My Story..My Life...

Rong has said it..."update, woman"...so here I am again.

Things had been a mad rush ever since I left Manchester. Many thanks to Rong who helped me with my luggage to the airport and locating the correct terminal, I was able to board the plane back home safely. Perhaps I felt more experienced flying back home alone now. Or perhaps it was the nightmare I had to face last year. For some reason, I actually felt fear as I left my room in Manchester. Not a good start...

Then it was two weeks of jet lag, housework, essay rushing, class chalet, kbox outing, flu vaccination and booking of holiday to Taiwan. Phew! The Kbox outing was fun...met a few good friends of Kwanie and Kai Hong's girlfriend. Have not K for a long time...felt good to sing again. As usual, my singing ability is not up to standard yet...so sorry to those who had to endure my singing :D

And finally it was the beginning of my placement with AH. The nurse educator had it arranged such that I will be spending a week each in surgical unit, medical unit, intensive care unit and A&E department. I thought I would be more confident during the first two weeks since I had already done a medical and surgical ward placement back in Manchester. However, this confidence was totally crushed when I found myself having trouble adapting to both wards in AH. Rather than blaming it on the culture difference, everything from work routine to equipments used are also different. If you can imagine me fumbling with the obs machine, not knowing where the switch button was, you can tell how bad the situation was. When I first opened the dressing pack to do a wound dressing for a patient, there were no sterile gloves in it. Instead, I got three tweezers. o.O But the most shocking thing to me was the use of restrainer jackets and straps on the patients here. I have always thought such things belonged to the last century because they are an infringement on human rights, regardless if the patient has the mental capacity to think for himself. Such a great topic for my critical incident essay...too bad my elective placement was not done in Singapore.

Fast forward to today. National Day's eve. Went out with Koh Yu for a lunch at Raffles City Shopping Centre. Have not seen her for nearly two years, so I was really looking forward to meeting her today! Think the both of us have changed in appearances but certain characteristics in us remain unchanged. Surprised to find that her favourite animal is still a pig! The lunch was really enjoyable, more so because of the company than food :D We did a lot of catching up which, of course, included lots of gossiping :P While today's lunch was short but sweet (coz she had to meet up with her boyfriend late afternoon), I will be looking forward to meeting up with her and Wan Jou next time!

- i just wanted to say ...# ;