400..

Yeah, this is my 400th post!

I shall talk abt something rather astonishing.

I received a letter from PDF, saying I've been posted out of the unit I was posted to when I went for briefing. The content was quite interesting, and from my analysis, it seems that my service has been postponed indefinitely.

Apart from that. Today I had my first Bahasa Indonesia tutorial.

A rather interactive class, not exactly the type that I like, but I kind of enjoyed it.

Learnt quite a bit of stuff and really hope that I dont forget it tomorrow.

Selemat malam.
Siapa namanya?
Nama saya Kaiwei.
Saya dari Singapura, tinggal di Ang Mo Kio.
Anda dari mana?
O, bergitu.

The pile of books is stacking up,
The readings keep piling up.
Just as one chapter is done,
Two more swiftly comes.

Endless calculations on my calculator,
Solving more optimisation problems later.
I thought I understood how it works,
Just to end up disappointed.

I know I shouldn't despair,
For diligence will foster success.
I try my best to stay afloat,
Looking for the buoy of life.
______________________________

Seriously dont know what I was blogging above. Haha.

Seriously, Psychology is damn interesting. Although a bit heavy on content.

Alot of work incoming, better go and prepare for tutorials.

Fooled

Went to watch Fooled with Kaimin just now. It's really above my expectations. Kudos to the actors and backstage people. The plot is nice and the comic relief was wonderful. The medical student was hilarious.

Do dreams happen in reality?

After the play, we went to have a late dinner at Central's BK. Was discussing exchanges, NOC and etc with him.

Just realised that although I always say money is a serious concern with regard to going on an exchange, I am really tempted and interested to go on one. Be it for the exposure or the value add that it provides me in the future, I really am keen to go. Wasn't so enticed by NOC back then, but now that I'm exposed to marketing, I have actually began to like business and etc. I don't see myself being a boss in the near future, but the whole thing abt Technopreneurship is actually quite interesting. The chance to intern at some of the world renown places is actually a very attractive proposal that I will consider in the months to come.

Micro

From the looks of it, it seems like as long as anyone understands 50% of the module, they can get A+.

Not looking very good. =/

After more than 2 hours with 3 person. This is the result of the CNY Goody making event at my house.

And alot of wasted springroll skin.

Cravings

I don't know why, but as I was on the bus home just now, I had a severe craving for Coca Cola. So I alighted one stop before my usual stop to get a can from 7-11.

The feeling of satisfying your crave for something is beyond description. I cannot explain the sensation of satisfaction and joy when the cool cola was slipped into my mouth. As it tickles my taste buds, yet another sensation was felt. This time, it made me realised how long I've not drank coke. Slowly, the carbon dioxide starts building up and you have this urge of burping. It feels uncomfortable, but when you finally get to release the gas, the feeling is simply orgasmic.

So now I realise why so many people love coke. It is a very sensual drink that really tickles your sensory system.

Anyway, I felt damn deprived for real food this whole day. All because of the heaps of bread I've eaten.

Little things

Sometimes, little things tell alot about someone or something.

I don't want to infer too much, about these little things. A tad disappointed and irritated, but nonetheless I'll still treat you/it as a gem.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm trying too hard, I hope I'm not becoming a superficial entity that is not humanised. I hope this is the real me. I really do.

For once, I'm beginning to feel the energy being sapped away since school started.

Money and Banking is awfully boring and extremely uninteresting probably because of the lecturer, even though she is very clear in her explanation.

I'm hoping for interesting mkt lectures because it seems like there are quite alot of stuff to get into the head.

$$

I just bought my most expensive textbook yet.

Intermediate Microeconomics by Varian. - 69.90

But it looks good.

Bahasa Indonesia's Course pack seems quite intimidating. I guess the main reason behind it is that, almost everything is in Indonesian and it isn't a Indonesian - English format.

But lets hope I can do well, I really hate to see it drag my CAP down.

Dr JC said my eyes are recovering very well. The only thing that is bad is that, the pressure on the eye is quite high, so he prescribed me some eyedrops, Tiamol to lower the eye pressure. At the moment, my left eye is 6/6 and right eye, 6/7.5. Don't let the figures fool you, I still cannot see clearly, because I still have astig on both eyes. Hopefully, when the cornea surface is smooth once more, the astig will disappear altogether.

After meeting Ms Indrianti with Felicia and Cheryl, I went to the annual dinner at Leng Ern Jee Temple for the birthday of Ji Gong. For the first time in the many years I've attended the event, the VIP actually addressed the guests in Mandarin. I forgot who the MP was, but he is apparently a retired BG and currently a Minister of State of Ed (according to the emcee.). I thought it was good for him to address the guests in Mandarin because most of the people attending the dinner were kind of old and generally chinese educated, it really bridged the gap between the people and the government. Although he could brush up his mandarin la. Haha.
Dinner was not bad and for once, there isn't smoke coming out from inside the temple.

Today was a rather slack day, did a bit of reading during the day and went for tuition just now. Should start reading a bit on tmr's lecture le. I guess I shall stop here and shall not blog so much from now on.

First Day of School...

It has been a long wait for the arrival of this day. I've actually been quite excited and glad to return to school. Been slacking around too much.

Started the day by meeting Na to collect my brownie! And then passed Huising some of them on my way to school. My first stop was Clementi bookshop where I managed to get my textbooks, followed by lunch at the Coffeeshop beside it.

Met Jack for awhile before heading to my first lect, EC3101.

Initially I thought it was going to be a huge jump from 2101 just because of the notes, but apparently it seems easy enough to understand at the moment. Dr In even printed notes for us. After that was Psy lecture, which was quite interesting and it did made me more interested in it. I've finished reading the corresponding chapter in the textbook liao. Haha.

The only drawback for the day was that I still couldn't see very well. Luckily the lecture theatre's screen is still large enough for me to see, but in poorer lighting, it just saps much more energy from me.

Met quite a bit of people in school ytd. Going to NUH later for checkup, followed by meeting Ms Indrianti, the coordinator of LAB1201.

I'm hoping for improved vision and a very dilligent me for this work year.

Geez.

From that reply I get from you, you might as well don't reply me?

I guess I have to resign to fate that if you are in FASS, and haven't applied for the Minor in Management, and want to do FNA1002x, you are basically fucked.

Because, firstly you need to clear 3 Management modules, to clear the min req to apply for the minor. Then, you have to do 2 lv 1 mods, 2 lv 2 mods, 2 lv 3 mods to get the minor at the end. So, asuming I have enough points to do 3 management modules, of which maybe 1 from the 1000 level, and 2 from the 2000 level, (so that I give myself a slot for FNA1002x), but I would have shot myself in the ass, because I want to take Managerial accounting and Finance that are both from the 2000 level.

I should have just stuck to financial economics.

And of course I know Minor in management is a restricted minor. If not I wouldn't have bothered to email you in the first place.

Of the questions I raised, NONE were answered. Then you repeated what I said to you.
I almost thought I emailed a kindergarten asking if they offered a BBA course.

Don't insult my intelligence. You are not talking to a 3 month old.

You just caused me to develop a change of heart. I might open myself to a minor in Psy or Soci or something complementary to my course, such as maths/stats. I might even take Bahasa up to LAB4102.

Last day before school starts.

Not even the first week of school, I already encountered problems with school. Haha

Clashing of lectures, clash of make up lectures. Not a good sign.

And I really don't see my eyes improving already.

Went for a haircut and I think I look weird, maybe not used to seeing myself spotting a slope. No choice since I want to 'grow' longer hair and get rid of my crew cut style once and for all, or at least while I am studying. Hopefully I won't look like a dork during Chinese New Year.

Micro 2 notes seem a little bit like maths to me, I almost thought they got EC3101 and MA3101 mixed up, haha. Oh well, time to mug like I've never mugged before.

Sigh.

Confirmed Modules

I am quite happy that I got most of the modules I wanted.

So these are the modules I'm taking this sem.

EC3101 - Microeconomics Analysis 2
EC3332 - Money and Banking
LAB1201 - Bahasa Indonesia 1
MKT1003 - Marketing
PL1101E - Intro to Psychology

I have friends taking most of the mods with me! It wont be a lonely sem and with Mkt1003 I am still enroute to get a Management minor.

I'm still hoping for a change in minor req. I shall write another letter, this time to the dean's office.

Nuisance

I've been a nuisance to my Doctor. Haha. Every little thing I will call or sms him to ask him.

Thankfully, Dr Wang JC has been very nice. I feel so much more at ease after consulting him. Perhaps I am really expecting too much from a procedure like this. This is after all not Lasik. I shouldn't compare it to that.

I just hope the recovery will be smoother over the next few days so that I will not have problems seeing when school starts. Else, it will make studying a pain in the ass.

PS. I finally found a use for the revision shades that was given to us during 6SIR. But it looks abit too punk.

Vision...

My vision is eluding me!

I sure hope this falls under the "Your vision may fluctuate daily but will improve gradually.."

Worried.

Experience of PRK

Well, since Ed requested. I shall post what I remember of the whole procedure.

After doing the final checks, and getting robed. I was asked to lie on this bed and was soon pushed under this long metalic counter, which is the "laser machine".

So after that, I was adminstered with more anesthetic eyedrop. Following that, my eyelids were held apart by some tape and some form of clip. After that was done, alcohol was added onto my eye and after that some anti scarring agent. When it was time, the doctor started scrapping off a layer off my outer cornea. This is the most horrible part. I was so scared I was actually shaking underneath the blanket. As the doctor was scrapping, the vision gets blurrer and blurrer. To give you an example, it feels like the windscreen wiper wiping your eye.

After this scrapping process, the laser is applied onto the eye for less than 15seconds. All you have to do is to stare straight at the blinking light. During the process, you may smell something burning. Ya that is the smell of burning cornea. After this, the eye is washed with cold water, a piece of protective contact lense is placed onto your eye and the procedure is carried on on the other eye.

Immediately after the procedure, my vision improved tremendously. I have never experienced seeing somebody's face abt 1metre away from my eyes without specs for many years. But for the first time in that many years, I saw my Doctor's face w/o glasses.

The pain that followed for the next 2 days were horrible, I couldnt even open my eyes. But during the 3rd day, the wound healed and it wasn't painful at all. And today, which is the fourth day, I removed the protective piece of contacts from the eye.

At this point in time, I really should rest my eye now. Seeya!

A day in the life of ....

I am sure this is a rather popular header or subject for many of us back during out junior years in school.

I happen to experience something over the past few days that allows me to write a story which such a heading.

A day in the life of a blind man.

Of course, I didn't really become blind. Some of you might know, I went for my PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) surgery on 2nd Jan. Unlike Lasik, this procedure does not create a flap on the outer layer of the cornea. Instead, a thin layer of the outer cornea is scraped off before the laser is applied onto the eye. After which, a piece of contact lense is placed into each eye to prevent infection to the wound.

The experience is certainly not something you will experience everyday. I've never felt so much fear in my whole life. So for the next 2 days after the op, I was in so much pain I couldn't open my eyes. I had to depend totally on my mum as my support. I had to "touch" my way to the toilet, chair, etc. I finally understood how a visually impaired person felt. Not only that, it feels so bad to have to be totally dependent on someone for almost everything.

Thanks to the mouse, who came visiting me everyday! =p
Thanks to Dr JC for making this op easy and fast for me.

Most importantly, thanks mum for being my eyes and hands and support for these days and aunty wendy who took time to send me to the hospital.

2008

I shall end the new year's day with a blog post!

Many things have happened over this 365 days. Some of which were happy thoughts while some were not so happy thoughts.

There are definitely things I feel good about and things I hope that would change for the better.

I've quite a fee resolutions this year. But I shall just keep it plain here, I just want to be Happy. And perhaps world peace. (I am not a miss universe, but I really want world peace - if this can ever be achieved.)

Had quite a enjoyable day yesterday with the mouse. An early dinner combined with a after dinner lazing on a bean bag cushion seat at Tcc. Reading a book, eating fried chicken while sipping on coffee. Thats not a bad way to spend your time. The only regret was that, I didnt like that coffee much. We went walking around and sat by the river chatting on things that we never would talk abt on normal days. The feeling is so nice just sitting there, talking. And I got presents! =D

Mr Long mao mao and earphones!

PRK tmr. Worried.