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Thursday 29 May 2008
Today has got to be the worst day ever...just too many bad things happening to be coincidental...
First, my partner informed me that she could come for the spoke today due to some issues at home. This means that I will be on my own again. I really need to practise how to manage unfamiliar situations on my own!
Then, I tried finding where Heathfield House is for the spoke tomorrow, just in case I will be late like yesterday at The Meadows. Goodness, the horror I went through yesterday trying to find The Meadows and ending up being lost in Offerton. I have no idea how many times I tried walking up and down Offerton Lane/ Marple Road trying to find that place. Back to the problem of Heathfield House. I did not manage to find it...so all I do is to pray for a miracle to happen tomorrow!
Next, I find to Hulme Hall in the morning to pay for my summer accomodation. Of all days, the lady in charge of transaction is on a meeting. Then, I went back there after my spoke placement at ADS, which is about 4.30pm. The lady in charge told me that all card transactions had to be made before 3pm! Argh! I can swear I almost went mad at that moment! Today is the only day I managed to sqeeze out some time to pay for my accomodation and I was told I cannot pay them(placement ends at 5pm and the office would have been closed. British people do not work on weekends...:S).
Last but not least, in the evening, my cousin in S'pore sent me messages on MSN asking if I can contact my mum because something urgent happened. My heart skipped a beat there and wild thoughts were fleeting through my brain before I could react. Almost immediately, another cousin in US messaged me to ask me if I know about the events that had happened. I was really worried by then. Turns out that my uncle fell down from a ladder during work and his brain was bleeding. By the time I was informed, he was in the midst of an operation... All I can do now is to wait and pray...
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Sunday 25 May 2008
50 Things You Can Learn From A Korean Drama (Funny But True)
1) Hot, rich, younger men love fat, older vulgar women.
2) If you have a best guy friend, he is in love with you. And secretly you are too.
3) You and your boyfriend will always playfully chase each other on an ice rink, at the beach, or in the leaves. And you'll laugh for no reason and your boyfriend will hit you "playfully" but the force of his push will have you flying across the room. But it's okay. Cuz you're still laughing like a crazy person.
4) Brothers/cousin/uncles-newphews will always love the same girl.
5) You're allowed to make uturns wherever you want in Korea. And there is never traffic on the side you want to u turn to.
6) There is a super quick payment device that allows you to pay a bill quickly enough for a guy to run immediately out of a restaurant after his angry girlfriend storms out.
7) Everyone has cancer.
8) If you're sick, all you need is an IV to make you feel lots better.
9) There is vomit and urine all over Seoul at nights.
10) Fighting at a pojangmacha with a random stranger is merely part of a normal night's event.
11) Soju must cost 10 cents. Everyone drinks it everyday all the time, especially the poor people.
12) If you're rich, you're a jerk.
13) If you're poor, you're an angel.
14) Women sleep and wake up with a full set of makeup on.
15) You're not studying hard enough unless you get a nosebleed.
16) If you have a nosebleed, you most definately have cancer. And you have no money to pay for the surgery that will save your life. And your liver is missing. We're not sure where it went, but it's making your cancer progress faster.
17) If you work in a sool jeep, you have massively curly hair and wear flashy colors from the early 90's.
18) You always order orange juice or coffee at a cafe. And you never drink it. EVER.
19) You will always call your boyfriend by his job title. Or simply sunbaenim. Never his name. Never. He doesn't have one.
20) If you TRULY love each other, you must die together in the end. Frozen outside instead of finding shelter like sane people. Just frozen....
21) You go to America you come back miraculously successful. You go to England you come back amazingly fashionable. You stay in Korea the only thing that changes is your hairstyle.
22) And if you come back with no apparent reason then it's because you have cancer.
23) Everyone always goes to the same hospital no matter where they are.
24) If you stand out in the rain for more than five minutes, you'll end up with a fever and vertigo and people will rush you to the hospital to get some magic IV. And instead of taking an ambulance or driving they'll race you on their back.
25) Even if you're poor and can't eat, you never wear the same clothes twice.
26) If you play a poor kid, you always have dirt on your face and your hair is always messy.
27) If you're saving someone from being hit from a car, you'll push them out of the way and wait for the car to hit you instead. biggrin.gif couldnt be more true, their like a deer in headlights
28) Everyone has a long lost sister/brother/twin. Usually one they didn't know about.
29) If you don't want to answer your phone, you can't just turn it off. The battery needs to be taken out.
30) All korean men can drink hard, smoke long, sing well and play piano. Usually all at the same time. And at the same restaurant that has a piano that they let anyone use.
31) If you're in a relationship, you must at one point leave and have your lover tearfully come RIGHT before you board the plane (vice versa applies as well. You can be the chaser). 60% of the time you see each other, the other 40% you're roaming around in circles and pass each other about six times, but miraculously never see them.
32) If you're getting off a plane, you're ALWAYS wearing sunglasses. ALWAYS.
33) All guys wear hideous tracksuits zipped up to their neck. Even if all they're doing is jumproping.
34) Girls will always storm off because they're mad and the guy will stoically grab them by the arm and swing them back- and by magic, not dislocate their shoulders.
35) Guys always look like they're 6 feet tall, even if they're only 5'10. Thank you camera angles.
36) Guys like to wear foundation, eyeliner and sometimes a smudge of lipliner.
37) You always get stuck in an elevator with someone who makes you feel uncomfortable. Even if there are six different elevators, you'll always be stuck in the same one with that bastard you hate (or just fought with).
38) Unless you're fabulously rich, your in-laws will always hate you.
39) So will your sister-in-law.
40) Your brother-in-law might be pining away for you.
41) There are only 2 ways to kiss. You either press your lips against theirs with your mouth completely shut, and just press away for a very long and uncomfortable time. OR you devour the other person and suck out their soul. In both instances, the world spins.
42) A guy will always get the right size ring, even if you're never held hands.
43) People stare off into space and ponder a lot. They'll just stop in the middle of the road and watch a leaf on a tree for a good three minutes, and just ponder.
44) You'll get pregnant the first time you have sex.
45) You'll get pregnant if he kisses you on the forehead.
46) Hell- you'll get pregnant if you hold hands.
47) If you overcome great obstacles to be together, one of you must die. Probably due to cancer.
48) One korean man can kick the butts of 6 gangstas. Especially when they all stand in a circle and attack the guy one by one. Then when each of them get their butts OWNED, they wise up and attack the guy at the same time. Then the guy will get pulverized and bleed out onto the dusty concrete floor of the empty warehouse they've found to fight in. There will be a fire in a trashcan somewhere. And the girl will have watched this the entire time, screaming in horror. Instead of calling 119, she'll just watch and cry. But it's okay. Cuz the next day the guy will be fine with a few random bandages and a few face scars. But never a black eye.
49) It ain't a real fight unless the gangstas fight dirty with a stick or switchblade.
50) If you study in the states (perferably Harvard), you are one of the top students and can speak perfect English (as assumed by the reactions of those around you). Why the rest of the world OUTSIDE of the TV can't understand a single word uttered out of your melodramatic mouth is beyond me.
This is what I found in a forum. Just could not stop laughing *wiping tears off my face*... And I love Number 5 the best! :D
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After much persuasion and poking from Katherine and Thuy to watch the much loved Korean drama "My Girl", I have finally finished the whole series in three days. I was really quite reluctant to start on it because I am afraid it will let me down, like how "Full House" does. No offence to those who like "Full House", but that drama really disappoint me and bored me to tears! Since so many people have compared "My Girl" to "Full House", I did not carry much expectation for it...
Haha! As much as I hate to admit it, "My Girl" really captures my heart, especially the last few episodes! Not only did several funny scenes made me burst into laughter, there are scenes where your heart just want to melt away! Thumbs up for the production cast for "My Girl"! And cheers for Lee Dong Wook and Lee Da Hae who make such a great couple!
Was browsing through the Web for information about "My Girl" when I came across a sentence: "Let's all ask the universal question: How does Korea continuously churn out these handsome/super fine-looking males?" This will be my burning question for the day...
I guess I have never feel so dejected in my life, at least for a long long time now...
The morning started off fine by meeting Cathy at a patient's house for detox treatment. The problem came in the afternoon. There was absolutely nothing to do back at the substance misuse centre. Rebecca and I tried to call every possible mental health team and unit in Stockport and Tameside, even in Oldham and Bury but it seems our effort have gone futile. Maybe it is just our luck, or all the people in charge of student placement have conspired to go for meetings at the same time. All I remember so far was to leave messages for them to call back but, as you can guess, most of them did not. I wished they could just reject me straight in the face, rather than making me wait for their calls...
Then there is the problem of having two students on placement at the same place. Because all the areas can only accomodate one student at a time for spoke placement, it is rather hard to make it fair for both Rebecca and I to have the same spoke placements. Furthermore, all the mental health units and teams already have students at their places, this makes it even harder for them to accomodate more students who wish to arrange for a spoke placement.
Vexed, agitated, despair and disappointed...
To top off a bad day, I could not eat dinner in peace today. It was sad enough to eat dinner by yourself because you had to rush back for dinner and all your friends are done eating and gone. All I pray was to eat dinner quietly and peacefully. Then this person had to come and sit in front of me. As if the width of the table was not short enough. It was so awkward because I had to look elsewhere (but the front) all the time and in the end, my appetite was lost. SO MUCH for the dinner I was looking forward to...
How I wish I have more courage and confidence... How I wish I can muster strength in the face of obstacles... How I wish some advices will land upon me anad guide me through... And the wishing goes on...
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Sunday 18 May 2008
Felt guilty about not being online yesterday afternoon even though I knew that my parents and relatives will want to talk to me... I had no choice because I had to go to the library to get a reserved book and go to Stockport after that to find out where a patient's house is.
Then now, I thought my parents will be online to talk to me, as the weekends are the only chance left to communicate. To my disappointment, I have no idea where they went. If I don't tak to them today, I will have to wait for another week because by the time I came back from placement, my parents would have been asleep or gone to work.
Shall continue to wait...
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Monday 5 May 2008
You're a caramel macchiato! You're the nice warm hug of coffee drinks. We're picturing you hanging out on an old velvet couch with your version of the Friends gang in a coffee place where the barista knows you by name. Your personality is sweet, friendly, and full of energy. You seem like a dependable person who'll stick by your friends no matter what, and who always knows just what they need -- whether it's good advice, a tissue... or a caramel macchiato.
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Saturday 3 May 2008
Finally see some substantial stuff yesterday at placement. Went with Joe, my mentor, to the dose assessment clinic where he was assisting the doctor. Seen some patients who need an increase in the amount of methadone they are currently consuming.
Finally saw that much spoken about methadone. All I can say is that I have never seen a medicine of such an awful green. It looks like something a witch will brew in her cauldron. I just feel sick to the stomach when I saw the patients consuming methadone like it is some elixir of life. Absolutely no appetite for lunch after that...
Joe had been brainwashing Rebecca's and my brain these days. He feels that the government should legalise drugs and so do majority of the staff working at the community drugs team. He is already quite furious that some idiots in the parliament want to classify cannabis as class B instead of class C. The question is, should we? I guess it will be a neverending cycle of debates... I did not dare tell him that Singapore's stand on drugs are pretty much like the Americans, towards abstinence and not harm reduction. After all, Joe is a synical person (and he admits that himself).
Have also learnt the differences between methadone and subutex and which is more suitable for which kind of patients.
Looking forward to the ECG lesson on the 15th. An additional bonus actually because there are evidences that patients taking above 120ml of methadone have a longer QT interval. Therefore, the nurses will have to take an ECG reading of patients who are consuming large amount of methadone.
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