My very eventful first week of uni

So, this post is gonna be pretty long. Time for me to rant and rant and rant and rant. It actually feels pretty good putting things down in words, exactly like a journal. Coz when I look back at these posts, I actually can remind myself of different phases of my life, which I definitely can't remember forever so clearly in my mind.

Day #1, Last Sunday

Switched room with housemate Siew Chien. Reason being that my sis came and lived with me and we needed the other bigger room. So, it was packing packing, cleaning, shifting, setting up the bed, the toilet stuff.. and then other smaller stuff gets relocated into the new room and placed in newly-organised cupboards and shelves. Putting things neatly at the right place took forever, it is still on-going. I just have too many things and I wanna put everything perfectly into the right places, not just anywhere and everywhere.

Day #2 Monday

Thank goodness, after days of waiting for my supp paper exam result, I finally was told by the lecturer that I passed. Whopeeee!

Day # 3 Tuesday

Sat on bed with laptop on one day and pondered upon my recent discovery. I discovered last year around Sept/Oct, that my left hip is jutting out far more than the other side. Googled "hip jutting out one side more than the other" and voila! I found something frightening. The whole Google search page shows one big word "Scoliosis". A girl asked the same question on Yahoo Answers! and the person who replied said "Have u been checked for scoliosis?" Went and research on scoliosis and got freaked out even more. Coz other symptoms matched my condition. Hip higher on one side, shoulder is one higher than the other, pants hemline might differ(one shorter, one longer). So off I go, immediately, to see the doctor. Told him, I think I have scoliosis. Measured my hip to ankle to see if I have one long and one short leg. Nope. Then pressed my spine from the neck down, feels straight. But he agrees that my hip does jut out on the left more. So, I was suggested to do an X-ray. So, off I go to the hospital to do an X-ray, just wanna get things done asap, and the x-ray place was closing around the time I left. phew. Now to just wait for the x-ray film to be sent to the doctor I saw previously

Day #3 Wednesday

Attended a friend(Ruwan)'s 21st birthday party. It was great, though it felt a bit boring. The theme of the party was white! White dresses everywhere that night, I was amazed how everyone could actually find something white and nice to wear coz they were ALL complaining about how hard it was to find white dress/clothes to wear and how it looks fat on them. hahah. It was a good night, I would say.

Day #4 Thursday

X-ray report out, went to see doctor. As soon as I walked on, he said "Jasmine, yes, you do have scoliosis I'm afraid to say". Woahhhh... I "Oh my god"-ed to the doctor. Then I saw my x-ray image of my spine on his computer. It was a freaking convex (c-shaped)to the right. The reason why my left hip is jutting out is because my hip is trying to compensate for the spine curving to the right. Damn.. bad news much. I really do feel disabled when I went home and read all the sufferings people go through with that. To further confirm what I have to do next, I have to go see an orthopedic specialist. Only the specialist can tell me how much the angle of my spine has curved off and to decide whether I have to exercise or wear a brace around my waist to straighten my spine. sighh.. Told my family and they kinda freaked out a little and advised me on what to do next. Another astonishing discovery: it now has become clear how come, all through my years of spectacle wearing(started in form 4) that my ears were one up and one down. And true enough, it's cause of the scoliosis. The ear that is lower down is the right side.. where my shoulder is lower too.

Day # 5 Friday

Went to submit my resume to the restaurant that my friend recommended me to work at cause she knows the boss. Got interviewed a little.. and was told to go back the next day for a trial.Got told that trials are $10 per hour. Awesome. The last time I went for trials, they didn't even pay me a single cent.

Day # 6 Saturday

Anticipated all day long for 5 pm. That's when my trial for work as waitress started. Don't even know if it's a good or bad thing for my back, standing for long hours and straining my back. Anyways, had to learn how to do the usual waitress duties like serving, taking orders, greeting customers, wiping tables, washing glasses. It was a good experience really. Always wanted to know how it feels to be behind, in the kitchen and how things work in there. That night, it was madness. Apparently, I was thrown right into the deep end on first day of trial wth. Coz there was this feast going on. Some rich Taiwanese/HK young adults were dining that night. A total of 22 people. They had like such yummilicious food, like lobster shashimi lou sang(which I was lucky enough to taste at the kitchen. LOL the boss was saying how I'm lucky coz I get to eat lobster on the first day. Usually the waiters there only get it like once a year), crabs, abalone, oysters, shellfish, and all other things. So yums..but too bad, I'm not the one eating, but the one serving. That brings me to another point. You know, it feels so different to serve and to be served, like completely, utterly different. When we're served at restaurants, we somehow have this superiority, like we're kings, we're being served and we look at waiters like servants. Whereas, when I was serving, I felt the total opposite. I felt so looked down upon for some weird reason. grrr.. weirdness. like I'm a servant. But oh well, a servant gets paid. Oh, also, it was damn hectic, was running up and down the stairs like mad, at one point, I was actually sweating. Then, I broke a glass. But anyway, at the end of the day, I was kinda overpaid. I got $60 working from 5-10.20 pm. I felt a bit bad that I'm taking money but not staying till the particular time I'm supposed to be paid till, that's 11 pm. So, I stayed on and washed glasses. Andddd..I got $3 tip, divided from the tip jar. I got to drink some longan dessert and some Coke. Furthermore, every time anyone works, there's gonna be a meal prepared by the chef. If you don't wanna eat it, you still have to take away. Chef gets angry if you don't and if you throw food..lol And we all are supposed to call him Sifu..haha funny.

Day #7 Sunday

Today was pretty motivated to wake up cause my friends made breakfast plans. But I only reached at 11 am, so I guess it's not breakfast anymore, more like brunch. After that, walked around the city a little. Oh my, all the running and walking in the restaurant yesterday was like a workout. I was aching all over today, like the kind I get after working out in the gym after a long time of not visiting the gym. Around 5, my generous friend, Jason took me to IKEA. Yay, time to get my new study desk, then had dinner. At home, I anxiously assembled the table and finally got to place all the things I had on the floor onto the table AT LAST. Felt so homely. Just realised that without a study table, life feels so incomplete. Was arching over on the floor or on the bed, when I was using the laptop for the past week. Really Bad for the back. Now, I'm sitting comfortably in a good sitting position, typing away. Bliss! And then set up my speakers, happy! I really prefer music from speakers rather than laptop, much clearer and there's a subwoofer. Oh, reason I had to buy a new table was cause my old one was old and wobbly whenever I rubbed something off using eraser on the table, it would shake badly, making all the things on the table rattle, damn annoying.

Anyway, super damn long entry!

I am so happy I'm finally settled into this room despite having lots to clear still. Too many unwanted old clothes, old electrical cables and wires, containers, etc... the list goes on.

Ta,

Jas