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.

Journey To The West

On monday noon, i went to explore the newly extended Jurong Point with my friend, biggie, who is a fellow resident of the outskirt estate of singapore. I was amazed by how huge neighbourhood malls can be, especially with the range of retail outlets located there. I wouldnt mind visiting it again, considering the fact that it was an hour train ride from my house. He later accompanied me to NTU bookshop to find a reference book i am sourcing for months but learnt that it was not available there. When we got back to Boon Lay station, we took the train ride to the newly opened Joo Koon station. I couldnt believe i was so fantasized by the 2 station ride which turned me into a 5 year old kid. We were rather fascinated by the PA announcement of the 2 new stations - Pioneer & Joo Koon, as well. Haha. It was kinda stupid but there wasnt many passengers on board to witness our stupidity. Went home after the train ride. It was then already 5.30pm.

Random Rants

I think my life sux.

My social life sux....

I have no close friends...

I have not no girlfriend...no love...

99% of my weekends are spent ALONE at home unlike other people i know who have outings and gatherings almost every weekend.

I find it hard to socialize with people...i am a complete failure at that.

Pple just think that i am a non-contributor to conversations....no common topics at all....

Living every seconds of my life in complete loneliness and boredom. That sux.

My work life is fk up....

I cant find a job after i ORD... maybe i've not tried hard enough...

But other people got theirs so easily.... those jobs that i applied for as well ....

Why pple can find a school to teach in with just one call and i can call the entire estate but no one needs me....

Why pple can get so many students for tuition but no one contacted me....

Luck is not on me....

My future is not bright at all....

Average results getting into a uni course that leads to no where....

I dont even know if i can do well enough or i will juz flop....

I dont even know what i want to do....

People stereotyped me.... as a boring person .... and just another person.... not someone special...

I am a coward....i cant even pluck up the courage to do simple things....i am only waiting for things to happen....

I hate the life i am leading for the past 21 years....

I need to change....but how....

I wish i could have been reborn and live my life again....but i think no matter how many times i can be reborned....i will still end up as a failure here ranting bout my imperfections....

At most pple in sch envy me for my "gd results"....so wad if my result is slightly better....i am not happy at all....

I am a failure....my life sux....i am not happy...

星光4 总冠军赛

昨晚最新消息，恭喜方宥心奉为台湾超级星光大道4总冠军。相信是华人歌坛上最受瞩目的歌唱比赛推出一代又一代的优秀歌手，如林宥嘉、萧敬腾、杨宗伟、神木与瞳、梁文音、黄靖伦、等。虽然无法在昨晚现场观看，但就是追分数方面就已经够刺激了。好，回到主题。昨晚前五强就进入了会后一战，结果人气王方宥心虽然成绩稍微不如亚军，却以过高的票选成绩击败了亚军的张心杰，两人中分差距只有0.02。积分赛上的第四名林鸿鸣带来他的重金属乐队应战，夺得高分，把当时积分赛的康康压到第四名，顺利挤入前三甲。恭喜各位表现一流。我本身较支持方宥心和张心杰，对昨晚的成绩感到满意。目前为止，四届里仍然出现同样两个现象： 1）比赛过程中，最先拿下满分的参赛者（除了二班）都拿下冠军。 2）在前一届来踢馆的踢馆魔王都最多是亚军 （梁文音，林芯仪，张心杰） 3）很可惜的，星光四没有一人维持不败记录，要否可以说所有的冠军都维持不败纪录，这个现象被破了！哈哈。最后让大家来观赏一下冠军的压轴演出：

Detroit Metal City

Watched Detroit Metal City yesterday. The story line was actually from the same anime series, about a guy having split personality between a musician who wants to sing and give hopes and dreams to all listeners, and a death metal vocalist who sang about satanic violence of rape, death and wads nod. The movie was quite funny, in my opinion, other than the heavy metal music that may prove deafening at times. But still, i have a good laugh in the theatre.

I was actually amazed at how that lead actor guy (who acted as L in death note) can actually don off his costume and make up in such a short time at any location. I also like how he scared off the kids in the amusement park and stuff. When he was back to his own self, the way he behave as a wimp is also quite funny.

Anyway, it was quite a nice show but definitely not for those who cant stand crude vulgarities coz they sang alot of it in their heavy metal songs. Haha.

ORD LO !!!!

ORD LO !!!! Finally 2 years have passed. Went back to HQMC to collect my pink IC yesterday. The feeling was never that great to have completed another milestone of my life journey. Together with my IC comes along with my certificate of service and a page long testimonial, which i guessed was written by my MO. Very grateful for that piece of testimonial, coz i know some of my friends' testimonial was f**ked up as their superior cant be bothered to write a proper one for them. I was, however, saddened that i am posted back to army for reservist, it was 3 C S H i thing. Heard it was quite xiong, have to build and tear down those big big tentage and containers that spread across soccer fields and what 12 hour medic/patient role-switch shift. Not sure bout that but to console myself, i would say, at least in times of war, i wont be the first few to die. Hahaha. It feels suckie not to be posted back to airforce la, given all my ex colleagues who orded were back in some airforce unit. Haiz.

Anyway, after collecting my pink IC and my testimonial, which i proudly stride out of nee soon camp, i went back to give a proper farewell to my current colleagues in CPMC. It was the place i spent majority of my NS life in, witness the sequence of developments, rise and fall of the medical centre, where i spent my time and effort as a dispensary ic, clearing piles of shit, discrepancies, work and stuff, making friends with ex colleagues, current colleagues, MO(s), senior medics, patients, officers from the units in my camp, blah blah blah. Nostalgic.

Its time finally !!! My time has come, for me to say goodbye, after witnessing so many batches of medics come and leave. Seeing how different pple display different work attitude, how new medics, under the supervision of us older ones learn the procedures of running the med ctr, pass their OJT test, do their first edrills, do their first D1 D2 duty, succeed their upper study to bcom dept ic and stuff....woot...it seems like a long journey, 1 yr and 3 mths. Now, i gladly leave with the med ctr under the good hands of my juniors and future batches of medics to come, under the hand of a new MO (my MO is ording also in 2 wks time) and wads more to come. Most imptly, my dispensary under the good hands of my wonderful self-picked understudy dillon. The only small sense of lacking comes from me unable to bid farewell to my MO, who is on oversea ex and also the medic who worked with me the longest - my dear store ic, oso on oversea ex. Hahahaha.

As i pulled my duffle bag out towards the main gate, just like how i pulled it into during my posting to cpmc, the sky started to rain, just like the first day i came in. How coincidental. This could be the last time i step foot onto the camp, coz i am now back to army. 2 years of service, learnt alot. Learnt alot of clinical skills esp in cpmc, esp for my role as dispensary ic and a mopa, all the drugs and stuff, all the basic consultations for normal sick cases....very much useful in the future. And now, i shall embark on my next milestone in life, and that is the start of uni sch life. Very excited, heard its gonna be stressful....however, i will say....BRING IT ON !!!

PE's 21st

Yesterday, my pri sch clique celebrated PE's belated 21st at Suntec. Just an hour before i met them for the event, i was at home making the birthday card (coz times are bad and cards from hallmark cost a bomb). Due to some miscommunication, where i interpreted it as the girls meeting each other at city hall at 6pm, i told yy to be there at 6pm and the birthday boy to reach at 6.30pm. However, the fact is that the girls are meeting at AMK at 6. Oh well, somehow or rather, we did got the card signed and the cake bought "secretly". We treated him dinner at fish and co, afterwhich we went to PS and sang birthday song for the birthday boy with his mini cake from breadtalk, at the corridor outside PS, which is kinda pathetic. Haha. Since the night is still young, we went to the arcade at dhoby ghout mrt and played time crisis until 11pm. We were horrified and disgusted to witness a tranny dressed up in kawai anime schoolgirl there. It was totally gross. Took the train home, managed to reach home before midnight. Lalala...happy belated 21st to FPE !!!

Yesterday I Attended A Wedding Dinner

Yesterday evening, i attended my senior medic 2ic's wedding dinner at Grand Corpthorne hotel. Most of the orded personel were invited since preparation for this dinner had been done like a year ago, and we happened to be present in camp back then. It was my first personal wedding invitation so i was kind of excited then about this.

The first thing that came to our concern is how much angpow to wrap. After asking each other and getting "i dunno" as the standard answers, we wrapped as according to our financial status but definitely within market range. It is a good number ending with 8 though. Second, what to wear. I wore more of a casual smart cum abit of hip hop element though. Ok its rubbish but i wore my shining black demin jeans and a newly bought black jacket with a printed tee inside. I have friends wearing ranging from extra formal blazer (he looks like a valent parking guy) to blue jeans and long sleeve office wear. So it was quite interesting to see actually. Thirdly, how to get there. Most of us met at Orchard MRT where we took a bus there. Alighting one stop before the desinated one due to human error and misjudgement (it was dark okay), we have to walk one more busstop before arriving to the hotel.

Upon arrival, we saw our dear bride groom and went ahead to congratulate him. It was weird to see him in that outfit but its okay, we look weird ourselves in each others' eyes. Settling down on a table for our own, the banquet started promptly. After not attending ceremony for like n years, where n is a significant number, i would expect present wedding banquet to be kinda different from the past but it was all the same. I mean, what i experienced when i was a kid attending my long distance relatives' wedding, kinda resembles the present one i attended as a soon-to-be 21 yr old adult. The dry ice and the "march in" and the video presentation and stuff. Even the "grand entrance" of the cold dish with lighted candle was kinda similar, just that the music was no longer that old japanese musician's one (you all know which one i am referring to...the one with the flute and stuff). Instead, english pop songs were used.

The dish was okay, just that our table seemed always to be the last to be served. Perhaps its because we were sitting near the back. The taste.....not fantansic....just plain normal. Haha. I had tasted better ones. But its still okay. As the usual sequence of events took place throughout the dinner, the entire banquet ended around 1030. I had 2 glass of wine which turned my face red. I was not drunk though. Did see one or two case of pple getting drunk but its ok. Took MRT home. Reached home around midnight and went immediately to bed after a hot bath.

ORD Approaches

Its 16 days to my ORD and believe me people out there who have still long way to go...ORD is really not that happening after all. Not that i am not excited to leave this damn lifestyle but then, the eager of reaching day 0 is not as significant as expected. Was super high in the past...perhaps 3 months mark but then....now as the day approaches, the excitment wears off. Went to do dental FFI ytd, it was fast. The female dental officer just checked for not more than 10seconds and i am done. Including the queue time, it just took me half an hour. Went back to camp afterthat and slack since i did not apply off for that day. The medical centre is much more quieter than before. The contrast is significant as compared to when i first entered. Perhaps its due to the different batches of medics present. Had been taking things slow these days. Even my clearance form...i had no idea when and how to start. So hopefully taking things as it goes proves useful. This sunday i will be attending my snr medic 2ic wedding, will be seeing the other ord-ed medics. My first personal wedding invitation. Haha...(look into wallet)....ok. Hahaha. Later going gym. To escape RT in the future i.e. Oh well. The weather is moody. Waiting for breakfast to be ready. Bye.

Today I Built A Bookshelf

This morning, i bought a new bookshelf from IKEA to replace my existing one that is in extremely chwee condition. Its the same design but its longer in width. Anyway, after lunch, i spent an hour trying to fix this thing. It is one of those things MAN has to learn how to do you know...like getting things fixed here and there. Despite failing my D&T exams during sec 1 and 2 days, i managed to comprehend the idiot-proof instruction manual and get the bookshelf fixed:

The box opened out to be like that.

Idiot-proof instruction manual which i followed.

Almost done !!! (After all the hammering and screwing)

Ta-dah !!!

Okay, so at least i CAN do this on my own. See girls, who say i aint gonna be a good husband in the future? Hahaha. I felt an instant sense of manliness. Hahaha. =P

终于下雨了！

轰隆一声，我视线顿时离开电脑荧光屏转向左侧的窗口，外头乌黑一片，值得庆幸的是，老头终于下雨了！热浪来袭，相信国人一定吃不消。最近本地天气干旱，已经好几个星期没下雨了。不知从何开始，应该是新年前一个星期吧。在外头走，炎热的天气真让我烦感，一头好想跳进泳池似的。除此之外，外头的草地都干得发黄，一头路过一片草丛森林还发现有被烧过的痕迹，连树上的叶子都被火烧的痕迹，相信应该是天气太干热而引发的火灾吧。河里和溪水池里的水位也低到见底。据报道，这段时期是新加坡罕见的干旱期，相信会维持一段时期。这怎能让人吃得消啊？不止呢，在世界各地如澳洲和中国也面临天气干旱。澳洲森林大火火势无法控制。中国当局还得向天空发射火弹来摧雨。上个星期天，我国天空也一度乌黑，整当以为大雨将来临，洗涤本岛，但是雨没下几滴就停止了，隔天还放大晴，真是气人。如此，希望这场雨能够下久一点，下大一点，灌溉本岛的草地、树木、森林，也为本岛将一将温。

人是“犯贱”的

曾有人告诉我，人是“犯贱”的！听了他的一番解释后，认为“犯贱”这个词太强烈了，但我很同意他的看法，只是觉得“矛盾”是个比较适当的词汇。从何说起哪？之前我军营里医疗中心是得入住（stay-in）的，就是说5点放工后不能回家，得在军营里过夜，只有周末才能出去。当时，同事们都强烈反抗，认为放工后留下来没什么意义，也强烈请求上司考虑让大家放工后能够回家（bookout）直到隔天早上上班时才报到。果然，这项请求被批准了。我们也成了军营中唯一可以朝九晚五，傍晚回家，早上报道的一群士兵。可是，大多数的同事都选择“stay-in”，原因是懒惰回家，隔天也能迟一点起床。这还搞得医疗中心里不够床位给入宿的人睡。既然这样，起初为何要求“stay-out”哪？真是矛盾。

当我们同事还在德光岛或医疗总部学院受训时期，都得吃食堂供应的免费餐点，即使食物再不符合胃口，都得应承把它吃完。当时，大家都很希望有机会到canteen还是mess购买食物，那应该是给受训者（trainees）很大的优待了。可是毕业后，到医疗中心或其他的部队工作后，大家仍然选择吃食堂的餐点，原因是省钱，不需要付费！

从上面两个例子可以看出，当我们没有选择，被硬逼时，都很渴望得到更好的福利的优待。但是一旦有了选择的权利，我们还是会做出最初已经拥有的唯一选择。人太矛盾了。

说说自己吧，一直说他人，有如自己也没有过这样“犯贱”。记得上初院和到德光岛受训时，都很讨厌上体育课。因为自己身体不强壮，也不喜欢运动，常常被体育官逼得死去活来，有如逼一头猪上树，真是活受罪！体育老师和体育官做的一切都是为了让我们跟强壮，达到应该有的一个体能标准，自己却不愿受惠，坚持拒绝与体育健身有什么来往。但是现在没有什么老师或体育官来督促我，强逼我运动，自己却开始加紧运动，希望能够达到一个底线的标准，让将来身体少一点毛病，也让以后的体能测验能够通过。大家看，有机会在适当的环境和设备训练体魄时自己却不以为然，当自己已经“重获自由”时却开始注意这一点，你说是不是“犯贱”呢？

I Toured NUS Today

After having a simple breakfast of bread with omlette this morning, i walked to YY's house to use his computer for applying my relief teaching thingy online. I have totally no idea why everyone's internet except for mine can access to the online application. But its okay, i've settled it within half an hour.

After i settled my online application, i accompanied YY to NUS coz he wants to buy books. He didnt buy any in the end but nvm. We took a bus down and when we got there, it was 1.45pm so we waited for mk's lecture to end at 2 before having lunch at Arts canteen. With limited funds in my pocket, i settled for my lunch with just $2.60 and an additional 75cents on drink. At least i was consoled that NUS food wasnt as expensive as i think it should be. We walked around aimlessly at Arts Fac until mk's next lesson was bout to start.

Then, we took a shuttle bus to Sci fac and we toured the bookshop. I personally feel the books sold there were much more expensive than NTU. The range was also quite limited. In the end we didnt buy anything. Hmmm.... It started raining and YY, who had many experience doing sch lab attachment there brought me on a tour of my future sch. The layout was messy and i often find myself arriving at dead ends. Old can be a word used to describe the sci fac. Disappointment set in coz i am supposed to spend my next 4 yrs there. The canteen, as known to all, was the worst of all in NUS. Oh man....

As the rain subsided, we went to SRC. I wanted to see the free gym and swim pool i can access to when i am a student next time. The gym i saw was utterly small and there is only 1 competition pool to support the entire varsity. Abit disapointed really. Hopefully there are other bigger gyms in the school that i have yet to come across.

I took a feedle bus out to buona vista and took a train back home. I will be matriculating soon to NUS sci this yr and hopefully i wont regret my choice. Haha. Though some kinda disapointment has set in already but then...i always hope for the best. Haha. At least thats the only thing i can do.

新年聚会

短短几天就参与的几个聚会，好充实哦。哈哈。就在星期四旁晚，与其他三位BMT认识的好友聚餐，真难得我们四位全都能在时间上配合。星期六早上到了朋友的家拜年，一共有我们五位从小学就认识到现在的好友。午餐时分，他们就到了我家。我们就一直在打麻将，还教了其余两位不懂麻将的人怎么打。旁晚时分，我也到初院同学家参加同学聚会，有火锅晚餐也又有麻将打。今天星期天早上和军营里的一些前同事聚餐，好多曾一起工作打拼过的前同事都出席了，真难得。希望以后还能有这一类不同的聚会聚餐，大家叙旧一下。

今天年初三

今天年初三，我依然在放假。前几天忙着团圆饭和拜年，没什么时间可以在部落格上留言。说到拜年，每年都一样，来来去去就是那一两家。嗨，想找朋友出去玩他们都没空。本人家庭小的关系吧。安排了一些聚会，将在这几天进行，有点期待。今天初三，在家没事做就在中午时分去游个泳，非常享受在大太阳底下浸泡在冰冷的池水中，再随着自己的速度自由自在地在水中游行。怎么今天写的都那么random。一定是自己太闷了。好友们请找我打几圈麻将吧，手好痒哦。前几天一直都在打网上麻将，真是不够过瘾。啦啦啦。。。

Spring Cleaning + Red Cliff 2

I started the first day of my 1 month plus pre-ord off spree doing spring cleaning at home. I realize i'd not done any serious spring cleaning ever since i graduate from JC. I started around 10 in the morning, starting from my study table to my bookshelf and then my own walldrobe. I started rearranging the storage of my books, files and cleared alot of unwanted stuff. I was much more merciless than before in terms of clearing unwanted things. I basically threw anything and everything which i feel i would not be using again. By 3pm, i had 5 bags full of rubbish to be thrown away, 2 bags of magazines and old textbooks to be recycled and 1 bag of clothes to be sold to karang guni. My room feels so much neater and emptier. Great sense of satisfaction. Making space for my army fieldpack and stuff coz i will be ord-ing soon and i need place to keep them for future reservist use. In the process of spring cleaning, i stumble upon some old photo albums dated back to primary school days and i realize zomg, i was so cute back then. Hahaha. But of coz now i am turning 21, i am also very "cute and handsome", just in the "more mature ways". Hahaha.

At around 5pm, i met GR at AMK Hub for movie. We previously had an arguement on whether to watch Red Cliff 2 or Ip Man. In the end i won. I initially thought the movie is going to start at 5.45pm, but only to realize i checked the wrong date of movie schedule on yahoo last night. I checked yesterday's schedule instead of today's. It always happened to me. In the end, we tried out luck at Jubilee's Eng Wah and managed to catch the show half an hour earlier than what was offered at AMK Hub's Cathey. The movie was an abstract from The Romance of Three Kingdom, showing how Zhou Yu and Zhu Ge Liang outwitted Cao Cao in war stratagies. It was very enticing. The story of 草船借箭 and 万事俱备只欠东风 was depicted in the movie. The final war part where lotsa fires and explosions were very impactful. I love it. They removed more of the glore violence and built up more of the storyline. After the movie, the two of us had dinner at Astons. Reached home around 10pm. Eventful day.

HOTO + ORD Treat

These few days were one of the happier days in my NS life. Lets start with yesterday. After assuming the role of Dispensary IC for 1 year 3 months, I finally did an official hand over, under the witness of my boss, to my understudy. At the moment when my boss signed the form, followed by my understudy and then me, i felt a sudden relief as though all responsibilities have been removed from my shoulders as i pass my department on to someone whom i've picked, trained, work with and learn from for the past 4 months. Recalling my times as the IC, i started from scratch, not knowing any work procedures and with the department in a mess, filled with discrepancies. I have no upper study to teach me what to do and how to do. As part of my own initiative, i read the directives and work manuals, consulted my luckier friends in other medical centres who have an upper study to teach them. I established a brand new system under my charge, taking a bet to see if things worked out. Over the months, the discrepancies were cleared and this department is well established as for now. Compared to the time i was picked to take over it, it was a 180 degree turn for the better. Now that it was time to past on to my understudy, i feel that he was much more luckier than me, at least there was something for him to sustain compared to nothing for me to start on. Speaking of my understudy who is now officially the new IC, i strongly believe he is up to the challenge as he is responsible, diligent, hardworking and also, intellectually capable. He is a good natured guy and its my honor to know him. All the best to you, Dillon, remembers the constant reminders of cautions and you will do fine.

This afternoon was our ORD threat. Me, together with 2 other colleagues who ORDs in Feb treated the entire medical centre Botak Jones lunch. I never thought this day would come as i was always the one being treated, batches after batches. Finally its my turn. Although some money from my own pocket was sacrificed, but it was worth it as it marks the near end of our journey in NS and a joy we wanted to share to the rest who ORDed later. As i always tell them, endure through and your time will come. After lunch, i started my off/leave spree which will last until when I ORD in march. In between, during the last 4 weeks before i ORD, i will return once every week. Being one of the last to start clearing off, it was quite miserable before, but now, its nothing more than feeling relax. The next phase would be when i ORD and start preparing myself for uni days.