Worse Physical Fall of my life....

I had my worse physical fall of my life just now, in a captain's ball match against the PTs.....
I was running sideway to get the ball.... well... of course I fell la... but before I fell, the momentum was so great that I cannot stop myself from continuing to run sideways.... I tired to balance myself... more than 2 times I think.... I knew I gonna fall but I just can't stop myself from falling.... so... the last postion was..... I was side lying on the floor, on my right side.... and with my left leg raised up.. i think... that's what my friend said....

The palmar side nearer to my thumb was numb for like 10-20 mins..... gosh...
Luckily all is just 皮外伤。。。。。

But the impact was very great when I fell... I can feel it... there was even this few seconds of thoughts that I may not be able to get up....

But overall, it was a good game.... we came in 3rd btw, out of 5 teams.... 5 PTs teams..... and us? The only OTs team....

Anyway, after the match, we had another round of friendly game. This time round, each team is made up of OTs, PTs yr 2 and yr 3..... my team had this really tall PT yr 3 guys.... who is in nyp basketball team i think..... he plays really well in the game.... not forgetting the rest in my team too.... nice game....

All these come with a price..... tiredness..... muscles aches tml..... but it is all worth it....

visual impairment

Once again, I tasted the feeling of being blind again...... this is the second time in OT course that I was blind..... The 1st time was last year, when we were introduced to the terms - disabled, impairment and handicapped.....

HB was talking about this visually impairment man who is the president of the Disabled People's Association of Singapore. I became curious of this person and decided to check out on him.

This is what I have found:
He is Mr Ron Chandran-Dudley. He was blind at the age of 19 at a rugby accident, tarnishing his dream of becoming a brain surgeon. Luckily, with his father's encouragement, he came to term with his blindness, and decided to volunteer himself at the Singapore Association for the Blind(currently known as the Singapore Association for the visually handicapped) and later took up a degree in social anthropology at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) and managed to excel in it.

After his course, he returned back to Singapore with his wife and he bacame the general secretary for the Singapore Association for the Blind. After 5 years, Ron left the Singapore Association for the Blind to study vocational rehabilitation counseling and psychotherapy as a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at Albany. He returned back to Singapore in 1971 and during the next 10 years, he branched out into other social services, including counselling the drug abusers and training after-care officers for the
Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association.

More about Ron Chandran-Dudley, Please click here.

Photography.....

I like to take photos of sunsets.... sunrises...... sea.... sky..... animals.... people.....
Below are some of my favourite photos that I took(some using friend's camera).....

Please note that the back is 101 Buliding, which has 101 storeys.

Sunrise in Ubin (taken in 2005)

Sunrise in Ubin (taken in 2004)

Hui Hui @ sentosa with my sunglass....

Aden

Tag-board button

Yoz.... my tagboard button is back to function finally......

Friends, it is time to WOOF!!!! ---->

Thinking

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking made it so."

- Hamlet

Coma vs Sleep

"Deep sleep is a temporary coma."

- quoted from Dr Param's Lecture

Finally it's over

It's over FINALLY..... at 09 00hrs....
I had submitted my creativity assignment... after so much effort put in..... was pasting the stuff into my book since 7pm yesterday.. and I only finished all at 2+am.... gosh...

Spending so much time and effort, at the end of the day,

is it still worth it?

Well, after some thoughts,

In life, whatever effort we put in, we will never get back the same amount.

And often than not, it is always lesser.

The most important thing is not the product but the process......

Don't expect too much

and you will be contented.

期望越高，

失望越大。

Well, today, I overslept. 1 alarm clock, 1 handphone alarm and 2 handphone reminders can't seems to wake me up.....

The strange thing is that, I had switched off my alarm clock and my hp alarm and reminders.... without me knowing it.... and the thing is I have to actually get up my bed to off my alarm clock.... but I can't seems to remember I have done any of these.....

Waking up at 7.30am means that I will be late for discussion with Jo (my intro to mental health lecturer) and even if there was no discussion, I will still be unable to meet the 09 00hrs deadline if I were to take a bus to school..... therefore, I have to resort in taking a cab..... $12.70.... inclusive of $1 charge for peak hours......

Throughout the ride, I can't seem to contact any of my group members.... my phone has no reception.... then it became low batt.... dunno if the problem lies with my phone, the sim card or the service provider....

And the worst of all, the discussion with Jo supposed to be on thu instead of today..... which I already suspected is thurs....

anway, still managed to have a discussion with her today.....

at least one good thing about today.... I do not need to go to school early on thu.....

another good news... I finished school at 11am tml!!!

my phone is back to operation at 12noon today..... revived from a intense CPR by me... hopefully it don't get a heart attack again.... if not, I think I will get mine too.... ;p

Hopefully there are more good happenings to me......

Addendum: Thanks to those who contributed to my assigments, esp. Adrian who tried to email me back despite your busy schedule. Thanks to Murni, Zub and Zhenru too..... Not forgetting Stephen too.... thanks babes and dudes for ya help!!!

Daylight robbery

I was at the regional library just now. Wanted to print my creativity assignment.... no other place near my house am I able to print them.

So I went to the nearest library to my home one of course..... At the same time, I went to return my OVERDUE library books..... those that I borrowed for my stitching of soft toy....

Then I came to know that I have to pay $0.30 if I want to print a A4 document.... and it is only black and white.... $0.30 for a page!!! This is 6 times the amount I have to pay in NYP!
Imagine I have 9 pages to print.... and it is $2.70.... whereas I only need to pay $0.45 back in NYP.....

Gosh..... decided not to print at the library.... went to challenger instead.... thinking whether to get a new ink catridge or not.... in the end, I decided not to purchase my bus concession yet... thou it expires yesterday.....so use that money to buy the ink catridge... bought a colour one... so that I can print black and white too... thou it is wasteful to print black and white using colour ink.... this is the best option that I can think of at the moment.... I wouldn't want to risk printing them and doing it tomorrow in school.... 09 00hrs is the deadline.... to risky....

Suddenly, it reminds me of my college times.... how fortunate I am to be a Computer Science student (in case you all don't know, I took comp sci as my A level subject). We have a whole computer lab and a tutorial room (which became our study room during the A level) to ourselves..... P4 processor..... air-con room..... free printing...... free gaming place (when we got tired of studying during our As.. we will go over from the tutorial room to the comp lab...I am not the gaming type of person... but that time I do play yahoo pool and mahjong).....

It suddenly reminds me how fortunate I am then.....

4th biennual General Meeting

Yesterday was Tampines Central Youth Executive Committee (YEC) aka youth group 4th Biennual general meeting. This is when the 3rd term committee is dissolved and the 4th term committee being elected.

With a blink of an eye, this is my 3rd term serving.... came into the committee at the age of 16.....

This year, it is walked over again... so all of us are elected into the committee, without any election.

After the BGM, we had our office-bearers meeting where we either choose the post or being proposed by others. FYI, to be the main office-bearers, we had to be 21 years old and above.....

As my signature is different each time and I am still under 21 at the moment.... I didn't want to be treassurer.... so our treassurer will still be jeff.....

I was deciding between the post of adventure secretarial or community service secretarial.....

I had been a adventure secretarial for all my terms..... but anyway, we can still organize activity that is outside our portfoilio..... ;p

Heard that the one who took up the community service secretarial portfoilio actually wanted adventure secretarial ....

Mmm... maybe she can be the assistant adventure secretarial and I can be assistant community service secretarial.... lolz.... shall see the 1st meeting how ba....

After the meeting, we went to changi for some drinks (coffeessss and some alcholic drinks)
Didn't know that above the Changi Point Ferry Terminal (this is the new changi jetty) has such a place.... the atmosphere is not bad.... a nice place to chat... I don't really like to go to places like disco... 'cos it is simply too loud... and I am too rigid to dance....and I don't really like techno songs....

I like places that are a good place for chat.... plays nice songs (any, except techno...).... nice lighting(no need to be indoor with those expensive lights.... yesterday's was an outdoor concept.... with a candle-lamp.... and of course... star-light... ;p).....

Reached home around 2+....... took a bath.... and was too tired to blog....


Addendum: Thanks Mickey for yesterday.... really appreciate that... ;p

Creative Activity , Crea-tivity

Creativity Assignments to be handed up on Monday, 09 00hrs......

Guess it will be too boring for you guys if I were to tell you what I will be writing in my assignment.... so I am not going to do so... but well, this time round, we don't have to follow the NYP Presentation Guidelines!!!! But I guess, still have to do in-text citation and references.....
so.. I am going to present my assignment in a scrap book format.... printed the pictures of my soft toys... just need to finish up my written assignment and get it printed outside (no more ink @ home) and gonna cut and paste into the "man-made" scrap book that is half-way done.... and so coincidently that the construction paper is called/branded "Creativity paper".

Below are the photos of the "soft toy" that I have done... wanted to do teddy bears one... but too time consuming.... but well.. one is on the way... but I think I am not gonna to include that for my assignment. The bear still lack a body, 2 legs, 2 arms and 2 forarms.....

Enjoy....
P.S: Please feel free to give any comments too....

My 1st product: an ugly fish

(made with banner cloth and stuffed with TOILET PAPERs)

2nd product: X-factor?

(no lah.... it's my inital.. XL.... didn't do the L thou)

3rd product: Blue heart with pink love

4th product: Pinky E with Blue Evelyn

5th product: Orangy A with brown Adrian

Anyway, if you all didn't know, from product 2 onwards, I uses felt and stuffed them with some wool type material... not exactly know what is the material...

Product 1 is stuffed with toilet paper and made with cloth is based on the assumption that client does not know about sewing and needs to explore on it 1st, without knowing what material to use,etc....

P.S: The last 2 weren't meant to be part of my creativty assignment. They were made as token of appreciation in mind in the first place.... but I came to realize that I have nothing much to write if I do not include them in....

The therapeutic potential in the last two can be self-expression, which I can add into my report. Then I can say that by doing it for someone in mind to give to, it can provide intrinsic motivation for the clients and thus increase the rate of recovery. =p

Back to school

Today, I went back to school again... this is the 3rd times I went to school. Other than monday, I have been going to school everyday. The same goes for tml... Even monday was a school event....
Term break? No.....

Did I say why I go back to school today?

I went to practise my moblilty (one of my modules). I was practising my wheelchair mobility and I decided to go to the North Canteen to get myself a drink. I wheelled myself to the 2nd level( I was at the 5th level and I took a lift of course). Then, at the canteen, I decided to see what I want to buy and I stood up. The gal in front of me was shocked!! I must have frightened her....

Tml... erm... later is the trial exam.... I guess I will not be able to answer the questions... but it will not matter I guess..... Cause my objective of going later is to have a feel how the practicals and examinations will be conducted.

That's all for now.....

面包超人。。。。

I was sunburnt few days back... this is how I looked then... and I think I kinda looked like 面包超人 (less the nose)....

Do I looked like 面包超人??

Happy Teachers' Day

Happy Teachers' Day to anyone who teaches......

I was invited to the Ngee Ann Secondary Annual Teachers' Day Dinner. Ngee Ann Primary teachers were there as well. Both Ngee Ann Primary and Secondary falls under Ngee Ann Kongsi.

I was quite inspired by what the Principal of Ngee Ann Primary School says during her speech:

" You can count the number of seeds in an apple.

But you cannot count the number of apples from a seed."

Mr Richard Lee was there too. I always remember him as the tall man since I was in secondary school. He was always present during Speech Day aka award presentation day back in NASS.

oh ya, he was the one who gave out the first few top prizes for the lucky draw and guess what?? The lucky draw number that he drew for the 1st prize was his!!! And before that, he jokingly said that:

" Every year the primary school teachers will ask me to draw from primary school and the secondary school teachers will ask me to draw from the secondary school. Today, I shall keep the prize for myself."

He was shocked too. He donated out the 1st prize which is a mp3 if I am not wrong.... worth $400.....

That's all folk! Some pictures to share....

Ridzwan, Lup Peng and me

Me and Lup Peng

ME!!

Addendum: Happy Teachers' Day to Zac. Thanks for all the things that you have taught us....

Thanks to A and E for being so patience with us during the sign language practice. =P

Thanks to people like Danping, Yurong, Nicole, San San, Wendy, Ai Ching... who has taught me alot of things few years back....

Thanks to others who has teaches me before, may it be a hard skill or soft skill or even way of life....

Without you all, there wouldn't be the current me....

Happy Teachers' Day, once again.