Just another life story

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Today’s paper is Anatomy and Biomechanics, something which I seriously lack intelligence in. However, I should still do well and all. As for tmr, Exercise Physiology will be a lot better since it’s much more relevant!

Semester’s coming to an end again and the start of next sem will be a 5 week teaching practise! Will only know my posting on May 7th. On the 10-16th May will be my 1st outdoor camp! 7Days of no going home and mayb no coke, no television programmes etc etc. Just rural living and sleeping in my sleeping bag!! Can’t imagine how life’s gonna be! Primitive probably.

In any case, my complexion is getting from bad to worse because i stopped taking OC. Will resume my medication next month, since I’ll be at camp and bleeding is totally not the best thing to happen. yUcks!

A few things I need: To pack up my stuff for camp and of course a 60-70litre bag for 7days worth of clothes, extra shoe, slippers, toiletries (if there is a toilet) etc etc! My complexion is so gonna be worse off than what I am now.

The new year came packing my school schedule with early classes, long days and assignments! Due to the early morning lessons which makes me super tired and the holidays which have trained my biological clock to sleep late and wake up late, I am still unable to twist back the change (ya, I know, it’s an oxymoron statement).

Anyhow, I’ve been working on this anatomy assignment where my group would have to do a presentation on the knee joint! And in the knee joint alone, there’s already like tons and tons of technical jargons which totally looks alien to me. You have names for every piece of bone, names for the ligaments, in short, every other thing is accounted for with a name.

Then I have my English content upgrading which the tutor seems to be prejudiced against the PE pple (we’re kinda labelled as being those with brawns but lacking brains). In anycase, we’ve done well so far to prove her wrong and that we can be better than the academic pple. WEll done! However, learning grammar is totally driving me crazy. you’ve got the verb, the transitive verb, the auxillary verb, the modal something and this is another set of technical jargons. I hope the semester ends soon.

Disappointing Liverpool match last night as they played against Arsenal. Watched the match with 3 other classmates at the Balcony Bar. I was there since 9pm, drinking, eating and watching. The place is pretty nice to hangout and it’ll even be a plus if you get the Cushioned seats. I got home tired, didn’t sleep much and was up early doing the household chores! So happy cause my home looks clean again!

Bought 2 pairs of shoes from Puma at Queensway yesterday for the semester’s Soccer module, one street soccer court shoes and soccer boots. They’re the same design and I’m trying to find my shoe bags because I seriously need shoe bags now. GOtta bring a whole lot of nonsense to school everyday for the different games. Argh!!!

I feel pretty good about 2007 and I can’t seem to explain that happiness that’s overcome me. It’s not as if I get to start everything from zero, it’s not as if I get to erase all the mistakes I’ve made in the past year(s) and it’s not as if I’m gonna get anything at all. Yet, that euphouric gush seems overflowing.

In this new year, I’ve got a new hair colour (red), I’ve donated blood today, I went for class chalet and watched Night at the Museum with some classmates (quite a farni and meaningful movie to start this year).

Still, I’ll be tired the following weeks due to IVP, which will be held at TP and having to travel all the way from west to east is seriously a chore when you are packed with 8.30am lessons on 4/5days a week. Ouch!

Of course, I saw my gynae this afternoon and it’s been a year since I last had a consultation. He remembers me vaguely and flips through my profile/log, which he writes a few lines and is chuck away for many months until it’s time to see me again. Gynae’s got this bow tie habit, which I think fits him pretty well and we had a longer than usual chat today because I’ve been having severe headaches AKA migraines which has been haunting me often these days and I can feel an increase in both the intensity and frequency of it. I think it’s also my abnormal consumption of painkillers that’s caused higher tolerance for analgesic medication. Anyway, Doc was kind and gave me a prescription of painkillers which he takes as well (he understands how I feel when I get those attacks).

The blood donation session was bad. An amatuer nurse attended to me and she was quite nervous and looked blur. The anesthetic jab I got from her was in total slow motion, which prolonged the time of poking and then she couldn’t locate my vein? artery? and I could see her manuvouring the needle in and out of my flesh. She could still ask if it was painful. I replied with a no and wanted to add on "but you’re freaking me out". Of course I didn’t because I didn’t wanna make her feel bad, afterall she’s new a needs a few more practise. FUrthermore, I wouldn’t want to make her even more nervous and end up poking me even more.

In anycase, I still feel good about 2007!!

Counting down to birthday: 17days

Yes it’s the time of the year to reflect against what we’re contributed at home, at work and a time to make new New Year Resolutions (which most of us hardly keep to). 2006 has been a different year for me because I was married in Mar (I sorta miss home and my siblings as well coz I love to just hang around with them and crack stupid jokes and stuff. The transition from work to study this July was also tough because my study Mojo sorta ran away and also because I was tired with many many things. However, it wasn’t too bad since the next semester will be a lot better (less education modules and more fun modules), 9hours/week for soccer in the field and 3hours/week for track and field. Hence because of the amount of training, not will I have uneven tanlines, I should also slim down, tone up a lot more on Hua’s wedding day!

It was really nice to have a quite good gathering (could’ve been better but due to time contraints) and christmas exchange before the year ended. We’ve finally come to the point of not having to worry whose place to go for year end gatherings because half of us are settled and in 2years’ time, Xinhui’s place will be ready as well. Hence, we’ll keep to having gatherings at Woodlands and Boon Lay the next time. I’ll be going for cookery lessons soon (I hope, probably after IVP) and there’ll be more food (healthy of course) at our next gathering! Hua can probably bake her specialty cakes and/or cookies for us!

IVP schedule is out and we’re playing at Nanyang Poly this time. Why?? I’d rather go TP, at least it’s a straight MRT and I can doze off for an hour plus. Anyway, mAtch dates and timings are as follows:

9th Jan (Tues) 6pm NTU vs NP

11th Jan (Thurs) 6pm NTU vs ITE

15th Jan (Mon) 7.30pm NTU vs NUS

19th Jan (Fri) 7.30pm NTU vs RP

If we successfully beat all other teams (except NUS), we’ll play Semis on 22 Jan (Mon). If not, we’ll play 5th, 6th Position on 24 Jan (tues)

I’m exactly a month away from my 25th Birthday! The past 2 weeks have been kinda hectic for me and without me realising, everything’s over. There were 2 weddings, 1 housewarming, 1 moving the grandfather tablet ceremony and of course my mum’s birthday celebration.

Inter-school games for volleyball is over and we came in 2nd because of some dubious call. Well, the conveynors simply hate us (the PE ppl). Anyway, it was a good game, we generally did a very good job by putting up a tough fight! Trailing 2sets behind, we managed to match it up to 2:2 before we lost in the 3rd set (a very close score but it was the referee’s decision not to give the points to us). The game lasted 2hours, which is why I’m kinda aching (I think it’s also because I was caught in the rain and not feeling too well).

For mum’s birthday celebration, there were some glitches which eventually turned out to be alright somehow. I really regretted inviting my uncles because they were sort of the people who could not contain their anger and something unhappy did happen but no fight broke out!

I’m left with about 2 weeks to enjoy before school starts again and I still have tons to settle. Argh!

Yes! I’m a full marathoner at least once in my lifetime. The journey was arduous after the 30km mark because I was inadequately prepared for the run this time round. My sis came along to pace me for my full marathon and thank god she was around, or I’d be running at a 21.1km speed. Anyway, due to serious cramps, she stopped at the 22km mark and U Turned (which took her another 10km), while I went on to complete the remaining distance.

At the 30km mark, my legs where numb (due to the rain) and extremely worn off. My running posture was totally off the benchmark and because of this inappropriate posture, I pulled something on my left leg, which left me limping/brisk walking in pain the remaining distance. The moment I stopped, I could feel my bruised toes telling me the immense pain they are going through, I could feel my back screaming for a half-time, I could feel my joints wailing in soreness but still, I completed 42.195km in 6hr35mins (with lotsa of questioning if I was sane to actually sign up for the full marathon and quite a bit of cursing myself for the stupidity for a short while).

Not a timing to be proud of, but despite walking less than 12km, it wasn’t easy because my body was breaking apart. After completing the event, I limped my way home w Meimei and the day ended with sore joints and worn out muscles (yes, I limped around the whole of that day). However, I could start walking normally the following day, with some minor pain in the joints (particularly on my left leg). After the pain was gone, I had this stupid thought of signing up for the full marathon again next year. Yes I think I’m crazy.

The end is near, so is a new beginning. It’s been a jam packed semester and it was definitely an enjoyable one with my funky and freaky classmates. I’m so gonna miss them during the holidays. One more presentation tomorrow and I’m done for this Semester! Next semester’s gonna be tiring. 6 hours of soccer and 3 hours of track and field practical under the sun (I’m so gonna end up looking like a thai, indonesian or malay again). But well, that’s me. The good thing on my part is my dark pigment sheds fast (It was a mere few weeks without outdoors and I’m looking more Chinese)!

Anyway the Service learning project went a long pretty smoothly and it’s finally over. During the examinations period, I’ve had quite a few disturbing issues at hand and it was disruptive. My mum’s siblings wanted us to organise a party for her 50th birthday. It’s not that I don’t wanna do it for my mum, it’s not that I am lazy. BUT why now? why do they have to make it sound so URGENT and they seem to want it their way. Hence, I decided to work on a BBQ which should be held on the 16th dec because they said it would be the best time for my mum’s friends and relatives to come and join us. GUESS WHAT? Just yesterday, I was told a BBQ was a bad idea and we should book a Karaoke room at west coast CC and it should be held on a TUES (19th dec) and my mum’s friends would have to accomodate. I’m so seriously not happy with everything and to some extent I don’t want to be bothered BUT I do not have a choice because I’m the eldest and because I’m still having my exams, they want to train me to become resilient so that in the long run, I’m a better person. What crap!

Well that’s life, the nonsensical stuff come all at once and leave all together as well. But like i said, it’s a 4 week break for me to recuperate and train and do my shopping for Xmas presents. Oh talking about Xmas presents, pls do buy 1 gift for exchange on the 23rd Dec 06 and budgeted at 10-15SGD.

Ya I guess that’s about it.

This is a period of heavy smoking (Read: Skillful Manipulation Of Knowledge Excretion). Yes, you got that right on, it’s exams period. I’ve completed 1 paper (thank God) and another one more on Monday (which I totally have yet to lay my eyes on anything related to the module). I think the one most important thing that I’ve learnt in NUS would be the art of SMOKE, which enabled me to coast through Uni days and my some of my modules here in IE.

In any case, I’m still enjoying the music by Olivia, very likely to get her 1st and 3rd album (yes, in the news twoday, it’s a 2.2month Bonus). Part of it would have to be set aside for CNY ang Paos, clothes, my mum’s 50th Birthday Celebration), Xmas gifts, cards, etc etc. It seems like yesterday that I was only 10 and my mum 36 and in another month, she’s celebrating half a century of her life, though she can still pass on as someone in her early 40s. Must admit she maintains quite well.

In the meantime, pls just chill and enjoy the holidays because I’m ready for mahjong soon (after my paper that is)!