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| Intro... and I thought for a while what to put here about me. :) What do you wanna know? I am just a simple guy working in an IT Company handling Operations and Project Management. I'm also going through a torturous 16 months "express" double degree course at Kaplan APMI - Murdoch University. In this blog, you will basically find alot of nonsense from me. I like to complain and yes I complain alot but for things that are not right. If you know me well enough then you will know that I always complain for a reason :D otherwise I am just like any quiet guy next door starring at the laptop screen. This blog details my daily experiences as well as my training for my runs. I have taken an interest in running since last year and I am working towards completing a Marathon this year... Do feel free to comment or message me I will definitely reply and if you need to email me, feel free to drop your emails to terencetkp@gmail.com! |
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| Friday, May 23, 2008 //ill for one week |
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| I'm sick for one week and yet I am still coughing my heart out every 5 minutes. I really want to get well soon so that I can continue with my training for my first 10km competitive run on the 6th of June. Yes its pretty close and I have not been running seriously for the past 2 and a half weeks... :( I dont want my first run to end up like... Attend B status (thats what they call people who are on excuse in Army). Went to school today.. or rather the First Class Teaching Facility today at YMCA... instead of the normal school campus at Cuppage. I have officially missed like 3 to 4 classes already and I was telling myself that if I were to continue skipping.. I will most probably end up wasting my money and so I told myself to go to class no matter how sick I'm gonna be.. Surprise Surprise though.. today I received an sms from Carol .. I believe she is the Boss of the Program Management Team from the School. She invited us for dinner but somehow she didn't know that 3/4 of the class deferred Knowledge and Information Security and was shocked to learn about it from me and so I told her to arrange the dinner on another day, preferably during Software Architecture. Actually I thought that something like that is coming up sooner or later because the School's Management has read about JK's blog entries and are concerned with the problems that BIS students are facing. Well, all I can say is something right should have been done right from the start to prevent such problems from occuring. If they had taken our feedbacks and complaints seriously, I believe there won't be such problems occuring and we will all most probably be studying happily in School. I mean feedback / assessment forms are collected for a reason and that is to read, analyze and improve on the areas of concern but somehow yeah things seems to get lost along the way. Anyway, the history of BIS1 and APMI goes back a long way since our first feedback session with Carol but I shall leave all these to another blog entry. Its late now and I'm not really well so I am gonna go sleep. |
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| Tuesday, May 20, 2008 //sick sick sick |
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| I have been sick for the past few days.. and I am still sick... Had a sore throat last thursday followed by a little bit of cough on Friday. Went to Guardian to purchase a bottle of Actified and took abit of it during work to find myself KOing on my desk half an hour later. Supposed to have a management meeting that day but my boss did not return from his meetings and so it was cancelled. I then left office early to go home to sleeping.. skipping ICT 265 Knowledge & Information Security so that I can have a good rest and work through the weekend. However... I spent the weekend sleeping. Yes... Sleeping.. Friday evening after I got home.. I had some soup for dinner and went to sleep till the very next day. Saturday I woke up to purchase some flu tablets from the clinic as the queue was way to long to see a doctor.. I then headed home.. pop in the flu tabs and went back to sleep.. till night I woke up to eat some bread and then took the medication and then heading... back to the bed to sleep. This repeated for Sunday and Monday... and for the whole of this holiday... I was sleeping. I had never felt so sick before... having to sleep for so long hours but I am really very weak. The more i slept the more tired I got... and so on Monday night I tried to not sleep but ended up feeling tired and had to sleep cos I got to wake up the next morning to work. I woke up at 6.50am as planned but I couldnt go to work. I was having a slight fever and a running nose and cough. The only way out was to see a doctor and so I left home at 7.50 to queue at Dr Tan's clinic.. and to my surprise the queue was already till two shops away even the clinic is only opening at 8.30am. Ah well I managed to get a queue number at 8.40 and was told to come back an hour later to see Dr Tan. Went back at 9.40 and managed to see him. Was told that my throat is having a bad infection and will be given two days MC and so here I am.. resting at home and trying to sleep and do some work at the same time. Still having loads of cough... and not sure when will I fully recover. There's also a research exercise due tomorrow but somehow I managed to extend it as I am really not within my capability of getting it done. However I will spend some time tomorrow to work on it and hopefully submit by Thursday. Lately I have also been hearing from my class mates and JK's blog on some issues with the classes. I have yet to attend the second lecture for Ms Malar and thus I wasn't sure what was going on. However it seems that there are issues with the lecturer's teaching materials. It has also seems that there's a lapse on the school's administrative procedures. Sad to say I am already very very disappointed and not sure how I should react accordingly for this latest issue. I hope I really hope that everything will run smoothly after this. I cross my fingers. Now time for some rest again. This really sucks. |
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| posted by Terence @ 6:25 PM| comments? (0) |
| Monday, May 12, 2008 //Oops APMI did it again |
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| Yes... The school has done it again. They did not give us the schedule as requested. What was given was a list of dates without the class timing and location of the class. After my groupie and I wrote in to request for it.. (and with another follow up one), we were given the schedule for this week and next. However our program manager had given us the wrong timing for Sunday's class and thank god she realised it in time or else we will all be going to school at the wrong timing. The standard I believe is that they will usually give us the list of scheule with the location, time, date, unit for every month but I'm not sure why she only gave us the schedule till the 18th. Must I write in again to chase for the rest of the month's schedule? Sigh... I have been busy with work and going out to eat with Yanlin and Jason. Yanlin came back to SG from US already for a 3 month summer holiday and I have been eating and eating... and have not been doing my runs... and so today I told myself that I have to go running else my stamina gonna drop very badly when I start to run next week. Some of the food (sinful) ones that I have been taking for the past one week includes dim sum at night at Xin Wang, Steamboat at Bugis, Coffee, Chocolate Cakes and etc :P Friday was an OT day and on Saturday.. I took the oppoturnity to rest by playing my PSP... loaded with games from Jason. HAHA. Got so addicted to it that I played the whole day and ended up not doing what I had planned to do over the weekend (which partly explains why I am only blogging today and not yesterday :P). I will talk about the games on another post ba.. As for today, there's a class in the morning and yeah I woke up late like 9.20 and took a cab down to school (from tampines to centrepoint) and to realise that I was the first to reach... The lecturer (Malar) came in around 10.05 and tried to download her powerpoint slides from Murdoch.. but I guess that was a very bad move on her side. If she had taught in the school before, she should know that its advisable to get her slides and prepare her stuffs before coming to school.. else if the internet connection is down then it will be hard for her to get the required resources for the class... and that was what exactly happened. There were no slides today.. she briefly went through the outline of the unit (requirements like assignments and etc) based on the printed unit guide.. then she tried to ask us some fundamentals of programming like what are the types of data type... blah blah and she was flipping the book to see what she can teach / go through. The class ended 1 hour earlier because there was nothing else to do. I do hope the next lesson will be better. She seems ok la.. just abit not prepared.. maybe because there's nothing to teach for the first class.. After class we went SLS lo.. Me, JK, HM and LP went there to walk around and I started feeling tired and sleeping (haha cos maybe hardware stuffs not my genre) then we went to eat vegetarian lo.. cos hor.. HM said during the examinations that if he can pass ICT310 Operating Systems... he will eat vegetarian for 3 months! and it came true! Oh did I mentioned about the examination results? Results were out when Mark told me.. not bad but I'm quite disappointed with ICT326. Didn't do as well as I had wanted to but for ICT310 and ICT218.. yeah the results were kinda expected... so I did a count.. currently I have 3HD, 2D and 1C (Credit). Not bad le ba.. but I will continue to work hard! Oh back to our SLS trip.. yeah after eating vegetarian.. we parted our ways and went back home lor. JK said he was having abit of sore throat and I felt the same when I reached home... (ok la I didn't went home directly.. I went to east point to buy some stuffs for office with my cousin) and I slept immediately when I reached home as I was having a super bad headache... Anyway.. that's all for the activites update for the past one week. Tomorrow is back to work day again. Have alot of things to do.. very sian but still have to do.. and yeah I'm actually doing my work right now.. |
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| Wednesday, May 7, 2008 //Power Failure + Ti Amo |
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| Work Work Work.. Everyday is about Work and Studies haha. Today was a pretty busy day.. have a list of things on my mind that I have to do. As my company is slowly becoming independent.. there's alot of operation things that I have to take over from my HR and Accounts department.. Things like Leave.. Customer Contracts.. Payroll... Claims.. Accounts and etc etc... something new that I am looking forward to.. (but on top of my existing scope that is.. haha) Anyway today went for dinner with Winnie, Valerie and her Husband... Went to E!hub again but this time we tried Ti Amo.. seriously the food is good and the ambience is really not so bad.. ordered the Tequila Sunrise cocktail to try... not bad too just abit too much alcohol :P then the worst thing for today happened... there's a power failure in my block! omg omg omg... and i have to climb 12 storeys to my home :( and it lasted from like 11pm to 12.30am! gosh but luckily there's some battery in my laptop so i used it to watch Jumper.. wahahaha... Gonna go sleep soon though as I have to go to work tomorrow... :) |
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| Tuesday, May 6, 2008 //First Day of School and Work |
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| Today is the first day of school and work (back to work after a long examinations leave). I woke up like 6.45am to go to work today.. and reached office like 8.40 with only my boss in office neh... Was kinda energetic cos its being some time since I last stepped back into my office so its kinda good to see everyone again. Went out for lunch as well and had porridge with veg and meat. Nothing much happened at work except work.. so yeah not worth mentioning yar.. I left office around 5.50pm today to go school early to meet Ivan and Mark and Huiming for dinner.. Had Dumpling Soup for dinner and went to school to make payment of school fees and to collect textbooks. Lecture was extremely boring... Sigh and its only the FIRST LESSON with 11 more to come. Assignments is not as siong as expected... more emphasis on doing research rather than critique.. so its not so much of a bad thing. Lecture was very dry though.. the lecturer went on and on and on.. and on reading word for word from the slides.. sometimes I wonder if I am qualified to teach as well? But well.. was trying hard to read the slides lor... and then finally there's break where I grabbed a slice of banana ckae from Bengawan Solo before heading back to class for part two of the lecture. When I reached home.. I was feeling extremely tired and hungry and so I must admit that I just cooked a packet of Koka Mee Goreng with No MSG. Sigh very fattening indeed but I was just so hungry! Anyway I will make up for it tomorrow by running more.. i hope. Time for me to hit the bed soon as I have to work tomorrow. Good Night! |
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| Sunday, May 4, 2008 //irritating rashes - hives |
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| Yup.. Tomorrow it's back to work day... I hope I have already charged up enough energy to face all the stuffs that are waiting for me back in office. Tomorrow is also the start of a new school term, but I have yet to have any materials with me to bring along for classes as (ahem... ) yeah.. Recently the rashes that I have been getting last year and the year before is back to haunt me. I have been getting hives during the months of April to June and I'm pretty sure its because of the hot weather that is causing it. Other than that, I won't have it in other months. Hives (Urticaria & Angioedema) is a very irritating thing and its taking over control of my life during April to June. It will come and go without any warning.. sometimes it lasts for an hour.. sometimes a day.. and I will usually take zyrtec to get rid of them (actually not really getting rid of it but more of to stop the itch). The red swellings and spot will still be visible till it automatically disappears by itself. Hives is something that has no known cause.. so it can be anything or nothing that causes it.. but for me I noticed that its occuring during the period of April to June and usually its when the weather is extremely hot so I assume my body is not able to take the heat ba.. I have seen my doctors several times before and usually get the same kinda answer that I can find by googling about it.. haha. The only serious one that happened was when I had a full body outbreak of hives.. which covered the whole area of my chest, legs and hands and I was feeling breathless (and that is one serious case of hives when you starts to get breathless). I went to a 24 hours clinic for treatment and was prescribed with steriods. The doctor then wanted to give me a jab for immediate effect BUT i refused because.. its the first time I am seeing him and he just don't look professional enough.. considering the fact that he was watching DVD prior to seeing me.. I took the steroids plus zyrtec that he had prescribed to me.. and ended up having gastric pain the next day.. :( Anyway below is a picture of how it looks like one of my hands... and I'm actually having it now while blogging about it.  I hope this will go off soon.. its affecting my life because people look at me as though I am some skin disease sufferer.. and it can get bery back when its red and big and swelling... Its also affecting my life because the itch makes me wanna scratch and I ended up having scratch marks on my body.. and I'm unable to concentrate at work / study when its really very itchy... so HIVES please go away soon.. COOL weather please come soon. |
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| Saturday, May 3, 2008 //吳克群 - 越愛越難過 |
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| Friday, May 2, 2008 //Do Do Re Re Mi Mi Re Do |
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| Went to watch Iron Man at Cathay Downtown East - E!Hub but not in a very good mood to blog further. Will end my entry today with the lyrics of a song by Kenji Wu. 吴克群 越爱越难过 说 说你为什么 为什么要走 说你为何要分手 别拖 求你别软弱 求你说出口 分手的理由 但你却拖 拖 拖 拖到什么时候 如果要走却又为何停留 请你别拖 拖 拖 大声的说出口 请你要痛就痛给我个快活 如果说你要走 我不会留 我不去管以后 然后我们说清楚 一句话就够 如果说你要走 我不会留 我不去管以后 多么痛 多么的难过 别越爱越难过 Do Do Re Re Mi Mi Re Do Do Do Re Mi Do 说 说你为什么 为什么要走 说你为何要分手 别拖 求你别软弱 求你说出口 分手的理由 但你还拖 拖 拖 拖到什么时候 如果要走却又为何停留 请你别拖 拖 拖 大声的说出口 请你要痛就痛给我个快活 如果说你要走 我不会留 我不去管以后 然后我们说清楚 一句话就够 如果说你要走 我不会留 我不去管以后 多么痛 多么的难过 别越爱越难过 然后连话都不说 继续沉默 连朋友都没得作 为了什么 然后跟别人说你其实还是爱我 就算了吧 坏人我来做 如果说你要走 我不会留 我不去管以后 然后我们说清楚 一句话就够 如果说你要走 我不会留 我不去管以后 多么痛 多么的难过 别越爱越难过 Do Do Re Re Mi Mi Re Do Do Do Re Mi Do |
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| Thursday, May 1, 2008 //retail therapy |
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| I'm so tired today because I couldn't get to sleep last night. It was so warm that I was sweating as I slept on my bed... Supposed to go for a family dim sum this morning but my mum said that my second brother won't be coming and thus there won't be enough seats in the car.. and so I went back to sleep... == but five minutes later my mum called asking me to quickly bath and go down as my brother is waiting downstairs to fetch us.. (another excellent work of miscommunication by dearest auntie, aka my mum). Had to quickly rush and pack my bag as I am supposed to go sentosa for sun tanning.. Reached Hong Xing Restaurant and the queue was like OMG. Right from the inside of the restaurant to two storeys below at the staircase! but hehe thank god my elder brother was there earlier and managed to get a seat and so I was walking pass all those people who were dying to get inside the restaurant for some excellent dim sum. I must say that Hong Xing's dim sum is real good! This is not the first time I have been there but this is the first time I ate like mad.. ok too exaggerating but yeah practically my mum was stuffing me with so much food that I had to say stop... especially you know Dim sum always comes with the "fried" dishes... There was one particular dish that I think is super nice.. and that is the Super Da Bao... its as huge as the size of a Plate... (not those kind of small small plate.. but a CAI FAN plate that kinda size).. its damn good and of course its for sharing.. I cant finished it myself.. After some good dim sum.. i dropped off at Outram to make my way to Harbour Front to go Sentosa.. but hor.. when I reached there.. one of my colleague said that he cant make it.. and my other colleague aka best friend who came said that there's alot of crowd going into sentosa and he's having second thoughts about going... and so we ended up shopping... or rather I ENDED UP SHOPPING. Bought another Nike Running top at 20% off... bought a ring from River Island as well.. and was tempted to buy a pair of Jeans from Top Man.. but luckily they didn't fit. HAHA then we walk and walk.. visiting shops like Pull and Bear, Adidas, Nike, Top Man, Tangs, Espirit and etc... till my legs started aching and we decided to sit down for some coffee before we continue round 2. :X Talked about work and stuffs during that time and when it was ready for the second round.. ok la.. not so kua zhang we merely went giant for him to get some groceries stuffs before we departed and headed back home respectively. When I went home.. I had a quick bath and went downstairs to cut hair.. Had wanted to make appointment with thsi guy called AShley at Far East (recommended by my friends) but he's full today and I can't really wait another day.. so yeah went downstairs to hunt for one.... and found a new salon that just opened today and so went in for a Cut + Wash and a Scalp Treatment for $60. Felt like a tai tai today as people massage my hair and cut and wash my hair for me... ha ha ha... but yeah my hair condition.. hai.. ok better not talk about it. Anyway that's all for today. Gonna spend the rest of the night either doing work or resting. Tomorrow its back to work already but I had requested from my boss that I stay home as I have lotsa data migration to do.. :( |
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//Dinner with Ivan + Brewerks |
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| Nothing special today. Went out for a swim but to only end it 30 minutes later as the sky was getting dark and find it pointless to continue swimming. (Main purpose is to get tan :P) Went back home to check some email and then its time to go out and meet Ivan, my ex sergeant for dinner. We agreed to meet at 7pm at Marina Square and it was part of his plans to give me a treat.. or else he won't want to meet me.. so LL lo.. then I managed to get Small William and CQ along (although CQ keep saying he has to study... HE IS ACTUALLY STUDYING ONE CHAPTER A DAY...zzz). We went to a few places after dinner.. first was to some hawailian cafeteria where Small William grabbed a bite of sandwiches. After that we went club / pub hunting and the first stop was Timber... but hiak hiak the crowd was just too crazy so we drove to Clark Quay instead. Went to a few places and ended up at Brewerks.. (too bad I didn't wear proper shoes and etc else we can go to those clubs like Lunar or MoS) Heard from one of my class mates that my Program Manager is leaving and so I left her an email asking her if its true and if its because we are too difficult to handle. She replied my email saying that its true... and that though we may seem to be difficult to handle, she know why we are reacting that way. That causes me to write an email to her as well to perhaps let her know why we are reacting that way since she is leaving anyway. The details of the email is as follows: Hi, Thanks for replying and I'm sorry to know that you're leaving. Though the amount of contact time is little, It has been great knowing you as well and do keep in touch with us if possible. Well, since you will be going off, I guess I can share with you the reason why we have been difficult.. or rather why I feel we are being difficult here. In actual fact, we aren't trying to be difficult to anyone at all in the first place. You know, I enrolled to the school because I was very impressed with the quality of service provided back then by Michelle and her team. I was impressed with the facilities and the promises made by the school during the orientation / introduction but somehow I guessed the school didn't leave up to the promises made to us and didn't deliver them accordingly, which places us in a very difficult situation after the term starts. I am actually a very easy to get along person (the lecturers sure get guarantee that :P) and would definitely not want to be in a situation of trying to be difficult all the time, but if you can understand, there are some stuffs from the school that we felt should be done and not done (though given the feedback several times) and I don't think it should be us (the students) who are taking the initative to constantly push and push for the things to be done when it should be done (by the school) in the first place. I believe there are some things that you can see for yourself here that things would have been better if they had been properly done. Anyway, I would not want to spoil your days further with my long and lengthy email. I thank you once again for the efforts taken in trying to assist my class mates and I in whichever way you can. Good luck to you in your future endeavours and take care! Regards Terence Yeah and so that was my email to her. I would like those people out there in the school to know why we reacting this way. Is there a need for us to treat the school this way to get things done? I don't believe so but somehow they had forced us to go through the hard way to get things done. I would definitely want PEACE but sigh.. its a neverending thing if its only one side that is clapping. |
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