Sunday, 30 November 2008
when i woke up on Wed morning, i felt a bit uncomfortable, with a slight headache and flu, which i attributed as morning sinus. after breakfast i made my way to school for my day of mugging for Friday's paper, but by the time i reached school i felt worse. my headache was throbbing, i did not have appetite to eat anything or even to drink coffee, which had become my staple drink every morning. i tried to study but found it hard to concentrate. i had Pocky and coffee for lunch, because i did not have appetite for a proper meal, and i did not know that i was sick. i thought i was just not feeling well, maybe ate something wrong the day before. i kept thinking that i would feel better as the day went past.
finally at 3pm i decided that i should go back home, so i did, and when i took my temperature at my mom's suggestion, i realised i actually had a slight fever. so after popping 2 panadols, i went to take a nap until evening, when i felt better. that night i took another panadol before sleeping, and the following day i felt really good, so thank God for that =)
the reason why i chose to blog about such a trivial thing as being sick is because ever since i entered army, i have never had a fever before. so even a slight fever is a surprise to me and to the people around me. when i told my brother (currently in BMT) that i fell sick during the week, he replied "now that's a first". maybe it was the food, or the aircon room which i studied in all day, or not having enough rest, or something else that caused me to fall sick, but it was a good time of rest, and i thank God that my preparation for my Friday paper was not affected =)
giving thanks at 21:52 :)
drama at thai 3 oral exam Thursday, 13 November 2008
my thai 3 oral exam slot was supposed to be on Wed 8.20am to 8.40am at AS3 02 12, but when i reached there at 8.15am, no teacher was there. i waited with Terence (8.40am slot) and Yiteng (9am slot) until 9.30 before heading to look for the teachers at their offices. before that Terence and i went to the offices to check and make sure that we were at the correct venue. we knocked on the office doors of the thai teachers but no one was in. we also called the teachers whose handphone numbers we had many times, but no one picked up. by that time we were making theories as to why the teachers were not there, including a theory that the 3 of us were in another dimension. we even made observations that there were less people in NUS arts than usual, and that they were just walking past us as if they cannot see us. along the way we met Shirley (9.40am slot) and told her there was no teacher, so she followed us along to look for the teachers.
in the end we crashed the thai 1 oral exam venue, shocking the teachers there. one of them called the thai department head, and told us to go to her office. when we reached the office the teacher apologised profusely and offered to give us a replacement on Thurs 6 to 8pm, so we agreed. Terence and i thought that it would be a good opportunity to do something special for the teachers who had to stay back so late to invigilate us, and our fellow students too.
Terence and i decided to sing a Christian thai song for everyone during the oral exam, so we met up earlier on Thurs afternoon to practise the song and to pray together. in the end it was good =p everyone liked the song, and one of our Hindi fellow students even asked if she could keep the song lyrics and chords sheet.
i thank God that even through such circumstances He can provide opportunities for us to glorify Him =)
giving thanks at 21:54 :)
Sunday, 9 November 2008
this is a long overdue post, but i really want to thank God for seeing me through my final year so far. so many testimonies and stories, but i want to talk about my FYP (final year project).
before this year, my impression of fyp is: hard to do, difficult, impossible, unbelievable, etc. basically i just could not imagine myself doing a project of such proportions. but God is good, and throughout the 1st 3 years of university life, i have been prepared mentally for such a challenge.
when i got my topic for fyp (wind effects on tall buildings), i was slightly disappointed. i initially wanted to do something related to geotechnical engineering (soil), but i got something that seems to be related to structural engineering. in the end, i found out that i was not doing this alone, there are 2 other students doing the same fyp topic as me, but we will have different focuses. in this case we can actually help one another out. and that's a good thing. =p
currently i have not many worries regarding fyp, everything is quite guided, and i know what we have to do for every stage. it's really something that i could not ask for more, and God has really provided beyond my human understanding. =p
giving thanks at 18:16 :)
david chow en yuan