Change is good...

Ok. So it has been formally announced that I will be deployed to another ward for a span of 3 long months! Truth be told, I have been thinking and even dreaming about it. When the management had initial ideas to this cross-training program, I thought it would be great if I were to be the one going over.

Since I started work, I have always been working in ward 43. I thought I was too spoilt and sheltered by my manager and seniors. And prolly I have been too over familiar with my colleagues. So, going over would proof myself what I am really made up of.

And now that this got real, I got abit emo about it. It's like stepping out of my comfort zone. How will my new colleagues see me? If I am there to change the ward culture, will they hate me? Will the gang up against me? Who can protect me? God, help me be the best staff that I can be... Help me be a positive influence. Heh, it's like zooming back to the past, constantly asking God to help me in my work when I was a new staff.

I guess the most painful part is to be seperated with the person/people I love :( But I need to overcome it! Hiak hiak Maria you can do it!!!

Today, for the first time working as a staff nurse for 3plus years, a patient asked me to pray for her. I was kinda disappointed at myself because I didn't. Sigh... I know in church pastor has been sharing and challenging us to pray for the sick and all. I always wanted such an opportunity and it finally came. But..... I didn't have the courage to do so. I won't know what to say. All I know is.... I had shared the love of God through my sincere actions. I hope I did.

Haha, I guess one thing I miss also would be my patients. And I guess, hopefully some of them will ask about me and miss me too!

Regardless of anything, I'm always leaving it to God! :)

Retrospective entry: My Europe Holiday

I've been pretty jealous that some friends that are overseas for holiday are having awesome photos of themselves and the sights. And then I realised, to have beautiful photos, one cannot be lazy. So yeah, I did some editing to my photos and I hope they are comparable to what my friends have taken. Heheh. I also do feel really guilty for being really really lazy towards the last few days of my holiday because of taking to little photos and no longer looking pretty :/

Looking back, I think I did quite well for this holiday! And come to think of it, I managed to survive in the rather dangerous Rome :) Alright, this entry shall be full of photos! Extracting 1 photo from each city(almost) I have been to :)

First stop, Heidelberg. Over looking the Old Town(Altstadt) from the Heidelberg castle!! It was drizzling so we had the hassle of carrying the umbrella everywhere we went and my shoes were mushy. Eeeeewwww :( Nevertheless, it was good going back to this beautiful town. Met Tze Heng, Malcolm's friend who kindly brought us around too! (And had us drinking wheat beer 10am in the morning xD)

Berlin was one of the place I had always wanted to visit since I did not have the chance the past 2 times I went to Germany. And finally, I got to see the amazing historical sights! :) Presenting the Brandenburger tor! Was just a little fearful of those gypsies. My brother had fun mocking at them though. I wonder what has he been doing the past 8 years in Germany.....

Off we went on our own while Malcolm had to work for the week... I had also always wanted to visit this beautiful town named Dresden. Malcolm had been sending me a few postcards of Dresden and I always love the pictures of the place and finally, yay I could see the beautiful baroque buildings with my own eyes :DD That's me posing in front of the oprea house in my newly purchased motobike jacket from C&A in Berlin. Hehehe.

Prague was the next destination. And I shall formally introduce my travel partner, Victoria!! Copying Paris' Eiffel Tower, Prague decided to have her own lookout tower and the view of the whole city from up there was amazing! It was definitely worth the climb!!

After Prague was Munich!! Back to Germany! Visited the B&W museum and Marienplatz before heading to Englisher Garten, where I had THE best experience of my life! It was some outdoor place with a live band playing German folksongs. I just love the German experience. How we had to purchase the food(very marche style, if you know what I mean), the way people queue and buy for beer, the schweinshaxe(aka my pork knuckle) and they way we were seated!(very German festive style!) The weather was fantastic too!! Hehe, I'm such a good girl. I didn't want to have beer :|

Also finally, I got to see Neuschwanstein castle with my very own eyes!!! I must say that getting there was pretty challenging BUT I MADE IT :D (With the help of DB timetable & my DB navigator, Malcolm Boey)

Met Malcolm again for the farmstay part of the holiday! One of my favourite activities during the farmstay- BBQ in the carpark! I just love how resourceful we were(mostly Malcolm) in getting the food and fire!! Blur photo sadly :(

I also got to experience Oktoberfest!! Little did I know that the original original Oktoberfest is in Munich. Technically, no where else in Germany celebrates Oktoberfest. Had fun roaming around in my Dirndl :) Look at my cute German boyfriend behind me xD The train station was CRAZILY CROWDED!!!

On a Sunday, we went up to Wendelstein mountain by an old mountain tram! Malcolm booked a table for us in an All-You-Can-Eat brunch eatery. We could eat, and then explore the mountain top and go back and eat again. Hehehe.. It was too sunny that's why my eyes were like that.

Last night in farmstay. We cooked our own dinner. Love it!

Out of Germany we went, and ended up in Salzburg! Experienced the Sound Of Music Tour once again!!! Us in front of the very famous glass house!

Had my usual sleeping train ride. Wanted Victoria to experience it. Hehehe.. But the ride was pretty bad because it was so freaking cold :( My feet were shivering like crazy! But we were lucky because we had the whole cabin to ourselves! Didn't have to sleep with others! Wahahahaha!

And we reached our destination, Venice!!! OH I LOVE THE PLACE! The hotel was amazing(thanks Malcolm!) and the whole area was like a maze!! Everything looked alike! And I'm pretty proud of my navigation skills! Hehehe... Enjoyed admiring and studying the transportation system. NO CARS exists in Venice!!! We avoided the Gondola boat ride and saved 80euros. Phew!

The highlight of Florence was Prada shopping wahahahha. We just randomly walked around. I was too tired to take nice photos already :(

Last stop- Roma!! We had to of course visit the famous Colosseo!!! It was fun using my imagination to picture the fights thousands of years back! Witnessed a pickpocketing act in the train too!!

Ok, in general I think my photos look quite nice after editing. Wahahaha...

After this holiday, I was REALLY tired. My next holiday is going to be a relaxing one! Enough of intensive sight-seeing! Ok, I have 2 upcoming short leisure holidays. Wheeeheee.

Retrolicious

Busy period once again~ And very soon, it's coming to the end of the year!!

Did my first D&D show yesterday and had so much fun singing retro songs! :D I guess the favourite part of being in such shows is dressing up!!!

Upcoming cruise show~ A little frantic over the lyrics and maintaining my tone of voice. Hope all will be well and songs will be well received!!

But first, let me pack my messy room xD

Oh-em-gee

Been busy as usual :(( What on earth am I busy with? I don't know. Sob sob. But let's just take it that I'm living life to it's fullest! Heehee :D

Had a lil birthday celebration with my dearest JDC!!! YAY! I'm pretty excited on the upcoming shows we are gonna do! Heeheehe.

The super amazing awesome uncle!! Love him so so so so much!

I also spent one of my off days finishing up our cover! Can you imagine... Our last rehearsal was in April! :/ Now that the audio is done, we will do our video and DONE!! Can't wait for it :DDD

And finally, I managed to get hold of this photo after a year :DDD

Alright. This is just a random blog entry. Quite a lot going on in December!!! Hope that I can still be alive :P In the meantime, I am glad that I am progressing well in my bike lessons. Almost reaching the 3/4 mark! Yay!! I'm definitely closer to getting my dream bike!

2014 has been a great year! Time to reflect upon it real soon!!!

Another hectic weekend

My life is full of hectic weekends, isn't it?? Pardon me for not blogging the past few days. Things at work (namely JCI) has finally ended. Phew. I don't know if I did put in much effort to help prepare for the big audit but my manager keeps saying that I didn't do much due to my busy schedule that I had to leave work by 5/6pm D: Anyway JCI is over and my own activities are slowly settling :) Managed to get a good rest and packed my room today! HOHOHO!

The weekend started with the usual Theresa-Marcus-Maria birthday celebration. It was a good catch up time, especially with Theresa :)

Next day was D&D but before, I visited dear Jamie the bride-to-be in hospital :/

Thank God that everything went well and the wedding was a success! Will share about it shortly... Hehehe...

Moving on to D&D... Let the photos do the talking! The whole ward who attended D&D!

It's amazing how we both had a little something from the lucky draw :) Before the dinner started, we were praying that our numbers would be chosen and true enough... It happened :D Praise the Lord! Hehehe.

Love this photo with Liyana, my colleague now and ex-classmate. So, I will look like this if I were to be tall and slim...

Went home as early as I could to prepare the next BIG day! It was a miracle that the beautiful bride was able to walk down the isle 14 hours after an emergency appendectomy. This picture shows us singing "The Prayer" before the Holy Matrimony. It was a really beautiful moment and I almost wanted to cry T_T

At the reception with Valerie and Elicia!! Yay so pretty all of us! Hehehe...

Presenting the lovely couple :D

After the wedding, had my part 2 with the 38 girls :) It was fun recalling the good old days but sad that I had to leave early.

Went to my part 3 which was Lynn's house party!!! It's funny how Elson and I entered the house when everyone else were leaving for home.

Ok, I shall turn in now..... Morning shift tomorrow!!!!!!!

My Europe Holiday

After 3 years, I went back to Europe. This seems to be my "culture", to return every 3 years. Hehehe... Anyway, I am too upload to share anything, but I will just share MY favourite part of the holiday :D

Drumroll.......


It's the farm stay of course! And we got to wear the traditional costumes around :)

My travel partner, Victoria!

Love this solo shot hehehee... Gonna print it and put in my room! :P

I also found out that Malcolm is really good in posing too...

Ok, bye! Busy 2 weeks ahead!!!! Oh, my birthday in 3 days' time! YAY :D

Beautiful Weddings

6 September 2014 is definitely a day to remember :) I attended 2 very beautiful weddings of people who are close to my heart. And again, I'm at the ladies side!!!

My biao jie looking so beautiful in white & gold :') I look like a biao mei right? Hehehe...

The couple with my family!!

The march-in, which is to me always the most touching part of the whole wedding thing, even when I used to be a banquet waitress in weddings. Love my expensive fisheye lens for this picture!!!

Had the priviliage to sing a couple of songs... Though there were some technical errors, I'm glad that feedback was good! Hope they were genuine though heheheh :P This photo is so good but quality sucks sadly.

A selfie just before the table group photo! Yay! Can see my newly dyed(and expensive) hair here!!

Likka geitai singer, I rushed home and had a quick change before heading down to NYP for dear Rene's wedding!!! NYP's North Canteen was transformed into a very beautiful banquet place!!! Thumbs up for the decorations!

A lucky shot with the couple!!! Thank you fisheye lens once again! :D

The SoundCard peopos!!!! My batch people were roaming around :/

Love the stage backdrop theme, designed by the amazing Elizabeth!!!

Yupyup!!! That summed up my weekend!! Erm, the other day was spent working. Booohooohooo! Work really has been like crap the past few days! But anyway, I am 3 friggin days to my holiday which was planned almost a year ago!!! YAY! I really need this break! I hope it will give me good rest and refresh me so that I can function better when I return and during JCI!!! HOHOHOHOHO.

I also hope that I will be able to blog faithfully, and take amazing photos!!! Till then!!