"You are my strength, strength like no other. Reaches to me"

Not looking forward to doing my round of night shifts today and tomorrow. Mainly because it's the post- CNY period where there will be a flood of admissions for diarrhoa, vomiting, gastritis etc.
Last week itself (pre-CNY period) was really busy, we had to open up our empty cubicle to accomodate the children admitting in. And when we discharge one kid, another kid will come in not long after.

Met Haresh, my umbrella friend two days back. (: Haha. It has been two years since we last met!! Time sure does not wait for no one. It just flies and skids past you.
So, i'm learning to savour every moment. He happened to be around Novena for some working stint, since i was working the pm shift and we'd end work about the same time, he called and waited for me.

It is good meeting up an old friend.
You think about the years back in sec school, the fun, when we were buddies and when he bullied me, when i bullied him, but seriously, in sec school, no one bullied me like Ting Hao, the guy i was sitting beside in our classroom seat arrangement! Nana knows, 'cos i complained to her.
He'd pinch my arms for fun, or when he ask for something and i don't reply, until my arms were covered with so many bruises! He yakked alot. He disturbed alot. He poked alot. It was nightmare sitting beside him!
But he was also a darn good friend, patient and always listening, though he sometimes struggle with what encouraging words to say in return (:
Haha, and when he started getting interested in one of our classmate, he decided to go sit beside her for one lesson, after which she told me she's amazed that i could put up with all his classroom etiquette for 2 years.
Wonder what became of him now. Bumbed into him in the bus 2 years back too, but could not talk cos he was seated at the back and i was already getting off the bus, he might be in civil defense cos' of the uniform.
One thing i kinda feel regret is that i haven't really stayed contact with some of my good friends back in sec sch. Some i do quite frequently, like Haresh and Darsh and occasionally Sarah, Renu, Zakiah, Faslinda but the rest just dissappeared.

At work, we girls are getting pretty used to being under Sister K's care. She's more a friend than she is a boss/supervisor!
We find ourselves joking with her more easily. Even before entering her room i'll go "SISTERRRRRRRRR!!!!" something i definetly would not do to Sister L.! Yesterday Sangeetha leaned slightly on Sister K. LEANED!

I like her, despite the fact that she makes really horrid rosters, i still like her.

There's this 10 year old Malay boy in the isolation room i have been looking after the past 3 days. It being the CNY holiday period, his whole family stays with him in the hospital, they've managed to make the room into a cosy home. His two younger siblings are cute. especially the youngest, and his parents are so nice. His mom will always go "thanks so much dear/darling".
So anyway, whenever i go in, i'd explain to them why the doctor ordered this and that, and answer their questions or just talk to them.
Towards the end of my shift 2 days ago, i went back in to take the boy's temperature. While waiting for the thermometer to beep, his younger brother, probably about the age of 9, finally asked his dad quite earnestly in Malay, i could understand, and it goes like this "Dad, why does this nurse look Malay but only speak in English?"

HAHA. so cute right?! I wonder whether he was tormenting himself with that question until he finally asked his dad. I smiled and answered him myself, explaining that i'm mixed. His dad explained it to him again in Malay.
And from then on, even the following days after, he TOLD everyone who talked to me in Malay that i wasn't Malay, i'm actually mixed but one time he got it wrong, he told his mom that "her mom's singaporean and her dad's from Philippines" (:
Children are just lovely.