It's the last day of year 2007.

Going to spend my last day of the year working. Me on night shift tonight. My countdown will be over at the hospital. What a way to end the year and to begin a brand new year ahead.

For the past few years , i set my new year resolutions without fulfilling most of the items at the end of the year.

This year, i decided not to have any resolutions set for the coming year. Just give my best to every job i was assigned to and excel in the area. Hope this will make my life easier.

Finally, i decided to collect my newly bought used slr from my friend. He bought it for me though. It is FM2n version. Cool ! i really loved the camera. Yes, i know it is not digital which i have intend to purchase at the beginning. Coz after browsing through the digital cams, i still like the feel of manual cameras. The picture quality looks better though.

Anyway, i was in luck yesterday to chance upon a good condition standard nikkor lens 50mm f/1.4 for a beginning like me. Sigh... with this , i am going to start my rather high end hobby. Firstly, i will need to invest on an electric dry bow to store my elder brother's and mine. Wonder what will my mum have to say if she found out about my "extra" camera? hee hee i could imagine her nagging away about the "antique" camera. Why is there a need for extra camera when i just bought my digital camera not too long ago. Well, we are just following our father's footstep. He also was into photography in his younger days. Nothing is wrong with that. Besides, it runs in our blood that we are into creative and arty farty interest. We are just different from my mum genes. Sometimes, i am just glad that we inherited that portion from our father. If not, life will be too boring. Aren't we happy now that we enjoyed plays, musicals, concerts which my mum would have no interest of? Sometimes, i would like to travel alone with friends, at least i have time to visit museums and all.. which i could not if i travel with her. sigh.. but will always have to respect her lor,,, and keep my promise to take her round the world before i settle down (that is if i ever settle down =P)

Went for dinner with colleagues just now. i was amazed at how much we ate for dinner. it was ala carte buffet but the portion and the number of dishes were a bit too much for our consumption. But in the end we managed to finish all the food. That's very amazing.

Now i am just too full, sitting in front of my pc and typing away. How unhealthy right? duh ,, that's all about the healthy lifestyle. ha ha

i remembered i wanted to write something in the morning .. shall do it tomorrow then

i was just reading an article about conservation published in Scientific American october 2007 issue. How much effort are we contributing to conserve the world from its depleting resources, its everchanging climate conditions etc etc ?

Personally, i dun really play an active role in "going green". i waste lots lots of paper when i was working on my reports in the last job. However, i always make sure that both sides were utilized fully before dumping them to the recycle bin if there is. If not available, the used papers would be discarded with the usual rubbish or at least shredded if i have the time. Guess now i dun really need to waste so many papers now that i dun deal with reports anymore. However, the working environment still generates lots of paper wastage. All the repeated forms printed for one request are redundant. Do we need so many forms? And due to medico legal issues, the forms could not be reused on the unprinted side. At least in our own department, we prints forms on double sided so that we could reduce the usage of the papers. Up in the ward, no lor .... everytime i see the single sided forms i would shake my head. Again, they could put the blame to AURORA. The filmless system which still requires our side to generate forms at this stage coz the workflow of the filmless system is still not ironed out yet.

i loved to take cab rather than taking the bus. However, i prefer to take the mrt compared to taking the bus. MRT is more environmental friendly compared to bus. No emmission of exhaust fumes but also contribute to the green house effect in another way. Have been wanting to get a car, but environmental friendly car is very expensive. So i am still waiting for my ideal car to buy.

so just how much each and everyone could do to save our planet. With the increased number of natural disasters happened in the recent years, these are signs that our earth is getting sick and the disease spread like cancer cells causing metatases all over the rest of her "body". It may be too late to salvage the already damaged organs but we could still work out a way to prolong her lifespan in a less destructive means.

At the end of the day, we still need to balance the ecosystem. Our long forgotten food chain lessons in school. Everything will return to the nature at the end. Our consumptions of food , our genetically modified food supply and dosmetic animals, they would affect the ecosystem in one way or another. Either they helped to maintain or destoryed the balance we are looking for.

so the problem currently we need to tackle is how do we go about doing that and not just sit around and wait for experts to do that. Right ?

Yesterday was my first time visiting Batam. It was a day tour orgranised by the Rec Club. As usual, we were separated out to our usual cliques. The best thing was that the tour leader could not converse in english and our poor tagalog speaking colleagues had "wonderful" time trying to figure out what she was talking about. The others tried to do the translation but she just rattered off so fast and normally her few sentences were being summarized to about one sentence. It was really short and sweet. But think they had enjoyed themselves with the massages and all. As usual, i brought along my camera but i ended up only a few pictures. i just liked to take pictures of the scenaries but not people. sigh......

i had experienced slight motion sickness on the way there. But on the return trip, we went to the deck. Nearly got thrown overboard ha ha , coz the sea was rather rough. But it was better than staying down sitting down. At least the strong breeze worked wonders to my mind. sort of like did some thinking a bit when i was up there.

the next thing to worry about is our annual party. Being part of the recreational club, there is just so much to be done and sad to say, i dun have much time trying to make some contribution to the club. i was never there when they planned for the next makan session. However, i tried my best to participate in most of the activities and to assist in one way or another on the day of activities. i did whatever i could although i could give more. =)

After chinese new year, i will book appointment to check out my spine. The curvature has worsened over the years though.

My nose is turning on again. Darn... again down with cold. Just pop my small yellow pill. =P

i was just in time to reach home and caught the finale portion of Independent Day. Not that i missed out a lot coz i had watched this movie many many many times. It's one of my favourites. Guess it's all about united together to over difficulties. Truly hoped that we all could worked together despite of personal differences at work too. Luckily, my team has been able to do that so far. that's very important. CT could not survive if we are all individualists. That makes work more fun. THat's the reason why i loved to be in CT.

i am still pondering about to take the degree course or not. How long will i be in this field? i really really have no idea.