I blogged T.O.D.A.Y @ 08:33
mrcp
finally the exam period is over! at least can relax a bit and don't need to mug everyday oredi =) but the exam was tough.. and terribly long.. started at 12pm and ended at 7pm with an hour break in between. hopefully they will moderate the passing mark downwards and hopefully most people think the paper is difficult.
I blogged T.O.D.A.Y @ 19:53
i wasted 3 hours of my time...
i got my traineeship!
my friend smsed me yesterday and told me that he got his traineeship, so i sort of suspect that the result of other specialties should also be out soon, especially when internal med had conducted their selection interview first. but then i din really bother much yesterday (was busy studying anyway). then today another friend whom applied for internal med told me that he got his too! so i quickly rushed down to open my letterbox and to my dismay there were only 5 leaflets of rubbish and nothing else! dammitt i tot either 1)i wasn't selected; 2)i might receive the letter late; or 3)it got undelivered =(
so i was feeling kinda disappointed, but yet still have to practise my online MCQs.. sighhz sighxxx so demoralising. then after 3 hours, i decided to take a walk (in my living room) and realised that some of my letters were lying on the table! brrady hell..made me worried for nothing!! hated this situation yet it happened to me so very often.. err maybe not that often.. but to important events at least.
still remembered many years back when i was still in the army right after JC. it was the period when u know whether or not you have been admitted to med faculty, so since we couldn't book out, i had to call home every day to ask my mum if there were any letters.. and every time it would be a no. Even till the day when all my friends had known that they have been accepted except me!!!
well anyway i NEVER got the letter. i called the university the very day i booked out and asked whether i was accepted or not. and i rushed down immediately to receive the letter (a duplicated copy) by hand. woooh!
so the lesson learnt is: never ever overestimate the delivering capability in Singapore!
and congrats to all my friends who got their traineeship of various specialities too! =) one step nearer to our dreams ain't it?
I blogged T.O.D.A.Y @ 14:04
wasted leave!
@#$%#@$@!#%
took 5 day leave to study for my exam and guess what? i actually fell ill on the 1st day of my leave! had diarrhoea and abd pain and fever and headache. wah lau.. 人算不如天算！ If i know earlier i should take mc instead. and according to my admin clerk, we have unlimited number of mc! hopefully i can recover soon else defeat the purpose of taking the leave.
and while i hope to dissociate myself from work completely during this period; unfortunately this was not the case.. i still receive calls and smses regarding work! well not that i really mind, after all i don't wish to leave my work for others to complete during my absence (and indeed i do have some incomplete tasks..), but too much of these become an impedence to my progress!
but then again, we shouldn't be indispensable.. and this should be the way in most occupations. anyway, i have decided to screen all my calls from now onwards hahah..so if i didn't pick up the phone nowadays, sorry =)
I blogged T.O.D.A.Y @ 15:32
rain again
rained for the past 4 days AGAIN! so cold.. well not that i dun like cool climate (in fact i love it cos i can sleep peacefully till noon without the glaring sunlight shining into my room =p), just that i dread leaving the house with the need to bring an umbrella, so might as well stay at home haha. can study somemore.. and can take nap whenever i am tired.
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finally gotten the season parking lot near my place (didn't manage to get one last month cos apparently the carpark was fully booked and i had to get another one further away - a multistorey carpark), cos i was the 2nd customer they served on that day at the HDB centre! and i think i should secure the lot cos i am going to pay by GIRO, so they will auto-deduct the fee every month.
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recently discovered by chance that my friend is attached! so exciting and interesting to find out this on our own cos itz an accomplishment haha! hmmm.. maybe i shouldn't put this here, cos 1)he is a potential reader here; 2)i dun think he wants it to be publicised too much. anyway, any further discussion can be done internally ;)... and all the best to u bro =)
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ok tmr is another new week, but itz gonna be a short one for me cos i am taking 5 days leave from wednesday so that i can fully concentrate on my study without any disturbance from work. Sigh quite a waste of my annual leave, but no choice.. we don't have study leave in army, unlike when u are working in the hospitals. And i don't want to claim the offs-in-lieu that i have accumulated in this manner cos i want something that is more assuring.
I blogged T.O.D.A.Y @ 23:23
muddle
couldn't concentrate nowadays! keep forgetting things that i need to do... short term memory loss. and some are quite major events which i didn't remember eg: ops duty. sighz sighz think i am too preoccupied with a lot of stuff oredi that's why.
anyway i had quite a sumptous meal yesterday - chilli crab!! my favourite =) and the serving is quite big, damn filling manz. but unfortunately the a-sam fish that we ordered wasn't very fantastic, taste more like tom yam fish rather. i mean those real a-sam fish yum yum. oh btw generally i can't take hot and spicy food, though there are some exceptions when it comes to my craves =)
I blogged T.O.D.A.Y @ 21:46
thinking back...
The week's leave passed by so swiftly that i almost couldn't feel it. all that i can remember, other than the festive mood and collection of my new-found toy, is that i can wake up very late in the morning, realising half the day is gone.. kinda sad cos all the clustered holidays are gone and the next available one will be chinese new year. And yes, it is 2007.
I couldn't sleep last night somehow when i tried to turn in at around 1 am (knowing that i have to wake up early the next day as i have to work).. maybe becos i have been going to bed quite late these few days. It reminds me of those times when u need to go back to school in a new year, meeting new and unfamiliar faces, the anxiety entails. So i spent most of the time, tossing in bed, thinking through the past... 10 yrs back when we were still in JC, when we can still have the energy to play hard and enjoy life.. when we still have seniors, grandseniors and great-grandseniors coming to visit us during our orientation. and can u imagine, if we were to go back now, we have become great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandseniors!! and will it still be meaningful and worthwhile? in fact, i don't think i should go back now - even the school name has changed, and the people are probably different now. it just reminds me that i am no longer young. but perhaps once in a long while is possible, when u have enough kakis of your same-year batch accompanying u that is =)
i have a conversation with one of my friends' younger brother that day and i realised that one of my jc classmates has become a teacher there! It's like a continuous cycle and i am sure it will be an unforgetable experience. We used to have a very nice maths teacher and guess what, till now, the legend is still being told in the school!
okay.. probably 10-years is a bit too far back; and since it is a new year, lemme try to recall what has happened for the past one year. 2006.
Hmm.. probably nothing much really. It began when i was still in MOCC - when my mind was in a blank, with my knowledge seeping through; went through route marches and ex saviour; then came the graduation in feb and i was posted to the headquarters, doing what i am doing now. then i led a 8-5.30 job, getting small allowrance and was expected to work harder than the high-earners; i did free night calls; i didn't manage to vote in the general elections cos it was a walk-over; i watched world cup; i loved worms and ninja ropes (well this is a game); i got a PDA which eventually only serves to jot down my "hectic" work schedule; i had to pay my first income tax; i celebrated my birthday; i was heavily involved in IMF-WB and had to wake up at 3 am!; i toured taiwan (probably the most fun period of 2006!); i applied for traineeship and decided to do some study and exams; i bought jazzie and it rained like mad in december. woooh that actually sums up the significant happenings in my life in 2006! and some of the significant possessions i have gotten - well, as evident from those being striked off the wish-list.
Ok, so now's a new beginning, and i hope it will be a good one. really. haven't come up with my resolutions yet, though i tend to be..well..less realistic =p, but one of the items in the list will definitely be to be in good health - for all people around me, and myself =). happy new year!
from a lonesome soul doing one of my free night duty in a secluded part of singapore, in an enclosed, suffocating room.
holidae.
