The buying house plan was a bust.
We went to the HDBhub for our flat selection appointment only to learn that we were going to have problems getting the HDB loan.
An alternative to the HDB loan was the bank loan or no loan.
The bank loan will cost us so much more because of the much higher interest rate..and because we are not as loaded as I keep saying I am..
We decided to give up the flat.
I shed about 2 tears after we left the office.
We were so hopeful about the house you know..
We spent so much time talking about how nice it would be once we get the house in a few years' time.. we'll have a place to call our own.
and then suddenly this home was not ours anymore.
I probably should stop getting emotional about this again because we're still young. Sure there will be other BTOs coming up we'll probably find one that we like even more.
When we left the HDBhub that day we came to the conclusion that this estate was fucked up anyway. haha.
It did make us feel a lot better.
♥Bid Farewell
Yesterday as me and alicia were walking out of M10 after lecture I asked Ali what she was going to do now..
Me: Going to eat lunch?
Alicia: ya.. I feel like going to donate blood..
Me: Really ? Okay lets go now.!
And so we went to NUH's blood donation centre after we had lunch at the canteen there.
Me and alicia thought we were going to get rejected from blood donating because we were rejected before..
Me for being underweight and alicia for her low BP.
haha! just kidding! Me was rejected before for my eczema on my right arm.
So when we went there alicia really had too low a BP reading and drank a lot of water to boost the blood volume while I went ahead to donate blood first..
This lancet thing is what we use to prick our patients to test their blood glucose levels.
And every time I use it I feel a pang of guilt for causing pain.
But when the nurse used it on me yesterday to test my blood hemoglobin it didn't hurt at all.
Phew~
Maybe it was cus the nurse shortened the length of the needle on the lancet.
I should probably do that for some of my patients.
and when the nurse swabbed my left arm with alcohol to prepare for the needle insertion I was so freaking scared.
When she came with the needle filled with anaesthesia, 20% of me wanted to run away.
Wah but she was really good with the needle cus it didn't hurt too! amazing.
Then she came with this huge ass needle, 50% of me was scared, like really scared.
But excited too.. Just like the exhilarating but nervous feeling just before the roller coaster descends from its peak and drops us into free fall..
Which reminds me about T-express in Korea.
Alicia and I were both excited about taking T-express the second time!
and we both spontaneously agreed to go donate blood!
Perhaps we're into the exciting tingling feeling of pain and fear..
Nice :)
I know I'm getting older cus I didn't use to feel dizzy after blood donation.
It was black in front of my eyes every time I stood up for the entire day.
and the worse thing was I started to vomit my lunch out about 15 mins after the blood donation..
I vomited probably 6 more times while waiting for caleb to fetch me home..
I can't believe I got food poisoning again!?
Nobody gets this vomiting illness so many times in a year seriously.
This is abnormal.
Really hate being sick you know?
I was saying to caleb that I am not suitable to have a Stomach..
I probably should have gastrectomy.. If I didn't have this weak stomach I would not keep vomitting.
And caleb replied absentmindedly, why don't you remove your rectum....
?@#%# right?
♥Bid Farewell
Sigh why are my hands so itchy?
Yesterday before 4 pm I sent my systematic review protocol to Turnitin.com even before my supervisor approved of this latest draft.
So I sent it to Turnitin and got the originality report back almost immediately.
Thought I was lucky cus I heard about how Turnitin sometimes take a few hours.
So I itchy-handedly went to edit some parts of this draft and resubmitted it to Turnitin.
Super kaypo. Shouldn't have done that. Cus it is true that the second submission will take about 24 hours or longer to process the second one.
UGH.
And I didn't save the first originality report before it was overwritten by the second currently processing one. :(
So now I'll just have to wait.. and hopefully make it for the Deadline today at 6pm.
Next time I will not act hardworking and kaypo go and edit here edit there.
I will just be my usual nua-self and hand in whatever whenever it is ready.
The protocol has been a bitch to do seriously.
Especially the search strategy part.
For each of the databases which we're going to search we have to list exactly the words and how we're going to search.
Let me show you..
Example1
(“Experience” OR (“Life Experience” OR MM “ Life Experience” OR MH “ Life Experience+”) OR (“Perception” OR MM “Perception” OR MH “Perception+”) OR “Meaning” OR “Meaningfulness”) AND
((“Child” OR MM “Child” OR “MH “Child+”) OR “Pediatric” OR (MM “Pediatric Surgery” OR MH “Pediatric Surgery”) OR (MH “Child, hospitalized” OR MM “Child, hospitalized”)) AND
((“Pain” OR MM “Pain+” OR MH “Pain+”) OR (MM “Postoperative Pain” OR MH “Postoperative Pain” OR “Postoperative Pain”) OR “postsurg* pain” OR “Surg* pain”)
This is still not perfect yet lor.
The aim is to capture ALL the articles relevant to my topic.. and different databases have different codes and styles of searching.
Super time consuming.
That time me and alicia were trying to do this thing, and her list was like soooooooooooooooooo loooooooonnnnnngggggg because she is naturally long-winded and she included a lot of 'OR's to make sure that she put in all relevant words.
So we thought that since her list is so long it should be all-encompassing and it might retrieve too many journal articles from the database which might include irrelevant ones as well.
So we typed in her list and tried the database.
It came out as "Your initial search yield no results".
(-_-") so frustrating.
Must do all over again.
I'm going back to waiting for Turnitin now. boo
♥Bid Farewell
