A swim after stagnation with a new-found joy is indeed pleasant.
Semester results were released today. C+... Hahaha... Saw that coming actually but what can i do about it? It started its run from the very moment i started that module. Thanks to God for His blessings and grace.
Goodnight.
- Location:at home
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:天花板的风扇音
Yesterday was the day to eat like a starving peasant. Lunch with Dad was Pork Knuckle and Buffalo Wings in Uncle Henry's German bar/restaurant. I thought i was going to burst after one hour of savouring the rich meal.
Pork kunckle roasted till the skin takes on a smokey charred flavour and is brittle and crisp enough to crackle with each grind of the molars and meat chewy and juicy. That was.... WHOOSH! You would feel like you could guzzle the entire knuckle (which i did not) if the monotony of the taste of a huge roast does not deter you. Sauerkraut was tangy and refreshing. Pickled boiled cabbages? It was good in enhancing the flavour of the knuckle and breaking the monotony of meat, meat, meat... The Bread Dumpling took a form and taste which i did not expect, it surprised me the most for it yeaterday was the first time i tasted one, and laid eyes on one. Bread Dumpling + The Sauce in the Saucer (sorry, boat) was like the pairing of 小笼包 and ginger shreds and black vinegar.
Buffalo Wings (i still do not know which buffalo species they are from) with tangy hot sauce was fantastic enough for me to chow down three consecutively, even after half the knuckle, half the saukeraut, half the Bread Dumpling and half an American-sized glass of water.
Today was no usual fare of dim sum at Bao Today in Marina Square with Mom. Black sesame steamed bao, fried venison bao, 小笼包 that had good skin that did not burst under care and poured out soup that was generous enough to fill the spoon, 叉烧猪肠粉, and chive seafood dumplings. Okay, the last three on the list are not that unique, but hey, black sesame bao and venison bao?
After lunch was a treat at Andersons of Denmark. Pina Nana: a smoothie of banana + pineapple + skimmed milk + frozen yoghurt was what i got to try.. It is really good... Fruit of the Forest ice-cream on a waffle cone... Mm-mmm.
One has to learn how to stop drooling.
- Location:At home
- Mood:
giddy - Music:The Ceiling Fan and Speaking Duet
Two days ago (ie Friday)... i finally got to meet up with Jodi! I marvel how God works.
I was actually scheduled to be in school as a JAE student councellor for Saturday, but because it meant that i would have to miss the alumni band practice, i switched my duty time with my classmate for a Friday 1100 to 1500 duty. Thank God for His providence of that band practice! That Friday, my Daddy also "chanced" on Jodi during lunch-hours at United Square. "Chanced" because i do not think it was chance, but God's providence. United Square is not the place which many flock to, yet my Daddy met her there. That "chanced" meeting told her that i am on vacation and then she sent me a message asking if i would be able to meet up with her that evening. Having seen less of her around has always have me thinking of trying to find time to catch her... Easy if we share the same vacation, but we sadly do not. With the meeting at the fountain outside BHG, Bugis Junction, it was very convenient for me to go down from school, or rather from Raffles City where i meet up with Mommy and Daddy, and from where Daddy drove me to Bugis Junction.
We had dinner of elephancinno + baked pasta + mudpies ay n.y.d.c.... A meal that was rich, rejuvenating and reviving. God is good. How God works is surprising that one can only wonder what will the next step to take be like. She had more to talk about than me, a good thing because a student's life (especially one similar to mine at present) is as interesting as any time-table. We went shopping after dinner at BHG where she got me a dress and she a top, at MUJI where she bought black erasers and then to Bugis Village - to a place new to me and where i bumped into Jia Yan. Shopping with a Jie Jie is different from shopping with Daddy.
As for all finally-get-to-meet meetings, time passed faster than usual and the night was earlier than usual. She had things to do too. It was an enjoyable time i had with her, catching up and walking about. A good parcel of cud to chew on again and again... and again. For now, i can only hope that the next time we meet will be soon.
Praise the Lord!
- Location:Home
- Mood:
nostalgic - Music:The Ceiling Fan
A conclusion! Finally! I just deleted the other blog!
Some achievement right? Ha.
今天就是“假期”得的六天。好快。又好慢。在家总觉得在浪费时间,但又有机会练钢琴。真
I just wonder how i will feel when i finally am in my last semester... Whoa... 到河才设法过吧!
To take one step at a time... A shuffle at a time for now, then a dash a time when the new semester starts.
That will be Semester One of Year Three!
To think i will be helping out in the JAE on Friday 25th January, where the freshmen are making their choices as i prepare for my final year.
A step at a time.
For now, i still need to finish up the TWELVE case reports.
救命!
- Location:Home
- Mood:
melancholy - Music:The Ceiling Fan
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- Location:Home
- Mood:
disappointed - Music:The Ceiling Fan
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My sister and i just returned from the MM potluck dinner. Fabulous feast! It was also a good time to talk to some whom i have not had the capacity to keep up with. Thank you to all who prepared the food! Your efforts and loving care are really appreciated!
The choir is still clinging onto the float like hardened concrete. With just a number of days before the sashimi is sliced and served, i hope that it would not start to thaw during air-time.
- Location:Home
- Mood:
drained - Music:The Ceiling Fan
Lots of food went down the accommodating bag over this weekend. Figure this: A lunch buffet at Park Royal on Saturday and a lamb shank for dinner today. Gluttony is man's luxury. Yes, it is also a cause of man's misery. Honestly? I enjoyed every moment of time food entered my mouth. Rich, simple, bland, flavourful... All are victims, none are spared. Yummy. Just the thought of it makes me reminiscence the partaking of those food... Some weekends just have to be savoury to jolt life out of the grey world. Food colours life. Strangely, food, after the joy it brings ends up compacted and sausage-like; however rich, simple, bland or flavourful it was... Then again, such details can be discussed another time right?
This will be letter-look-out week.
I am just so full.
- Location:Home
- Mood:
full - Music:The Ceiling Fan
A frenzied morning as a sniffer was the last thing i expected when yasmin and i offered ourselves (it is what we are to do anyway) for admin duty. Initial job as an echo report editor was a breeze until the internal line started ringing as if it would never will the next second (i did hope it really would, alas). That was the turn of events. Missing reports, missing patients, unanalysed reports and patients who have TCU scheduled for today! Not only do people go missing when they are wanted/needed, i found out today, reports and order forms do as well - how, i have not the slightest inkling of it, but they do find a way. Talk about the Cath attendance file that was signed last Friday morning and gone by that evening. It has yet to show it's shadow.
A half-day at NHC took away my tmx session for the week. As much as i wished it was not to be, i still had to go with the flow and yeap, missed it. Why a half-day? Oh, it was for a talk and a test. Talk, no problem, test, big problem. I survived them both though. Funny, everyone will survive.
The talk from KK was on paediatirc cardiology department. That was a ear-unwaxing talk because it told of the scope of work that revolved around primarily babies! (Paediatrics... What do we expect really? Babies that is!) I am now wondring if i should apply there after my studies. However, at this point of time, i have not much idea where and what i am heading for (sad ya?). I would want to sign on the contract, the bond-length yet unknown, and then again want to work with kids, and then again i saw an interesting program. Sheesh.
Take things easy ya? One step at a time.
Oh, i rescued the iPod from its almost a year status quo yesterday on hearing Engelbert Humperdinck. How old can i get?!
Cheerios for this week: Darren has said he can make it for both Christmas Sunday and Christmas Eve. Now, should i ask her?
Nighty night, from sleepy.
- Location:Home
- Mood:
tired - Music:The Ceiling Fan
*Afternoon* Whee! I had ha session today! The time to practice what i had not done for more than a month. At least i had dear Yasmin for company. We had to go cross-eye just to try to decipher some of the really and terribly noisy holter recodings. Compared to ECG yesterday, this was more than twice the tedious-ness. However, it was more enjoyable because Yas and i were together and there would be a lively, never-dying converstion going on as we (renowned and proud of it) could start on any topic under the sun. Only that she was still not feeling well, which effectively toned down things. I do hope that she would be well enough on Friday to aid me in talking up a hurricane. Atrial flutter and RBBB, Palpitations, Post-ablation... Despite the hours Yasmin and i invested - from 1300 to 1700 - we could only tackle three. That was less than half what the normal quota for the time. Sad reality... But hey... We tried, and tried... At least we have the chance for another go at ha on Friday afternoon. Whew... Just the practice we need. We left at about 1715 or so, to a clinic of undisputable tranquility, despite the little high-strung atmosphere in the rooms that would always dissipate with the well "paced" laughter. Yas and i also learnt something about DDDPPM (like that?)
I got to see next semester's clinical timetable. Wow and double wowsers! There are just so many Echos... We are going to have X-ray vision then. Non-invasive would be much less frequent although i think that we would be doing Echo/Non-invasive. EPS would be starting too!
Sore back muscle i have now, after bending over, for what i cannot even recall. Whether i pinched a nerve or pulled a muscle, there is the ache that i hope would not keep me tossing and go away after a night's rest .
Tests are coming again. A student's life is but fraught with trials.
- Location:Home
- Mood:
sore - Music:The Ceiling Fan, Conversation from Mother to Sister
Today was the day I finally got back into the motions of the non-invasive clinic. I only knew how much I had forgotten. The HA I tried to do for a "five-second pause in the the previous HA" person stripped me down. V! A! N! S! Vans? If only they were. It did not help that the person had sinus arrhythmia. I had to see what was part of the arrhythmia and what was not as S. ECG session in the afternoon was not much more encouraging either as I had to face a new PageWriter machine. It is better than the older machine in many aspects, one of which is its ability to prevent "spagettizing" of the wires.
The fun of today was the christmas tree! After the morning tutorial which was expectedly wacky, we went on to set up the christmas tree in the television area of CCB. Shorter than me until it was elevated a foot, this tree was decidedly well decorated under the scruntiny of many. The bulbs did a great job with their random lighting. All that is needed now are "presents" and maybe, more ornaments.
I will be down for 44inpt and holt/ha tomorrow. I do hope that there will be more emptying of cold storage and joy in the work and companions.
# Behold the Garden Mushrooms that sprouted last week
- Location:At home
- Mood:
tired - Music:The Ceiling Fan, The Sisters
Just for now though.
In I think two weeks time, I will be down again for tests. Clinical attachment for students is really tailored to suit the acedemic system apparently.
Hooray! I got the long overdued call from the HR department. That was a really long wait - anyone would agree to that - for it was a month's wait?
While I have already made my decision, I really wonder what is installed for me. At the same time I wonder if I should do otherwise. Many questions will only be answered in the future when many things have come to pass. Hope and Faith are only what I have to keep me a-board. Such a frightening thought. Then again, it is a wonderful reassurance. Having said that, I guess I can only do what any student should do - STUDY and COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS!
Motivation wherest hast thou gone?
Vacations for thee hast not
Prithee sulkest not.
- Location:At home
- Music:The Ceiling Fan, Vehicle Slooshes, Malay Music from the background
Up and up? That would have been ideal. We went up and down, up and down and up and down. Lovely atmosphere: Chilly, windy, drizzly (strange right?) and all of nature (no Lego buildings!). Damp slippery rocks, wet and slippery browned-to-rotting fallen leaves, free-growing un-pruned trees that really are alive (not like those at the roads and parks, these are really breathing, so to speak), cicada?cricket? trills that sound like a catchy mobile alarm resonating through the rotting hollowed trunks then out into the cool-humid-and-naturally-enclosed surroundings, the growl of the thunder, the irritating and refreshing drops of rain... Such a lovely, natural place to be in. I would think of going back soon, with much less company of course. Solitude in such a setting would be ahhhh... Well, maybe, one or two to share this I-do-not-know-how-to-put-it-in-words feeling. On another note, it is a place to train and know one's fitness level (sigh)
The climb was tiring. For one who has been exercising only in the early mornings at 0630 in the form of running to the bus-stop (which is about 100m away) and running for the bus, it was especially muscle-wrenching. Thanks to the foot-high steps, I fear I might lose my leg functions tomorrow (actually, I rather not, it would be encouraging to know I am running enough). While going up the steps was like bouncing a slightly-deflated ball on the floor, going down them was like dropping a deflated ball onto the floor. I do hope my knee cartilages are not leaking.
Thanks to all those who went for the climb, as well as to the planners and those who walked the main road. The one-and-never-more-re-lived company thoughout is appreciated.
A more sombre note would be that I need to study for two more tests for the coming week and tackle a load of assignments.
A more thoughtful note would be on whether I can find a "vacuum".
- Location:Home
- Mood:
relaxed - Music:The Ceiling Fan
Choir practice was not too bad based on past experience (my my... the first practice... memories of that sort is a nightmare). I coined a new term for my section. ALL TOES (and no fingers). Heeheehee.
- Location:Home
- Mood:
groggy - Music:The Ceiling fan
The second paper was easy compared to what I got on Monday. Only that it made me aware that I should probably get new spectacles. How I will fare will remain a mystery until the day I know. I have another test tomorrow, and yeap, I should be studying now, something which I am trying to do now as well.
I could not resist the juicy Ripper. Lunch was at (you guessed it) Vivocity's Superdog outlet again. Same ole Ripper I had as for yesterday's dinner but with an Apple Iced Tea(bag). Good hotdog! I took a picture of it half-eaten because it was only until half was estatically chewed and swallowed that I remembered I was supposed to have my meal's photograph taken. The hotdog was piping today and it suited me very well because 1) I was cold and 2) my stomach had growled (really a bass "grrrr") for its feed about half-an-hour ago. However, I lasted only two hours under in the cold (the bitter iced tea did not help), packing up at about 1400. After a stroll around the Basement and a quick study of A Garden of Posies displayed menu, I surrendered to the cold and took the train to my territory.
If only. If only I did go home. 'Sybil' just popped up in the messed up mind of mine and just refused to give me rest. This brought me to the PRCL to attempt a vain search for the book. I had read it before and it was about a lady, named Sybil, who had sixteen different personalities and the psychitrist who treated her. 16! It is supposed to be non-fiction. I read it before in HSC library. It was fascinating and at the same time a little eerie. Yeap, a vain search. In the end I borrowed Dracula and Shikasta. Big trouble for me, (evident since I have already ploughed through more than half of Dracula).
I am still vexed over the scholarship application and whether I should go for CVL on Monday. Bother!
- Location:Home
- Mood:
restless - Music:The Ceiling Fan and the Roaring Bus
Since this LC module ended at say 1030, I decided to go the FC6 to wait out the two hours I had before GEM at 1300. I think I was the only one, or one of the only two to attend GEM today. There will be a test tomorrow and Friday, see. SB had to have one of those fairs. To cut the ranting, I bought two three-inch squeeze tubes of honey. Why? I like honey, I am a bee. Ha. That cost me S$2.50. Ouch. Stung.
After GEM, I went down to Vivocity to study at Superdog, the fast-food outlet that sells hotdogs and burgers (what else?). Armed with the sheet of coupons, I made myself at home on the cushy chair - shoes off and cross-legged. My first purchase was a cappacino that cost S$2.00 with a coupon. I was cold, it kept me warm, so it was good. The only annoying content of the four-inch cup was the almost two-inches of foam. About two-and-a-hapf hours later at 1801, I made my dinner purchase (with a coupon of course, or I would be broke now) of a Chicken Ripper and an Iced Chocolate (I was cold).
Good dog that was! I forgot to give it its photo-shot. The hotdog was good! Relish, sauce, sausage, bun and all. Mm-mm. Yes, it was warm. First impression of the place: Good. The iced chocolate was also rich enough (for one who likes chocolate skinny and rich chocolate). Oh, this two cost S$4.90.
I popped by Bakerzin before going home and splurged on two slices of cake: Tiramisu (they have the best) and Scarlet (a 2007 collection). S$13.25 including GST. The last time I bought two Tiramisus was when the flour price and the other raw ingredients were much lower, and that was about S$10.00, with GST too. That must have been ages ago.
At least I got to study. Money spent? Lots, but I got into the study spirit during the spending.
I just cannot wait for the monotony of the work to start up again. Should I go back on Monday?
- Location:Home
- Mood:
listless - Music:The Ceiling Fan
