The first long weekend has passed and it was disturbed by going to office on a Saturday morning, probably the most fruitful Saturday spent there tidying my desk, filing and throwing away lots of useless stuff. And an afternoon spent attending some useless networking session with my bosses which was a total waste of time. Well, at least I'll have an undisturbed weekend this week.
I'm now sipping kopi and passing time in a place full of doctors and sick ppl and agroup of 4 doctors just sat down for lunch beside me and 2 of them were wearing their scrubs and one is even carrying her stethoscope around her neck while eating! Perhaps during my internship days I'm used to leaving everything used in the hospital in the hospital itself, but isn't it very unhygienic to carry organisms, visible or invisible, from the kopitiam back into the ward? Or what's worse, carry germs from the hospital into your food and eventually into your mouth? Hello, I know you're a doctor but perhaps you can at least put the stethoscope into your bag??
Sunday, 17 April 2011
The weekend never fails to fly by.
At the end of Friday's internship, I tried the legendary fire needles for the first time. It happened because 2 young female patients went to seek treatment for hair loss, which did not look serious at all. I was quite sure my hair condition was even worse and asked my teacher to do it on me too. She used short needles, burnt it in fire till it was red hot, and pricked numerous times all over my scalp till my scalp was red and hot too. It's suppose to reduce hair loss and promote new hair growth, and can make me smarter too. No harm trying and let's wait and see the effects.
If not for the fact that I had to work on Saturday, listening to the old man talk till 1.30pm, it would have been a perfect day. Good food, great company and watching movie in the comfort of our own room, relishing that tub of heavenly haagen dazs ice-cream. yum!
And when I thought there can finally be a day for me to replenish my sleep and recharge for the new week, I was awakened by a loud thud at 7ish in the morning. Initially I thought it was a car crash, but couldn't see anything amiss when I looked out of the window. Then my mom came knocking on my door and say there's someone commit suicide lying right below my block. I looked down and saw a young man, in t-shirt and shorts, lying on the pavement near the drain with crushed tiles around him. He must have hit the covered shelter before landing up on the pavement. For the first time, I dialled 999 but 'all the officers are engaged', either too many people are calling or there is too few officers on duty on a Sunday morning. The ambulance came shortly, and the medic checked his pulse for heartbeat, did an ecg and carried him away. I guess he must have been still alive.
This is the 2nd suicide case from my block since I came back. see http://wishuponarainynite.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
I heard that was a maid who died on the spot. Freaky! I think my block is cursed..
What a way to start my Sunday, just 2 days ago, a mom and daughter fell to their death, and my dad says he knows the father; a decomposed body near sentosa, and a man jumped onto the mrt track. Sigh...
Oh well oh well, what a happening weekend. Now i'm just looking forward to my 2 long weekends to come. Can't wait!
At the end of Friday's internship, I tried the legendary fire needles for the first time. It happened because 2 young female patients went to seek treatment for hair loss, which did not look serious at all. I was quite sure my hair condition was even worse and asked my teacher to do it on me too. She used short needles, burnt it in fire till it was red hot, and pricked numerous times all over my scalp till my scalp was red and hot too. It's suppose to reduce hair loss and promote new hair growth, and can make me smarter too. No harm trying and let's wait and see the effects.
If not for the fact that I had to work on Saturday, listening to the old man talk till 1.30pm, it would have been a perfect day. Good food, great company and watching movie in the comfort of our own room, relishing that tub of heavenly haagen dazs ice-cream. yum!
And when I thought there can finally be a day for me to replenish my sleep and recharge for the new week, I was awakened by a loud thud at 7ish in the morning. Initially I thought it was a car crash, but couldn't see anything amiss when I looked out of the window. Then my mom came knocking on my door and say there's someone commit suicide lying right below my block. I looked down and saw a young man, in t-shirt and shorts, lying on the pavement near the drain with crushed tiles around him. He must have hit the covered shelter before landing up on the pavement. For the first time, I dialled 999 but 'all the officers are engaged', either too many people are calling or there is too few officers on duty on a Sunday morning. The ambulance came shortly, and the medic checked his pulse for heartbeat, did an ecg and carried him away. I guess he must have been still alive.
This is the 2nd suicide case from my block since I came back. see http://wishuponarainynite.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
I heard that was a maid who died on the spot. Freaky! I think my block is cursed..
What a way to start my Sunday, just 2 days ago, a mom and daughter fell to their death, and my dad says he knows the father; a decomposed body near sentosa, and a man jumped onto the mrt track. Sigh...
Oh well oh well, what a happening weekend. Now i'm just looking forward to my 2 long weekends to come. Can't wait!
Friday, 15 April 2011
Monday, 11 April 2011
Why do weekends always pass so fast? Good food and great company is enough to make my day. Had my weekly bubble tea (Gongcha this time) before my internship on fiday, and tissue prata which I've been craving for since last week for supper.
Woke up before 5am on saturday and set off to Johor for a one-day durian tour. Traffic was smooth, and after breakfast the tour began with the typical local food shop visiting and sampling, quite a fair bit of time travelling, and then the highlight - durian buffet for lunch! Some delays in getting the durians, as there were too many hungry and greedy people, at least they compensated us with mangosteen and rambutan! yums! the tour continued with more visiting, shopping and ended with a good restaurant dinner. And there was more huge crabs on Sunday and more good food today? I think my one and a half hours Sunday morning run can't do the justice.
Woke up before 5am on saturday and set off to Johor for a one-day durian tour. Traffic was smooth, and after breakfast the tour began with the typical local food shop visiting and sampling, quite a fair bit of time travelling, and then the highlight - durian buffet for lunch! Some delays in getting the durians, as there were too many hungry and greedy people, at least they compensated us with mangosteen and rambutan! yums! the tour continued with more visiting, shopping and ended with a good restaurant dinner. And there was more huge crabs on Sunday and more good food today? I think my one and a half hours Sunday morning run can't do the justice.
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Following the death of my MacBook, my iPhone went into a coma this morning when it suddenly blanked out and was unresponsive to which ever button that I press. Luckily the singtel guy over the phone was helpful enough to teach me how to force reset the phone and saved me a trip to get it fixed and a day of phone-less misery. Looks like it's not an uncommon problem, well at least I learnt something new today.
Now on housing, mommy says ' 4 room flat is good enough. You're not going to have half a dozen of kids and smaller house easier to clean also.' dearest says 'you're going to convert 1 room into Ktv room, 1 room to walk-in wardrobe, 1 room to store all your shoes, where to sleep?' looks like I have to strike 4d, buy a bungalow and hire a maid or two, haha. Fat hope!
Now on housing, mommy says ' 4 room flat is good enough. You're not going to have half a dozen of kids and smaller house easier to clean also.' dearest says 'you're going to convert 1 room into Ktv room, 1 room to walk-in wardrobe, 1 room to store all your shoes, where to sleep?' looks like I have to strike 4d, buy a bungalow and hire a maid or two, haha. Fat hope!
Sunday, 3 April 2011
sigh... my macbook that has accompanied me through so many lonely days and nights has died. Still trying to find my recovery disks which I'm very sure are hidden somewhere in the house, and now I'm stuck with using this lousy windows PC which is so slow and so new that nobody bothered to install adobe reader or messenger.
Time to get a new macbook since it's so cheap now.
On a sidenote, at least I'm glad my eyesight is still perfect 3 years after lasik.
Time to get a new macbook since it's so cheap now.
On a sidenote, at least I'm glad my eyesight is still perfect 3 years after lasik.
Friday, 1 April 2011
after a long and tiring day at work, I'm glad we've got our holidays planned and more or less booked. Although it's nowhere far nor too 'exciting' or exotic, we get our getaway, lots of sun and sea, shopping and eating!! and more importantly, something to look forward to amidst all the mundane everyday work. TGIF!
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