So far so good...
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coolohohHmm, so far so good?
Thanks in part to the Vesak day holiday today, I managed to do a AnShi review and thus far haven been keeping with my goal of making at least 1 review a month.
I kinda... skipped work on Monday. Was just... so tired. Needed some kind of a break. Well I had a doctors appointment in the morning... did a blood test and the results came back alright. The antibiotics regime did its work and the test results shows that the infection has cleared. The consultation ended pretty early though, roughly... 10:40am? But I didn’t feel like going to work that day so I just took MC. Also its really tiring to rush down to work from the hospital and all, which i was constantly doing after my consultation at NUH for the antibiotics... all in all I have a legitimate MC for not showing up for work, though that's one more day out of my 14 days of outpatient sick leave. Which isn't too bad actually, only used 2 days so far, though next Monday will be another day gone. Got no choice on that one. Appointment is at 11:30am with the ortho doc, hopefully everything goes well and I can walk without the crutches... and then physiotherapy at 2:30pm. Yeah I really hope I don't have to go for another op and what not. That would be so freaking troublesome. And my boss was just telling me the other day... they have sooo many DNA samples waiting for me to do qPCR with. Plus, they want to start a new experiment with the remaining... 1 month plus, and they are hoping the results could lead to a paper, and he definitely hinted that if I could help in that experiment, I'd be able to get some sort of name in the paper, or some sort of credit that'll count towards my next year's performance review. Of course its not a 100% thing that anything will get published, but hey, I'm more than willing to settle for a chance for getting something out of my stay with this group. The project is ending in end June and after which I'll be sent to another group already. I thought I could make some headway with the PCR stuff... hopefully I still can with the remaining time. Though that might not be fulfilled at all if I can't get back in the lab. And single crutch or not I can't do lab properly on my own still. Like... unless every single time I move around I take off and put my gloves back on... nah that's just ridiculous... I would be able to work properly. Not to mention that there's a ton of chairs and things to avoid. Not a very crutch friendly place really.
In other news... After the doc's appointment on Mon i went shopping some bit. Went to Kino and spent a ridiculous amt of time in there picking out books for my JLPT test. Decided that I had to study else I might not pass this time round. I smoked through N4 without studying a thing, but I guess N3 is not gonna be so easy. Its like... there's all those small little things that you don't take notice off that's hard. Like whether a particular word is spoken with the long sound or not, or which particle to use... sometimes the particles its like... the more you read the more everything seems correct. Well at least that's what happens to people with my level of Japanese... I'm pretty glad there's no writing though. That makes studying for it so much, much easier. Well I ended up buying three books, one with N1 and N2 vocab - 7000 words... well I didn’t want to have to buy a new book for the next test so I decided to just... go for the book with the most words and the higher level. The other two are like... practice books for all the questions - grammar, vocab, and what not. No listening practice though. I think I can do alright in listening with all the drama and variety I watch :P. 81 bucks in total. All Taiwanese publishers cos its way cheaper. And some bit of Chinese translation in case I really don't understand the Japanese wouldn’t hurt. Though its in Traditional Chinese... the main thing though, its that its way cheaper... >< yeah, price matters. Originally I only wanted to pick up the 60+bucks vocab book that my sis recommended. But I can't remember which book it was, and she completely forgot having ever recommended me a vocab book... so yeah... that's how I ended up with three books. Ok. Book bought. Now to read and study them. Hopefully it wont end up like last time when my sis bought some book for studying N4, and she barely read the book while I didn’t touch it at all. That's partly the reason why the books I bought this time are not solely for N3. One of the vocab books covers N1-5, while the other book with more practice questions is for N2 and N3.
Alrights... that's all for today! Shall open my books (yes, they are still nicely wrapped up in the Kino plastic bag) and head to bed.
Thanks in part to the Vesak day holiday today, I managed to do a AnShi review and thus far haven been keeping with my goal of making at least 1 review a month.
I kinda... skipped work on Monday. Was just... so tired. Needed some kind of a break. Well I had a doctors appointment in the morning... did a blood test and the results came back alright. The antibiotics regime did its work and the test results shows that the infection has cleared. The consultation ended pretty early though, roughly... 10:40am? But I didn’t feel like going to work that day so I just took MC. Also its really tiring to rush down to work from the hospital and all, which i was constantly doing after my consultation at NUH for the antibiotics... all in all I have a legitimate MC for not showing up for work, though that's one more day out of my 14 days of outpatient sick leave. Which isn't too bad actually, only used 2 days so far, though next Monday will be another day gone. Got no choice on that one. Appointment is at 11:30am with the ortho doc, hopefully everything goes well and I can walk without the crutches... and then physiotherapy at 2:30pm. Yeah I really hope I don't have to go for another op and what not. That would be so freaking troublesome. And my boss was just telling me the other day... they have sooo many DNA samples waiting for me to do qPCR with. Plus, they want to start a new experiment with the remaining... 1 month plus, and they are hoping the results could lead to a paper, and he definitely hinted that if I could help in that experiment, I'd be able to get some sort of name in the paper, or some sort of credit that'll count towards my next year's performance review. Of course its not a 100% thing that anything will get published, but hey, I'm more than willing to settle for a chance for getting something out of my stay with this group. The project is ending in end June and after which I'll be sent to another group already. I thought I could make some headway with the PCR stuff... hopefully I still can with the remaining time. Though that might not be fulfilled at all if I can't get back in the lab. And single crutch or not I can't do lab properly on my own still. Like... unless every single time I move around I take off and put my gloves back on... nah that's just ridiculous... I would be able to work properly. Not to mention that there's a ton of chairs and things to avoid. Not a very crutch friendly place really.
In other news... After the doc's appointment on Mon i went shopping some bit. Went to Kino and spent a ridiculous amt of time in there picking out books for my JLPT test. Decided that I had to study else I might not pass this time round. I smoked through N4 without studying a thing, but I guess N3 is not gonna be so easy. Its like... there's all those small little things that you don't take notice off that's hard. Like whether a particular word is spoken with the long sound or not, or which particle to use... sometimes the particles its like... the more you read the more everything seems correct. Well at least that's what happens to people with my level of Japanese... I'm pretty glad there's no writing though. That makes studying for it so much, much easier. Well I ended up buying three books, one with N1 and N2 vocab - 7000 words... well I didn’t want to have to buy a new book for the next test so I decided to just... go for the book with the most words and the higher level. The other two are like... practice books for all the questions - grammar, vocab, and what not. No listening practice though. I think I can do alright in listening with all the drama and variety I watch :P. 81 bucks in total. All Taiwanese publishers cos its way cheaper. And some bit of Chinese translation in case I really don't understand the Japanese wouldn’t hurt. Though its in Traditional Chinese... the main thing though, its that its way cheaper... >< yeah, price matters. Originally I only wanted to pick up the 60+bucks vocab book that my sis recommended. But I can't remember which book it was, and she completely forgot having ever recommended me a vocab book... so yeah... that's how I ended up with three books. Ok. Book bought. Now to read and study them. Hopefully it wont end up like last time when my sis bought some book for studying N4, and she barely read the book while I didn’t touch it at all. That's partly the reason why the books I bought this time are not solely for N3. One of the vocab books covers N1-5, while the other book with more practice questions is for N2 and N3.
Alrights... that's all for today! Shall open my books (yes, they are still nicely wrapped up in the Kino plastic bag) and head to bed.
