NUS Pre-Enrollment Checkup + B&J Free Cones Day

I left the house early at 11.50am, and took a 10min walk to the busstop along AMK Ave 3 opposite the train station. My bus 74 arrived after a 10 minutes wait and there, i squeezed into it, which is packed by students. It was not known to me where these students belong to since the bus is taken by students from 4 varsities - NP, NUS, SIM & SP, my guess was ngee ann poly. I alighted at Bukit Timah Road in front of Mad Jack and took bus 151 all the way to Yusoff Ishak House - NUS where i was supposed to meet Nelson and Yongbo. We scheduled our pre-enrollment medical checkup today as it coincides with Bens & Jerry Free Cones Day which we indulged in after that. We had lunch at Subway because Nel felt like eating bread. I observed that the compound was rather quiet, probably due to a one week term break or study break which i was informed of by Jas.

After lunch, we made our way to the health centre which reminded us of our days as medics in SAF medical centres. We registered ourselves at a separate booth and had our height, weight taken and eyesight tested. Afterwhich, we proceeded to have our BP taken, where i commented on the inaccuracy in using an electronic BP cuff. Urine test was next where the medic professionalism in me set in to remember on taking midstream sample. A CXR was done which reminded me of the last one i did years ago in CMPB. Finally, we were reviewed by a lady doctor who tested my normal brain functioning (the PEARL, no nystagmus, no dipliopia, etc), my stomach (abdomen soft non tender, no voluntary guarding) and also my cardiac functions (hearts lungs clear, S1S2 no murmur, no creps, breathe sounds equal bilaterally). I can actually recall all these things from my 1.5 years of medic mopa experience.

We started to talk medical stuff while waiting for each others' turns and the conversation turned out amusing. We strolled down to the science bookshop where i intended to buy an inorganic chemistry book. I dismissed the intention after noticing that the price was not stated. Again, it was an excuse for my procrastination.

We took a train down to Cathey to have our free cones. It was Ben's & Jerry's Free Cone Day and thus we shall not miss out the annual fun. Upon arrival, we were rather shocked by the influx of students that formed a homogeneously long queue. The thing was, Jas and her friends happened to be in the mids of the queue and her friend whom i do not know offered for us to cut in. However, being rather moral or infact, scared that the back people may complain, i declined politely and walked to the next outlet at Raffles City. The queue at Raffles City was much tamer as i would described and we got our cones within 30 minutes of queue. Students in uniformed formed majority of the queue as usual and i was then, joking to the rest that i would deliver a complain letter to the MOE on schools releasing their students too early. Ngiap and Jonathon joined in half way through.

Finally, we had our ice-cream and we ate it down with sense of satisfaction after a long queueing up process. However, not having enough kick of it, we decided to queue up for the second time. We finished our first cone though and remove all evidence that we already had our free cone to avoid others putting us in the bad light. Nonetheless, it was shocking that many students in the queue infront or behind us were still in the mids of their first or second or third or whatever number of cones. Having chocolate brownies flavour for my first, i went for chocolate macadanium for my second cone and both were equally good.

After the ice-cream indulgence, we walked to Marina Square where Nel supposedly said he wanted to eat something. He did not in the end and we went home. I took a one hour bus ride home on service 162. It was a fufilling day. The only regret i had was to procrastinate at the point of buying my second reference book - Atkins & Shrivers Inorganic chemistry. If only i had bought it.

Tampines One

Visted the newly opened Tampines One this afternoon with ZC. Great appreciation of him travelling all the way from Jurong East. The first thing we did is to visit the famous Uni-qlo shop, which is a famous japan fashion outlet that opens its first franchise in singapore. We needa queue to enter as there is this marshaller controlling the 3 lanes-long queue. Finally got in after half an hour wait, it was kinda disappointment coz i didn really like the clothes there. And its not especially cheap. A plain colour polo tee cost $30. Wow. But the pants and jeans were nice, not the shirt i guess. The new Tampines one was small but long and it is 5 storey high. But the shops were kinda repetitive. So there wasnt much of a surprise factor i guess. Took a bus ride home. Reached home just in time to catch my daily dose of Ellen show.

无字的情批

Mr. Emo King a.k.a. CMH loves hokkien songs in KTV. Happened to browsed thru this song in youtube and i tot not only the tune is tragically nice (its written by you hong ming, btw, thats y its tragic and nice), the lyrics also very 画面感. Lalala....this will be the next hokkien song i will conquere !!!

Random Friday

The weather is good today and i am supposed to go for a swim but i am lazy. Its friday, doing the usual stuff slacking around. Had K-lunch yesterday at marina infact with 2 friends and really had a nice time. I confess i am a terrible singer but those hokkien songs just keep me high. After K, i did not want to go home first before going my sec 4 tutee's house for tuition at 4.30 so i decided to hang around, only later to found out my northbound bus trip took quite alot of time, leaving me strangled with half an hour to transfer a bus at thomson road. Still managed to make it there in time. My hair is getting longer and i am not used to the volume. Had been religiously cutting my hair for the past 14 years - 6 yrs pri sch, 4 yrs sec sch, 2 yrs jc and 2 yrs NS, so i hardly had any experience keeping long hair. Well, its not too long infact but just the thick volume makes it hard to tame. Perhaps i shall visit a barber or hairstylist this weekend to thin my hair a little while keeping the length of the sideburns and the back. I dunno what i am talking about. Tuition tml for my J2 student, will be teaching phenol and carbony. Well well... oh yes, did i mention that i suspect there are a few mosquitoes that flew into my house and now i keep on getting itch and bites around the house. Irritating. I once vowed that if i become a great scientist, i shall make mosquitoes extinct. Like thats gonna happen for a creature that outlives dinosaurs and our generations of ancestors. Oh well, its just another random friday....i shall go out and buy lunch.