Chuck him in the cesspit?

He gave me compliments on how nice my hair colour is which suits my skin tone; amazing colour top that matches my skin tan; how I look more radiant ever since after travel. He never fail to ask me "how's my day" on almost every sms. On the general term, I wonder if he should really cares about my personality more than my physical outlook. He claimed to say that he has been observing me for awhile. Ironically, whenever we talk face to face, his eyes seems to be shy away from me. We've been out on a couple of lunch meets so far.There has been suggestive of dinner date. On the other hand, I don't wish to jeopardise our working relationships in any form of manner.

Daniel was making this cheesy statement that those quiet and shy people are usually the horny types. LOL*

: Linkin Park:

Linkin park concert was simply awesome!! Well, thanks to Dk for getting those tickets. In fact, I thought I'll never get a chance to go for concerts like this, I mean.....it's a ROCK concert. CS (Dk's childhood friend) came along with us. On the last hour, things got really heated up where we found ourselves jumping up and down and waving hands in the air. *screams* digging deeper just to throw it away..bleed it out..

:Go down under:

Came back from an acupuncture course. Met up with a group of new/old friends. Stayed over at M's place which has one of the best scenic views of Sydney city.Had a great time needling one another. I can't wait to give my assistant nurse a good prick since she has been complaining of pain at the archilles tendon insertion.
Sat the A380 flight to Syd was sensational. More roomy seats with wider screens. Thicker soft blankets for extra comfort. Everything just feel new and nice. Even the lavatory space seems to be expanded.

: Patient's wisdoms:

" If you have a son next time, must send him to ACS school. I think that school has one of the best cultures where the students are taught to speak up for themselves.Last time my son is very quiet one. Now he responded better."

" When I was 23, I already have 5 kids. People like your age are abit too slow to have babies."

"If I was younger again, I will chose to move out of the country. Nowadays, the youngsters got so many options."

" I promised I will not cut my own skin again."

Last weekend

I'm not well-trained enough to be taking part in duathalon (run, bike, run). Since a couple of my friends are heading down to Perak to participate in Powerman Malaysia 07, I'm quite happy to tag along plus the chance to getting out of Singapore.

I had a fantastic time making new friends and not forgetting ogling those hot bods. (yum!).

Didn't know Perak is soooooo far! Sat on the coach for at least an 8-hour ride. The local drivers were quite friendly. No beeping or horning at the cyclists on road. The policemen were doing a great job in maintaining an orderly traffic. I think if this ever happens in Singapore, the drivers will be swearing at the event within seconds of waiting.

The only downside was I got back to Singapore at 3am on the Monday. That sucked! I was so deprived of sleep while at work. Seeing fuzzy images of feet towards the end of the day...... So I had to grab a can of redbull from 7-11 to keep myself awake. o_O

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Love Love Love

My ABNN cleaner recently got engaged to her beloved darling!
Their love story, in fact, is filled with so much of simplicity.

Since both of them live in Johore, they got back home like 11pm after work. Followed by a bus out at 5am on the next day. Where got time to pak toh? The answer is NO time at all. He was responsible cleaning the the clinic G and she was doing the housekeeping opposite his area.The only time which they have toegther is only during working hours. They don't go out out for mamak (eating out at resturants) or shopping.

Sometimes they even help each other out on the cleaning after most staffs have gone back.

Very sweet lor! Says who love needs to be complicated most of the times?

Recharge

I got a new plant from another client today. My clinic is running like a half nursery shop ; )
Some patients can be lovely lah. With the recent Hari Raya festive season, I got a few boxes of kueh kueh (sweets) from a client.
At least, certain patients do feel appreciative of the efforts which one has put into their treatment regime.

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It's all happening!:

-Preparing for Perak/Sydney trip
-Pre-reading on acupuncture (moxibustion, meridian points, history, varieties of acupuncture....etc)
-Linkin Park concert (YAY!)
-Catch a play called: Good People (www.gatecrash.com.sg)
-Sort out of paperwork
-Need to review more patients than before and hopefully their feet doesn't rot too much when I'm back.
-Finish up reading on Teacher's Man by Frank McCourt

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My poor assistant puke today after we've seen a client.
Initially, I cut a bit the hard skin off.
A small yellow soft tissue peeked out from the cavity.
I tried to pull it out with a forcep. Surprisingly, it came out quite smoothly.
The next thing was a volcano of yellow thick fluid erupted from site.
WAH!!!
I was really fascinated but feeling abit queasy at the same time.
Ho ho ho!

The battle is to be challenged



Check this out: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/towshungtan

I do not know him personally. But when a man faces in his darkest hour, there is no harm sending him few words of encouragement.

On the job

This particular client's daughter insisted that we should give a manicure service since it was ordered by the doc.

I want to strangle that doc's neck for a moment. Since when our job involved with the upper limbs as well?!
Poor nurses! That stupid beech just refused to listen to their explainations and started to kick a big fuss at the counter.

Gosh* I can't believe for such dramas that had happened.

On the second thought, maybe I shouldn't be back in the first place.

My first hobby

I started to become an avid stamp collector when I was in Primary 3. Whenever I see a 'potential' stamps, I'll just couldn't resist to get it placed into my album.

Recently I got the stamps (on the left) at a market held every Sunday at China Square.

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List of things to do:

1) Acupuncture reading before the course commences next month

2) Sending out X'mas card to my sponsored kid in Tanzania

3) Brush up my medical terminology in Chinese.

4) Paper fillings

5) Stop being a lazy a**

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Bonous entry:

( for those gan-cheongsters who can't the perfect wedding song)

Emil Chow and Ann Louise - Love of my life

I've not listen to the original version by Dina Carroll

Extremely gifted?

Got a cute kiddo came in.

He shouted this:" Hello jie jie! Your birthday is xx-xx-xx."

Believe it or not. I told him my birthdate once which was like 3 months ago.

By the way, he's an austistic with Savant Syndrome. (which I suspect with the latter diagnosis)

Savant Syndrome describes a person having both a severe developmental or mental handicap but with extraordinary mental abilities not found in most people.(from wikipiedia)

Pts should be punished too

I've come across a blog entry of a youngthing (possibly a patient) commenting on my colleague's physical outlook. Ok, indeed, her apperance is something which not everyone can accept it. The fact is if there's a need to write such 'bad comments' ??

So healthcare workers are warned not to blog about patients or work-related stuffs. What about patients who blog and beech about healthcare workers?
Is that being fair and justified at all?
It is clearly evident that whatever she has mentioned on her blog fits into my colleague's profile perfectly.

If this happens in Australia, I would have encourage my friend to report it to the Anti-discrimination board and put her down big time!

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I met an assoc. reg. at a cafe. Wah, surprisingly, she still remembers me. That was like so many donkey years ago. Maybe Docs do have good memories as this is not the first time that has happened.

I'm breaking up into pieces.............soon



I NEED a holiday............


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I've been annoyed with a couple of incidents for the last few weeks. *Sux my blood*:

1) Answering phone calls when ward sister called me a few times to check if the dressings given are meant to be used for the foot only. (abuthen?)

2) Staying back to reply some nonscensical emails from people requesting waivers. Once a service is rendered, no such thing is free. Yes I went to a uni , paid huge amount of fees so I can answer any of your health concerns or enquries. How can you take up my time and asking me a few questions and yet expecting it to be free at the same time?

Should healthcare be a service industry? Isn't it rather hard for a healthcare personnel besides serving the "first do no harm" and "duty of care" rendered, and yet we also need to provided the utmost level of service? Which also could mean if a client starts to become 'manja' or kick a big fuss over the slightest thing, you still need to service with a smile (*i rather throw stones at them).
Can someone please make for me a set of kebaya and gimme some of those blue eyeshadows/or red lippie??

Who's responsible for your health?

Begin with nursing, I've always hear comments from the foreign nurses saying that how our local patients are far too dependent on health care workers for activity of daily livings to their disease process.
Eg, In China, the relatives or family members will engage in helping their sick ones with their showers, or meal feeding.
For the locals,most of them will rely on the nurses to help their sick ones. It appears that it's because they are paying for that amount of fees, so any sort of services in related to hospitalisation should be provided.
To my disgust, the family members can't even assist their very own mother or father to walk to toilets and they even need to press the bell for nurse assistance to do so.

tsk tsk tsk!

When the nurse doesn't get onto the call at once, the family will start kicking a big fuss, or threatening with complaint letters or write in to papers.
What else is new with that?

I can only forsee why the local nurses refused to stay on is because of such people around who doesn't appreciate such delicate profession. Local people don't show gratitude to whatever needs are provided so they can get better.

Yes or not?

Some folks assumed that just because my mom does all the housework all the time and that would make me a lazy ass or spoilt brat.
I admit that I don't help her: All because she thinks my way of cleaning up is always not up to her level of expectation or she would rather that I don't do it in the first place.

I've stayed overseas long enough to be independent. Unlike some of the people that I know are even too scared to take a step out of their comfort zone.
Yes, shame on you! (kiddin')

If they've never live on their own long enough, how can they judge me saying stuffs like this.
I would say it boils down to different family cultures.
If my mom's happy to do all the housework, so be it. She's not even complaining!

So keep those sour grapes to yourself, mate!

Speed dating

NW asked if I'm keen to go along with her for a dinner organised by a cupid company.Since the registration fees was only 8 bucks, I don't mind pay for that 8 dollah for a cute dude if any (*bargained!). And you will not be surprise why people chose to speed date. Not going to elaborate further on this point. What happened on that day was we got together in a bunch for a dinner. The guys get to rotate themselves among the 3 tables.

To be honest, I was bored to death with their conversations. There were a lot of Mr Engineers and Mr ITs and not forgetting Mr Accountants. Somehow, they just got the typical looks of their profession.

The geeky IT dude with golden- rimmed glasses and long face with the Armani hairstyle.And the plumpy engineer guy with the hair side parting plus got the 'damn sian' face look. No need to look also sian already.sigh*

So I asked:" what do you do for fun?"

Check the answers:" I built models over the weekends. I like to use my hands to fix up the parts." This engin boy has the softest voice that you've ever come across. Another answer says "it all depends on my friends."
So lame lar. Is that all he can describe?

Uhm, I like a guy who can be in control of situations and know how to live a life to a certain extent of spontaneity. NICE!

Bar stop

As usual, after dinner, I went to proceed doing my up-coming (frigging) presentation due next week.
Dk msn-ed me to ask if I'm keen on going Bar-stop. Uhm.....I know bus stops though. It's amazing to see the number of new pubs or you called it the 'hippee' joints sprouting everywhere in Singapore in the recent years.
Since I'm not really keen to continue with the slides, I decided to head out with DK and friends for a few drinks. Well, I had a strawberry daiquiri which was good enough to satisfy my taste bud.
Note to Dk: I'll be so upset if your friends have rejected the idea of going to the Linkin Park concert *sulk*

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This cute little boy recited this at my clinical room today :

"Clement is a lemon
Harriet is a carrot....."

Flatfeet on fire

I got this pt who came in for his foot wounds review. He assumed that his foot has healed up by 90%. Took a 2 weeks break to China. Came back in a month later to discover that his ulcer 'expanded' with a few more new breakdowns.
In fact, I would say that his feet is in a bloody mess! Pissed me off big time as I'll be the one doing the cutting and cleaning and pasting stuffs onto his feet.

I told him off firmly that if he's not be keen to take on my advise, then I shall send him up for casting on both legs. I don't care how he goes to the toilet or shower. Or he can return to see his beloved bone doc for good.

Bet he must have seen me to be in rage for the first time.

Gladly for today, he said this to me:" good job hor. My feet beri goot liao"

Torture

-is when you are suffering from a stuffed nose
-is when you are having a mouth ulcer on your gum
-is when your assistant nurse is taking 1 week of MC due to back pain (bloody doc!), which -means you have to do everything by yourself without any help issued.
-is having your weeknights burnt for the upcoming presentation


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I'm starting to gear up for 10km run in Dec for Standard Chartered race ;)

Scores


DAD Vs Flatfeet

0 - 2


I'm so gonna get him down!

I should be here on a Saturday night

A little disappointed of not hitting the bar tonight but I'm sure there are plenty of chances around. Chatting with Jan in Frankfurt now on msn.
Thanks to E and K (ultimate male bosom buddies of mine) for having dinner with me at Raffles hotel. That also spared me from eating by myself.

If I know that I'll be rejected for a dinner request, I would have planned to meet the guys earlier.

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I'm looking at getting a ticket to sydney soon.

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I need to stop for being too forgiving on a person.

Fever mania

Took 6 tabs of panadols for the day. And my fever is still not coming down. Still suffering from a constant throbbing kind of headache while facing a large volume of patients.

I'm glad the day's over.
Like what T loves to say:" pain is to be endured!"

Why is Ah pek nicer than young dudes?

Mr Danish said he will bring me a Mermaid from his country on the next visit. And if his memory doesn't fail on him, he will also pack some Danish pastries too!

A stalk of tulip from Mr Mystery will be nice too. *opps. getting abit dreamy.