No U-Turn...

2010-06-22T17:02:00.002+08:00

My life is just rotting away. My bond's over, so is my degree. Now there appears to be nothing ahead to chase for. Maybe for a while, the World Cup can take my mind away from being targetless. MAybe I should crack open my GMAT book to start studying and yeah... Do my GMAT exam and see how things go...

2010-03-03T22:42:00.001+08:00

I got first class honours. He he... I'm so happy that my hard work paid off. Now what should I study?

2009-10-23T01:15:00.002+08:00

Last minute work. I know it's bad for me, but I'm always finding myself struggling down this road. Haiz... I'm very stressed up and tired... OMG...

2009-10-05T21:45:00.002+08:00

It's about 2 weeks already. The last time I went to the doc, the lady told me i'm 100 degree long sighted, ie over corrected. But that's the correct thing cos while my eyes recover, there'll be a lost of about 50 to 100 degree. Anyway, it's still blurry, cannot make it. Double image on everything nearish. Work was like shit today. I couldn't follow the guide wires. Had to guesstimate my way through. Positioned my ROI based on experience. No, I was not malpracticing, cos I could see the caths, sometimes, it's impossible to see wires even with perfect vision. Ah well, eyes are getting a tat better everyday, but just not fast enough. It was really a bad move. And thanks jeremy, que sera sera...

2009-09-26T12:19:00.002+08:00

I don't think anyone follows my blog anymore. REally doubt so. I don't even bother to blog anymore. But hey! I'm back. I just did lasik on Wed. It really was as scary as as one would imagine. Feels more more like a trip to the dentist than an actual surgery. I've opted for epi-lasik. The one with less side effects and dayadaya. The recovery is longer. It's day number 4 now. My eyes are still blurry. Don't know if i can recover enough for work on monday, But we'll see.

Haven't been able to do my Uni work like I planned to. Starting to wonder if this surgery was a bad move at a bad timing. Ah well... que cara cara. In fact, I can't really see what I'm typing here. Heehee

2009-07-13T21:37:00.002+08:00

I'm back to being a civilian! The reservist training was actually pretty good. Very nice way to start my cycles of reservist training. I feel like I was a good soldier during the past 2 weeks. :)

Back to work, I guess... Good thing I'll have a rest day tomorrow. Can recover from all the shagness gained from zo bo-ing. Going physio in the morning, then hope everything else will fall nicely into place.

For now, it's back to my assignment. Nil Sine Labore! I was looking at the VS facebook group, suddenly miss my secondary school so much!

A Victoria is ultimately a Gentleman, a Professional and a Sportman..."

2009-07-06T20:38:00.002+08:00

Well well, haven't blogged in a while. I haven't really been in the mode for my assignments. I know I need to ace this assignment in order to stay on my target for my degree, but I simply can't command the discipline and strength to even get started. But anyhow, I'm doing my annual reservist training now. It's a nice break from work. And yet, really nice to know that the SAF has got lots of capabilities to care for the wounded.

Money makes the world go round, and this year's bonus money is so bad! Like the world's square now.

2009-06-07T01:45:00.002+08:00

I've very recently watched a news clip on TV about LTA's move to change of the busstop information poles to better and newer ones. Then there was this dude who said "In this kind of economic climate, the government shouldn't spend this kind of money".

I've been quite disturbed by this comment and I really cannot tahan and have to make some clarifications here. During a recession, the governments SPEND! This move could keep many many many jobs. Think about the dude who designs the boards, the dude who does the planning of what info goes on the board. How about the metal cutter, the wielders and printers? Then, there are the logistics people, the installers and even the cleaning company's cleaners. Dude, many many jobs are created or preserved here. In the current economy, if the government or the rich don't spend, then the jobs of those way down in the food chain will be lost. Think about it. Don't make such a stupid comment to piss me off. Anyway, you pay so much tax, isn't a nicer and non-rusting information board (with more relevant info) nice? They make Singapore that much prettier, which will raise the image of SG and then, more people will come to invest eh?

Dude... Seriously...

2009-05-26T23:01:00.003+08:00

Went to Bukit Batok for the Pre Hospitalization Radiation Accident Management course today. Good lectures, very very interesting stuff. Hope this newly gained knowledge of mine can be useful in the future.

I went for an impromptu movie after lessons today. Angels and Demon, I gotta say, I'm glad I watched the show at EW West Mall. The digital format was very appreciated. No noise in the images, the sound quality was superior. It's cool. Movie was so so ba lu... Nothing as fancy as Dar Vinci code, still a nice show to watch. Haven't seen to the movies by myself in a while, sure beats watching movies at home alone on my little screen.

Hmm... just a random thought that I got while listening to Sean Kingston's Fire Burning. Why is it that the african american are so proud of their "nigga" english, but Singaporeans are so obsessed with the Queen's English. Why condemn Singlish dawg? It ain't so bad dawg...

2009-05-10T17:14:00.002+08:00

Haven't been here in a while. Hope people are still coming here to visit.

Hmm... Life's been pretty nice and eventful. School's really tough but I'm enjoying every bit of it. Work is nice, I've graduated from my Angio training. Still trying to live with this particular "nipple" at work.

Hmm... what else... Oh, I've taken up duties as a Vice President of the SSR. Stressful position, but I'm beginning to learn the ropes.

"Ti gor buey...?"

2009-03-25T22:09:00.003+08:00

Haven't heard this in a while, this song's been floating around my head for many days! Love it! I bet Chinese Anime followers will like going, "Doh! I've been poisoned with this song!"

Oh and yes, Goh Li Ping is my girlfriend.

2009-02-22T21:26:00.003+08:00

Ok, you know the thing about anti-smoking campaigns, pictures of smoking related diseases on cigarette packs no videos of actors smoking in movies? Well, I'll say that maybe the policy makers are being very bias. Well, it's a fact that smoking related diseases like lung cancer, COPD and emphysema are not the top killers in the world. Seriously... In my most recent assignment, I've gone through a lot of such health statistics stuff and hey, cardiovascular diseases are the top killers in the world. Isn't is weird that social propaganda only covers smoking and not so much on unhealthy foodstuff? Top reasons for heart diseases are high fat diet, high cholesterol, obesity and sedentary lifestyles.

Hmmm... high fat, high cholestrol, high calorie foods... Sounds like char kway teow, laksa, prata, nasi lemak, KFC, Macdonalds, BK, LJS, Old Chang Kee, Hagen Daaz. Steamboat buffets... Shouldn't these foods get the "fear-factor" imagery warning signs also? Imagine picture of a 200kg guy sitting next to the red-hair clown carrying a health advisory sign. How about a "high-fat content" sign sticking on the Char Kway Teow stalls? Maybe "Over-eating warning" signs outside buffet (international buffets, steamboat) outlets? What about red canned drink carrying "High sugar"?

Oh well, maybe you'll think that I've picked up smoking, the answer is no, I still hate cigarette smoke and smokers. As much as I like fattening foods, I'm constantly reminding myself to shy off those food. Anyway, my point is, maybe we should impose those signs, then maybe I'll have more will to avoid those junk foods. And help the more ignorant population also.

Got these thoughts after watching "Thank you for smoking". Nice movie.

2009-01-31T00:07:00.001+08:00

Urticaria...

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (What's wrong with me?)
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (Why do I feel like this?)
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (I'm going crazy now)
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

No more gas in the rig
Can't even get it started
Nothing heard, nothing said
Can't even speak about it
All my life on my head
Don't want to think about it
Feels like I'm going insane
Yeah

It's a thief in the night
To come and grab you
It can creep up inside you
And consume you
A disease of the mind
It can control you
It's too close for comfort

Throw on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must faulter be wise
Your mind is in urticaria
It's like the darkness is the light
Urticaria
Am I scaring you tonight
Urticaria
Ain't used to what you like
Urticaria
Urticaria

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Faded pictures on the wall
It's like they talkin' to me
Disconnectin' your call
Your phone don't even ring
I gotta get out
Or figure this shit out
It's too close for comfort

It's a thief in the night
To come and grab you
It can creep up inside you
And consume you
A disease of the mind
It can control you
I feel like a monster

Throw on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must faulter be wise
Your mind is in urticaria
It's like the darkness is the light
Urticaria
Am I scaring you tonight
Urticaria
Ain't used to what you like
Urticaria
Urticaria

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Release me from this curse
I'm trying to remain tame
But I'm struggling
You can't go, go, go
I think I'm going to oh, oh, oh

Throw on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must faulter be wise
Your mind is in urticaria
It's like the darkness is the light
Urticaria
Am I scaring you tonight
Urticaria
Ain't used to what you like
Urticaria
Urticaria

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Adapted from Rihanna's Disturbia

Itchy itchy!!

2009-01-23T14:15:00.000+08:00

I'm confused about today's episode of Grey's...

2009-01-21T16:01:00.001+08:00

Disappointment is all that's left after 4 years of chasing something that wasn't really there.

2009-01-21T02:12:00.001+08:00

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

2008-12-18T12:13:00.002+08:00

And so the story goes...

I went to a random dentist near my place cos the year's dental claim was ending and I had to go for my dental before the end of the year. Went for KFC on my way back then I was walking home.

As I was crossing the x-junction between McNair Road and Towner Road, I felt myself hit on the right leg and I got swept off the ground and then I landed on my arm and rolled a little, like 1 metre. Then I realised I was hit by a cab. Like fuck!

I got up and got to the side of the road. My elbow and big toe suffered some abrasion due to the fall (and breaking fall). My knee was a little sore but i felt that I could still walk. Cabby got off and started asking how I was. I told him I was fine. I really felt I was. Anyhow, he offered to send me home. When we reached, uncle asked me if I was ok, I told him I was but then I started moving my knee and it was sore as hell and I needed MC cover... So, I asked uncle to send me to TTSH.

At TTSH, my xrays were cleared by the ED doctor.. And I was sent home with painkillers. The next morning, the ED doctor called me telling me that the radiologist reported a little avulsion fracture on my knee. FuCK! I was asked to go back to ED to get a backslab. And an appointment was made for me to see an ortho. To get a same day appointment, I had to be A class. But anyway, it was money's worth, cos I got Mr Lai, the most popular and so they say the best knee surgeon in TTSH. So yah, while passing our department, boss saw me and made me wait in our pantry the afternoon appointment. Baowei was nice enough to help me get coffee and food. =) Oh yeah, and Evelyn got me a pillow to raise my leg, that was really nice too.

When I saw Mr Lai, he told me that my knee was relatively stable, there's a slight laxity on the lateral side, together with the avulsion fracture that could indicate a lateral collateral ligament injury. He said that the laxity feels like a stretch not a tear, which was really nice. And if it's the LCL injury, it'll repair itself in 6 weeks. But there's a query ACL injury. OMG! If it's ACL, then need surgical repair. So, ya, he ordered an MRI scan. I'm waiting to hear about my report. He took me off the backslab and ordered a very expensive knee brace for me.

Thanks everyone who's been sending me well wishes. And all those who's helped nurse me...

Please help me pray that there's no ACL tear.

2008-12-08T13:29:00.003+08:00

Blog time!

The Singapore Marathon was a blast! First time I did a half marathon and boy was it good. The target time was 2 and a half hours but i allowed myself up to 2hours and 45 mins. I've trained for this, but I admit that I wasn't training too hard. And it was almost impossible to train during shift days, but hey! I tried. I ran at 10am in the morning before evening shifts and I ran at 11.30 at night after evening shifts. I tried running at 5pm before night shift too, but that left me feeling super tired for the night shift.

Anyway... Back to Wednesday, it was one of those rare chances to watch a UDS happen without Toh KL. And Peiting was there so boss asked me to go watch and learn how to do it. And then, god damn it... Peiting sneezed into my chest (yes, she can't sneeze into my face due to Y-axis limitations), but that was good enough to seed me with her bug. Then, I knew it was doomed. I went home that day and started popping Vit C like mad. Little symptoms showed but I guess the Vit C was keeping the full blown effect away... So I continued with my Vit C regime and trained.

Day before Race day: I was feeling quite ok. I carbo loaded like mad and Vit C loaded like mad. I rested really early and drank loads of water.

Race Day! Feeling good, squeezed my way to near the front to start the run nearer to the front pack so that it wouldn't be too squeezy. I didn't make it to the toilet cos it was too crowded, but that issue was settled in an unofficial male peeing point later. Run was really good, but my dumbass Crossroads headphones broke down at the 7km mark. There was only sound coming through the right channel. Dang... So I took off my headphones and ran without music. At the 10 km mark, I was out of strength, I was running too fast for my body to release my stored energy (yes, from all the fats all over me). And damn I should've gotten energy gels. I had no choice but to slow down to a walk. At the drinks station at 11km, there were bananas!!! Omg!! God sent! I hoot the banana and drank loads of water and ppoooFFF!! Strength to run again... I'm so going to train harder for my body to learn to release energy faster and I'm so going to get energy gels for my next run. So run run run... walk a little and then, the Adidas Official Pacers for 2hr and 30 mins went pass. I was like, if I had trained harder and wasn't a little sick and had some form of energy replenishment earlier, I would've been way ahead of 2hr and 30 mins. At the 17 km mark, I started feeling unwell, I felt like puking but kept holding back.

Then I ran all the way back to the finishing line, didn't stop... So many people were watching and I couldn't malu myself. Finally got back in 2hr and 47mins, need to wait for the official results, cos I didn't pass the start line at 0mins so need to wait for official results. I'm kinda happy with my result. It's a race against my own limits and yeah...

I puked 6 times after the race and it was until 6 hours later that I could finally drink or eat something without puking...

LAtest Update: My official nett timing was 2h:46m:28s (Fuck..................)

2008-11-25T23:18:00.002+08:00

My phone is a complete goner! I went to the HTC service center and the lady told me that it'll cost $330 to replace the mainboard. And I'm like... WTF!!! Wah lao... I love my HTC Touch. I can't live without my scheduler... I remember the last time I sent my Touch to the service center, I totally forgot about an appointment. I've got major memory issues and I have some form of attention dysfunction. Without my phone, I think I'm screwed. See how it goes lah...

BTW, I love my Touch so much that I think I want to buy a Touch 3G. Something that looks exactly like my Touch! Haha!

2008-11-21T13:18:00.001+08:00

My mother's elder brother rocks...

More later..,.

2008-11-21T12:12:00.002+08:00

I broke my stylus! I have sore eyes! I don't know whether I should get a new stylus cos my dumbass phone is constantly restarting by itself with good enough reason. Argh...

Alvin's back, went to HardRock Cafe with him for a very unhealthy meal. What's interesting was the private party that was happening. Crocs Asia was having a private party at HardRock Cafe yesterday. Themed High School Reunion. Seriously... What a dumb theme...

The band Energy was pretty good, the lead singer must be swallowing rusted cast iron everyday for mains and sandpaper for deserts... His voice is hell of a rough siah... Rock and roll siah...

2008-11-16T00:44:00.003+08:00

Awww... Isn't this nice? Somehow I'm sure that the invitation to the Gala Dinner triggered this. I feel so cherished by NHG. Seriously... This little thing really boosted the morale of many of our radiographers! Haha! So yah, Happy Radiographers' Day everyone!

The TTSH Radiographers' Day celebration at the Bottle Tree Park was a success! Loads of fun with prawn fishing and the dinner was so good!!!

From 15th Nov Rad Day

2008-11-07T23:50:00.000+08:00

Happy Radiographers' Day to all Radiographers and Radiation Therapists!!!

2008-11-07T00:19:00.002+08:00

Yes we can!

Oh man... The elections are finally over and the world have finally woken up from the smoke generated. The markets dipped real good today, so scary... I'm worried.

Oh well, the leave balloting exercise today was really interesting. First time I witnessed it. Feel so sad for the philipinos who don't get to go home for Christmas, awww....

2008-11-05T23:29:00.000+08:00

God bless the United States of America

2008-11-05T00:13:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow is portable...

Argh...

And I didn't..........

2008-11-01T02:23:00.002+08:00

I went to Avenue Q with Liping today. OMG, it was the opening night and boy was it good. Well, we didn't know it was the opening nite and we turned up a little underdress, not jeans and tee-shirt, no worries. Avenue Q is like Sesame Street with an adult theme! Very good adult jokes and watching the puppets get it on was really really amusing AND entertaining... "The Internet is for porn"

Learnt a new word.

Schadenfreude: is enjoyment taken from the misfortune of someone else.

I love this word. SERIOUSLY... It's one of my favourite aspects of my style of humour.
Also, the musical brought up a good point about why losers exist... They're there to serve as sources of schadenfreude... Muahahaha...

2008-10-27T12:08:00.002+08:00

Working on the SSR Council is tough work. All of it is on top of my work commitments in TTSH, pretty much means I'm just collecting more work. But why am I still bothered? Well, very fundamentally, I'm working for change in the community. I'm personally very disappointed with the state that radiography is in. Where radiographers are becoming button pushers and not actually doing an examination. In the UK, the orders come with indications and "Xray foot", they don't tell you to do AP and Lat, or DP and oblique, or Weight Bearing AP and Lat. The radiographer makes the decision based on the indications. Anyway...

My current project for the SSR is "A Rendezvous with SSR". There's lots of issues with the date and the communications involved. The date clashes with the SGH Dinner and Dance, and then, it's the weekend following Deepavali, which means our Hindu Radiographers and RTs will be busy visiting friends and relatives. AND! Charles Sturt students will be busy cramping for their exams... Urgh... And then, the publicity of this whole event's a bitch. Loads of people tell me that they haven't heard of the event, which is very unfortunate. So, I posted the info on all the social networking groups and sites that I have access to. Right now, I'm even contemplating if I should resort to Google Adsense. HAHA! Oh well, que sara sara...

2008-10-21T22:55:00.001+08:00

It poured again. Damn it... My SSR Family Day recce was destroyed! Argh... Anyway... I guess I'll have to sort it out somehow or other.

2008-10-20T23:30:00.002+08:00

Mondays are crazy, seriously...

2008-10-11T21:52:00.001+08:00

BPM!!! Beats per Minute!!

Wooohooo!!!

2008-10-11T19:51:00.002+08:00

Hi everyone, the SSR will be conducting a forum Entitled: "State Registration for Radiographers and Radiation Therapists: What Is Means to You".

Date: 15th of October 2008

Venue is Tan Tock Seng Hospital Audtitorium, Registration and Dinner Commences at 6pm.

Event is free for all Radiographers and Radiation Therapists.

Please RSVP at ssrexco@gmail.com

Singapore Society of Radiographers Family will be on the 1st of November.

Venue: Singapore Botanic Gardens

Time: 1530 hrs - 1830 hrs

Bring your own picnic. Treasure hunt with great prizes to be won. Spot Art competition for children and photography contest for adults.

More on http://www.ssr.org.sg

2008-10-07T21:21:00.002+08:00

I'm sure many of you readers have heard. Generally, there's nothing to say, just that it was peaceful and mutual. So peace yaww....

Life's getting really busy lately. Doing my regular work, doing projects at my workplace and serving in the SSR. On top of it all, there's still school. I'm going nuts.

And oh yah, I've been working since last Saturday and won't be getting an off day till NEXT Saturday. Tired siah...

2008-10-06T01:51:00.001+08:00

2008-10-01T19:13:00.002+08:00

You see, radiation safety in the operating theatre is very different from a mobile xray unit. The II is like a giant night vision goggle which allows people to even see the distant and dim stars. Sticking to this analogy, if the xray source from the C-arm are stars, which can't make you deliver the tiniest amount of heat to your skin, the mobile xray unit is like the sun.

That's the difference between being informed and being ignorant. Bloody idiot...

2008-09-30T15:26:00.002+08:00

I'm sick! Damn! And I'm night shift later! My temperature was 37.5 yesterday, slight fever, then 8 panadols later, it's 37.4. Oh man... My night shift is going to be terrible. Hope the morning rounds won't be too toxic. And hope I can maybe rest a bit. Through all my years of fighting obesity, there's always a cock reason that'll just crop up to stop all efforts. This time round, I started my running regime. Just when I'm up to better able to stride (well) for 7km, I've fallen sick. Previously, I've kena knee injuries, sprained ankles and all that shit. Oh ya, I've lost 3kgs since I started this recent regime. Aiyah...

And I try to refrain from exercise 1 week after recovering from an illness, there are too many stories of sudden deaths and shit. Argh!!!

My theory is that the break down of (stored) fats in the body creates lots of toxic by-products and oxidants. So basically, this will screw up my immune system and thus, I'm always falling sick when I start losing weight! Argh... I've uped my fruits intake and vit c intake liao, but still like that.

I'm doomed to being a pear all my life....

2008-09-23T23:23:00.002+08:00

Reservist was really nice. Just slacked and waited to rush. The shooting was good, I felt that I shot well, really happy about my shooting results. Met many new and interesting boys in the unit. And I'm so amazed with the CSH's capability.

I watched Mama Mia! Such a nice show! The good old muscial movie genre is really making a comeback! And I love such shows! So happy and dancy. Like Bollywood! And the ABBA songs were really good too. But there was the lady sitting next to us was singing away, like wth.

Monday was Huishan and Hee Shen's wedding. Huishan has always been so shy about her relationship with Hee Shen, and the wedding was prolly the second time I saw them holding handS! Such a nice wedding, though it's not a nice occasion to be at if one has a broken heart. We cam whored like mad! I've finally figured what's the magic about the TTSH radiology team. We are just so young and fun loving and close! It's really very different from say SGH or NUH. The people here are mad! Haha! Will be posting the photos on Facebook soon. Stay tuned!

2008-09-19T00:40:00.001+08:00

Reservist Rocks!

It's a good break from the crazy work intensity of mine. Wait to rush, rush to wait...

2008-09-08T02:51:00.002+08:00

A crazy week with one hell of a good peak and a not too nice ending.

Crazy week first, I was arranged to do night shifts on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Well, good mah, then I can concentrate on SMRC, but no... Actually, I had my LSBU lessons with Prof. Lovegroove at all the strange and godforsaken places. So, 5pm to 8pm were lessons, then 9pm to 8am the next day were my night shifts. So I was going on and on for like 15hours a day. That was really tiring and the only decent sleep I got was on Thursday night. Kind of.

Then came the Gala Dinner and the SMRC. I feel really fortunate to be serving the Council. Although I was like a sitting duck with my really bad schedule, so I couldn't help much with the prep work. I managed to make myself really useful by helping to run the show, sort out the nitty gritty and you know, socialize... The dinner was graced by His Excellency President S.R. Nathan. He turned out to be a really nice person. We had a nice little chat in the holding room with him and yah, really pleasant guy. I love his job. I only stole like one bit of the banquet food from my dear TTSH colleague. And we took some really nice TTSH group photos. Oh yah, Liping and I even had to meet and greet and usher our dear NHG and TTSH double CEO from the foyer to the ballroom. Really nice experience! Nice person. Well, I feel that the night was a really nice one, cozy and really filled with "family warmth". The conference was really interesting also, I can't say all the papers were good, but I sure enjoyed MOST of them and the technical glitches were totally avoidable. But oh well, things sort themselves out anyway. *Just a note, most projectors are 1024 pixels across at the most, that's about the pixel width of a 3megapixel camera. So, seriously, your 24 powerpoint slides should not be 65.7mb big. COMPRESS the damn pictures! Anyway, I still think that the Dinner and the SMRC was a really good peak.

So where's the bad part? Well, now's the bad part, I can't sleep! Argh! Work's at 8.30am later!

2008-08-28T22:41:00.002+08:00

Rain rain rain... Run run run.

Firstly, the rain's been making me wet and sticky, which is really irritating. I ran the 10km race for the Army Half Marathon. It was good, the timing was satisfactory only, not up to my target yet. I was quite disappointed with the lack of signs indicating the distance to finish, and there was a REALLY tiny bottle neck where I had to slow down to a walk! So irritating!

Anyway, that aside, darling and I nearly went to the bird park on Saturday, but heng we decided not to, cos it poured like the skies were lao sai-ing.

Anyway, the SMRC and the 50th anniversary dinner of the SSR will be coming up. Been kept busy trying to figure things out. And I really need to catch up with my sleep, which I really need to now. Good night.

2008-08-07T23:24:00.002+08:00

I just finished 2 shifts. Oh my, I'm so freaking tired. Ortho clinic was REALLY mad and then E6 wasn't better. But then, I went for durians at Balestier. And oh am I happy again.

These are "butter" durians. They are from Combat Fruit Stall just next to Quality Hotel. As you can see, the seeds are small and flat, the flesh is sweet, bitter and REALLY flavourful. And there was so much flesh! And the flesh is smooth and very creamy, just like butter! Really lives up to its name.

Here's the catch, the price. It cost $15 for this 7 seeded durian, but to me, I was 15 bucks well spent and I was really happy looking at the remains.

2008-08-06T00:28:00.002+08:00

Darling had her first day of work yesterday. Time really does fly. Anyway, Baobei Happy Working! We'll look forward to our leave soon ok? Must work smart!

Headed to TopOne KTV with the TTSH colleagues today. It's the first time I've been K-ing with this bunch and I'm loving the company! So fun! And relaxing.

This week's nice, I'm at Ortho clinic for the entire week, very siong, but I love ortho work, plain xrays or CT likewise. But my body is having a hard time catching up with the physical stress of work!

2008-08-04T00:16:00.002+08:00

People say you spend 1/3 of your life sleeping, and you ought to get a good bed. And damn did I order myself a good bed today. In the light of my mid year bonus and that my current mattress is losing it's support and such, it's time to get a new one. This new one cost $1550 with the frame. So expensive, but I really hope this will help improve my sleep and prevent back problems for me. Oh man... that was such a tough decision...

2008-08-02T01:14:00.000+08:00

It was a tough week for me. It's not really because of post holidays inertia, but more of my illness. I've been down with really nasty food poisoning. I went like 20 times over 3 days. It was really mad. And just when I thought I'm ok to go eat normal food again, I JUST went 3 times. Alamak! I don't want soft diet anymore...

But seriously, staying away from good and unhealthy food is not something I'm too good with. Oh man... Singapore Bay Run coming up! I signed up for the 10 km! Cos I want to better my timing! Huat ah!

2008-07-25T22:35:00.002+08:00

Ok, finally, I'm back to blogging.

Been a while... and I've gotten my tag board up again. I'm not too bothered with the colors for now.

Hmm, I've gotten back from my really nice Egypt trip, Egypt is such a beautiful country with rotten traffic (in Cairo). It really has this magical charm, that made me feel really really small. Those Egyptians have been extremely developed and advance for their era, 5000 years ago! Really loved the Pyramids, the Sphinx the temples and the Nile. And NO, we did not ride a camel.

Work's been very sian with the post holiday inertia but still managable, I'm like falling ill, down with food poisoning. And this idiotic kid sneezed onto my arm yesterday while i was in a lift. I felt lots of mucus and saliva the dorsum of my arm. And the fucking parents didn't make the kid apologize. And that kid was wearing a spiderman suit! Wth! What happened to "with great power comes great responsibility?"

School's really good too. Scored satisfactory marks for both my group and individual assignments. I must admit that I didn't take alot of effort to follow the weekly sessions, but then again, it's my work commitments. However, I did take time to read and read up and understand and digest the lessons. And apply the knowledge to my assignments, which paid off. I'm glad I'm no longer in the swallow-and-regurgitate Singaporean education system, which I'm really hopeless at! Now we're talkin'!

2008-06-29T23:20:00.002+08:00

I went for a run with Kok Keng just now. I think it's like the first run we've done together since eons ago. But it was a nice run. Good route... Toa Payoh is one nice and big circle. Think I was something like 3 to4 km. It's definitely not 5 clicks dude...

2008-06-28T23:53:00.002+08:00

The year has really zipped past like this. Like *ting!*

Anyway, the TTSH gang went for a little celebration of sorts today. To celebrate the completion of the first year of work. Oh man... the 4th of June 2007 was like just a while ago. Anyway, we went to the Chatterbox at Mandarin Hotel for the famous chicken rice! I gotta say, the chili's really good! The chicken was normal, but the rice was good! Anyway, the view from the 39th storey was simply spectacular.

Darling is coming back on Tuesday.

Excited?

Yes!

2008-06-10T01:05:00.002+08:00

I just got reminded of Singapore Noodles.

"Chinese restaurants in Europe made this noodle dish famous. It was later introduced to the US in the late 1980s. It is a very refreshing dish with fluffy, curried rice noodle mixed with meats and vegetables. Like fortune cookies and chop suey invented in the US but not found in the East, Singapore noodle is not found in Singapore.

There are dozens of noodles famous in Singapore from the street hawkers to upscale restaurants; Singapore noodle is not one of them. " (Tsai 1999)

Muahahahaha... WTF!!!

References:
Ming Tsai (1999) Pop's Singapore Noodles [Online] http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_9088,00.html (Accessed 10 June 2008)

2008-06-07T01:04:00.002+08:00

Oh my god oh my god oh my god! Kylie Minouge's Wow is WoW WoW WoW WoW!

I know I sound gay, but how can one not be with the gay icon herself? She's freaking amazing! And with each WoW she goes, I go WOW!!!

Wooo hoooo....

Kylie, you're WoW WoW WoW WoW!

2008-06-03T18:55:00.002+08:00

I do 3 cups of coffee a day. It's very hardcore. I need one every morning, then there's one during work, and now, one more after work. Why after work? Cos I need to continue concentrating on my assignments. Argh... It's really hard!

Bought a pair of Saucony Hurricane X running shoes. Best running shoes I've ever owned and ran in. Simply oooomph....

I read something from somewhere. Really makes me feel that radiographers in my hospital are really too hardcore and numb about workload. Just plain ass numb. We use Tosh X-ray systems, we have focused stationary grids, we've got the busiest ED in Singapore, we've got a hospital that's full all so often, we've only got one portable team for the second biggest acute hospital in the country, we've got 2 CDCs which span a kilometre or so. NUMB!

2008-05-31T02:16:00.002+08:00

Hi world,

I'm 25 years old now. Life doesn't really change much I suppose. Adulthood is overrated. Seriously... Responsibilities and bills.

Having a bloody major writer's block now. How to finish my assignment?

2008-05-23T21:47:00.002+08:00

"Take what you need and be on your way, and stop crying your heart out..."

Scanned an old man 2 nights ago. The poor guy had a base of skull fracture, big big crack through the occiput. Sigh... Anyway, yesterday when I got back to work, he was already gone. He wasn't identified even after he died. Hope his family finally found him. Rest in peace...

2008-05-19T01:20:00.000+08:00

Come to think of it, I had to give up my Western Bar cos of him also.

2008-05-18T22:04:00.002+08:00

Life sucks
Life's not fair
Shit happens (J. Tang 2006)

Work work... I'm tired man. Really tired, when I'm not working, I'm trying my best to catch up with my school work. Well, anyway, I'm really not complaining, I do feel sad about Myanmar and China. So I guess I'm not the worst off. Also, our dear ol Mrs Lee Kuan Yew. I really can't remember her face very well, but I do remember that she wears alot of cheong sums.

Lots of horrifying thing ongoing in this May. One of those would probably be my lonely-Baobei-not-with-me birthday. This birthday is sad, not just because darling won't be around, also because I'm turning 25. That's a quarter of a century and about the one third mark of a man's life expectancy. Urgh...

Anyway, that aside, a chain of unhappy events happened yesterday. It somehow feels very similar this incident that happened to me when I was very young. I remember going to the market with mum and I saw this wind-up racing horse toy that will gallop upon release of the wind and I really liked. I think my brother liked it also. We asked really hard for it and after much persuasion my mum finally bought it. When we got home, we played with the new toy like there was no tomorrow. Really enjoyed and loved the toy. Then I can't remember what happened in between, but the next bit of memory that I have of it is my brother picking it up and throwing the damn thing across the hall, smashing the toy into pieces. I was devastated, and frankly, I still remember the extreme sadness that I experienced. Till now, I still tell myself that if I see a similar toy, I will buy it. Till now...

References:
Jeremy Tang (2006) Perth is a boring place [Online] Available from http://perthisaboringplace.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html (Accessed 18 May 2008)

2008-05-14T18:28:00.001+08:00

I'm drowning in work again. This time, thrown in school work. Working shifts is already very freaking tiring, now, I need to top those off with my school work! Very siong! Need to work till really late at nights just to catch up with what I've lost! Argh!

2008-05-02T17:36:00.000+08:00

It's MAY! Darling's coming back in 2 months!!! Our year apart will finally be over!!!

2008-05-02T00:57:00.002+08:00

It's been a really nice week. Well, the Public holiday really helped. Went to the Mayday concert last week with some NYP classmates. And boy it was kinda weird without Jeremy around. Anyway, the concert totally rocked. They played my favourite song, which they've skipped in the last 2 concerts. Here are some photos Chufen took.

Met up with Willie the runner dude, he gave very precious advice on the upcoming SSR Run in August 2008. All my blog readers must support ok? It's the first public event I'm running!

2008-04-22T23:52:00.000+08:00

I want to learn how to play piano...

2008-04-20T22:24:00.001+08:00

The week's been pretty interesting. Did my first CT night shift. Really very siong to carry portable handphone and yet having to cover CT scans. Now my sleep wake cycle is totally messed up. Argh... So sleepy.

2008-04-13T15:40:00.003+08:00

I've finally graduated from my CT training, and now, I'm a CT radiographer. Anyway, that aside, CT Scanning is actually rather depressing. Seeing metastases of cancer from organ to organ really really constantly reminds me of death and how lan lan life is. I get patients with stroke in their 30s and shit like that everyday. Really makes me depressed. Really don't know how long I'll take to get used to it, wonder if I ever will. Man....

Life's a bitch, and then you die.

After all the shit one lives through, all one gets is death. This thought really drives me mad. Which then leads to me thinking about my job to help people and to provide "insight" into a patient's body to help in treatment planning and such. This job doesn't earn that much money but I guess, I'm earning much much more than many of my peers in terms of life experiences. Maybe through this, I'll attain Nirvana sooner than everyone else. Maybe I'm just looking for excuses to rationalize my pathetic pay. Anyway... Till next time...

2008-04-08T22:08:00.002+08:00

I've been to every single paid concert Mayday had done in Singapore!

台灣以外城市
名稱日期國家或城市
人海茫茫：暫別樂壇演唱會
2001年9月7日新加坡

天空之城演唱會
2003年10月22日新加坡

Final Home 當我們混在一起
2005年12月10日新加坡

五月天離開地球表面世界巡迴演唱會
2007年6月2日新加坡

Sigh, went to 80% of the concerts with my Wingman, Jeremy, but sigh, that dude's in Perth for the last one and the coming one.

Anyway, MAYDAY IS COMING AGAIN!

WAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

2008-04-02T23:50:00.000+08:00

I may really really sound nuts, but I'm actually rather excited about playing guitar Hero on my DSLite!

Oh, have I already mentioned? I bought a DS Lite for myself. It's not a timely spending, it's really a luxury, but it's providing me with so much fun! It's so going to be useful to help me get through long long night shifts!

2008-04-01T20:03:00.002+08:00

This is the 701st post on nuhc.blogspot.com

Anyway, I have no idea what my readership is like. I'm just guessing based on the tags that I get. Couldn't be too bothered to go put on a counter. Cos I know alot of juniors, seniors and tong2 hang2s will read my blog in the dark. Unless I put in an IP log, which for now, I'm not free to go find out how to set one up.

Ok, I'm just 3 days off to being a "graduated" CT radiographer. Going to start the most notorious night shift of them all. The TTSH N4. N4 is basically the CT radiographer covering at night. There are an average of 6 - 10 scans at night. N4 is also the shift leader, so the N4 has to take care of nitty gritty stuff like shortage of manpower here and there. N4 covered portables also. Morning rounds cases to be done between 4am to 7am will easily come up to 30. Maybe more. High ah...

Baobei coming back in 3 months! Woohoo...

2008-03-29T21:53:00.001+08:00

2008-03-26T21:37:00.002+08:00

Went for the second squash session of my game. It's a really high burn and enjoyable sport. The company of Esther and Joyce were good also. Alot of ppl pang seh. Hmmm, feel like picking up the sport for good. Hmmm... Need kakis siah. This is also the first non-pool group sport I've done in a long time. Haha.

Darling is in at the Great Barrier Reef now, so irritating! She's really having fun! And I'm stuck in SG. Really wanna pick up diving again and go and see the corals and stuff.

Xrays..................................................

2008-03-18T21:32:00.002+08:00

Scanned a VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVIP today. Hardcore, and to think that my seniors dare to push me in to handle him. Oh well... Anyway, it was a really good experience.

Went for a 10 km run today, really very unfit liao. Feeling a bit unwell now, going to sleep early. Something like now. Bye...

2008-03-16T11:50:00.002+08:00

It's been one week since my return from Sydney and I really haven't had much time to re-organize my post holiday mess and sianzations...

So, let's start with my trip to Sydney. Seeing my Baobei at KingSmith Airport in Sydney was really really therapeutic, all my troubles from work instantly disappeared when I finally realised that I was in Sydney with my darling for a great great holiday to laY back and just enjoy. The rest of the trip was really nice, involving a lot of experiencing darling's life and travelling around Sydney. For the "experiencing darling's life part" I stayed at 99A Frances Street, went grocery and clothing shopping and even crashed her lecture. I must say she's living a really nice and laid back life down under. Sydney is a really beautiful city. One of the most famous things being the Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. Very charming old time architecture in the cities where the first colonial ships docked at. Weather there was amazing, the sun can be shining real hard on one and one simply doesn't sweat like in Singapore. The nights were really cooling like there's free aircon. Do check out my photos at the link posted earlier.

After returning from Sydney, I fell really sick with a nasty cough and lots of phlegm . Work wasn't going too comfortably due to post-holiday blues. But I managed to get by, learnt new things in my training and yeah, slowly re-adjusting back to my working professional life. My chronically messy room has just been packed, slightly... still don't know if I should get my new clothes washed, the weather conditions lately have not been very conducive for clothes drying.

Finally lots and lots of readings to catch up with and I have just added one more item to my already very busy schedule.

2008-03-15T00:08:00.002+08:00

I hung around after work today to watch a very special performance. Dancefloor finalist Melvin and Sharon and of course my favourite VAS and PRIS! Wooohoo... It's really amazing to watch them through their super graceful and smooth smooth moves. The waltz was so goood... Oooomph! I wanna learn... And i need a partner...

Met Kok for a long long awaited game of pool. Won him finally... Haha...

2008-03-13T20:41:00.003+08:00

My jetlagged week's been ridiculous so far. I'm sleeping at as early as 10pm everyday and waking up at exactly 7am every morning. It may seem very very normal to the average worker, but sleeping at earlier than 11pm has never been possible until I experienced the 3 hours advancement in time in Sydney.

Anyway, I've uploaded a portion of the photos I've taken in Sydney. Link's at http://picasaweb.google.com/chunmeng/Sydney2008

2008-03-12T22:56:00.002+08:00

As you all probably know, I'm back from Sydney le. I'll most prob be busy all week as I'm still trying to catch up with my studies. Lost a whole week in Sydney, this lost was worth it though. Anyway, as I was saying, I'll be busy so no time to post the selected images of the 400 over photos I've taken of Sydney and my darling girlfriend.

Been down with a nasty cough. Super jialat. Cannot concentrate at work. Anyway, I gatecrashed Liping and Carleen's dinner today cos I had no dinner tonight. It was nice to meet up with Carleen good to stay in touch. Especially when I'm the kind who do not invite people out unless they invite me first.

Cough syrup causing my attention to crash. Good nite...

2008-02-25T22:04:00.002+08:00

Played Mahjong still 4am on Saturday, and then woke up early in the morning to go to work. Which was a really horrible shift. I ended up really tired and when on got home that Sunday night. I went to sleep at 8pm. Really hard core sleeping, till morning when I went to work again. I still don't feel well rested, but I know that it's better than not having the 11 hours of sleep.

Well, this week's going to be hectic. I've got lessons on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Gotta go NaTAS fair on Friday evening, and I'm flying off on the Saturday!

So excited!

2008-02-23T18:48:00.004+08:00

Saturday is finally here. I just love weekends. Especially this one. Cos I can sleep in the afternoon for like 2 hours. So shiok and therapeutic. Well, I'm in CT Scan now, which is nice. Workload is heavy, but it surely is good training. Been chronically losing sleep because I really can't sleep properly since my last night shift. Ah, what's new.

I'm going to Sydney to find Baobei next week! I'm so happy lah! First week's leave since work started last June. Also, my first trip to Australia and out of Asia. School's starting next week le. Got 3 lessons and one of them is in faraway Commonwealth.

Oh yes! We finally went for the Vermonster at Ben and Jerry's 20 scoops of Ben and JErry's ICe cream! Woohooo... There should've been a better chilling system though, the base was already milkshake when we got to it. But it still really shiok lah. Real big fat disruption to my weight lost program, ah well, it's a feat. Thanks Jeremy, Jonathan, Cai Pei, Peili, Evelyn and Liping who shared this madness with me.

Vermonster?

Vermonster!

2008-02-15T00:45:00.002+08:00

Happy Valentine's Day. Lonely lonely lonely... Seeing all the couples out there looking so lovey dovey with flowers and stuff. Makes me miss darling alot more. Anyway, to all the couples out there, "Time to get real!" Wat? you were expecting me to say "may your relationship last forever"? Neh... Get real...

Anyway, I went to HTC Care Centre in freaking HarborFront. The care centre was surprisingly small, not many ppl there, maybe it's cos there aren't that many users of HTC products. Or maybe simply the products don't break down that much. Anyway, the experience was excellent. Service was prompt and smooth. Got out of the place within minutes. Ran into my Chua Kok Keng, my good ol buddy. Couldn't imagine that fellow working a proper job and wearing proper working clothes until I saw him just now. The meeting was brief but really nice. Been a while.

Finally, swimming at CSC. Nothing much, but I just can't stop wondering why there are so many lonely ppl (losers) swimming alone on Valentine's Day. Haha...

2008-02-10T18:51:00.000+08:00

Wah, I just heard on radio that there's a character on Kung Fu Slam Dunk with the same Chinese name as my princess. Haha.

Chinese New Year's been a rather good one. The year of the pig has been a really nasty one for me. The very fact that I've sprained my ankle on the 3rd day of the year of the pig already says enough. So far, all the mahjong's been not too bad. Nett win, which is really nice, first time in many Chinese New Year (senseless) gambling sessions. Which brings me to another point.

When to Bernard's (yes my future in charge's) for mahong on the second night of CNY. His place is in Bukit Panjang! Goodness... FAR!! That aside, on the cab ride back, the cabby started a small talk with me. He was telling me that it's very bo hua to travel so far to gamble, win already oso cannot cover the travelling cost. Which is true, I spent all my winning plus a little more on the cab ride. But, then, the point in playing mahjong (at least to me) is not about gambling for money to spend, it's more of the social aspect and the brain training that comes along. Then the uncle was telling me that he plays mahjong with stakes of 1 dollar 2dollar. OMFG, that works out to $96 for a 5 tai zi mo. Then, he lost $300 plus on the first 2 days of CNY. Hmmm... Logically, how does one who earns around $2000 odd a month afford to lose a freaking $300 bucks? Sigh... Gamblers are mad...

Still HUAT AH!!!

2008-02-03T20:20:00.001+08:00

Darling's really gone le. It felt like it was just yesterday when she arrived at the budget terminal in Dec. This holiday's been a really good one. We've resolved some issues and spent alot of quality time together. Had alot of fun going around eating, shopping, having fun and getting fat. Though we've spent alot of time together in anticipation for her departure again, it's not enough. Separation is not easy, it can never get easier.

I'm waiting darling...

2008-02-03T05:11:00.000+08:00

There's been some really good news at work which I'm really happy about. I'm not too sure what's going on and why it's happening. But since it's happened, I'm happy to take on these challenges.

LSBU application is successful too, hee... Back to hit the books in Feb. Wonder how I'll cope with the 2 years long course. We'll see.

2008-02-03T05:10:00.000+08:00

Darling's going back le. So sad.

XOXO I'm waiting to see you again.

2008-01-18T23:54:00.000+08:00

I've been living rather interestingly for the past couple of weeks. I went prawn fishing for the first time ever last Sunday, and I caught ONE prawn! So happy!! Though there are others who caught alot more, I was really happy with my one prawn catch. Haha

Then, there was Batam with darling. Went to Turi Beach Resort. The Beach is not the phuket kind of super swee beach. Rather, it's the kind that faces freaking Singapore. Anyway, the resort compound was really nice. The surroundings were beautiful and most of all. Quiet. Something I really needed alot. We stayed in one of two deluxe rooms in one big fake atap "hut". It's fake atap because it was really solid wood and a good ceiling, so no leaking and shit. Then, there was a 4 poster bed and TV with Singaporean channels. Oh, and the view from our bed and balcony was really great! Faces the sea! Decided not to take any photos, cos we were lazy and just wanted to slack and absorb the slow slow slow spirit. So it was a really nice and much needed rest, the massage was really good as well. Shiok!! Food wasn't too bad, I've always loved Indonesian food anyway...

Another interesting happening was dinner/supper at Quality Hotel with darling. The famous $8.80 Asian rice/dinner buffet. It was really just "chup chye peng" mixed vegetable rice, with about 15 dishes all going free flow. Of course, there's the famous porridge and the porridge condiments. Really nice and comfortable spread I must say. It's really not for those who like like 30-40 dishes or those buffets with an international variety. All you'll really get is stuff like curry chicken, steam fish, chup chye, hotdogs and ngoh hiang. Of course, all prepared by hotel standard chefs. Thumbs up!

2008-01-12T18:43:00.000+08:00

Night shifting. It's really tiring, but fun. I've recently gotten my mum to go crazy about prepare "lunchboxes" for my supper. Haha... The stuff she's been preparing is actually quite good.

Started the New Year with a clean format of my laptop. Now everything is much speedier... Wooohooo...

I don't want to go to work!

2008-01-08T21:05:00.000+08:00

I admit that I'm really slow, but forgive me, I only listen to Class95.

Melee - Built to Last

Haven't heard a song with so much passion in some time. Awww...

2008-01-04T00:08:00.000+08:00

Well well well.

The moment I've been waiting for a really long time.

DARLING COOOKED FOR ME!

In this picture, note the motion blur, cos Cynthia Fong Baobei was really cooking!

Soup was amazing, sweet and flavourful!

Chicken! Baobei's famous San Bei Ji. Really good stuff I tell you... It's still not cooked in this picture

HELLO!

Wooohoooo! My darling cooks!

Yumm yummm...

2008-01-01T13:46:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year everyone. The year 2008 is here and shall I remind bloody Chua Kok Keng that the world still hasn't ended. Anyway...

Went to Boat Quay for a slightly different type of countdown. The idea was to avoid the ridiculous crowds and find a nice place to sit, talk, drink and watch fireworks. Our luck wasn't that good initially. Ended up in MiniPub for a while. But later, we managed to get a river side seat at The Cavern. Where the DJ spun retro hits and cooked up a really nice atmosphere. That was nice.

This is the ridiculous MiniPub

Then, this is The Cavern!

Nice chilling out Countdown. However, for the fireworks, we were blocked by some dumb building. Only saw like green, red, orange and yellow smoke. And about 10% of the fireworks shot. But it was still nice.

And before the countdown. I was at Tampopo in Liang Court, with darling and friends for a nice Japanese dinner. The fried stuff were really good. And the company was nice.

Happy New Year.

2007-12-25T09:11:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas to everyone out there who reads my blog. My Christmas Eve was one with lots of mixed feelings. Some very unpleasant things like drunk idiots and irritating chain phone calls from my mum at the worst timing possible, about super non-essential issues. And a paper cut!

Then, there are the nice ones. Like darling coming over to breakfast with me in the morning, then freaking surprising me at work with a Braun Buffel wallet I've been eyeing and alot of really heavenly pastries to add on to the Xray Dept's Christmas mini party. And to top that all off, she didn't even get to talk to me. Feel so bad, I'm also sorry about better so bad, and appearing so unappreciative, I was really overwhelmed with work then... but thank you darling... Really appreciate it.

Hee, may everyone else's Christmas be filled with love too.

2007-12-23T16:00:00.000+08:00

Ah, don't you smell Christmas already? Well, Cynthia is back, been having many joyous moments with her. Having her back for Christmas really means alot to me. However, very sadly, I'll be doing night shift on the 23rd, 24th and 25th. Worst of all shift combinations. Oh well, just need to suck it up...

Anyway, we just watched Alvin and The Chipmunks. Haha, would never expect the show to be so nice. Theodore is really cute! Soo fat and chubby... And poor thing... Now I'm listening to the Official Soundtrack. So interestingly cute.

Anyway, the whole of yesterday was spent with darling, doing our Christmas shopping, haiz, finally settled my gift exchange thing, got it wrapped somemore. Orchard was so freaking crowded! All the other senseless shopper trapped in the big time pocket digging by the merchants. Hmm... I should really be on the merchants' end of this food chain.

Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone, do drink and eat with caution. If you have gout, go easy on the meats and beans. If you are drinking, don't drive please!! Remember don't drink till the point where you get alcohol poisoning. Also, try to stay off the roads after drinking. If you want to do any of those, don't do so near my hospital, that includes a faraway land like Sembawang. Cheers and have a safe holidays!

2007-12-07T19:57:00.000+08:00

Yesterday saw the worst night shift I've ever done. So was Cynthia Athenzia's. I was kept on my toes most of the time, I had a (huge) table completely covered with Aurora forms. And not counting in the new forms that came in and the OTs and CDC. I was left jogging most of the night and even the nurses who sent patients down were like, WAH!

Anyway, Cynthia was no better la.

Oh, I nearly lost my footing while piahing case in, nearly knocked myself out, hhow I wished...

2007-12-04T21:07:00.000+08:00

NAME: CHONG CHUN MENG
EVENT: Men 10Km
DATE: Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
BIB/DIV: 43811 / M2024
TIME: 1h:18m:25s (gun) / 1h:13m:32s (net)
Result in Entire Field - 3391st place
2218 finishers behind. About 60% of finishers ahead.
Result in Gender (Male) - 3391st place
2218 finishers behind. About 60% of finishers ahead.
Result in Division (M2024) - 154th place
142 finishers behind. About 52% of finishers ahead.

Yeah! So I did complete within my target at 1hr and 13 minutes and 32seconds! Wooo hoooo... I will work and train harder for next year! I'm so going to improve. Huat ah!

Oh, and TTSH placed 6th in the non-profit corporate distance challenge! So proud!

Hmmm... Maybe I'm going overboard here, haha...

2007-12-03T23:00:00.000+08:00

Report after a day of my ridiculously hard pillow and my new bed arrangement

I woke up not feeling grumpy, I don't have a neck ache, i don't have a headache. And I didn't wake up in the middle of the night, despite my idiotic brother inviting 2 of his ah beng friends over to make more noise.

Today was such a perfect day. Half day at ED, with a surprising low number of patients for a Monday morning. Then lunch and home for a nap. Next was to the club for a swim and tan. That's life man. Slow down... Breathe... Watch the world go by...

Jacuzzi...

2007-12-02T23:49:00.000+08:00

I'm so tired now. It's been a long day.

First thing of today was the StanChart Marathon. It was really good, though I walked alot just to find my way to the starting area. The run was super crowded, needed to take alot of effort to weave in between human bodies. And the distance traveled felt a little short, and boring, maybe cos the route was designed so that we run to and back on the same roads. Repetitive scenery = boring.

My timing was 1hrs and 18 mins. Not counting in the first 5 minutes or so that I struggled to get to the damned starting line. Anyway, I think I'm satisfied. At least I didn't die of acute myocardial infarction. Got my finisher's medal. I hope to do the half marathon in the AHM next mid-year and hopefully be bad to piah the full StanChart marathon. We'll see...

Later, I went to OG with mum, bought myself a new pair of leather shoes and a new contoured latex pillow.

With the change of pillow and the head and leg reversal of my bed frame, I hope to ELIMINATE my insomnia once and for all. In my old sleeeping position, my head was just a wall away from my brother's comp, which he usually plays all night, so I'm guessing that the EMFs emitted were messing with my mind. Also, when one gets excited with games, one tends to kick and slam the mouse and do whatever. Again, affecting my sleep!

With the new arrangement, I'm so going to sleep well every night. I want my sleep back, I want my life back. So good night folks... Sweet dreams to everyone and myself.

2007-12-01T21:33:00.001+08:00

I'm very excited about tomorrow's run. I hope to finish the 1-km within 1hour and 15mins. I haven't been training at all. Still barely recovered from my flu/gastroenteritis. So yah... I'll see how tmr. I promise that I will stop if i'm not well also lah, so don't worry. I'll stick a toe into the whole marathon thingy and maybe I'll do a full marathon next year. Hee...

Here I come! To help TTSH clock mileage in the distance challange. Huat ah!

2007-11-25T16:51:00.000+08:00

Has anyone felt blogger being weird lately? Anyway, I've been having a very very irritating back ache. really doesn't get better with time, just gets worse. The last time I hit this problem, I had to go for tui na. Then smooth sailing after that. However, it's the year end period now, lots of money to spend. Being an earing adult sucks. Also it's getting really close to the registeration period for my degree. Oh man, Need to gek out a sum of money for my degree soon. Damn... I want to be rich...

2007-11-22T23:03:00.000+08:00

Blogspiration now.

Today was a really nice day, not workwise but yah, just life in general. I collected my race pack for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon! So excited, my first of such runs! And I'll be wearing the TTSH colors. We have to wear a special TTSH vest. It's red, but really not ugly. In fact, I kinda like it.

It was actually a rather bad day at work. As we all know, I'm still recovering from my recent illness. Some kind of flu, I think. Again, the ED felt cold. Anyway, I did the most ever resus in one morning. And the amazing thing was, even though resus was like full house, all 8 taken. The OBS bay was hosting like 5 beds. Muahahaaa! Strange morning. So I was running to and back from the resus all morning, like a mad dog...did many many multiples, which was kind of satisfying.

I feel so excited to go for a run like now! But I'm scared of dying of sudden cardiac arrest, since I'm like barely recovered for my whatever illness.

Oh ya, do check out the new Eagles album, especially the song, How Long! Its so freaking nice!

2007-11-21T23:08:00.000+08:00

Work was at ED today. My fever was sort of under control by good old panadol. I just finished my first bar and am into the second bar of panadols now. I've never felt that the ED Xray department was cold until today. It was freezing and my palms were COLD!!! Oh well, a colleagued helped me take my temperature and it was 35 degrees. Oh man...

Anyway, I struggled through the rest of the day with hot water and panadols, didn't commit many mistakes, other then the usual machinery issues.

Seriously, Tosh sucks...

2007-11-20T21:51:00.000+08:00

Oh hi there.

Haven't been here for some time. Well, I'm sick today. Was dragging myself through the wards doing portables today. Didn't even bother to put up a fight against this ridiculous portable request. And I nearly got my metacarpals chopped off while pushing the xray tube around. Finally, after 2 rounds, I gave up and went to get a queue number at the walk-in clinic and saw the doctor. I did have a fever and yeah, one day MC. I feel so bad towards Charlyn. She had to take over me, and I deprived her of her training hours. I'm so sorry...

2007-11-11T00:57:00.000+08:00

You know I have this weird preference for even numbers. I like even numbers since young, cos I tot these were numbers that are easily divided by 2. Of course there are some exceptions, I like a few odd numbers like the number 3, cos I was my register number for many years. Then there's 5 and all the multiples of 5, well, cos they are easily divided by 5 of course.

Why am I talking about thiS? Cos I have this anal thing about my preferred numbers. I'll never adjust my TV, MP3 player volumes to odd numbers, except for 5 & 15 (3 is usually too soft). I never swim odd number number of rounds. I barely ever manual set odd number kV or mAs while taking x-rays.

Oh yah, and I hate 13. It's a freaking prime number... Bleah...

2007-11-05T22:52:00.000+08:00

This may sound weird, but doesn't anyone out there happen to have a photo of the BIG banner that hung at the NYP Atrium in the earlier half of this year? The bunch of banners featured students from different schools. I'm particularly interested in the School of Health Science one. It features 2 nursing students, one guy and one girl. If you happen to have that picture or have accidentally taken in, please send it to me. Cos I thought I saw something really interesting a few days back. I think I saw the guy and the girl at the same place in Orchard, with different people but I really think it's them. So yah, I bit weird but I just wanna see if my photographic memory is good. So please send me a photo yah?

Off days are such a joy to have, went for a swim just now, so shuang... Using my civil service club membership to the fullest. The pool wasn't crowded and the sun was nice. Managed a slight tan... very slight, but have...

2007-10-31T01:14:00.000+08:00

Seriously, what's with the thing about saying "good am"? Wtf! I know it means "good morning", but "am" ≠ "morning". So wtf? If you're lazy, just type "mornin", or maybe "morn", these are short forms of morning.

A.M. = ante meridiem!

kao!

2007-10-29T17:30:00.001+08:00

Today was a half day for me. Sadly, I'm missing the monthly radiographer's meeting again. Anyway, lunch at San Duo in Square 2 was really great! Thuzar, Kathryn, Liping and I spent like 9 bucks each on lunch, but it was really great lunch! I gotta say, the roasted pork, roasted duck and char siew were really good!

Then, I headed with Velocity to buy new swimming stuff. Spent just over $50 on a new pair of trunks and goggles. My old goggles were too old, both the strap and the middle joining piece broke. So yeah, another hefty investment on health, but I guess it'll be all worth it. IF i use them. Ha!

Going for a swim now...

2007-10-29T00:04:00.000+08:00

What a nice and relaxing weekend it was. Saturday night was at House @ Dempsey Hill. What a hill. I love the place! Since before it became so hip! Cos a long time ago, HQ Medical Corp was there. But that's a long time ago. House was a converted barrack. I gotta say that the restaurant cafe side is certainly nice. The Latte was boring, however, the finger food were gooood. The meter long sausage was so good, too salty, but really flavourful and enjoyable. And it's great fun to share with a bunch of friends. Lemme steal a photo from my friend's blog.

I gotta say, the DJ spinning music at the pub side of house is really good! He spun some amazing mixes, and the way he flowed from one track to the next was so damn nice. Some young chap, but yeah, we didn't go to the pub side, cos we weren't doing alcohol, but yeah, it was just great listening to those great music from the pub side.

Today was Clarke Quay for Sunday night chilling. It's the first time I got to TTC since the revamp, nice... The last time I was working there, it was quite quiet, but now, the night life there is so exciting, and the place is just so beautiful. Alvin and I decided to take a seat at Haagen Daas. Had ice cream and a nice chat. Been a while... And the entire relaxing atomsphere of Clarke Quay was so charming, and soothing...

Dang, gotta work tomorrow...

2007-10-27T18:12:00.000+08:00

My dad is flying off again, don't know how my mum takes it. Darling goes Sydney to study once and I'm already so sian and sad. Dad come home every few months and flies off after a couple of weeks. Anyway, we went for a nice dinner at this traditional Sing Hua restaurant. Nice food, too expensive though.

On the way back, my brother and I headed to Diginexx. The distributor of foldie bikes in Singapore. Foldies are basically bikes that fold into tiny non space occupying objects when not in use. And since I live so near to TTSH and am getting really sian to walk home everyday, I'm really thinking of cycling to work! On a foldie! Eco-friendly and a good exercise! Anyway, I managed to test ride the Carry Me Pacific and the Strida 3. I loved the handling and feel of the Strida, here's how it looks...

Damn... I want a Strida...

2007-10-27T00:07:00.001+08:00

Heee... If the countdown thingy at our secret location is working fine, Baobei will be back in 51 days! Wooohooooo.....

And you know the paradox of a flu vaccine? You are supposed to get jabbed to prevent yourself from getting it. But for most of us, after the jab, we fall sick. I had massive phlegm production and runny nose. And felt feverish, all day, but that may my psychological. But point being, wth? So we get jabbed to get the Northern Hemisphere flu BEFORE everyone gets it? Hmm... Anyway, it's free, and I'm at the end of the ride. So yeah, I'll be flu free for a while...