Time whizzes past...

In slightly less than a year, I will have graduated... =)

Ran into Ms Tan S.H (Now, Mrs Leong) together with Mr Leong at Clementi. For Commonwealthians, just some updates for all of you: Our school premise is going to shift to somewhere near Teban Gardens. In addition, there will be a fun and food fair at CSS on 13 August 2006 (Sunday). For those interested, please contact me via HP or email at qihong39@yahoo.com.sg. Afterwhich I will refer you to Ms Tan. Don't think i will make it that day as it is a special day for me.

8 years ago, Ms Tan was still Ms Tan... 8 years later, apart from having to address her as Mrs Leong, she already have 2 kids! Is scary how things can move after graduation... Brrr...

Meanwhile, I have submitted my resume for an IMF-related event. Will keep all of you updated.

CiaozZz +)

Decided not to be a Guinea Pig...

After taking into a number of reasons, I have decided not to go for the operations:

1.) I do not want a stiffer left hand
2.) I may not be able to play the piano/keyboard as fluently as before (for the few
songs which I know)
3.) I will have difficulty brushing my teeth since I can only effectively use my left
hand to brush my teeth albeit the fact that my right hand is the master hand.
4.) The entire consultantion made me feel like I am a medical research subject. One specialist called out to his counterpart and said "You need to look at this, this will excite you".

I was made to wait till they cleared all the patients for the morning clinic before they whizzed me off to a diagnostic imaging room where they said they have a new machine which does dynamic X-ray. I was pretty amazed by the state of technological advancement actually. As you rotate your hand, you will see the movement in X-ray format on the computer screen. Each movement can be recorded as a movie clip and be saved into a thumbdrive which can be uploaded to the database... Btw, X-rays are now taken and forwarded to the doctors' account in soft copies... Immense saving of resources...

They are going to cut half a tendon from somewhere on my wrist... drill 1-2 holes somewhere and make a 'tie-back'. Sounds like making wiring 'tie-backs' in Signals...

No, I shall not go... I have even imagine what I will do if I turn back at the 11th hour if I back out from the operations... I will push the anasthetist mask onto the face of the guy who is gg administering the anasthesia on me and run out... =)

Session with Anil Chitrakar

Finally got the interim site for SE Forum up and running (after days of figuring out Mambo, an opensource Content Management System to no avail). I decided to extract the main pages and put them in static pages instead... And yeap, it is done with updated information on the upcoming events... Meanwhile, I have to think of the content management for the website as the designer will be revamping the entire site for SE Forum 2007 soon...

The interim site can be accessed at: www.seforum.sg

School Commencing soon...

It was not too long ago that I have attended my friends' convocations and now it is time for a brand new academic year to commence again... Frankly, I am going to miss many of those who have graduated... Wanted to meet some of them during term time for coffee or a meal; but it seems that something will cropped up (either myself or the other party) and the meeting has to be postphoned indefinitely, till the convocation...

Met up with the freshies and some of the councillors for a movie at The Picturehouse at new Cathay on Sunday night... Even though the movie title "Thank You for Smoking" sounds kind of crappy... It turned out to be a pretty good show... =) Glad to see the freshies and councillors bondings rather well together... Btw, I am half a DECADE older than the female freshies... Reality strikes manz...hahaz

Been busy with the updating of the interim website for Social Entrepreneurship Forum... Got personal stuff to be settled too... Time is definitely not enough for now... All I can do now is to prioritise... Less than 3 weeks to ORD! =)

Future Generation...

I just love the kids... =)

Completion of Mindsweeper (The 2nd Time)

This is LUCK... haz...

SoC Commencement Ceremony

Do you know who will receive thunderous round of applause for a commencement ceremony?

It is NOT the arrival of the guest of honours... Neither is it the arrival of the presiding officer and the academics with "The Triumph March" playing in the background...

NOpe, it is also not after a rousing speech by the valedictorian for the ceremony...

It is only when the last person in the queue is presented with the degree scroll when the applause climax... -) And yea, there will be loud cheers as well... -)

(*Others photos will be up another day... Will be going for the commencement ceremonies on Thursday before I get down to sort out the photographs*). Long day ahead tomorrow in camp due to exercise... Ciaoz...

I am going to miss my friends who have just graduated for the following 2 semesters...

Convocation Continued...

Haz... This is qiyen who has gotten first class honors and is also the recipient of the Lim Tay Boh Memorial Award - Lim Tay Boh Medal (Gold)!!! Congratulations once again! Time really flies and we have been neighbours for approximately 16 years! Hazzz

SP Revelation & Finale Night for CAC Camp

On the same day, it was the day when the freshies will be able to see their SP (Secret Pal) in person finally... It was also the 'tekaning' session for the guys... Well, they did to perform if they want to whizz off the girls from Group 1 for dinner at Cosy Bay... =)


After all the dance competition and prizes presentation ceremony... We headed for KBox at Cineleisure for KTV till 6am... 5 survived through the KTV 'knock-out' session... Most fell asleep... My bed at home beakons after that... -)

First Commencement Ceremony @ NUS

06 July 06 was the first day of commencement... In the light of the VVIPs who are attending the ceremony, which includes: MM Lee Kuan Yew and wife, PM Mr Lee Hsien Loong and Ho Ching and also the Ex-premier of China, Li Lan Qing, no one was allowed to enter the UCC waiting area. I only managed to go in when the VVIPs left...

Took photos with Terence, Xingyu, Hong Ee and Andrew after the usp group photo they took somewhere near the robing room... It will be one more year before I will be able to done the graduation robe... Time really flies... 3 years have since passed... =)

CAC Fright Nite...

Today is the second day of the camp & it is also when the Fright Night is held... Majority of the people were of unfamiliar faces... Some went back on the first day of camp... Jennifer, Plene, Alvin and I were the only seniors from group 1... Since Alvin is a councillor and is a "ghost" at the rooftop station, that leave 3 of us to tag along with our freshies... In the light I had to book in tomorrow, I left earlier... and I went for only one station with my partner... As we were the last pair, yet additional pair of the group to go in... the "ghosts" thought they are done with this group... While we were anticipating to be "frightened" by some unexpected scream or "ghosts"... What we saw at the end of the station was a bunch of "ghosts" chatting at the end of the rooftop channel... We had a really good laugh up there...

Time to retire to bed... Will be back for the camp on Thursday... =) There are 6 rounds to run tomorrow morning... Arghz...

The past one week...

It was a week of meeting up...

(27 June 06)
Met Px for dinner and it has been 1.5 years since we met... The last time i saw her was before I went to Aussie for exchange. It was the first time i drank decafinated coffee and yeap, it works, I was able to sleep pleasantly that night... =)

(28 June 06)
Had dinner at my friend's place and had a good chat with another friend of hers... Chatted about school life, financial careers etc... At this point in time, it seems to me that the quality of life will plummet once you enter the adrenalin-pumping world of finance...

(29 June 06)
Met elder god-sister, M for dinner at Holland Village... Got updated about a friend in KL... Hope all is well for her, really...

(30 June 06)
We had CO Parade in the morning... Afterwhich, we headed down to Gombak Hill for the annual ADSD (Air Defence System Division) Uphill Run... All the competitive runs were in the afternoon and all these culminate in the final mass run up the hill... The BG spoke, prizes were given, buffet dinner was served... In a bid to integrate the operational capabilities, ADSD has been changed to ADOC, that is Air Defence and Operations Command... The event ended with performance by the SAF Music & Drama Company and the transfer of the fire to the symbolic ADOC torch... =)

And yea... ONE MORE MONTH TO ORD... =)

Ithaca

Ithaca

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the angry Poseidon -- do not fear them:
You will never find such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not set them up before you.

Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
with such pleasure, with such joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time;
stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensual perfumes of all kinds,
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
visit many Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from scholars.

Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.

Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would have never set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1911)