cny day 1

alright, fyi i wore a white top with my skirt. no strong objections from all the aunty and uncle i visited. haha. so ...PASS :)

and i just realised something.

CNY 2007 - 18/2/2007
CNY 2008 - 7/2/2008
CNY 2009 - 26/1/2009

and that means that i wun be able to celebrate CNY in singapore for 2 years straight!!! since from year 4 onwards, term starts at the end of january.

i am very devastated!

no steamboat dinner using pingpong table
no pingpong championship amongst the cousins
no angbaos!
no dressing up
no visiting relatives
no eat until you peng feeling

*daph wails over and over again*

HELP!! NOW!

hokay, this is what i planned to wear tomorrow to bai nian and get ang baos.
you guys must tell me honestly - is this combination really off??
my mum and sister thinks im crazy..
but a pink polo tee and a floral skirt - is that not compatible?
PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS BEFORE TOMORROW.

i love u guys

pics galore

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
MAY YOU WIN LOTS AT MAHJONG
COLLECT MORE ANG BAOS :)

more carbuncles

haha. kidding. i cleaned the same girl up again today. but that's about it. it's healing and she screamed alot less. i think she's darn brave! *sends a bravery medal her way*

it's chinese new yr again. daddy's not going to be back till next week so reunion dinner is going to be abit funny. but yeah.. besides having good food i don't think i really enjoy the whole small talk business with relatives. it gets boring after a while. -sigh-

and on the chinese talk, i went to watch fearless with victor. eeick, so gruesome. wasn't that bad but.. i would have preferred something less physical and perhaps more comical? i think he enjoyed all that fighting. i found it rather... bewildering.

i'm heading back to australia in a matter of weeks. damn. where did all that time go to?!

my 1st carbuncle

carbuncle: painful swelling of the skin caused by deep skin infection with bacteria. It begins as a red, tender swelling, which later ooze pus if left untreated.

alright, to put it into perspective - a carbuncle is not just a boil. it's the king of boils. imagine a melon scoop digging out a scoopful of flesh from your skin. yeap. that's how deep and massive a carbuncle is.

The girl came in for a repeat cleaning of her carbuncle. forceps, sterile cotton balls soaked in alcohol, gloves, paper towels, gauze with antibiotic ointment - the works.

before i could pull away the curtain to one side, her screams have already penetrated the walls of the room. but it soon quieten down to a noisy and tearful cry.. "stop, wait...ouch..oowww..." i didn't think much of her cry until i saw the reality of her condition, taking a mental shot with the camera in my mind.

The nurse prompted me to put on my gloves and assist the doctor. the cold, stainless steel bowl had about 15 cotton balls, swimming about in the sea of bluish tinted alcohol.

"Look Daphne, this is what you do with the cotton ball", the doctor instructed.

He lifted one cotton ball with the forceps and proceded to cleaning the carbuncle by stuffing the entire cotton ball into it, and pushing it onto all sides, ensuring a complete extermination of anything that is nasty. The alcohol from the cotton ball oozed out and mixed with the fresh crimson colour of blood. When the cotton ball was lifted out moments later, it lost its bluish tinge but instead gained a musky red stain.

I looked on with this frozen expression, not very sure if i looked competent enough. Even though I was merely going to repeat his actions.

I struggled with the forceps, I took a while to hold it firmly with my finger. It could be because I am a left-hander.. but I suspected that it was due to the fact that i was trembling. I picked up one cotton ball and tried pushing it into the deep hole in front of me.

No, it was not going in if I don't apply any force.

"Shit........"

I really didn't want to hurt the poor girl.

"Do what you have to do, Daphne. She will not get better if we don't clean it thoroughly for her", the doctor encouraged. Somehow or another, I found some guts within myself.

5 cotton balls were used.

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ps: guys! didn't know the previous post could be so potent

just to clarify.. i really do enjoy my work at the clinic. it's rare to get the opportunity to work and learn at the same time. i shall dedicate another post.. to people who make life at the clinic so good.

tell then...

i will keep shooting these idiots

people i wanna shoot when im at work.

#1 ugly geisha

oh. she's such a pharmacist. she made me explain the medications in chinese - which was the only reasonable thing she made me do. she took 20 years to decide whether or not she needed an official receipt. she has so much makeup on her face (ie: the geisha nickname) but unlike zhang ziyi.. she qualifies to open her own cake shop. (all that cake on her face...) aiyar. in other words i just couldn't stand her.

#2 very itchy finger boy

boy: *reaches BEHIND the counter and grabs bottle of cough mixture*
daph: *shocked!* med isn't even ready yet!
boy: "huh, how come i have to drink this? - i don't have cough!"
daph: oh really? i go ask doc to confirm

doc: boy is coughing. drink mixture!
daph: boy, doc say you got to have this med

boy's mudder: huh.. the fardder saw doc last week. can take fardder's one instead?
daph: *sweat drop*

doc: oh lemme check the records....
doc: hokay. can take lah. [i swear the doctor is way too nice and polite]
daph: *more sweat drops*

i really hate patients who think that they know everything.

"oh.. you sure i need this medication?"

DAMN IT. if the doctor prescribed you jolly take it. if not find him, not me. i'm the stupid assistant who follows instructions.

"wah, how come so expensive!"

WTH. serve you right for falling sick in the first place. no one said medical care is cheap.

"huh.. the queue so long...must wait how long??"

well, too bad auntie/uncle/ah beng. you are not the only one who fell sick today i suppose. perhaps you should go buy 4D or toto. to comemmerate this special ocassion - 10 people falling sick together with you! oh what a coincidence.

nasi goreng jonathan

zickzen says:
wats ur chi name?
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
ern yik
zickzen says:
wat isit in chinese?
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
恩义
zickzen says:
wah. u can write it!
zickzen says:
hehe
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
of cos i can write it ar
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
u think i really banana mehhh
zickzen says:
no larh.. i tot u nasi goreng
zickzen says:
only noe malay
zickzen says:
lol
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
....................
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
LOL
zickzen says:
is it that funnY?
zickzen says:
o.O
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
its more ridiculous than funny
zickzen says:
oh fine
[ b L u e D e ] ® says:
haha

proof me wrong

Proof: didn't really get the show, although i thought the lead actress did a pretty convincing job. there was depth but it didnt really have an ending to it. oh well... ian fell asleep watching the movie. you can tell how wow it was. ha ha

after proof, we headed towards the roti prata shop! cheap and yummy supper. damn fattening as well. oh! and i had my beloved ginger tea. instant warmth and satisfaction.

and coz it was just ian and me, we wanted to call more people along..who stayed in that area. so we called hong. her sister picked up the hp and told us she left the house without the hp. and she sent this really really peculiar msg to me:

hi, are you guys going to have prata with her at casuurina? ....

ian and i were like..."SHE IS PSYCHIC!!!!"

and after our prata, we walked to the prata shop next door (there are 2 at casurina) and true enough! hong was there with her group of sec school frens. hahahah. she was damn shocked to see us.

and stupid thing #2

the bill for prata came up to 3.90. and between me and ian, we only have 2 dollars. so we had to find 1.90 somewhere else. the nearest atm machine was light years away. and we went into the provisions store next to the prata, enquiring if we could get money from nets from them. in the end they lent us 1.90... so we paid the prata man the money and owed the provision store guy 1.90. haha. we met hong, and borrowed 1.90. so now...

we owe hong 1.90!! haha

(^,^)

heh heh. i feel so much better today. this morning was so shitty. extra difficult to get out of bed and drag myself all the way to choa chu kang for work. lucky work was okie. i touched and ooohed and aahhhed over this terribly cute 4 yr old boy today at work. only to discover a moment later that he was suffering from hand foot and mouth disease. o.o i scrubbed myself very thoroughly after that. heh heh.

had nice chicken rice for lunch! and east coast lagoon food for dinner! fruits, satay beehoon, orh lua, duck rice, satay.. ... yumyumyum. i think there's more yummilious food in the east of singapore. we wanted to eat this meepok but the horrendous queue was snaking and the uncle told me it will take at least 45 mins before i get to eat. T.T argh.

it's ridiculous how a friend would leave such a nonsensical comment on my blog.

what is the world coming to?

friday

i hate mornings.

any sort.

even those that you wake up to a wondrous pancake smell in the entire house.

mornings are evil.

*sleepy eyed daph drags herself to work*

hopefully later today, my day will be better.

bye to you morning.

stupid things

1. i rested my chin on jon teng's back by accident..because i thought he was victor.

2. i asked: is msia in the same time zone as singapore? [insert laughter from victor and jon]

3. i rubbed my eyes so hard that one of the contact lenses went out of my eye and up into some space. it took quite a while of rubbing, pushing and praying to get it out. T.T

alright.. i could go on. but that's enough for tonight.

thanks for being by my side :)

birkenstock!

MY NEW SANDALS!

pretty anot?? ;) my mum tinks its shit ugly. is it that bad? i realy liked it. damn it anyway, i spent half an hour in the birkenstock shop at wheelock place. and within that short span of time, i swear the store sold 12 pairs of sandals. it was so packed! so crowded and so difficult to get the salesgirl's attention. i was even wondering for a while if i should bother waiting to buy it. but i have tried and tested my mum's birkenstock, which she bought in 1999.. it is still in good condition and very comfy to walk in! so i tink its good for all the walks i do in adelaide! yeah

dinner was at nadaman. jap rest in shangri la hotel. finally had a quiet little 'reunion' dinner with daddy, mummy, sister and me. alot of stupid talk. mum commented how 'cor lor' i eat. what the hell. but for the sake of the good food, i did not mind it at all. haha.

photo shoot!

damn. the stupid cameramen came at the wrong time. daffy had no makeup, no time to comb my hair and all. argh. but the photoshoot was hilarious to the power of hilarious. many medically-incorrect techinques were featured - but for the sake of beautifying the outcome of the picture.. anything was possible.

the syringe that the doctor was supposed to jab me with..contains.. FEDAC COMPOUND! which is the red cough mixture most kids would have drank at some point in their childhood years. the photographer claimed that the red colour is more eye catching. oh man. the needle was like 2mm away from my skin. my heart was going lup dup lup dup very quickly. so scary...

other scenes involved listening to my heartbeat, trying to check my ear for stuff, and jus being ridiculous most of the time. we had to look natural, but i had to 'show my teeth', in the words of the photographer. WHO SHOWS THEIR TEETH WHEN THEY ARE IN A NATURAL STATE? and we could not smile, only show teeth. i had this puzzled look on my face on most of the shots taken. oh mannn..

at the very end of it, we had to take a 'family' photo - the doc sitting in the front and the rest of us standing at the back, looking like a very happy team working together. auntie rosie (the full time nurse) is the most comical shit around man. she was going.. "look, this is Dr Chia, the future MP of choa chu kang!"... "we are healthway clinic, not hellway clinic!".... oh man.. we were cracking up every 5 seconds because of her.

and i just found out auntie rosie was miss singapore 1978!!!!!!... tian ah. scary shit.

mistakes mistakes..

oh boy. been committing many mistakes at the clinic. if you think dispensing the wrong drug is the worse... what i did today was even more err..scary? i took the wrong patient card! so wrong name, wrong everything. had to reprint all the labels for the drugs.. sigh. was so damn paisehed.

not many interesting cases today. alot of cold, coughs, gastroenteritis and stuff. no biggie. but there was this woman who came in with bruises and a scraped elbow. i don't know why but my 6th sense made me think she was physically abused. hmm. i hope not though. that would be very sad.

had a really yummy lunch at sebastien~ it's on greenwood road, behind njc (hillcrest road) that side. it's french food. we had tons of bread, very delightful steak and a light souffle to share. it was light! fluffy! and not too sweet. haha. free lunch treat. which made it all the better.

spent my afternoon with victor. it has been quite a long time since we spent time together alone.. just rotting. talking, hugging... as though the world stopped for the moment. very nice. and we ended up falling asleep. wat the hell...

tmr's yet another day at the clinic. some cameramen are coming! to do photoshoot for this chain of clinics!~ haha. victor's uncle is starring as the doctor. the nurse is starring as the nurse. and i am starring as the patient. how wonderful. haha. so i am kind of excited. must put make up leh! lol. if it actually makes it to the website.. i will tell u guys.

for now.. i need my zzz..bye~

Guys Like That You're Sensitive

And not in that "cry at a drop of a hat" sort of way You just get most guys - even if you're not trying to Guys find it is easy to confide in you and tell you their secrets No wonder you tend to get close quickly in relationships!

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tralala~

   ＊在很久很久以前
    你擁有我　我擁有你
    在很久很久以前
    你離開我　去遠空遨翔
    外面的世界很精彩
    外面的世界很無奈
    當你覺得外面的世界很精彩
    我會在這裡衷心的祝福你

  ＃每當夕陽西沉的時候
    我總是在這裡盼望你
    天空中雖然飄著雨　〔飄著雨〕
    我依然等待你的歸期

    重唱　＊

  ＋外面的世界很精彩
    外面的世界很無奈
    當你覺得外面的世界很無奈
    我會在這裡耐心的等著你

    重唱　＃,＋,＃

    我依然等待你的歸期

leftover pics from hong!

victor, me and the entire bahhh-roo-sahhh valley.

the mini rocking horse at the toy factory. coz the big one was out of service

haha. i secretly hate fidel. i want him dead!

oooh. lunch picnic at the whispering wall. alot of flies.

fidel, me and the very slow tram to glenelg

potluck wokluck ovenluck

weiann the drunkard: hmm how huh? i can't see my tiles properly

chu and isaac! blissful couple ;)

Rongjia: yueping is too noisy. let's cover her mouth up.
hong and me. being silly.
AHH! see! evidence of boyfriend abuse. HELP!everybody. happy happy.

ah! potluck. enough said.

felt like reunion dinner. everybody sitting around a table eating at the same time. all the suaning and teasing dished out (alot were aimed at me though) enjoying the yummilious food!
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weiann's face turned damn red after just one glass of vodka lime, that he started calling carys "daphne daphne!"

hong was santa claus giving out magic towels and weird screws thingy for wine bottles. and she was very nice because she cooked fried rice without the peas.

yueping's plan to make people high on her drunken jelly failed. but we still loved the jelly nonetheless! she forgot to bring back one of her jelly trays though. lol

carys was the first level 1 pig in our new heart attack card game. and her watermelon was left untouched.

isaac's maid can make damn good shepards pie! it was all gone. yumyum.

chuyun succumbed to yueping's question and became a level 1 pig too. she was the last survivor of the human race. oh and her brownie was good stuff.

alan sponsored the may day CD. it was blasted on the cd player. and yueping kept on repeating track 4. L-O-V-E! oh god. its in my head.

ian's seaweed chicken was done by yihong's maid. he was a naughty boy.

rongjia was terrribly intimidated by me. haha. sorry kid! i was just being myself. oppps. but he was a good sport.

victor was being a nice boyfriend. he supplied the prawn-that-turns-into-rubber-when-cold. prawns were v nice hot. but isaac is going to keep the cold version in his pencil case.. to erase when needed. oh good lord. how lame.

char was slow in the heart attack game. and she became level 2 pig very soon. her bf's disappearing act was super hilarious.

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feeling rotten

i slept from 7.30pm to 9.30 am this morning. go figure out how many hours i spent on my bed. i think that sleep is a good way of making yourself and of course your body feel better.

i don't know why i felt so terrible yesterday.

maybe its the fact that i have concentrated alot of my energy working and learning at the clinic (i still make some mistakes..oh man stupid me)
or the fact that i slept so little the past 2 nights.
or maybe im just PMS-ish. -.-
perhaps it could be that i spent 2 hours baking the cookies but they turned out quite eeicks. plus the 1 hour cleaning up that i had to do.
or.. maybe its the fact that i invited victor over when i was baking the cookies and BECAUSE of the cookies i didnt spent quality time with him.
or i just expects too much of myself. but who doesn't?



but yeah. i feel better today. thank goodness.

day 1 at clinic

i am so tired. not too sure from what.. but today at the clinic.. it was quite good. ;) finding patient's card from amongst the million other cards in the same drawer. pouring yummy smelling ventolin syrup into the small plastic bottles. act seh and print receipt and give change to patients. having a merry good time playing 'find me' with the drugs. some drugs are like THERE on the shelf but your eyes just miss out on it. getting called into the consult room when there is something interesting to know and learn. having victor around so that i can look as though i am doing more work than him. haha.

it was quite an experience! and yup came to give me moral support on my 1st day. haha. no lah, this girl wants to make drunken jelly so she needed vodka from me. muahaha. so people, if you get high from the jelly.. you know who's the culprit! haaa.

spent my afternoon with onn ray. having lunch and freeloading on the green tea. we probably drank 6 cups each. oh man. i felt like matcha after that. but it was good catching up with him. someone i see little of but still manages to chalk up a 2 hr conversation with. not bad at all.

oh! and last night...... i went cafe iguana!!! haha. bring on the macho magarita... ok im sleepy liao.

ciao~

another 5 random facts about me

FIDELA. how can you tag me? you disgusting fella.

1. i always get bullied by my friends. (is that random enough)
2. i sleep alot when i can. like 12 hours at a shot.
3. people consulted me on how to locate a g-spot (not that i really know - that's a guy's job isnt it)
4. i cover my eyes when i watch scary parts of any movie. kingkong and narnia included.
5. i like the feeling of being waxed. pain but pleasant. (shit do i sound sick?)

ok! im TAGGING PEOPLE NOW!
hong
ian
daph ting
musdyana
fidel

i got tagged!

alrighty. tiff saved my life.. now i have something to think about.

5 random facts about me

1. i love babytalking.
2. all my stuff toys have names
3. i can't stop biting my nails. (yes i noe its a baaaaaad habit)
4. i really like it when people praise/compliment me even if i seem aloft on the surface
5. i hope someday i can sell an artpiece that i made.

an insight into my future..

Rank	Specialty	Score
1	med oncology	48
2	psychiatry	47
3	hematology	46
4	pediatrics	45
5	rheumatology	44
6	nephrology	44
7	physical med & rehabilitation	43
8	nuclear med	43
9	occupational med	43
10	aerospace med	42
11	preventive med	42
12	radiology	42
13	pathology	42
14	radiation oncology	42
15	infectious disease	42
16	endocrinology	41
17	general internal med	41
18	neurology	41
19	obstetrics/gynecology	40
20	general surgery	40
21	plastic surgery	40
22	family practice	40
23	dermatology	39
24	colon & rectal surgery	39
25	thoracic surgery	39
26	neurosurgery	38
27	allergy & immunology	38
28	anesthesiology	37
29	orthopaedic surgery	37
30	ophthalmology	37
31	otolaryngology	36
32	urology	36
33	gastroenterology	36
34	pulmonology	35
35	cardiology	34
36	emergency med	33

oh man. med oncology! what the toot is that.... haha and emergency med is RIGHT at the bottom. this is quite funny. anyway, for those interested, you can do the test at http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/Home.cfm