Monday, January 21, 2008

sheela's wishes, the achievable and those that can and will only stay in her dreams.

-watch Johnny Depp's new movie "Sweeney Todd"

(definitely, definitely achievable)

-learn to play the guitar

(achievable once i've found the time and bugged daddy enough to teach me)

-invest in a drum set

(in a couple of years' time that is, for me and my brothers)

-to continue my organ lessons

(achievable, when i find the time to, tho' i no longer desire playing it as much as the guitar now)

-see real snow

(kinda achievable i think, no, i hope)

-own a Vespa

(only in my dreams that is, im not allowed to get a license)

-own a baby blue beetle

(the ultimate of dreams, alright then, at least to ride in one)

The jazzed version of "Amazing Grace"!
Fell in love with the way the piano's played and the strength in her voice.
Beautifully sung by a Japanese. Her pronunciation's pretty good isn't it?

Friday, January 18, 2008

This is how foolish, absent minded and silly i can get sometimes:

In the ward the patients' drugs are kept in two trolleys. One for the female patients and another for the males. And the trolley is kept locked until its time to serve their medication. So, yesterday Nat and i wanted to prepare their medicines, Nat asked for the key (i think) and later on the staff nurse, Kim (i think) gave it to me to pass it to HuangBo, another staff nurse.
Placed it on top of the trolley for quite some time until smart-me thought to myself that it would be better if i kept it in my pocket instead, in case the keys got lost if i walked out of the room. And so smart-me continued the daily pattern of work.

Smart-me was reaching home soon, it was about 4pm at the time, the train was going to Admiralty and smart-me was talking non-stop to Nisa, feeling pretty satisfied and at ease. Of course i was feeling that way- the day went okay, we had lots of laughs earlier, the most recent was teasing Min =) and the following day would be my day off, so why wouldn't i be happy?
And then smart-me got a call. Found out it was Kak Su, and thought why would she be calling me, this was how the conversation went:
Sueria: "Hello, is this Sheela?"
Me: "Yeap"
Sueria: "Sheela, this is Kak Su here, by any chance have you seen the medication key?"
Me: "Oh, i put it on the trolley......" (then i remembered the next place i put it in, my hand went into my pocket, felt the key) its in my pockkkeeettttt" (by this time i was squealing softly if it can be done softly, or did i murmur that last bit)
Sueria: "Sorry, what?"
Me: "IT'S IN MY POCKET!!!!!"

Yea, so i had to go all the way back to the hospital, the best part was i was already reaching my station. I felt incredibly stupid at that time! Got off the train, walked to the other side and waited for the opposite train.
How brilliant.
Before i went into the ward i was so wishing i could place a plastic bag over my head!!!


Went out with best friend today, and again i cracked her up with my sillyness, well, she was equally silly too =)
A little example; over dinner we were talking about nursing stuff, mostly complaining about what we are subjected to at times...
Me: "Yeaaa. They must understand. Humans are nurses too!!!!!!!!!!!"
Nana: "Hmm" (nodding her head in full-agreement)
Me: "Eh? No. NURSES are HUMANS too!"
Nana: "Ehh? Oh ya..."
And then came our usual outburst of laughter.





Saturday, January 12, 2008

Your Inner Color is Blue


Your Personality: Your natural warmth and intuition nurtures those around you. You are accepting and always follow your heart.

You in Love: Relationships are your top priority, and this includes love. You are most happy when you are serious with someone.

Your Career: You need to help others in your job to feel satistifed. You would be a great nurse, psychologist, or counselor.



obviously i'm bored now, and it has become such a habit to do blogthings when i'm bored.. took quite abit of tests before i chanced upon this..i don't know about great, but now blogthings got me being a nurse right. I am amazed at how accurate some results can be.



You Are An ENFJ

The Giver

You strive to maintain harmony in relationships, and usually succeed.
Articulate and enthusiastic, you are good at making personal connections.
Sometimes you idealize relationships too much - and end up being let down.
You find the most energy and comfort in social situations ... where you shine.

In love, you are very protective and supporting.
However, you do need to "feel special" - and it's quite easy for you to get jealous.

At work, you are a natural leader. You can help people discover their greatest potential.
You would make a good writer, human resources director, or psychologist.

How you see yourself: Trusting, idealistic, and expressive

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Bossy, inappropriate, and loud



Anyway, was reading a random book that i chose to pass time away, from daddy's "library" of books and the author wrote one sentence that struck me the most.
The chapter was on the area of submission, and he (the author) pointed out that the act of submission, like a wife submitting to her husband, is an expression of respect.
But he also mentioned that to submit to someone is hard unless we truthfully and honestly respect the person we're submitting to.
"To yield to another is impossible unless you respect them. You can be forced to obey someone, but not to respect them."

And with what happened recently in the ward, this sentence seems to be very real to me, in a way because the author's example was mostly on the husband and the wife, i'm sure yielding to a husband is on a much and completely different level as compared to yielding to a superior at work .

Back to the ward.

I obey, yes. I listen, yes. I answer nicely, yes. But that's only 'cause i have to.
But whether i respect the person/people, is a different matter altogether.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Time to update this blog of mine.

Showed Siti my blog in the ward the other day (while waiting for Muhaimin and Kak Su to finish their passing of report) and her first exclamation was "WAH! SO LONG NEVER UPDATE!" or something that goes along that line.

THREE more weeks till PRCP is over!! =D

Three months of attachments non-stop flew by so fast, i'm still surviving, and i will continue to survive! (shee sings the chorus of "I will survive" by Gloria Gaynor softly slowly, then picks up the pace as she crescendo until she screams that particular line out hysterically)

Working life has been tough, but it allowed me to meet new friends.. to think that i just came home from an outing with a staff nurse, and two other students, Siti whom i hardly speak to in school and Muhaimin, the guy from NP.
It also allowed me to experience the blessings of working shifts. If you couldn't catch it, there's a slight tinge of sarcasm to that line.
I WORKED on NEW YEAR'S day! Not morning or afternoon shift but NIGHT shift!
When people welcomed the new year in the company of friends and family.. i welcomed it in the company of my patients. When people were dancing, full of adrenaline in those last few minutes of the year 2007 and the first few minutes of 2008, we nurses that night "danced" our might away with a patient, running after the old man, coaxing him to his bed and finally carrying him to his chair.

Oh well, that's nursing life for you.

But other than that, there were little specks of joy that night, enough to make me smile and say to myself that spending new year's in the ward isn't too bad after all. I had a nice little treat from my preceptor - a can of drink and twisties. Spending my hour long of break in the activity room enjoying my little treat, stretching my legs over the sofa and watching what was remaining of the late night tv show. I still managed to catch the firework display, i laughed at the old man's expression when he looked, pointed to me and shook his head angrily and i listened with interest as my preceptor told me of doctors and nurses who hitched up together in the past and as we talked about other stuff.
So, tho' i missed counting down with my beloved friends, the yearly affair of eating prata at Unc Murali's house and many others, i still did enjoy my new year's after all.
Brownie-cupcakes
After Christmas, both Nana and I can tell you that making (about) 60 brownies is definitely not a joke. The brownies were our Christmas gifts to the Sojourners and some others and we started baking from 6pm on the eve of Christmas till 645 am the next day!

Mixing, baking, making the icing, spreading the icing, colouring the icing and putting their names on top the brownie with the blue/green icing and finally packing it nicely... towards the end the two of us became so sick from making it, all we were saying to each other was "i wannaaaa sleeeeeeppp!".. the smell of icing was so horrible (try smelling 60 of them and smelling it for about 12 hours) i told her that i didn't wanna smell icing and see/eat brownies for the whole year. Of course, it's all just talk 'cause after Chris told me it was nice, i took one from the extras and ate it. Anyway, we're not exactly wonderful bakers, so there were some nice looking brownies and erm, funny looking ones. We divided them into 3 groups, nana calls them "The Beautiful", "The Disaster" and "The Beautiful Disaster". Of course we didn't give "The Disasters" out! (her blog has the pictures to each caption)

Some pictures. (we had no more time plus too tired to take more pictures, especially the ones with the names on them already, also didn't take a picture of nana at work)
anyway, the blogpost below mine.. Nana posted it.
We watched a Japanese show titled "NANA" on thursday at my place, and we loved these two songs..

Friday, January 4, 2008

glamourous sky; endless story.

Glamourous Sky by Mika Nakashima


Endless Story by Yuna Ito



ive embeded the two songs(:
HAHA, NANA WAS HERE(x