Mass Destruction

My Raya holiday is coming to an end in few hours time and I’ll return to KTT tonight. ~_~

To describe this 12-day holidays, the word “unproductive” sums it all. I didn’t do anything meaningful (study, do revision) that a student like me should. I planned to spend my time wisely by studying because A2 exam is just 1 month and few days ahead.

Nevertheless, I only managed to finish browsing through several biology and physics chapters. Compared with my initial “aspiration”, I really feel like a loser now. And, of course, guilty. But… everything is too late now.

That’s why people say don’t count your chickens before they are hatched! (is the sentence correct? nvm…)

So, what have I done in the previous days?

Well, I ended up being a couch potato, watching dramas one episode after another. I couldn’t help it. I was not in the mood of studying because holidays are a luxury for KTT-ians…

Below are the 2 dramas (1 Taiwanese, 1 Korean) I watched. They have been released for quite some time but due to certain reasons, I only got to watch them now.

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First,

• Title: 痞子英雄 / Pi Zi Ying Xiong
• English title: Black & White
• Genre: Police, action
• Episodes: 24
• Broadcast network: PTS
• Broadcast period: starting 2009-Apr-11 (in Taiwan I guess)

Synopsis

Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are two cops who are as different as day and night. One does nothing except for drinking coffee and living a luxurious lifestyle while waiting for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes law and justice are the pillars of society and is constantly on the street catching criminals… a little overzealously for his superior’s liking. When a case brought these two top crime solvers together, sparks fly and a little light peeks into this dark city where the nation’s President is on friendly terms with the local mafia and people are killed while drinking milkshakes…

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Second,

Title: 꽃보다 남자 / Kgotboda Namja

Also known as: Boys Before Flowers / Boys Over Flowers (lolz)

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: 25

Broadcast network: KBS2

Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-05 to 2009-Mar-31 (in Korea)

Synopsis

Jan Di is an average girl whose family owns a dry cleaning store located near the luxurious and well known Shin Hwa College. Jan Di meets the four richest and most spoiled boys known as the F4. After saving a boy from jumping off the roof of Shinhwa High School, she is admitted into the school on a swimming scholarship. Jan Di tries to avoid confrontation with the F4 at all cost because she knows what happens to those that stand against them. However, when Jan Di's friend, Oh Min Ji, accidentally gets ice cream on the leader of the F4's shoes, she's forced to declare war on the leader of the F4, Goo Joon Pyo.

And of course, they fall in love with each other, leading to a tangled mass of relationship like that in the picture below (not made by me ah). Orange lines represent love relationship, red for hatred or rivalry (I can’t read Korean language), black lines linking family members.

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Both dramas took me so many days to finish watching, with each episode lasting 60 +/- 10 minutes. Phew~~

The stories are intriguing, especially Black and White. If you enjoy tears-stimulating dramas and love love stuffs, the second one is right for you. If you don’t watch dramas or find them idiotic, kindly move your mouse cursor the the top right corner of this page and click. ^.^

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Time to say goodbye
Paesi che non ho mai
Veduto e vissuto con te
Adesso si li vivro.
Con te partiro
Su navi per mari
Che io lo so
No no non esistono piu
Its time to say goodbye.

Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli

被点中！

被点到必填，不填代表你不尊重传给你的人和问卷。
(1) 请老实的回答每一个问题。
(2) 不行擅自塗改題目。
(3) 写完请点5位小朋友，不可不点。
(4) 点完后请通知那5位小朋友他被点到了。
hehe… …

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1. 是谁传給你这份问卷的:: 宁芮
2. 你们认识多久呢:: 9 或 10 年了吧
3. 你觉得他(她)对你來说很重要吗:: 重要！（有点不好意思~）
4. 你与他(她)的关系是:: 好朋友
5. 你觉得他(她)的个性如何:: 复杂，但不讨人厌
6. 请问他(她)的兴趣是:: 帅哥？？
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問 : 當你在更衣室沖水，门忽然被打开了你会？
答 : 更衣室内有冲水设施吗？
問 : 海中忽然大浪來襲后，你发现比基尼小姐上身泳裝被沖掉了你会？
答 : 看看她的表情
問 : 去海边玩会使用咩交通工具？
答 : 敞篷跑车
問 : 你突然发现沒帶泳裝、泳衣你会買吗？
答 : 谁说没带泳衣就不能在海边玩？
問 : 会的。。
答 : 会什么？
問 : 回去时，发现有其他遊客手机沒拿，你会觉得是哪牌子的？
答 : Nokia
問 : 海边对你來说是？
答 : 放松心情的好去处
問 : 看到镜子，会不由自主的向前吗？
答 : 当然不会，也没那个必要
問 : 经常用洗面乳吗？
答 : 每日几次
問 : 说到自恋会想到谁？
答 : 学院那里的朋友
問 : 有人说该減肥了你会？
答 : 出世至此没胖过！
問 : 自恋，適合你吗？
答 : 希望有自恋的机会

完毕！！

Mantoux Test

I have just taken a medical screening which is requested by JPA, and I will be collecting the report on Tuesday. The tests include physical examination such as height, weight,blood pressure, pulse etc and lots more like chest X-ray and others which I don’t remember.

The most troublesome test of all is the Mantoux Test. For you guys wondering wth is a mantoux test, below are extracts from wikipedia. Hope you find it useful. =D

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The Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, Tuberculin Sensitivity Test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for Purified Protein Derivative) is a diagnostic tool for tuberculosis. It is one of the two major tuberculin skin tests used in the world, largely replacing multiple-puncture tests such as the Tine test.

Tuberculin is a glycerol extract of the tubercle bacillus. Purified protein derivative (PPD) tuberculin is a precipitate of non-species-specific molecules obtained from filtrates of sterilized, concentrated cultures. It was first described by Robert Koch in 1890. The test is named after Charles Mantoux, a French physician who developed on the work of Koch and Clemens von Pirquet to create his test in 1907.

Procedure

A standard dose of 5 Tuberculin units (0.1 mL) is injected intradermally (between the layers of dermis) and read 48 to 72 hours later. A person who has been exposed to the bacteria is expected to mount an immune response in the skin containing the bacterial proteins.

The injection was “disgusting-ly” painful man. The pain of the initial ant bite before extracting a test tube-full of blood is totally incomparable with this. First, I felt the needle piercing through the skin, then the needle “travels” between the skin layers. When the tuberculin is being injected, I felt as though something was hitting the bones. After that, a swelling just like that caused by a mosquito bite appeared.

The reaction is read by measuring the diameter of induration (palpable raised hardened area) across the forearm (perpendicular to the long axis) in millimeters. If there is no induration, the result should be recorded as "0 mm". Erythema (redness) should not be measured.

I’ll have the reading taken on Tuesday.

If a person has had a history of a positive tuberculin skin test, another skin test is not needed, but if negative another test may be needed.

Classification of tuberculin reaction

The results of this test must be interpreted carefully. The person's medical risk factors determine at which increment (5 mm, 10 mm, or 15 mm) of induration the result is considered positive. A positive result indicates TB exposure.

• 5 mm or more is positive in
  • HIV-positive person
  • Recent contacts of TB case
  • Persons with nodular or fibrotic changes on chest x-ray consistent with old healed TB
  • Patients with organ transplants and other immunosuppressed patients
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• 10 mm or more is positive in
  • Recent arrivals (less than 5 years) from high-prevalence countries
  • Injection drug users
  • Residents and employees of high-risk congregate settings (e.g., prisons, nursing homes, hospitals, homeless shelters, etc.)
  • Mycobacteriology lab personnel
  • Persons with clinical conditions that place them at high risk (e.g., diabetes, prolonged corticosteroid therapy, leukemia, end-stage renal disease, chronic malabsorption syndromes, low body weight, etc)
  • Children less than 4 years of age, or children and adolescents exposed to adults in high-risk categories
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• 15 mm or more is positive in
  • Persons with no known risk factors for TB
  • (Note: Targeted skin testing programs should only be conducted among high-risk groups)

A tuberculin test conversion is defined as an increase of 10 mm or more within a 2-year period, regardless of age.

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I’ll receive my test report on next Tuesday. Hopefully everything’s fine just like last year (this is the second medical check-up I did, exactly the same as that I took before entering KTT last year).

Tata. =D

Bedtime Stories

Night time has always been an emo time for me, and it’s still is now. Whatever that meets my eyes or crashes my ears will always be interpreted in a very different way, emotionally to be exact, than that I feel in the hot and sunny daytime.

Of course, it is also the emo-waves that washed away the laziness-causing parasites in my body and brought me here.

PS: I personally recommend reading this article at night. =D

Wonderful things happened to me last few days, the sweetest one being me obtaining an overall band 8.0 for the IELTS I took. Whether it’s just luck that I got merciful examiners to mark my papers and evaluate my speaking ability or I underestimated my ability, all of them are no longer important. I got what I want, in fact, it’s more than what I expected.

Million thanks to whoever that helped, encouraged, discouraged or spent time joining my stress-release sessions even late at night. Now, I’m more than content and grateful for having things (e.g. success, care…) which I thought I have to live without.

And then it was Chai Lian’s 19th birthday. If anyone notices, the date was 09/09/09 (dd/mm/yy). What a nice combination! How I wish I was born in such “auspicious” day, not to mention having a sweet partner and a van-full of people to celebrate the awesome day.

There were 13 of us including the birthday girl. We enjoyed ourselves to the fullest and played the craziest way. And it’s also the day I let out another side of me (playful? stupid? Whatever…) which I rarely project elsewhere. I felt incredibly carefree that day. Realising such opportunity to hang out with the people I like is a scarcity, I know that I really have to throw away all the burdens which I carry most of the time and accept the happiness just a few feet away from me.

Again, thank you guys for inviting and allowing me to join.

For more photos, kindly visit my Facebook profile.

On Friday night, I celebrated Jun Suet’s belated birthday with Ning Jui and Li En at TGI Friday’s, IOI Mall. So many people I know turned 19 in September. Despite being tired, I still made my way to the mall to wish her Happy Birthday because it’s the last birthday she can have with me around before I fly to India next year (hopefully). With amazing people and great food, we spent quite some time there eating and chatting. It was warm, I mean emotionally.

What can possibly be better than spending moments with people who meant so much to you?

Finally, it is now 13/09/09, 1.56am. I’m the only person still awake at home, still don’t feel like sleeping although am feeling bored and emo.

I wish… that things can always be better than last minute.