Growing Up

Holiday, the New Beginning

2005-06-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

I am writing most of my entries in my MSN space now. http://spaces.msn.com/members/wushenhua/

服了，绝了！

2005-06-06T05:28:00.000-07:00

1899年的太监：“老佛爷还好吗？”回答：“好极啦，永远活在中国的电视剧中呢。”
1919年的新青年：“列强再也不敢欺负我们了吧？”回答：“早没有列强啦，只有WTO了。”
1949年的江姐：劳苦大众都过上好日子了？回答：他们更劳苦啦。
1949年自杀的国军军官：“国民党就这么完了？”回答：“没有，坚持到1996年李登辉上台才完的。” 1959年累死的农民：“还在大炼钢铁吗？”回答：“不用大炼咱们现在也是世界第一啦，因为别人怕污染，都不炼了。”
1969年累死的知青：“你们都回城了吧？”回答：“是啊，可是又都下岗啦。”
1979年对越反击战的士兵：“你们还记得我吗？”回答：“你是企业家，还是明星啊？”
1995年自杀的股民：“股市该涨了吧！”回答：“跌了十年啦，每天都是历史最低点啊。”
高玉宝:现在的孩子都能读得起书了吗?回答：更他娘的读不起了.
黄继光：朝鲜人民过上幸福日子了吗？回答：幸福的被正日着呢，
光绪皇帝：朕的新政可以施行了吧？回答：上世纪八十年代终于施行了。
孙中山：民有、民治、民享的治国方略成功了吗？回答：没人敢搞了。
五四青年：民主和科学来到中国了吗？回答：来了，没人要，又走了。
刘少奇：现在宪法应该能保护合法公民了吧？回答：连你都保不住,它...还能保护谁?
被宝马撞死的农妇:那个恶女人法办了没?回答:没,人家早回家了。
邓大人：一部分人已经先富起来了吧?回答: 有几个，可就是太少......而且另一部分可倒了血霉了...... 1948年的三毛：“现在还有人流浪吗？”回答：早没了，因为改叫盲流了。
八国联军指挥官西摩尔：现在还有义和团吗？回答：没有了，他们都改为哈美、哈日了。
孙志刚：暂住证取消了吧？回答：取消了，不过北京已经准备封城了
1949年的妓女：“还有人做这种连狗都不如的卖身女吗？”回答：靠，都是自愿做的，而且都叫都小姐和二奶了。
刘胡兰：地主现在早已经消灭干净了吧？回答：哟，现在地主都入党了。
雷峰：我死后，经常听到“千万个雷峰在成长”的歌声，那么现在一定是路不拾遗夜不闭户了吧？回答：没有了，雷峰早已经是中共的代名词了，哈哈。
座山雕：“还有土匪抢老百姓吗？”回答：真...土老冒，一点也不与时俱进，这年月弟兄们最惨的也混进‘城管’啦，混的好的局子里多地是。
1952年志愿军战士：“把美国鬼子打跑了吗？”（县长）回答：“胡说，放屁！！！那是外商，请还请不来呢!”
刘青山和张子善：现在还杀贪官吗？回答：基本不杀，出于人权考虑，都把他们赶美国去了。
彭德怀：现在开会还有人讲真话吗？回答：有啊，他们把假话说得比真的还真呢！
黄世仁:现在还有人敢跟我讨债吗?回答:谁还敢啊,去年一个老头揣着个暖水袋去要债,被我英勇的阻击手当作揣的炸药给直接就地枪毙了
毛岸英问：他...,炸我那颗炸弹是谁扔的？害得我接不了班！金正日答：谁扔的不知道，反正我是接班了

TMD

2005-06-01T06:01:00.000-07:00

Have seen this patient for denture making. Interestingly he had decades of TMJ disorder, meaning his jaw is not in good order. He has been suffering from insomnia, tense muscles and possibly psychologic problems for years.

He has a lot of theory about his illness and called himself an analytical person. It is quite unsual to hear a patient to explain his condition in a seemingly logical way. I feel he is more like a dentist than I do... After I give him a wax try in denture, he immediately told me he felt much better. Felt that his bite is stable and muscle less tense. I was so thrilled and flattered. All I did is just wax a upper denture to replace his front missing teeth temporarily. Didn't realise that it has him such a great deal. Great satisfaction with my work indeed. Guess some illness like TMD is more like a mind-perceived problem than an actual physiological disorder. Anyway as long he is happy, my superviser is happy, I will be very happy : )

Caught this promotional advertisement about dental health on TV again. His teeth are so fakingly white. Hope I can have that appearance too.

Money Talk

2005-05-28T10:08:00.000-07:00

I left school early yesterday to go to Singaproe Land Tower at Raffles Place.

Purpose of the trip, appointment with Peter Chan, Managing partner of Crest Capital Partners. My uncle wanna get a PR status here, and EDB offers this scheme of investment migration. U pump in some money to certain funds for 5 years and they grant you a PR status. Actually went to Philips Security to talk to their manager last week.

Then amazingly i receive the call from Peter for appointment with him. Guess they have spies around to pass on client's information. Well, it is the first time I get some insight into private fund institutions. The funds are not open to public, only to private investers with certain amount of assets. Also those institutions and companies with excess cash also look for these fund managers to get better returns.

Peter Chan actually have two more assitants with him. Seems that they are pretty serious about the appointment. I am so pampered. haha... feel like a VIP for the second time. The first time was when I sneaked into first class lounge in Brunei airport and enjoyed wonderful service there. For ur information, though the airport looks shabby, trust me, the VIP centre there is really good.

Well, the talk lasts about 2 solid hours. and I am quite excited to recieve a talk on finance, free of charge some more. I guess the best place to receive practical knowledge about money and finance is investment department in banks and venture capitalist company.

So at the end of day, they agreed to send someone to Shanghai to present their investment fund product again to my uncle.

Honestly I am impressed with the seriousness and professonalism of Singapore companies.

Peter Chan is quite funny guy, even joked that he wanna invest in my clinic if I ever get to set up one in the future. Mmmm... think Peter is really a good name, by the way , it's my name as well.

sleepless night

2005-05-28T10:04:00.000-07:00

It is 1.00 am and I am still typing away on the NDC and school dental service trip report. It is one of those meaningless reports i got to chew out. With the help of Kenneth, hope this one should be a decent piece. Really pressured by Xue Li and Geng Feng's masterpiece. Heard they got 21 pages. Mine is much shorter, with all the pictures, it is still a pathetic 14 pages...

2005-05-19T06:10:00.000-07:00

With Wu Hao and Chun Wai.

2005-05-19T06:06:00.000-07:00

Boon, Joun Ho, Jon Chan and me.

2005-05-19T06:03:00.000-07:00

With my Korean and Malaysian boarders

Formal Dinner

2005-05-19T05:45:00.000-07:00

The Hwa Chong Institute Boarding School holds its annual formal dinner in May every year. It is amazing to see 1000 plus people in the dinning hall at the same time. The food this year is pretty nice, with crab meat, my favourite, prawn salad, lots of satays etc. Satisfying except that the speech was really long and boring, by some VIP, director, student leaders. Had a good time chitchatting with my students from Korea, Malaysia and China. I am quite proud of the student from Indian, Manit. He just got elected to the Boarder's Council. So can depend on him to take care of the rest of my "kids".

Struggling with my conscience

2005-05-12T07:13:00.000-07:00

I was attending the Cluster Mentor meeting just now at the boarding school office. We were discussing some issues in the boarding school recently. Three of CMs' car were vandalised and yet the guilty is still at large. One BMW and two Nissans got their rear dented by pebbles. Then some boys were throwing ice cubes from 5th story at patroling security guards downstairs and managed to hide away.

Then the management has found smoke ash in the staircase in my Block. And they are still investigating who was smoking and severe punishment would be rendered. The truth is that I knew who was guilty of smoking. An Indian scholar. It was reported to me by one of my boys. I confronted the guy last week and he finally admitted. But he really begged me not to tell anyone. He was so pathetic at the time. I knew if I reported him, he may even get his scholarship withdrawn. That would be the ultimate doom of him. I was once a scholar too and I understand the disaster he is facing. So I promised him that I am not going to report him. But can't promise if other people gonna report him. I knew he was scared and REALLY scared. I really don't know if I am doing the right thing. Forgive the guilty? At least hope his act of weakness will not bring his downfall. We do make mistakes sometimes and society here can be so unforgiving. Heya, guess everyone deserve a second chance. at least I am at ease with my conscience now.

2004年幽默语录

2005-05-07T21:13:00.000-07:00

2004年最耐人寻味的言辞，最幽默的戏谑，最无奈的表白与最动听的情话。
　　我爱你。
　　——“我爱你”这三个字，不应只在情人节时说。据美国《读者文摘》及盖洛普对1000人的调查，73%的美国人每日至少会向配偶或子女说一次“我爱你”。
　　白天愁论文，晚上愁嫁人。
　　——2004年的各大高校女研究生楼盛行的口头禅。
　　要老公还是要钱？要钱。要父母还是要钱？要父母。要国家还是要钱？要钱。
　　——“2004中华小姐环球大赛”总决赛上，陕西选手姚佳雯如此回答评委蔡澜提问。事后，姚佳雯的妈妈解释女儿是把“国家”听成“婆家”了，她当时还说了“不管怎样比起来，最重要的还是我的妈妈”。
　　身体滚烫，欲望像烧开的水在身体里沸腾。可是他仅仅是爱抚、亲吻，像在案板上精心对待每一根蔬菜，切割、清洗，却总也不肯下锅。
　　——一本言情小说中的描写。
　　年龄选择小的，身体选择强壮的。第一点体现公平，第二点是存活概率。
　　——有人援引登雪山运动中的优先救援对象的标准来回答让很多男人头痛的“母亲和媳妇落水，先救哪个”的两难命题。
　　起码要让500年后的人知道，“包二奶”不是姓包的人家的二奶奶。
　　——一网友支持将“包二奶”收入现代汉语辞典。
　　我认识的20多岁的男人总被别人伤害，30多岁的男人总伤害别人。
　　——上海一妇女在酒桌上说。
　　恋爱就是无数个饭局，结婚就是一个饭局。
　　——广州一少妇说。
　　人们想用钞票时，从不看它的发行日期。
　　——深圳一位年轻英俊的男子娶了一个大款老太太，面对人们的困惑，他自揭谜底。
　　爱情并不复杂，来来去去不过三个字，不是你好吗？我爱你，我恨你，便是对不起，算了吧。
　　——张小娴说。
　　失节事小，失业事大。
　　——亦舒说。
　　现代男人站着理亏，躺着肾亏。
　　——台湾男性文化杂志女作家蓝怀恩感言，当今的男儿太没有男人味儿。
　　女人如果不性感，就要感性；如果没有感性，就要理性；如果没有理性，就要有自知之明；如果连这个都没有了，她只有不幸。
　　——台湾漫画家朱德庸论女人。

Vietnamese Food

2005-04-30T20:20:00.000-07:00

Emily was the first vietnamese girl I know and she's pretty too. It is much to my delight that we could go for dinner together last eve. There is a Vietnamese restaurent at Plaza Singapura, beside the Baker's Inn. According to Emily, it is very authentic Viet food. I never tried proper viet food before. It was wonderful, I ordered some roast pork set and steamed fish. The dishes have a lot of spices added to them. The most impressive thing is the pig skin which was cut to hair thin noodle like. So I couldn't figure out what it is. I finished the meal with some traditional desert, Vietnamese Bo Bo cha cha, Caramel pudding and authetic Vietnamese Drip Coffeed. The coffee was even stronger than Expresso. Emily was really impressed that I could finish the cup. She didn't know I am a serious coffee drinker and caffein has literally no effect on my neuro system.

Unethical testing on me

2005-04-30T20:12:00.000-07:00

I received my splint from Terence on Friday. They were doing a project on night grinders. I happened to be their specimen and get my splint for free. It sounds like a good deal.

But they were doing so many tests on me. They placed some electrodes on my jaw muscles, Masseters and Temporalis and ask me to bite right, left and centre for like hundreds of times. It was so exhausting for my jaw muscles. Think I have never "exercised" my jaw muscles so hard. There was also the danger to chip off my incisor tips. So in humane. haah... Unethical testing on human species. To my surprise it is quite comfortable to wear the splint at night, help me to relax my jaw muscles and reduce the problem on the joints, TMJ( temporomandibular joint)

Labour Day

2005-04-30T20:02:00.000-07:00

It has been a long waited holiday, though only 3 days. So wonderful to have a break from the toil in the clinic, lab and lectures. The week behind has been a very smooth one for me. Found a few useful cases for RP cases and finished 1 recall patient in one visit. E&D, scaling polishing and 2 NCCL in the same visit, though the NCCL was done by Dr Tan. He thought I would be too slow to finish before session ends. But it is a happy thought that I can close the case in one visit. The old lady patient was very cute. She was very gentle and polite. Never complained on my chair though I sprayed some water on her face. haha... Didn't aim the slow speed handpiece properly. Then after one hour on my chair, she fell asleep and started snoring. That's so funny and I couldn't laugh. Must act as a professional. She's the 2nd patient falling on my dental chair since Yang Kai slept there last time.

2005-04-24T04:57:00.000-07:00

I love the view from my window on a sunny Sunday morning! Actually can see some of the taller buildings along Orchard Road.

Habits are hard to change

2005-04-21T04:33:00.000-07:00

Went for my driving test again today. Didn't expect to fail actually. Got to blame my bad habbits again. Got penalised 4 pts for not checking behind at directional change in the circuit. no big deal.

Then road test was really a nightmare. I didn't see the green arrow below a red light and failed to turn at the junction. got penalised for delay in moving off and insufficient acceleration, and fail to look out for traffic, total 8 pts. not too bad. But the tester was really mad with me and repeatedly ask me if I am colour blind. So quite scared he will fail me at this point of time.

Then at a two lane straight course, a taxi stopped to pick up some passenger, so I instinctly changed lane, bad habbit since started driving in China. Here one is expected to signal much earlier, not to overtake, be courteous. Anyway the behind car, another taxi, was quite far behind, so I thought it was safe enough for me to change lane and overtake. Yah, nothing happened. and I thought it was ok. I happily returned to test centre, waiting for the debriefing and possibly the grant of the license.

Then tester was quite patient and understanding to explain to me that he will do the same thing if he had been driving normally. But it was a test, so he got to penalised me for 'dangerous' driving. Here is how it goes: fail to signal early enough--2, insufficient acceleration while overtaking---2, fail to slow down when approaching road hazards, meaning the stopped taxi--6 (I have to accelerate to overtake to other lane safely), causing behind taxi to slow down when I am overtaking---8 pts. Fail to keep within lane after overtaking, there was a bend in front---6 pts. That was so painful. one action causing me 24pts. So overall I got 42 pts, plus some blind spot checking.

Should have passed the test. All blame to me learning driving in China, where the rule is that if you don't overtake fast and frequently, you can expect to spend hours on the congested road. Heya, but some habbits are just hard to change. Ok. I am in much better mood now, got to retest two months later. Should remind myself to drive in a safe, slow and couteous manner.

a lazy eve

2005-04-16T06:47:00.000-07:00

It is frustrating how slow Singtel company entertained my request for change of my phone line and installation of Internet. I have waited for a week to get my Internet back. finally able to post some of the pictures I took in Shanghai 2 weeks ago.

School has started for a week for me. A hectic week with seeing some patients and getting my lab work done. Quite a drastic change from my two weeks of lazy holidays. i almost spent over 10 hours in school a day and didn't do much other than thinking about teeth. and my biological clock woke me up at 6.30 on my precious Sat. Took another driving lesson today and hopefully can pass my test on Thursday.

2005-04-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

Passed by Merces Center in Shanghai, can't resist the beauty of the CLK 350. Never seen one in Singapore yet.

2005-04-16T06:39:00.000-07:00

With my church friends in Sentosa outing during the holiday

2005-04-16T06:36:00.000-07:00

Went to watch acrobat ballet, Swam Lake, at Shanghai Grand Theatre. Sit at the last row and still cost me S$50

2005-04-16T06:33:00.000-07:00

Quite a familiar sight for my Singaporean friends, I guess. Shot in Shanghai, Raffles Plaza

2005-04-16T06:32:00.000-07:00

Raffles Plaza in Shanghai, built by Singaporeans.

2005-04-16T06:27:00.000-07:00

Shooting pic of my fren while she's shooting at me.

2005-04-16T06:25:00.000-07:00

How crowded Shanghai is! A truly concrete jungle.From my aunt's house beside mine

2005-04-16T06:23:00.000-07:00

Amazingly, Shanghai Taxi use Merces too!

2005-04-16T06:15:00.000-07:00

Moore Church in Shanghai. How grand it is!

2005-04-16T06:08:00.000-07:00

Starbucks in front of the Shanghai Arts Musium

Back to tropic

2005-04-08T07:51:00.000-07:00

Back to Singapore again. It was so annoying not able to access my blog in China most of the time. Don't know why. Too sensitive contents. haha...

It was great to spend time in my home town. Indeed Shanghai has changed beyond my recognition. So many posh shopping mall around. They even have some pianist playing inside the shopping mall most of the time. But then they prohibit me from taking any pic in most of the shopping plaza. Visited Fererri and Porsche, Benz centre in Shanghai too. Sad thing is that the sales girl is icy cold, judging people with their light-bulb like eyes. will post some pic of them next time. Anyway the internet connection in my room is down. so will update my blog really slow.

Back in Shanghai

2005-03-22T06:30:00.000-08:00

I reached home at mid night and tried to give my mum a surprise of my arrival. I never told her I was coming back. Sadly my parents were sound asleep. I had to knock at the door for so long before they let me in. I am glad they were really surprised to see me.

The weather was really cold the next morning, about 8 degrees. It was supposed to be spring and warm. Then my grandma called to tell us my uncle just had a stroke and sent to the hospital. I had to rush down there and visit him. Poor thing. There were so many sick people in the hospital due to the bad weather. Fortunately my uncle was in stable condition now. His heart rate reached 190 last night and the doctors were worried to lose him. The situation was more or less as what I was tested in my pathology exam not too long ago. But it was really scary to know that it happened to someone I love.

Called up some of my good friends in Shanghai. Am arranging a date with them. They are graduating in a few months and busy looking for a job. Wish them good luck.

Hope my two weeks' stay in Shanghai could be more eventful. It was nice to spend some time with my parents.

What kind of girl do I want?

2005-03-11T08:56:00.000-08:00

Mmm... this is something personal but I just wanna share some of my opinions on girls.

Went out with a girl today, not a date, definitely. Well, it may be selfish, but actually i just wanted to find out whether I will still be attracted to pretty girl that is not my type. I used to be superficial and think that physical attraction can outweight other undesirable factors. As a perfectly normal male, I like pretty girls, trying hard to talk to them and hope secretly and maybe desperately to get their attentions. But some girls are just so unlovable. Take example of girls who think the world just revolves around fashion, manicure, pedicure and lastest hot gossips. I really got bored with them.

I really hate a girl for critisizing what I wear and keep nagging and voice it out. She can be subtle and give suggestions. I really hate when she think only Armani Exchange or Tommy can change my image for the better. It doesn't make sense to me to buy a shirt that cost almost 200 bucks. I know people will say things like good design and fashion worth the money and may be priceless. Haha... guess i am the type that rather prefer to fill my stomach with fine cuisine than to spend on clothes.

In our desperate desire not to offend anyone, especially, girls, we've gone mad. We poor guys are not allowed so much as to sneeze without geeting prior approval, to pull out ladies' chair when they are gracious enough to dine with you, to pay for whatever they order and in the end leave most of the food untouched, and to bear with their boring recounts on latest fashion and importance of pedicure. I have enough of political correctness. I don't want to be nice! Just like a book "Being Alexander" by Nancy Sparling says, what exactly, is 'nice'? It's a boring word to describe boring people who have no memorable qualities. Interesting people can be kind and considerate and a hundred other intriguing qualities. But to be called "nice" is almost a insult. Yah, I really hate it when being 'nice' is not appreciated by people, especially girls.

I don't mind a girl being materialistic and pamper herself with all kinds of designer stuff when she is earning enough, or has the ability to earn a decent living but choose to give up career to take care of family. Those who dreamt of getting hooked on a rich man and secure a fanciful lifestyle--- I despise them as parasites! Why am I having such strong feelings? Guess it is because I have beening working too hard, draining myself in the hope of striking some kind of success. Yup. getting a good degree and being recognized as a capable man. I just dread the ideas that while I am working so hard, some girls are just shopping around, enjoying themselves and charming their ways to become a TaiTai. I guess I am being mean and too opioniated. But can't help it. I don't want to be 'NICE'. But on the other hands, those girls are just born lucky to have a lovely face and a figure that guys dream in their most wild fantasy. Maybe it's their token to success. But just hope money is not a measure of success. The guy selling Mixed Rice at Chinese High canteen is driving a brand new mercedes while I am just saving every penny to go to dental school. If money is a measuer of success, he certainly is the winner. Well, this is getting cliche. But i guess the process to strive for your dream and goal is more important. Well, writing so much about money is just trying to say that I hate girls that go after man's money and think that is a sole measure of success.

Writing so much rubbish is just a way to relieve my bad experience of meeting some not-so-nice girl. But I still don't know what kind of girl I want. I am just certain what kind of girl that I certainly don't want to meet at the moment. Though I appear indifferent, impartial, and most of time nice, I scream, curse, of course silently, when I happen to go out with such girls. I have been stupid to ask some of them out in the first place. This blog may just serve as a reminder to me not to do it again. I have proven to myself today that I will not be attracted to materialistic, inconsiderate girls no matter how pretty they are. Yes, victory in Round One.

taking a break

2005-03-11T08:46:00.000-08:00

Finally back to blog again after more than a week of isolation. Almost locked myself for one week to study for the final exam this year. It is almost done except pathology pots exam.

Felt a strong sense of relief after the pharmaco exam today. Yes, it is finally done and a big burden has been lifted! Went to Munchy Monkey Cafe with classmates, the usual gang like Weisong, Muzhi, Dennis S&D. Then the girls joined us as well. It is like walking down the orchard road the moment we walk down the pavement along central library. It felt like a complete different world from our confinement in NUH. Think only dental students can truly understand this feeling. We chitchat and laughed at lamest jokes at the cafe and time passed fast. Felt quite sleepy as I haven't been sleeping well during the exam week. Has been living on vitamin tablets, coffee and chicken essence. Thank God it somehow it sustains me.

Went home and put down my bags, then went to meet some girl at orchard. Shall reveal some of my feelings and opinions at the next blog.

Birthday

2005-03-06T22:15:00.000-08:00

Heya, I have only so little time to do my own things nowadays. Yup. should tell you all that today is my birthday.

Received some msg from my friends to wish me happy birthday. Thank you all. And big thank you to my mum too. She actually bothered to write me a email to wish me birthday. So touched by that.

Well, I really have no mood to celebrate at all. It is such bad timing. Wednesday onwards is my final exam and I am still stuck with so many unfamiliar topics in pathology and bore-to-death dental materials. Not to mention all those funny names of bacteria and drugs! God, help me to go thru this, this is my only wish now.

Gonna go back to study again. btw, bought a green iPod mini as a birthday present for my self. It is so lovely and I am like carrying it everywhere. I love it!

2005-02-25T19:41:00.000-08:00

pic of TKD outing long time ago.Let's have another one this yr?

2005-02-25T19:38:00.000-08:00

Pic of my class guys when we went to JB long ago

Start of study break

2005-02-25T18:40:00.000-08:00

Just woke up from last night's hang-over. Richard Ong, my endo doctor, is from my line. The line is a tradition whereby each senior will adopt a councillee among the juniors to help out with his study and clinic work in dental school.

Richard kindly organised a line outing yesterday and we went to a restaurant at Zion Road for dinner and Furama for a drink. The Margerita tasted interesting. Six of us, Richard, Daniel Goh, Debbie Ong, Sandra, Enrica, Terrence, Ivan and me went. Ivan is the new addition to our line, after Louisa flies kite to our line. Much to my annoying, she still didn't really disclose to me the exact reason for quitting school. Richard and enrica were high-spirited since they are graduating in about two month's time. But for the rest of the undergraduates, we are facing the torment of our exams soon. But at least the night marked a good beginning of my study break.

I was asking Richard about postgraduate prospects when he drove me home. Seems that the competition has hightened over the years for a place in postgraduate dental course in NUS, especially ortho, pedo and perio. I am interested in perio course to do implant. Well, it is cool to plant titanium tooth roots in the mouth aside from the fact that implant is a money-spinner. Really hope that I won't turn out to be a brainless dentist doing only drill, fill and pill. It will be so boring. I rather go and sell toothbrush.

It was pretty late when I got home. Switched on the com, and realised it was Yu Jiang's birthday. He is studying at Oxford now. Lost touch with him for over two years. But brother, if u r reading this, just wanna tell u, our brotherhood will never die even we hardly see each other. It is harder to get very good friends nowadays, the kind that can really talk about anything under the sky. I do treasure all my old friends back in Chinese High days. By the way, I was passing by this junior gal of Yu Jiang. I think he used to call her Pai Gu Jing. She was giving me funny look last night. Weird.

Was having lunch with Kenneth, my classmate yesterday before the dental material exam. He was again fantasizing about getting an Ah Moh (Caucasian) wife. He couldn't stop laughing when he was daydreaming about having a eurasian child. He was literally describing to me how good-looking his kid would be. Yo. Kenneth, you must name your boy Peter if I ever help you find one. and Lisa, if you happen to read this, keep an eye for potential ah moh girl for my friend, Kenneth, ok? haha.. Gonna start my revision. For the dean's list! yeah. hee...

Self Motivation

2005-02-23T04:09:00.000-08:00

To be the only one who can come and live in this world, billions of sperms fights to the unique opportunity to combine itself with the single egg. This is a massive war for a single aim, to come and live in this world. Hence, at the moment when you are born, you are such a champion!

very interesting advice for guys from a girl

2005-02-23T03:40:00.000-08:00

给男人的忠告 (转载）
给男人的忠告

1. 男人是社会的主体，不管你信或不信。所以男人应该有种责任感。
2. 25岁之前，请记得，爱情通常是假的，或者不是你所想象的那样纯洁和永远。如果你过了25岁，那么你应该懂得这个道理。
3. 吃饭7成饱最舒服。对待女友最多也请你保持在7成。
4. 30岁之前请爱惜自己的身体，前30年你找病，后30年病找你。如果你过了30岁，你自然也会懂得这个道理。
5. 事业远比爱情重要。如果说事业都不能永恒，那么爱情只能算是昙花一现。
6. 不要轻易接受追求你的女孩。女追男隔层纱。如果你很容易就陷进去，你会发现你会错过很多东西，失去很多东西。
7. 请你相信，能用钱解决的问题，都不是问题。如果你认为钱索王道，有钱有女人，没钱没女人，那么。女人不是问题。
8 . 请永远积极向上。每个男人都有他可爱的地方，但是不可爱的地方只有不积极面对生活。
9. 不要连续2次让同一个女人伤害。好马不吃回头草，是有他道理的。如果认真考虑过该分手，那么请不要做任何舍不得的行动。
10. 如果你和你前女友能做朋友，那么你要问自己：为什么？如果分手后还是朋友，那么只有2个可能:。你们当初都只是玩玩而已，没付出彼此最真的感情。或者：必定有个人是在默默的付出无怨无悔！
11. 永远不要太相信女人在恋爱时的甜言蜜语。都说女人爱听甜言蜜语，其实，男人更喜欢。
12. 请不要为自己的相貌或者身高过分担心和自卑。人是动物，但是区别于动物。先天条件并不是阻挡你好好生活的借口。人的心灵远胜于相貌，请相信这点。如果有人以相貌取人，那么你也没必要太在意。因为他从某种意义来讲，只是只动物。你会跟动物怄气吗？
13. 失恋时，只有2种可能，要么你爱她她不爱你，或者相反。那么，当你爱的人不再爱你，或者从来没爱过你时。你没有遗憾，因为你失去的只是一个不爱你的人。
14. 请不要欺骗善良的女孩。这个世界上，善良的女孩太少。
15. 不能偏激的认为金钱万能，至少，金钱治不好艾滋病。
16. 请一定要有自信。你就是一道风景，没必要在别人风景里面仰视。
17. 受到再大的打击，只要生命还在，请相信每天的太阳都是新的。
18. 爱情永远不可能是天平。你想在爱情里幸福就要舍得伤心。
19. 如果你喜欢一个认为别人应该对她好的mm，请尽早放弃。没有人是应该对一个人好的。如果她不明白这个道理，也就是她根本不懂得珍惜。
20. 不要因为寂寞而找gf，寂寞男人请要学会品味寂寞。请记住：即使寂寞，远方黑暗的夜空下，一定有人和你一样，寂寞的人不同，仰望的星空却是唯一。
21. 任何事没有永远。也别问怎样才能永远。生活有很多无奈。请尽量充实自己，充实生活。请善待生活。
end。男人有很多无奈，生活很累但是因为生活才有意义。当你以为你一无所有时，你至少还有时间，时间能抚平一切创伤。所以请不要流泪。。。。。
【一篇女人写给男人的文字，言语平淡，却又道出沧桑……只是，所谓劝告之于男人需要那么多的考虑爱情么？】

2005-02-20T23:49:00.001-08:00

The most comfortable chair on earth!

2005-02-20T23:49:00.000-08:00

welcome to my practice. haha...

Pulpectomy!

2005-02-20T23:31:00.000-08:00

I have booked appointment with Yang Kai at 8 this morning. He came, well, a bit later than I would have expected.

He sit on my chair and the exciting episode started. I was supposed to do a emergency pulpectomy last Wednesday, but didn't have time to carry out. Pulpectomy means clear the pulp tissue, all the nerves and vessels inside a tooth, so that the tooth won't have further infection and pain. Honestly it is my first time doing it and we are supposed to perform it only after two terms. But Yang Kai's case cannot wait any longer. So Dr Vijaya helped me with the nerve block and I started clear away the caries. He then helped me with pulp chamber cleaning. I finally finished the temporary filling and sent him off. It was over an hour of operation. I felt excited, haha... what an experience. To my surprise, Yang Kai was asleep during the whole procedure and woke up telling me no pain.

I really think he has very high tolerance for pain. So man. haha... Can tolerate with the exposed pulp for a year and didn't feel a thing when given injection. Truly amazing. yeah. Yang Kai, thanks for your support and trust. Together we make it, make your pulp die. haha... C ya in one month's time.

For those of my classmates reading this blog, Yang Kai says a big thank you for those helping in one way or another during the operation. and he was very amuzed when you all crowded around him and stared at his mouth. So honoured and pampered by the attention.

Many of my friends have started blogs. It is so fun reading the life of all my old friends. But I still have no clue how to put their links on my blog.

Sunny morning with a cup of coffee

2005-02-18T18:28:00.000-08:00

I am slowly transformed to a pig. haha... Has been sleeping too much recently. Was lying on the bed at 9 last night after watching extreme makeover. Then when I woke up, it was amazingly 7 in the morning. The whole week of work really drains me.

Felt a sense of achievement when I left school on Friday. Yeah, finally handed up all my Denture and endodontic technique works. ahead of my schedule! Thank God for that.

Reached boarding school and realised that it is International Friendship Day celebration. Should have invited some of my frens to join the fun, but totally forgot abt it. Heya, we can actually conduct a dental screening for our potential patients there. haha... In the end, I sitted with my hostel friends, those from Malaysia, and watched the not-so-nice shows. The band from SAJC came and made a lot of noise. But the gals on the stage look so cannot make it. haha... So not so much interest in the show. Eva, Zen etc brought some of their school mates to come and they all thought I am from JC too. haha... So happy, i still look young.

To my uttermost surprise, I met Dng Jie them. I taught them when I was relief teaching in the Chinese High School two years back. They are sec 3 now, much grown up. They are staying in the boarding school for 1 month before leaving for China for immersion programme. So weird, so many ppl are going China nowadays, as if it is really a goldmine. haha... Actually i dont really wanna go back so often. Feel bored there. Maybe because most of my frens are overseas. It is nice to catch up with Ding Jie them. They still call me Wu Lao Shi. haha... feel good with the title. They visited my room and was amazed how nice it is. yeah. I decorated it well. They were bitching about the scolding from Chen Youqing, the HOD fr CHS, the night before. Should blame themselves for making so much noise. But guess they really couldn't help it. Being away from the scrutiny of their parents really felt fun. They told me they were averaging 2 hrs of sleep a day. And played cards and talked crap to idle away the hour all the time. haha... Young boys.

Am going to visit Mrs Lew soon. Should ask her how is her baby clothe business at Shenton Way later. Mmm... I was very impressed when she quit her teaching job to start the business. Wish her the best!

2005-02-09T19:05:00.000-08:00

pricelist for dental student service

Chinese New Year

2005-02-08T19:31:00.000-08:00

The Chinese New Year is finally here. We "kissed bye" the school for two days. Two solid days for refreshment and rest. Slept the after noon away and joined the people in the boarding school for the reunion dinner.

Luckily I get to sit at the Guest table to enjoy the not-so-nice steamboat. Reporters of the Channel News Asia came to shoot the scene whereby we "Lau Yu Shen"--- a singaporean tradition. We tossed up the raw salmon slices and other vegetable in the air to sympoblise good luck and prosperity in the New Year. Get to tease Chan Weiming's baby Samuel during the dinner too. He's cuter every passing day.

Went to PGP to visit my old friends after the dinner. Joined Liu Hang, Xu Yi and Xiao Lei and a couple of girls for a game of cards. haha... actually get Yan Lin, Zhang Qin's friend to be my patient. Mm... plan to screen her next Wednesday. Watched the some crap new year movies with them. We all get pretty tired. Then joined Zi Yu them for a while. It's quite sad that I didn't get to see them for most of the time. "Thanks" to Dentistry, i am really separted from the outside world. It is getting harder and harder to connect to all my old friends. To all my friends who get to read this, i still love you all though i seldom appear in your life. mm... We are all striving for our best in our uni years. But just don't neglect one another and we need to encourage each other. Yah, actually it is me who needs the most motivations. Thank God for putting me thru in so many trials all these years and provides me with companionship of my friends. Bless them all in this New Year.

new update

2005-02-05T07:55:00.000-08:00

Just realise it has been so long since I posted anything new on the blog. I went out with old friends, Xun Shi, Muzhi them for dinner after the basketball game. It's interesting to hear all the funny stories and jokes in their life.

Chinese New Year is coming and I am not in a mood to celebrate at all. My lab work has been piling up. The doctors, especially those from the endodontic department, have been very strict on us. I have been redoing my root canal obturation for so many times and becoming so impatient and frustrated over it. Good thing is that I am near finishing all my pre-clinic operatoray works and will start screening my patient really soon. Thanks to Shafiq and Maojie them all for printing cool name cards for the class. Pretty cool to hand out the professional-looking cards and pretends to be a good 'clinician'.

Siwen, my lab partner, has made a pact with me to train to become a competent clinician over the our clinical course. haha... She actually asks me to critise her whenever she behaves unprofessionally, and whenever she doesn't dress sexy enough.

Yah, one thing to clarify with all. My dear Lisa is my cousin, not my girlfriend, haha... so don't get the wrong impression.

Last night all the bored guys in my class went for a movie outing. Thanks for the wonderful suggestion by Nijam, we watched the "Bad Education", rated 5 stars by local critiques. It is a movie restricted to people 21 and above. Sounds exciting, right? So Dennis Soh, self-claimed alcoholic, brought Ballis Irish Cream for us. We actually shared the drink in the cinema. So daring. The movie turned out to be really bad. It is disgusting and I almost dozed off after the 1st hour. It is basically a movie about pedophile priest having disgusting affair with a 9 yr old boy. The boy grew up to be a gay, and wrote a script about his childhood in the church school. He used the script to blackmail the priest. The priest, together with his new lover, the brother of that blackmailer, eventually murdered the blackmailer. There are other plots too. But I am just too disgusted by all the gay scenes to appreciate the plots and supposedly artistic sceneries. A really bad movie ruining our weekend night. Somehow our "Umbrella Friday" plan always ended in disaster. haha... I shall not reveal what "Umbrella Friday" means. It is a secret code shared by our class guys.

Weekend!

2005-01-14T08:10:00.000-08:00

Just received a email from my dear Lisa. So wonderful that she's getting her license for dentistry in US soon. Wish her all the best. Actually it was her aspiring me to follow her step all along.

I went for jogging with my friend just now. Can't believe i still can keep up the habit even on weekend night. guess jogging really helps me to build up my stamina so that I managed to run for 4 matches of basketball on Wednesday. It was quite a fun game, and we managed to beat up the year 3 team twice. haha... still proud of it. Yup. thanks to the effort of my classmates.

Today I spent 2 hours talking to my boarders, those "big kids" I take care of. There was this Korean guy, called Lee Jong Chan, fresh from Seoul. He just started to learn English and it was kind of hard to talk to him. Most of time we were using his cool Korean translater gadget. He's friendly, but grew so upset when he started to talk about his country and those political scandals and fighting in his country. All he could commend is "bullship" and " crap". It quite amused me when he gestured to express his anger.

It is going to be a busy weedend. Meeting my old friend at 5 pm tom. I put his name as Master in my handphone. Kenneth, my classmate, laughed at the message in my handphone the other day. it reads "Call Me" by Master. Is that so amusing? He was my Tae Kwon Do trainer when I was in Hwa Chong JC. We still keep in tough after so many years.

Then I have faculty chalet at Changi. gonna be some free BBQ there. Hopefully it will be fun to be with my classmates and our dear juniors. haha...

Sunday is Zi Yu's birthday party. I am invited to his party at Raffles' City there. Don't know which restaurant he has booked. Wah. then it left with me little free time over the weekend to read my notes. sianz. gonna feel guilty about not studying again...

New Year

2005-01-01T23:43:00.000-08:00

First day of the year and I am mugging for microbe test. Can't believe this is the way to spend my New Year Day. Very pathetic. haha... Guess dental school makes tons of nerds like me. Actually went to the watchnight service at church last night. It is good to catch up with old friends like Kong, Ronald, Simon and Mei Shan etc. Haven't seen them for a while since I got flu last week.

Was just informed that I am going to take care one floor of students in the hostel this year. Went to check on the boarders just now. 8 Indian students in total plus some Chinese. A great shock to me. Hope I can bridge the cultural difference and make their stay at hostel a pleasant experience. Well, still a bit uncertain how to communicate with those Indian students. Hope they will listen to me and make my job easier.

Not any great New Year resolution and wishes. Just hope to spend my year in dental school smoothly. I am supposed to start to see patients in April. Hope I can finish all my pre-clinical works well and on time. Heard so many scary stories about clinical sessions from my seniors. A bit uncertain whether I can handle all those tasks. And yup, hope I can meet someone special this year. Yup. Haven't had a girlfriend for a long time. Watched 'Bridget Jone's Diary 2" yesterday. haha... pretty funny. Just wish i won't end up as her, resorting to write diary about pathetic love life at the age of 31. Mmm... Guess that's all for now. Gonna go to bed.

2004-12-26T00:44:00.000-08:00

Shi Nan and I eating Bah Kua Teh

2004-12-26T00:34:00.000-08:00

At Shueh Wen's house. She's still as pretty as ever : )

2004-12-26T00:25:00.000-08:00

Li Hao, Xiao Xi and Me

2004-12-26T00:19:00.000-08:00

Balcony view of Indian Ocean

last day in Penang

2004-12-21T23:35:00.000-08:00

I wasn't feeling well on the 3rd day. Down with flu. Was excited when Sheuh Wen called and offered her chauffeur to us for the day. Her chauffeur, Uncle Yeo, came to pick us up at hotel and took us around city. We got to taste real local delights like curry mee, Laksa, prawn mee, etc. And it was so cheap, only 2.5 RM a bowl. We stuffed us full and went for shopping. He drove us to Xin Xiang bakery and we bought the most famous Penang Tou Sua Pia, (Tou Sha Bing). It tastes very unique.

I met Shueh Wen when Li Hao them went for a movie. Had a great time chatting with her and got to know about her life in Australia. it was wonderful to catch up with old friend. I got to know her when she came to study at SCGS in Singapore 3 years ago. She happened to live opposite my window. This coincidence made my room the most popular place in the hall. Boys queued up to use my room to talk to her. haha... Hope Sheuh Wen won't be embarrassed by that. Nancy Tay, her warden, used to complain that we made too much noise last time.

We ate some seafood and hawkers' food near Gurney Plaza in the eve. I was quite sick then and had no appetite. We boarded the 10.30 pm. coach to go back to JB and then Singapore. The coach was more comfortable this time except I was not feeling well.

The whole trip Penang was very eventful and many unexpected events happened.

It was quite a pity that I couldn't meet up with Simon, Nicolas them. Was busy settling the small accident and was too tired the following day.

2nd day in Penang

2004-12-20T23:14:00.000-08:00

We decided to have some fun in the beach the second day in Penang. We woke up really late in the morning and went to beach in the afternoon. There were a lot of westerners there, sun-tanning themselves. We got off the mini hotel bus, some vendor immediately approached us, offering us cheap water sports. We shopped around and paid 110 RM for a 30 mins fast boat ride. It was thrilling to travel fast along the coastline. There was great view and we even travelled to the monkey island. Along the way we saw ppl swimming, parachuting, riding jet ski. We felt the boat ride was the highlight of our journey. Later Li Hao and Xiao Xi went for jet ski riding. It was funny to see how slow they ride. People were all traveling at 3 times their speed. Later they told me their boat is short of gas. I always loved the sea. And we could see Indian Ocean at the beach. The view is breath-taking, except the sun is not strong enough. Quite cloudy. We went to the same place for dinner as the first day. They cooked nice food, except charge us too much.

Penang Trip

2004-12-19T22:19:00.000-08:00

I always wanna visit some island in Malaysia. It pleased me when Li Hao proposed to visit Penang. So we went there eventually, together with Xiao Xi and Shi Nan. Actually havent been seeing them for a long time. So kind of treasure the time to share the fun of the trip with them.

Li Hao and Xiao Xi are really a couple to be envied. I am really happy for them. Yeah! They rock!

We endured 10 hours of bumpy ride to arrive at Komtar Station. It is kind of disappointing to see those run-down two storey buildings. Most of them are 100 years old and looked like was on fire recently. The walls are all charred. The housed looked like bombed. Street was still empty when we arrived at 8 a.m. We ate some Bah Kua Teh at the road side hawker's store. Blackish in colour, so I guess it is Guang Dong style. Tastes good after we starved for 10 hours.

We negotiated with the taxi driver to go to Ferringhi Hotel at 25 RM. Penang taxi doesnt have meters, so it is kind of tiring to bargain all the time. We deposited our luggage at the hotel.

We were looking for transport when the car rental booth caught my eye. I was advised by my Penang friend before to rent a car to tour the place. So Li Hao them also agreed to let me drive the car. It was a Proton Saga, one of the worst car i have ever driven. It was noisy, slow, powerless and bumpy. The aircon is virtually non-existent. So we were effectively baked in the car for the whole day.

The road is windy and narrow, with only one lane. Quite scary to drive at first, but i got used to it soon. Xiao Xi was very frightened throughout the journey and Shi Nan was always talking about unfortunate things. He was always the first to point out the graveyard he found along the way. We wanted to go to George Town for lunch first. It turned out that we took the wrong way, traveling in the opposite direction. Luckily Penang is pretty small, so we literally circled the island for one whole round. It took us 2 plus hours to reach George Town. On our way we passed butterfly farm, Nutmeg farm, snake temples and other weird places. There was this particular anoying old man from whom we asked for direction. He pointed us to a way which evetually led to a hill and one way track, which didn't look too promising for car to travel. I was quite worried that the car will slip down when traveling upslope. I shift to gear one, but the car is still not powerful enough.

We finally reached George Town and we had our first lunch in Penang in a shopping centre. I figured it was Komtar Plaza. Kway Teo and fried rice tasted better than Singapore. We did some shopping there before we headed back. I managed to call Shueh Wen but was soon cut off the line. Later she told me she used all the credit on her pre-paid card.

On our way back we went to find the Feri to buy train ticket back home. It took us a long time since we were so clueless about those Malay Road names. At the ticket station we were told that there was no direct train back to Singapore. So in the end we decided to take a coach home.

By the time we went back to the hotel, it was 5 plus in the afternoon. We quickly checked in. The rooms were great, with nice sea view. We showered and slept for a while. At seven, we rose to ride out for dinner.

I parked the car in the top level of the multi-storey car park. The entrance was really narrow. I was careless when I turned to the lower level. The left headlamp scratched the wall and was broken. It kind of dampened our spirit. The hotel security phone the rental guy. And he came to take a look. It wasn''t much of a damage and the guy wanted me to pay 300 RM. I declined since the I have paid insurance along with rental. So the guy told me to go police station with the damaged car to make a police report so that he could claim insurance. I thought it was quite reasonable but didnt know the way there. Then one of the security staff at the hotel agreed to drive us there after he was released from duty at 11 p.m.

So again we happily went to Batu Ferringhi for dinner and shopping. The food was not that exciting and quite expensive. It was along the tourist attraction site, so unreasonably priced. The locals sold all kinds of fake branded stuff, even fake perfume. We didn't buy anything and headed back at 11 p.m.

Then the security, Asuwa, drove Shi Nan and me to the police headquarter there. We actually drove by the police headquarter 4 or 5 times during the day and always joking that making a trip there. Well, the joke materialised. The process was quite simply since there was not any people there at this hour. I filed my first police report in Malaysia, on a Malay application form. All the police were Malays with their pot bellies. When everything was finished, the sergent asked Asuwa to pass me a word. He told me that I would have to go to court and would received a minimum fine of 300 RM for careless driving. I was very angry that such a small case involving just one small headlamp would cause me to be charge in court. Then the sergent "mercifully" offered me an easy way out. I only needed to pay him 150 RM of bribe and everything would be fine. Well, seems that I was left with no options. so I paid the money to Asuwa, who secretively rolled it into a pack of cigerrete and passed to the sergent. Shi Nan and I were utterly disgusted by their acts. Anyway, luckily everything was settled. So Asuwa drove us somewhere near the hotel and went home. I gave him 20 RM as tip the following day. at 1 in the morning I drove back to the hotel and quickly entered the dream land.

Though some misfortune happened on the day, I was nevertheless very excited by all the expeirence. I got lost in the jungle, drove onto a hill, explored a whole island with a map, and finally had some "fun" in the police station!