I've joined the addiction to WORD CHALLENGE!
my mind's squeezed out of all the nouns and tenses.
And why do they only give 2 miserable, miserable, miserable, miserable, miserable minutes.
Haha, it has been hours, hours, hours and more hours, and yet i'm still stuck at being a rockstar.
See the lack of my vocabulary already?!
My brain just can't think of anymore words to form with all those letters.
hmmm.

letters.

settler.

tester.
test.
set.
let.
tee.
see.
lee.
leer.
rest.
ret. (i don't know the meaning just yet, but apparently it's accepted. ahhhhh. now i know the meaning having just checked out my bestfriend's other bestfriend)

And that's just about what my brain can conjour up in the past, like what, 100002224598765967 minutes?


On another, irritated note,
There are just some ways a guy should never befriend a girl in.

Like stopping in your tracks, staring at her for 15-20 seconds before walking behind a wall, pretending you're moving along, on your way to wherever you're going, but in actual fact hiding behind that very wall, waiting for the girl to walk past you, and when she does, watch her back for a few more seconds before saying "hi".
OR when you have just started talking to her for the very first time and you start asking way-out-of-the bound questions which i will not further elaborate here.
OR how about not knowing her at all but following her all the way home and introducing yourself, at night for goodness sake.

OR something most common, that i'm pretty sure every girl can relate to, sitting opposite her, staring her down while giving that chee-ko look.

I mean, a girl can tell when you're genuine or just plain sick.
Wanna befriend a girl, not every pick up line at the bar works for all girls,
Ultimately, we women can only become close to guys we know will respect us and never violate our dignity, thus earning our respect.

And again, on another note
drunk guys are scary.
scaaaaarrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy.
they don't need to say anything at all.
their presence is enough to scare the petunias out of me.

dinner and night was with hwc yesterday (:

tho' of course not the whole night: if not the eldest and only male would have to be answerable to all the fathers. especially to a certain someone's daddy :p

Finally, we were complete for Lydz came along yesterday.

Ooooo, i simply love hearing Lydia's girly squeels and how she sounds when she gets high.

Everyone, come meet my pink hippotamus "Wydia" given by sweet Lydia for my birthday. Wydia's 2nd name would be "Gerbra" named after Lydia's famous and unforgettable mispronunciation.

Do you still remember cream-coloured Muffin lyd? That was another toy dog you gave me FIVE years back - it's almost the same type of toy, just smaller in size and without the LARGE sad eyes Wydia has.

Say hello to the world Wydia Gerbra!

I always end up having sorethroat when i'm out with them

and my throat is still sore today!

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Day off was the day before yesterday so i went for a date with bessie frenda. GOT MY NIKE SHOES! (: "not the one i wanted... but it's still nice". Bessie's ears almost became sore that day 'cos i kept repeating that line. Then we went to Udders, then to shop for my deepavalli dress @ Hula and Co. - the dress i bought does look like the dress hwc got me too. haha. not that adventurous in buying dresses la. For now, i'll stick to the ones i know will look fine on me. For now ah. Then we got some other stuff while walking around marina sq. and finally feasted @ seoul garden.

Plain greedy la.

Even tho' we had ultra filling waffles with 2 scoops of ice cream for "lunch" we still wanted to eat @ seoul garden.

Gonna do night shift today and tomorrow. The ward has been getting awfully busy. I hope tonight won't be so hectic.

There are days i feel shitty.
Today was one of those days.
Held back my tears a couple of times, during the shift and along the way home.

CE sent 4 patients to my cubicle @ one shot, when it was time for the morning shift to hand over to the afternoon shift. I have two patients squeezed in both my isolation rooms.
Because of the new rule Sister L made to have ward rounds every day (where all the nurses on shift has to listen to EVERY patients' report), the passing of report took ONE AND A HALF HOURS.
Morning shift left quite alot of things undone. we had to finish and help them out with the changes, but i could understand, really.
In this one shift alone, i had to transfer 3 of my patients out of my ward to another ward, discharge another patient by 5pm, which i could only do at 530pm 'cos the drug prescription, MC and memo were still not done at 5pm by the doctor, by then the inpatient pharmacy was gonna close soon, so before they closed i had to run out to get the medicine.

My ward nurses not only looked after children, we had to look after women too. There was an overflow of gynae cases. So we had 5 women. 3 came for surgery, 2 just delivered. At 630pm, my snr. recieved a call that we need to pick a patient up 'cos her surgery was done. My colleague who was in charge was having her break, so i went to pick the patient up.
Snr. wasn't very sure where to pick the patient up from, she heard women's OT.
Walked to women's OT only to find that there was no such patient there, they instructed me to go to day surgery. Went there only to find out that there was absolutely NO need for me to pick up the patient!

Came back to the ward, did my report, serve the medicines, settle another issue between the lab and the doctor (or at least i tried to settle) and continued with the report.

I didn't mention anything about me going for any break right. That's 'cos i didn't.
There was no time at all for a break..
Was too hungry till it came to a point where i wasn't hungry anymore.

And i felt shittier while passing report to the night shift because of another issue, sigh.

Thank you bestfriend for listening & understanding (:
It felt so good to finally let all my tears out.

I still thank God for today tho'. Learnt sooooooooooooooooo much. Had good snrs. who helped me and at least things were finally settling towards the end of the day.

the b-day week. (:

And so, i have reached 20. The age where i'm no longer a teen, neither am I exactly an adult.

That sandwiched-stuck-inbetween year.

Still feel the same, no less different, in terms of age and what comes along with it.

Basking in all the love the dearest family and the lovely friends showered me with.

Dinner @ Jack's and Place with the family for both mine and raj's bdays 29092008(:

It's been so long since we last went to Jack's as a family. (:

It may have been simple fare, but i really wouldn't be what I am without these most important people.

Dessert @ Udders with Dot 03102008 (:

the waffles and ice cream is HEAVENLY.

haha, Dot and I sure can talk alot, we sat there talking NON-STOP for 3hours or so? :D

Dinner & Cake @ Pizza Hut with the dearest gang 04102008(:

Thank you for spending the actual day with me, for making me laugh so much ("Pastor ah, no need ribena. come let me make the drinkkkk")

Nevermind that their service was horrid. That the wait was long, and that the b-day cake surprise was totally ruined by the waitress. I really didn't care about all that.

My b-day celebration was still great because of you (:
Arghh!!! Should have taken a group shot.

Since there's no photo, i'll type all your names down.

Thank you Pearlyn, Dot, Honey, Sammie, Chris, Ray, Shaun, J.K., Joel, Arun, Sam, Martin and Alvin. :D

And..the most recent

SURPRISE dinner @ fish and co with HWbC (: 09102008 (:

Planning it for quite some time eh?
huh?

just dinner between me and the bestfriend huhh?

the bestfriend's friend who recommended to her the glasssshouse huhhh?

did you guys purposely choose fish and co. knowing what they make b-day babies do? HAHA. and Dot got sabo-ed in the end too! :D hahahahaha! YAYYY!!

HAHA, i love you.

Thank you for making me SMILE the WHOLE night.

Even when i was reaching my door, placing the balloons nicely tied to my chair.. i was still smiling.
And in all the photos, my smile is as wide as the universe la!

I look like i'm gonna burst out in laughter due to over-happiness in every shot!!!

It has been indeed an

eventful two weeks (:

Thank you for the bday presents too (: