than before manz.

We did some filming of the user protocol for our modified board. well, at least we did something worth commended for yesterday.Things went pretty well just need to do editing and writing the user manual and final report during the one week break. however, i made a blunder at the end of the day by suggesting to bring the board home since we need it during the break forgetting that we still need it for today experiment. i guess everyone was too tired to think too.. so blur blur leen brought it home and holder is with xy. i only realised the mistake half way through the journey home. I felt so bad to make leen carry it back all the way from kallang again. so sorry folks for my blurness.

At home, there was no peace too. mum was pretty worried about the house loan payment. things did not help with my grandma sick in bed and she has to handle the housework herself without the assistance of the maid as before. She was very weary and fustrated over the fact that dad has not been resting well since he is always busy with choir rehearsals and performances. However, dad insisted to attend prayers session for one of the member's son who met serious road accident. Mum was like making a big fuss over that. i understand that her point of view is that if too busy then dun go ,, ,chant at home also the same. ... dad felt that since we dun know the name.. why not join the others and he has promised to attend. so in the midst of my nap, i heard their arguement. of course, i dun want to involve so i pretend to sleep . =P In the end, they still went .... both face black black... in my point of view, i dun see any problem with my dad attending the session coz in the first place he has already made the promise to attend. secondly, it is doing a good deed to pray for recovery of the injured. sometimes, mum is a bit self centered but not as "human" as dad and i... hee hee ..so bad right.... just kidding.

what a day .... yucks !!!

4:01 PM
Caris

Thursday, August 25, 2005

today pathology ica was a disaster. The mcq questions were pretty easy nothing difficult ,, however, i suffered from mental block ... did not select the correct answers. sigh!!!! hope can pull through. simple things like malaria is caused by plasmodium vivax... i can get this wrong,,, this is so unforgivable coz that's my field... although it has been quite a while since i read microbiology... still this is no excuse right... Am i being too hard to myself? Personally i dun think so .. coz this is something within my capability

tomorrow still has radiography ica. That is so sianz.. coz i dun feel like studying at the moment. i just want to play.....

8:10 AM
Caris

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

did not attend the behavioural science lecture this afternoon coz need more time to study for the pathology ica. this was the first time i skipped lecture. Well,there is no need to leave good records for the school since i have not do so for my results so far. ha ha

it has been a long time since i heard my elder brother played his guitar. If i remembered correctly, after he had started working in the new company, he hardly had time to practice his guitar. He is always busy flying all over the globe and keeping his gf company till sometimes i wonder is he still taking up the guitar course at yamaha. hee hee. Hearing him play ... remind me that i have not touch my guitar for a long time too. I still practise on the piano occasionally. However, my stupid guitar is still not in tuned yet.. think i need to restring again. feel like bringing to my shifu and ask him to settle for me.. but he's too busy with his composition thingy liao. See how lahz... i want to buy a new guitar leh... and a new piano... coz i may need a silent mode piano for practice next time. ......=)

2:41 PM
Caris

Monday, August 22, 2005

Just finished writing out the essays for pathology ica on wednesday. hope the information is stored up somewhere in the brain. if not will have to struggle on tuesday night liao. Still have to study radiography. Think tomorrow can be dedicated to radiography. i shall leave trina's essay over the weekend and hand it up on monday. deadline should be pretty realistic hor =)

i should be in bed at this time. but my mind is very active now. any suggestions on how to unwind in the shortest possible time so that i can catch more hours of sleep to maintain healthy lifestyle. ha ha ha... =P

4:16 PM
Caris

August is a pretty hectic month for me. i am so busy with stuff that i forgot to settle all my bills. My HP and internet bills were like 2 weeks overdue. Ha hA .... luckily i remembered to settle my credit card bill in the beginning of the month. The scary part was that i dun even remember that i did received the bills at all and they are happily residing at my computer table. That goes to show how forgetful i have become. at least i did not drag them for one month. that will be the ultimate manz ....

Sometimes, i asked myself why we need to settle so many bills when we grow up. Everything is money. We have to pay for almost everything. Nothing is free of charge. Part of growing up is to learn how to manage one's financial status coz without money, quality life cannot be attained to a certain extent. One may not be that well to do but must at least earn enough to survive or rather to pay all the basic expenses to maintain a living. Then comes the question of how much is adequate? guess i cannot answer the question coz the amount required changes as u age and have a change of responsibilities. I may need less when i am single but when i start a family, i will require to earn more money coz expenses have increased due to various loans. there are just too many issues. so sad right humans are not only slaved by time ( i remember one of my JC maths lecturer always like to use this phrase coz we will always rush off after the bell rang =P) ,,, here i would like to add we humans are also slaved by the power of money eventhough i dun really bother over money issue but need it to sustain my life... sigh!!!!!

4:14 AM
Caris

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Well, i should be preparing for my pathology and radiography ICA today. Look at what i did. i took about 2 hours to revamp my blog. No major changes just the colour scheme.. wanted to do more......hee hee leave it to the next time then when i have more time to design it all over again. (",) before i start receiving messages from friends to scold me for wasting my time again. hee hee....so many years liao ..should have known me well hor ... =P

11:46 AM
Caris

Saturday, August 20, 2005

It's getting worse. I have been dozing off to la la land during lectures. It started with only a few particular lectures ... now it has infected all my lectures. I just cannot stay awake. Oh my......getting more and more like SH liao ....always sleep in class,, but he is smart... i am not... sianz...

2:55 PM
Caris

Finally, i finished watching the korean tv drama serial, Da Chang Jin. 70 chapters !! hee hee. all the sleep which i sacrificed and the previous study time was placed aside just to concentrate on the show. Well that's me. Once i started a task, i will try my best to complete it in the shortest possible time. I am not a big fan of korean drama though. Just that i liked the plot for this particular drama.

It's about this gal, Chang Jin. Her lifestory of how she become an orphan at the age of 6, how she learn the culinary skills in the palace, her curiousity which enabled her to seek and gain knowledge faster and wider than her peers, how she lost her beloved mentor in political conspiracy, how she become a successful physician later in her life. oh how can i forget her touching love story. guess in a way she is very lucky that she has this special one whom protected her and even willing to forgo his career in order to persuade the king to confer her as his personal doctor. In that ancient era, females are considered lower status than males. The female doctors working in the palace only attend to female patients and they are not allow to prescribe any remedies. I was so touched that the dying king actually secretly made arrangement to send her to her lover so that he can continue to take care of her and protect her from coming to harm by the members of the imperial court. Although chang jin and her family led a fugitive lifestyle, she still managed to continue her practice as a doctor. Very inspired by her !!!!

No wonder this drama is so famous in hong kong and other parts of asia.





2:42 PM
Caris

Friday, August 19, 2005

Junyang did not make it to the final for project superstar. Thought he could make it since he is the hot favourite. Suddenly, i felt so guilty that i never cast any votes for any of them yesterday. For the past weeks, i have been doing my minor part to keep the two of them in the competition. Guess for the final, due to unforeseen circumstances and fate =P i miss the voting time period. Oops... one of the reasons was that i could not decide who to vote for. Subconsciously, i wanted to leave it to fate........ I believe that both wei lian and junyang will get a contract loh.... totally based on gut feeling not that i heard any news from somewhere. hee hee....

Weilian has been doing well too..... Hope he will continue on to win the final title.


3:32 PM
Caris

Saturday, August 13, 2005

things are not looking good at the moment. I am too distracted by korean drama, Da chang Jin. I spent almost 4 hours every night after dinner watching VCD with my mum. Eventhough i have quizes the following day, i still studied in front of the TV set. Of course, my eyes were glued to the TV screen instead of my notes. I still have outstanding website assignment, Trina's assignments as well as the FYP report. Oh no, still need to start preparing for the pathology ICA. This is definitely not looking good. How am i going to find time to do all these? Yes i know, I should refrain myself from getting addicted to the show and hopefully i can.

With grandma hospitalized, i have to resume my household chores again. Have to help my mum with the ironing and cleaning up just like before. Long long time never carry out such "exercise" liao. With the maid around, i only need to mop the floor over the weekend... now have to mop during weekdays too. Ironing is something i have not been doing for a very long time. But i like to iron ha ha ... although the clothes are not very pressed. Mum always complain that i do sub standard work .. which i agree,,, i simply ignore the minor imperfection after 1 hour plus of ironing . hee hee

1:36 PM
Caris

Friday, August 12, 2005

It's friday again. That's fast especially when there was a public holiday earlier this week.

Grandma is still sick. My dad sent her to the doctor this evening after so many days. doc has advised to send her to A&E coz her heart is very weak and she is still running a fever plus low blood count. These symptoms seemed to be similar to dengue fever leh ...... but there is no rashes outbreak. Then again, it took my mum 7 days to develop rashes the other time when she was down with dengue. Keeping my fingers crossed. Auntie dun wan to send her in immediately. I am not very sure of the reason behind why she dun want to admit her to A & E a few days earlier. Maybe she knows that grandma doesn't like it there. Since she had a weak heart, the same medicine will be prescribed. We all know that she will just stay in there for a few days and will be discharged again with the doc informing us that she may leave us anytime. Sigh!!!!

Something happened at home early this morning. The shower panel in my mum's room shattered. Luckily, i did not change in the toilet this morning. My dad was like telling how lucky i was that i did not follow my routine sequence this morning. No one was hurt except that my dad suffered a few minor cuts while clearing up the mess. Really must thank Gohonzon for that lor.. everyone just escape from it. Now will need to install a new door for the shower panel.

3:35 PM
Caris

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Today is Singapore 40th birthday!! Happy national day!!!

Only managed to study for tomorrow's imaging equiz and working on thur's radiography equiz too. I could not really focus what i am doing as usual. hee hee

Watch the parade.... as usual eversince i shifted to the current home, I did not get to enjoy the firework display. At my old place in AMK, it offers a very good view of the magnificent display. At my current location, i can heard the loud banging sound but cannot see as view was blocked by the newly built 30 storey flats. Sigh !!!!!

Need to go and buy another pencil case coz my current's zip was spoilt. couldn't find one at Popular on Friday.. wondering where else to shop.... maybe go bishan tomorrow to try my luck. =)

2:03 PM
Caris

Monday, August 08, 2005

well, i was watching tv from 8 plus till now. Yes, i know ... i should have spent my time on writing reports and stuff..... but no mood mah. Anyway, that's the only time my tears can shed freely. No need to control ... just let the tap runs. ha ha.....

In that jap tv serial that i was watching, the topic today was on professionalism. How both internal and external factors could affect our professionism in the medical field. Hmmm.... maybe there is not true hero in real life. Although we may not find a "Doctor Shindo" in real life, maybe there is someone closed to his character. I am not dreaming okie.. may be just somewhere out there.. someone like him do exist. =)

3:20 PM
Caris

Saturday, August 06, 2005

One strange thing has happened this morning during presentation. Beng accidently deleted our presentation slides from my thumb drive. Luckily, someone else has downloaded the final copy that i had sent out last night before i retired for the night. Everything went pretty well for the rest of the team mates... and of course... i was lost in the midst of my portion again.... i was trying to adhere to the allocated 35 mins. so was busy thinking of what to be presented and what to exculde. Our lecturer commented that we did a good job.... i was not very satisfied with it anyway.

H
as been through some rough times for the preparation of the presentation slides. .....

I was very hot tempered today.. and did many things which i should not have done..,,,, now i cannot help but feel bad about it. One of our project mates was just getting on my nerve all day round. I dun want to be harsh with my words. I really need to control myself.. this was not very good lor ... Firstly, he went up to collect the board without telling us... Bin and I made our way there and could not find our board... i tried telling him that next time,, at least informed us what he intends to do ,, so that same additional energy can be saved for something else.

During demo of our product to the fellow RGs, we realised that the board may be giving wat due to the contraction of the wood. We asked him to get down at first in the nice method. Again the nice way and he was not responding to the more polite way. .. So i raisd my voice. in the end dunno what comments.

4:34 PM
Caris

Friday, August 05, 2005

i did not perform very well in today's presentation. But heck care liao....... Tomorrow there will be another presentation.. i am still preparing for it at the moment. hope everything is fine and the relevant context.

Received news today that my future boss has resigned from NUH. That's so disappointing. Imagine that i accepted the sponsorship partly because of the boss ,, then now he is leaving.. However, if he is leaving for a greener pasture.. he has my blessings then. Afterall it has been so many years working in the same place. It is good to have a change of environment. Sigh !!

Hurray!.. Both Junyang and Weilian proceed on to the next round for superstar project. I was pretty worried for Weilian as he has chosen the wrong song for the night. Despite of the negative feedback on his performances and rumours spreading around, I really think this guy can make it big lor.Good luck!!

3:31 PM
Caris

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

my grandma is having fever since yesterday. Her fever has subsided but she was very weak...... Sigh... wanted send her to the hospital earlier... coz she also has chronic heart problem. However, she dun want to go to hospital ... there's nothing much we could do.. so we just have to monitor for now.

I have not visited her since CNY.. that was long...feel so guilty now ... =(

12:07 PM
Caris

Monday, August 01, 2005

this is too much.... I still struggling with the social support slides. But i have completed the photoshop assignments. Dunno why i just cannot set my mind and focus on the creation of the slides. There are just too much information up there but in a very disorganised manner. guess it did not help with the korean drama cds lying around.. Yup i will choose to watch them lor rather than proper work ha ha... trying to control liao.... at least i can miss the 7 pm show mon to fri ,... hee hee

watch the 24 hour ER japanese show just now. This serial was about talking to patients and taking up the role as a counseller after the earthquake. As pracitioner, it has always been an excuse that we are too busy clearing the cases that we neglected those patients who also need listening ears. =) just a thought.

4:09 PM
Caris

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