24.11.2008

18.29 hr

The A380 Experience

Huge
Gigantic Bus
Full Double-decker
Extremely massive

SQ 317 - Singapore Airline
11.55am, 27th May 2008
Economy Class
Upper Deck, Seat No. 72H
London (Terminal 3) to Singapore (Terminal 3)
Approximately 12 hours journey
Landed on Singapore around 8-ish a.m. on 28th May 2008

After the first experience, I really love to travel from London-Singapore or vice versa using this Airbus. Singapore Airline will be flying to London and back to Singapore daily using A380 starting 18th March 2008 onwards. When I see this news, I was really excited. Yes, really excited. It's the biggest passenger plane at that time! WOW!!

Its really difficult to take the picture of the full plane because it is HUGE!! Then I know economy class can now sit on the upper deck for which upper deck is only for business class in Boeing 747. Definitely, I pick to sit at upper deck.


The interior is very new, bigger seats, bigger LCD tv in front of you, better in-flight entertainment, food provided comes in a menu, comes with Givenchy complimentary gift with a pair of socks and tooth brush.


It was the first time I travel alone in such a long distance flight. I must make myself as comfy as possible. I pick a seat by the aisle, walking to the toilet often for my legs to have better blood circulation. I even walk down to the lower deck to see how is it. I prefer upper deck as lower deck is congested.


This is the first time i feel so good in a plane, probably due to excitement. Well, whenever there's a new place or shop opening, lots of people would go and visit in which Chinese people like to say it as 'visiting new toilet'. In A380, it's the same thing that I do. I will go to the toilet if i want to pee or poop. *hehe* Here's the picture of the toilet:

In the loo, you can find after shave lotion, hand and body lotion, toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, antibacterial hand wash, and other utilities as well. It is new and pretty. I like the mirror. The water tap is one-touch that the temperature of the water is controllable with a touch of finger:


Now, let the picture speaks:


Rumours says that the turbulence in A380 is bad but I dont feel any. Flying on an Economy Class is not enough for me. You should see how's the business class is. It's 17 inch LCD tv, and very very much comfy. Seats are massive!! Not to say the Suite that is available on A380 that technically u have a bed in a room to sleep in. (Can't believe it) The fare for Suite is about 10X more expensive than what I pay. IF THERE IS A CHANCE, flying once in a BUSINESS CLASS is worth it!

Things I wanted to do most: Travel

There's a few places that I wanted to go very much. I have a list of it. There you go:

1. Paris, France (Done!)
2. London, UK (Done!)
3. Tokyo, Japan
4. Los Angeles, USA
5. New York, USA
6. Las Vegas, USA
   
7. Milan, Italy
8. Rome, Italy
9. Geneva, Switzerland
10. Barcelona, Spain
11. Berlin, Germany
12. Sydney, Australia
13. Oslo, Norway
14. Vienna, Austria
15. Venice, Italy
16. Melbourne, Australia
17. Taipei, Taiwan
18. Hong Kong
19. Florence, Italy
20. Amsterdam, Netherland
21. Seoul, Korea
    

And many many more!! Not to forget visiting each and every Disneyland that could be found on Earth!

Travel round the world needs lots of money. For short term, I think i better think of travel within a near distance. Since I am in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, I better travel within the country, although i know it's a wee bit boring.

As for Scotland, I went to quite a few of places in it. Scotland is famous for its scenery. When you walk down the busy street in Scotland, especially Glasgow and Edinburgh, you will hear people wearing kilts blowing bagpipes. This adds music to shopping spree if you like it. The famous music is 'Scotland the Brave' Click here if you want to know which one. I quite like it.

OK OK, back to the point. Travel. To summarise, I've been to a couple of places in Scotland:
1. Glasgow (Of course, I study here)


2. Edinburgh


3. St. Andrews (where Prince William was in university)


4. Glenshee (for ski)


5. Isle of Arran


6. Isle of Cumbrae (Millport)


7. Loch Lomond


8. Stirling


There's more places in Scotland is yet to explore. Next stop would be Aberdeen, then probably Dundee, Isle of Skye, Oban, Highlands and many more!

When I am free, I could not stop thinking about travelling. Anyone has any good plan, please let me know!!

Phew! A busy week 6 had gone!

Wednesday (29/10) - Graves' Disease Presentation
Thursday (30/10) - Retinoscopy Assessment
Friday (31/10) - Submission of Fundus Diagrams

Can't believe I manage to do it all! It's been a tiring week for me. I've not been to shopping in weeks and I finally get to go shopping after handling in my Fundus diagram. In case you wonder what is a fundus, this is it:

Imagine you have to look into the eye of one of your friends for more than 10 freaking hours, through the pupil of the eye and draw the picture of it like above! My draft is a wee bit like this...

... and i have to colour it! There's a lot of work to do!

Anyway, the 'gift' from the hard work is that i excel in doing ophthalmoscopy!! It is very important to see the back of the eye if anyone suffers from a chronic disease.

Each time when i go shopping , I would end up buying something before I go home. That is a RULE!! That could be buying a mini pan, Ben & Jerry's Core Sundae, or even a Winnie The Pooh Glass!! NYEHEHEHE!!

To celebrate the end of a busy week, me and my friends to celebrate Halloween!! We went out for dinner at Chinese Restaurant, 龙凤楼，booked a room and had karaoke. Here are some pic to enjoy:


I had a lot of fun, with different types of costume! Whee~~~

Autumn?!

The internet connection in my flat is crap this weekend. I have to come to the library to do my work.

AND!! The weather over the week is really horrible!! It was windy (very!) and heavy rain! Umbrellas dont work well here. After each heavy rain, you can see lots of broken unbrella by the bin. UMBRELLA REALLY DON'T WORK WELL HERE IN SCOTLAND! It is cold. I miss the nice sunny weather of Autumn with cool breeze running through my face.

I am now in the library and looking through the weather forecast at http://uk.weather.yahoo.com to check out the weather out there and see if I can go home. I don't want to walk in heavy rain, it is pathetic! Ok, back to the point. I found this funny thing:

Do u see that?? Rain/Snow Showers on Tuesday?? With high temperature of 3'C and low temperature of 0'C?? It's Autumn now and the weather looks like winter! It's going to be freaking cold. But I think is impossible to get snow in an Autumn day. We only get snow after January until spring.

I've never been so concern about weather back in Malaysia. Being in a four-season country, Glasgow is possible to have rain in the morning, sunshine in the afternoon, windy in the evening and snow at night!! Kinda weird, aye?

Well, hope there's going to be good weather during Halloween.

Eiffel Tower

When you look at this, you will think of Paris. It's the landmark of France as well. It's the most famous and well-known EIFFEL TOWER!

It is amazingly pretty that when you look at it with your real eyes are different from what you see from the above picture. It is magnificent! Before I went there, I thought it's just a huge telecommunication tower and the landmark of Paris. It totally change the way I think!

YOU, out there, if there's opportunity, must go to Paris one day! It might not the prettiest city but it's worth visiting. REMEMBER to bring your €€€ as it's going to cost more than London.

I will blog again soon.


BTW, I am now blogging in my 'funny' looking eye. Again, I got my left eye dilated again for clinical purposes as part of my course. It's not going to anything bad and don't feel scared when you are being asked to dilate your eyes. Just make sure they check your intraocular pressure before and after the dilation. I am now going through what my patients are going to experience in future.


I need to get back to my studies now and will update soon!

BYE!!

Dilated Pupil

Hi everyone!

I know i've not been updating my blog for ages!!

Now I am writing this blog with one of my eye being dilated. Means the my pupil (the centre black circle within the iris which allows light to go into the eye) is bigger than how it's suppose to be. I am writing this just for general interest.

This is the normal right eye of how the pupil size is suppose to be. It would be smaller under strong light. My normal pupils can say to be quite big.

However, after putting some drops, the pupil of my left eye is bigger. We did this for clinical purposes, just to use ophthalmoscope to see the fundus (back of the eye - basically the retina).

Under normal circumstances, the pupil size must be equally the same. If there's anyone in an accident has pupil of different sizes, he/she might be suffering from head injuries as well as concussion.

After one of my pupil is dilated, the things i see seems to be a wee bit funny and blurry, especially when i go from a darker place to a brighter place. The dilation would be gone maximum of 24 hours and if it's quick, the drops would only last for a couple of hours. My lecturer, Dr Loffler said we might not be able to read for a couple of hours, but it's all seems fine to me right now.

It was a fun clinical experience which we did it in our very own Eye Clinic of the university. There's a lot of cool stuff in there which we would need to learn.

Anyway, THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL CLINICAL THING AND SHOULD NOT TRY THIS AT HOME WITHOUT THE SUPERVISION OF OPTOMETRIST IR OPHTHALMOLOGIST!

p/s: I promise I will update my blog soon with more interesting stuff!