Last Christmas I gave you my heart......-Wham!

I saw this ultra retro MTV (original) on Christmas Day itself! I would probably say this is the "best" song for the Christmas. In fact, Christmas is the most boring public holiday for moi I think.On the contrary, this year's christmas, Mom and myself went to the beach and dinner with a few girlfriends at my place. The menu includes green salad with Italian/caesar dressing, roast turkey and potato salad with fruit jelly desserts.

On boxing day, Mom and myself went to Fremantle market. Not much places to hang around especially the post christmas sale doesn't start until after 27th Dec. Unlike the places in Melbourne/Sydney, Perth needs to buck up on their retail trading hours to cater people like me. Weather is extremely hot here too.....like 38 degrees celsius.

Need to pack up stuffs to leave for a trip tomorrow. Whee whee!

110km/hr

I realised that I love to drive fast! I don't , in fact, worry about going on long distance trips to work even. The thrill, the speed,the acceleration make me just want to keep on going for a while in the car.

Festive season is just around the corner. I've received the most X;mas cards this year and gifts too. Hee!

This is going to be a short entry. I've been so busy with getting medical stocks, household chores, work, grocery shopping and shopping. Now i seriously need some REAL beauty sleep.
Pretty boring life uh..unlike some bloggers I've come across where they can chat anything on men under the sun.

Later...

Finally.....my permanent residency in Australia

Yippee, finally I've received my PR for Aussie now. So, no more application of visa in and out of Australia. What a relief indeed. Haven't had the time to reveal the good news to some of my good friends out there. I suppose it's about time I write an update soon- by tomorrow perhaps. In fact, I am not sure where I want my career to be. Feel like relocate if necessary but not toplaces like Tazmania or Melbourne. Too drastic weather changes will affect my mood.

As Christmas is just hanging around the corner, I went to do a mega grocery shopping. Having a mini girls party at my place (with my mom coming on 24th!). Menu will include a roast turkey breast, salads, potatoes, desserts (balvarian cake).
I'll be off to kalgoorlie with Mom on 27th Dec for a short vacation.

I've received quite a number of cards from friends all over the places and 2 gifts (one from SG and the other from New Zeland). Not a bad christmas after all ;p I am not complaining. I wish i can have the whole collection of books by Nicholas Sparks. Too impressed with the film called NOTEBOOK.

Anyway, feeling quite exhausted as I've spent the whole morning running around.
First to Medical supplier, apply Medicare card (health benefit card that entitle me to have discounted medical rates), grocery, dropping off present at an ex patient's house (the oldies sent me a card..owww), picking up instruments from Cara.
Also washed my car and did a bit of book keeping on my accounts. Still got ironing to go ...............

My newest Hairdo with half swept fridge topped with double chin (EEKS) 

Pimple extractions

On the first hand news, I may have to move house. Landlord wanted to increase the rent to 100 bucks a week which I find it quite unacceptable for a small room like this in a double storey townhouse. Plus ,another requirement of signing one year lease which I totally dislike the idea.
oh most likely I'll be sharing with my g.f, F. Seems that we are fated to move man.....

Pimple extractions was done during my facial today. So soothing after that. Don't even feel like getting out of that 'bed'. I prefer the new beauty salon than the previous location. It's amazing how the K (my beautician) told me that one of the ex-clients has actually "stolen" their former location by trying to find out the lease. Then what's worst was this ex client engaged another beautician to set up another salon then. Tsk...human beings can be so evil and incorrigible at times.

Set up a list of food for Xmas dinner. Can't wait for next week to arrive........I feel so slack...

2 more X'mas cards!

Eli, if you are reading this, I just wanna say that thanks for the lovely christmas card. I am glad that you are there to listen too! We'll meet someday yeah?
Jen from KL also sent me a X'mas card. Whee! This Polish dude from VT claimed that he wanted to send me a postcard which I'll be waiting then!

Perth is suffering from a heatwave today of temperature raising to 41 degrees celsius. So after work, I rather stay at home with the A/C on. Coming to an end of year means I've got credit card subscription fee, car servicing, podiatrist registration, and now travel fees.
I am going to Kalgoorlie with mom in December and so what it is stinky hot. I'm gonna book for the train tickets and hotel bookings tomorrow. How exciting for a gateaway. Wish the bling bling ($) comes in faster. I am getting bored of Perth......

Had a cut/wash/colour/blow on my hair yesterday. The colour looks so more "lian". I got the urge of going for a chin length bob in my next hair salon visit. A bit tired seeing my long hair plus I detest the myth of having longer hair means more sexy??

Retail therapy starts this weekend and facial for me tomorrow. I need to rejuvate myself.....

Would you settle for Mr Rightish or Mr Just-Nice only?

Managed to wake up early just to catch one show only "The Notebook" at Queensgate, Fremantle. Seriously, I have no idea where exactly the movie theatre was so I just sort of approached the lady while we were waiting at the traffic light. This show has been highly recommended by my oz mates. Baseline of the story is "every great love there is a great love story."I wouldn't categorize this film under your old typical 'love story' movie. Initially there were like 3 peeps in the cinema and then half way the previews came along another couple. Feeling sorry for myself going to theatre without a partner? Nope. Doesn't really worry me as my objective is to watch the movie and nothing else. The best part would be not letting any body catch me in my dreadful sniffing during the show. At the end of the show, I just wish if only I can hear some fabulous love stories of how my grandparents got together. I never have a clue. With the only maternal grandma in her 80s now, I doubt she can remember as much.

Besides the touching film, I saw a few potential books which I wanna get it:

1) Book of elegance- teaching you the terms on apparel and wearing things at the right time.

2) He's just not into you- by sex of the city's authors , I had a good laugh reading the first few pages. If only this book exists in the library.....

3) The Notebook - by Nicholas Sparks.After watching the movie just simply brings me looking forward to read more about it.

4) Travel books/Stories and now I am currently reading Anna's Point of Departure. It describes how the divorced mid-50s lady with grown up kids goes travelling around the world plus what she sees and experienced.

I hope singles out there don't start panicking about not getting married or getting a mate. It's not that bad and who says everything is too late at the age of 26?? If one's life expectancy is at 80, even you are married at 40, you would still have 40 years of togetherness. SO why hurry and love for the sake of loving?

Dreadful Friday

Supposed to work in Merriwa in the morning. However, things doesn't seem to go right when you want it to be. Feeling nauseous and headache. Then I started to rench and of course, nothing comes out of an empty stomach. Headache mainly at the occiput areas. Rang boss and let her know that I can't work and luckily, she gave me her local GP number which doesn't require an appointment time. I think it's quite sux when you need to see a Dr ASAP here and yet a booking needs to be made prior. So I drove myself with a huge amount of tendious efforts like stopping at intervals (along the side of the road) and vomit into a plastic bag. Feel totally 100% sh*t. Reached the GP and he gave me a Maxalon inj. on my bum (OUUUUCH) and a few complimentary NSAIDS for my headache. Spent the whole day in bed and feeling lethargic -this is what happened when I took Maxalon. My boss was nice and she offered me a ride to see a Dr. But, I feel bad coz she got 2 small kids to handle too.
Took a lot of mental coaxing and determination to reach there (dr's) actually.

Received my first Christmas present from Susan posted from New Zeland! Wheee!! So nice of her to give me a set of bikini deck cards and a sovenior with a lovely card. Hope to catch up with her soon. Received 3 Xmas cards so far. One from England, my ex patient and Arizona.

Annie going off to Norway tomorrow and I am pretty sure she'll have lotsa fun.

House painting

Mic's house needed help to paint the walls. So, Miss F and myself went over his place in the morning to start painting at the laundry and extended dining area. Weather was quite chilly today in fact so we just had to forgo the beach outing in the later part of the day. Mic- I will label him as Mr Frugal. It's not a bad thing but it's an excellent point for anyone who is going to be his wifey in near future. Mr Frugal made lunch and dinner for us at his place and no doubt, we wanted to have the makan outside instead. He did gave us the options to eat outside from his shout. The options, however, always "disappeared" towards the meal times. In fact, Mr Frugal then suggested to have cakes and coffee at a local bookstore cafe nearby - yes, that was his treat. I am not complaining much in the sense it's just strange to see how people open up their options and yet, they don't usually meant what they say.
Later in the eveing, Mr Frugal rented DVDs instead of deciding to go out movies with us.

Mr Frugal is not a poor man to the point that he is not living on a dole or getting money from centrelink. Somehow, I just feel that he is not being generous enough. If he's living on the pension, I can truly understand why. But, I guess he wouldn't be living up to his name if he didn't have such character in himself. By the way, Mr Frugal is still looking for his soulmate.

I am not in the position to judge his character but only to express my perceptions on him.
Someone out there will like his frugality?He's still single.................

He's definitely not for me.

Money is not everything but I believe if one has the power to earn a decent salary every month, why can't one spend a few couple bucks and enjoy good quality times with friends?

QUIT

Needless to say, I've quitted at the private practice within 5 minutes of meeting with the Boss.
This is how he begin with the conversation:

Boss:" I think this is not working out. And I think it's a waste of time for you to be here and not many patients booked in. But some patients do like you. You are better off to work in the hospital where your interest is."

Me (listening to his conversation intensively):" That's ok with me. I've already given some thoughts into it. Working in the hospital is not easy to get the job." - What the *uck he has the right to tell me where to work. Totally none of his business anyway.

Boss:" well, you can stop working today or whenever."

Me:" sounds good. I aint got a problem with that. That's it."

Gotta go since my last patient is here waiting for me.

What kind of boss he is to just "delete" me off like this. As I've mentioned earlier on, I always feel there is an unpleasant intense working with his wife. And his looks give me creep and now I am having goose bumps when I think of it.
Right now, I feel a lot happier and less uptight or should I say, no more ironing the stupid uniform. I've asked the patients before whether he can identify who is who working in the clinic. The receptionists wear a lighter blue and opposed to a podiatrist. The colour contrast makes no difference.

After treating the last patient, his wife claimed the boss wanted to speak to me. *oh my god, no more 'lectures'. Anyway, I just gave an excuse that I need to leave for another job in the afternoon. Can't be bothered to stay on and listen to craps. The only thing I've learnt here is having my patience level built up.

Seriously thinking, he 'pampered' the patients too much. It's like teaching a child from a start. If a child cries, you gave him a sweet to subside the wails. If the child cries louder, you probably end up giving in double. In this way, a child will never let you take control of him/her.

Poor Friend F suffered from some hives on her skin. Drove to get some meds for her. Damn those anti-histamines are so expensive. 7 Tabs for AUST$13.50!!?? Anyway, I understand the misery of having hives where it can just mess up your day doing nothing but itch.

Confusion

Firstly, she said I have stayed in Perth so long and would know the roads a lot better. But when I commented that I should go home first (by judging the route which our common friend took) , she was so defensive and insisted that we should send to her destination first. At this point, I should have shut up, not going against her. Sometimes I do realise that it's hard to convince people the truth even you jolly know THAT's the truth. It's even harder to convince when one is not even in the shoes of a driver.
Well, I've been driving since the age of 19 and more or less, is better off as compared to a novice driver.

It just doesn't make sense and wasting my time blabbering for pete's sake.

The problem with her is she don't listen -properly enough. She will only listen to people whom she think can advise her well. Probably that's where our communication always break down. I am also unsure is it because I am trying to hard to console her or whatever. To the point, I keep reminding myself to draw a line across to avoid treating her too nicely.

I do feel sorry for her too when things get hiccups and sometimes, you just wish if only she takes your advice much earlier on. Now, this is the shi* part.

'kindness doesn't pay"- Is this statement true or not?

Tomorrow the usual gang will be watching a movie. I think I'll keep my mouth shut whether if things go wrong or not.

Evil nurse & weekend randoms

Friday:
Drove down to Mandura approximately about 75kms from Perth. The volunteer (as a receptionist) was late and I thought I might to juggle in between treating the patients, making appointments and collecting money or even handling phonecalls. I find that all the volunteers are really queer. They make comments about me in front of the patients after i've treated them. " Gee, she is rather quick in her treatments." "She is running ahead of time". Wondering what the f*ck is wrong with these people. I am quick because there is nothing abnormally wrong in your feet. Next, I wanna be on time and NOT losing time if possible. Each patient are entitled 20 minutes of care only. I can't really bothered talking back to the volunteer which besides, she is quite old enough. I don't to be labelled as a elderly bully for whatever sh*t reasons.

Saturday:
Since Christmas is just around the corner, I decided to work on Saturday. Going to the country Northam 95km east of Perth. I've been there twice and I didn't take a country road map with me. Based on memory for as far as I can recall, I managed to find my way there without too much fuss. The highlight of my blog started here: This bad nurse from a nursing home asked me to remove my stuffs off HER trolley. She sounded rather desperate so I let her have her way then. Next, telling me off rudely to see a patient on the OTHER side of nursing home. With her inital incorrigible behaviour/manners, I just told her that I'll see how it goes later. Advised to put a dressing on that lady's toe first and someone is coming to the nursing home to work on following monday too. Later, she brought in another staff and asked me to repeat what I've said so that she ca document it down that i refused to see the patient. At this point, she is driving me to the maximum limit of my patience. I told her off to write whatever she wants while in my mind, i've already decided to see the patient later. She is just too much..........then again, her husband probably didn't give her a good night ...that's why.
This is what I wrote in the paitent's note as showed partially:" Informed by a rude nurse to see this patient urgently........

HMPH* sorry I don't take craps and I also don't expect people to take mine.

Dinner was with Dave and his beloved. The dinner was great but it was rather a chilly night where the girls are seen wearing their tubes and skimpy skirts battling against the cold weather. Losers.

Sunday:
Woke up late but still have time to dress up for a lunch date with other fellow podiatrists. It was great meeting other people (all ladies) while enjoying a succulent WA seafood risotto and chocolate panacotta with pistacio bacalva...plus..too many glasses of champagne and wines.

Feeling sleepy...

Kah-Ching Ching!

Off today because there is only one patient in the private clinic. Might as well re -scheduled the pt then. I am not willing to go all the way to see just one client. With the bling bling starts to roll into my account, (WIDE GRIN) I decided to go for an Xmas spree.
First checkpoint is at Marko warehouse where everything is 20% off today. Bought toilet rolls, paper rolls, xmas chocs, hair conditioner, toothbrush, chewing gums, diary, cards, earrings only come up to an amount of $18. Hee hee! I've been good though where I didn't spend any money on clothes. Wanna save up the money for post christmas sale instead.

Things I want for Christmas (revised edition):

1) Shoes from ZU ( saw a pair of flats in soft green colour/pink also nice....)
2) Levis jean - so difficult to find a pair of jeans in any decent brands in fact.
3) USB
4) Earrings/Brooch - I like anything from Sportsgirl
5) Tote Bag - For work use
6) clinque eye cream SPF15 - only avaliable in Australia

Sounds like a typical girlie who can't get enough of those stuffs.
Booked for my last facial and hair appointments of the year.

Going to work in Country for the next 2 days...gotta sleep early tonight.... :<

Singaporeans are being sympathetic enough or not?

Perhaps not.
I do read the news online back home and there is almost always a small part of the article or actions as described which is indicated by the public are viewed as unsympathetic. (or maybe the word empathic should come in here too).
On a recent post from Straits Time newspaper, the volunteers of ex-leprosy patients are looking for a decent resturant to celebrate the upcoming christmas festive season. In fact, they took weeks to find the makan place who is willing to take in such "people". To my disgust, one of the owners who has been intereviewed of why he refused the "offer" simply because he is running a business. So what if he is running a business, the patients are EX-leprosy and it's unlike going around to infect his potential customers. People seem to be quick in their judgements after hearing the first sentence /keyword - leprosy. Maybe one day he will get his own taste of 'medicine'. It's quite disappointing of seeing how Singaporeans only care for themselves especially on their personal gains.

Part 2:
Bloody housemate had the air conditioning on even though it's only MAX:27 degrees today. I think either he has a hormonal problem or he's too pampered. He can't even take care of himself - no cook, no drive, no wash clothes for ages,gaining weight. He's one of the most lazy ass-s I've ever seen. No help out of the house AT ALL. Well, some people are just born filthy rich and think he has the world by himself. Not eating sour grape syndrome but I feel sorry for him instead if he does have such thought.

Part3:
So dreadful going to work today. The patient arrived at 9am instead of 8am. The receptionist didn't ring me and I just hang around trying to keep myself awake while waiting. I am getting very very restless working in that practice. So BORING.

Bhangra Night


Anna, Kelvin and myself (the fellow Perthians) went to Fremantle for an exclusive Bhangra Street dancing. S couldn't come but I guess that makes Kel feels a lot more at ease ever since the last (very trival) incident that happened few days ago. All of us had such a fun and wild night dancing on the streets with a few occasional Aborigines loafters around. Anna just couldn't stand the "smell" of them. What can I say when they are "born" and "bred" in bush while attempting to live in the real civilisation world. From there , one get to see all different races get together shaking their hips and doing the twisting moments with the wrists. And of course, the indians guru themselves would do the more bollywood type of dance - pretending to be a palm tree in the centre with a couple moving around it.

We had a break over at Benny's Bar. We just couldn't stop constantly joking around and share our amusing tips on travelling. As you can see, all these friends I made are from a travel website. Travellers like us who enjoy putting up pics and tips of places where we have been. That's what the website is all about (www.virtualtourist.com)

I've still got more 'gossips' coming up shortly..need to take a nap.

Strangle or struggle?

Out of the blue, Adam, Sophie and myself get together for a coffee session. It was all going all right until Sophie took away Adam's phone -think she wants to play around. Adam indicated that there are some personal stuffs in the phone but at this point, Sophie doesn't seem to get the indication: "Some personal in my phone so please respect". It's true that Sophie as verberlized that she doesn't mind people looking through her phone but everyone is different! Each individual needs to be treated with at least some respect. So I can't blame Adam totally while he tried to get back his phone , the table slightly topped over which in turns, causing Sophie's phone to slid off from her bag and *thud*. Her phone just landed on the floor and a small dent is formed on the top corner of phone.
Is heaven trying to being fair for one or another?
From that moment, I can tell Sophie was pissed with her arms folded plus the whole conversation simply ended.I was the one who is trying to be a peace (pace) maker between both of them. Basically, if Sophie gets the hint earlier on and returns the phone to him, such things will not happen.
I didn't tell her all these because this is all on my perspective. Additionally, she doesn't have to listen to my craps like this.

I did reassure Adam that it will sound "silly" if Sophie doesn't get over with the damage on that inanimate object.

Had being sandwiched....bah* Anyway, I know I'll be heartache if my 2 month old phone kena "accident". Then again, what can one do? If I seriously don't kick a big fuss, I don't think I'll show symptoms on my face. As for Sophie's case, her non-verbal cues just gave it away no doubt she said she has forgotten the whole thing.

Sandwiched stuffs aside, I just grant a wish for a Malay girl under the Boys Bridget Programme of buying a set of stationery online. Feel so happy and hope she likes it :)
If I got more money later, i'll probably get a hamper for an elderly folk.

Enjoying every moment

Met up with Steff last Wed. Each time when we go out, we can never have enough korean food at Kim Chee House (@Northbridge). She always commented I am so quiet when the food arrived. What can I say coz' it is simply too yummy. Next, we walked a couple of rounds to "lessen" the fullness on our tums. Had "modified" ice kanchang at Eutopia...so ex as compared to Singapore. I miss ice jelly back home!! ;<>

Brought Deepa for shopping on Thursday. Almost late while picking her up because the road was closed and had to make a detour. Bloody **** people always close the road at unusual time. Don't they understand it's peak hour traffic - after hours?? Was raining so heavily at the same time that even the fastest speed of the wipers can't help it. I spend about $50 bucks on 3 tops. All sparky ones .....uh oh.Sense of guilt of spending money coming in.Plus, I saw a few earrings that look soo nice. About 3 of them in total.Hmmm.... After shopping, we went to makan makan eat the nasi branyni. What the? The makan cafe has run out of the rice and Fish Curry. Nescafe Tarik supposed to be nice to drink but not anymore when it's too bitter *bleah- where is the bag* Deepa was asking me if I want to go Auckland next year. I wish I can for skiing during winter! OMG, I've still got Darwin, Sydney and Cairns to cover.

Oh I've started my savings account with the high interest rate one. Hee.

This weekend is gonna be interesting I hope. KIV pubbing tonight and more shopping/clubbing tomorrow. KIV sunday Swan valley. How exciting!

"Fly aeroplane"

Firstly, Girlfriend F asked me to let her know (in regardless of email, sms way) if I wanna go out on Tuesday night and I did replied her this early morning. Right now, I suppose I am not going anywhere tonight since I didn't get her reply for at least out of courtesy sake.How am I suppose to take her messages seriously the next time? On the other hand, I can never comprehend the messages she typed on MSN. It just doesn't make sense at all. Neither am I trying to judge her academics, it will make things a lot easier for me even with the most simplest and shortest sentences.
Enough of crap.That's the thing - I cared too much for people's lives. Why I am making my life so "miserable" just because others are.

Worked at Senior Centre this morning. This elderly lady can't thank me enough for getting rid of her in-grown nail bit and pieces ." What can I do without you?" Feel so flattered. HEEHEE. My body feels so lethargic as the weather's getting hotter and hotter. I just want my nap after work.

One local hospital from Singapore approached me if I wanna work for them. Decisions decisions....arrghh**

Life is not just overcoming one hurdle.

Sunday:

Woke up in the late morning to meet Deepa for Bridget Jones movie. For those who haven't watched, the ending is Bridget married Mr Darcy *lol*Come and kill me then, readers ;p
Had korean BBQ chicken for late lunch and cocktails in the evening. This cocktail called Japanese Slipper whereby it consists of Midori, pineapple, lemon and dunno what else. To think about it, I had this Valention Blue which I reckon it's one of the best and soothing drink for me.
Unfornately Anna can't come along for that day as one of her close family friends is really sick at the hospital.
Watched Australia Idol finale!! Casey is the winner as I've guessed it earlier on.

Today:
Suddenly I feel my world is filled with some ultimate sad people. Spoke to Anna on MSN this afternoon and she told me she feels shitty at work. Lack of concentration the whole day because of the bad news on the family friend.
On the lighter note, I hope Eli would try to refrain herself to compare her other friends. There is a chinese saying :" Ren Pi Ren , Qi Si Ren." Direct translation is the more you compare, the more frustration builds onto you.I don't see the objective of why people wanna compare. Ocassionaly/Casual comparison is not too bad which can act as a source of motivation to produce better results for one self. As for Eli's case, I find her taking comparisions far off too seriously. That's why it backfired and caused more sadness which probably will sink into depression if she doesn't cope well.
F is another g.f of mine who just recently broke up with her b.f. In fact, she should have ditched him much earlier on. No doubt she is a nice g.f to me, but I wish her life is less screwed. I can't say or comment much as this will only hurt one's feelings. There are a lot of times I wish she would think before she act. For instance, going out with a dude with kids on the verge of seperation. Just because his (ex)-wifey has a b.f and it's ok for him to have a g.f too. From my point of view, the ex wifey is being a dumb to get herself into this. And so, my g.f shouldn't have agreed follow the "blind". I understand my g.f's love for the kids but I am not sure what kind of hopes is my g.f pinning on that dude.....

Thank goodness for blog where I can just vomit everything which can't be said it out.

Money Saver

Drove to Mandura yesterday to work at a senior citizen's centre. Time taken to reach there approximately an hour or so. Quite fun driving to places which I've never been before. Mandura is more a place for the retirees to stay and big big expensive houses cost like 400,000AUST. On my way back, there is this forest bush fire along the freeway (highway as you call it in Singapore). Driving through a thick misty fog of smoke along the freeway was kinda....excited. *lol* Thank goodness I manage to make it through the freeway before it shut down to prevent danger threats to vehicle drivers.

Went online yesterday and signed up for money savers with Citibank. Who can resists a 5.4% interest rate? Can't wait to submit my application but first, must get my dentist babe to be my referee. So all i need is to dump some money into my account every month and it's well-worth it rather than put the bling into the normal savings account.

Donny left for singapore yesterday and gonna meet Deepa (from Adelaide) and Anna for bridget jones movie. As for today.....perhaps I should go to the mall and chill out. And perhaps, going for a jog later if I am not being a lazy bum.

Full on my tum tum


Donny from Brissy came to Perth for a short holi cum visiting his cousin for almost a week. He is certainly a real 'housemaid' where he is indeed excellent in cooking and household chores. In fact, for my past few days' dinner is usually settled at his cousin's place. Too much good food and I am beginning to notice my waistline starts to wobble again. Then again, D is taken up by his Swiss b.f. So that goes off for another domestic potential partner for the guys out there. Dinner menu on Monday is yong tau fu, Tuesday is Mexican Tacos and Tortilla with tomato soup and as for today was pumpkin soup, Russian Salad plus honey baked chicken. *burp* Feels really happy to have friends/visitors coming to Perth. D and myself did a session of Karaoke and more shopping to come.

Recap on last Saturday:
Meet up with a few peeps from Virtualtourist.com. The main icons of that night were Deepa - a finance consultant orignate from Malaysia but travelling around Australia for work. Kelvin is a final year psychology student. Grins* He thought I was only 21. Guess the beauty products do have an enormous effect on my face ;p Together with Anna, all of us had a great night out with yummy food and partee @Metros. Dancing with Deepa was like *wow, she's a hot mama along with her various sexy movements. I bet Kel was trying not to perspire too much if he can. Fantastic nightout I must say. Keep in view to meet on this Friday for more drinking session.

Sunday:

Gone crazy with the cycling trip where we started to ride from my place to the cotteslow beach. Took us about about an hour more to get there. Of course, first thing is to jump into the seawater for a dip. Phew. NO sore quadriceps this time. I was still kinda tired from recuperating NOT enough on Metro's post nightout.

Career path

Went to Foothills suburb to watch my fellow colleague Cara to perform a nail surgery on this adolescent boy. Quite fun to see how the nail being partially 'ripped' off due to in grown (think the side of the nail starts digging in instead of growing straight). And also Cara was nice to let me to inject some local anasthetics on her skinny big toe. Can't wait to get my own nail surgery set so that I can start on some prisoners. *wide grin*

C is going to UK to work next April *sob sob* I wish I can follow her!! To come to think of it. I've planned to stay one more year in Australia (till end of 2005) before going back SG. In fact, within the one year, it doesn't really matter where I am. Quite tempting to go Uk and work even for 4-6 months. As one knows how expensive travelling in UK/Europe can be. Indeed, my job allows me to travel anywhere possible. Perhaps, I'll think about it after I get my permanent residency.

Christmas is coming! The best part of Christmas isn't on that day itself. It's the wrapping up gifts for friends' part. Ha ha! I've got 3 Xmas present to wrap and I reckon........there will be about 5 more to come. Think I can be Miss Santa judging from my generosity. MUHAHAHA.
Going to cook dinner before suffering from hypoglycaemia.

Denium Skirt

Went to the mall and I tried on this short A-line denium skirt which costs only $15. Should I buy or not?
If I buy it means I gotta watch how I sit or not even taking a bus in Singapore. But I like it coz it fits well on moi.

Decisions decisions decisions ......gurrrrls.....*eyes roll up*

Can't wait for cycling trip again this Sunday. Feel like a putting bubble wrap on the seat so that i'll not suffer from butt pain again.

Talking to my bro now. He just got to know a new friend (he claimed that girl look like Belinda Lee. God knows who she is since I've been away from home for so long) working as a hairstylist. Tee hee, at least I know someone can revamp my hair at a discount rate. I am quite tempting to cut my hair to chin-length bob.

Belgium Chocs

I am falling in love with the shell-shaped chocs. uh oh, just can't stop eating. Worked half a day today and nothing else. Slept through the whole afternoon and god knows why I am so tired. Rainy weather and sunshine at the same time which can literally drive someone's mood to sink into the bed (that's me!). Chatted with bro last night on MSN and hope that he can get me a Ministry of Sound album chillout session 6. Teehee.

6 more weeks to Christmas. I've managed to get a list of people for Xmas gifts. Donny will be coming to Perth end of this week! I just can't wait for his arrival and paint the town red. Dying for a karaoke session and Hip-E club on next Tue.
Meanwhile, I am checking the flight rates of going to Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra with Mom for next year. And again, I can't wait for my holidays to come.
Other places to venture in 2005 includes: Darwin (Northern Territory) and Cairns. See, that's where most of my $ go to. But I know it's worth it in the end.

X'mas wish list:
1) set of roxy bikinis
2) USB with MP3 player
3) MAC/Bobbi Brown/Prescriptive Makeup
4) SPA treats
5) Rxxxx watch
6) A pair of Levis

.............better stop now just in case the list gets longer.

Changed BlogSkin

This is just a testing testing of my new skin. Not sure how to enlarge those fonts but I'll work that out tomorrow.

I missed home a lot recently. Missing my lovie g.fs, parents, and I managed to talk to Linda (from my sec school) recently on MSN which was a great feeling! It's been such a long time that we managed to catch up at all. Thanks to Shuming and this young lady is going to be a bride in coming December! Whee!

Working through almost middle of November already! Hopefully by this time of next year, I'll be packing my stuffs and head back to SG.

Gave KH a few tips on how to spend his time with g.f while holidaying in SG. See, any one who ever be my boyfriend can never get bored. *grinning* I am someone who can't simply stay still and do nothing.

Why do I always cry on shows like Dr Phil, Oprah, advertisements on donation to the poors or any touchy moments on TV?? *grrr* I sounded like a 'jelly'. So weak and vulnerable that I am going to get 'smashed' at any time. BUT hey, my favourite type of shows (beside Queer eye for the straight guy) are often CSI and Law &Order. Solving mysteries , forensic science for evidence based and powerful speaking from the attorneys.

Butt Pain

I had a fantastic cycling trip riding organised by Freda. Joining us on the trip includes Micheal (F's fencing instructor) and Tracy (F' s friend). We started off at the uni and the ride continued all the way to South Perth, and up on the bridge towards the city , passed by the Swan bell towers, and towards Causeway. Lunch break was at Hungry Jacks and of course, we had a fair share of jokes and rubbish talks. Then we proceeded to send T off home where we had to ride back to the uni and also had a rest at my place before we head back to M's place. Freda wanna learn rollerblading from M. In fact, she has done pretty well as she can now serving drinks to us wearing the blades. Good on her! Nursing with ice on a bruise located on my shin coz I hit on the trailer which I didn't notice initially. No more pretty with a patch of black zone now......

After that, it's back to Freda's place so that I can pick up my car. Gosh* I have been on the bike since 9am till 4pm. My a** is soo sore ;<>

On the 2nd part of this blog, I have been told on 3 consecutive days by a different person that "I need or I should have a b.f ." Is that a sign that my life is getting too lame or bored for others to even see through? In fact, I am not opening up my feelings as easily as before........too insecure perhaps.

Accused

While waiting for the next client to come, I recalled boss said I didn't do a good job on a previous patient. To recap, he claimed that I didn't treated her corn on her right 5th toe properly which eventually leads to a small ulcer formation. So I decided to pull out her file and have a read.
Guess what? She came in each time complaining of sore 5th toe plus the previous pod (and myself) has given her some protector to wear on the toe in order to prevent excessive friction/pressure on the area itself. Whether she wears it faithfully or not, she would know best herself. Anyway, I felt that the boss is 'accusing' me of not being competent enough to treat such basic stuffs like CORN. He would want me to demonstrate my basics well enough that I may start getting initial consultations on the patient.
Here I am dying to learn from my mistakes and yet I wasn't given enough opportunites to do so.
I am getting a bit restless each time when I step into the clinic...........not happy ;o(

Working tomorrow at the 'pigsty's ' senior centre tomorrow. Gross..........

Bedtime

I need to be more discipline and no more getting in bed at late hours!Bleah* Feel so dreadful going to work in the morning. The receptionist didn't ring me the day before that the 1st client is arriving at 8.40am instead of 8am. So I was there exceptionally early and hang around the clinic reading a book till the client arrived. How bored can it be. Confronted the boss to let me have more patients for initial consultations. Then again, he seemed to be quite reluctant. He expects me in the sense that to prove to him that clients want to see me more often on their consecutive treatments. And I commented that the majority of the clients I've seen are elderly folks with continuing palliative nail care treatments only. Also, I stressed on the importance of getting experiences from seeing a variety of clients and expand my knowledge from there if possible. He sounded so unconvinced where he wanted me to 'master' the basic of nail care and even came up with an example of me not dealing well with a corn on the patient.
What/when exactly is the' right 'way to learn?
I can't possibly wait till the patients to indicate to see me for next follow ups. I can understand why he refused to give me any patients which just in case I screw up along the way and patients never come back again.
If that's the case, I can never get a chance to learn. Perhaps it's time to say good bye once the contracts end in March. Just can't wait for now...........

Crappy day: long distance's drive to the prison, headache, neck pain, lethargic

Holiday

I am so looking forward for a decent break. After finishing my 2nd degree in June and jumping straight to full time working, a distress 'signal' seems to be hitting on my mind lately. A nice one week gateaway would be lovely to escape from work and PERTH.
Mom rang me this afternoon saying that my whole family may be coming over for this coming Christmas holiday.Whoopie, that means I probably can do a short trip with family to Kalgoorlie (approx 500++ kms East of Perth).

On the other hand, I am looking for another new job in a private practice if possible. The private clinic which I am working doesn't give me much job satisfaction and seriously, I am learning 'inadequately'. Basically my objectives are not met after having to work there for more than half a year. No surgery clients, no inital consultation (prob like 2-3 so far) and only elderly folks for me.
Don't feel a sense of challenge going on. Moreover, still must wear uniforms. I must stress at this point that I am only working in a small private practice and not a large medical centre. I don't see the rationale of wearing uniforms. There are only 2 podiatrists there (boss and myself) where we don't work at the same time. And still, I got to wear this 'factory outlet lookalike' 3/4 sleeved working check dark blue shirt while receptionist wears a light blue check shirt. In fact, the colour tone doesn't make any difference to me. Such a waste of money. On the other hand, the clinic has this pressure mat to determine which part of your foot indicated the highest pressure. I am not sure how crucial is this piece of information is going to help in the diagnosis. I rather chose to record a person's gait and analyzes it over a slow motion mode. Hence, this will also be able to produce a general overview of the alignment of whole body. The hallway at the clinic isn't that fantastic either Hence, that makes it even harder to observe a person's gait at a lesser distance.

One sickening boss has been owning me some pay since August till now. Confronted by his secretary today that she will remind him again about the pay. She gave the 'excuses' that he is out of the country and so? That's none of my business and all i care is to pay my rent on time and not suffering from hunger. If I didn't get my cheque by this week, I am going to march into his clinic and demand for it. Shame on him being the president of xxx. Not going too much details but he just annoys me so much. All I can say is he is spoiling his own image or perhaps he doesn't even care for a small 'fry' like me. Thank goodness I didn't work for him for long or else I just have to live on maggie mee with an egg everyday.

Any ideas of getting back my pay are more than welcome on the tagboard.

Dirty, Unorganized, Simply disgusting

I offered to help one of my friends doing a session's work at a senior citizen's place. The moment I stepped into the clinic, I couldn't help to clean up with the trays lying all over and not cleaned, instruments cleaned partly only and dust, used cups, bottles not recap after used, floor *gosh* filled with nails bits and dead skins. The place is *UCKING horrible and such an incondusive enviroment to work at.

To think the girls would do a better job but well, I've got no comments at all. I just did my best and cleaned up the bloody mess. The end.

At last, this makes me feel a lot better to continue my work with patients.

Took some anti-hitamines tablets...getting high' for now...

Investments

No work at private pratice today. So that would leave me half a day's job at the prison. This is another prison which I'll be working once every month. Guess what, finally I got to treat one of the worst feet that I ever come across. NO predjuces or racists against any ethnicity or culture. This prisoner X, an aboriginal from the bush never cut his toenails before and suffering from a really bad foot hygience and odour +++. On the verge of puking? All I can say is I could have ask for a high filtrate mask. Not bad seeing 10-12 patients for 3 hours session.
Actually, I feel that treating prisoners are no different to treating any clients except there may be a boundry in our conversations where I will communicate or explain their foot problems and nothing else personal. Getting this sort of contract work has taught me to be sensitive and empathic towards others. It is also my concern that they get the best foot treatment whenever possible. One of my pod friends advised me that don't bother to chat with them. Then again, at least, they still have the right to know what is going on with their feet and learn about the treatment options avalible .

Seen a Dr yesterday for my block nose. Dr wrote me a script of Augmentin just in case I get worst over the weekends and need something to relieve. Ah HUH. I bought a pack of sudafed. At least it helped but makes me super groggy. 2 tabs I'll be in bed in less than 15mins time.
Petrol prices hitting up over a dollar per litre now. *sian*
Right now I am looking into this website to see if anything is worth to invest on. I do realise that keeping money in the bank is not the solution for money growth.

Spit!

That's how thick my green phelgm is...Don't get too digusted.My nose is so blocked and painful at the tip of it. Probably allergic to the Australian air at the moment.

Perth is celebrating Senior Citizen's week. The senior place where I worked today was filled with lots of older folks (of course!) having fun with the games plus luncheon/tea as organised by the committee of shire. I also wanna grow old gracefully! Heh, growing old to the extent that I am still able to walk and see which I'll be more than happy. I had this old lady coming in presenting with evidence of sand dirt on her feet. She still has the cheeks to tell me that she is not wearing shoes during gardening.After noticing a few spot of bruises on her feet, I pressured on those sites and she obviously said it was sore. There you go, the rewards for not wearing shoes. DUH* What a crap of the day.

The health recruitment agency from Singapore sent me an email for the post of podiatrist. Well, no harm giving it a try and I have sent the CV over. Shall see how it goes. Salary is negotiable but only 21 days of leave ;<>

Wah, so impressive that KH managed to send me his darling (real) pic to me..Thanks for the effort! I wanted to give you a reward but you just had to reject it anyway ;p Yes yes I got the hint. Bleah*

Law Breakers

It's been quite a while since I've last update my blog. Been quite busy working and resting.Started my new prison contract and I truly enjoy treating the law breakers. Either you love it or hate it. It was quite daunting for me but that fearness went as soon as I call the 1st prisoner into the consultation room.
**Note to self:
How can I not spend time for exercising?! Bugger that.

Here's the recap of what's happening:

Saturday: WA Podiatry conference.
Where all the foot practitioners gather together to attend talks and exhibitions by various drug companies and also not forgetting the foot salesmen. Yay* Get half price for shoes only for podiatrists . Met lots of people and particularly someone which I can't be bothered to even associate myself. He hasn't bloody pay me for the 10 clients which I hate the idea putting pig's head in front of his clinic.*sigh* If only I got $ to hire a loanshark ;p Otherwise, got heaps of freebies of chocs and foot moisturiser.

Sunday: Bum around with Anna in the city *yawns*

Going to disconnect.....more later..

I feel the earth movvvvved.....

If you are a retro babe like me, you know know the title of this song.
Oh I survived today..yippee* Totally exhausted running 5 places all in one day.

Singapore recruitment agency emailed me and asked if I wanna work in Singapore. Well, somehow, I feel very strongly I need another year of experience for my career..Very crucial part and of course, who doesn't want the patients to be at their best.

Recovery

Finally, after a bout of sore throat and serious blocked nose, I am finally getting better. Think my body just need recuperate periods after being so sick for the past few weeks.
Louis, my SQ steward friend flew in to Perth last Saturday. To think that we'll never meet again or suppose to meet in Melbourne because that is the place where he's doing his degree, we did in the end. Heh, thanks to him for helping me to bring stuffs from my parents. We had a ball of time going to city tour, king's park, checking Hot dudes at the beach together and shopping. Uh oh, I bought more glitter tops which I shouldn't spend more money unnecessarily. Girls.....*eyes roll up*

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. Half a day at senior centre and after that will be running to several places to get my stocks. *dreads* plus, grocery shopping pehaps on Tuesday. Tomorrow is gonna be 29 degrees celsius. Brillant weather not to be missed for my power walk because the following few days, the weather will change to early 20s.

Need a rest again....heh, even though I had a 3 hour nap this arvo.

Steriods


Feeling much better after seeing the Dr on last Monday plus, she gave me Prednisolone tabs for free.Prior to that, I actually breifly mentioned that I was going to be broke soon spending money on anti-histamines which doesn't work well on me. Geez, it's been a long time I felt this sick....just think having asthma without wheezing. My previous weekends has had been spent resting at home and no crowded/smoking places.

In the meantime, I have sorted out my paper works with the prisons and done my homework on where to get the best deal for medical supplies. Also running to the chemist so that she can make up a mixture or paste of salicylic acid in 60% concentration. A bit tiring along the way but I hope it's all worth it.

I am so in love with the glitter tops nowadays. Planning to get 2 more and also don't know why I am so fascinated by glitter beads. In fact, anything that shines like a disco ball. Minstry of sound event coming to Metro on the 29th OCt with the ticket price is $63.00+. Who to go with......that's what I always ask myself. Too dangerous to go alone because of the higher incidence of spiking drinks here. *sigh* think I would rather get the MOS chillout session 6.

Mr B came in for a routine podiatry visit last Wed. He's quite a nice veteran and never fails to mention that I should be a foot surgeon for each visit. *lol* Well, my main interest is still in diabetic foot care and wish I could get a better grip to learn more techniques of healing/off -loading pressure from those ulcer areas.

This is not my best blog.....because i am getting a bit sleepy.

URTI


Upper respiratory tract infection. That's what I think I may be getting it right now. I am still as sick like I was 3 weeks ago except with a milder sore throat. Most likely I have to see a Dr again next week. Steriods is what I need to reduce the swelling and inflammation. Likewise, Dr Angelmon (Tomas-my dear med friend) also commented the same thing. I don't understand the mentality or the treatment of Australian Drs - far too incompetent. Their treatment process seems to take ages and very often, a diagnosis can only be made after a couple of tests. Then again, if the Drs can't partly being reliable on their judgement and assessment, most of the patients would have to suffer with illnesses in a longer period of time. Perhaps, some patients may even deteriorate while doing or waiting for the tests to be carried out. That's just my perspective. To think that I was down with a terrible cough and fever 2 months ago. All the Dr gave was just antibiotics. Went back to him 2nd time, I was no better and he wants me to take x-ray, spirometry tests and so on..... I did mentioned to him if he can give me any symptomatic relieve medications. How can I sleep with a bad cough and not having a good quality of life if goes on everyday like this? He didn't get the point....... so he just asked me to go home with more antibiotics.

2 months later, I am back to the same old problem. Dr's appointment is most likely on Monday.
Hate being so sick and it's bad enough to wake up every morning with a blocked head and nose plus green sputum.

I wanna fly back to Singapore !!!!

Zap!

Woke up in the morning feeling groggy and heaviness in my head. My blocked nose syndrome's getting bad to worst! Found a last tab of Sudafed plus a panadol in my medical kit. Felt slightly better after taking those meds.

Worked in the afternoon and boss spoke to me for a while. Ok, let me get this straight. He criticised me for writing a poor Dr's referral:
"
Mr x attended the podiatry clinic on 7/10/04. He presented with reddness, swelling and inflammation of left 2nd toe (?gout). Please kindly assess and provide treatment if necessary."

On the serious note, I find that this referral is short and sweet , direct to the point. Which Dr would bother to take more than 5 mins to read a referral or as if an essay is required here. The boss thinks that I should use the brackets and instead, I should write something like this :" the signs and symptoms appear to be like gout. " So with this sentence, it will make the referral sounds nice and flowy. Duh* That's the thing working in private practice. Everything has to be perfect as it seems. I've worked in several place/clinics and written a number of referrals to Dr and surgeons even. In general, his comments are not strong enough to back up where the problem lies on my referral.
By the way, I was very glad that I save a patient's toe! It all began from having 2 small pockets of pus on her 3rd toe plus she has always been very healthy without any medical problems. The Dr told her that she could have suffer from terrible ulcers if not treated promptly. Neither did she felt any pain nor discomfort from those ulcers. The Dr was impressed that I've noted this early and of course, my pt was so thankful throughout. 'Small' things certainly can make a big difference.

In addition, read from the Straits Time online that Singapore is going to set a full -pledged podiatry centre! That means all the diabetic patients may stand a better chance from not having foot /lower limb amputations with regular diabetic footcare and screening tests.

Mates

This blog specially dedicated to my online mates. No doubt we are miles apart, I am thankful for all the listening ears that I need.

No particular 'favouritism' as listed in random order:

• VN: Ok, both of us can crown as the Queens of Msn or Icq. Hurhur. It's been great yakking to you all these years and at least, I know my teeth are in the safe hands of yours....* I think* ;p My favourite 'DJ' of all times who doesn't mind sending me songs via my crappy dial up internet. Who ask you to have a poor pod friend here....*sigh* Where are all the old rich and dying soon Ah peks -Please stand up!
• KH: I must say you are one of the guys who is filled with the highest level of patience. Great advices from you and nonetheless, you have also taught me to look at things in certain perspectives.
• Eliza: It's amazing how our friendship slowly started off. You are a great girl and don't stop being yourself!
• JS: My 'virtual' Dr. Never fails to help me to solve and answer all sorts of medical questions. Tell me what's new besides your 'sick' craps ;p Thanks for sharing your moments of your personal life and work. Still, I hope you would perserve in whatever you do and not get bog down by some worthless people. Seriously, I don't wish to lose another med friend via the transition from a HO to MO ( Unfortunately, a very good med friend of mine had succumbed to the working enviroment that turned him into an impatience and bad-tempered person ......that I don't even want to know him anymore).
• Susan/Yvoone: Appreciate your time to chat. I know you guys are busy earning money and uh, rollerblading at East Coast Park without me! *sniff sniff*
• Clarisa: We are certainly miles and miles apart.While you are in UK and I am in Down Under.*bleah* Looking foward to the day that we'll meet again!
• #Medicine Friends: You know who you are...........
• Callie: Glad you quit CGH, hopefully to catch with you more often.
• Dk: thanks for being there........ ;O)
• Rea (from Hungary): we talked about anything under the sun.... family, boys, work, study.It is also quite irony that everytime when I said I am going to have my dinner, you are having ya lunch then.

.....ok, I can't write anymore.....Anti-histamine is 'playing up' on me ..Zzzz

Ah Jan in Town.

Sunday's recap:

Woke up at 9am just to return $8 to a friend whom she claimed that I didn't paid for my share on the last dinner. Wtf* I didn't rang her today to arrange for a coffee session because I just don't want to associate with such person no more.

Met up with Jan later in the afternoon. As this is her first flight to Perth, I brought her for a quick city tour and harbour town. It was a good catch up for both of us and dinner was at Hog's Breathe Cafe that is supposedly to have the best steak in town. Had coffee at Leederville and HipE was packed with ang mohs on Sunday except Jan and myself being like the only Asians around. In the end we went over to Niche Lounge (right next to Hip-e) which plays nice soothing drum and bass/acid Jazzy music. Quite fun staying over Sheraton Hotel with Jan. She taught me how to use to certain beauty products for the face. Did nose peeling mask to remove the blackheads. *lol* Think I need to revamp beauty products soon. Thanks Jan! Such a shame that I don't get to do these girly stuffs as much as I want to.

Went back home after bidding goodbye Jan. Slept for an hour and went for a power walk along the causeway. Weather was fabulous which is not neither too hot nor cold.

Whee! I got new phone.Tee hee!

Maybe I'll miss watching Queer Eye this week. Bloody hsemate and his g.f always occupy the kitchen around that time. Annoys me. *bites*

What happens when you got a accountant friend?

Part 1:

It's THAT time of the month again. Besides suffering the effects of hormonal imbalance, I just spent the whole afternoon surfing straits time website and read up Sumiko Tan's articles. Generally, I find her writings are quite interesting, almost surreal, great sense of humour and most of the time she added on a few of her very own dramatic experiences in it.
Gosh, I need to take the laziness out of me.

My friend smsed me this afternoon. With the text message indicated like this :" you owe me $15 for the bar course as have to pay additional fees and also $8 for the dinner."Well, it's fair enough that I gotta pay for the extra dollars on the bar course which we took together. With the dinner thing, I was so astonished. As far as I could remember, both of us didn't have any change so she paid first and when I gave her the big note, she just nodded her head and refused it. With the non verbal cues, I took it as a treat from her then. Gosh* The dinner which we had was like almost a month ago. This friend of mine is leaving for Melbourne soon and she also asked if I want to meet her up for coffee or dinner. Of course for coffee! Just in case the same drama happens again. Who ask me to go out with an accountant!? On the other hand, I get a bit 'sensitive' whenever she asks if anyone of us would like to drive to go out. Just get it straight out man. Each time when I ask her what exactly do you really want , she would go on like :" oh can you drive?". Look, I don't bother to ask unless I know I wouldn't wanna drive on that particular day.
Hence, I'll just get straight to her and say I'll pick you up at whatever time. Because I know she is trying to give me an option which doesn't turn out to be that way.

Part 2:

My housemate didn't flush the toilet bowl properly and hate the sight of seeing stuffs floating.......plus, wish he cleans up the damn fucking sink after shave. Too bad, all the shaved is wiped up with his toothbrush. Some people just never learn their lesson despite the efforts of telling them.

Part 3:
Maybe I have been watching too much Dr Phil on TV lately. I realised I also have been reading a lot about raising kids and the issues faced with them. Never know these may come in handy someday.....bleah*

Athlete's Foot

Here I am not describing about the condition (or called it Hongkong feet) on the fungal infection of the foot but it's just the name of the store which sells sports footwear.

I just came back a few hours ago from attending a private party organised by Athlete's foot and solely invitation extended to podiatrists only. The best thing about attending such little party is that at the end of the talks, the podiatrists are entitled to buy any shoes from the rack at a great discount of 45% off the retail price. I bought a pair of New Balance for Mom as her pair of Reeboks has been trashed into the bin ages ago. Plus, got a free 3/4 sleeved t-shirt from the new brand of sports shoes "Ryka" that caters only for sports woman and and plently of discount vouchers for my clients.

At least, I am on my way to recovery from getting a bad sore throat. Seen a dr yesterday and quite surprisingly , Amoxillin works well on me. After taking 3 tabs I think I am fit enough to go for a karaoke session ;p I have been taking a lot of rest especially afternoon naps this week. Think my body is protesting against me being too stressed last week.

Gonna take my time to flip through the catelogues from the suppliers before I start making an order for the stuffs I need to bring along to prison.

White water rafting postponed to November and I'll be going to Northam again next Friday. Hopefully I'll get some good pictures to paste on my tourist webpage.

Still thinking should I go for the State conference or not.........cost $145 a day....

My throat, My THROAT!

Most likely I am suffering from the post nasal drip. Started off from having a blocked nose, progressed to irriation of my throat that felt as if the mucous is falling back instead of blowing it out. Got a fever in the middle of the night that dragged me off the bed to take panadols which I felt slightly better the next day. I just keep my fingers crossed that I don't have to see a Dr here. After seeing a few Drs here for my past consultations, I find that most Aust. Drs are not competent enough to treat small sickness in time. For instance, I was down with a cough for 2 weeks. The doc wanted me to have an x-ray done and conduct a spirometry test on me to eradicate the diagnosis of asthma.Think by the time I got all the tests done and results out, I'll probably end up coughing my lungs out. Geez, the health care in Aust can be quite expensive simply by having a few tests done. Tha's why it is so important for the people here to get adequate health insurance cover. Dental charges can cost a minimum of $100 bucks per visit.

Spent most of my weekends lying on the bed except went out to Market with a Jap friend on Saturday.

Jan , the SQ girl is coming to meet me in Perth next Sun! yay* at least something to look forward to over the weekend.

Sealed with a Kiss

Since my dearest Tooth friend is too busy blogging away, I may as well blog the latest entry of my latest happening. In fact, nothing's too happening and perhaps, I am just exaggerating a little. Hurhur!

Went to hip-e club again last night. It was quite a crowd by the time when my crazy g.f and myself got there. Wasn't really lucky at all when I was with her yesterday. Firstly, she didn't lock my car door ( this could be the 2nd or 3rd time) and I wish she can be more vigilant about it. Next, how can she dropped a pen and caused a marked stain on my pants!? That could only happen like one in a million...grr* Enough of such craps. Moving on along, she got to know this Scottish Dude and another 29 year old Irish man. I wouldn't think the Scotts man is good-looking but armed with a dangerously sweet smile. Irish man looked as though suffering from jet lag or getting high on the booze throughout the night.
It was great with the dudes buying all the beers and yet, I have to stick with my .05 alcohol limit for driving. Neither the crazy girl knows how to drive BUT her drive with beers has improved so much from no taking of beers to 3 glasses yesterday.
Oh, the Scotts gave me a kiss (on my cheeks la!) before we left and the same goes to Irish dude..think he was half- drunk coz he kissed on my hairline.Bleah*

Today is my last day working at Canning Bridge Senior Centre.My last patient was kinda upset because she don't see the reason why the boss has to push all the clients for the morning only. For a moment, she thought I was going away. Well, I commented that cirumstances forced me to leave and therefore, I ain't got any choice.

Looking forward to the start of my prison work in Oct and hence, here is the list of things to do by next week:

• Shop for medical supplies ,
• Hunting for a tool box that can accomodate my stuffs,
• Ring H to see where I can get cheaper stuffs
• Get a new street directory from RAC ( members pay only $18 instead of $25)

Hurhur!