Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Happy New Year

It's the new year after one whole year of the good and bad times of 2012. Time to put those behind and look forward to a better year! These are my goals for 2013!!!

1) Get a merit at least for my upcoming Grade 5 ABRSM exam!
Awesome that I started out lessons in May and in a month or two, I'm going to take my exam!! Hohohoho! I'm uber-mega stressed about it though! I hope everything will turn out fine. I have never or almost never failed any test/exam my whole life(except chinese maybe). So I hope I won't break my record! :/

2) Be a more patient and devoted nurse.
Recently I have been getting really mad and throwing tantrums at work. Even yesterday(last day of 2012) turned out to be a shitty shift for me. At the end of the day I almost wanted to breakdown and cry. It's not my fault that I did not have the time to read up my patient's history. All I wanted to do was to finish up the relevant things for my patient before handing over to the next shift. I also know that I'm not exactly so sharp in details. But as long as my patient's life isn't in danger, it's ok right? I will be answerable to the doctor but I am VERY confident that they will not say anything also... And then patient's relatives had to tell me what to do. Eg.- I was discussing my patient with the doctor whether to start a medication for her in English. Then, patient's niece(I assume, mid 20s) had to INTERRUPT us and tell me to use Mandarin to speak to the patient. I told her I wasn't even speaking to patient!.... Firstly lady, I was speaking to the doctor, so please don't comment if you don't know what's going on! Secondly, I have been nursing her for at least 2 weeks in her 3 weeks stay in hospital!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't tell me how I can communicate with her! Yeah, so that summed up my shitty shift. At home, I whatsapp-ed my manager and asked if I was really slow in doing things. She replied, "No lah, you are good cos you don't become substandard when there are a lot thing to do"(ok, that's really bad english :PPPPPPP) But anyway, it was sooooo encouraging even though I don't think it's quite true. She then thanked me for the contributions I have done for the year. Awwww.... I respect my manager totally!!! I will change to be a better nurse! :D

3) Continue my studies.
I have been pretty impatient and insecure about this. I really hope that I will have the opportunity THIS YEAR!

4) Do more covers/gigs
Especially when I have my studio mic and my upcoming voice pedal!!!

Happy 2013! :D Looking forward!