Didn't mean to blog. Didn't even plan to come online. Tomorrow got a quiz. Quiz for Principle of Economics. Only finished studying 4 chapters. Die liao la.

My dad brought his thumbdrive home as he could not open some files. It was because he bought a cheap thumbdrive that will auto-compress the files saved. So I had to help him settle the problem as he needs the files for his work. So that's why I am online instead of studying.


Yesterday stayed in school till 4pm due to the Organic Chemistry Quiz. Waited for 10 minutes yet the Prof and the other girl who missed the quiz were no where to be found. Went to find the co-ordinator for the rescheduling of the test but she was not at her desk. Was desperate. Didn't want to miss again due to quiz tomorrow and another next Thursday plus my Music Theory Grade 5 Exam.


Found the Prof's office number but he was not there. Called YL, ex-colleague who was taking the Organic Chemistry Practical at that moment to check if that Prof was there and he was. Went to look for him. He had forgotten. He said that co-ordinator should be in the classroom but I told him that she wasn't. He asked bout the other girl but I do not know her and she was MIA too. He was cracking his head trying to solve the problem. He asked if I wanted to do the test at that time but quickly changed to tell me to email that co-ordinator to reschedule again. *Fainted*


I waited since 10.30 am till 4.15 pm just to hear that the quiz will have to be rescheduled? I asked if I can do then and told him that I had another quiz on Wednesday. He was reluctant as the quiz will take an hour which means it would take 2 hours as the other girl is not around. But he eventually gave in. Asked me to wait at GO while he went back to his office. When he was down, he went to look for the co-ordinator. He still seemed reluctant and asked if I know who the other girl is. Anyway, he finally gave up and asked his student to stay in the classroom while I do my test. He did his own stuffs on his laptop with his back facing me. Only turned back to remind me that I only got 10 minutes left and turned back again when times is up.


After the quiz, I felt I had 1 burden gone but at the same time felt drained. No mood to do tutorials and no mood to study. But I managed to complete the tutorial that would be gone through today while waiting for the staff bus. After which, I did not bother with school stuffs and went to watch 'Getai' with my mum, neighbour, uncle and his wife, daughter and mother-in-law.


It was the 'Getai' which was in the Chinese Newspaper ('wan bao'). The biggest 'Getai' that attracted more than 10,000 people to watch on Sunday.


Yesterday was not a good day. The weather was bad. Keep raining but stopped once in a while. I brought 2 folding umbrellas and my mum brought 4 normal umbrellas and my uncle had another folding umbrella to last us through. Even my dad came to look for us and watch for a while. At slightly after 10 pm, it started to rain heavily so we left for home a short while after my dad left for home.


When I reach, I could not find my uncle and my neighbour. While searching for them, people started running as it started to rain. I took out my umbrella and continue to look for my uncle. As people went away, I managed to grab a seat in front in the second row. I 'booked' another seat for my mum. Quite a while after my mum came, she decided to move to the centre but people said that those seats were booked when nobody was around and there were so many empty seats. So we had to move back. There we found my uncle so we sat with them but the view would be blocked by unbrellas when it rained. Anyway, I managed to snap some shots when it wasn't raining and when there is nice lightings. The stage is big and grand. The lightings were very nice. The sound system was pretty good. And there were bubbles blown from the side of the stage too! WOW!

Look at the stage (not very clear as it was dark)

Look at the colourful rays of lights

Look at the bubbles, rays of lights. Oh ya. This lady sang a song related to rain and before she completed the song, it rained heavily at 10+ pm. Coincident or what? Not sure!

As for my Music Theory Lesson, I just have to hang in there till next week. Next week is my last lesson. Yeah!!! I also told my parents. This time got valid reason to tell them. The Grade 6 lessons will be held on Saturday and the time clashed with my piano lesson and my work. So they can't say anything.

Anyway, wished me luck for tomorrow quiz. I don't think I can study now and I don't think I should. I am drunked with drowiness again for the whole of today. Slept through the morning lecture. Hope I can get up early tomorrow to do last minute studying. Yes! It's studying not revising! I need to study another 6 chapters for tomorrow quiz!!! OMG!!!

Organic Chemistry Practical 2

Recently, there is lesser and lesser time to blog. Will try to blog if there is anything interesting. If not, maybe gotta wait till end of Nov after my final paper on 26 Nov ba.

Well, today, went for the Organic Chemistry Practical 2. Missed the 1st due to chicken pox. The actual date for my practical is tomorrow morning (or I should say later) but due to the reschedule of Principle of Economics Lecture from Wednesday to Saturday morning. The time clashes and thus my friends and I decided to went for the Practical meant for another tutorial group.

In the end, the lecture was postponed to the afternoon instead from 1.30 to 3.30pm. That would meant that I would miss my 2nd Piano lesson of the month with another week of public holiday. So that meant that I did not touch my piano for almost a month. Not a good sign. I can chose not to attend the lecture but as I had missed the previous due to chicken pox and it is something which I had not studied before and the lecturer will be going through 1 of the tutorial questions that she missed with those classes after the lecture. Thus, I decided to go for the lecture especially when there is a test next week which include this week lecture.

Anyway, back to Organic Chemistry Practical. I know the lecturer. Not very close but he does recognize me. Good thing or bad. I was hoping not to end the practical late and since I reached early by taking the staff bus, I went to take all the glasswares required and weight the 1st component. After the briefing, we went straight to the fumehood and started doing the practical when YL and the lecturer came to me. At that point of time, we were the fastest.

The lecturer wanted me to experiment something for him. His practical protocol states to use Hirsh funnel but he thought we do not have and thus gotten YL to prepare the Buchner funnel with bigger surface area for suction, filtration and drying. Today, he found out that there is Hirsh funnel and get me to use it and compare the results with another group. (-.-)'''

Good thing is we would have maybe more to discuss but the bad thing is as Hirsh has a smaller surface area for suction, filtration and drying, we had been lagging behind due to the much longer time to dry our samples.

Well, since I was early and was in no mood to study, I got a few pieces of labelling tapes to label our glasswares. Those that might need to be placed in a common area for drying or incubation. I do not know what to label so I drew a Bobdog's head. In the end, after the practical, after getting our dyed cotton squares cut and to be distributed among all of us, my friends made me drew our trademark, Bobdog's head on all the dyed cotton. LOL! Anyway, we aren't the last to leave. So it shouldn't be that bad.

Indian Neighbour past away last Friday

There were only 4 houses over at my level including my house. In between the 4 houses are the lift and stairs. The neighbour that are closer to my house are Chinese. The other two neighbours are Indians.

Yesterday morning, heard a number of people talking and popping by to my Indian neighbour. Didn't know what happen. Thought they had some gathering.

In the afternoon, when my parents wanted to go out with my grandma (I am still under 2nd last day of MC for Chicken pox plus I wanted to study, I didn't went out with them. When the lift arrived, what they saw pretty much shock them. The Indian neighbour brought up a corpse covered under a piece of white cloth. There is no elderly staying at my neighbour so we wondered who it might be.

This morning, my mum heard from the Chinese neighbour (auntie) next door. She said that it was the uncle who past away (should be at most 50+ yrs old). He past away on Friday over the night and it seemed like the cause is heart attack or something like that. This uncle was the one who in the past will drink till drunk and pee at the stairway or even in the lift.

Just now, my chinese neighbour kind of gossip a bit with my mum and apparently, my dad had spoken to that uncle on Wednesday or Thursday morning and my neighbour husband had also chat with him a couple of days ago.

While listening to all these 'gossips', heard that the Indian auntie (whom husband past away) had been seeing another guy. Even go out in bike with the guy and even bring the guy home. That day while the Chinese uncle talk to this Indian uncle, the Indian uncle even told the Chinese uncle about this. The Chinese uncle even asked out of concern if he was alright and he said there is nothing he could do. We did not expect that he would past away out of a sudden just like that.

Well, enough of gossip. Today was the 1st time of my life seeing a Indian 'leaving'. There were many people today at their house. Once in a while, they would come out. Some stood at the lift lobby, some sitting down on the plastic chairs that were placed temporary there. Some will even stood at my corridor.

As Chinese, we kind of believed that kids are very sensitive to these kind of event, etc. Today is Sunday so by right, it won't be a problem but my aunt had to go back to work for a while so my cousins have to come over. When it seemed that they were bringing the dead uncle out, my mum asked me to close the living room windows. It was also because if my cousins stood on the sofa, they could see what happened in the corridor. Another reasons was because there were people smoking at the corridor and the smell diffused into my living room. I had to stay near the door to prevent my cousins from going out to see what happened as my mum was outside with the Chinese auntie. They wanted to see.

When they carried the uncle out, I went to take a look. There was a guy in front blowing a shell like horn. There were like 8 guys carrying him out in a coffin with many colourful flowers on top of the coffin. Out of these 8 guys, 4 of them are topless. They had white strips on their faces. They did not take the lift. They carried the coffin down using the stairs. When they were out of sight, my mum brought the Chinese auntie to my room where they could see what happened downstairs. My neighbour could not see from her house.

I went to my study room to look. There was a modified lorry to transport the coffin and the corpse. It was painted kind of gold. At the back where the coffin will be placed, the wall was covered in glass so it was visible from outside. There were yellow flowers hanging around the glass pane.

From my window, I could see that there were other people looking out of their window seeing what happen. Even saw an ignorant Muslim family who are driving, wanting and insisting to get the lorry to shift (it was in the middle of the road in the carpark) so that it can they can drive past. The driver could not take it and wanted to shift for them yet they reverse back. (-.-)''' Guess this Muslim family came visiting due to their Hari Raya yesterday.

When they carried the uncle downstairs and along the road to the lorry, I can see that the coffin is not covered. The uncle was covered in many flowers with only his face visible. His face was also in white strips. It was also only then that I see that all the Indians were not wearing any shoes.

Before bring the coffin into the lorry when they were in line and pretty close to the lorry, they started to sway the coffin side to side while they proceed nearer to the lorry. Once they placed the coffin into the lorry, the wife followed by the daughters and a number of others (supposed immediate family members) walked 3 rounds around the lorry with their palms placed together in front of their chest. Then there were a few guys throwing flowers on the lorry head.

I missed this part. My mum said the elder daughter took the burning pot of something like lantern and board the passenger seat of the lorry. While they closed the door to the coffin, there were 2 guys placing a piece of blue cloth over the wife.

While the lorry started to drive off, the guys in front continued to throw flowers over the front of the lorry and the 4 topless guys and another guy were sort of pushing the lorry 'to make it move'. I stayed and watch till they were out of sight.

After they left, the Chinese auntie also left my house while continuing to chat with my mum. As I wasn't with them when I watch what happen downstairs, I understand that they thought the coffin was covered and wonder why they did not heard any form of nailing sound. I told them that the coffin wasn't covered and the flowers covered all except the face. The auntie and my mum was shocked and at the same time the auntie was relieved that she did not see.

While my mum was still chatting with the auntie, we saw that the Indian neighbour brought out bags of stuffs to throw (we assumed they were belonging like pillow, etc of the dead). They even brought out mattress. They washed some water with flowers out along the corridor and sweep the water along the drain towards the lift. I supposed it was their way to sweep of bad luck or so but it doesn't seemed right as there is no drainage pipe at the drain near the lift. So the water either flow backwards or will be sweep up to the floor together with the flowers. Then they took out a piece of cloth (looked unwanted, and dirty) and sweep along the drain towards the lift. My mum could no longer take it so she decided to bring a dust-pan over for them to help them clear the flower that they tried to sweep with the cloths but when my mum walked over, they had managed to clear the flower.

Chicken Pox!!!

Tuesday, I was down with fever. Afternoon, I realized I got a few 'insect' bites. 1 on my neck, 2 on my stomach and 2 on my back. They itches. But I never thought much about it when I went to see the doctor for my fever and long winded cough. I just thought that I had normal viral fever and just worried that it might be dengue again with the body ache and fever.

Wednesday, I seemed to have more 'insect bites'. That morning I saw a red ant on my pillow I thought it was the cause of the red lumps on my body. At the same time, I am worried that it might be chicken pox and search the website for diagnosis. Yet it don't seemed like so.

Thursday, there seemed to be a few tiny spot. It seemed to get weird. Thus, I was worried that it could be drug allergy. I search website for drug allergy and there is a picture that seemed like so.

Due to the itches, and worry that the fact that it might be rashes, allergy, drug allergy, insect bites, or even chicken pox, I decided to go to the clinic again. Wanted to go last night but then the clinic had closed. My mum suggested to go back to where I work but I don't want. I just started work not too long ago. I just got my 1st pay cheque last Sunday. On my interview day, the doctor already never charge me for consultation and medication. How can I go and see him again. I am not that thick skinned loh.

Just now, I called the clinic I usually went to. And decided to go to the clinic to check and find out the real cause. The clinic assistant, Cindy, told me that it might be chicken pox. I was in doubt as it doesn't seem likely. And the doctor did confirmed that it was chicken pox. Damn it! At this time? When next monday got a quiz? *Faint*

Well, the good thing is that it not during exam period. Thank goodness. I would clear before that. But this would mean that I would miss more lessons (lectures, tutorials and practicals). Only Econ tutorial and wet practical will take attendance but that is not an issue as I had a MC. What matters most is missing lessons when I am already lagging is not a good sign.

I hope this 1 week + or so, I would be able to try to self study and learn everything myself. Hopefully.

Today is the 3rd day of the viral disease. Doctor asked me to go back on 14 October for checkup to make sure if I am safe to go back to school the following Monday.

I had informed the doctor of the clinic where I worked. I had informed the music school where I learn piano in case the teacher is looking for me tomorrow. I had inform my ex-colleagues as I had been with them for the past few days. (so sorry about this as it really doesn't looked like chicken pox). I had inform my friends as I would have to get the lab information to do lab report and even notes & etc. I had informed my Sunflower contact IC. I didn't realized I had so many people to inform.

Feeling sick (worse)

Early last week, my cough got better but worsen late last week with headache when I cough or had sudden movement. Took panadol and got better. Never had any headache on Saturday night till yesterday.

Today, I woke up feeling worst. Whole body ache like those when one had fever but I do not think I had fever. Went to school for lesson and after lecture, it seemed to get worst.

After lunch(couldn't finish even half of it), I took my temperature. Brought thermometer out when I felt not right this morning. Temperature was 37.1 deg C. Considered as normal but slightly higher than my usual which is 36.4 to 36.7 deg C using that thermometer. Took panadol (brought out from home too) and had a short nap at my ex-colleagues' office. Woke up feeling better.

Now still can feel the body ache. Think I'll go shower, eat and take medicine and go to sleep ba. Hope I'll get better tomorrow if not I shall pay a visit to the clinic tomorrow morning before I go for class.