Due to Deepavali, today we have our make up practical for Contact Lens Fitting from 3pm to 7pm. Oh my goodness, I mis-diagnosed Merlyn's eyes totally.

Mr Konda helped to supervise my recordings. Lid eversion was alright. However, when it comes to preliminary examinations, here comes all the inaccuracy. Mr Konda detected cellular infiltrates. I didn't know what was that. So I put her cornea as 'clear' in the recording. Mr Konda told me that I should not miss it. :( I asked further what was that, I bet no one in the class know what is cellular infiltrates. All we know was corneal infiltrates and that's all. We were never taught what is cellular infiltrates.

Mr Konda explained that cellular infiltrates is due to inflammation. So, Merlyn's cornea was actually inflamed and it was asymptomatic. Mr Konda asked Merlyn if she has any problems with her contact lens and she said "yea, my eyes were red yesterday due to lens wear". In my heart, I thought: what the hell, I forgot about it, I saw her eyes red yesterday and even suggested her to go to SPOC or T1 lab to at least borrow saline to flush her lens maybe it will be better. And, when I asked about any previous contact lens problem, she only told me her eyes feels dry towards the end of the day with lens wear. WTH, she nvr remind or tell me about her eyes red due to lens wear the day before.

Mr Konda suggested Merlyn to cease lens wear for at least 3-4 days or even a week. To me, it is a serious ocular complication due to lens wear, IT's INFLAMMATION YOU KNOW???!!! and I missed it. Imagine, if it is a real walk in patient and the patient's cornea go damaged or beyond healing due to my mis-diagnosis. I felt guilty today for not detecting such a serious yet common complication due to lens wear.

I was rather sad the whole day thinking about my mis-interpretation and diagnosis of Merlyn's eyes. Yet when we had dinner @ FC 2 after that, when I told her about the stopping of lens wear as per Mr Konda recommended, she can tell me the most she dun wear tmr, since tmr is practical day. But she sure will wear on Friday one, because she cannot stand her spectacles.

At that moment, I didn't voice out, but deep down I was thinking, she is an optometry student and the more she should be more concerned about her own eyes that any other people and set the right example for her future customers or patients to follow. But instead she followed a famous hokkien saying : "ai swee mai mia (爱美不要命）" and decided to go for looks rather than to allow her cornea to heal and recover from the inflammation.

Though some ocular conditions may be asymptomatic, but if it aggravates, I bet one would definitely regret his/her own actions for compromising their own eye health. If Merlyn is reading this post, yea, think through what I said. To look pretty without glasses is more important, or protecting your own eyes is more important. Haiz....

After dinner @ FC2, we walked to dover stn, Shirlyn, Merlyn and Evan decided to go and catch a movie called 'Butterfly Lovers' at Jurong Point @ 9.35pm, the only slot available today. I didn't join them for movies as I have atc final meeting today. I took a bus down to bukit merah mac for meeting. I am guilty for not turning up regularly for meetings due to my busy school work and Japanese Language Class.

Meeting ended at 9.30pm. I left and didn't loiter around mac and chit chat with other CIs because I was still upset by the misdiagnosis in contact lens fitting practical, I have got no mood and plus I am too tired and just want to rush home to rest. Today is the first time I had such long hours in school - 10am to 7pm with only 1 hour of break.

Okay, I am super tired as I said, I shall go to bed right now.

10:46 PM; undramatically.Y

My hair is like curling all over the place and it seems like a bad hair day everyday. Today, I got my hair cut somehow by the influence of my classmates who went to cut their hair one by one. I didn't cut much, maybe the fringe and those unkempt hair that curls all over the place.

Yes~! Deepavali is Holiday... but :( I got to meet sensei in the evening on that day to brush up my particles for Japanese. I sucks at particles, and I hasn't been working hard for Japanese I admit it myself from the bottom from my heart and I am guilty knowing that we hasn't much time left to JLPT 4 yet I am at the danger zone of failing JLPT 4 based on my results for doing past year papers of JLPT 4 so far. May God Bless Me Man~!

11:40 PM; undramatically.Y

Well, it rained really heavy today in the morning when I went to school today. The first lesson was Ocular Pathology II from 8am to 10am and the next and last lesson is 5 hours later at 3pm to 5pm. I brought along my Japanese homework as there is 5 hours of break in between. When ocular pathology class ended, papaya told me to meet outside the lecture theater because she has something to tell me.

I was SURPRISED~! Haha because it is really so belated, my birthday was more than a month ago. Today I suddenly receive presents from them. Thanks papaya, orange and the ever-green Reena.

I have no idea why they bought me these items but I guess the reasons are...


After that we went to FC2 to eat breakfast. Since I had breakfast at home before I left for school, I had a cup of iced Milo while Evan and Reena got Hotcakes extra value meal (EVM), Merlyn got sausage muffin EVM and shirlyn got herself a big breakfast EVM. Following which, we browse around the the bazzar at FC 2. We spent some time there since shirlyn and merlyn wants to try on some apparels but ended up, only shirlyn bought an apparel put in a strawberry print plastic bag. PAPAYA WANTS TO CHANGE NAME TO STRAWBERRY BUT ORANGE AND APPLE DISALLOW. Therefore, she is still a papaya. :P

Reena left halfway to collect her pay for her part-time job during the holidays. So, left me, orange, papaya and Evan and we head off to Far East Plaza and Orange want her fringe trimmed.

When we reached there, Merlyn went back to the same hairdresser and told him about the problem she has with her fringe. Maybe, he's a professional hairdresser, even simple combing, he can do wonders and just by combing Merlyn's hair properly within seconds, Merlyn's problematic fringe suddenly went back to normal and problem is gone~! It is kind of -__-" because we travelled so far to look for a hairdresser and just to get the hair combed. Haha the problem is Merlyn dunno how to comb her hair. [Shirlyn, u asked me to post about this and I did alright~]

The hairdresser took a look at Merlyn's hair and we knew the answer as well, it lost its curl and the hair is dry, damaged and tangled. So he suggested Merlyn to re-do a perm. But it costs $120 haha seems like Merlyn can never afford it with so much debts owed. =P

After that we window shopped in Far East and we were running late and so we "flew" back to school and along the way, so coincidentally, we board the same train as my dar dar but different carriage. So we walked to our classroom venue together.

Woohoo... we walked really fast and we managed to reach the classroom venue on the dot and heng Mr Tham was late too. If not, dunno if he will flare up and scold us for being late. Though he always jokes around with us but he gives me a feeling of "xiao li chang dao" and so I dunno what he will do. Dun play around with him or we may get played around by him.

His lesson is ever so demanding and confusing, okay, but this time round it is not as bad as introduction to pathology that Mr Tham used to teach. At least I could understand what he says and teach now. He ends on the dot at 5pm and we walked out of the classroom with many question marks of how one can get a sectoranopia.

So tired today though today only had 2 lectures. It rained on my way home but today is still a bright day to me because I had fun today.

9:27 PM; undramatically.Y

After celebrating singing and cutting the birthday cake for my mom's birthday, we got ourselves ready and set off to uncle's house to celebrate grandma's 87 yrs young birthday. Aunt called to tell us the the buffet delivery was at uncle's house already, so I tagged along my father's motorbike and VRROOOM~! There we go to uncle's house and father wrote them a cheque for the payment while the rest of the family would go and collect other food items and join us later. When I reached there... the first thing that caught my sight was the huge and gigantic carebears.... Kawaii~!!!

12:06 AM; undramatically.Y

On the 18th Oct, the actual day of my mother's birthday, we went out as a family to eat outside to celebrate mommy's birthday. We went to Chinatown to eat at a vegetarian stall. After dinner, we walked around the area as there were many travel agencies there and talked about going overseas for holidays.

After dinner, everyone had their own meetings and programmes on, leaving my brother, father and I at home. We're so full and plus my sisters came back rather late, we we left the birthday cake for mommy till next day morning and sang her a belated birthday song. (So sad, it's belated).

10:48 PM; undramatically.Y

OMG, timetable changed and I didn't know until I was in school today. The timetable was changed luckily the first lesson of the day is still the same and hence I didn't attend the wrong class.


Practical starts today, day 1 week 1 of school. Kiasu right? I think first day of school, many classes in SP won't start proper... but ours do~! Okay I understand, maybe the content is just too much and we cannot to afford to slack right from the start of the first day of school.


Today's prac is kind of fun and thrilling. Because I had never worn contact lenses before... only twice for soft contact lens fitting appointment under SPOC where the seniors helped me to put in and remove the lens from my eyes.


The experience with contact lenses under SPOC appointment were terrible, I teared profusely as my eyes are sensitive and I just feel so uncomfortable with contact lens on my eyes. It's like a foreign body in my eye and is irritating.


With the phobia of putting lenses in the eye, today, I have to mastered the skill of putting in and removing contact lens from my friend's eyes and how to put it in and remove it in our own eye. In class, all of us tried on each other and swopped partners having umpteen people putting in and removing contact lenses from each other's eyes and ended up with red teary eyes and after the practical, we're all suffering from the after-effects and our eyelids felt so heavy and feel falling asleep and yet still can feel the foreign-body sensation from the lens fitting.


During prac time, shirlyn suggested to buy a cake for huiqi to celebrate her birthday and Janice got car today, so Janice, Merlyn, Shirlyn and Reena went out of school to get birthday cake while I stayed in school to distract Huiqi so that she wun suspect a thing. We had fish soup together for lunch. So sad... today got no fried fish soup.... the stall ran out of fried fish today. =(


After lunch, we went to library to print the new timetable and slacked there and later when the cake was delivered back to school, we went down to FC 2 together and sang her a birthday song as a class... it was near time to go up for class, so we ate the cake in a unique manner for the first time.... just take forks from FC 2 and scoop and eat.

9:18 PM; undramatically.Y

OMG... it is past 12am and today is 13th October and this marks my first day of school. This is my timetable for the Semester....

Just checked my ichat account email and Mr Konda sent us an email saying that prac would commence on week 1..... OMG I can feel the stress coming~!

1:04 AM; undramatically.Y

Taiwan Trip Day 3

Morning call at 7 in the morning and breakfast at 7.30am. The guide would pick us up at 8.30am. On the way when we go to our first destination for the day, we went pass the MRT station near our hotel for the the previous night. Even their MRT station looks so ancient.....

1:18 PM; undramatically.Y