after a call
me: do you know the feeling, being sad and thinking it's funny at the same time?
nadiyah: yes..it's called bipolar.
me: ....
oh well, selamat hari raya to everyone, maaf zahir batin :)
it's almost 3 weeks
and sometimes i dont feel like i'm really here. then it hits me: i'm 6 hrs flight away from home in a room with 2 others. i havent seen my family in almost 3 weeks, and i desperately miss my bed with my multiple pillows who have their own personalities.
BUT things are great here, am having fun and experiencing lots of interesting stuff and cultures. plus i've had more ice-cream this past weeks then i've ever had in the past months. including 2 cones of 32cm ice-cream!
as soon as i find my card reader, i'll show that am not bluffing abt the ice-cream length.
meanwhile..
wanna guess where we are in this pic? :)
pseudo-tweet
she:
:has visited 4 beaches of sydney so far and a 5th one later on today
:learns the importance of assertiveness in the OT
:feels so grown-up as she managed to keep a steady stream of conversation going with an aunt she's never met
:understands why malay malaysian feels so strongly about the bumiputera policies now after that conversation
:had the MOST FANTASTIC seafood dinner ever
:feels that sydney is cheating her of daylight hours
:miss eating rice
:discovered short cut method of making mac&cheese due to pure laziness
:loves OT very much but do wishes she's doing some nursing procedures
:is annoyed that she cant access mediacorp radio cos they took it down
:is still waiting for her money!!
sydney: day 5
today is the first day of spring, says the news anchor. let's hope she gets the message.
today's the first day of posting in THEATRE :D. unfortunately tomomi and i are posted to the ortho ot, which means bones, bones and more bones. it is though, enough to cement my want to work there. well at least there in the sydney theatre, havent seen how dear ol' s'pore will be like.
us in scrubs!
i think this posting is THE most flexible ever. they can easily swapped you around (was in ED, then neuro ICU but then placed in OT when i expressed my interest in it, how cool is that??), and apparently, there's no fix timing. well there's suppose to be, and shift is suppose to last for 10hrs each (fri-sun off! whee!) but helen (the facilitator) very casually pull us away early to meet up with the UoSyd students and telling us "not to worry, be more relax cos we arent paid for this anyway". so thats how tomomi and i find ourselves to be leaving early tmr again to meet the students again, who will be taking us to the beach! imagine swapping attachment for beach in s'pore. unimaginable isnt it?
i'm not too sure if that paragraph makes at all sense cos am very fuzzy at the moment. had just woken up and is all alone in the dorm cos my 2 roomies are in the afternoon and i'm in the morn. nice to have SPACE all to myself for once, even with cool relaxed roomies like this 2:
the surrogate mother and the other seah.
other ppl who's here too:
ellen, who seems to have stolen doraemon's pocket
tomomi who cant make sushi
sarini who has a chef friend who becomes our impromptu guide
and me! very happy in the OT
observed total knee replacement today. it was GOOD although wince-worthy cos of the roughness. and the surgeon was UBER NICE!! he played songs, real songs with abba, the fray, savage garden etc and he sings along, and got mercilessly teased for hitting the falsetto notes on 'truly madly deeply'. he doesnt rem some of the instrument names and asks for 'doo-dad', 'long tubey thingy' and 'thingamajid' and surprisingly the scrub nurse knows what he wants. when she doesnt, he strolls over to the equipment table and just points it out for her.
hopefully my ot week in ttsh would be as great. well one can hope ya?
blogger is still crazy
LAST LAST LAST exams before graduation!!! no more exams till degree/advanced dip (whichever comes first).
so..guess who's still not studying? :) well it's not my fault that management is SOO boring!
been having really weird dreams lately, dreams of having to go for op. it's either i have too much OT in my mind, premonition that i'll actually get to spend 1 mth there, or that it'll be majorly featured in the upcoming exams, i dont know.
speaking of 1 mth, am still NOT packed, i dont think i'll ever finish packing till like 10 min before i go out the front door. and as excited as i am to actually go there, am not really looking forward to leaving IMMEDIATELY after the exams..it's literally 14hrs after my last paper ends and i'll be on the plane!
oh wells..
i just hope it wont be too cold there.
something is wrong with blogger
did you ever notice people pay more attention to you when you're happy?
or maybe they're just staring and wondering why this girl is just grinning away like a kerang busuk. lol
tickets and visa are finally DONE. left accomodation and insurance, hopefully by tmr.
flight QF32
28th aug
0940 term1
not much time to pack considering paper ends on 27th aug at 1800. and not much time to spend with my pillow!! ~sigh
anyhow, will be back by 1st oct 2145pm. hopefully there's still some kuih raya left in this country.
i got to see service recovery in action on tuesday! highly useful for presentation =) added bonus: now when i see a doctor hunt for a 'running vein' (poke in one needle, no blood come out, in the same hole, manipulate the needle direction till you hit a vein) i can really emphatise for the pt.
cant wait for fri to end my fyp. plus an5 immediately after. will be celebrating by watching the always sexy, ever hotness johnny depp!
see, even when life sucks, it doesnt. :D
because LIFE. IS. GREAT!
no matter how hectic and sometimes sucky things are
i wouldnt trade my life for anyone else's.
Climb up over the top.
Survey the state of the soul.
You've got to find out for yourself whether or not you're truly trying.
Why not give it a shot?
Shake it. Take control and inevitably wind up
Find out for yourself all the strengths you have inside of you. -jason mraz, song for a friend-
