Happy Birthday to ME!!!

生日快乐。Time flies, another year has gone by and I am another year older

OK. Now is the time to give myself a birthday cake and a pat on the back for surviving another year on earth. Muack muack ...

Many things had happened in 2006, it doesn't matter whether it is bad or good. It is the process and the experience gains that counts. For a summary, the following happens to me:

1. Completed a course on website design (Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks)
2. Travel to Melaka, Bintan, Bangkok and Sarawak
3. Had my first ever election in my lifetime.
4. Was transferred to a new department, doing very well in handling database and website related jobs.
5. Was kicked out of Project Kiddo, but still it was launched successfully
(after all my hard work ).
6. Managed Project Webby (our company's corporate website) and it was launched successfully.
7. Joined a new Chinese Orchestra
8. Got very very sick during the end of the year that resulted in me being hospitalised.
9. Etc, etc ...

I am actually looking forward to the new year. Wish myself good health, good luck, good life and good stomach .... ha ha ha ... Was actually very happy with myself this year because I managed to attain most of my goals and additional ones too.

Last year, my goals were

1. Create my website
2. Learn Macromedia Flash
3. Launch of my Project Kiddo
4. Learn how to steam a pandan cake
5. Buy a motor scooter (this will forever be a plan only until I decided to be naughty)

YES!!! I had managed to complete my website. Even though it is a bit amatuerish, but I like the learning process. Don't worry, I will improve on the website as time goes to make it look nicer, better and maybe have some flash. Do look out @ http://www.geocities.com/plainwaterleo

Pandan cake is still a goal ... I am not a good cook, just a good eater.

Scooter - well, COE is very high at the moment, so let's just wait till the price drops ... hmm ...

Now, it is time to set new goals for Year 2007:

1. Improve on my website （废话！！！）
2. Learn how to steam a pandan cake
3. Project MIS (a data warehousing project where users can perform queries on the database)
4. Keep myself healthy by eating healthy food, take more rest and go to gym regularly
5. 练好二胡，去考二胡八级考试。

OK. I will still keep to 5 goals, just like last year. Better to have less goals and attain them than to have lots of goals and never complete them. Right?

Happy Birthday to ME and Happy New Year to whoever who reads my blog.

Going to celebrate my birthday now ... Ciao ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ... Yeah ... Happy Birthday to me too.

Here is wishing all :

"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May all your wishes come true with the X'mas blessing and good luck, good health for the Year 2007 and beyond"

Here is wishing myself:

"Be happy, be healthy, be worry-free for the years ahead. Birthday is coming on 30th, so keep myself in good condition so that I can update this blog on the actual day. Ha ha ha!!!"

OK. I will update again ... hmm on 30th Dec.

I am terribly and horribly sick ...

It's you again. Why did you come so early??? In the midst of my website project being launched some more... why why why???

(I was supposed to "live" my website project "Project Webby" that day, thank goodness all preparation were being done the week before and my colleagues just need to make the minor changes. Visit my fruits of labour at www.turfclub.com.sg)

OK. It all started last Monday 2am. I started having diarrhea and vomitting. It was so serious that I can't go to work. I thought I had eaten some wrong stuff the day before (the suspect : can curry beef). Went to see doctor and got a jab to prevent vomitting.

The vomitting and diarrhea continues on Tuesday ... still can't make it to office. No choice went to see doctor again. Got another jab to stop the diarrhea. The doctor gave me 2 days MC to review me again the next day, ie Wednesday.

2 jabs and lots of tablets, the diarrhea and vomitting still didn't stop. In fact it got worst on Wednesday morning. Father decided to send me to A&E in Tan Tock Seng Hospital because I am a SLE (lupus) patient there.

Was immediately put on drip and admitted when the A&E knows that I had diarrhea and vomitting for 3 days and medicine was useless. And they are worried because I got SLE which complicates the whole illness.

So I was hospitalised since Wednesday, no food and drink, lots of blood tests, lots of medicines injected (600mg of steroids and 4 packs of anti-biotics were injected into my body daily for days, plus pain-killers to stop the abdominal pain). Sign ... I am a bag of medicines ...

It was a terrible ordeal from Wednesday till Friday. I keep going to toilet (with the drip machine and all) until there is no strength left on my tiny frame ... The cause of the illness has nothing to do with food, itz my good friend SLE visiting me again. The SLE causes my gut and intestines to be inflamed and swollen, which is why the food got throw out before they can be digested.

Things got slightly better on Saturday, after days of medicines injections. The diarrhea got lesser, the abdominal pain got lesser ... and there are more visitors that day. (Thanks to my 3 aunties, they got me a teddy bear to cheer me up).

I decided to bear with the abdominal pain so that I am not dependent on the pain-killer, requested the nurse not to give me the pain-killer and they are happy with me on this.

The doctors started me on soft-diet on Saturday, that is porridge to see my intestine reaction. It was ok, I didn't go toilet after the meals. Then they decided to start me on normal diet, that is rice, on Sunday. And the next thing I know, I am back to the toilet again. They decided to keep me under observation for one more day. Boy, I was bored to death...

I think the doctors sensed that I am very very bored. Today, they decided to discharged me without full recovery on the conditions that I promised them I will rest and sleep at home and report to A&E immediately if I feel sick or have a fever. (Officially, they cannot let me go until I stop going to toilet after my meals) They are worried because the SLE is still active and might flare up again more seriously. I still go toilet after every meal, but no worries doctors I will take care of myself.

So now I am back home updating my blog. The doctors gave me MC till end of year, so I am returning to office only next year. Ha ha ... yipppee yeah. OK.. I still need to go for followup next week but nvm, MC till end of the year .. yeah.

OK. Got to stop now ... I am going to toilet now...

Performances ... Ooi Chinese Orchestra one hor

The past 2 weekends were spent performing on stage. There were 2 performances on the last weekend of Nov, and another one just last weekend.

The 25 Nov performance was the Annual Performance by the CASSC (Culture Activities and Social Service Club) of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. My orchestra Ngee Ann Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra is a sub-group of CASSC, and we are required to perform 4 items that night. The performers were very high that night, esp those young ones. And the effect was good, because everyone was so enthuastic.

The 26 Nov performance was sort of a rehearsal cum performance. It was by the Keat Hong Chinese Orchestra and the venue was at Choa Chu Kang Community Centre. The audience was mostly friends and relatives of the performers and those who lives around the CC.

The last performance was in Kuching Sarawak. We flew to Kuching in the early hours of 1 Dec, going thru the 2nd Link to reach Senai Airport to take a flight there. It was very very tiring because everyone did not sleep throughout the night and when we reach there, there is a city tour before we checked into the hotel.

The rehearsals started on the 1st day itself and it ended quite late. Luckily, the next day (2 Dec) was free and easy until itz time to gather for our lunch. While others were busy shopping, I decided to stay in the hotel room to "开夜车", so practice until they call for lunch。The actual performance started at 7pm and we reach the auditorium in the afternoon for rehearsals and staging. It was actually a fund raising charity concert for the Children Cancer Society (we didn't know abt this until we reached there and saw the banner). The audience was very 安静 and 乖 , lucky the conductor, Mr Sim, was able to 搞气氛 and actually make the audience sing the last piece 传灯 togther with us.

The fun started after the performance and everyone returned to the hotel. There is a party in Room 1708, which everyone gathers for drinks and makan session. The party ended in 2am in the morning.

"Psycho" uncle and his Keat Hong Bred "Geisha Girlfriend" um.. sorry boyfriend.






"You think you can bully us little girls ar.. fat hope"

On Sunday, there is a tour where we visited the Sunday market (I bought Sarawak pepper and some makan), the crocodile farm and Long House. Everyone would have thought the most interesting animal in the crocodile farm are the crocodiles, well it is not. The monkey and piggy took centre-stage (It was cute moment ... ). Long house is actually the house type of the natives in Sarawak. As Sarawak becomes more modern, the natives also started to enjoy modern equipment such as the television and washing machine, so it wasn't really interesting to me. After the Long house, we went shopping again before going to dinner. The tour ended after the dinner and everyone is free-to-roam around until the next morning.

Don't pray pray with crocs ... U ARE NOT STEVE IRWIN.

VISIT TO LONGHOUSE

Monkey: Miss, where you want to massage?
Piggy: You know, itz a bit more itchy at the ear.

Monkey: I see, miss 1 sa-bu found = US$1. OK?

Piggy: Very expensive leh!!! Dat Boleh free meh?

Monkey: OK lah, u still still dont move...

There is another round of party but this time in Room 1003. Quite a number of us chiong until the next morning until 5am, talking and gossiping. Why 5am leh? Cos' we need to get back to our room to pack, have our breakfast, check-out and leave for the airport by 6.30am. The flight is at 8am and we reach Senai at 10++am. After all the customs checks at 2nd Link, we finally reach KHCO at 12pm. Had our lunch at the coffeeshop there and then back home to zzzzzz.......

Overall, all the performances were enjoyable and fun. Well, minus the hectic schedules and stress...

Our souvenir for the performance ..