just had driving lesson. Sth funny. I got the instructor that perpetually dozed off everytime again. I was along AMK ave 1, real long straight road, he didn't give any instructions, so I assume we are going straight. Until we almost reached serangoon, then I was like er.. then he suddenly woke up and realised we had overshot. He was wearing sunglasses, so I couldn't really tell he was sleeping or not. Clever way to slack. So I had to drive into the private estate and narrow roads, and make a turn back towards amk.. haha but I had fun driving long distances. Feeling much more confident now, just that instructor been complaining that i drag my gear for too long and don't change up fast enough.

Haha got weepoh to drive me from home to simlim to check wads wrong with my graphics card on sat. At a price of course, treated him to lunch. Hahaha. Thanks anyway. Supposedly I had already tried uninstalling my driver and reinstalling it(tried a couple of times both with my cd, and the website update) but it still keeps rebooting when my com tries to load windows. As a result I can only get into normal mode after uninstalling my graphics driver. But when they did the same thing over there in sim lim, my com miraculously worked.. Argh felt like an idiot at that point in time. So i thot everything was fine, but when i got home, and tried to play some video files, I got really bad images and resolution but the funny thing was I could still play my warcraft perfectly. So after some trial and error, i stumbed into this toubing shooting option for my graphics card where I could adjust the graphics card accleration, so I tried lowering it(such that I cannot play gamesthat require nice 3D images) and amazingly the video could play properly. Argh wth is wrong with my com man. can someone enlighten me?

Finished harry potter finally. Read real slowly initially and only picked up towards the end.. front part was kinda boring. Sighz shall not mention too much in case some of u all are slower in reading it than me. Haha had to wait for ppl to finish reading then i can borrow and read.

Didn't realised I had overbooked too many driving lessons like (30+) until I was shocked by my bank acc balance. I was like where did my money go??? hahaha. Hope I woun be needing so many lessons either. My friends are planning to go HK in nov, yes that super double combo holiday week(think its deepavali n hari raya) which happens to my birthday week too, where ppl only need to take like 2,3 days of leave and can go off for the whole week. As much as I want to go, but I'm really like damm broke now from my driving lessons, moreover I've just been there in march this year. hmm... there n again, there's disneyland, dim sum,shopping, blah argh... sianz... I wan more money! gagaga haha.

Meanwhile, really busy at medical centre everyday... tons of paper work to do as audit draws near and there's more n more ppl nagging at me to do things. sianz. The warcraft dota craze isn't quite over yet, kinda funny as I've already long past the dota-obsession period. But i still join them for fun la. heheh.

hahah i realised i'm not the only one who hold the same views towards superstar after all. LOL..

Rather disappointed and disgusted with the results of jue dui superstar. I think sgporeans should wake up their idea, this is a competition and we're looking for someone who has the looks, dance and sings well. This is NOT a charity show. There's certainly a limit to how much we can sympathise, and at this stage of the competition, its high time that talent becomes a more critical and decisive factor than sympathy. I feel really sad and wasted for junyang.. I realy think it would be a great laughing stock if weilian really wins the competition. . Some of u might find me abit extreme, or prejudiced, but I really feel that voters should cast their votes based on one's talents, and to the who has the ability to be a superstar. Realistically speaking how far can weilian go? I really feel that junyang won him in almost every aspect.

I dun mean to be superstitious or wad.. some how bad things seem to occur after one another ever since the start of u-know-wad month. My auntie(da-gu) passed away yesterday.. actually she was already pronounced brain dead on friday. I was really stunned when dad called me from malaysia(most of my paternal side relatives are in KL) on friday..she had this benign brain tumour and underwent a surgery on monday.. Was kinda worried initially cox the op was already delayed b4hand due to her HBP, but dad called on tues saying that the op was successful so I thot everything was fine and over. But things took a turn and her condition kinda deteriorated on thurs/fri i think, her BP became very unstable and eventually causing her brain to suffer from a lack of oxygen..and...

I can't help but feel abit affected even though I'm not very close to her, mainly due to infrequent communication and contact.. think the last time i saw her was in dec'03.. but she's always been a very nice and caring aunt, and worthy of my respect. i really din expect things to turn out this way.. Somehow I dunno why i feel abit guilty or wad, I think its just me regretting not seeing her for the last time and spending more time with her b4 she left. Should I have went back to KL with my dad for the past 2 weeks.. haiz. To everyone out there, thought its a very old saying but pls cherish the ppl around u, b4 its too late. Somehow I feel abit guilty for spending my weekend as per normal, its not as if i'm cold blooded, but i just feel that cooping myself at home and brooding over it will not make things better.. Haiz.. I hope my dad is feeling okie..

And now I have this grandaunt in hospital now waiting to go into operating theatre, she has HBP too... think she has some gall bladder infection or dunno wad. not v sure. I really hope she will be fine.

today's lesson was kinda enjoyable. Finally went out to the road. I felt much more in control and confident today with the clutch and accelerator. Able to move off the car more quickly without stalling and without vibrating the car, as well as stopping smoothly and change gear,clutch down in time.... only thing i need to improve on is to up gear more smoothly n quickly while acclerating. Taxi drivers are so unfriendly to newbie drivers lor... I was just abit slow in moving off when the light turned green den that idiot honked me...wah liew...

Went marina south for dinner on sat. Heheh haven been there for quite some time. I din know tt there was actually some ndp thingy going on there. as in ppl actually got tickets to watch the live telecast of the parade thru a huge projector screen set up at the field there. kinda dumb and pathetic idea i thot. got to see fireworks due to the proximity of padang over dinner. Hmm the prawns were really fresh and sweet. Bbqing the half alive prawns(some still jumping in the container) was hilarious and def not for the faint hearted. LOL.the prawns put up a futile struggle but sadly perished under our brutal chopstops and sizziling bbq plate MuAhahaha.

Been feeling kinda lethargic/down/sian or wadever, dunno itz work making me very sian or wad. sometimes it just feels like nothing is of interest to me anymore, and also lost and aimless. And amazingly i realised I'm not the only one having that undescrible suxky feeling too. Its like suddenly i will ask myself why am I doing this? Why am I wasting my time? What am I going to end up/become/do in the future? haha. i shall not continue. getting abit out of point. Looking forward to ndp weekend.

I've been such a lazy bum. Haven't updated for ages. And i think this blog layout sux. but i just refuse to do anything. =P

Passed my final driving theory, not bad considering it a first attempt. I was admittedly kinda kiasu.. haha studied and looked through everything i could. the online theory lessons, theory book and most importantly the 400 MCQs from past yrs test guidebk which i got from joel. Also had my 1st lesson last week, haah i remembered being so tired when i got there..it was friday 2055hrs, last weekday of the week totally drained. But I still found it quite fun and interesting, though the clutch thingy is quite a nuisance. Guess its a matter of getting used to it. My instructor got so bored of me practicing reversing and moving off that he fell asleep.. HmmpHz...Only after i told him i'm confident liao den he let me proceed to driving round the circuit.. haha certainly looking forward to this sun's lesson.

Broke away from the normal routine during the last weekend.. went to cheowlit's house in jb to stayover for the weekend with daryl. Kinda enjoyed ourselves.. it was pretty sinful considering the amount of food we gorged. haha I constantly felt full sia...hahah seriously not exaggerating. Snacked around in city sq and A&W! haah.. missed A&W curly fries man! and top it up with a rootbeer float..yUm! Had dinner with his family at some chinese restaurant which was quite a drive away from JB..but could understand why their family has been going back there all these while. after trying the food. haha. Went for supper at midnight at some street hawker/opitiam place.. the chee cheong fun was really oiishiii~~ Was quite convenient for us to get around as cheow drove us.. to shopping and stuff.. yea.. sigh when will be able to drive around?? think should be sending him off this sat afternoon..

Work at medical centre seemed to have taken a toll on me ever since I've taken over as dispense i/c. Sianz... I always feel likei have tons of work to do.. haha.. Wads worse those snr medics/regulars are not making life any much better by implementing lots of new policies and systems. Whole load of crap. Ppl say xin guan shang ren san ba huo, but i think we have like as much as jiu(9) ba huo... so many newly appointed ppl trying to "show their power n garangness" and trying desperately to prove themselves at the expense of us lowly NSFs. Argh.. haaha we're like peons.. "work work"...WTH...we shld lead an uprising!! But fortunatley, ppl there are rather fun and nice to work with la... perhaps the only nice thing at the medical centre is the people there ba.

Hmm wadver it is, the weekend is near le! at least for me now, all i can do is to look forward to weekends and driving lessons.. and of course ORD.

Just had chemical defence course back at Nee Soon today..Haha we navy personnel were really balonglong.. whole group go for break but returned 10 mins late... den water parade when the rest were using that green ugly bottle we were taking out our civilian fanciful bottles..haha quite a funny sight. Basically the whole course was kinda slack.. they gave us super long canteen and lunch breaks till it becomes very sian haha. the only irritating part was just doning of the freaking thick and uncomfortable suit. And tmr should be a half day..yeah..

Just to share sth.. My friend working in the chamber was telling us that day that was this guy who came in with DCI(decompression illness) - a condition where air bubbles, mainly nitrogen gets trapped in a particular part of a body due to rapid ascent during diving.. ( a result of surounding pressure decreasing too quickly). In this case the DCI occured at his balls(ya u din get me wrong, testicles). So his testicles became twice its normal size. But then, Dr Lee heard it wrongly, he thot it was his penis that became twice its normal size.. so he exclaimed," why is the patient still complaining?? shouldn't he be happy about it?" hahaha

Just had chicken rice from the Wei Nan Ji Stall at Novena.. Yum.. Have to say its quite nice.. recommend u guys to try it. =P

Sianz i just lost like near 35 bucks over mahjong this weekend. Sighz. Utterly disgusted. Had breakfast at delifrance this morning.. obviously it had to be kenvin's treat! with me contributing roughly 50% of his earnings... I will have my revenge next time!! LOLx

Met up with william and a handful of jc classmates on fri night.. Was chilling and crapping around while munching sushi at the suki sushi rest in cini. Well william is flying off this coming sat to US naval academy for 4 years.. All the best dude! Thanks for the movie treat too! hMm monster-in-law was an unexpectedly hilarious and entertaining show.. haha.. probably because i was prejudiced towards J -Lo. HA.

Sheesh... weekends seems to fly past like a bullet all the time.. sian its monday again tmr! Arghz

Been MIA for some time.. hmm let me recall what had happened... okie think i went sailing for a week which i kinda enjoyed though I complained initially. HAha. Was practically like doing nothing everyday onboard thanks to wonderful Dr Mathew who believes in doing everything himself. never seen any other MO like him before. A real nice guy. And can u imagine he's presently studying diploma in law at the meantime while serving his NS.. and he's aim is obviously a double degree.. Law + Medicine??!!? Can you imagine how powerful will that be?

He was telling me about the mistakes that doctors make in hospitals and i vaguely remembered there was this case where there's this patient who came in for some minor surgery. Prior to most surgery, patient has to fast for a certain period of time before entering the OT.. so this guy fasted and everything seemed perfectly normal to the doctors until just before the sugery, they found his vital signs deteriorating and slipped into coma.. so they panicked and scrambled to find out what's wrong wih him, and to their horror, his hypocount was 0.8 (hypocount refs to blood glucose level, and for normal ppl is 4.0 and above, so 0.8 is really very low...). They tried to revive him but it was just too late.. Apparently his hypocount was falling steadily all the while(probably a diabetic pat) just that nobody monitored and bothered to check his condition. Everyone assumed it's just another normal case and hence leading to their negligence. Sighz. though doctors are human after all, and have the right to make mistakes, but when such mistakes occur, who will be so forgiving? not the society, and certainly not the relatives of the deceased. Tough job.

He was also telling me about how lawyers in the US station themselves outside hospitals chasing after patients or relatives asking if they want to sue the doctors for wadsoever reason, causing them unnecessary trauma, pain or even death. Hah..

been rather busy at medical centre recently... sighz really tired.. will try to blog again soon.

I'm going sailing! from tmr to fri. to nowhere. BIG SaiGang. will return just in time for the weekend. Haiz... rubbish la.. wad under clinical no need to sail... in the end still ask me to sail out of convenience. Wadever la... go sail can leave medical centre work to pile and rot. Den i will go for off next weeek when i come back! LAlala Bo ga lAnz.

StarWars was quite disappointing. or maybe my expectations were high. It was just pure regurgitation of the story line... no adrenaline rush.. quite boring. think it was just an OK movie. and $9.50's really not cheap man.

SleepyHeads....ZzzZ 

Cheese! Everyone minus yf who only joined us later 

Just had MIPA(Medic Individual Proficiency Test) this morning.. I was the only one that managed to insert an IV(intravenous infusion) successfully.. haha. Thanks to my buddy's quanwen good veins LOLx. He created a mini Mt Everest on my forearm on mon man.. he couldn't dislodge the catheter.. at such when he tried to force it in... the catheter kinked and instantly a bump started to grow on my arm... eeks... haha taumatising for me as I haven really got a haematoma before during my CMC period at NEE soon camp.. haha i was laughing hystericaly.. quite funny...

Had a jc class bbq at huangyi's place... went there early to help him with the food and stuff... Haha it was my first time trying to deshell raw prawns and clean and prepare a squid... kinda gross but interesting... found a minute fish head that was partly digested in the squid hahaha. in the end i think the cheese prawns and sotong tasted the best! and its part of my hard work k! =P

the turn out for the evening was great and considered significantly better than usual for our class outings..even though many other ppl were overseas and blar.. heheh.. had fun catching up with u guys.. all the crapping and joking ard...it was a nice feeling to meetup again. stayed over at huangyi's place for the night playing bridge and watching dvds.. Hope we can meet up soon..

Kaoshiung City... 

Pervert!!!!!!!! 

Eating Again.... 

Cool Stuff!! Cotton Candy tt i bought for TW. Kept one at home too.=P 

YumZ 

Liu He Ye Shi... 

In taiwan with my fellow medics..I look so extra in orange!