updates of week 13

1. Spanish oral exam in 2 days time. after practicing our speech for the past 2 mornings, jaslyn and i are able to complete the whole conversion without referring to our notes. hoping that we don't get tongue-tied or forget what we are supposed to say because some of those phrases are purely memorised.

2. Met Marcus along the way and he was asking me if i saw the students' work exhibition for his visual communication class. yea, Marcus is a prof but everyone refers to him by his first name. I guess he is just one of those prof who breaks the barrier of "I am the Professor and you are the Student". I really wanted to take his visual comm class which is really cool cos its about doing visuals for marketing and he's a good photographer. This is what he said to me "It is normal. People usually don't know what they want to do. There is no optimal job, just pick the best"

3. Went to the clinic because of my cold and here's the scene which left me and gan rather flabbergasted. This girl was at the counter insisting she wants to "order" medication, I think she was at it for quite some time already and it seems that the rule is that you cant just take medicine just like that and that she has to consult the doctor. She just kept insisting on ordering her medication and that she is a familiar patient. The receptionists at the counter kind of gave up on talking to her and just ignored her. 1 of them got fed up with her repeated requests and said if she just want to take medication without seeing the doctor, then she will have to go to the pharmacy. the girl said "if i take the wrong medication and die how?"

the receptionist actually said "die then die lor"

gan and i were shocked to hear that. while we agree the girl was being really unreasonable, it is unprofessional of someone who works at a clinic to say that. the story continued with the girl skipping the queue to see the doctor who gave her her medication i guess.

it takes 2 hands to clap, but no matter what the situation is, somethings should never be said.