30th September 2011

Last day of September 2011, last day of my weekdays...yay...

Yeah, another update after posting just yesterday....because I'm free now, in school library, again...
Had my 1st class for module Applied Genomics.....LOVED it......I'm always interested on stuffs related to genes, DNA.....it's tough, it's a lot to read, study, but I can't help it, just interested in this subject...
The class supposedly ends at 11.00am, but it's the 1st class, the lecturer just briefed through us the surface, something like revising what I have studied previously...and the class ended at 10.30am...
Still too early for lunch, I came to library and expect to stay until around 12pm....I still have another class on 2pm....yeah, Friday is the only day I'm having full day in school....

The Internet connection my house is getting a bit 'cacat' lately, highly unstable, either DC every few minutes, or connected, but can't surf the web.....cacat, even when I try to use my phone's 3G connection also it's too slow to use on laptop....it's frustrating, I can't Skype with my mom, I can't Facebook, Youtube, heck, I can hardly even check my school stuffs online....
So for now, I think I'll try to stay in the school library more, at least the connection here is faster, and more importantly, FAR MORE STABLE....
Since I have bought the 3 terms bus pass, I think I can even come to school on weekends if the connection in my home continues to fail me...besides, as my course progresses, I think I might even stay in library more to search for information: books, faster Internet connection......

Hmm, it's already 11am now as I'm typing this phrase....I'm running out of idea what to write here....so I guess that's all for my post today.....enjoy the coming weekend, to all my friends!

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29th September 2011

Man, I always feel like I should update the blog regularly, but ended up lazy....and now I'm in the school library, I think I should at least update the blog today after few days of inactivity, lol....

Hmm, just had officially my 1st lecture in UWE this morning, for the module Cancer Biology and Genetics. It started 9am, and ended around 11.30am.....I can't even remember when was the last time I had attend a long lecture already, last year's Sep-Oct short semester perhaps? Hmm...

But anyway, 1st lecture of all, it's quite nice, as the module title mentioned, I'm gonna be learning about cancers, what causes them, what happens, and what's the treatments....
Already getting a warning from the module leader in day 1, that this is going to be a tough module, gonna have lots of lots of stuffs to study about, need to do lots of reading....gosh, God bless me, lol....
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Other than the 1st lecture, I attended my lab session in UWE yesterday.
Well, it's the session for the compulsory module, Project....yeah, I started my final year project.....
And guess what, I don't even know what is the title of my project, right until the lab session I attended yesterday. The project wasn't that bad, it's more or less something I'd prefer, but I'd much prefer if I can get to choose at least the title of the project, at least the main frame of what I'm gonna be working on.
Back in UCSI, we can choose our own project....I don't know if my other coursemates, the locals, can choose what they wanna do for the project, but this is what UWE offers to its international students, they decide for you, like it or not, you have to do it......

But anyway, I quite enjoyed the session yesterday, basically, the whole thing is about doing some dilution on the E. coli and culture them on plate....
And, I also got to know 2 Malaysian students from the session, who are also working on the same title as me, yeap, it's a group project, consists of 20-30 students. Just that each of a small group of 3-4 students are working on slightly different stuffs......
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Alright, what else can I blog about? That all for now I guess, hopefully new post will come up again pretty soon...

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24th September 2011

In my previous post I mentioned that I will write another post in the same day, end up didn't write anything again, lol....once I've get home I tend to be lazy....

And today, I decided to update it, been at home for the whole day, yeap, not even 1 step out of the house. Bought the ingredients required for my cooking yesterday, so today just cook, eat, and online.....lol......

Watched a few episodes of The Big Bang Theory in the morning, by streaming online. Kinda enjoyed watching this comedy series since I watched 2 episodes on the plane while flying to London.

Cooked herbal chicken soup today, I didn't buy the herbs, in fact, I don't even know what, or where to buy all the herbs needed, lol....
The herbs I used were packaged into a bag, something like a tea bag......my mom bought me few packets of these herbs and I brought it here.
The only ingredient which I need to prepare myself is the chicken, I bought a few chicken thighs yesterday, and used half of them for today's soup, I plan to cook spaghetti with tomato sauce again tomorrow, to finish up the chicken thighs.....

I added potato and spinach also, just to throw in some ingredients which remained after cooking previous meals...

Watched a BPL match in evening, Manchester United against Stoke City, and ManU draw 1-1...
And then, online-ing and gaming at night, that's all for my day, lol...

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21st September 2011

Ha, and I thought I might be blogging quite often here in UK, ends up my 1st post in UK comes in 1 week after I reached here.

Right now I'm inside the library of UWE (University of the West of England). Nothing much to do today, just came to attend a short half an hour IT lab induction, which basically to introduce all the IT facilities the school provides to its students.
Among all the facilities, what really caught my attention was the ability to access the documents I saved in school PC, from basically anywhere outside the school.
There is a 1GB space provided to each student, in school PC, it appears as if it's part of the partition created in the computer HDD, but actually, it's often backed up by the school's IT team, and can be accessible from outside via the Intranet network.

This is cool, and useful from what I think, I don't have to worry about my laptop will crash during my work, or the pendrive where I saved the file at will corrupt. It also saves me time to upload the file up to any online storage service, or email back to myself.

They also provide printing services where students send the files to print to the printing machines, and then print it from the machines. This was much like what I've seen when I was studying in TARC. Just that this is more convenient, due to the fact that I don't have to buy a card specifically just to use the printing service, I can just straight away top up my account, which was already created for registered students, using any top up kiosk around the campus, and when I want to print, I'll just have to log in my account on the machine and print stuffs. However, the charges are pretty expensive if converted to MYR, well of course if you don't convert, it's pretty good. It's just 4p (approx. 20sen in MYR) for 1 A4 page of black and white, and 15p (approx. 75sen in MYR) for 1 A4 page of colour printing.
This makes me think of the free printing service provided in library back in UCSI, where you just have to bring your own paper, and print for free.....

Alright, since I have nothing else to do in school today, I shall return home, and do some cooking for today, and enjoy the rest of the day. This post is pretty long by now, I think I'll just make a new post again by today, to tell some stories of my life here, and also post some photos.

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1 day left in KL

1 more day here, and I'll be leaving for UK. Practically feels nothing until last Sunday, when it's really close to departing from KL, my mood starts to get abit down.
I know I'm gonna miss KL alot, my home, my family, friends, the food, and so on....

Just gonna have 2 breaks in my 9 months study over there, 1 is around Christmas, and another is around April. My dad asked me not to come back to KL, because he think it's much better if I can spend my holidays traveling around Europe. Well, that's what I think as well, but that's if I can cope with home-sick.
I might be returning to KL during Christmas break, if the break is around 3 weeks long, because in that way I can spend around 1 week traveling around, and the remaining time in KL, or else the RM4k trip back to KL is gonna be too costly.

Probably gonna pickup blogging again during my time in UK, it's the best way for me to share my life, stories with my family and friends. But you guys will have to cope with my long essay type of blogging style.

Gonna reach Bristol a few days earlier, before the new term starts. So I should be spending these few days to get familiar with my area, and also the public transports which I should be using to get to uni, and also to city centre. Have to know where to get nice and cheap food, where to buy groceries, where to buy those daily use product, where to find laundry shops....arrrghhh, so many things to find out....

Still haven't finish packing my luggage, gonna rush everything in next morning.....
Hopefully everything will go smoothly in UK......

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Day 2 of hospitalization

Had quite a nice sleep last night, excluding disturbance from nurses for taking medicines, doing blood pressure and body temperature check, which were necessary...

Had a good news from the doctor in the morning, he told me my condition is actually way better than the previous day, although I still have a bit of fever at sometime, but it's already improved from the previous, where I had high fevers up to 38-39 degree Celsius.
And, if my body is able to get rid of fever, he MIGHT allow me to discharge from the hospital......but still have to stay at home for few days for the isolation period.

Well, I do hope I can go home ASAP.....it's kinda boring to be stuck in the room 24 hours per day.....and with limited movement due to the stand which holding the dripping packet stays with me most of the time.....
I can already feel a bit of pain on the vein around the area where the IV drip needle poked through the vein......
And stiffness has already developed on my lower back, and my leg muscles are degenerating already (sounds over, lol, but my legs are getting weak anyway).....

Basically, my condition today is quite good, despite the nurse keep providing me panadol, but it is certain that after taking panadol, my body temperature maintained normal for at least 8-10 hours before I take the next 1.

What I did today:
- Watch TV, as usual, nothing much to watch though, I had to watch the Disney channel, and saw Phineas and Ferb most of the time, well, at least I enjoyed watching that show, lol, and then I watched 风云2 at night....
- On9-ing....
- NBA-ing, played 2 matches today, too much free time, lol....
- Cubing, not much, just 20++ normal solves.....
- Movie-ing a bit....
-SMS-ing

Didn't take any nap today, so extremely tired now.....shall go to bed after posting this, and hopefully can get good news tomorrow......

Last but not least, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

Day 1 in hospitalization

Lol, it's around 10pm now, and I wanted to write a post before going to bed.

Well, basically what I did today were:
-On9-ing
-Abit of movie-ing
-Watch some Astro channels provided by the hospital
-NBA-ing (No controller, can only play with keyboard, lol)
-Cubing (usual 3x3 solves, and also a few blindfolded solves)
- Sleeping (well, not much, just took an 1 hour nap)
- and also SMS-ing with Fu Shun (requested by him to include in the list, lol :P)

Fever still on and off since I admitted to hospital, had to call the nurse for panadol early in 4am.
And the doctor has increased to 2 types of antibiotic...
Hopefully my bacterial infection can be cleared off soon....

So I shall sleep earlier tonight, hopefully things get better tomorrow.....

First time getting hospitalized in my life

Yar, I'm now blogging in my own isolated room at hospital. I was tested positive for Influenza virus A when I came to hospital for a more detailed check up after getting sick and never fully recover after 3 weeks.

Had been having flu and cough since 2 weeks ago, and fever came on and off and on and off continuously for 3 weeks....
Thought of only bacterial infection, my mom finally brought me to hospital this morning after getting frustrated for not getting cured even after visiting clinic for up to 4 times already.

Efficient enough, the doctor here already thought of the possibility of me getting infected by influenza, as my flu never really recover in the last 2 weeks. And the test results proved the doctor right. *I think next time when the doctor in clinic can't fully cure you in 1 time of consultation, you can stop wasting time and money, straight away go hospital*
Besides, I was also told that I had mixed infection, influenza A virus, and also bacterial infection, sounds like 'buy 1 free 1' package, lol...

Oh well, now here I am, isolated in a single room because of the influenza A virus which spreads among human easily....
To all my close friends, please consult doctor if you have symptoms like flu, cough, sorethroat, and fever, just 'in case' you got infected by me, and I'm truly sorry if I did, I really didn't expect I'd get infected with such virus.....

I might have to be isolated for up to 5 days, which means I'm gonna spend this year's Chinese New Year in hospital, definitely a whole new experience for me, LOL.....
People say don't get sick during CNY, I get hospitalized during CNY, haihz......

Well, despite of the small TV, at least I have quite a nice view on Great Eastern mall and KLCC from my room, LOL....