Saturday, 18 June 2011
16th June 2010
Went for NS medical checkup at Depot Road!
Which is near Redhill.
Checkup went quite well, was less painful than I expected?
Alot of people said the blood test thing was painful, and that you should look for the older guy to do it cause it's less painful.
Well, I ended up with the young guy and while I sat down I could feel my heart rate like increasing really fast. Meh my fear of needles. I think there's a scientific term for it.
*wikipedia*
Trypanophobia - the fear of medical procedures involving injections
The guy was really good. He asked if I want to be distracted with him talking and I said no.
Felt no pain at all when the needle went in but I could feel the unmistakable feeling of a needle in my arm. I wonder if I were to make a sudden action, would it break the needle?

Thankfully Justin asked me to bring study material to the checkup, if not I would be seriously bored with nothing to do. No music or phone to keep me entertained. The survey took a good 1 hour and the questions were unconventional.

Got a PES D, which basically translates to temporary not fit. Reason: Lipids. Not really sure what that is though, something to do with fatty acids. Now this is quite uncertain. Is it lack of lipids? Excess lipids? Or requires more research to analyse lipid content?

Had what I could say one of the best chicken rice I have ever eaten in a long long while. It's at some hawker centre in Redhill Interchange. Cheap and really good food can mostly only be found in hawker centres....not like some of the rubbish food that is served in food courts like Koufu...
Saw a Gongcha shop too, heard it serves good bubble tea but eh it was closed.

Being in Redhill kind of brings back memories. Most of hockey trainings were at Delta. I like how the MRT station is painted a shade of red heh. Was curious as to why the place is called Redhill and decided to do some wikipedia research on it. Turns out there was some legend (kinda bizzare really) behind it. Then I got more curious and decided to research on the names of various places in Singapore. Yew Tee has it's name cause it used to be an oil pond (literally) and Kranji is named after....a tree?

Thought of some chemistry analogy. (Too much mugging?) Just as chemical reactions require sufficient energy for it to occur, so too must you put enough effort for something to be realised. I shall apply studying here. But that does not mean blindly studying as much as you can. Chemical reactions require molecules to have the correct orientation and energy. Hence, there has to be some sort of study plan involved which sadly I do not have one yet argh.

GP snippet
5.9 quake strikes Eastern Japan. Another earthquake?!