*looks around*

Looked pretty eerie here.

So this is how pressure kicks in. Test and reports up to the very last week of semester, not fun and not funny at all.

And i am throwing out blood for this semester's exams...................time to sneak back to books.

Right now, i am in a dilemma as to how the pathway of my life would be.

Academically, i won't stop at a degree only. To survive in this world nowadays with only a degree is not enough. I am neither the smart-ass kind of guy, nor am i those ruthless type. I've known friends who are working their butts off almost the entire week just to scrape a meagre wage of less than RM2k, and that is even with a degree.

I am pondering, should i apply for the DUKE-NUS physician-scientist course, or should i stick to my current plans of getting a Masters?

The catch is if i succeed in applying, i won't have much monetary problems as all of the students would be subsidized by certain quarters of the Singapore government. It's near to M'sia, and S'pore is still considered a cheap place to study. And after graduation, the catch is, i would never searching jobs high and low. The Singapore General Hospital would 100% certain employ me to pay off my debt to the S'pore government, paying my wage, and most of all, allow a solid platform for me to start my working life.

However, if say i was to enrol after ending only with a single degree, i would still have to study for a full 4 years for a MD diploma. And before that, i would have to sit for the MCAT (Medical College Assessment Test), as DUKE is a US college. RM700++ for a single test and encompase mostly on A-level standard stuffs.

The thing is, there is PHYSICS T_T. Biology, no problem. Chemistry, no worries. PHYSICS =O It's been such a long time since i last touched Physics. I never even complete the entire course as i bailed out after a year =_="

Other universities like IMU or even my own uni's medical school would accept me, providing my grades are good enough and might provide me with credit transfer, easing my life a bit during the first year. But finance restrain would come into the picture.

How and what am i to do.......................................should i go for it, or just forget it? I have at most a month to think about it. Oh my head hurts @_@

As for my current semester, everything is still running quite smoothly. My internal marks are good, my test results are good, and for the first time, i scored a full mark for one of my assignments =) (frankly speaking, this lecturer is actually very nice and lenient =P).

Lecturers on the other hand, i have issues with some. My MIC2011 lecturer, i just never liked her. How much is she being hated? Almost every senior never liked her, and no one wanted to join her research team, except for a few interested in her research. As for my SCI2010, one of my 'used-to-be' favourite lecturer seems to have personal problems, but this leads to 2 cancelled workshops and still taking MC even today =_=". One other lecturer acts and speaks like a clown, while the other talks and acts like a mime <_<" This subject is easy, but the lecturers are dragging us down.

And in the recent PC fair, i finally got my very fist iPod =D. I have 2 mp3 players, but as said in my CNY post, one is in a pretty poor shape (and china's barang tiruan). Another one...............i gonna blame myself for losing it's usb cable. I search high and low for it ever since i got back to KL, only to get the answer "This USB cable verryyyy special one wohhh, cannot find anywhere like worrrrr, have to call its service centre wooooohhh".

And call i did, and the conversations is more or less like:

E-Eric, S-Service centre

E- Good morning. I am calling here as a customer that purchased your company's XX-XX model
mp3. I was wondering whether do you sell it's USB cable separately?
S- Yes, we got.
E- How much would that cost?
S- RM150.
E- !?!?!?!?!?? Is it really that expensive for only 1 USB cable?
S- Yes. It's a special cable
E- So special that it is not even allowed on the shelves in PC stores even in Low Yat?
S- Yes.
E- Can you give me some discount? I am actually a uni student and my pocket is kind of thin.
S- Sorry lar, this price lowest already lo, cannot poting anymore.
E- Really cannot potong? Even just RM5?
S- Really cannot leh. It's either you buy from us or just forget it.
E- If like that............can i pick it up in a week time at the PJ centre?
S- Ok-lah.
E- Thank you
S- *kep phone*

And i never did went there to get it at all. I bought that mp3 for RM480, and they are now charging RM150 for one single cable? Its like 30% of it's total price. I wonder what so special about that cable. It is labeled that i transfer files fast, but i never rasa it to be fast before <_<" And yes, that customer service guy ( i am sure it was a guy) was quite rude.

4 weeks, thats how long my new semester had since started. I have to admit that it's been extra quiet nowadays. Usual friends all hanging out in the wonderful Clayton campus in Aussie. What i envy more than anything else is how lightly they are handling stuffs over there. Back here, we got something like reports for every lab sessions we had, but over there, maybe only 1 or 2 reports while the others are just online tutorial quizzes. Those lucky b@stards.

Usual stuffs happening around again. My timetable is fully filled in now. On more assignments or test to add in, i promise to cut my entire calender to pieces. But as said before, this sem, i have less burden now. This is heaven compared to my hellish last sem.

Just this week, i'd attended a seminar, held by NUS-DUKE collaborate programme. The speaker is an American Asian and he was a vice dean of the medical school in the Duke University of North Carolina, USA. Basically, there was a collaboration between NUS and DUKE (frankly, i've never heard of this uni name until now. Maybe it's because i never really bothered to search for uni stuffs from USA). The programme is training out physician-scientist profession. Its actually half doctor, half scientist job, somewhere in between the medicine and science world. Its something really interesting since around this part of the world, you only have your usual either doctor or scientist world. Fusion sounds nice =P. The only drawbacks from this programme is that you maybe a doctor by profession, you can only diagnose patients, not having surgery on them, and you have to sacrifice another 4 years to graduate. If i take pursue this route, it maybe around 27-28 years old before i graduate =(. But the advantage is that, after you graduate, you would certainly and surely, would have to work for the Singapore's General Hospital for a duration of 5 years, which is a good thing since i would not be worry for my jobs when i graduate. Interesting, yet still need a lot of thinking whether should i pursue this route.

The results are finally out, and as expected, the ruling party, BN, lost badly, and when i mean badly, it's far worse that Francis Light cheat his way to obtain Penang.

I usually don't like to talk about politics, but this time, it's very interesting. Many had expected, and some even wished that BN can no longer boss around this time. The reasons are as clear as a baby's soul. Issues like sex scandal, "i can pick whoever i want to be judge" scandal, PPP-MIC bickerings, Gerakan's indecisiveness, AP issues, HINDRAF, BERSIH and etc. Even increase of consumer item prices could be the issue. But the biggest reason that causes the fall of BN is none other than the politicians themselves, being full of themselves just because they won the '04 election with such a huge margin.

Before the elections, whenever i went out or had a chat with friends, many would brought up the election matters, and worryingly, many have less kind words toward BN. Nonetheless, hope that this election failure would wake those lazy-ass-bum politician from their wonderland and work really really hard to win back everything they lost in the next election.

And in connection, it's also worry-some that PAS won the Selangor state since i am currently there =P Who knows what kind of illogical rules and regulations they would put in place, like girls having to cover their entire body? Or even start closing down pubs and karaokes, or even worse, impose strict rules on establishments with a curfew >_>"

Other than the political cloud of uncertainty enveloping M'sia, life in uni had not been kind either. I had subject clashes in my timetable that some are so ridiculous that it had to be replaced with classes either at early 8am or late at 6pm. It's so ridiculous that many of my friends launch a complaint to the course co-ordinator regarding this messup. Why do the uni even offer more and more courses when they have a shortage of teaching workforce and full timetable? I would get frustrated by just looking at my messy timetable.

And speaking of timetable, my semester's 3rd week is coming, and this is the week where i have to start gathering pace in my studies, or else i would end up in the wilderness of knowledge. Pretty much hate it when all the assignments start flowing in.

Back to KL, and what can i say, not a place i missed =P Nothing had changed, most of it. The difference is a newly, or half-newly painted Sunway College (they churn in the old Monash's campus), a modern looking Medan (and a big CC built on top now), and well, more new shops opened at the new wings in Pyramid.

And also, i get the first view of my new hostel unit, or more appropriately, something like my 2nd home. My mum made the entire unit looked more or less like my home in KK >_>" Plenty of food, Astro, fully air conditioned and even a vacuum cleaner. I am of course complaining all this, eventhough it totally increased my comfort. But the problem is more comfort = less concentration on studies = grades drop faster than you can spell out F-A-I-L.

The new semester opened with a silent bang this time round. More than half of my friends had either been exchanged or transferred to Clayton campus. It would surely be very quiet without many of those guys and gals who love to chat and have fun hanging out together. Just have to endure this for half a year, though i am lucky that my gaming partners are still here and in one piece =D

Though, i am still quite happy with this semester. Compared to last semester, this one would be much more relax. I had 3 very very, extremely difficult subjects, all clustered into one sem last sem, but this sem, i only have 1 major subject to face. Compare this, i had close to 30 hours of lectures/tuts/labs last semester, but this sem, i only have 23 hours. As for my lecturers, other than the lecturer for Microbe, others i have no problem. Pretty happy too, having not to face eccentric and illogical lecturers that i had to face last sem.

Last, but not least, 2 days ago, the 29th of Feb, was a significant day, as it was one date that only occurred once in 4 years. Looking back 4 years ago, at this precise date, i was probably doing some morning drills, having classes, and doing GA jobs back in my final secondary years. No wonder people often said how you would miss your secondary years as you progress in your life. Its indeed very true.

My summer holidays is coming to an end soon. This week is my last week of almost 3 months of holiday. And while i am pondering how my new semester would be, i too looked back at what i did for my entire summer holiday.

Compared to my last summer holiday, this time round, it's not having repitition of actions and chores for the entire holiday. During my last summer hols, how i remembered i spent an entire month finishing all games that i can grab my hands on, then how i am tormented mentally for having almost nothing to do for the next 2 months.

This time though, my first 2 months were spent daily for my industrial training. To recap everything, though dull, sometimes boring and commonly sluggish daily routine, the training did let me taste the experience of working in real life. Though training, there is a sense of responsibility for whatever actions you have taken since it involves the patients and money. Overall, its an excellent experience, in term of both my academics and preparing me for what lies ahead of me.

As for the last month, i practically spent it almost everyday at home. What else can i do? All, if not almost all, my friends were either still in uni or could not comeback even for CNY. Lonely days just passed by. There's even no CNY gatherings like i usually had back in the old times.

On the bright side though, i'd finished FF12 finally. After 120++ hours, with almost all quests done and almost all items obtained, i finally finished this accursed game in which it kept me waiting ever since starting it last summer holiday. An achievement for me since i've finished every FF series there is out there, excluding those from Nintendo handheld consoles.

For my CNY celebrations, it seems to be more like CNY cele"dull"rations. Only scored 1 open house, and thats all. Nothing else. No gambling, no greetings, but at least there are still ang pows still in store for me.


And from here, it brings me to ponder about angpow designs. Some angpows are designed creatively and inspirationally,


Some just cin cai cin cai design and mass produced it


And some have the old traditional taste in it.


As for how much i got this year, i haven't actually opened them at all =P Maybe next year, i guess.

Another thing was that i've never seen any lion dance performance at all during this entire CNY, until the one and only open house, hosted by one of my father's friends.

The truth is, i am never fond of extra loud noises, especially firecrackers. Not that i can't stand them, its just, i just don't like them for those ear-banging cracking sounds.


At night, 2 interesting stuff happened right at my doorstep.

The truth is, my life is and was.......literally, quite unlucky for some time now.

Let me rant off my unlucky times nowadays

My new Samsung YP-9A mp4 player that i just bought earlier this year is rendered useless since i've lost it's line-in cable. Searched the entire city(KK) for it and none of them would sell that cable seperately


My older mp3 player................mysteriously had some cracks on it's screen >_>


My laptop seems to have the "over-heat" symptom again, in which when it occured the last time, the entire processor had to be replaced.

My room had been a storeroom when i am away. Even when i am back, i can barely even walk to my table.

My poor old PC also have overheating problem, probably courtesy of my sister (in which she never admit it)

My exam results were bloody terrible. Some marks given were pretty biased.

My TV only could show black and white for the entire 2 months when i played my PS. Only recently it's back to 'almost' normal.

My work had been quite boring. The work itself is not boring, but just the volume is damn low.

My external HD had been busted already.......................300++ GB worth of anime, movies and mp3s all gone with the smoke.


My sports day experience is terrible this year. Boss won't allow me to take early leave, only could sneak out.

My CNY had been quite dull. Open houses? Till now, nill.

Almost all my friends are not around here yet. Want to go out yum char also cannot (T_T). Worse, the usual dalang are not around too.

I have to re-find old books and notes for my upcoming semester again after my dealer lost her stuffs in the airport.

Went to have a denture checkup last week and the dentist found abnormalities with my teeth. Apart from my glistening, white, strong and sturdy sexy teeth, it seems that my wisdom tooth is causing some havoc with my dentures. One won't come out and another is still halfway out. By my age, all should be visible. Dentist advice is to have an operation in order to prevent more deformities caused by the growing wisdom teeth since instead of growing vertically, it seems to be in a horizontal position.

There are more unlucky rants that i want to rant about, but ranting alone had exhausted my rant-a-tion and take a rest.

If you are not those kind of person who thinks negatively like me, maybe you should just leave this post alone.

In other case, some boring photos are being updated, mostly from my lab training period.