Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Yesterday was an extremely busy, or should I put, a rushing day. I was supposed to submit the immunology project on 1 pm. As the day moves on, we could not meet to our own dateline. So obviously, we like rushing like hell.
For example, the card size got to be constantly adjusted, since it was not in the right size. Then we also need to decorate the box. The worst part was the printing. Somehow, the printing is extremely good today. There is always a queue and probably because of us, they made even more money. Firstly, we printed things wrongly. We printed 28 EXTRA colour stuffs due to my mistake. I told the aunt about it that there was a mistake and the aunt only stop the printing after the 28 extra copies will print. One piece is $0.45. Then we needed to print our stuff again.
We set four cards on one A4 paper. We actually wanted to print the front side of the card and the back side, then put them together and laminate. However, the back side of the card was already cut into its own pieces. So we got to print them again. In total, we printed 14 pieces (those we want) and 28 extra pieces. All colour. 1 piece $0.45. Count yourself how much we spent just on printing.
Then the next problem came, we thought we could just put the front side and the back side together and laminate them. Then the aunt told us, it cannot be done. We need to cut them into single pieces ourselves and then put them like an A4 size. Can you imagine, by then it was one plus. We already beg Mr AK to give us until one thirty and time was like running out. So I begged AK again to give us more time, and we need to submit by 2.30. So we cut them into single pieces and laminate it. Again, we thought the aunt can cut for us. In the end, the aunt said they will busy and tell us to cut ourselves. We will like WTF. But one of the aunt was kind enough to help us out. Again, the laminating cost was $11. Imagine how much we spend. What a good day for the photocopy shop. And then by the time, we finish laminating, it was nearly time. We got to rush our way to cut them again. Lucky, Terence was there to help us along. Kudos to him seriously. In the end, we submitted the project on 2.40 pm. AK say he will minus 10 marks per min. Luckily, he was joking with us. He said so long the assessment hasn’t start yet, it was still not considered late. Really damm lucky. Our assessers will Mr Saifudin and Miss Leong. I was there around also to see other groups project. Got to say one of the box attracted me, but then it was a buy one. Compared to ours, which is a hand made, I felt ours was much much more better.
In total, we spend nearly $80 for the project, $16 per person. This is probably the most expensive board game submitted. If we don’t get an A, I don’t know what I will do.
Finally, four projects were cleared. One more to go, marketing. I got to say I need to apologise to Miss Tan today. We changed our time for the marketing presentation and this cause a lot of problems. There was supposed to be 3 teams presenting today, but then we put it our and she already booked 3 hours from Dr Lionel Lau time. Then last minute pulled out. Can you think of the trouble she has to make? I think my team also a bit wrong. I seriously must apologise to her.
wrote in the notebook @ 1/30/2007 09:20:00 AM
Monday, January 29, 2007
It’s been awhile since I last blog. Damn Busy this few days. I got back my pharmacology test 3 results. I got an A. Lucky I met my expectations.
These few days, I have been helping out in the open house. Moving things, arranging and explaining about things. You really get to see all kinds of people in open house. I can remember one girl came in and ask about the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science (DPS). She asked me what we are going to study in this course and she ask me whether we will be learning about those bad drugs like heroin, etc. When I told her no, she seemed uninterested and went off. Then I heard from the rest, that somebody actually ask Huang Rhoo whether the acne cream they prepared can be used on women b****s. That guy ought to be beaten up. There is another strange guy that keep coming to the open house. He went on Friday on a full day basis and came on Saturday as well. There was another parent that kept asking the lecturer about the course. She asked four lecturers and all the same questions.
Thursday and Friday, I got to help out in the auditorium. Helping out there is like shit. You got to stand all the time, no chair for you to sit. My legs were like don’t know how tired after helping out. Then you got to always open your mouth and explain the exhibitions or the courses to those visitors, If you encounter visitors that are very enthu or are willing to listen, it is still not too bad. When I help out on Thursday, I wasn’t that bored. But when I help out on Friday, I felt bored. Maybe is because I didn’t have the mood. Even though there are supposed to be more lessons during the open house, we weren’t spared from the medical microbiology night lecture. As usual, the lecture is damn boring. The lecturer is not even teaching, he is just only reading off slides. I also know how to read. If he is going to read, might as they make it into the e lecture, save my dinner money and my time. Even if I ask Mr Tan, who does not major in microbiology, I think he can even teach better than him.
For Saturday, I got to help out in the tour guide. As first, I thought I was going to bring those secondary school or visitors around the student. Lucky, I was assigned to do the registration work. Basically, when visitors arrive, they can register for tour guides and I help them to register. I don’t like to help out in this area. Firstly, it is damn noisey. The noise generated by those performances can make me go deaf. Then, I got to stand throughout the whole shift. They shouldn’t the registration station in the auditorium. Those visitors are assigned to a certain time slot for their tour, then when they watch those performance and missed their time, they complain they can’t find a tour guide for themselves. I seriously have nothing to say. You can get to see the difference between of the open house visitors. On Thursday and Friday, there aren’t many people in the auditorium. On Saturday, you get to see a lot of visitors in the auditorium. Same for each individual school, on Thursday and Friday, there are more people in the school but less people on Saturday.
Luckily, I did manage to get free ice cream!!! I got four coupons and I gave 3 away. I also talk Ram, my PCT senior. He’s seriously a natural entertainer. He really knows how to talk. I did chat with some lecturer as well.
After the open house, I got to also help clear up. Move back the tables and chairs. Remove the exhibits. All this comes with a reward, Mr Tan actually treat us to a dinner at pizzahut. How nice of him!!! I did enjoy my dinner. Really thanks Mr Tan a lot. Hope we can also have more such gathering in the future.
The only thing I was sad was I didn’t go out with ziyi. Supposed to go out after the open house finished. But then he suddenly disappeared. No response from him at all, either through calling or sms him. Then when I managed to contact him, he said he went out with Daniel and his friend to other places. I felt like bit of being pang sei lol… Imagine you already plan to meet up with someone? Then he suddenly go out with other people without telling you, how would you feel? So I naturally was a bit sad lol….
wrote in the notebook @ 1/29/2007 08:06:00 PM
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Thursday:
The second time I skipped a lesson. Medical Microbiology Lecture. I didn’t mean to skip. Cause need to project, that’s why skip lesson. And then, I only left school at ten pm lol. Also, it’s been such a long time since I ate Mac. At least few months ba. Wanted to eat at south canteen, but there only got noodles. So I went to food junction, but then there also nothing left, so I got no choice but to go Mac to eat. My first ever time to eat mac in NYP!!!
Friday:
I screwed up my presentation. Yes. SCREWED. Basically, the audience did not understand what we were trying to say. We tried to make it a funny, and probably our class is laughing. Then, I was also nervous. Certain slides I forgot to explain. Total screwed up. The rest was probably thinking it was lame. Most of the time you can see the students are talking to themselves rather than listening to use and try to figure out what we are saying. And to some of them, I got to say they are disrespectful. I shall not say it. But then, some of the year 3s are not happy with us. They always regard the PCT as the cleverest people. I think they are also not happy when our class got the highest number of As for clinical test. That is enough to make up 50% of the total number of students who got an A.
But then before the presentation started, I already got a feeling that we might not be able to make the audience laugh. During a rehearsal, there were some other students in the lecture hall, not from our course, I guess they also got watch our presentation. I couldn’t see anybody laughing. But then our topic is quite a dry subject. How can we actually make it into a funny one? Even Miss Tan has told us the previous batch has problems making it into a funny one.
Anyway, is already over. What to do? Make sure we do a good job for our report. Just make sure in future that we do not make the same mistakes again.
Saturday:
Damn busy today. Stuck at home to do my project and tutorial. Got to say Mr Tan is kind. He actually asked me whether we want to submit the last pharmaceutics practical report. If we don’t want, he will just not include that report marks in the total grade. Bet the whole class will definitely decide not to submit the report.
Nothing much today except to do my assignment. I even turn down an majong session. What to do? No time lol.
wrote in the notebook @ 1/20/2007 10:02:00 PM
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Hmm… I wonder how well will I do for my pharmacology test. Basically, I have already lost 8 marks. I did not expect Miss Yong to ask about signs and symptoms. That goes my 3 marks. Then another 5 mcqs, which I cannot do. I tried to guess, but then still wrong. I have actually finished the paper 20 min after the paper start. But then, I now only worry that out of the remaining qn that I can do, something might just go wrong and I worried whether I can get an A. Dr Henry Leung say he dislike tuberculosis and he say he only test about 1 mcq. Who knows in the end, he test 4 mcq from that topic and I could only do one qn.
After that, another problem surfaced. Open house duty roster. It was supposed to be settled by last Friday. Suddenly, they decided to include one more item, course counseling. That basically disrupts the entire duty. This means we got to shift some people away. At first, it was me who was shifted away to the counseling. Of course, I was happy, don’t need to go auditorium. Ok. I admit that I was selfish. But then can you imagine that only you alone there helping out? Then, we got problems with Miss Yong posters. Then we also got to settle that. So Mr Tan called Miss Yong to come and then Miss Ang came as well. The whole atmosphere was tensing. You can sense that the heat was building up. In the end, the lecturers plan the entire roster. So I was posted back to help out in the auditorium. This time, I did not resist. First, I did not have a choice. Second, this round, I have other classmates with me. So I won’t feel bored that alone. I just feel that the classmates should just accept things instead of complaining. Some of them keep complaining that they can’t open their mouth or other things. They just want to try their luck in changing duty. I know is like a little bit unfair. But can they think, what if it was another who have chosen, they would also feel this way. So instead of whining, why not just accept it? Is just only three days, not three years. And if they can’t even do such things now, what are they going to do when they go out to work?
Come today, I went to the open house tour students guide training. Damn boring lol. Then afternoon, got another open house training. This is to train the students how to be a “good” ambassador for NYP. That Ernest is damn funny lol. He can really be our NYP Ambassador. Haha.
Of course, come one sad thing. One of my relative just passed away. He committed suicide by jumping from the 25 stories. 30 something this year. From what I heard, he gambles too much in soccer and own people around 60k. Due to desperation, he committed suicide. I just felt he was very selfish. Have he gave a thought for his mother who brought him up, his sister and his pregnant wife? I don’t know. And, I am not really close with him. I just feel pity for his close kins. Hope he will rest in peace. And I hope his close kins will look forward to the future and put the past behind them and carry on with their lives. Really hope for the best for his close kins and for him
wrote in the notebook @ 1/18/2007 12:17:00 PM
Monday, January 15, 2007
It’s been a while since I last blog. Finally, I know my skills practical test result. Yay!!! I managed to get a B+ despite not able to do the emulsion. Now, all I need is to work hard for the next skills practical test and I should be able to get an A for this module.
It has been raining these few days. So sianz lol. That means whenever I go out, I need to bring an umbrella and the clothes seem to be never dry… And finally, the sun has appeared. Yay!!! You must be thinking that I am too bored or something is wrong with me.
Tomorrow got pharmacology test again. It’s the third test already. This few weeks I gonna be busy. This week got test and project presentation. Next week, got project presentation and open house. After next week, I got another project presentation. Currently, I have only completed one project.
So sianz lol, I being transferred to the auditorium for the open house. Cause Mr Tan say the person need to be knowledge, reliable, etc. and there aren’t candidates left. So Shereen and I were chosen to go there. The only benefit about going there is that there is free ice cream from swensens. I still preferred to help out in block Q.
wrote in the notebook @ 1/15/2007 07:02:00 PM
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Got back principles of clinical trials result. I was quite surprise at the result. I actually got a B. I thought I was going to fail this module, or if I passed, it would only be a just pass. I really did not expect myself to get this grade. This module is probably the module that the class did very well. No failures at all. Ten people got A for this module and quite a lot of people got a good grade for this module. There are some whom I am surprise, cause I didn’t know they actually got an A for this module. I think I better not name who they are, or else, I might be actually offending other people.
Yesterday I just went to school for an hour. For what? Just medical microbiology project presentation. Got to say the two groups did quite ok. After that, I went to find Miss Yong to re-schedule some lesson. Met a new lecturer that is going to teach me next semester. She is Miss Chia. Lol. She is married, I guess so. Anyway, she is going to teach in modules that are related to clinical trials. Gonna be boring…
And I heard from Miss tan Chiew Nai that there is going to be three invigilators for the marketing presentation. Miss Tan, Dr Cindy Soh and Dr Lionel Lau. Stress lol. Must do a good presentation or else, don’t think can get a good grade for the presentation.
Didn't know that Dr Henry Leung is such a person. He's quite young, 30 years old, married (but doesn't like having children), but his lifestyle is like a young guy. He plays console games, owns PS3, WII (He selling this, if you need me, ask me haha), watch anime and read manga, and they are those curent ones, like Death Note, NAruto, bleach, etc. Lol. But he is bit career minded. He could have been an associate professor in NUS, but he didn't want to. Cause he is still quite new in NYP. Learnt about his studies when he was university. He actually didn't went for the exams just because he didn't like it! I wonder how many people can actually do that. If I am him, I properly won't.
wrote in the notebook @ 1/09/2007 05:33:00 PM
Saturday, January 06, 2007
A new term has just started. Nothing much except for a few things.
Wednesday:
I have a new lecturer that is teaching me. He is Dr Henry Leung from Hong Kong. He has only been in Singapore for 3 months. A guy that had his education in UK ((from Primary school all the way till his masters), Kings College, University of London (quite a good university) except for his PhD, which he did in the Chinese Hong Kong University. Why? This is because you get pay if you do your postgraduate in this university. He speaks with slang, I mention in my earlier post. Not too bad except for a few things. His pronunciation of life threatening becomes life frightening. Lol. He pronounced his “th” like “ph”. Then he doesn’t like to bring the attendance sheet. When he first approached me, he asked to plan a time for a make up lesson. Then the second time he approach me, he asked me to see who’s not around for the lecture. And when I asked him why not he takes the attendance, he says he doesn’t like to bring the attendance sheet. As for the lecture, is not too bad, but a few things we just don’t understand what he is saying lol. And then, he likes to pause at weird times. Oh, did I mention, although he is a pharmacologist, he is actually a pharmacist by training. But then he does not want to practice pharmacy cause he found it too boring. He told me he did not realize how boring pharmacy was until he studied pharmacy in the university. Too think that he realized how boring pharmacy until this level… The only thing that kept him in pharmacy was pharmacology lessons. He likes the mechanism of actions of drug VERY MUCH. That’s why he did his PhD in Pharmacology. Cough research. I wonder whom in this world like those things so much. And Siew Horng actually found him very CUTE lol!!! Haha. I wonder which part of him that she found him cute. He still quite young lol. Age range from 26-35. Of course lol He don’t need to do NS in Hong Kong.
Thursday:
I actually broke another apparatus in the laboratory. First in this new year, second time during the course, second time in this academic year/semester and third time in my life. It was a glass stab. In case you are wondering what is the glass stab for, I shall briefly explain its uses. Basically, when we need to prepare any cream materials, we need to put our cream (just cream alone, no ingredient) and the chemical ingredients on the glass stab. Then we will mix them together (this is how you can actually make your own acne cream if you have the ingredients). This glass stab is actually quite heavy. After I finished washing it, I tried to wipe it dry. I could not put it on the bench top, cause it will stick to the bench top and will slip off easily. I try to ask Shereen to help me, but then she wanted to do her report. So I cleaned it myself. And suddenly, I was not careful and the glass stab fall off from my hands. A loud sound just went off. I stood there helplessly, seeing the glass stab broke into many pieces and Shereen was there still doing her report, as if nothing has just happened. Of course, I was shocked, if Shereen had helped me, it will not happen. So I told her she should helped me earlier. But then in the end, I sms her and apologise to her. When I said what happen again, Shereen seems to be a bit upset. I thought she would be angry with me. So I sms her at night and apologise to her. I didn’t mean to say those stuff. Luckily she was not angry with me lol. Miss Ang and Miss Yong were making a joke why not I have broken the glass stab earlier. I would save the water that I have used to clean the glass stab lol. Not long, after about an hour, another sound went off. Another glass stab was broken. This time, Yi Ting did it. She was washing it when it broke. And she was unlucky. She cut herself. Hope she is all right by now. So the two of us make it to the honour book of “Laboratory Damage report”. The first two entries of the New Year. Lol. This means I need to pay for this broken glass stab. Damn… Anyway, I didn’t know Miss Ang and Miss Yong watched Superstar. The practical was very long. Miss Yong was like complaining that she wanted to go off earlier so that she can actually watched superstar. As for Miss Ang, she was not interested to hear the male contestants singing. She just wanted to go home earlier to see her “baby”. She even joked that if she cannot see her baby, she would kill everyone Lol Haha.
Friday:
The common test results were finally out!!! Yay!!! I thought the results were going to be released on the Monday. But then, during the lecture break, Shereen went to check whether the result was out. She told me when she came back. And I basically lost concentration of the rest of the lecture. She should not have told me. I was like very anxious. I just wanted to check the results at that point. But then I tried to calm myself down and tell myself, I have waited two weeks for the results. I can just wait for another thirty minutes before I can see my own results. So after the lecture, I ask Miss Cherine Tan some questions and I went up to check my results. For the DMB, all their modules results were released. As for my class, only 5 modules were released. Don’t know what happened to Skills results. Maybe Miss Ang did not submit the result to the admin office. The year 3s was unlucky. Their results have not been released. Probably it will be released on the Monday. So this means, I can only know my clinical trials result on Monday. I don’t think I will do well for this module lol. Probably a pass. Miss Cherine Tan said only three persons fail. She said she try to give as many marks as possible to help us pass lol. So if I pass, it will be just a borderline passing. By the way, this is my result for the 5 modules.
Introduction to Immunology: A
Medical Microbiology: A
Marketing for Life Sciences II: A
Basic Pharmacology I: A
Basic Pharmaceutics: A
Yay!!! I got 5As. But then I don’t think I can get an A for skills lol. This is my first time scoring an A for a microbiology module. Another cheers for me. Haha. Immunology and marketing results were hard to find. I probably suggest to the lecturer next time that they should put according to the class. I have to continue to work hard and maintain my grades. Hope it won’t be like last semester where I got 5 As in the common test and then only 3 A/DIST after the exams. Overall, the class did not did well lol especially pharmacology. SO I asked Miss Yong and she answered that the result is only for test 2 and the combination result of the 2 tests will be revealed when she see us. I just hope everyone will work harder for his or her next test. That includes me as well!!!
In closing, I just wish to apologise to someone. Sorry. Cause I put some stuff which I don't meant to hurt someone's feeling. So I just wish to sincerely apologise again.
wrote in the notebook @ 1/06/2007 08:23:00 PM
Monday, January 01, 2007
Firstly, I would wish everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Time flies. Another year has just passed. So much things has happen or rather not much things have happen. There aren’t really many things that I have enjoyed over the past year. Imagine, I did not get good results for my exams. That is enough to spoil my mood. Can one imagine every weekend is so torturing? Nothing to do over the weekends. Is like staying at home and rotting there. In addition, family do has problems some times. My father doesn’t have a stable mood. He can be good at some time, he can also be bad at other times. Nobody can ever understand his mood. School, can one imagine having so many projects in one semester? Having a terrible common test? More bad things have happen than good things (did any good things happen to me). And I ask myself here, did I enjoy anything during 2006? Probably NO. Opps. I just forgot. I celebrate Christmas with classmates and I did enjoy myself.
So is this going to be a good year for me? I don’t think so. First thing that is not good would probably be my exams. Can one imagine that I have to sit for my exams over the Chinese new year period? Of course, there are probably going to be even more bad things that I might not realize so soon. Of course, I do have some small little hopes for this new year. I hope that I can get good results for my exams. That would probably lighten up my spirit. I do hope that my father will be in a more stable state. This would probably make my life more easier at home. And I do really hope to find partner. One that will accept me, one would offer me a shoulder when I have problems or feeling down. One that would listen to my problems and boring craps. One that would share woes with me. Haiz, will I ever find this person? Probably in my dreams. After all, dreams aren’t meant to come true.
wrote in the notebook @ 1/01/2007 12:42:00 PM
