Long Time No See

Oh well, i guess i am back from a hiatus of blogging for the past few weeks. I've been very busy. Apart from covering a 4 days outfield (suddenly thrown to me) and lots of weekend duties, i've yet to get sufficient rest. Oh well, there is so much i want to blog about but i do not know from where and how to start. But anyway, i shall continue blogging this weekend when i have more time and also, more substantial and concrete things to blog about. Bye.

PC Show 2008 + Incredible Hulk

Went to visit PC show this afternoon with my ex-colleagues. It was chaos there. Didnt manage to get anything out of it. It was quite a waste trip. We initially thought of watching Incredible Hulk somewhere near there but was kind of discouraged by the crowd. In the end we went back to AMK Hub for the movie. The movie was kind of okay, just that at many times the sound was too loud for me. After the movie, i went dinner with my family and bought 1 shirt and 1 cartigan at a total price of $22. Okay, tml i will have to report to camp for duty. This coming week will be a long one. Hopefully the crisis in the medical centre can 守得云开见月明。

Friday The 13

The spotlight is on my medical centre for setting the record of having the most BOI and creating the most trouble in the corp. This made CO extremely unhappy with us and hence everyone else including CO is going to come down hard on us. A surprise visit by CO excavated so much problem in us that questioned our capability in handling the calls of needs. The absence of our MO due to a very long oversea trip has seen the work ethic of the med ctr deteriorate to a devastatingly record low level. The recent passing of 2 servicemen has turned the spotlight to us medical service providers - are we competent enough to handle such serious cases? The rippling effect of this would be stronger emphasis on our work procedures, medical skills and also daily 4 man drill, which were kind of ignored during "time of peace". A 4 man drill done this morning has surfaced our level of incompetency in handling urgent medical cases. Everyone was just too rusty after a long period of hiatus (of 4 man drill). As part of the 4 man drill this morning, i also felt hopelessness in the way we handle a mock casualty, so to speak for a real one. I agreed with my store ic that we should have daily 4 man drill to sharpen our skills. He commented that, rather than being ticked off for being incompetent while performing a long-time-no-do drill, it would prove better to do the drill daily to ensure our performances were of tip top condition. At least at the end of the day, we learn. While personally, as a NSF, i do prefer a slacker life in my 2 years serving, but sometimes, we should just never take the easy way out in some procedures. What must be done, must be done. While it still makes my blood boils to see one or two of my colleagues totally display no sense of commitment during work, causing the rest of us to do their portion of work, it serves as a mirror for me to reflect on my work ethics as an individual. Well, i admit i have alot of room for improvements, especially in my medical skills wise. While it is just 2 years of serving in the NS, but i have landed myself in one of the most useful vocation. Just like the saying goes, no one is here by chance. As a medic, after i ORD or ROD, when in times of need to the people around me, i have to believe that i CAn make a difference. Rest assure i've not been totally brainwashed, but it is just another random entry nothing to do with the title itself. Happy Friday the 13...


PS: Happy birthday to our dear docu IC - JM !!!

Kungfu Panda

Went for dinner and movie after work with one of my SMTI friend last evening. Basically full gear bitching about camp's work during dinner at PS Cartel and then went for movie at The Cathey which cost each of us a bomb in the tix. Watched the animated movie Kungfu Panda. All i can say is, it is really made suitable for children. But whats better than a brainless laugh after work where you need to stress about 101 things every now and then. Reached home around 11.30pm. I slept...

Karaoke @ Topone KTV + GSS 2008

Went karaoke with my friends at Topone KTV yesterday. It was my first visit there, just like the rest of my company, but we had fun. At least we found another good place to K in the future. Well, immediately after giving tuition yesterday, i had a quick shower and rushed down to Bugis to join the rest of my friends who already booked in earlier on at Topone. I had no trouble locating it and immediately joined in the fun as i proceeded up via the lift to 3rd storey and entered room 302. The room was rather small, compared to the usual rooms i got during my visits to Kbox. Nonetheless, the ambience was there and the songs were pretty updated. The thing about the song chosing system in Topone is, it has a console at the corner of the room for us to chose our songs. As the screen was rather large, i was rather tempted to use it like a touch screen console but was constantly reminded by the rest that there was a "keyboard" for me to press. The system was rather user-friendly, though there would be certain degree of unfamiliarity at the start.

Another thing about Topone was the endless free flow of drinks we can enjoy. However, it was only limited to the 6 types of cordial drink which tasted rather diluted. Well, at least we got ourselves fairly hydrated to the extent of frequent toilet usage. It was made known that we can change the ambience and stuff of the room by pressing the console keyboard, for e.g. disco, soft, stage, etc. Nonetheless, no matter which ambience button i pressed, all seemed the same to me, i.e. no observable changes. What bothered me the most was the smoke button where once pressed, there should be smoke coming out from all corners of the room to give those high class seventh-month getai feel. No matter how many times i pressed, there was no smoke. It was later figured out the smoke function wasnt functioning as stated in all other rooms when Jas made a sneaky attempt to enter other rooms after the session to try the button.

One thing i love about Topone was that I can change the key of the songs. I was rather bothered by the fact that most male singers' songs were of too high key for me while most female singers' songs too low. Hence, it allowed me to sing at a comfortable key by having the power to dictate the key of my fave songs sang yesterday. On our way out of the place, i felt that the lift smelt of bbq food only to realize a steamboat stall at level 1 which was the likely source of contribution to that. Overall, the karaoke experience at topone was rather nice, given the long hours we have, the freeflow of drinks and the price of 20bucks nett.

After K, we went across the road to Parco Bugis for dinner followed by shopping. As it was Saturday night, in compliment to Great Singapore Sales 2008, the crowd present was remarkable. We did a fair share of shopping at Parco Bugis where everyone except me got something. Well, i have to defend myself for that, quoting the reason that i am a very difficult shopper. I would walk around the mall 3 rounds surveying every stalls' quality and price before settling down to what i should buy (though most of the time i did not buy anything in the end). Furthermore, when i see clothes or apparals that attracted me, the first thing i would look out for is the price. If it was above my budget (most of the time they were), i would give up and continue looking other place. Hence that explains all why you all should not go shopping with me. I was specially taken to attention to the fact that some mid-to-high range branded stalls offer lousy quality apparels and clothes at extremely high price - totally not worth the purchase. Nonetheless, they still receive high degree of patronage hence i shall not further comment on the stupidity of these consumers.

Oh well, i took off on fri and will be on off tml (monday). I managed to book a driving lesson tml morning 8.15am last minute-ly, after my auto driving lesson today. Did i even mention how easy to drive auto cars are? There will (likely) be new medics coming in tml which i do not have the privilege to meet them first-handed. Oh well, things are getting mundane. Its time to spice up my life !!!