Jalan jalan cari cafe

A fruitful weekend. Met up with my awesome other half, Mei Cher yesterday. All worth the tiring drive to Malacca when I was post call. It was a good catch up. We had chicken rice and multiple tea breaks. A very much needed half day trip indeed. Baboon house and Halia inc were 2 nice cafés where we lazed the whole afternoon away. So glad to have a good buddy who knows me so well. 14 years of friendship and counting! 

MH370

I always this almighty feeling whenever I'm on a plane and it takes off. Like, 'Wow, how can anyone discover this mode of transport? How does it even work to carry this huge vessel that weighs tonnes?' Yeah, that explains why I never ace my physics during spm. Just as bad as I can't understand the Bernoulli's principle. I've never had this thought that the plane which I am on might crash and I don't usually feel anything when I hear about someone else's death unless it involves someone whom I was close to. I'm dealing with deaths so often in the hospital that I stopped feeling compassionate about it. My job is hazardous I know. But somehow, I'm feeling sad after knowing MH370 crashed. Weird. 

Jan and Feb

I get some time to blog now cuz I'm doing locum at a clinic with very few patients. Just to pass time else I'm too jobless.

I like what I'm doing now. My job. I have a bunch of wonderful colleagues whom I'm comfortable working with. They're helpful and not selfish basically. Working environment is quite stress free unless when I'm oncall or get stuck with severe dengue. Wait, it's still as busy as before but when everyone does things together, it becomes fun. So yeah, I'm thankful to be here. 

A quick summary of all that has happened in Jan and Feb. This post will be loaded with pictures, so bear with me.

In early Jan was Jasmine and Ron's wed. Congratz to the lovely couple. It was indeed a beautiful wedding. Jasmine was looking really gorgeous that day. One of the loveliest wedding I'd ever attended. 

In mid Jan, I celebrated my birthday with Le familia. Mine and Gary's. Papa, mama and didi came all the way to Segamat to surprise me. Then it was a simple dine out in Kluang with Eilyn, Heng, aunt Yvonne, uncle Douglas and the children. Thank you everyone for the many lovely gifts. I'm a year older. So old that I lost count of my age. I face this problem since 2 years ago. I can't differentiate whether I'm 26? Or 27? Haha 

Then came CNY. A time of meeting up with relatives and friends. Gary and myself took a long leave to rest. Joke of the year was we went back to work a day earlier only to realize we were still on leave. -.-

Next in Early feb, the dept had an outing to A'Famosa. We rented a villa there. Played at the waterworld and drove all the way to Alai for seafood. It was tiring as I was postcall that day and the following day, Gary and I had to rush back cuz he was oncall. We enjoyed ourselves nevertheless. This is the group of awesome people whom I've been talking about.

Mid Feb was Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year. Well, the bf and I celebrated ours with his family. Yeah, after 2 years of courtship, we aren't that fond of dating time with just the two of us since we've been seeing each other daily now. We made a trip to USS again! I promised Valerie to bring her there a couple of months ago if she does well in her exams. And yeah, she did it! It became a one-day family trip to USS in the end. We had so much fun and with proper planning this time, we completed all the rides and shows in a day. 

Time to slog hard and earn back some money after so many happening weekends. Till then. 

New phase of life

.... and YES, we can do it!!!

So, 2013 has come to an end. A year with so many memorable events. Can't thank God more for what he has done in my life. This year, I'll be starting a new life in a small town I'm almost adapted to but a hospital that's still foreign to me. So much of me wanted to live an easy life, I'm now joining to busiest department in the hospital. Medical. Like, "Urghhh, again??!!". I'm used to this twist of life where I often ended up in places I'd least expected to be in, yet God has been faithful with His promises. This time round, I'm not as nervous as how I felt previously. Maybe cuz I know the bf is not just a call away from me, but he'll be around physically every time I need him to be. Well, things are always brighter on the other side of the coin. The bf and I used to mumble how much we wish to have each other by our sides every morning we wake up. Yeah, just as we wished for, we'll be seeing each other so frequent I wonder if we'll ever get sick of one another. Hopefully not. Can't wait to start this new phase of life together though I know it's not going to be easy. (: and being so far away from home, I'm gonna miss my family so much..

The start of being a MO

It's been two weeks into the life of a medical officer. I'm still floating in the medical department while awaiting for my transfer letter to come. So many had asked, "How does it feel to become a MO?". Well, decision making is hard and bearing the responsibility for every decision you make is even harder. I feel the tension and fear of harming my patients. When I was a house officer, it's relieving to hear the word 'DNR'. Now, I'm in a dilemma whether DNR should be taken even for a very poor candidate for active resuscitation. No doubt, I've learned a lot these two weeks. A million thanks to those helpful colleagues and bosses in the department and not forgetting my all time wonderful boyfie who's been there for me 24/7. It becomes easy that when I can't handle a case, I'll just give him a call and he'll plan out the management for me. 

The only stress I'm facing now is the oncoming 7 oncalls within 3 weeks of time. Sigh, I feel so upset whenever I think about it and it's starting tomorrow! Basically EOD and boy, I have no idea how I'm gonna survive this. Hopefully all goes well. My previous oncalls had been really tiring. I can't wait for this to end, seriously. 

Bestie's marriage proposal

Am home early today on a working day! Awesomeness! Thought I shall post some pictures here to keep this blog alive and updated. So early this month, I managed to meet up with my besties for a brief hang out. We had so much of fun, partly excited over Soo Hong's marriage proposal that night and that was the first time all three of us had our other half along. In fact a night we'd always been looking forward to. Our dinner was at Spasso Milano, Pavilion. Food there is good. Then our plan to convince Soo that we're gonna chill at Skybar (where Jk planned to pop 'the question') went on well. It was cool. So yeah, a lil bit of update like this is going to make me remember. 

Waterfall and bubble bath

Just returned from a refreshing holiday over the weekend. It was fun, really. We didn't do much. Just waterfall and the hotel. Even that was already enough - a much needed non hectic holiday where we traveled in our own sweet slow pace. Of all the memories collected from this town last year, and we recollected more this year. Awww and I'm already missing it now. Such intense emotion etched in my memory. Thanks hun, for such an amazing holiday