many events have transpassed since i went for my holiday trip to hokkaido in may (this was blogged in mid dec).. seems like such a long time ago.. anyway, this is e long overdue post on it.. facts may have been incorrect as i rely on wat i wrote in my little notebook then..

Day 1
Nothing interesting.. overnight flight to Narita Airport.. haha.. paiseh for this crappy Day 1 post.. but nothing really happened..

SONG BOH SONGLUCK!!!! EXAM OVER LIAO!!!! ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me still got one more idiotic paper tmr and this paper is the most disgusting of all.....PHARMACOLOGY!!
all the stupid drug names that I have to remember, whatever salbutamol, ipratropium, azathioprine, allopurinol ....... SIAO MAN!!! what type of stupid names the pharmacists came up with, so hard to remember and freaking make no sense...
nvm, i just tolerate a while more and it will be OVER!!!!!!!!!
wah shiok lah songluck, go on holiday to hokkaido eh? haha..... me will also have my turn after my ict, most likely going to korea.... woohoo!!!!!!!! shit, talking abt ict, damn it!! 12 bloody days... wah lau waste time.....

ok.. this is seriously screwed.. haven happened in a long time, but blogger decided to play with me when i pressed e publish post button just now by showing me e log in screen.. now i have to re-type everything.. but luckily it's not a lot..

took a break from studying just now and played a round of dota.. pursuant to my earlier feats of not buying any boots (using centaur) and not buying any health regen items (using enchantress), i managed to end my latest game by not buying any boots and health regen items! lol.. wtf..

yup.. was using enchantress.. a look at my build: initial items - 1 sobi mask, 3 mantle of intel and 1 clarity potion (i randomed); lvl 11-13 - mystic staff; ~2 lvls later - shivas guard; end-game build (incomplete) - shivas, lothars, null tailsman, sacred relic, agies and 1 empty slot..

haha.. with only ~1.4k life, i got a frag ratio of 4:1.. even managed to survive when veno and cm ulti-ed together.. and just in case u were wondering, it wasn't a lopsided game throughout.. e opponent team actually had a better frag ratio in e early game..

was bored yesterday nite and went to play tower defence again (see earlier post for link).. managed to get 37 cannons and 1 tack tower for easy mode! haha.. e power of cannons..

saw this link in e maple forums e other day: http://www.weirdasianews.com/ do check it out! they have some really weird but nice videos.. talking about maple, saw from my sergeant's nick tt he's back to playing maple.. and he's like 2 years older than me.. haha.. adult maplers.. and he has a 77 DK and 121-to-be Bishop! wonder how these ppl chiong their characters.. quite no life actually.. lol.. so having bought e wa10 glove my next item will be e riding hog.. after which i think i'll try and get e pirate hat.. quite good stats, but e exp for e PQ for it is wtf low..

somehow managed to remember e 1st few words to e lyrics of an old song tt was played as an ending song for a HK drama some many years back.. so i went to google it and found e song.. guess it sounded better when it was played in e context of e drama.. haha.. oh ya, e song's called The colour of the night.. see sidebar for link..

remembered y my previous post was short of being e longest post yet.. because i forgot to blog about e cockroach incident.. anyway, before i continue, those animal lovers might just want to read until here.. haha.. cos e following will be a documentation of my torturous treatment of a cockroach..

seem to have an undesired affinity with cockroaches lately.. prob due to my late nites.. as i was saying, was at my com tt nite when i heard this familiar dreaded sound of fluttering wings.. turned up my head and i saw this flying cockroach.. yes.. e same one tt eluded me just some weeks before tt.. in e same fashion, it flew hazardously around my room, and determined not to let it slip through my hands this time, i went straight for e shieldtox.. as it landed on my curtains, i gave it some generous doses of e insect spray.. after yet some more doses of e spray as it tried to run away, it finally turned turtle near my bed..

i finished my game of dota and returned to it, only to discover tt it's still not dead.. so i decided to give it a last VERY GENEROUS dose of mist.. so much so tt its corpse would stick to e ground afterwards because it was too wet.. but it didn't die from e last dose of mist.. -.- so i guess shieldtox doesn't really work e way it claims to.. in e end, i did a finishing blow and ended its misery.. hate flying cockroaches.. esp since they aren't really good pilots.. freaks me out..

Its not really scientific or not. Its more like whether it is evidence based.

I believe that before a medication can enter the market it should undergo rigorous testing to ascertain its effectiveness and side effects. Like putting in study. It cannot be as simple as relying on ancedotes such as "I've been taking XXX for 3 days and I feel well now".

The thing is in western medicine is very much evidence based. Whereas in TCM, there is a lack of evidence to back it up. Again, ancedotes are not substantial evidences... evidences should be in the form of studies... I want to stress again although the approach is scientific it doesn't mean it is a scientific study.

Anyway I am looking forward to the completion of the novel. haha.

if not for tty, i think i would have almost forgotten that i am one of the co-authors of this blog.... i didnt even touch my own blog for 'eons'... issit because i am lazy? maybe... or rather i prefer to pen down my thoughts and package them in the form of stories, which's why i love novelling...

oh well, exams are nearing like next tuesday den 2 weeks later, it will be the 3 mths long hols... phew finally a well-deserved break after 2 crazy sems for this entire academic year.. so what am i going to do in the hols.... of course to continue my novel which has a very big significance.. i actually aimed to complete it b4 i go to beijing... but looks like now i cant reach that goal already.... still at least have it completed before tty comes back here hahaah... its already like 250 plus pages and its like only 1/3 (maybe not even)...sheesh this story is sure gonna be long... but no choice, i got 3 main characters in the book.... so buddies, pls be patient

anyway just to talk abt my future.... i am quite disappointed with the medical sector locally... especially tcm... its not going to progress any further even the news have been reporting that the government is now putting alot of emphasis on it... why do i say so?

firstly, singaporeans treat tcm as an alternative medicine... not like china where tcm is integrated with western med, so both are of equal importance and status... and the doctors over there are really fantastic.. they are equipped with knowledge from both sides and can interchange the types of treatment, be it western med or tcm, they want to employ, like u go visit a doctor because of migraine... and after making a diagnosis of ur problem, he can decide whether to prescribe u chinese herbs or western med drugs based on ur condition... see? so cool... u think u can do that in singapore? fat hope

secondly, i have been going for interns on sats at thong chai medical institute and i realised alot of the local physicians there are, sorry to say, not up to standard... in fact quite lousy to put it bluntly.. some of them are working part time... which means during the weekdays, they have other occupations which are not related to tcm at all, its only on weekends do they come here and treat patients.. so u see? because of this, some of them have this mindset that they are here for some extra income, not because they are equipped with the skills and knowledge to help make pples lives better... so naturally i dun see the effort put in... like for tongue diagnosis where patients are required to stick out their tongue to let the physician examine... my gosh, there are some of the patients whose tongue are obviously layered yellow yet the physician can just tell me its white without even taking a second look!!! there is other physician whose patients have all the same tongue and pulse diagnosis recorded.. simi lan jiao... i am sure all the same huh.... and worse still, her prescriptions are almost the same despite the difference in the problems of the patients... just add abit here, subtract abit there and tada... great

thirdly, i heard that singapore has been banning imports of chinese herbs/medicine that has been scientifically proven to aid in curing major diseases, e.g 丹参+川芎 have active ingredients that work well on coronary heart diseases....and they do not allow manufacturers to claim that they can cure diseases, but only make it sound like its a health supplement... why? simple cos they want to protect the western medical sector... look at this.... how is tcm going to progress? no way... and the western medical sector too.... if they are going to continue ocstracising tcm and not try to accept and work along with, they will also soon reach a plateu.....

talking abt this.... this reminded me of a local physician who happens to be one of the very few good ones... he too agreed that the local medical scene is not going to go far if tcm and western med are going to continue in their own separate ways... he explained that western med is entirely scientifically-based... anything that is not scientifically proven will not be considered for clinical usage.. this is rather unfortunate for tcm has a lot of concepts and theories that are could not be proven yet... BUT.... so what if its not scientific??? as long as the treatment really works and benefits the patients, i dun see any problem in using it... just like for accupuncture, till now how it really works is still not known, but it has benefited many for over 5000 years since the ancient times... this physician has exactly the same sentiments as me, he said: "regardless is it a black or white cat, the one that is able to catch the rat is a good cat..." :) good one.... so who cares if it has been scientifically proven or not... if it works, MEANS IT WORKS!!!
yes of course its not wrong to prove the science behind these treatments, but please for christ sake at least first implement it as part of mainstream medical treatment... patients dun have the longeivity to wait for u pple to take 100 years to scientifically prove it....

so i have thought abt it.... at the end of the course, most likely i will be furthering my studies all the way to PhD... cos i want to be a professional tcm doctor, not those half-past six ones in thong chai... i really want to help pple who are plagued with illness.. i feel a sense of satisfaction and happiness when i see patients recovering in smiles from my treatment...

since singapore's tcm is not going to work out, i think i will be going either to australia or germany to work... especially the latter, tcm is being very very well-received over there... the thirst for aisan tcm physicians is great.... its good also cos i can have a change of environment...
oh well, all these aside, what i need to do now is concentrate for the exams..... things may change along the way too...

Not my intention to displace the sticky... nontheless I found amusement in doing so... ha ha ha.

So what... a rare appearance by one of your co-authors. Not that I have any earth shattering news to share...

right I should be doing my work now!! Procrastination is evil... ahhhhhhh

I am doing everything but work!!

Oh yes naruto is fking lame.

as u might have noticed now, i've went to label all 436 posts in e past 2 weeks.. not a lot of posts acutually, if u consider e age of e blog and e fact tt ju-zi's current blog, which is slightly younger than this, just celebrated it's 870th post not too long ago.. anyway, e labelling wasn't done rigourously and may not actually be a good link with the contents of the post.. 2 of the links, lyrics and dreams, are shown in the sidebar.. for the full list of labels, it's only available to my co-authors, who den again i realised have become dormant in their blogging activities.. this is in contrast with e rather frequent posting they used to have back when this blog started..

quite some stuff to blog about actually.. might have to stop halfway to continue with it another day.. maybe i'll just start off with e shorter stuff..

finally leveled to 80 for maple just on sunday.. took e 2x exp opportunity during the weekend to level.. quite pissed about e fact tt although i've killed like 500+ male bosses, he only dropped me one stupid morningstar.. -.-

returned back to playing pangya also in the last few days.. to take part in this event.. realised tt taking a break from games is good sometimes.. esp for pangya i guess.. managed to break one of my course records and did some nice shots during my return to the game..

had a pretty long dream yesterday.. luv having long dreams.. anyway, i did some flying as usual.. although i was struck by the fly height limit thing.. which i might just take a while here to explain a bit.. if e flight starts off from the ground (as contrasted with walking off a high ledge), there's this height limit tt u can fly to.. i believe this limit is actually a psychological limitation and as a sort of response to the limitation, i changed the scene by imagining myself to be at a high altitude above the ground.. an instant jump from e height limit to e new altitude..

the dream was a rather interesting one in tt my subconscious brought back some very old memories which i have not thought about for a very long time.. also attempted to summon someone in my dream again.. but alas.. another failure.. had tried to imagine myself pulling someone's hand from around a corner, but all tt came out of it was me grabbing air..

so i'm back to continue with e longer 2nd half of this post.. think this post may very well be longer than my longest post thus far, which just for info, has 1671 words..

perhaps in response to wat i typed earlier, e male boss decided to be kind to me by dropping me a lvl 80 theif hat.. and an under-average at tt too.. -.- wth.. and ya.. i'm talking abt maple..

have quite some opinions abt certain things lately, more of them major and some of them minor.. will be discussing a few of them below..

e results for one of my module's project was out just not too long ago.. and my friend's group, having given one of their guys a low evaluation due to his freeriding behavior, was asked to meet e tutor to clarify on e matter.. before i go on, i'll just like to add tt i've heard my friends complain about this guy X even before the project submission.. X attended like only 10% of their meetings and contribution-wise, was really far from satisfactory.. while some of e reasons for missing e meetings were valid, e rest were just plain ridiculous.. consequently, their group's evaluation of him, by right, left him with e ability to only claim 65%? of their project's grade (which was A+ by e way).. tt works out to probably a B? grade..

so back to e consultation with e tutor, it ended up tt e tutor decided to let e freerider off and let him claim e full A+ grade.. tt was despite e fact tt e other group members were upset at e manner in which e freerider presented himself at e consultation and the defences which he had brought up.. and in e end, e tutor had all of them sign something, to have them agree to let e freerider share e same grade as them and accept e tutor's judgement..

when i heard about e outcome of e consultation, i was quite fed up really.. although i wasn't in their group.. if e tutors had really meant for peer evaluation to do e stuff tt it's supposed to do, den i believe such a lop-sided evaluation of X should have expectedly resulted in him receiving a lower grade than e other group members, even though it might not actually end up being 65%.. if e tutor had at e very beginning decided tt all group members will be getting e same grade, then he could just jolly well scrap the peer evaluation.. saves everybody's time.. totally screwed man.. i think if i were in their group, i could have just stomped out of e room when e tutor asked everyone to sign tt stuff.. facade man! facade.. and for e record, e freerider has a GPA of 4.7, a 1st class!.. wat on earth is e world coming to really? more on some other screwed aspects of e uni system later in e post..

last week saw e end of e marketing project and case presentations.. i wonder if e tutor was trying to be safe or wat, but 4 of e groups received A- B+ (albeit some received A- for e project, while some received A- for e case; e project carried 20% weightage and e case 10%).. and e 5th group got B+ B+.. my clique's 2nd group (my clique was too big, so we had to separate into 2 groups) was one of e 2 tt presented during last week.. throughout their presentation, i thought it was quite good and felt tt they actually had e potential to become e top group for our class by getting a A- A (they got e A- from their project earlier on).. but it turned out not to be and they got a B+.. and e tutor's explaination didn't help to answer my doubts as to y they didn't at e very least get an A-..

seems like i've once again not have enough time to complete e post.. time for Ah Wang on Chnl 8.. haha.. will continue with part 3 later..

haha.. so finally back to complete part 3.. or at least i hope to.. =x before i continue, wat's up with my co-authors? lol.. blogging again after i mention tt they have mia-ed for so long.. haha.. and bra's post is so long.. 1057 words..

guess now i noe y emu was so fed up with her project mates when she blogged abt them when she was still in her uni days.. i think she would have been more fed up if she knew abt e facade evaluation..

received back my company law assignment this week.. got an A.. not too bad.. although from wat i have heard so far, i don't noe of anyone who got worse than an A-..

got e following link from tty tt day.. quite hilarious.. Food Court Musical.. e main site for e organising party: Improv Everywhere.. did some searching and found out tt e singapore group would be doing a freeze on 31 may.. wonder where it'll be.. anyway, i watched some of their earlier missions and i think tt in order for e impact to be really there, they should really need to get more ppl to take part..

was actually feeling quite depressed e day before tax quiz.. stared at e paper for like hours.. e feeling tt u're fighting a lone battle really sux.. sometimes really hoped tt there was someone there to talk to..

will be traveling to hokkaido after exams with my family.. cool.. time for heavenly food, heavenly weather and heavenly service.. godlike.. drools.. haha.. looking forward to it..

haha.. seems like this post is still a little shy of 1671.. only 1368 words..