Here's My Story

Women don't do different things; they do things differently. - A passerby with his friends at Raffles Place MRT station

I have decided to go back to try qualifying for Fellowship with the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. After I failed the second time and obtained feedback from Society of Actuaries, I find that the feedback wouldn't help me to learn and improve enough to pass the exam. I acknowledged half of the feedback is valuable but the other half basically said that my answers were incorrect without pointing out the correct answers. Another issue, perhaps a more important one, is that the reviewer seems to impose his/her response as the only acceptable response to certain subjective questions. After I tried to clarify my point of view and hoping to get the reviewer to enlighten me further, he/she basically took a rather arrogant stand by saying that he/she was not there to "debate" with me. Well, in that case, how would I learn from my mistakes? It is so obvious that some of my answers are incorrect (as otherwise, I wouldn't have failed, right?) and surely it doesn't ...

Last week, I came across these "birds" near the Raffles Place MRT station during lunch time: There were signboards there: They must be sweating like crazy!

Of all the time for me to fall very sick, it has to be today, when any time now there'll be tonnes of work to do and the critical portion to be completed soon after Chinese New Year. It started with dry throat on Sunday morning. Then worsened to sorethroat that night. Next morning, on Monday, it was so painful I could barely speak. My doctor, who usually refrains from prescribing antibiotics, took one look at my throat and promptly declared that I need to take antibiotics. He was mindful that I cannot tolerate acidic medicine (Curam was particularly acidic to me) and so he prescribed me Tarivid. As Monday passed by, I realised I have stuffy nose as well. Oh no! I took panadol and at night I added a runny nose tablet and cough syrup. Alas, it didn't help. I didn't sleep throughout the night because of accumulation of phlegm in my mouth that I constantly needed to expunge. It's definitely caused by the stuffy nose because when I lie down, my nose clears but the phlegm...

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(continued from here ) KL Woke up after 8 hours of sleep but my eyes were still tired. Likely because didn't get frequent break while playing computer games the night before. Once awake, Ban was just teasing and tickling me hehe. Then we just relaxed and enjoyed each other company :) I was blogging the previous entry while Ban fell back asleep. Check other blogs. Grimaced at yet another Grand Slam win for Roger Federer. Nearly two hours later, I decided that it was time to wake Ban up, not so much so that I didn't want him to nap any longer but because it was close to 1pm and he hadn't had breakfast or lunch. First thing he said? "Holy cow!" :) I was hungry, evidence of the light breakfast being insufficient. I craved for char kuay teow and specifically asked for the one we had before. So it took us a good 15mins before getting the correct place. Although I thought it was pricey for a coffeeshop (RM4.50 with additional egg), it was delicious and not as oily...