Barry's Birthday! :)

Yesterday a few of us celebrated Barry's birthday! Didn't join them for sentosa in the morning but they all had fun! Well, I'm happy for them...

After their sentosa thing, I met them at Vivo City and bought my Avenue Q tickets. Woo! I'm sooooooo excited! :D Can't wait for Nov 16 to come!

Then, we travelled to Sakura(buffet) at Clementi Woods. Though that was my 4th meal of the day, I enjoyed eating and munching to food away. Probably I gained a little, but it didnt matter to me because I have been eating 2 meals a day and I've been walking/standing for 8 hours everytime I work.

I really enjoy this company and have been laughing throughout the dinner. Which is awesome, totally! Also shared with them my nursing experience which was abit too much in depth I must say.

The birthday boy and I.
Violet, me and Acelyn!The girl gang.... and the boys.Cheese!Barry and his wasabi "icecream"Reading his birthday card upon receiving it :) Anyway Sishi, it's a nice card!And I end off with a group photo!Can't wait for another outing without worrying about school/work the following day.

Today at work was quite dramatic. With brand new patients I had to know from scratch and an emergency case... It was saddening to know that family members of a certain patient don't really care if she goes? She's so ill and you just care about your children and your own things? 1hour, 2hours where doctors and nurses are trying their best to save her, there is still no family member in sight. She has I believe, more than 5 children and all of them are busy?

For the whole of the 2 weeks her being under my care. She is the patient with the least number of visitors. I only saw them 2 times? Simply disappointed. She was transferred to ICU but I guess her time running out. Ok, I should not be talking about all these due to confidentiality. But through this situation, I have learnt to really take good care of my family members and show concern towards them.

I can't believe that on Friday, my patient and I almost cried together becasue she was going to be discharged on Saturday. The reason why we didnt cry was becasue we both held it back. I could see tears in her eyes... That is one of the most painful part of nursing I must say.

Wooo, 5 more days till I turn 18!

Happy Weekend!

Happy happy! For today, after cgm I went out with my parents. Met them in town and we caught Mamma Mia! I really love the songs and dancing. It made me groove along :) Though, the story is LAME. Can imagine how funny it is with stage play.

I don't know if we had fate or what... I was going to the toilet alone and I met SiShi outside waiting for ShaoYu and Carlos. SISHI LEH! Not anybody else BUT SISHI! Wahahaha, got fate, got fate :)

After dinner, we(my parents and I) went near the F1 track to hear and feel the vibration of the cars. The sound was DEAFENINGLY LOUD. Photos of yesterday when my dad had seats to it! Regret! Should have made arrangements to go man! Silly of me not to~
Place where they had dinner. There's still windows so that people can peep outside while enjoying the aircon!LOL! The car is too fast to be captured on the camera!!!!!VROOOOOOOOOM!Only this is taken today, mommy and I in the crowd. Could not see much though, cos they like fenced everything up -___-有些事我只想要對你說，
因你比任何人都愛我；
痛苦從眼中流下，
我知道你為我擦。

在早晨我也要來對你說，
主耶穌今天我為你活；
所需要的力量你天天賜給我，
你恩典夠我用。

Beautiful lyrics. Sang this with Roy during cgm. He simply chanced this song upon Youtube! I kinda like it! :D Hope that we'll have thing chance to sing it to more people!

The job that requires a heart

Well, I've been working for 9 days as a student nurse in NUH already! Learnt a lot of things and slowly I'm getting more used to the routine! Soon, I'll do things more confidently and then there goes my 3 weeks of great experience.

Yesterday 1 patient under my care was discharged and today 2 of them! I almost cried can! Like looking after them, knowing their needs and stuff like that, a relationship was built. Then, they are well enough to go home and *poof* off they go.

Looks like I have to get used to it yeah. For 2 of them, I've got their numbers!! (dont know for what) But they just gave me theirs... I really enjoy looking after these pleasent old people :) Probably because my grandparents died when I was very young and I didnt have much time to spend with them as a teenage grand daughter of theirs.

I do regret though, for my grandmother who stayed at St Luke's and I didnt really go and visit her and all that. Right now I understand how lonely can an elderly be when her family does not visit her. Really sad.

Ok, don't laugh at me wearing this uniform... My friends mentioned that I look nicer wearing specs. Anyway, the group 10 people are a fun bunch :)

Ambition achieved! :)

Weekend's nice if you weekday is busy and tiring

Anyway, POP was awesome! :D I was rather excited as it was my first one[could not make it the other time] :( My cg sent JingWei for the POPject runway geek competition. Sadly she didnt win but I thought she dressed really well :) [Probably becasue she is really one? :P]Other than that, the praise and worship, testimony and sharing was great! I can't wait for the next one! Good job guys! :)

Anyway, Phoebe is loved by me :D I heart her despite the good or bad times. And well, that's the part and parcel of a friendship. I hope Malcolm can be thrown away and Phoebe will be there to replace him. Haha! -_- Phoebe, must remember the note I gave you and what it says alright?Something bad... I sinned today @__@ Arghhh! Well, I just hope I won't have nightmares and keep thinking about it. I just got to remember what I did wasnt wrong and that I'm forgiven(by myself).

Dad's back out of a sudden and I didnt realise! Wahahaha. Welcome home!

TGIF!

Yes, TGIF! Like finally. 2 days for my feet to rest. It is totally terrible to stand for hours because I'm a person who is usually lazy and does not like standing up. I could still remember vaguely when I was younger, I always preferred to sit in a pram or having my mom to carry me.

I must say that for the past 5 days of attachment, I have learnt tons of things. Whatever I've studied in the book has come to real life. It's hard seeing that transition! Ok, I think I have become more of the patient's maid rather than a nurse. LOL. Well, as they always say, year 1 is like that.

I love the patients under my care a lot! I guess, I am already too emotionally attached to them already. I mean, how can I not when I am serving them 8 hours a day? I really love interacting with the old people.

Today, someone at the next cubical passed away. Although she is not under my care, I am in shock. Yesterday, I took blood pressure for her. Spent some time doing it because her arm was just made up of skin and bones. But the looks of her face, I just had the feeling that her time was running out. At least she passed on peacefully. Then, I thought to myself, what if those under my care were to pass on? So, I even more tried to look after them, initiate things and smiled at them every single time, causing me to be EVEN MORE emotionally attached to them.

Thinking of the brighter side, I will still miss them when they are discharged or when I finish my attachment. Can't wait to give them a firm hug before leaving them :)

I think I'm really set with nursing.. Because I would rather stare at people then to stare at computers or papers. Haha. And, my smiling technique works!! (it's my secret) It's brings a joy to my heart when I see happy faces on the patients.

Happy 18th :)

Happy Birthday SiShi! Now, this post is specially for you :) Love ya! Enjoy!As you can see, I'm too lazy to add captions :) But still, I love youuuu!

Results Day

This morning when I woke up, quickly turned on the computer and checked my results online. I got 3.135 for my GPA. Reaction? Hmmm, quite happy as I got above 3. But I felt it was not good enough because if this becomes my graduating GPA grade, I can bid farewell to my dream of going to uni T___T Is this a sign to sign a bond with the hospital?? MAYBE!

Basically I got 3As, 1B+, 2Bs and 2Cs.

Quite pleased lah... becasue I was only expecting 2 As... And for horrible bio, I got B+! :) For the 2 Cs, erm, I knew that the paper was horrible to me.

Congrats to XiaoPing of course for her almost perfect score! :D She is seriously the bomb! Really ought to learn from her. At the same time, I wanna be like her :(

Ok, I think I'm like never sastisfied with the things I have. Well, that's me. I always want nice nice marks when it comes to studies. Who dosent?

I deserve it anyway... Only me myself know what I have been actually doing during exam breaks. Hmmmm.

Well, I'm still a happy girl today becasue of the lovely patients I have met! Through their cheerfulness, they made me realise that I have a beautiful life ahead and I should always be happy in the littlest things :)

My first day at NUH

I was really excited yet scared(shy) for today. Firstly, we all had to report at the auditorium and it was good seeing familiar faces like people from the same lecture group. Waited for some quite time before the staff from NUH came over and gave us a talk. I don't know if I have been brainwashed or something, but I really like this place! If given a choice to choose where I would want to work my whole life, it would definitely be NUH!

We went touring around the hospital and flashbacks came upon me as I recalled the area. Though, everywhere has been renovated and nicely done up.

As you know, I have been posted to a different ward from my classmates. But can I say that it is a blessing in disguise? Because Matt worked in the exact same ward as I! So more or less I do know certain things. The girls from other tutorial groups are nice too! Not hostile or whatsoever.

The only disappointing things is that I did handwashing wrongly as I mixed up the step! :( So much for practising in the public toilets when my friends are around to see. Nevermind... Learn again.. At least our clinical instructor is really nice!

Thank God I worked in banquet before coming here! They are somewhat similiar. Like when someone bigger asks you to do a certain thing, you just go "orh." and do it. Ok, maybe this time round, I have to be more initiative because this concerns life. But working is definitely not a problem to me! *recalls the 12hour working time in banquet, causing me to really faint* So I urge you to have a part time job during the holidays to learn and explore!

Doing afternoon shift tomorrow, which means I have time for myself and I can view my results tomorrow morning! (heard from everywhere that results will be out on the 16th)

Ok, time to recall my theory now! Don't wanna be blur tomorrow...

PS: I just hope that my left second left toe will shrink a few mm so that my shoes can be comfortable.

Surprising SiShi

It all started out with us popping by her house to give her a surprise! :D Shall spare you the details. Quite tired now... I don't really do this, but yeah :)Went to westmall food court for our pre celebration meal. It's part of a teaser too :PNext, headed down to Essential Brews!We ordered our food while waiting for WanTing... Oh, here she comes! HAHA.She was actually, opposite the road, then I called her to look over as we were waving vigrously... She said I was lame :(Anyway, for what has been shared during the weekend in service, about carrying the DNA of the church and it would be easy identifying members in public. The "theory" was proven when I could identify chc members sitting behind us as I overheard their conversation. In fact, some of them are from the same zone as me? But they wont know me.. Well, maybe only after the Zoe Conference :)SiShi's second cake... The church members behind SiShi.We tried many times to take a group photo...Then, every girl had the chance to take a solo pic with the soon to be 18 girl!More shots...

Hmmm, SiShi, I hope you had a great time :) Hehehe.

Anyway, tomorrow is the BIG DAY! Kind of nervous, like the first day of school. What I need now is a good rest though.

Ciao!