A BATHING APE X ARMY BOY

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Dopt 04/05

It has been almost 3yrs since i went to MOE when i was still serving NS to enroll into polytechnic education where i chose Optometry as my first choice. Having been thru JC and failing my GP resulting in not being able to go to uni it was my only way out. I thought that poly life will be much easier but i was WRONG!!!

It was like just yesterday when casper and kai jian can to me and introduced themselves during the orientation during yr 1.I thought that i would had problem fitting into the class as i was 4yrs older than my classmates but well i think the age gap is not much of a problem after getting to know most of my classmates. I still remember on the first day of school when i was driving casper,houston,tzesiang to the swimming pool i mounted the kerb and got the car stuck and the 4 of us tried to lift the car up and out of the kerb.

In the process of learning during yr 1 i get to know peiboon, tzesiang, weijian, titus, zhen, edwin, marilyn, sylvia, casper, houston and yuxuan who becoame my close grp of friends. We would organise outing for dinner and bbq during holidays and also not forgetting going for the D&D when we were only yr 1 students.

Basically yr 1 is some sort of honeymoon period and the time for us to play and play without worrying much for studies and without any signal we were already yr 2 students and was no more FRESHIES that people used to call the yr 1 student.

Year 2 was the year where all the disaster and hardship start when we were taught clinical skills we would used in future. Subjects like pathology,binocular vision and pharmacology would blow our minds out. Year 2 sem 1 was fill with never ending report and we had 4 practical in a week. The stress level was high but than there was more to come. It was the last 2 weeks of yr 2 sem 2 where the killer starts when we had like 8 to 9 test in 2 weeks, followed by exams for the next 2 weeks. People like zhen,edwin,weijian,houston and me will mug at kallang mac donald until 5 to 6am studying patho slide test and clinical optometry 2. That was the time when we grumble about how the hell did we chose a course which is so taxing and could almost kill us but i am glad we perserver and got into yr 3. The fun time of my yr 2 life was to go to malaysia with marilyn,sylvia,edwin,zhen,weijian,peiboon and tzesiang and also during my attachment after semester 2 where we went to batam to screen primary school kids. It was the time we get to know my classmates even better and build a stronger bond. I would never forget times like when edwin die die also refuse to sit the free fall ride and also the time my classmates give me a surprise birthday celebration in batam. I would like to again thank crazy 12 for the wallet and weiling for her muffin i got for my birthday present. It was the most memorable birthday i had and also the first time there was so many people celebrating my birthday.

We started yr 3 thinking that we would breeze thru it because there was no exam to be taken in year 3 but we were wrong again, stuff like clinic duties and FYP were very taxing for our tiny brains. Clinic duty was like having test and it was always very scary when clinician come in and checked if we had done the correct things and when it was grading time.

Both classes was seperated during yr 3 and so was my clique which also split into half.But fortunately, i was still able to click well with my other classmates who was not part of crazy 12 because most of us went to batam for attachment and we had already know each other very well. As a class we had been thru countless eye screening for the old,young and also not forgetting the taxi drivers.

Yr 3 was also filled with dinner function,outdoor visits to contact lens plant and night cycling. It was also during this period i see the sporty side of my coursemates who ran poly 50.

Final year project the burden we had to carry for the whole of year 3 was another interesting chapter where titus,edwin and me would stay in clinic to see our subjects until as late as 9 pm and not forgetting that even sunday we had to come back and see our subjects. Luckily there was no internal conflict during the whole process of doing our FYP which was a common scene where best friends become enemy. I was very glad to see edwin and titus so involved in the later part of the project where they brainstorm for idea to present our study and stay up late to do our report and rehearsing for project presentation. We really had a hard time doing our fyp especially when Mr Rajeev left us and we as a group had to be self discipline enough to meet up and do our project report. Nevertheless,from the bottom of our hearts we like to thank Mr Rajeev, Miss Yeo,Mr Lai and Mr Naga for their advice and help during the whole process of doing our FYP.

In the midst of trying to complete our clinic quota and finishing FYP, we also find time to let our hairs down and one such example of getting together was going for PTN gathering. We had our first PTN for semester one at east coast where we had bbq and also wished Mr Rajeev good luck in his studies in Australia. Mr Rajeev was moved to tears when he saw the cake and presents we bought for him. Mr Rajeev was a great teacher and i hope to see him again after his finish his studies and ever come back to singapore to teach again.

In a blink of an eye, yr 3 was about to come to an end and function like graduating party,dinner and dance and PTN starts to make us sad knowing that we are about to graduate soon.

Now that we had finished our FYP presentation and clinic duties it was also time to say goodbye, i hope everyone enjoyed their time in DOPT and wish all of us good luck in your future endeavours.

Hahaha,,i knew all of you must be damn tired already after reading such a long entry but just hang on a bit more.

People i like to thanks:

Thanks to all the lecturers for teaching us with so much patient and also caring for us

Thanks to all my classmates for making my life in SP a memorable one.

Thanks to crazy 12 for spending so much fun time with me.

And lastly, to Edwin which i think is my best friend in poly life for taking the train home with me everyday after school. Hope you feel better at least we celebrated your birthday at last after missing you birthday for 2 years although it was celebrated with other people like weiling,sok hong,cee teing,melissa tan and Miss Dawn.

Okokok all of you who had read till here thank you for reading also.Time to log off i also buay tahan liao time now is 7.21am.Time to go to sleep!!!!

ARMY BOY WROTE AT 5:14 AM