i have been working for the past weekends. my 2 off days are usually in the weekdays. i haven attend service for 2 weeks already! haven go for CM or 2nd service:( cos i got morning shift 7am -3pm. this week i will be able to go in the morning as i am working afternoon shift. 1.30-9.30.

gg to post abt yvonne's SURPRISE 21ST BIRTHDAY! haha is super long ago, but nvm lar. haha.

Thank you to:

Caleb Lim- thanks for making the video! thanks for sacrificing your sleep for it:)

Aaron Lim- thanks for making the balloon! thanks for making so many balloons for the guest, teaching them and also entertaining them!

Weisheng- thanks for providing us with the venue! alot of ppl feels that it is a nice place:)

Joseph Tiew- thanks for driving us here and there! thanks for helping us to get last min stuff!

Jabez Koh- thanks for making the banner! thanks for making the beautiful banner, thanks for coming down after work to make the banner:)!

wanying- thanks for lending me the no degree specs:)

vivian Fong- thanks for lending me the speakers, balloons and candles:) hehe thanks!

EVERYBODY- for coming! thanks for coming and making that day memorable for da jie.

it was quite a last min thing. i started thinking and planning this for quite long, a few months. but we haven started doing anything till 2 weeks b4, cos we cannot find a venue. so once we got the venue and the permission from my mum, we then started doing stuff:)

Yvonne is also quite blur, she did not suspect anything. we are so busy buying stuff, looking for cake, buying her clothes, looking for good buffet, calling her friends, telling them is a SURPRISE and not to tell her anything and gg to the Lim's place till quite late for a few nights, we used all kind of excuses and she didn't know anything.

the theme for the party is to spectacles. yvonne is the onli person in the whole family who wears specs. she got to wear specs since she is pri 6 i think. sab and me got perfect eyesight:) so for her Birthday, everybody will wear specs and she will not.

time for pictures!!!
so shock and happy, when she walk in, eveybody is standing there, lights off and then sang the birthday soon. after the song we all watch the video.

Aaron Lim made the flowers with a bear hugging it. after the video, my dad is the one who give it to her.

Jaslyn! she went to buy a pair of specs, she also have perfect eyesight.

Tiew sisters!

Jabez and Zhangwei!

Zhangwei, Andrea, Jabez and Clara!

James! he looks funny here.

board to write and paste photos! there is instant photo printing so can paste your photo and write something for her.

Gillian, Joanne, Yvonne (my mum bought the dress for her and she went to quite a few places to hunt for it) and Jaslyn!

my relative, maternal side
Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to ME...... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Aunty Cindy, let's all bow our head and close our eyes, we are going to pray for her.

KIRKS! SAB, DAD, DA JIE, MUMMY!
2nd service teachers

1st praise, everybody wore specs! 1st row for ppl with short hair, 2nd row for ppl with medium to long hair.

relative, paternal side:)

1st JAM!!!

JC friends! TPJC!

Uni friends, future psychologist:) don you think that xiao tian( the one at the left) and my sister look alike.

Ubi Gang! neighbour and friends! know them for years, my mum's friends.

relative, maternal side:)

daddy preparing the candles for the cake

Clara, ZhangWei and Andrea with da jie

EVAN! Dajie's long long friend, they are in the same class for 4 years in sec school.

taking photo with Princess, the onli kid in the whole party:) she is called princess cos she is wearing a dress that says "princess"

Aunty Lynda!!! thanks for videocaming
Jabez gift for da Jie

Aunty cindy gift for da Jie is so cute! is the same as her dress!

after the party we played sparkles, Aaron Lim!

Kirks and Marcus:)

SAB so happy about her new rubber band, made by master Aaron.

lastly, all happy and glad that it is a success! and da jie is really happy! HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY!

i finished my 1 week A&E posting in KKH last week:) this week is holiday!!! but i am like going back to sch everyday.

KKH A&E
the staff there are nice and helpful! they are even better as compared to the staff in ward and OT. they are very willing to teach us and share their experience with us. not only are the staff nice, my Clinical instructor is also very very nice. guess who??? haha, is Mrs CHEONG! she is my class mentor, she even gave us Ferrero Rocher on the last day of attachment. so overall grading for staff A**************

the cases we see in the A&E are not as exciting as the other hospitals. what we usually see are kids coming in for fever, fever and fever or cough, cough and cough! out of 10 kids, 8 will fall under this two category. some kids have fever for like more than 5 days on and off so the parent bring them to A&E. for patient who have fever for a long time they will usually do a blood test to further investigate or to see if it is caused by virus or bacteria. cough is really common in children. they will have cough, phlegm and blocked nose. some are quite serious eg. asthma and bronchitis. sometimes you can hear wheezing, rhonchi or crackle lung sound. so for them they will usually do suctioning or Ventolin puff through MDI and spacer.

the other cases we see are eg fracture, cut, rashes, vomiting, diarrhoea, fits, abscess and baby with jaundice. the procedure we observed are M&R (manipulation and reduction) for fractures, T&S (toileting and suturing) for deep cuts, (I&D) incision and drainage for abscess. i think these are what i observed, nothing much. the kids will be under conscious sedation.

unlike other hospital, they did alot of resuscitation, CPR, ECG and see a lot of trauma and road traffic accident cases. In kkh, is more like a clinic instead of A&E.

However, we are quite fortunate to be able to see a trauma case on the first day of posting. A 11 years old girl is involved in a road traffic accident. the gal is on the way home after school when she is hit by a motorcycle. the paramedics found her lying at the road curb. she is badly badly injured. she is semi conscious, she has a open fracture(the bone pierced through the skin) at the shin bone, she has head injury and her ear is bleeding. her PE shirt is filled with blood. trauma code is immediately activated once she arrived. in kkh there are different code which signify different things. when a code is activated, the whole hospital can hear the announcement, this is to alert all medical staff. so different medical personnel came down to the A&E department, eg anaesthetist, surgeon, ICU staff, Medical social worker..... the resus room was crowded, there are 20 over doctors in the room! of course some doing nothing like us, just standing there and watch.

the medical social worker had a hard time contacting her parents. they called the school and the number they gave is not updated. think after abt 45 mins they managed to call her parents and you know wat, at first the parents say that they can't leave their work and they will only be coming down at night. GOSH! your daughter is so badly injured and is fighting for her life here. think they don know how serious it is. but i think the MSW insisted that they should come down now, thus i think they came down. the gal went for op immediately after she is stabilised. on Friday, i heard she is still in ICU but she is already awake:) the accident is also reported in the newspaper.

we checked the record book, they never activate the trauma code for months. so is a rare opportunity to see such cases coming in.

that's all for A&E posting. can consider working there too but i think most prob not.

this week: i am busy gg to sch for the overseas presentation and some other stuff. we got to present to our sch director and different hospital staff and director about our trip. the rehearsal is quite a waste of time and usually it drags more than 3 hours. they are quite particular of wat we say cos there are external guests.

i decided to post some sacpb alumni performance at chinatown on dumpling festival. i have been busy lately and not able to join them for a few shows:( love them lots!

before going off, at mel's place

wan ying was the main lead, repinique! gwen and erica played the Jembe, regina and mel played the surdo, val played the agogo and me snare. not forgetting grace who came to support us:)

after the performance

val:)

wan ying, she deliberately smile like tat