On 14th July, I had my first operation at Mount Alvernia done by Dr Tho Kan San, great doctor! Did ACL reconstruction with Lateral Meniscus and Medial Meniscus repair. They graft my hamstring tendon. My knee is locked with a brace at 0 degree. This means I cant bend my knee at all.

On 15th July (1 day after op), got discharge and started to learn how to use 2 crutches to walk.

On 17th July (3 days after op), appointment with the doctor, bandage is taken out.

On 25th July (11 days after op), appointment with the doctor, remove stitches, brace unlocked and I can allowed to bend my knee up till 30 degree. I need to achieve 90 degrees in 2 weeks.
Went for first psyhio, they ice my leg and use a machine to “wake up” my thigh muscle. I am allowed to walk with 1 crutches but not recommended yet.

On 27th July (13 days after the op), appointment with psyhiotheraphist, allowed to bend my knee till 40 degree. They ice my leg and use the machine to wake up my quad again. Today’s “voltage” is very very strong. I can walk SLOWLY without any help and can bend up to 40 degree + a bit.

On 1st August (18 days after the op), appointment with psyhiotheraphist, allowed to bend my knee till 70 degree. They never ice my leg anymore but they use the machine to wake up my quad. Voltage seems normal today. I am asked to stretch my hamstring on the bed and on the stairs.

On 3rd August (20 days after the op), appointment with another psyhiotheraphist, Irene, because Eugene is on MC. Started different, started by asking me to bend my knees and train my quad. She realised that my extension is not zero yet which means need to work on it by contracting my quad. Then use the machine to wake up my muscle, voltage is super low today. She then did a measurement and it is 80 degree now.

On 8th August (25 days after the op), appointment with psyhiotheraphist, Eugene again. Started with the wake up machine treatment then this time round, first time got a heat treatment that he ask me to lie on my stomach and he place something hot at the back on my knee. Train some basic gym which he asked me to use 2 legs to push the weights (30) and do some balancing on the board.

On 14th August (31 days after the op), appointment with psyhiotheraphist. “Wake up machine” and heat treatment as usual then followed by doing streching for my hamstring. The doctor asked me to do the weight again. It is increased to 40 this time. I also do left and right, front and back balancing.

On 15th August (32 days after the op), appointment with specialist, Dr Tho and pshiotheraphist, Eugene. Dr Tho checked my leg and said the ACL is very stable now and my knee is very solid now. Went to find Eugene next. Did the extact same thing as what I did on 14th August, except that the weight is now increased to 55.

On 19th August (36 days after the op), appointment with Eugene. Did all the same things again except that I am doing bike now as well (9). It helps in my bending.

On 26th August (43 days after the op), appointment with Eugene Keng. Went with Jun An. Did all the same things this time. I am doing the bike as well (6). He also asked me to train the weight using one weight and now I am at 20 for my right leg already. He asked me to do 30 but I cant.

Will continue to update!

Some of my friends should realised that I have not been my normal self lately. I am not as active. I am not as “noisy” and most obviously, I am walking very slowly now. What happened was that I tore my ACL and partial tear my MCL ( Medial Collateral Ligament ) during on of my wushu training 2 weeks ago. ( Although I believe I have tore it 3 months ago but the polyclinic doctor said I was fine when I went for the checking then. I have problem with my knee’ stability then. )

I went for a x-ray and MRI scanning.

I have been working like 84 hours/week on school related stuff. It gets me really tired now. Need to “chiong” and study more.

I need to go for an operation soon.

Three MOE Teachers Tested Positive for H1N1 Virus – Schools Take Precautionary Measures

On 27 June, three secondary school teachers tested positive for the H1N1 virus. In each case, the symptoms were mild and they had no fever. To prevent the spread of disease to other students in the school, the staff and students who were in close contact with them have been advised to take Leave of Absence (LOA) for 7 days and to stay at home and monitor their health.

Westwood Secondary School
A teacher from the school tested positive for the H1N1 virus on 27 June. He participated in three school activities from 22 to 26 June – an NPCC camp at Pulau Ubin (22 to 24 June), a Social Studies Workshop (25 June) and a staff seminar (26 June). The teacher did not have a fever or other symptoms apart from a cough.

While he had no fever, the school is taking the extra precautionary measure of placing all students and staff on LOA who were in close contact with this teacher since 22 June, when his cough started. This includes 74 school staff at the staff seminar. As a result, the school will postpone school opening by a week, and re-open on 7 July1.

58 students will also be placed on LOA. These students will be advised to stay at home and to monitor their health closely while they are on LOA.

Presbyterian High School
A teacher from the school had earlier seen a doctor on 23 June afternoon when she felt unwell and was given two days of medical leave from 24 to 25 June. She attended the Staff Symposium on 26 June as she felt well. The teacher went to Tan Tock Seng Hospital on 27 June as she felt unwell again and tested positive for the H1N1 virus on 27 June. She was in close contact with teachers from the school on three occasions in the week – discussions with a few teachers on 22 and 23 June, and a staff symposium on 26 June.

From these activities, 70 staff will be asked to take LOA from school for seven days. As many teachers in the school will be on LOA, the school will postpone school opening by a week, and re-open on 7 July.

Continued Learning for Students
All students in Westwood Secondary and Presbyterian High School will be provided with Home-Based Learning (HBL) lessons. Staff, who were not in close contact with the teachers, will return to the schools to help coordinate the operations for HBL. The schools will deliver the materials for HBL and monitor the students’ progress through channels, such as telephone, email and the schools’ learning management systems. The schools will also keep parents informed of the learning activities and accompanying study schedules. When these students return to school, teachers may also conduct make-up lessons.

For students in these 2 schools who are scheduled to take their “O” Level Mother-Tongue oral examinations on 2 and 3 July, the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) will make arrangements for them to take the examinations later.

Hai Sing Catholic School
A trainee teacher, attached to the school tested positive for the H1N1 virus on 27 June. He attended a staff seminar on the morning of 25 June and six staff who were in close contact have been asked to take Leave of Absence (LOA) from 26 June to 2 July.

As only a small percentage of the school staff is on LOA, the school will operate as usual. When the school reopens on 29 June, the well-being of their staff and students will be monitored closely. Precautionary measures including twice daily temperature taking will be in place.

Close Monitoring
All affected staff, students and their parents, are being contacted by the respective schools. Affected staff and students have been advised to maintain high standards of personal hygiene and practise social responsibility.

The well-being of our staff and students is our utmost concern. As part of business continuity plans, MOE has advised schools to avoid situations which bring all their staff and teachers together. MOE is in close consultation with MOH and will activate other appropriate measures should there be a need to. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and keep staff, parents and students updated on new developments.

Footnotes
6 July is Youth Day, a scheduled school holiday.?

Recently, to be more extact, 23th June 2009, Microsoft released the beta of Security Essentials which was the previously Windows Live One Care.

Allow me to quote this from wikipedia,
[quote]Microsoft Security Essentials (codenamed Morro) is an upcoming gratis antivirus software created by Microsoft that will provide protection from viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.[3]

Amy Barzdukas, senior director of product management in the online services division at Microsoft, said: “This new, no-cost offering will give us the ability to protect an even greater number of consumers, especially in markets where the growth of new PC purchases is outpaced only by the growth of malware.” [3]
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I will say that the installation is very smooth and the virus scanning relaly run quietly at the background. These are some of the screenshot which I have taken while installing.

After so long…. its the first time I see my dad’s cry.

Before I start my LONG post on Windows 7 at this late hour ( 4.10am ), this are the information you might want to know

- Did clean install on a partition which previously has Windows 7, build 7077
- Installing Windows 7, build 7100 ( RC1 )
-This is my computer specs,
250gb space
4gb ram
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz processor
I am installing a 32 bit version of build 7100.

This is not my first time installing Windows 7 on my laptop.
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The experience was really great! Let me tell you it took me how long to install the windows. Only 36 minutes and 37 seconds.

This is the breakdown timing of my installation

00.00.00 – On computer with installation disc in drive
00.59.46 – Loading File
01.39.58 – Starting Windows – Set Up
02.32.40 – Installing Windows
17.57.50 – 4/5 Installation completed, Computer restart
19.35.51 – Starting Service
32.15.07 – Installation completed, Computer restart
33.22.51 – Preparing for the first time use
34.09.62 – Set Up
36.37.61 – First Boot into Windows 7

It only took me 36 minutes. 36 minutes 37.61 seconds to be extact. I mean, wow…. its only 36 minutes and whats more, I did not had any big issues when installing the OS.

Most of my readers are not very technical person so some of you might be asking what is Windows 7? Basically, it is a new Operating System. It is the next one after Windows Vista.

What are the differences?
I am unable to tell you ALL the differences between its really a big advancement especially in speed. The speed of the OS is really good!

Pictures speak more than a thousand words. Have a look.

The first screen you will see after your installation.

See mini screen capture of the running program and be able to navigate to it. You don’t have to worry about spending time to find your lost tabs.

Bottom right of the page is show desktop. Upon hovering over it, you can see what the desktop is like. Likewise for the mini screen capture, upon hovering over it, you can see what the program is like.

Shortcuts to functions of a program and even links to the frequently visited page.

Does this look like paint? Yes, it is paint!

Dock your windows. Its easier for you to compare two documents now. Instead of spending 30 seconds of your life trying to resize 2 document windows so that you can compare. You just have to drag the windows to the extreme sides to make it dock. ( Like the image above )

Moving from GUI to NUI ( Natural User Interface ). You can use your hand and write to communicate with your computer.

Customize your Notification Area ( What you see at the bottom right ) now!

Did I mention that I am using Windows 7 for most of my work and school work?

I am very excited!!! Later, I will be going to watch a Imagine Cup’s presentation and award ceremony and one of the agenda is ……

by MATTHEW Hardman! Cool guy, met up with him in MIC when we are recording the Live@Edu video. I happen to bring my brother, MATTHEW Lim there and yea. They are playing Guitar Hero together. A working guy and a young boy.. weird combo but yeah! ^.^

Go and try it out!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

Will be posting more soon. Kinda late. Time to sleep, need to rush some school’s project later in the day and finally meet up with all the MSPs. Long time since we met as a team at Microsoft, eh HAHA. I wonder if I will get the chance to talk to Neng Giin, some things I need to ask him. Umm.

I am slowly removing things from my blog.

I totally forget the purposes of its existance. I need to revamp and prevent others from abusing it.

Inuyasha – Every Heart

Tell me babe, how many do I shed my tears?
EVERY HEART, every heart is not a gentle yet
Shall I do, I can never say my loneliness
EVERY HEART, doesn’t know so what to say or what to do

Was afraid of darkness cause I felt that I was left alone
So I prayed for help to distant million stars

Round and round the planets revolve around the sun
And we always seek after love and peace, forever more
Growing, growing, woe baby we can work it out
Look up at the sky, every heart is shining on today

Show me now, what kind of smile do I come across
EVERY HEART, every heart can take a step towards dreams
All of us, what to take a lasting happiness
Whenever you feel sad, I wanna hold you and give you a sound sleep

Someday every heart’s gonna be free and easy
We have peace of mind
Someday all the people find the way to love

Goes and goes, the time goes on we are not alone
We live on together and we will find some precious things
Sometime we will smile sometime we will cry somehow
Don’t forget believe in yourself, tomorrow’s never die

There are the warm heart places on my mind
In my earlist day’s there and it’s SO SWEET,
There are many stars they have talk with me so kind
They say yes always time’s a friend of mine, so shine

Round and round, the planets revolve around the sun
And we always seek after love and peace forever more
Growing, growing, woe baby we can work it out
Look up at the sky every heart is shining all today

Goes and goes, the time goes on we are not alone
We live on together and we will find some precious things
Sometimes we will smile sometime we will cry somehow
Don’t forget believe in yourself, tomorrow’s never die

It looks much cleaner without those stuffs there.

5 hours of dbsy kills. still in dbsy lecture but i am on visual studio and facebook. =.=”

have been doing too many projects which make me very tired. wushu later. o.O

stupid hong wei, show me a video yesterday which make me unable to sleep.

wah, i dunno what i typing but yea… basically i am very tired and sian.

Pretty Random but I think quite funny. Sorry to those who don’t understand Chinese

Guo Hong | Programmers are designers/artists with automation in mind. – Apurva Lawale said :
* ???????? ????? ?????
*???

alex(: – ???????? ????? ????? says:
*what ?? sia?

Guo Hong | Programmers are designers/artists with automation in mind. – Apurva Lawale says:
*close eyes also see the person
*??

alex(: – ???????? ????? ????? says:
*no la
*when you really love someone
*thats what happens.

Guo Hong | Programmers are designers/artists with automation in mind. – Apurva Lawale says:
*?? lor

alex(: – ???????? ????? ????? says:
*-.-

Guo Hong | Programmers are designers/artists with automation in mind. – Apurva Lawale says:
*So you mean, when you really love someone, you will ??.
*o.O

This is an interesting video.

For some of you who are closer to me, you should know I am very very sick the last few days. Thanks for your concern, I am much better now. The night before, I think I got food poisoning, keep vomiting and suddenly my calfs and hands cramp fo 4-5 hours… like “yang dian feng”… siao one la.. heng matthew not staying at my house that day, if not he will go siao. if you around to see i like that, you will be scared to death. My mother wanted to call 995 but dunno why in the end didn’t.

then feel pretty weak even until now… 3 days liao… low blood pressure. Didn’t go school for 2 days liao.

After I went to the interoperability day by Microsoft today, i went back home and realise my mother not at home. I was lazy to bring my keys out. LOL.called her then she said she will rushed back then i waiting at my void deck. When i was waiting, i feel very xin ku because i have alot problem breathing then i see her come back from opp my house from NTUC…she was quite “small” because she was quite far away but i know its her from her umberalla and shirt then i see her, dunno la.. hair white white then walk abit like also breathless.. i was thinking she need more care than me or i need more care than her. That day during my whole body cramp. they are taking good care of me and they never sleep for the whole night.. of cos they cant sleep. LOL I was so noisy. LOL. well, they are old 57 and 59…. how long will they still be around… sia la.. i scare i emo again… LOOOLL

Someone angry with me now… HAHA….

I will skipped the first 2 hours from 10am-12noon. Met Matthew and Jun An. Nothing much was done except for drinking bubble tea at Jurong East interchange….I drank 4 cup of it at the first 2 hours. Thanks Matthew. =) Have to wake up at around 7.30am for it.

Anyway, we went to City Hall after that tocatch a movie, decided to watch 17 again. We ate Yoshinoya first before going in to cinema, i think the movie is pretty average, expected the ending to be this way.

Went to LAN at Dohby Ghaut after that where my accuarcy for L4D is 25% and someone else is 17%. HAHA, but then cannot suan him. He my shifu for DOTA and my di lea. Went back to City Hall to eat New York New York. I ended up eating the same thing again… somehow. =.=’. AND WE FORGET TO USE THE MEMBERSHIP CARD AND VOUCHERS!!!! ARRR. Wasted like $17……

It was quite another average day for me. We promised him this dinner anyway. HAHA.

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Wanted to write more but my computer is lagging like hell at the moment and its already 2.16am. School tomorrow. I hate my timetable. Anyway, I gonna change my blogskin soon. Tomorrow will be Dreamspark and Live@Edu. HAHA.