SCAMP Day 1

Well, i promised to bring you guys the content of fun and enjoyment from the 5 days orientation camp i joined last week and here are the details.

At 8am in the morning of day 1, i arrived at LT32 with my big luggage bag and my shoe bag ready to embark on a week of fun and bonding. Outside LT32, i checked my name against the list and was brought into the LT by my OG senior like customers being seated in a restaurant by a waiter. The crowd started pileing. I learnt that i belong to the OG Shargen which flag is a shark like warrior, which belongs to the house of Amanzia, water.

The camp officially started off with some basic ice breaking session. I was happy to learn that Kenneth, my cpmc colleague, was in my OG. Also in my OG were Javin (fellow AJCian) and his friend Weicun, Kenneth's MJ friend Don, one of the other OG senior's younger bro, Chii Yeh, 3 girls from NUS High Sch, Debbie, Joy and YY, 2 girls from SRJC, sheena and siting and finally Jac from ACJC.

Lunch was served at 11.30am as we get to sit in a circle and have our lunch, which was packed from the nearby residence. Surprisingly the lunch for that day, and subsequent days ahead was good, despite being just economical rice. After lunch, we played station games at the field. The final OG mate Jeremy, a PSC scholar who studied in Japan, joined in due to prior commitment earlier in the morning. We played some easy station games like sockings over head (the one i saw in Ellen Show), squeezing lime juice from the mouth, etc. While the fun was rather slow-paced, it served as a build-up to what is to come for the next 4 days.

After the games, we learnt Science Faculty cheers where i witnessed the bonding and spirit of the science faculty from the enthusiasm of the seniors. We had dinner and proceeded to the grandstand for mass dance. It was abit confusing at the start as our psychomotor problem kicked in. However, as we proceeded on the dance steps, things got a little more familiar.

Mass dance ended around 9 and the last event of the day was special pal. Special pal was when a guy and a girl freshie got blind-folded and paired up. So pairs basically get to interact with each other in private and blindfolded of cause. At the end of the camp, blind folds will be removed and we will to know who our SP was and what he/she look like. I was paired with this Indian girl from Green house. Do not ask me how i know but we kinda cheated the rules. We were not supposed to leak our identity but who cares. I learnt that she was from NYJC, attached, and intending to do Chemistry.

After the SP session, which ended around 11pm, we went back to the LT32 for a brief of what is to come for the next day and we were sent to the nearby residence to wash up, bathe and prepare to sleep. We layed our sleeping bags along the alley, stage and platform inside LT32 and fell asleep out of the tire accumulated over the day of events.

Back From SCAMP 2009 !!!

Woohoo, i'm back from SCAMP 2009 !!!! Yup, it is my Science fac orientation camp for freshies like me. Anw, it has been a fun and shagging five days four nights. I shall spare you guys the details first since i'm not in the mood of blogging about it now. But its damn fun. Woot. Day four's beach day got me totally sunburnt ! I am currently pain and red and chaota all over from head to toe. PAIN AHHH !!!! But still, enjoyed it alot. Concurrently there were fac of design and architecture and fac of eng camps going on and i heard design/arch camp was affected by H1N1 outspread in PGP residence. Thankgoodness we dont stay there. Despite the many outbreaks of H1N1 that disrupted many camps, my SCAMP still went on smoothly and everyone had fun. 3 cheers!!!

Runway Cycling 2009

The annual National Runway Cycling & Skating was held this morning at Paya Lebar Air Base. This is the first time I participate as a cyclist. However, it is not my first time involved in this event since I participated as a medic on cover during last year's event, hence getting to know of this special event, which gives the public an opportunity not only to step foot onto the restricted military runway, but also, cycling and skate on it.

I woke up at 6.10am this morning where i washed up, had a light breakfast and got myself prepared. Reached the busstop along Avenue 5 where i waited 15minutes for bus 72's arrival. I was scheduled to meet YY and James at Hougang Bus Interchange, where we will take a taxi down. While waiting at the busstop, I embraced the freshness of the morning air as I've yet to come in contact with it for a while ever since I ORDed and need not wake up early.

I arrived on the dot at 7.20am. James was late. However, we found out that there was free shuttle bus servicing between Hougang Interchange and PLAB, much to our favour. We board the shuttle service and arrived at PLAB at 8.10am. The place was packed. We had to go through security check and then proceeded on to redeem our bike which we reserved before hand. As the crowd was rather large, we were kind of lost for directions. We finally managed to make our way to the centre of the carnival where i met up with Nelson. Yongbo was also present. We promptly advanced to the flag off point where i can see ten of thousands of participants in bikes and skates.

We cycled the 15km leisure route, which is one round the runway. Along the way, the sun got brighter and the weather hotter. I managed to spot people i know, mainly those I've worked with during my NS days. Basically they're there as medics on cover. I saw 1ms's staff richard, my ex 2ic ah lu, my understudy dillon and also alex. Woot. Basically went over to say hi. Well, there was a small incident that happened. Two cyclist happened to narrow me and cut into my way from both sides which caused me to brake suddenly to avoid them. However, this caused a lady cyclist to crash into my bike and fell off. Thankgoodness she was not seriously injured. Well, i guess she must be cursing like mad despite my apologies.

We finish cycling at around 10am. The weather was freaking hot then. We seeked shelther at one of the hangers and rested for an hour or so. Afterthat, we return our bikes and went on board the free shuttle service back to Hougang where we had lunch. I also bought some standby medicine and a small pouch for tomorrow's orientation which will last for a week. Basically, I've never participated in any major mass physical activity event like marathon or something so i guess this year's runway cycling would well be my life's first. It feels different to participate for 2 years, last yr as a medic on cover and this yr as a participant. What an eventful day. What an experience.

Sci Camp Briefing

I woke up early in the morning today to attend sci camp briefing held at LT25. Its basically my first uni orientation camp and i know this is a great opportunity to know more people and open up while entering this new phase of my life. Anyway, i left the house early around 8.30am coz i gotta meet up with kenneth at 9.30am at buona vista mrt. So i took bus 74 which arrived promptly, unknowingly entering an arduous bus journey to school. The bus moved very slowly, perhaps the driver has too much time. When the bus reached bukit timah, i was only left with 10min to 9.30am so i asked kenneth to proceed to the busstop outside LT27 first and wait for me there. I decided to take the usual shortest route to sch, i.e. 74 then 151. However, just as i finished msging kenneth, 151 just zoomed passed my bus 74! I was hopeing that 74 will overtake it infront but it didn't, rather, it moved even slower. I alighted 74 after maju camp to wait for the next 151 which took 20min to arrive, after witnessing 3 more bus 74 zoomed pass my busstop. Its just not my day today. When i finally boarded 151, it was alreadi 9.51am. And when 151 dropped me at Yusoff house, it was already 10.02am. I was hopeing that a shuttlebus will come and pick me up but no there isnt. I saw the sat interval was 15 to 20min so i decided to sprint 2 busstops down, knowing that i was already quite late. It was upslope then downslope and by the time i reached the busstop, kenneth and his friends cheered me like i just completed my first marathon.

As i made my way into the LT, already drenched, the crowd in the LT disapointed me coz its, in chinese saying, little cats two to three of them. I do not know its pull strings or wad but alot of them r from kenneth's sch. Hurray, i am sole ranger again. But anyway, was given a short brief on what to expect and what to bring for the 5 days camp. Theres gonna be a clubbing night on day 4 so its kinda "exciting" coz it will be my first time to a club. And i do not know whats "clubbing attire" - can anyone enlighten me? The brief lasted less then half an hour? And we made our way outside to pay up, submit the consent form and get our photograph taken. Oh i met Jeslin, my sec 3 - 4 classmate, who happened to be in the camp committee or something. But anyway, everything finished around 11+ where i took another boring train journey back home. Alright, apart from the stupid dermatitis which i googled online only to find out the real name is dyshirosis, i am down with sorethroat. Brought some danzen, hopeing it will subside soon. I wanna go sci camp fresh and healthy to enjoy the full essence of it.

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When i stepped out of the tunnel connecting Dhoby Ghout station and Plaza Sing on saturday evening, i see crowd made up of mostly NSF....whats more...recruits. They were everywhere...carls junior, pizza hut, etc...clusters and colonies of them. Well, they can be easily identified coz of their short, if not, botak, hairstyle. So yah, not that i wasnt an NSF once, but it just amazed me how easy i can identify this group of young guys now that i've orded compared to last time before i enlisted. Anyway, its something worth celebrating for the recruits coz i heard they're pop-ing soon this week. So girls out there who are attracted to fresh hot-blooded NSF, please head down to PS during weekends....hahaha. For pple who dislike crowded area like me, juz stay clear from there. =P

Cycling @ ECP

What was planned to be a sentosa beach fun turned out to become a cycling session for four at east coast park. I met GR, Dil n lerh at Parkway Parade yesterday at 2.30pm when we proceeded to ECP to cycle. Rental was $6 for 2 hours plus a bottle of free mineral water. It was not very taxing on my wallet indeed. After not cycling for years, i had a hard start at first, trying to master the balancing and starting as i wobble around for the first hundred meters. Nonetheless, i got the hang of it and everything after went smoothly. It was good practice for my coming runway cycling. We cycled all the way down to Bedok Jetty and then to Shrub Garden, stopping at some points to take photos. I coincidentally met my lower sec classmate Sharon Soh at the Shrub garden and we took photos too.

After the 2 hours cycling session, we went to rest at ECP Mac where i passed by Radio 913's roadshow and saw DJ rod. I guess that was part of the National Family Day thing. After washing up, it was near dinner time. Went back to Parkway parade and played some arcade. After that, had dinner at Mos. Me and lerh talked GR into changing his old boring hairstyle and shoved him into the $10 QB cut, waiting for some surprise new look to emerge. However, the barber failed us as he didnt look any bit different from before. Well, it was already dark, roughly 8.30pm....and hence i ended the day by taking a one hour bus ride back to AMK on 135.

Atopic Dermatitis + BK's New Spicy Burger

It has been nearly 2 weeks and my skin problem has not been cured, rather, it aggrevated. Went to see my family doctor again yesterday morning. It was such a long queue that i have to wait outside the clinic. It took me an hour before my turn arrived. After the doctor observed my condition, she stated that its not tinea but rather atopic dermatitis, something to do with contact allergy and is a family of eczema. I was then rather overwhelmed, not by the fact of the new diagnosis, but by the fact that one week ago, the young doctor from my father's company clinic whom i saw for free, diagnosed me with tinea with just one look and all along i''ve been treating my condition wrongly. Anyway, i was told to discontinue the use of the anti fungi cream and was prescribed PP wash, beprosone cream (which is betamethasone 0.05% w/w) and piriton/lorathadine for the itch. It is exactly one day since i've been using the new medicine now. I shall observe how effective the new medications are to my condition. Was rather scared by stories from my friends stating they had such conditions before and took months to cure, blah blah blah....i wanted to join orientation and start school in my best form okay!

Anyway, recently if you are waiting for bus you would hav observed the promotion on BK's new spicy tender burger or tender spicy burger or wtv its called. I've tried it on sunday and i advise you guys not to try it. Hahaha. I'm not some kinda food critic here but I shall give my two cents worth regarding this. On sunday, i decided to try the new burger for dinner. It was all well until i took my first bite. And then i was like...."oh shit"! Not that it taste bad, but it just taste like any other spicy burger you can get, e.g. McSpicy. What shocked me more was the fact that the pure chicken thigh was extremely oily upon deep fried. I can see the layer of skin soaked with oil like a giant piece of fibrous sponge. Well, i have this weird habit of not eating chicken skin or any kinda skin since young coz i was taught that its unhealthy and should remove it. Even when i eat Mcspicy, i would remove the layer of skin first before continuing my indulgence. As for then, i could not remove the layer of skin from my BK spicy tender wtv burger coz my hands were applied with topical cream! Taking a few more bites, i've decided to do experiment it more. I "gently" compressed the burger infront of my eyes and there it was....freaking so much oil flowing out from between the skin and the meat and i almost fainted. The oil just flow out endlessly and soaked the bottom component of the burger's bread. Just as i thought most of it were out, i compressed it again and more came out. I wanted to gave out eating that sinful thingy but was scared to be ticked off by my parents for wasting food. In the end, i removed the bottom burger bread soaked with oil and ate the rest with guilt. Guilt of eating so much fats into myself. Argh !!! So much that i've to seek courage to forgive myself for that sinful indulgance : dear cMh, forgive me (myself) for i've sinned. Anyway, moral of the story: 1. never try new suspicious things again. 2. Always remove the skin whenever it exist before eating.

Updates

I realized how long i havent been blogging over the past few weeks. Not that i hav no time to do so, but rather, i really have nothing much to blog about. So heres a short brief update on what i'm up to now:

As you know, i cant find a temp job, so i spent most of the time at home nuah-ing. Too much nuah-ing is not good coz i will not be used to the momentum of hard work once it starts. Well, i am like living with minimum income, only from my two tuition students, which is 2/3 of my NS pay in total. But still, being rather thrifty (or rather, stingy), i spent quite little so i managed to survive through these days. Have saved enough during NS days to pay for my uni laptop and other micellenous stuff so i wasnt much worried bout that. I spent $60 on another uni inorganic chemistry reference bk and started reading. But i totally do not understand what the shit it is talking about, when i am only on the first chapter. It was demoralising. I guess my brain has been too accustomed to not thinking hard. Sad.

This morning while i go to swim (as i always do at least once per week), my goggles broke into half! Meaning i have to get myself another pair of goggles which would probably cost me at least another $20 to $30? Its money to be spent again! Been saving money these days by settling lunch at home. Stock up my kitchen wif all sorta food stuff during weekend grocery shopping at NTUC with my parents. Well, they pay for the grocery bills, so i did save on that. But still, i only bought cheap stuff like pasta and frozen food, so yah...not really too taxing on their part.

I am down with foot rot at my right toe, yes for those who guessed the medical term for it correct when i post on facebook shoutout, it is tinea pedis. Clusters of small vesicals start popping out around my toe and the web space between big toe and index toe and its really an eyesore. Sometimes i use a needle to burst the vesical and those clear liquid oozing out being dried by tissue. Although i know thats like not the right thing to do but my hand is just as itchy. Haha. Got some anti fungi cream from the nearby clinic to apply but after days it seems to be getting worse.

Waiting for orientation and uni start to school to approach. Cant wait to start a brand new phase of my life, making new friends, learning new things, getting used to new routines. Also waiting for my dream phone - Sony Ericsson C901 or C903 to be out in the market so i can get it (either one) while renewing my singtel contract. Both are 5 megapix cybershot phone and they look rather cool. It is to be out early this year but i guess due to the global recession thingy, the release has been delayed. Oh well...i'm still using my NS phone which screen was been scratched until beyond recognition. Oh well...perhaps i shd ask that from my family member as a 21st birthday gift. Hahaha....juz jk.

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.