Friday, November 20, 2009

Just another day in November

Well, almost.

I was checking the mailbox, as usual, and I saw a huge enveloped addressed to me from the English Language Centre. I shrieked and practically ran into the house. I knew it would be my IELTS results. Half expecting to see something below the 7.0 band, I almost fainted when I saw this:



On the 17th, I attended a peripheral intravenous cannulation course, and I am now proud to announce that I am cannulation competent. Trust me, you don't want anyone else but me to cannulate you ;)

At 12.15pm, I boarded a bus. Fell asleep by 12.35pm... Reached my destination at 1.40pm... What a bus ride!!! I swear the bus driver was getting worried about me LOL... I boarded a different bus to get to the shopping center. By that time, I was still drowsy from my glorious nap... I was wondering why the bus driver was frustrated and going on and on about how the passengers have mouths and how we should've said something. It took me a while to realize that he had taken the wrong route!!! Thank goodness he realized 5 minutes into the journey :D

Rushed home, frantically prepared the potato salad... And the barbeque pit! I single-handedly set up the barbeque pit. How exciting! Obviously there were some problems... Not all my coal were lit :P No biggie because most of them were lit, and food were getting cooked... The other half only arrived home at 7pm (and the genius told his family it would be a 7pm start >.< ). Fortunately they learnt from the steamboat event that the indicated start time wouldn't the be actual start time heheh... I did well! Chicken wings and lamb were cooking away by 7pm ^.^ For dessert that night, I had my favorite fruit of all times. The KING of all fruits. The DURIAN!!! *droooooools*

No pictures, sadly because I was too eager to devour the yummy, fragrant flesh ;)

Thursday, November 5, 2009

SURVEY: Pen or highlighter?

I need your opinion on something.

Which is more practical? A ballpen or a highlighter?





Tell me your opinion at this poll

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The end is nigh...

Three shifts to go until the end of my 10-week clinical rotation. It has truly been a wonderful experience, and I cannot wait to get out there.

An assignment we were required to complete involved interviewing a Registered Nurse regarding their experience from student nurse to an RN. I read articles about the difficulty some new grads faced, and I'm getting an inkling that I won't encounter any of those.

In my ten weeks I have learned how to think more critically, prioritize care and manage my time (although that needs more practice hehe...). Idare to change care plans (an RN admitted to me that she still doesn't dare to change care plans!), I question the need of a certain medication (or the lack of need), I advocate for my patients (yay me!).

My biggest challenge now is to pass Transitional Nursing Practice 417. Please, oh, please, don't let that be the anchor that drags me to the bottomless ocean of despair...


(No poker due to time constraints! So sad!)

Friday, September 11, 2009

A wonderful program

Google is such a magical place. With the aim of starting anew, I decided to delete my old blog and entries, and to start fresh. Of course, a person like me never likes letting go of old things completely. To save the page one by one is time consuming, not to mention that some of the files might not save correctly.

The solution?

DownThemAll!

This website provides a brief tutorial on how to back up a Blogger Blog.

Happy Back Up!