As of today, the 7th November 2010, at approximately 12:10pm, I, Nathan Nai-Chen Wu, have become a fully-qualified, New Zealand registered pharmacist!! 
After 6 years of university, 1 year of internship, I have finally made it!!
Been feeling extremely anxious all this morning; continually refreshing my email to make sure I get the notification email ASAP. But the wait was worth it!!
WOOT!!
Gosh time is going fast. I’ve just realised I haven’t blogged in well over a month. In fact, I actually forgot to blog in August. There goes the monthly streak lol…
Assessment Centre is looming ever closer. Started reading the Pharmacy Practice Handbook 2003 a few nights ago. Better start filling out those annoyingly tedious Evidence Portfolio sheets too… 
Mum and Dad left for Los Angeles last Thursday. Dill, Jenny and me took them to the airport in two cars. Jenny banged her head and nose on one of the the ridiculously low carpark signs in the carpark… Nose suffered an abrasion… Poor Bobo :’(
25th September 2010 (Los Angeles time) marks my cousin Desiree and her fiance Matt Geiger’s wedding. Congratulations you two!! The first of my cousins to get married too! A pity I couldn’t be at the reception in person… 
Still loving my HTC Desire (thanks again, Boo!) as much as the day I eagerly went to pick it up from the FedEx office near the Airport 
Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) was released a month or so ago as well. I didn’t manage to get it via the official OTA (over-the-air) update, as I was rooted and running a custom 2.1 ROM by then (more on rooting and custom ROMs soon)
Been fiddling around with it quite a bit. Managed to root it a few months back, and have been mucking around with custom ROMs. Haven’t tried any except Paul O’Brien’s at the MoDaCo Forums. And why should I? His ROMs are the closest things to the stock HTC Desire ROMs, but give users the flexibility of “baking” their own ROMs (via an online Kitchen exclusive to paid subscribed members at the forum). Thanks, Paul!!
So a few months back, I took the plunge and rooted the phone; enabling me to install custom ROMs, and a whole boatload of other stuff. Just earlier this evening, I decided to try my hand at ADB and manually “pushing” specific files onto my Desire’s /system folder (normally unreachable, I believe? But I could be wrong, as I am at a total loss when it comes to ADB/AndroidSDK lingo). BUT the good new is, I managed to successfully remove the “GenieWidget.apk” that was included in the MCR r9 WIP ROM I had running, and install a modded version 
Looks much better, imo!! *pats myself on the back*
Feeling a bit more confident with ADB now. Can’t wait to push/pull some more when the need arises!! 
Over and out!!
Damn it, I snapped my own streak of blogging at least once a month lol. Oh well, let’s try start a new streak lol.
I’ve had a pretty busy May. Work, work, work, then a huge trip to the US with Jenny We spent time in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Faaantastic trip. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Made new friends, and got re-acquainted with a fellow “not-living-in-Taiwan-and-speaks-fluent-English” cousin Desiree (there’s only 4 of us in total, so a rarity, including me, Dill, and Desiree’s sister; Bonnie), which is always a plus. Got to meet her fiance Matt too; what an awesome guy. Managed to fit in quite a busy schedule too. Went to Universal Studios, Disneyland, Sea World in San Diego, catch a Dodgers game at Dodger Stadium, visit Staples Center, do a lot of sightseeing, attend Jenny’s friend’s wedding (Jen was the maid of honour), do HEAPS OF SHOPPING, visit the New Yankee Stadium, among other things
Now it’s the 21st June, and I’m trying to restart my blogging habit (what habit?). What’s happened? Oh, the biggie assignment, Assignment 3 (patient-centred care) was due, which I handed in with a day to spare, the Yankees and Dodgers are both doing very well (can’t say much about the Phillies though…), and the Lakers are back-to-back champions!!
Can’t forget that can we? I remember back on the 15th June 2009 (I checked lol), I posted about the Lakers finally returning to the top spot with championship #15. Well, just a year and two days later, they win #16. With Kobe the Finals MVP for a second year in a row. Congrats to the Lakers!! Let’s make it a three-peat next season!!
Oh well, time to go to bed. Blogging at 12am isn’t really a healthy thing lol. Hopefully will hear more from me from now on (I keep saying that don’t I?)
Just received an email notification early yesterday morning that my long-awaited HTC Desire has finally arrived in stock at Clove UK and has been shipped!! I’ve been checking the FedEx track and trace service just about every hour to see if it’s arrived yet
Got a call this morning from the NZ FedEx branch, asking for my credit card number, as I need to pay for GST. The lady said should hopefully arrive tomorrow morning!! Exciting times!! Will definitely opt to pick up from the FedEx offices near the airport, just to speed things up!!
Just sent out my first lot of paperwork for EVOLVE as well, so feeling quite stress-free for now
I realise it’s been over month again since my last post. What’s happened since then? Well, I had my 24th birthday on the 12th March 2010, and just finished off the first of two sets of intern training days (which I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED, BTW! Managed to learn heaps of new things while having fun through role-playing, and getting to catch up with some uni mates was great). My birthday fell on a working Friday, so I spent the day working as usual, but managed to go out for some ice cream at “Casa de Gelato” in Ponsonby with Jenny Snickers ice cream for me, Ferrero Rocher (sp?) for her
The following Sunday was where the actual festivities occurred. Dill and Steph kindly shouted me, Jenny and mum to Nickie’s in Newmarket. ‘Twas a very enjoyable dinner, and I thoroughly enjoyed the company! Thanks, guys!
Presents-wise, Dill got me “Batman” (the 1989 Tim Burton one, that is) and “The Last Samurai” on Bluray, Steph got me a nice t-shirt, and Jenny got me a limited edition Gran Turismo PSP-3000 Thanks so much, Bobo!
My 24th birthday present from my parents was contact lenses. Now that may not sound like much for most people, but I’ve been bugging them for contacts ever since I started wearing glasses way back in first year uni (2004). I headed off to Sylvia Park for some information-digging. Three shops were available there; OPSM, SpecSavers, and another one whose name has just slipped my mind lol… All three stores had the same $200 deal (which includes a full eye checkup, trials for different types of contact lenses until the most suitable one is found, and up to 4 or 5 consultations). I opted to go to OPSM, as the optometrist on duty (James) actually knew what he was talking about.
It’s been nearly two weeks since putting on my first pair of contacts (14th March 2010 marked the first time haha), and all I can say is WHY DID I NOT GET THEM EARLIER?! I’ve tried three different brands/types so far. The first pair were some Acuvue Oasys contacts (not sure which ones exactly), the second pair were thicker and the company/brand has completely slipped my mind (I think they were made by Ciba Vision?), and the third pair are once again Johnson & Johnson Acuvue Oasys, but this time, specifically the ones for astigmatism (which I suffer from). The first pair were pretty good, although they dried out my eyes a bit. Nor did they correct my astigmatism (no wonder my vision blurred out whenever I was reading fine text or a computer screen!). The Ciba Vision pair were less drying than the first, but they were significantly thicker than both the Acuvues, so you could definitely feel them more in your eyes; astigmatism was fixed somewhat more than the first. My eyes also took a while to adjust to them, and they stung for a few minutes when first put in. The astigmatism-correcting Acuvues I went to pickup on Thursday night after work, and have been wearing them since then. They are by far the most comfortable, AND they don’t seem to dry out my eyes at all. I wore them for around 14 hours today, and only just before I took them out did my right eye feel a bit raw/dry, which was almost certainly due to me dozing off on my bed with Jenny after dinner
Will be going back to OPSM for another routine checkup tomorrow (28th March 2010) around 1:30pm, and will definitely be sounding my support for the “Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism” ones!! Will hopefully be getting another pair of Ray-Ban aviators as well; the RB3025′s
