Leap Year

Ok I shall blog about something before the end of February 29th which happens every 4 years... Maybe I should just plagiarise the history of the leap years to begin with.

A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, in the Gregorian calender, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of full days, a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year. - Wikipedia

My town looks deserted today, dunno why also. Maybe it's because of the association of Feb 29th with something nasty or zombies are coming out tonight... Anyway, I'm still struggling to finish the pharmacy practice monographs... Read through all 38 of them but cannot remember any except Cimetidine and Ranitidine... reason being I'm doing Famotidine...Nevermind, hopefully it'll get better. Maybe I should really do something crazy before the end of today like jump off the second floor of my house or something...

IBM YEA Prize Presentation

After waiting for more than 2 months, today is the day! The picture above is taken before we made the final sharing presentation and before the result is announced. Wanted to imitate the 5 people in the banner but failed miserably...

Anyway, I'd say that the sharing session is very useful, at least we know what the other teams did and gauge roughly where we are before we look at the result. But then.... we actually accidentally saw the result when we are making the preparation... The organiser just put her schedule on the table with the result o.O

So, here comes the result! We're quite disappointed for not able to emerge as first, but then I guess first runner-up is as good ba. Although the prize money decreases by 2000 dollars T_T

The cheque is like how big la... I feel like winning some lucky draw of sort... like those kind in Wheel of Fortune or something.

Well, at least we still have something to use haha. The team who got first is really zai lo. If I say the team who got third and us thinks out of the box, they really think without the box.... (quoted from their presentation) And the ironic thing is, they're all guys team from HCI! My team got 1 girl, and the 2nd runner-up is an all girls team... Sounds a bit sexist right? I'm neutral, just to clarify before all of you hammer me. :P For the result, the all guys team managed to sell 115 copies of Tivoli CDP, my team 102 copies and the girls team 78 copies (hopefully I didn't get it wrong). Lose by a bit only lo, but then somehow I got the feeling we got trashed during the final presentation, although they told us it's actually a very close fight between us and the guys' team.

I've learnt much throughout the whole competition, at least I know I don't like to do call calling. I'm better off doing management and nagging (that's what a pharmacist is supposed to do...lol). Cheers!

Chinese New Year Reflection

Alright I realised I didn't blog about my CNY, so here it is. Went back to BP on 5th Feb, and I actually consider myself quite lucky for being able to get a bus ticket back like 1 week before CNY ... Anyway, met up with my old secondary school friends and went out for some tea drinking sessions before new year's eve. As usual, new year's eve I have to go back to JB for reunion dinner. The 1st day I follow my parents around in JB to visit relatives. 2nd day I went out with Alvin and gang to cheat ang pou from friends :P Was feeling quite sad when I need to return to Singapore on the 3rd day to prepare for the bazaar... Why can't CNY last a little bit longer? I still haven't visit a lot of people like Mdm Teng, Mr Tan, etc... We had a recreational mahjong session at my house on the 1st night as well as the 2nd night, just that we used the super small mahjong on the 1st night and the regular ones on the 2nd night. Thinking of how everyone is having tests and quizzes now, I'm also feeling the stress.... Term tests and quizzes coming in less than 2 weeks time!!!

Here's the picture we took at my house. Too bad most of the people e.g. Peng Ji, Pei Lu, Chee dll. not in the picture...

Mid term break prelude

I can't believe I'm writing two posts in one day... Anyway, mid-term break is coming up, and I'm still contemplating whether I should spend some time relaxing and do a bit of travelling. With all the term tests coming up, I seriously doubt my ability to juggle between studies and personal time. Maybe it's time to really sit down and think of what I wanted for the future.

Updates

After so long of not updating about the status of my strike freedom, here I am again to keep you guys up to date to the progress of my MG strike freedom. Actually I've completed one of the legs since Jan 20th, just that I don't have time to update my blog due to bazaar matters. Anyway, here's one of the legs.And it's sole...
Besides that, KL gave me a SD GP01 Fb Gundam as a Vday gift, thanks KL! I think it's not nice for me not to move it up my building list. So, I tried to complete it tonight. However, I realised that I've becoming slower in assembling a SD gundam due to my obsession of lining everything I can see... Managed to finish the head only.

Here's the front of the head, cute right?And the back of its head

Anyway, I'm not one that scrutinises every single line that I draw. Although you probably can see the unevenness of the lines as well as the smudges here and there. I'll try to finish this kit whenever I can though, especially with the mid-term break coming. Hopefully I'm not too caught up in mugging for mid-term tests and quizzes.

Bazaar

After a few days of hectic schedules and scratching of head, finally the bazaar has come to an end. The 3 days are tiring, but at least it's fulfilling. Now that I've missed 3 days of school, the weekend is going to be another hectic marathon of webcasts and recorded lectures. Well, what to do. Too many things to do and too little time to do it.

We're quite lucky that this year's Valentine's Day's sales is not as bad as last year's. At least I'm able to recover more than half of the capital for the bazaar just for today alone. As predicted, we made a loss for the auction, but then at least we've tried. Maybe it'll be better if the publicity efforts are done way way before the bazaar itself. Haih, I overlooked that part due to CNY...

Words are powerful weapon... not that I just realised it, just that I just can't seem to control what comes out of my mouth some times and tend to be super insensitive to other people. Should really filter what I'm going to say through my brain before saying anything in the future... To anyone whom I've offended before, I apologize.