Nonsensical Nothings

presents

2011-12-24T23:31:00.002+08:00

thanks :)

M

2011-11-27T22:55:00.001+08:00

a mysterious letter M in the grass..

gah. obviously i have nothing to update about.

shanghai+singapore

2011-10-07T23:47:00.020+08:00

went to shanghai and singapore with my parents. transitted in changi international airport for about 6 hours on the way to shanghai and i was so happy to find that they have a movie theater showing free movies! was just in time to watch 127 hours. hehe.

the hotel in shanghai provided some 'helpful' items in the room

went shopping on nanjing road the next day. it's the main shopping road in shanghai. a lot of international brands.

on the third day, we went to the oriental pearl tower which is a tv tower and was the tallest structure in shanghai til 2007, but now it's the second tallest. here's my dad's attempt to take a photo of us with the tower.

here's my more successful attempt. had to bend down til my hair almost touched the ground. haha.

the two buildings in the middle are the tallest building in shanghai, the shanghai world financial center (the one with a square hole); and the jin mao tower in front of it which is the third tallest.

view of the bund from the sightseeing floor at 263m. the bund has historical buildings of various architectural styles and is also known as shang hai tan which was the title and the feature of the famous tv series.

we had an international buffet dinner at the revolving restaurant at 267m which was included in the price of our ticket - 298rmb for the sightseeing halls, dinner, and the museum. quite worth it.

we stayed for 2 hours in the restaurant, until it had completed one revolution. there's the shanghai world financial center and the jin mao tower.

night view of the bund

then we went down to the open air deck at 259m which had a glass floor

it was so cold and windy at some parts. not suitable for flowy skirts. haha.

then we went down some more to the shanghai municipal history museum which was bigger than we expected. they had some pretty realistic mannequins and models of old shanghai, including this pretty girl that everyone stopped to marvel at.

pharmacist!

night view of the tower

we went to the china pavilion of the shanghai expo 2010 the next day. it was a world expo participated by many countries last year and they kept the china one open.

on the fifth day, we went to the city god temple or cheng huang miao which refers to the district around the temple. there are lots of shops there. it's a touristy place where you have to bargain or they will really rip you off.

we had xiao long pao at this famous nan xiang man tou dian where there were lots of people queuing up outside for takeway but we managed to find a place to sit inside. the higher up you go, the more expensive stuff there is. we only went to the first floor and thought we might go to a higher floor for dinner but ended up not going.

had this pao which was just full of soup and you don't eat the pao. expensive for just a few spoonfuls of soup. haha

the next day, we flew to singapore where we stayed in a hotel at geylang because we didn't know that f1 was going on that weekend and all the hotels were full. the rooms were small but it had the basic things. no 'helpful' items provided here. haha.

we had dinner in chinatown and then went shopping in orchard road the next day. had chilli crab for the first time. spicy but quite nice.

it was at a place in geylang called no signboard seafood coz when they first started, they could not afford a sign so their customers referred to them as the no signboard shop
on our last day, we shopped some more at bugis junction. it was our first time there and it's quite a nice place

then we flew back to kuching and found that air asia had lost one of our luggages, which soured our good mood. luckily they recovered it the next day. so quite a fruitful trip. got my cny shopping done. haha.

yellow

2011-09-18T16:13:00.002+08:00

guess what this is

it's a Leucocoprinus birnbaumii mushroom which grew in the opd staff toilet at the hospital. so bright yellow!

permed again

2011-08-20T17:58:00.000+08:00

because i'm never satisfied with my hair..

injuries

2011-07-23T23:04:00.003+08:00

a few weeks ago, i slipped and fell in the bathroom after showering (in simunjan) and bruised my upper thigh. so painful. :(

only on the next day did i notice that i also somehow cut my arm and bruised my knee. didn't notice earlier coz i only felt the pain from my upper thigh area.

last week, i was making a ferrous syrup and broke the pestle while pressing down on a tablet. i'm so strong.

cut my finger as a result. it bled quite a lot and i had no plaster so i went to a&e and they bandaged it in acriflavine, hence the yellow stain.

ugh

2011-06-25T16:35:00.008+08:00

was forced to start following ward rounds recently. doing clinical sucks. if i wanted to do clinical and go to the ward all the time, i would've become a doctor. ish.

fire

2011-05-08T18:11:00.005+08:00

there was a fire in my pharmacy store due to some electrical malfunction

my just-finished 5s all dirty from smoke and fire extinguisher :(

air-cond all melted

source of the fire

hole in the ceiling

bang

2011-04-02T22:39:00.001+08:00

the neighbour reversed into my car again. same house, different occupants, one rite of passage. sigh.

iphone coma

2011-03-19T16:44:00.003+08:00

last sunday afternoon, my iphone suddenly could not be switched on at all. coincidentally, my dad's iphone also could not switch on that night. so he searched online and found out that it's quite a common problem. to fix it, all you have to do is press the on/off button on top and the home screen button in front. press them both together and hold for about 15 seconds. then the apple sign will appear and it will switch on normally again. phew.

cny in singapore

2011-02-11T17:00:00.012+08:00

went to singapore with my family (minus my brother) on the first day of cny. a lot of shops were closed but we walked around and looked at some of the new shopping centers where we can't afford things anyway.

and when there aren't many people around, u can take photos with the displays. these were at orchard central.

it was my sister's idea put bunny ears

dating in the park
nobody to date :(
there was a flight simulator place which cost more than $100 to experience it but the guy let us look inside

we went to universal studios on the second day. mostly just walked around. only went for a few attractions coz my parents also wanted to see the casino

waiting in line to watch shrek 4d. it was similar to the one we watched in australia

shrek's swamp
madagascar

jurassic park

ancient egypt where we sat on the only roller coaster for the day coz my stinky sis didn't want to join me for any more. lined up for 40mins, being scared in anticipation and also because it was kinda dark inside, and it was over in 2mins or smth. haha. word of advice: at the end of the line when it's almost your turn, the line splits into 2; take the right fork because the left one is shared with the express pass people so you have to wait longer. but it was fun. my sis n i were screaming the most, even when it stationary. haha.

new york, where we watched a special effects show about hurricane katrina

on the third day, we went shopping on orchard road. lots of sales! and then we went to marina bay sands on the fourth day where they have lots of expensive shops.

their canal rides are sampans instead of gondolas

people are actually standing outside on top, throwing coins down

they have a small ice skating ring in the middle of the food court where there were only kids skating

we thought these 3 people were giving out things but actually their baskets are for people to pay for pictures. haha.

the casino where me, my mom and my dad each put $2 into random slots machines. i won 40c, my mom won 50c, and my dad won $17.88!

then we saw these people performing on these contraptions, swinging in the air. and they're actually ang mohs. australian, i think.

and on the fifth day, we went home. the end. lazy to blog more details. haha. on-call for the next 2 weeks. :(

flood in simunjan

2011-01-15T21:21:00.002+08:00

last week it rained continuously for a few days and then some parts of simunjan were flooded. the hospital doesn't really get flooded but some parts of the road to kuching flood so i was so afraid i wouldn't be able to go home this weekend. luckily it stopped raining on friday so the water managed to subside a bit.

there was this part of road which was flooded and there were kids playing with the water there. i was told i shouldn't brake when going through water or my car might die. when i drove through, i was so scared i would hit the kids. they were so near my car. crazy one.

please don't flood when i need to come back to kuching! you can flood when i'm supposed to go back to simunjan!

christmas eve

2010-12-24T23:46:00.001+08:00

merry christmas!

rebonding

2010-11-27T12:10:00.004+08:00

i had my hair rebonded last week at cutting edge. i told the guy i wanted it to look more natural and not too flat. so it turned out not very straight.

i didn't want a straight fringe but he said my side parting was old-fashioned (don't a lot of people have side parting??) so i let him do it and figured i could change it myself later.

sometimes it still sticks out.

sometimes it looks ok.
most recent photo of me i can find. i guess it does look straighter?

silhouette

2010-11-18T12:20:00.000+08:00

i found this template in my htc phone. does it look like me? haha.

iphone

2010-10-23T21:08:00.004+08:00

since i got my htc touch diamond 2 back from repairs, it's been quite annoying.

- when i get an sms, sometimes it continues buzzing on and on and on and on until i check it.
- sometimes the screen switches on by itself which wastes my battery, and i also accidentally dial people's numbers which gives them lots of calls and wastes my credit as well.
- sometimes when i press the screen, a small part sort of stays depressed which means i can't press anything else on the screen until it gets undepressed.
- sometimes the screen won't switch on.
- it lags when i change screens, sometimes really really long.
- it lags when i'm typing.

the touch diamond 2 may not necessarily be a lousy phone, it's probably because i dropped it too many times. but it's been annoying me more and more lately, and i've always wanted an iphone...so i got an iphone 4 today! actually the digi plan is cheaper than the maxis plan and digi has better reception in simunjan. but digi doesn't know when they'll get more stock so i went ahead with the maxis plan coz they're having a roadshow this weekend. hope i don't regret it. hehe.

hotmail

2010-10-02T22:07:00.004+08:00

is anyone else having trouble signing into hotmail? so far i only know charlene and i can't sign in. it keeps saying we entered the wrong password too many times but we absolutely did not. and we already tried different computers.

but charlene has an old hotmail account and a new one and it's only the old one that can't sign in. my hotmail account is around 10 years old and so is her old account. so maybe it's just the old hotmail accounts which are affected? i can't even sign into msn.

it's not just slow connection or whatever. it can't be just 2 of us having this problem right?? everything is in my hotmail!! help!!!

anti-infectives course

2010-09-25T20:58:00.003+08:00

is anyone going for the anti-infectives course in malacca, 29-31 october? so sad i'm forced to go. :( and stupid malacca doesn't even have an airport. wth!! isn't it such a touristy place?? even penang has an airport, how come malacca don't have. so kacau this malacca hospital decide to organise a course and force people to go when they don't even have an airport. i have to share a taxi from kl with somebody i don't even know for 2 hours. so awkward. then government don't want to pay for mas so i have to take air asia. ish.

8373.50

2010-09-18T16:02:00.001+08:00

that's how much my insurance is paying for my car repairs. -_-

accident

2010-08-22T17:10:00.003+08:00

because of my incredible brilliance, i managed to do this to my car.

i was driving back on friday from simunjan on the highway between serian and siburan and i was feeling a bit sleepy coz the drivers in serian were soo slow. but i didn't think i'd actually fall asleep or anything. i was listening to a slow song and then i somehow nodded off. probably only closed my eyes for a second (i think) and when i opened them, i saw i was driving too much to my right but it was already too late and i scraped the wire divider thingy.

yea it looks really bad, but i'm ok. it actually didn't feel very hard, like maybe just as hard as going up a bump on the road. i even thought maybe my car only got scratched, but it seemed like something was scraping on the road (turned out to be the fog light) so i stopped and checked and it was awful. urgh. so i'm not injured at all, don't worry or anything. just got a shock. next time i'll play louder music and songs i can sing along to so i'll stay awake.

made a police report yesterday so i can claim insurance. the toyota guy estimated about rm7000. so painful. my poor, roughly 4-month-old car is so damaged. and i feel poor even though i'm claiming insurance. :(

new post

2010-07-11T10:41:00.002+08:00

last month, my phone showed me the black screen of death. i managed to send it for repair like 6 days before the warranty expired. when i got it back, it was all updated and different. still not used to it.

before

after

yea, pointless post just for the sake of updating. i'll be on-call and stuck in simunjan for 2 weeks straight. :(

poor children

2010-06-19T21:31:00.000+08:00

what were the parents thinking..

just my luck

2010-04-24T16:17:00.005+08:00

last thursday, the car salesman told my dad that my car had finally arrived. my dad and i assumed that we could get it on saturday when i was back for the weekend. however, when we got there, we found out that the car hadn't been registered etc and we were supposed to look at the car first before all that was done. and then all we were allowed to look at was the outside of the car. sheesh can't even test drive it, look at the outside only, wasting time. super potong stim.

i needed to drive the car to simunjan coz my housemate was coming back on wednesday for a conference and i would have to come back on friday myself. so i desperately took emergency leave for monday so the salesman could register it etc on monday. i anxiously waited and called him a few times to rush him. but by the time everything was done and i finally collected my car, it was already 4pm, too late to drive up. so i had to take another day of emergency leave and drive up on tuesday.

after all that trouble and anxiety and stress and wasting 2 days of leave, on wednesday morning, my neighbour reversed right into my car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omgwtf!! my brand new, barely even 2 days old (at that time), rm80,000+ vios has a dent and cracked paint on the passenger door!!!!!!!!!

bloody hell. i don't know whether that woman has a driving license or not. she just reversed directly into my car. i was about to have breakfast when i heard something that sounded like something heavy dropped and i went to the window hoping it's nothing to do with my car. %^*#^@$!! i saw her open her door and look at my car, then she drove away. i was too stunned to do anything. i think she just reversed without looking. my car so big, she cannot see. with all that space, and she's just driving a tiny kancil, she managed to bang into my car. i think she barely turned her steering wheel. her husband apologised later and i'm giving him the bill, but shit la. my brand new car. couldn't enjoy it at all.
confirm i just have no luck with cars. :(

exercise

2010-04-18T17:09:00.009+08:00

this is fun. although very tiring. the girl's so hot. guess how old she is.

just a snippet:

don't know why it's so big. can't seem to change the size.

hypertension

2010-03-26T22:13:00.003+08:00

for 2 weeks in a row when i was driving back from simunjan to kuching, i was blocked by stupid cars going so slowly on the long long roads. last week i think it was some old man going at 50. i managed to overtake him after abt 5 or 10 minutes and that was already annoying enough.

today, there was a stupid inconsiderate selfish brainless lorry also going about 50 for at least 20 minutes!!!! want to cough blood already. i wouldn't be surprised if he managed to accumulate 100 cars behind him. there were already 7 cars in front of me and countless other behind. people kept trying to cut each other but it was rather impossible to cut him coz there were so many cars coming from the other direction. there were so many places where he could have just gone to the side and let some cars pass. but nooo he just kept at it stubbornly. who knows how many accidents he could have caused with so many people trying to cut behind him. and it was at least 20 minutes before we finally reached a double-laned road where everyone overtook him. idiot.

intruders

2010-03-20T11:33:00.008+08:00

the thing i can't stand the most about staying in simunjan is the insects. so many and so disgusting. arghh.

this one is really weird. it's maybe 2cm long and looks like a baby scorpion. its long forked tail can wave about in the air. damn disgusting. my dad says it's a silverfish but my mom says it's not..

this moth. arghh. it was in the bathroom one night when i wanted to brush my teeth and go to sleep. when i sprayed it with ridsect, it started flying around violently. so scary. it took half an hour of spraying just to get it on the ground, and it was still struggling and fluttering about on the floor (as you can tell from the blur picture) when i finally went bed. so annoying. wasted my sleeping time.

this green bug made me late to work coz it was buzzing around loudly downstairs one morning.

this is a five-legged spider. you can count the legs. it looked really strange when it was crawling on the wall. i guess its legs must have broken off somewhere. or are there really 5-legged spiders?

this beetle hasn't actually invaded my house. but i've seen it around the hospital where there's grassy areas. it's really big although you can't tell from the picture. i think it's like 2 inches long.

and there are also various other smaller insects which i usually don't bother to spray. but the bigger ones i just have to spray on sight. damn gross. and it's like they can attack me at any time. you think living in a rural area is peaceful? it's not. i have to be like constantly wary. and if i don't die from a heart attack, i'm gonna die from ridsect poisoning.

how i accidentally got a vios

2010-03-13T12:17:00.002+08:00

in deciding between a vios and a city, the main factor i was going for was how fast i could get it. at first both cars were only available in april so i finally decided to get a city and my dad said he would arrange it for me.

but then the toyota guy called me and said they have a silver vios at the end of march, so i smsed my dad saying the toyota guy says there's a vios at the end of the month and i want it. somehow, my dad took it to mean that i want a vios, period. so he called a different toyota guy (i don't know why he didn't even check about the vios coming at the month) and put down the deposit for a vios.

so i'm getting a vios. oh well. maybe it's fate. haha.

stupid design

2010-02-22T11:20:00.002+08:00

i am deciding between 2 cars now - honda city and toyota vios. but i don't like the fact that you can't see the front of the cars. you can't see the back either, but at least there are sensors. they say it's a sporty design and whatever but who cares about how sporty the design is if it's not practical. is my car still going to look cool and sporty after i've banged/scratched it on every pillar/wall/car/object nearby?? arghh.

but yeah, still deciding between these two and i've decided to definitely make up my mind and buy a car on march 6th. which car would you buy?

induksi

2010-02-06T23:08:00.004+08:00

was quite boring. and didn't get enough sleep. and ate up one weekend.
but at least there were lots of people we knew. and we're damn lucky there was no senaman pagi and no nightly evaluation sessions so we managed to get like 2 hours more sleep than other induksi batches. hehe.

posting

2010-01-27T21:24:00.000+08:00

i'm getting sent to simunjan. i haven't got my posting letter yet coz after i sent in the necessary forms (late), they called to say i filled in the wang pos wrongly and i had to send another one. but it's confirmed that i'm going to simunjan coz my name was submitted for the induction course this weekend under hospital simunjan. :(

simunjan is tiny (although on the map my circle seems bigger than kuching. i think it's all jungle. i assure you, the town is tiny). and it's a 3-hour drive from kuching. my friend who's there now (and will be my boss) comes back every weekend coz there's just nothing to do there. ughhhhhhh. every weekend 6 hours of driving. i hate travelling!!! and there's nothing to do there!!!!!!! i'll get even more anti-social than ever. and i'll get too lazy to go out at all. and i'll develop more annoying anal ideasv of 'cleanliness'. and i'll never find a boyfriend. and after 4 years of government service, all i'll know is how to treat the common cold. and then i'll be stuck in government service forever coz no one will hire me.

noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

patients

2010-01-22T19:55:00.000+08:00

today I apologized to a patient coz we ran out of 40mg tablets so instead of taking two as he usually does, he now has to take four 20mg tablets. then he said "no need to apologize. I know that if I go and buy this outside by myself, it would be very expensive." sigh, why can't all patients be like this.

last week some stupid guy scolded me coz we can't supply all his medicines at once and he has to come back in 2 months to collect the balance. he actually said we shouldn't 'zhuo lung' (like kacau or make fun of) patients like that. sheesh as if we so free purposely make them keep coming back for fun. think we want to keep seeing their face meh.

sick leave

2010-01-15T19:32:00.000+08:00

spent the whole day coughing n blowing my nose. ugh.

delayed

2010-01-07T21:52:00.001+08:00

my posting is delayed coz i submitted some forms late. haha.

random pics

2009-12-28T21:46:00.010+08:00

dinner cooked by me

birthday cake

simunjan dry paddy field

harp!

fish spa

and we finally moved back home although the house renovation isn't complete yet

useless car shop

2009-12-13T21:02:00.004+08:00

voon brothers motors at jalan laksamana sucks. yesterday i sent my car there coz i wanted to service it, wash it and fix a tyre which keeps going flat. my mom brought me there and we asked the woman at the counter whether we could do all of the above and she said yes, except for fixing the tyre which they might have to send somewhere else to fix. so we asked her to call us back regarding the tyre and we went off to do some shopping. she never called us back.

when we went back 3 hours later, the only thing they did was service the car, and even that they did wrong - they gave me oil which was $28 more expensive than the one i asked for and didn't give me the remaining oil in the bottle. bloody stupid woman. if i'd known they're so useless, i could've just brought it to a petrol station and then brought it to a tyre shop and maybe get it done in one afternoon. i only let them do my car coz i thought that everything could be done in one place. now i have to bring it somewhere else next week to fix my tyre and clean my car. stupid woman waste my time and money. don't go to voon brothers!!

lousy birthday

2009-12-07T17:48:00.000+08:00

i wanted to take the day off today but the boss in tdm (my current station) is on leave from today til thursday so i have to stay and be the boss. and i have to teach a new guy who is quite blur (and i am also blur). and the samples today have been problematic. arghh.

and i was going to ask the paediatric clinical pharmacist about the case i'm presenting on thursday but she's also on leave til thursday coz they're all attending another pharmacist's wedding in sibu. so i'm completely blur about my stupid case and i can't choose another case coz all the other cases are too simple except this one which is too complicated and i don't even know what to focus on and what is going on and how they diagnosed the patient. arghh i shall just get bombed on thursday. at least it'll be my last presentation.

and pong wee and the others are going to watch 2012 tonight and i'm stuck doing my stupid crappy presentation. hmph.

stupid celcom

2009-11-29T22:13:00.002+08:00

the other day my internet suddenly could not connect. i called the celcom shop and they said my account was barred coz i hadn't paid. so i scolded the person because they never sent me the bill!! then when my brother went to pay, he just said he wanted to pay a bill and they let him pay like normal bill, no questions asked or anything about the late payment. grr i bet tons of customers are always going to unbar their account coz of unpaid unreceived bills so the celcom people are used to it already. bloody stupid lousy useless celcom!!

rain

2009-11-21T17:44:00.002+08:00

when you drive towards the hospital, it either starts to rain or the rain gets heavier.

when you drive away from the hospital, the rain gets lighter.

serious.

french manicure

2009-11-07T22:48:00.003+08:00

when i decided to reink a stamp pad and gave up the moment i touched the ink bottle.

7 presentations down, 3 more to go. sigh.

road rage

2009-10-19T20:00:00.000+08:00

slow drivers should keep on the left lane. if i'm tailgating you, you're going to slow. get out of my way!!

when the traffic light turns green, you should go quickly. don't stone for 2 seconds then slowly crawl forward. there's a whole line of cars behind you who want to get past the traffic light. you think just as long as you get past then enough izit? don't hold up the whole line. when the light turns green, accelerate dammit!!

use your signal so i know where you're going!

when there's a left turning before a traffic light and there's enough space for an extra lane, cars on the left lane should keep right a bit so that other cars can turn left if they want to (or vice versa for right turnings). do you know how annoying it is to be 2 inches from the turning and be stuck for the entire duration of the red light just because some idiot who has tons of space on his right decided to hog the road?!!

stop driving in the middle of the road! just decide which lane u want la. preferably not mine.

don't honk me when you purposely don't give way to me. i already signalled, which a lot of people don't do and i still give way without honking.

motorbikes should keep as left left left as possible.

i feel like scratching cars which hog 2 spaces when parking. wth la so inconsiderate. arghh!

celcom broadband sucks

2009-10-07T19:54:00.002+08:00

arghh damn stupid celcom broadband. so expensive and yet so lousy. cannot use at all at night. the speed just keeps dropping to 0.00. even when it's above 0, still cannot view lots of websites. damn annoying. bloody waste of time and money. ^%#$@^@&$@*!

so busy

2009-09-11T19:22:00.008+08:00

got so many things to do now. finish research project, edit the bulletins for dis, sort out my ccu paperwork, learn nephro stuff, prepare for my critical appraisal presentation, finish filling in my long-overdue ipd figures, prepare for my ccu presentations..

my house is curently under renovation. no one wanted such extensive renovation but my dad insisted. sheesh. so last weekend, even though i had lots of work to do, we had to move out to my uncle's "extra" house. he usually rents it out but there are currently no tenants so he let us stay for a lower rent. we have to stay here for at least 2 months. and i wasted rm190 buying some booster thingy to boost the weak wireless signal from his house (he lives next door) but i couldn't set the thing up. 190 down the drain. arghh. so i bought the celcom broadband thingy which is so expensive. rm300+, then about rm68 a month. sigh. so pissing off. but i need internet to do my work.

ccu was so nice and relaxing and air-conditioned. i barely did anything. now i'm doing nephro and it's horrible. the wards are so hot and stuffy and the rounds are so long and start late. i felt nauseous the first day and had to come down before the round was even over. everyday i'm so tired and i only clerk like 2 or 3 new cases a day and take even less medication histories. i don't know how doctors do it all the time. i can't stand for so long. i don't have stamina for such stuff. i became a pharmacist to sit in guardian, ok. and i'm on-call this week which makes it even more tiring. next week i need to work harder to make up for my lousiness this week. my preceptor is nice but it's too obvious that i don't know anything.

watermelon vodka

2009-08-28T21:46:00.003+08:00

from my sister's book of cocktails and party drinks:
fill a large, sealable glass jar with chunks of watermelon and pour vodka in to cover.

seal and leave the infusion at room temperature in the dark.

taste after 5 days. when it reaches the desired flavour, strain and chill.

but my brother and sister said it sucked, my dad refused to try it, and my mom thinks it's probably poisonous (even though she didn't try it). i think it tastes like vodka leh. so i added sprite and it tasted better but they still didn't want to drink. hmph.

done with opd, for now

2009-08-09T22:02:00.008+08:00

at first we were not allowed to wear a mask unless we were sick coz they didn't want to frighten the patients. then suddenly on thursday we had to wear masks. sheesh. if some patient had h1n1 we would all be infected by now already. suddenly make us wear mask. btw, the green side faces out. the folds are supposed to face downwards coz that's the direction we breathe.

anyway my 8 week posting in opd is finally over. everyone gets sick during opd but i thought i could get away healthily until i developed a sorethroat at the end of my 7th week. i seldom get sore throats so i think it's due to talking to the patients all the time. i've probably never talked so much before. haha. but i'm lucky coz there were very few patients during the time i was there due to h1n1. the patients are getting more again but luckily i'm escaping. hehe. and i also only had to tolerate 2 days of wearing mask. wearing a mask is no fun. you have to smell your own bad breath. and once, i burped and it was awful. haha.

i'm doing clinicals next. i start ccu (cardiac care unit) tomorrow and i'm quite unprepared. *fingers crossed*

new stuff

2009-08-05T21:32:00.004+08:00

haircut - a bit too short, but i wanted to get rid of my curls which were quite damaged. now i look like a kid. haha.

dye - actually i just wanted a darker colour than last time but it came out looking like my natural colour so i guess i don't have to dye my hair anymore lah

pendant - i thought it was time to stop wearing my birthday key which says '21'. hehe.

the kings are in town

2009-07-28T10:09:00.002+08:00

last night we went to see the river boat parade thing at waterfront. so many roads were blocked to clear the way for the kings who are here for the opening of the dewan undangan negeri and the persidangan raja-raja. we tried so many times to get past the police road blocks. pong wee was so funny, he was so excited and desperate to watch. it was supposed to start at 7 but when we arrived at 9, it still hadn't started.

the kings arrived in the first boat , but cannot see them also. the 2nd boat was quite nice (no pictures coz i was lazy), then the next few were a bit boring. and they moved so slowly! the boringest boat stopped in front of us for so long. then we saw another nice boat, with a hornbill head and moving wings and tail and a waving cat on top (picture on the front page of today's borneo post). then it was too hot so we went to drink at hilton and didn't really pay attention to the show anymore until there were fireworks! the fireworks were really nice and it went on for quite long. got heart-shaped one summore. so cool. haha. and it ended with some really pretty ones which lit up the whole sky with colourful rainy sparks. even the waitresses were watching excitedly.

after the fireworks we sat until the agong came back (the agong and a few sultans were staying at hilton) coz shing was determined to meet some famous people. haha. the waitresses were also excited. we stood a few feet away from the red carpet and got to see the agong and his wife, and the sultan of selangor (i think). their security was like so minimal. they just walked past with a few people and waved a bit. then we went out and looked at their cars parked at the entrance and a couple of ang mohs were taking pictures with the agong's car. more sakai than us. haha.

another accident

2009-07-12T21:40:00.002+08:00

i've been driving my dad's company car which is quite old. the other day i was in a rush and reversed into a dustbin. i didn't even knock very hard and my bumper cracked. then i drove to work and halfway the bumper fell right off. haha. last time i reversed my grandma's car into the pillar only got a scratch. this car so lousy, bump into dustbin already break.

i had to pay 170 for a new bumper.

annoying

2009-07-04T12:57:00.004+08:00

patients who give no reaction to what you say. they just say 'oh' or 'ya' or look at you and i just feel like oh whatever if you don't care whether you understand what i'm saying, i don't care either.

patients who talk too much. sometimes they can be amusing but then sometimes they just annoy me coz i don know half of what they're talking about and there are other patients to serve.

patients who ask the doctor for certain medicine then when we give it to them they say don't want don't want. wth.

patients who say this chinese don't know how to write chinese. (her own daughter also don't know how to write la. had to ask me to write. stupid.)

patients who keep asking for more medicine.

new phone

2009-06-27T23:42:00.002+08:00

woohoo! i finally bought myself a pda phone. htc touch diamond 2. n i'm typing this on it right now. not so easy to type on the touch screen but it comes with a stylus.

went to watch transformers just now but there were so many people. all the transformers shows were fully booked til like 11pm so we ended up watching blood:the last vampire which barely makes sense. i think everyone watching it was only there because they couldn't watch transformers. haha.

evil canteen

2009-06-12T22:49:00.003+08:00

everyday at lunchtime (except on fridays and drug talk days) we used to go to hung hung inn beside the hospital to eat coz the canteen food sucks and is expensive (which a lot of people say although i've never eaten there myself). but suddenly, the side gate leading to hung hung is locked!! officially it's supposed to be for safety reasons, but everyone says it's the stupid canteen who sabotaged hung hung. so mean!!!!! now if we want to eat at hung hung, we have to walk out through the main entrance which is further and less shaded. so most of my friends now prefer to buy burger or sandwiches or whatever from the shop inside the hospital rather than walk out. and hung hung got less business already so some stalls close early so i have less choices when i go there for lunch. boohoo!! stupid bloody evil useless canteen!!!

dragonfruit

2009-06-04T23:35:00.000+08:00

my dad tried to force me to look at his dragonfruit flower which only blossoms at night. i refused to go outside so i looked from inside the house. he tried to turn the flower towards me, then the branch cracked. he looked shocked. then he said "uh oh, it broke. you caused it's death cherie!" then he quickly came inside to get some wire to tie it back. lol.

today on shift

2009-05-30T23:49:00.002+08:00

i met and indian who speaks better hokkien than me. -_-

2009-05-15T21:43:00.001+08:00

enforcement sucks. thank goodness it's finally over. drug information system next.

ok

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

should i go to kl on national day weekend? 29-31 august.

faux pas

2009-04-30T22:45:00.002+08:00

i did the stupidest thing yesterday. i wore a short, sleeveless dress to work. it was my aunt's old dress which had been hanging in my cupboard for so long and it's quite nice but i never wore it, so yesterday i decided to wear it. i totally forgot that i work for a very conservative government. when people wear stuff that don't comply to the dresscode, they usually wear their labcoat the whole day to cover it up. but i just walked in with my dress and then put on my labcoat as usual. everyone saw my dress. omg. how useless can my brain get. and i didn't even realise what i did til the end of the day when my friends told me i should keep my labcoat on as i was taking it off before going home. shit.

then last night i was so scared the whole night. like what if i get into trouble. or they suddenly enforce a stricter dresscode because i was so daring to go against it. and i even dreamt that everyone was talking about how stupid i am. damn scared. but then at work no one mentioned it so i hope they all just forget what i did. :(

noisy car

2009-04-25T20:50:00.000+08:00

my neighbour's car is too sensitive. the alarm rings when there are loud sounds like thunder or fireworks. one afternoon a few weeks ago when i was trying to take a nap coz i was on night shift, there was thunder and the stupid car's alarm rang for almost one hour and i couldn't sleep. last night, there were fireworks for i-dunno-what-reason and the car alarm kept going off. every minute or so there would be one firework then the alarm would ring then the car owner would turn it off, then repeat. so annoying.

don't trust me

2009-04-19T14:32:00.002+08:00

i almost tried to con a patient out of his gtn (heart pain medicine). i was dispensing and somebody had filled gtn which expired before the patient's next appointment. the patient noticed the expiry date and asked me about it. i told him oh nevermindlah, it's ok. but he still wanted new gtn. i asked if he used it often and he said no so i still said it's ok. then i realised, eh i should give him proper gtn la. so i went to get him new gtn. so blur la me. luckily he insisted. haha.

shit

2009-04-02T20:02:00.004+08:00

i'm not smart enough to be a pharmacist. omgggggggg how the heck do people remember so many things. i can't remember anything.

and after 6 weeks in ipd, i haven't done a single diabetes counselling. my final week in ipd and i've only done 14 counselling. all inhalers except one warfarin. omg what have i been doing. everyday i just blindly fill and check what is filled. dispensing also i do too little. shit. anyone also can do my job.

earth hour

2009-03-29T21:14:00.002+08:00

so erm..did anyone observe it? my mom and i switched off the lights but then my dad said it's stupid and switched the living room light back on. then after a while my mom decided i shouldn't play computer in the dark so she switched the dining room light on for me. yea they were watching tv and i was playing dota (so difficult to play in the dark). we're only asked to switch off the lights and not other stuff right? haha. and the neighbour's lights were on too.

yea my neighbourhood quite fail.

..

2009-03-23T21:21:00.006+08:00

went to kuantan to visit my grandfather's grave on the weekend. didn't have much time to study for my forensics exam today. the last like 17 out of 50 mcq questions were randomly coloured in without even having time to look at the questions. essay questions also cannot finish. haha. oh well, see how it goes.

i dunno what the hospital operators are doing. always take so long to answer the phone. and they keep thinking i'm on-call. 3 out of the 4 four weeks since my on-call, they thought i'm the pharmacist on call. what la.

my dad wants me to get an iphone instead of ipod touch. cannot decide if i should just get a htc. hm hm hm. u guys didn't buy any pda?

poor car

2009-03-14T21:14:00.005+08:00

i've been having such bad luck with my grandma's car. or maybe actually the car's been having bad luck with me.

first i banged it and broke a tail-light when i was oncall. then on tuesday, my car wouldn't start when i wanted to go home from work. some people told me they saw my lights on the whole day so the car ran out of battery. but i didn't switch on any lights!!!! i guess i must have flicked something by accident. :( i had to call my mom to pick me up and she would have to come back at night with my dad to jump start the car coz i had to go out for my project discussion.

then it rained heavily that night so although my parents managed to start the car and drive it home, the next day i found the passenger side all flooded!!!! there was like an inch (or maybe less) of water on the floor of the passenger side, front and back. when i braked i could hear the water sloshing. so horrible. i wondered if the roof was leaking or something but my dad thought it was the air-cond leaking so today we took the car for the air-cond to be fixed and the air-cond guy said it was the air-cond which was leaking. what a coincidence that it suddenly leaked the night it was left out in the rain.

then when the air-cond guy shut the hood of the car, we noticed that it was scratched. someone went and scratched all around my car!!!!!!!!! wth!!!!! it's an old little proton wira with a broken tail-light. why go and scratch my car la!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg such bad luck. or does someone at the hospital hate me. :(((

spent almost 300 on the air-cond and now have to spend hundreds more to repaint the car. and also need to buy a new pair of tail-lights coz i can't just repair one coz they make different lights now. boohoo!

untitled

2009-03-08T22:22:00.004+08:00

i forgot to mention that i reversed my grandma's car into the wall while i was rushing to the hospital when i was on-call. :( have to send it for repair before she comes back from kl. i'm thinking of buying a second-hand car. maybe honda or toyota.

i'm also thinking of buying a pda or a pda phone or an ipod touch.

do you think i can stay in kuching next year if i'm legally blind? coz i am. it's a handicap right?

when we came home just now we found a stupid bird flying about our staircase and my brother chased it downstairs but it was so stupid that it took ages to chase it outside. it shit on my staircase. in three places. and i had to clean it up. grr.

oh yea, i also forgot to mention i finally got my first paycheck last week. yay! :)

1st on-call

2009-03-02T20:39:00.003+08:00

i just finished a week of being on-call. i'm free now! no more anxiously waiting for calls and doing stupid tdm on non-compliant patients. when on-call, we have to answer doctor's queries and run tests on blood samples to check drug levels (tdm). and because we prps are slaves, we are on-call while the frps are 2nd-call eventhough we are totally noob.

my week started off slow with only 2 queries from monday to friday and i thought i was so lucky to get this week. then the weekend came and i had a total of 11 tdms to do which took me 10 hours. but the stupid rule is that no matter how many hours on-call you do, you can only get maximum 8 hours time off. damn stupid whoever invented this rule. so unfair. and there were these drs who wasted my time by saying they were sending the sample but took ages to do it and one sample wasn't even taken at the correct time so i cannot calculate anything.

and there was this bloody rude doctor in a&e who really pissed me off. he was totally rude to everyone. i went there to collect a sample which was taking ages to be given to me. so i was just standing at the counter and he was there writing a prescription. he was convinced that the pharmacy would reject his prescription so the nurse asked him to call the pharmacy and ask, but he said it's not his job.
nurse (who got annoyed trying to layan him): there's a pharmacist here. why don't you ask her.
me (trying to be helpful eventhough i was stressed myself and didn't even know what's wrong with his lousy prescription): if you need a specialist's signature you can call him and ask him to promise to sign the prescription.
rude dr: it's not my job to call anyone. it's my job to see patients and prescribe. i cannot deal with this. if the pharmacy rejects the prescription, i don't care.
me (freaking annoyed but still trying to help): what's wrong with your prescription?
rude dr: *ignores me*
so i took the prescription from the patient but couldn't tell what was wrong with it so i just told the patient to go collect from the pharmacy. stupid dr. he think he's the only one on-call meh. i'm also on-call. i'm also stressed. people wasting my time taking ages to give me sample after requesting me to do tdm. at least i was polite and tried to be helpful. screw him.

dyed hair

2009-02-21T18:42:00.006+08:00

i just dyed my hair n it's too light!!! i wanted a darker colour coz it looks more natural and i thought it'll be less obvious when the roots grow out. but's it's so light i will probably have to dye it again soon. oh noooooooooo. i don't want to keep dyeing my hair!! i chose some reddish brown ash colour. it looked quite dark when i chose it but i dunno is it my hair absorbs the colour too well or they gave me the wrong colour or it was bad lighting or what but now it's too light!!! please tell me it will grow darker in time!!

pictures in different lighting:
the top looks too light and yellowish here

too light for my liking

looks alright here but not in real life!

too light la!! boohoo!!

online on my laptop!

2009-02-15T16:36:00.003+08:00

before i've even received my first paycheck, i've already spent rm430 on new lenses for my glasses (just the lenses! i didn't even change the frame! my power is so high that it's so expensive. wait til my contact lenses arrive then have to pay another few hundred. and also because my power is so high, everything no stock and take so long to arrive. more than a month already and i just got my glasses yesterday.), rm199 on a new modem+wireless router and another few hundred on other stuff since i started working. my mom's gonna claim back from me when i get my pay. so pain to spend my own money. haha.

anyway...yes i'm finally online on my laptop!! i shall see you guys on msn again. :)

oh, and i didn't get to change my on-call to next week. i feel very stupid la. my friend said it usually takes about 3 hours to learn tdm (therapeutic drug monitoring). i've been there 3.5 hours already and i'm still not done. have to continue on monday. :(

uh oh

2009-02-09T20:13:00.004+08:00

i'm on call next week!! so scary. i don't know anything. actually they assigned me the week after next but that will be my first week in ipd and they say ipd is scary so i changed to next week when it will be my 2nd week in compounding where there is not much to do and can sleep. we have to change shoes before going into compounding and they provide crocs. haha.

singapore

2009-02-03T20:21:00.041+08:00

for chinese new year, my family went to singapore for 4 days. we went through johor coz kuching-singapore flights are at night and it would be a waste to arrive there and just go to sleep in the hotel.

we crossed selat tebrau on the johor-singapore causeway and these are the water pipes supplying singapore with water from malaysia

the singapore immigration checkpoint. the way to singapore was smooth but there was a jam from singapore going to johor coz malaysian immigration is just so efficient.

grand central hotel

we went shopping a bit then we went to the night safari where there was a performance by sarawakian natives. haha. no animal pictures coz it was too dark and flash photography was not allowed.

they played with fire and we could really feel the heat when they blew it
two short videos of them blowing fire

the next day we took the cable car to sentosa and passed two massive cruise ships

huge slide

glimpse of the merlion

strange fishes at underwater world which just stuck up from the sand and moved up and down a bit

eek, octopus

cuttlefish

the decorator crab which sticks seaweed, pebbles, etc on itself for camouflage

seadragon

pretty jellyfish

the underwater tunnel

pink dolphin show

they were having a flower exhibition

we sat on the skyride which is like ski-lifts

heading down to the light and water show at the kampung houses down there
waiting for the show to start

it's called songs of the sea and it's quite nice except for the lame storyline

went shopping again the next day even though most shops were closed and then we went to chinatown at night

and when we went home and there was a lion dance at the changi airport

cny holiday

2009-01-24T07:18:00.001+08:00

i'll be going to singapore today til tuesday. haven't been there since i was 8 i think.

happy chinese new year!!

O.O

2009-01-18T20:16:00.008+08:00

i'm working in the store now and it's super boring. it's so free that i have too much time to emo. and i'm stuck there for one month. blah. i did nothing for the first three days until on thursday i was so happy to have work to do. we had to count the physical stock coz the computer recorded like rm88,000,000 worth of goods, which is more than the annual allocation even.

anyway, here are a few pictures of the flood on monday night when we tried to go to town for dinner (and failed). it was a bit scary coz the water was quite deep at some parts and we could feel the water under the car. it's the first time i encountered a flood. this is near padungan.

blur picture coz the car was moving

the petrol station was like an island

oh no..

2009-01-11T16:49:00.005+08:00

it's been raining continuously for two days. some places are flooded already...

i cut my fringe too short and now i look stupid and tomorrow got presentation.

played computer too much while i was lazing about at home for 4 months. my eye power went up to 1050 in my right eye and around 900 in my left. i'm going blind! :(

this week

2009-01-03T19:41:00.005+08:00

i dispensed reconstituted antibiotic syrup without telling the patient to keep it in the fridge. and there were three bottles for her (or her child actually) to take..

i met (dr) ej fong who taught us biology for a few weeks in form 5 while he was waiting for his stpm results. he's currently in the paediatric oncology ward which is supplied by sat2 where i'm working for two weeks. i was sitting down when he came into the pharmacy and he remembered me even though he couldn't recall my name. "i know you...from 5b right? tall, long straight hair, quite quiet one.." haha.

the frps want us to be able to jab ourselves with the insulin pens to demonstrate to the patients that it doesn't hurt. :(

have i mentioned how much i hate my period? hate hate hate hate hate. today was probably the worst one. i puked but it still hurt so i took 2 panadol but it started to be really painful and i puked again. was in bed til 2 smth by which time it hurt less but i felt unwell from staying in bed for so long. had some porridge. then it hurt again at dinner time so i took another panadol and prochlorperazine for my nausea. :((

2008-12-29T10:33:00.005+08:00

my posting in the radiotherapy unit is over. two weeks only. tomorrow i go to satellite 2 which is another small and quite free pharmacy. another two weeks. it seems i start off with the easy postings and my clinical postings are at the end i think.

my life is boring. nothing else to say..

i opted for 30 days leave a year. i guess most people did, right?

merry christmas and happy new year!

work

2008-12-19T19:19:00.005+08:00

i got kuching. yay! i'm working in sarawak general hospital. currently in the radiotherapy unit which, luckily, is not very busy. mostly cancer patients. dispensed to 3 patients today and i was so terrible. mandarin sucks, bm also sucks. but even without that my dispensing also lousy lah. can't remember what the drugs do and cannot count. and every time after dispensing, i look so uncertain that the patient asks me, is that all? haha. luckily my head is quite nice. she's from imu, i think 2 years senior.

the fully registered pharmacists (frp) are like so smart and they're so young. most are only like 2 years senior and are head of departments. a few married already. so young lah. then every week got 2 presentation sessions by provisionally registered pharmacists (prp - me!) and some of the frps ask so many questions. they really know what they're doing la. so scary. and they're so young. boohoo. have to be as good as them in a few years time.

christmas tree

2008-12-14T16:01:00.003+08:00

my posting, at last

2008-12-05T10:29:00.003+08:00

i just got my posting. it's in sarawak, but beyond that i have no idea where. stupid system. i'll find out on december 16.

i'm a bit nervous. i've forgotten everything already. should i study anything before starting work? mims, bnf, malaysian guidelines,...?

t-shirt

2008-12-01T13:58:00.002+08:00

saw this shirt at some small discount shop in mjc..
i wonder if they even know what it means. haha.

opposites fail

2008-11-17T11:31:00.000+08:00

haha

leavers should not play

2008-11-11T12:31:00.001+08:00

bloody hell these stupid leavers. cannot play a dota game in peace.

die one time, leave.

host didn't tunnel, leave.

get lousy hero, leave.

die a few times, leave.

looks like they're losing, leave.

lag a while, leave.

friend leave/disconnect, leave.

no reason, also leave.

what the hell is their problem la. little little thing also leave. so scared of losing, might as well don't play la. waste everybody's time only. even worse is those idiots who instead of directly leaving, go and pull plug to pretend disconnect or something, and everyone has to wait until he disconnects to continue. so annoying. especially when i only have time for one game and they completely waste it. grrr.

sarawak club golf resort

2008-11-04T12:48:00.003+08:00

last sunday we went to check out sarawak club's new golf club. we took so long to find it coz there weren't any signs. we finally found it next to unimas. pics taken with my dad's new nokia e66 camera.

this was taken when the car was moving so a bit of the left side is cut off

view from the reception area

the restaurant is at the end and the pools are below it. the food here is a few ringgit more expensive than at sarawak club.

there are three salt water swimming pools. the adults' pool furthest, the kids' pool, and some pool you can sit in like a jacuzzi i think. the water was all a bit muddy-looking. there is a small gym to the left, not in the picture.

view from the pool area. that's some kind of pond there, not another pool.

i went into the men's changing room. haha. so nice one. slippers are provided.

they provide cotton buds, powder, combs, and even some germicide machine, which are not provided in the women's changing room.

the women's changing room is smaller, i guess coz it's mostly men who play golf.

some golf buggys. they have a whole basement full of them.

didn't take the entrance one the way in so this is the entrance on my way out

some views of the golf course from the carpark. sorry, i had not found the zoom button at that time.

this club is quite small. nothing much to do here unless you play golf, it's so far from town.

stuff

2008-10-27T12:44:00.003+08:00

so i sent back my offer letter and requested a confirmation letter from strathclyde to confirm that i've graduated. the first time i did that, carol barnett sent me the wrong thing which caused me to have my offer letter revoked. grr. good luck to everyone who's working soon!

had a dental check-up this morning and got two of my back teeth filled. i choked a few times while the dentist was filling them. he asked me to get a smaller toothbrush to so i can reach the back. btw, i still have one milk tooth molar, and no wisdom teeth. i hope they never grow!!

offer letter

2008-10-20T12:26:00.003+08:00

apparently my offer letter is not valid without my strathclyde certificate and full transcript. they called me last wednesday morning to tell me to return my offer letter. they woke me up, so i was blur. i've been trying since then to reach them and ask if i can just keep the offer letter since i've already used it for my provisional pharmacist registration application, and tell them i don't mind getting my posting only after i've sent them my cert and transcript. but these people never answer the phone and won't even answer my email. bloody hell. well, they won't be getting my offer letter back til i manage to contact them so it's their problem. idiots.

baju baru

2008-10-14T11:08:00.001+08:00

i bought a baju kurung on sunday for work. rm89.90 at kamdar. the top is like long enough to be a dress, but a bit see through. do people wear the top as a dress? just wondering la, not that i'm gonna do it.

medical checkup

2008-10-09T11:45:00.003+08:00

just got back from getting my medical checkup and i feel like complaining again. these two girls at the counter just like to simply call out numbers as they please. sometimes call the same number 3 or 4 times before getting it that the patient's not coming, other times call 3 or 4 numbers in quick succession even though the patient haven't come. i was number 213 and the girl called 211, 212 and 213 without pausing. i got there just as my number was called and there was already a guy there. then when he left, she immediately called 215 (the next counter already called 214) and 215 also immediately stepped in before i could. wth 213 haven't even arrive, she already call 215. they just simply call numbers as they like only. grr.

at least my checkup was quick. the dr just asked if i was sick then he ticked everything without even checking me. and his computer behind him was displaying his facebook page. haha. but then after that the nurse asked me to go photostate 2 copies of the reports and pointed to the front of the hospital. so i went to the building in front and couldn't find it. i had to ask at a few places before i got directed to a shop at the side of the hospital. haiyorr.

but anyway i found this funny for some reason.

nail art

2008-10-06T11:06:00.007+08:00

last week i decided to play with my sister's nail stickers. it's the first time i did it myself (my sis helped me do it once but the stickers were lousy and didn't stick properly) and it took me two hours. my posts have been pictureless for a while, so here are two. haha. i got nothing better to do, ok. :P

&@*#%^!

2008-09-29T11:57:00.002+08:00

i just came back from my medical check-up. or half of it. i have to go back again at 8am next thursday to do my xray and the rest of the check-up. *grumble grumble* this morning my dad sent me to the general hospital but they told me to go to the poliklinik so i had to call my dad to pick me up again and send me there. then i forgot to bring my offer letter so i had to call my grandma to send it to me. then bloody hell i hate urine tests, i tell you. i always pee on my hand. and the bloody toilet had no soap! damn disgusting. in a hospital where tons of people take urine tests there is no soap! and the toilet floor was also all wet. what a good way to prevent the spread of germs and disease. omg i will so die if they send me to some ulu place.

abcdefg..

2008-09-22T12:21:00.001+08:00

another week of lazing around...and updating just for the sake of it.

played scrabble with kin chern again on saturday. last week he won but this week i won. yay.

yesterday i bought seaweed and wth there's only three pieces of seaweed in each packet. last time there were 5 pieces, then it was reduced to 4. now 3 is just a waste of plastic.

my interview is on wednesday. i've been meaning to study some stuff since last week but i still haven't gotten round to doing anything.

i just played dota on garena and got scolded noob tons of times, even by this idiot who was quite noob himself n left halfway. grr.

top gear limousine challenge

2008-09-14T16:35:00.005+08:00

in this challenge, they are supposed to build their own limos. i watched the 2nd part on tv just now and it was damn funny so i youtubed it.

here's the 1st part. there seems to be two versions, i don't know why, but i think this one is funnier. here they test out each others' limos.

this is a slightly different version which i can't embed so just click on the link. here they subject their limos to paintballs and a maneuverability test.

in part 2 (which i also cannot embed) they have to pick up some celebrities in their limo and drive them to the brit awards. damn bloody funny. even if you don't watch the previous two videos, you must definitely watch this one. watch watch watch!

sunday

2008-09-09T15:32:00.012+08:00

on sunday, my family went out for lunch, as we usually do. then we went to popular to buy work books for my brother who's sitting for pmr soon. and there we bought two books which all three of us can read.

this hard cover book was only rm 13.90! dunno why it's so cheap.

but this book was rm59.95. so expensive. in artemis fowl's latest adventure, his mom is sick so he has to go back in time to fight himself to get the cure for her disease.

then my bro, my sis, her bf, and i went to play laser tag nearby. rm4 per person for a 20 minute session. and surprisingly i got the highest score, followed by my bro who was in my team. whee!

my sis bought this glass deco set in kl which we played with. it comes with a few pictures like the swallow which u trace on a sheet of plastic with the black paint, let it dry, then fill in the colours.

we stuck them on our glass sliding door. the flower and star by my sis, the beetle and the tiny heart by me, and the rest by my bro.
then we went out for dinner to celebrate my sister's birthday early as she'll be in england during her actual birthday. this picture was taken by her bf so he's not in it. and here's a glimpse of my permed hair for those who asked. it's half tied up coz it still looks poofy and aunty when i let it down.

other than that i mostly laze around. but i've finally applied today. now wait for interview. sien.

bm

2008-09-01T13:17:00.003+08:00

oleh sebab saya amat bosan saya bercadang untuk berblog dalam bahasa malaysia kerana kin chern telah berbuat demikian sempena hari merdeka. saya satu hari lambat tetapi sekarang masih cuti hari merdeka jadi masih boleh dikira hari merdeka lah. dan disebabkan pos kin chern yang scandalous tentang date panas kami, alvin quah ingat kami berpacaran atau sesuatu.

saya sedang tunggu naruto shippuuden untuk load. adik lelaki saya telah suruh saya menontonnya. sekarang saya di episod 17. menaip dalam bm amat susah dan mensienkan. bm saya cacat sangat. saya bosannn.

oh ya sempena hari merdeka, saya telah perm rambut saya kelmarin. saya guna digital perm. sekarang ia terlalu curly tetapi saya harap akan menjadi ok selepas beberapa hari.

beberapa malam lalu, saya telah menonton sedikit wayang death note di tv. cacatlah. mereka telah mengubah ceritanya dan telah memberikan teman wanita kepada watak utama (bukan gadis pelakon yang tergilakannya).

ok ini terlalu susah. sekian sajalah.

update

2008-08-27T16:37:00.003+08:00

i'm back in kuching and i've finally graduated! but my certificate will only come out on november 3. how to apply for work liddat? bum around a few more months i guess. i didn't take many pictures at the convocation. i look bad in the ones with my mom and grandma so here's one where i just walked down from the stage and my grandma is approaching me with flowers.

my box of stuff i shipped back from scotland has finally arrived! haven't really unpacked yet but everything seems fine.

there. updated. :P

let me pass!!!

2008-08-07T00:07:00.003+08:00

friday is my resit exam for cpp. i'm quite scared. i've doing past year papers and i still find them difficult. i'll need lots and lots of luck!

i'm going to kl tomorrow and will be staying until the 24th, and hopefully i will pass and be able to attend the imu convocation on the 23rd.

let me pass let me pass let me passss

psycho

2008-07-26T00:01:00.005+08:00

been back in kuching since last sunday. haven't been doing much. mostly stayed at home. went out with kinchern and shing a few times.

just came back from senso bar and there was a freaking weird guy there. he's joyoki's friend or acquaintance or something, a doctor from kuching general hospital. we talked a bit for a few minutes and he was already putting his hand on my waist. then he was rubbing my back, sitting too close, trying to hold my hands, touching my leg, might have been trying to touch my butt too. omg. damn crazy. i just met him and he touch so much. where got such thing one. it's not even some drunk dancing whatever thingy. we were just sitting down and barely drank anything yet. then he drank a lot but still sober except touching me and i didn't know what to do. psychotic. denise tried to help me and say i'm taken but the guy deaf or something wrong still touching me. he doesn't even know if i got boyfriend or not. crazy! or maybe he never go out so he thought go bar can simply touch girls. he looked so young and kindof nerdy. wth. finally i told shing let's go home and we left. luckily he didn't try to ask for my number. then siaw ngien came out and apologised and said the guy also kept asking jo out and they want to make him drunk or something and see what happens. urgh. damn freaking weirdo. i would tell you to beware of a dr. something at gh but i didn't really get his name. and before you say kuching people are weird, he's from west malaysia!! omg crazy hamsap guy can be doctor summore. so scary.

in imu

2008-07-18T13:36:00.002+08:00

hellooooo! i'm in imu right now. waiting for alvin q to finish his usmle application payment stuff. going to eat hakka mee later, if it's still open. then meeting sidney in midvalley. then tomorrow go find the guys in seremban. why am i typing out my plan? i dunno. nothing to do here. haha. alvin said i'm fatter. i said he's fatter too. jack said i look weird and he forgot my name. he asked if it's vanessa. haha. also met terry and patrick and jaslyn. lalalala.....

i'm home!!!! (kindof anyway) whee!!!

kong fui's visit

2008-07-16T00:46:00.010+08:00

here's a short post on kong fui's visit. lots of kong fui's pictures for alvin q (as he is now known) to ogle at.

we went to see the oldest house in glasgow, st mungo, and glasgow cathedral. sigh always the same places only.

kong fui played the guitar and sang a for us a bit
we made dinner

the next day we went to the national piping museum

then went to kelvingrove museum, the museum of transport, and the university of glasgow

then we had dinner and took some pictures in george square

the last day was shopping. kong fui bought some clothes coz aberdeen has no shops and he searched high and low for a present for his newborn niece. i forgot what he bought. a pair of tartan bootees, i think. and then he went home.

have to resume packing now. i'm leaving tomoro! going to fly back to kl, stay a few days, and go back to kuching on sunday.

offences

2008-07-12T18:51:00.003+08:00

leaving underwear around

washing clothes in the toilet and/or bathroom and making the floor all wet

leaving wet clothes hanging until they stink

incessant ringing of the doorbell or knocking of the door and refusing to answer it

cluttering an already tiny shower stall

dirtying the microwave oven and not cleaning it

hogging sinks with clothes

using cutlery and cloths belonging to other people and not washing them

not flushing the toilet properly and leaving behind pieces of shit and bloody (literally) toilet paper

leaving drops of blood on the toilet seat and not cleaning it up!!!

my parents' visit

2008-07-12T00:24:00.003+08:00

my parents had planned to come for my graduation, but since i was not graduating they decided that instead of cancelling all their tickets, they would just come sightseeing.
brought them to the oldest house in glasgow which they thought was ok. next was st mungo's museum of religious life and art which my dad didn't like coz some stuff weren't really old or something. next was the glasgow cathedral, which they liked. my dad liked the stained glass.

walked past george square on the way to dinner at filling station

went to edinburgh the next day. my parents liked calton hill. nice scenery and all.

then we walked down to the scottish parliament of which my dad took tons of photos

walked down the royal mile to st giles cathedral

by the time we reached edinburgh castle it was going to close soon so we didn't go in

we spent sunday shopping in livingston. then on graduation day, eelynn lent me her robe so i could pretend i graduated with my friends and family. :) the stupid hood couldn't stay on my shoulders properly so i look quite cacat in lots of pictures. here are a few good ones.

then we went to west end to see the university of glasgow

and kelvingrove art gallery and museum

then my parents went home the next day. my dad took tons more pictures than this but no need to put up so much lah. the end.

and it's my dad's birthday today. happy birthday! :)

bus drivers are jerks

2008-07-08T06:17:00.005+08:00

just now we wanted to go out for dinner and a movie. it was raining heavily (by glasgow standards) and while walking there, a bus drove past us and splashed us with water. wth!! after walking a bit more, we were splashed by 3 more buses in succession. we all got drenched and cold. my jacket which i just washed was wet and water even got into my boots. what the hell man these stupid buses!!!

anyway, kong fui came to visit for the weekend and just left today so i finally managed to finish my post about italy. my next posts will be on my parents' visit and then maybe kong fui's visit. but first, i need to sort through the thousands of random photos my dad took. haha. i'm going back next wednesday! it suddenly seems so soon..

italy

2008-07-08T01:39:00.007+08:00

ok, here's my overdue italy post which is somewhat abridged but still quite long. first of all we had to check in at glasgow prestwick airport where the ryanair staff were extremely unhelpful and quite mean to us. we were very pissed off but it was like so long ago so i won't go into details but they were very anal about the weight of our check-in luggage and the size of our hand-carry. then we spent the night at london stansted airport which was way too cold. wth these airports. they know people will be sleeping there but make no effort to make it more comfortable. and of course i hate all the paranoid airport security as well.

anyway, we saw some mountains on our flight to milan.
italy's public transport sucks. we missed our train stop coz the stupid train doors have to be opened manually and the door we were going to get out from was spoilt so we couldn't get down in time. they also don't announce the next stop, difficult to see the station name, etc. anyway, because so much time was wasted due to missing our stop, we didn't have time to explore milan. we had to go straight to lake como. this is a picture of hailstones at lake como.

the next day we took a boat ride to a few islands and saw some nice houses and stuff.

there was a helicopter delivering a crate to a house
we fed the ducks some of my leftover panini. paninis suck. they're so hard, it hurts your hard palate (roof of the mouth) to eat it. it's like the appropriately named pain (buns) in france.

cathedral (duomo) of como
spent 2 nights at lake como, then went to venice. venice has suchhh nice souvenirs. look at all the masks!

more masks and some stuff made from murano glass. some murano glass stuff are soo pretty. if i were rich i would totally buy lots of venetian souvenirs.

piazza san marco

there were so many pigeons around. we fed them some french fries. if you stand holding your arm out, one will just perch on it even if you're not holding food.

saint mark's basilica

we weren't planning on riding a gondola coz we heard it was expensive, but this group of 3 people approached us and asked if we wanted to share a gondola. it was 100 euro for a gondola so we ended up paying only 17 each.

spent 2 nights in venice, checked into our hostel at florence, then took a train to pisa just to see the leaning tower of pisa where every single person was taking pictures pushing/leaning/supporting etc the tower. italy also has some really bumpy roads and the lousy bus driver just sped over them.

all my pictures quite fail. only this one semi-pass lah.

random poses

then we took a train back to florence. florence is quite boring. this is a replica of the statue of david. to see the real one you have to queue up a few hours to get into the museum.

the night view of florence

this is pitti palace where when the security guard scanned me with a metal detector, it was suddenly triggered by my bra clasp. i was shocked for a moment then we started laughing and when we passed them again, he purposely scanned yannee's back and tried to scan eelynn as well. then when we were leaving, the entrance guard also knew about it - he was laughing and making a gesture at his back.

boboli garden

grape vines

after 2 nights in florence, we went to cinque terre which consists of five coastal villages. upon arriving, the train conductor was so nice to offer to take a picture for us.

we caught the sunset

we walked the street of love which connects 2 villages - riomaggiore and manarola.

the next day, we went to a beach at monterosso, one of the villages.
then we had some drinks. that's eelynn's lemon slushie, my really horrible limoncello which is a lemon liqueur, and yannee's white wine and sciacchetra which is a local wine made from naturally dried grapes.

we spent 4 nights at cinque terre which was way too long. the hostel sucked, the people sucked, and it was kinda boring. then we went to rome where marco was our tourguide. this trevi fountain which marks the end of one of the aqueducts which supplies water to rome. supposedly, if you throw a coin in, you'll come back again next time. i didn't throw one in coz it was soo bloody hot and i was grouchy. don't want to go back to rome. italy's hot in summer and rome was the hottest place we visited. unbearable. possibly hotter than malaysia. sometimes the sky got no clouds at all.
this is the pantheon which we didn't get to enter coz it was closing. it was originally a temple for the ancient roman gods but it was converted into a church. marco says most old buildings are only maintained if they are turned into a church.

we watched the italy vs spain match in a cinema. marco got us free tickets. it was kinda cool but i was quite tired.
the next day, we went to the roman forum where commerce and administration of justice took place in ancient rome
the arch of constantine to commemorate emperor constantine's victory over emperor maxentius
the colosseum, the largest ampitheatre built in the roman empire, where there were gladiatorial contests and stuff
there are fountains like this around rome which has refreshingly cold spring water

if you block the spout like in this picture, the water will come out of the hole on top and you can drink from it!

st peter's basilica in vatican city. it's the burial site of saint peter.

short skirts, shorts, sleeveless tops, etc were not allowed so we had to cover up. i was almost not allowed in because the guard thought that wearing a bedsheet (that marco lent me) was a bit offensive but some lady standing nearby turned into this sari-like thing for me and luckily he let me in. i look weird. haha. bleh. they should have provided shawls or something for people who would obviously be "offensively" dressed in their sweltering summer.

piazza navona where marco told us about the rivalry between the architect who built the fountain in the middle and the one who built the building on the right. as an insult to the guy who built the building, one of the statues on the fountain is shielding his face, either because he thinks the building is too ugly or because he's afraid the building has been built poorly and will fall on him.

there were "statues" which would move if you dropped them some coins

eelynn and marco got a caricature done by a guy who did it so quickly and effortlessly

on the way to the airport on the final day, marco brought us to see the mouth of truth where supposedly your hand will be bitten off if you tell a lie with your hand in its mouth

and that is all. spent another night freezing in london stansted before finally coming home. 2 weeks in italy. so tiring.

short one

2008-06-27T17:59:00.001+08:00

back from italy 2 days ago. a little darker now. pictures are mostly with yannee, haven't gotten them yet. my parents are arriving later. supposedly for my graduation, but since that's not happening anymore, i'll be taking them around for a few days. updates after that.

summer hols

2008-06-11T18:07:00.003+08:00

4 days in birkbeck court and so far the worst thing here is the shower (refer to previous post). it's made of plastic. wth. when u step on the floor, you can feel it bending. there's only a small ledge which can fit 2 or 3 small bottles so you have to put stuff on the floor. and it's so small that when you bend down to pick up your shampoo or whatever, your ass might touch the wall or your head might touch the shower curtain or something. and the water pressure's low too. but at least there's hot water i guess.

anyways, the juniors are arriving today and i'm off to italy later. see you in 2 weeks.