misskirky

just a few more days

2010-11-03T08:23:00.000-07:00

just a few more days to go! jia you, jia you!!!!
do justice, love mercy and walk clamly with God Micah 6:8

minor thesis and exams=(

2010-10-25T17:44:00.001-07:00

3.8k words done! 1.2 more to go=)
3 more papers=(
everyboody jia you jia you!!!!

Healing is in Your Hands=)

2010-10-04T17:51:00.000-07:00

My latest favourite song=)

Last heard this in hillsong conference till Weiren sent it to all the conference ppl=)
thanks!

Enjoy the song!

No mountain, no valley, no gain or loss we know
could keep us from Your love
No sickness, no secret, no chain is strong enough
to keep us from Your love
to keep us from Your love

How high, how wide
No matter where I am, healing is in Your hands
How deep, How strong,
And now by Your grace I stand, healing is in Your hands

Our present, our future, our past is in Your hands
We're covered by Your blood
We're covered by Your blood

How high, How wide
no matter where I am, healing is in Your hands
How deep, How strong
And now by Your grace I stand, healing is in Your hands

In all things we know that
we are more than conquerors
You keep us by your love
You keep us by your love

Love

2010-09-30T05:12:00.001-07:00

Dear Lord Jesus,
Pls teach me how to LOVE when at times it seems so hard.
Teach me to love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me (matt 5:44)
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse (romans 12:14)
and you are a God of LOVE and justice=)
Love you Jesus and your people!

Papa's day=)

2010-09-05T00:06:00.000-07:00

I found a photo of you with moustache!!!

Hey daddy!
Happy Father's day!!!!
Today is Aussie Father's day=) I know I am a few months later than SG, but is alright=)

Thanks for being such an awesome 24/7 dad=) Always ensuring that all your beautiful princess reached home safely before sleeping.
making sure that the little princess is not hungry and cooking noodles.
Teaching me math when i was little.
And also, being my personal "ahmad", fetching me TO work early early in the morning and fetching me FROM work early early in the morning=)

Thanks for all these little action, which makes it really heartwarming=) Thank God for providing us with such a wonderful earthly father=) We love you dad!

time really pass so fast and I noticed that you have aged=( don worry, a few more years you can retire le. or can no need work so hard, part time or don work also can. that time wo men will provide for you k=)

You take care k=) Take care of your health, don eat too much oily or sweet food k! I heard you ate most of the chocolate from aussie! Take care of mummy also (which i know you will and are doing a good job!)

I will see you in a few weeks time! don worry about me here! I am all good and fine as evidence by my current rounder and cuter face=)

Happy Father's day once again!!!!

*I remember you having a moustache when I was young! (the moustache was done with the little children in church and I made one for you too!)

Love ya lots lots!
take care and God bless you!

Holy Is The Lord God Almighty - Chris Tomlin

2010-09-04T21:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EduKNYVBKH8

Love it=) Enjoy!

Words can be a gift.

2010-08-07T21:26:00.000-07:00

Dear Lord,

Teach me to use my words to bless and empower others.
To give words of praise, encouragement and courage.

Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

1)If I think is good, tell them!
Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act.

2)Don't use positive words for flattering or for my own gain. Don't manipulate and be genuine in my compliment.

Romans 16: 17-18
I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.

Ephesian 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

3) Be generous in pointing at ppl's good quality. Think about the wonderful things of ppl, be positive=)

2 Corinthians 9:11
You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Sermon by Julia A'Bell
8/8/10

Be lifted up

2010-08-07T21:20:00.000-07:00

Hosanna in the highest let our king be lifted up Hosanna!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVGhRLcYcE

Amen=)

My New Church

2010-04-01T03:07:00.000-07:00

Let me introduce to you all My new church! Hillsong- city campus!!!
P&W and sermon are awesome:) Look forward to every sunday!

Hillsong city campus is another branch of main hillsong. Is much smaller than the main one and is catered to ppl staying at city area. Around 200 ppl every service?
service time is 8am, 10am and 12pm, we attend the 8am service. P&W style is more instrumental as comapred to 10am and 12pm, with violin, trombone and trumpet.

My transport to church! Will always remember the first day, ran for the bus! Every sunday will have to walk to central station (20mins walk) then catch a shuttle bus to church (10 mins ride)

Hui Mei and I. First bus ride:)

This is the 10am service so not instrumental kind.

The church is quite small and they provide translation for eg jap, korea.

Welcome coffee at the welcome lounge!

We went to attend a MOH dinner. Ppl from MOH came all the way to sydney to get healthcare professionals back to singapore to work. They are offering scholarship too.

So is a get to know each other dinner plus convincing ppl back.

We had a good time talking and sharing with them on our views on nursing. Eg, the system, workload, management and pay issues which caused nurses to leave and work in other country.

To food was WOAH and plus is FREE! we didn't take any pic during dinner:(

We had curry fish head, chendol, rojak, bo bo cha cha, ice kachang, spring roll!

the meal satisfied my craving for curry!

All ready for the dinner:)

That is Jake! Our new friend in Sydney!

I went jogging!

2010-03-23T22:04:00.001-07:00

I went jogging with Jasmine today! It has been more than 1 month since I last went to run! I must either maintain or loss weight even though I am well fed by Gideon and Jasmine. We have steak at least once a week, cos the beef here is cheap. 3 pieces for around 7 plus?

Going to hillsong conference and the medical elective:) So excited!

Life has been the same, go to school, marketing, do essay, skype.....

It is also amazing to see how God multiplied my bank! They increased the allowance cause i think they realised that the cost of living is high here. Yeah! Praise God!

Some photos:

Kim's birthday celebration and house-warming:

I bought a pizza for the party. And I got it from a shop called: Insomnia Pizza

Gideon and I at the party:)

Kim the Birthday gal!

Huda, Kim and me:) Huda was my NYP student mentor. So qiao!

Group photo!A event at hyde park. Hyde park is near my house.

Wine tasting day for them.

Sydney's tour bus. Looks like the singapore's one. ( The building at the backgroud is our house:)

A park near our place.

Cook and philip's park

HOME!

St Mary's cathedral, a tourist area. The church can be seen from home.

My first KFC. The coleslaw and wipped potatoes are differnt.

KFC is not as nice as the singapore de:(

Jasmine's cooking: veg, chicken and soup:)

My first restaurant! That's Geetha, our ex colleague, she came to Sydney to work.

Chicken pao, beef noodle and dumplings:)

ok that's all!

I took 2 hours to post this entry! GOSH!

First post in Sydney

2010-03-04T02:18:00.000-08:00

Is been 3 months since I last blogged. New blogger, almost forgotten how to upload pictures to my post.

I left Singapore on the 17th Feb and only got internet on 2nd march:( the telecommunication shop messed up our order and kept delaying! gosh, super inefficient and slow!

Life here is good and fine. My housemate take care of me well:) they cook and do laundry while i wash dishes and iron clothes (yes i know, the more brainless task).

Things in Sydney are expensive. esp the bus, $2.40 aussie to school so per day is around $4.80? but some things quite cheap eg 1L dish washer solution is 99 cent? I now super aunty, compare price, do housework and do grocery. BUT i do not look like one!!! must maintain! must stop growing horizontally.

Can't believe that i am back to school again cos i am used to the title of a working adult! The day b4, i kept humming the song, we are going to school tmr, school tmr, school tmr....
Back to school means: pack school bag the night before, bring pencil case, note book, file, writing paper... run for the bus, sit at a desk(eg secondary school), attend class, take notes, get to know friends/classmate, do hw, be stress, read......

School timetable is slack but does not mean that the course is slack. Monday is 9-1pm, tues 9-11am, wed 9-1pm and thurs 9.30-11.30am. No school on friday and no school on alternate monday and wednesday:) good life right? But not really! cos got like alot of reading and self study. No textbk and lecture bk, all the readings are journals. Lots of essay to write and first one is due in arpil:( alot of self directed learning and also get use to their ang moh accent.

Haven really travelled around Sydney. Only been to Bondi beach. Did not take as many pics as when I was in US. Maybe cos here is about the same as Singapore, busy street, lots of car, lots of asians also. Also cos not as in the photo mood as compared to US. that time is to play and now is study! die die must pass!

Ok so some pics from airport:) I only got a few, the rest with gor gor Daniel i think.

Cooper, my cell grp leader:)

Wan ying, childhood friend:)

KIRKY KIRK KIRK!!!!

Relative:)

GIRLS!
Sorry, I don't have the guys picture:(

2009 Thanksgiving

2009-12-31T01:04:00.000-08:00

"give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 1:2

Is been 6 months since I last blogged. haha super long ago.

I am not feeling well, was having fever for 2 days:( But I must blog a thanksgiving post before the end of this year!
So many things happened this year, God has been faithful, providing and giving me strength. This year He has bless me alot with His favour and blessing:) Even though some unpleasant things happened, but He put me through it, making me grow and understand things:)

Family
I wanna thank God for my family:) Thank God that they are all healthy this year. Even though this year did not went as smoothly as last year, but still wanna thank God for you all:)
To daddy: thanks for driving me up and down so faithfully, even after my night shift:)
To mummy: Thanks for cooking and thanks for being such a No.1 housewife and mum!
To dajie: Thanks for listening to all my rubbish and giving me advise
To sabrina: Thank God for you! Thank God for having you as my younger sis:) you are no 1 unique sis.

Sch and studies:
I graduated this year:) thank God for the good result. I am not a smart/study person, from the PSLE and O level result, I am only average. But I did really well in my 3 years study and really thank God for the extra wisdom and discipline He gave me.
I have gotten a scholarship to study next year in Sydney:) I have never dreamt of going overseas or even getting a scholarship in my life. Is it really like a miracle.
My department wrote a strongly recommended letter for me even though I am there for last then 3 months. My principal nurse educator help me submit my application after so much trouble as the deadline is over and application is close.
Thank God for putting me through the interview also, so many ppl applied.

Work:
Thank God for putting me in the department where I wanna work. Children ICU was my first choice. My colleague are ok and nice, ward managers are reasonable.
I have made a medication error recently, 1 month ago, put up a incident report and stuff:( Is really serious and upsetting. But still thank God that my ADN did not came and approach me regarding this and also through this i learnt to be "smarter".

Friends:
One of my good friend is flying off to study in Scotland next week:( She will be there for at least 4 years:( so sad:( We actually met up more often this year, last time was once in 6 months. But recently we met up once in every 2 months:)
Thank God for my nursing friends:)

Ministry and church ppl.
CM has been good, I love my P6:) A class of lovable students:) And also thank God for the P6 teachers, learnt alot from them.
MM, I have not been able to serve regularly due to my work:( But recently I played for a wedding and I enjoyed it. Thank God for Dr Kan:)
Thank God for putting me through CM camp this year. Thank God for sustaining me till the end:) There are still things that I am still praying for.
church friends: thanks for keeping me in prayer and listening to me:) xie xie and thanks alot!

Goodbye 2009 and now is 2010. I guess 2010 will be a exciting year for me.
I pray that God will give me extra courage, boldness and wisdom for the next year.

Graduation:)

2009-06-01T05:15:00.000-07:00

Been so long since i last blogged.

Graduation was more than one month ago. I actually typed this post 3 weeks ago and I spent more than 2 hours uploading the photos and typing. But I did not save it properly and the post was not saved. It was like ARGH!!!!!!!!

Graduation!
I wanna thank God for these 3 years in nursing. Thank God for his blessing, favour and providence.
Thank God for:

good mentor, Mrs Cheong.
supportive classmate
fantastic subgrp
opportunity to go Upenn and tour in US sponsored.
church friends (thanks for all the prayers and encouragement:) )
letting NR0601 pass and graduate together!!!

To NR0601:

Thank you so much for these 3 years! You all are really great classmates!

Going through all the clinical exam and attachment together:) During our off days we will meet for coffee, grumble, complain and share funny stories that happened in the ward. These are the little things that had encouraged each of us and helped us through. At least we know that somebody understand wat we are talking about. But somebody *ahem is always busy and never come. Hope to see her join us more often!!! (see you are mentioned here, due to your really poor attendance!) Wan Chin, Rani and Yi Hui come and join us when you all are free k?

I miss the days when we go for lunch together in north canteen or pack our food sit in a circle and eat. I miss the days when we studied together, in school and in LTF, although studying for exam is really sian and boring but is the accompaniment. Last time PRCP sounds scary but actually it is not tat scary i kind of enjoyed my PRCP:) And i will not forget the code orange incident..... haha.

Now we are all official SN working in different hospital and department from polyclinic to IMH. Wish you guys all the very best! Take care and keep in contact! Don know when will we see each other? I guess will be on the 26th dec, right Chua da jie? And lets continue to dream to go Australia together, study, work and stay in a big big house......................:)

Photo time!!!

Address by Guest of Honour; Dr Lim, CEO of NHG and TTSH.

Diploma with merit.

CapitaLand Healthcare Frontliners Award.

Ministry of Health Gold Medal and Clinical prize.

The awardees for CapitaLand Healthcare Frontliner.

Award winners for the day:)

Before the ceremony, Eve, Mrs Cheong and Vivian:)

Clara also from CICU.

Dr Lim.

Mrs Grace Heng! My secondary school A math teacher! Nyp invited her:)

Mrs Cheong Nr0601's mentor:)

Sister Sin from KKH and Mrs Cheong.

Miss Lim, Sister Sin and Mrs Cheong.

The KKH award winners:)

Next up are the VVIP in my life............................

FAMILY!!!! Thank you:) XIE XIE NI MEN:)

Dad and Mum:)

Da jie:)

My family and Miss Lim:)

The Upenn people:) Meijiao and Yvonne.

Miss Tan Siew Hong, academic manager.

I went to look for my classmates late and some of them have left:(

Shi wei, Vivian, Eve and Eunice:)

Some of the NR0601 classmates:)

Rani our mother:)
Yi Hui the powerpoint artist:)

James the joker:)

Wan Chin the da jie:)

KKH friends:) Zhi Wei, Yvonne and YY.

Grace, my junior.

Ar Jun:) Yes he is really tall.

Church friend/ cousin, Tim Ong:)

this video is taken by yvonne, Gold medal and clinical prize presentation.

Really thank God for all the awards:)

Never expect myself to do so well, is really God's grace and blessing:)

I found this in my sch website:

http://www.nyp.edu.sg/aboutNYP/latest_news/2009/grads_of_2009/grads_of_2009.html

outing!

2009-05-09T06:15:00.000-07:00

at last we had the outing after planning for so long. we started planning since last year but it never happened till recently.

the sec ones grew up fast and they changed alot.

really enjoyed teaching them and i learnt alot from them too
enjoyed teaching with zhang qi, caleb and lowell too:)

tuition for p6 in church is something not done in church b4. really thank God for all the teachers for their commitment and time as it is purely voluntary.
we went to kallang leisure park on the 1st of may.
first activity: bowling nice pose gared!

the girls:)

the girl's lane

Johnmiah and Josiah

Daniel and Dayn

nobody is looking at the camera

gor gor lowell: i show you how to play ar, you watch properly, i onli show once!

concentrate!!! must strike!

Go Go GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gor gor lowell: Yes man!

i like this shot:) artistic

grp photo after 1st activity

while waiting for the 2nd activity. as usual the boys and their psp.

2nd activity: ice skating!

faith tiew:)

Johnmiah:)

Garik:)

Daniel:)

faith tiew, daniel, clara and dorcas:)

anna, janice and me:)

lowell, aaron, anna, janice and me:)

Esther, caleb and clara

crowded.

the pro zhang qi and esther

let's play a game call spot gor gor caleb.

grp photo!

woah! look there! is it snowing?

last activity!! dinner! steamboat!

shi ri, jaslyn and aaron:)

anna, clara, dorcas and aunty cindy

the girl's table + aaron lim

psp again

gared, josiah and joseph:)

gor gor taiyong:)

Boys psp and girls smsing:(

war.

2009-04-30T05:16:00.000-07:00

i suddenly feel like blogging
sorry for the lack of post. ya this blog is gg to be dead soon. i will declare it dead when is time for it to go.
whenever i go to work i feel like i am going for war. we are considered as a frontliner both A&E and ICU. full PPE: gown, N95, scrub suit, gloves, and stuff. temperature taking, limiting visitors, no internship, stopped all orientation programme, prepare isolation rooms, tracking of staff and all staff on standby
now the alert is raised to orange. ward manager just called up and inform tat it is now raised to orange, be on standby and they will call us back if necessary.
Hospital is less crowded now. pharmacy and watson has run out of surgical mask. N95 and protective gear are running low. suspects of swine flu are admitted. some staff are on standby and will be deployed to CDC if needed. all staff to get vaccinated next week.
honestly it is quite a stressful period, cos we haven settle down in work and such things happened. haven finished orientation and now on standby. Now i understand the meaning of frontliner and the feeling of sars.
i have decided to wear home clothes to work or not i will be ostracize and also to leave my shoes in the locker. so i will just go to work, change to scrub and working shoes then change to home clothes and shoes when i go home. this will minimise bringing forbidden things back home. i also decided to have more rest and sleep and take more vit C. having cough and sore throat for the past one week.
Last and most importantly is to pray and seek God. May we live in His promise and peace. May his peace be with us even at times like this. May he grant us strength and courage. And may our faith be strengthened and not be shaken. " The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." Deuteronomy 31:8
Father Lord keep all us safe and healthy. Amen.

Fishing

2009-03-12T10:35:00.001-07:00

a few days ago, we solved the mystery of the kirk's stinking kitchen. there is a weird smell in our kitchen. i mopped the floor x5 with extra detergent but still it stinks. we searched all the containers, pots, pans and dustbin but nothing in there.
then something caught my mum's attention, 3 potatoes wrapped with aluminum foil! i went to pick it up, it was soft, stinky, wet and DISGUSTING! the potatoes rotted and is wet! GROSS!
the potatoes are actually for our fishing trip bbq. there are leftover, so was supposed to give it to my mum. however one week later, it rotted and stinked up the whole kitchen. i think it was because that day it rained, then the potatoes are wet, thus decomposed!!! rotten potato with yellow watery pus and stinky++++!
mum was quite angry. cos she got to clear the mess, i just threw the potato back on the shelf and went to wash my hands. haha ya i know quite mean of me:( sorry.

ok fishing trip! we went fishing at pasir ris, some wulu place. we did not catch any fish:( after 6 hours and no fish!

but i thank God for the fun time and also for sending a kind soul to give us a free fish:)

Sampan! i think is super cool lar! don mind trying!

Aaron and Joseph

our free fish! thanks to Aaron!

our $10 bait! i like this photo:)

preparing drinks:)

waiting........

Tai Yong and Aaron

this little gal caught more fish than us, small fishes. she used bread as bait!

her fishing gang!

smsing the fish:) where are you??

fishes fishes come to me........................

got caught looking at romantic pictures again!
Food for bbq!

Go Aaron!

our dinner:) poor fish.

i like this pic:)

Descaling:)

Lims:)

Her forte: Eye Power!

Come on! fan harder! we are hungry ppl!

20th birthday!

2009-02-26T08:18:00.000-08:00

20th birthday:) i hit the big 2! old already:(
nursing friends surprised me with a cake on the 19th feb. they got me a nice heart shaped ice cream cake. my 1st ice cream cake:)
at 12am, my family celebrated my BD:)
on 20th, went watch movie with my parents, slumdog millionaire! nice show! then went for dinner, mee sua:)

nic, yi hui, me, shi wei, vivian and eve!

The GAP Gang:) got them the shirt from America
Future IMH staff!

Future KKH stuff:) Gyn, OT and paeds

At home:)

nobody wanna take pic except sab cos they say they look tired and ugly

Kirks new tradition of buying Bd cake. my favourite mango cake:)

Dinner at mee sua. kirk sisters:)

Da jie!
Sab!

Mum!
Dad! got him this shirt from America too. nice ar.

short and simple 20th bithday.

Trekking:)

2009-02-16T05:30:00.001-08:00

My hols have been good so far. feel great to be resting, slacking and buming. i think it is a once a lifetime thing b4 i actually start work! 3oth march! argh:(
i spend alot of time with my mum! wo de chao ji ma ma (quote from sab's zou wen). learning and training how to be a fantastic housewife like her; marketing, cooking, washing clothes..........
at night will be dota time, drama, tv, surf the net..................
enjoying life:)!!!!

ok my 2009 valentine day is spent with nature. can't believe that i actually woke up at 6 plus for trekking. went with some church ppl:) we walked for more than 10Km!!!! it was my first time going to bukit timah and macritchie, walking in a forest with trees, insects and rocky ground. the guys + the healthy fit fit Jaslyn thought that the walk was not tiring. it was like nothing to them, i think it was like a warm up exercise for them. but i was half dead after that. almost died while climbing. gosh! but overall, excluding the steps (i hate the steps, after walking so long still need to walk up the steps is damn sian) i really really enjoyed myself! it was a great experience don't mind gg again. thank caleb for organising and bringing the stick, is super useful, now i understand why ppl use stick. xie xie ar. thank the super prepared Jaslyn for bringing the insect repellent:) i didn't get any insect bite. thanks!

photos:)

after 3km:)

at the entrance of the nice bridge:) think this is the highlight of the walk.

the famous and wanted man.

dajie, jaslyn and me:)

Jaslyn:)
da jie taking photo for james. i don't noe wat am i doing at the back.
dajie:)
the guys:) hao xiong di. tai yong, james, caleb and jeshua

the gals:) the hao jie mei. me, dajie and jaslyn

dajie and jaslyn scaring the fishes!

Freeze! don't move!

group photo! after about 3 hours of walk:)

lunch time!!! the 2nd highlight of the day. we went to bukit timah hawker. the food is nice!

carrot cake!

tai yong:) he looks so serious

dajie and jaslyn:)

James:)
after lunch:) happy and full! had a great day! thank God for them:)

GRADUATED!

2009-02-05T06:15:00.000-08:00

GRADUATED! Thank God for these 3 years that made everything went smoothly:)
i finished my 3 years of nursing course!
3 years of nursing student life had been great. i even got the chance to go to Upenn for exchange:) went travelling in US and Canada! had a great mentor, class NR0601, sub-grp and friends!
really thanks for your encouragement, your help, advices and sharing all the little exam tips.
you guys really rocks! thanks alot!
made really good poly friends! they will try their best to help you, share with you whatever they know and not being selfish. they even helped me prepare for my trip to US.they lend me stuff tat i need even b4 i ask them.
those project days, practical exams and attachment are over! during attachment as a student, we always got bullied by mean staff nurses:(
during practical exam, some lecturers will try make your life difficult and be super picky and strict(practical exam is always unfair. it always depend on who is your lecturer grading you) now, is all OVER!!! YEAH!!!
Going to start work in april, so now i got 2 months of hol! yipee... decided to rest, meet up with friends and spend more time with my family. read up on stuff b4 starting work:) also Angela! pls pls start EXERCISING!!! GOSH! i am like getting rounder and rounder each day:( GOSH GOSH GOSH!
for now, i don't know where i will be posted to in kkh and i don't know how am i gonna get my degree? private sch? overseas? NUS? i guess one step by a time ba. i believe the Lord will open doors for me:)

ok now CNY!!!

MY CNY 09!!!

the day b4 cny eve we went to chinatown:)

it wasn't very crowded cos we went about 4 plus to 7pm.

me and yvonne on the bus

Sab and I in Chinatown

Sab trying some jelly drink. dajie so funny:)

sab and me with her ice cream. throughout the whole trip she had been eating. sausage, ice cream, jelly drinks....

My mum trying out some taiwan jelly.

My sis won a gold coin in some lucky draw.

we decided to act retarded while waiting for dinner.

the next day. cny eve! reunion dinner!

went to church in the morning. bilingual service. able to wake up later then usual Sundays:)

steamboat at home.

while waiting for dinner. mummy!

first day of cny:)
KIRK Sister!

Dad and Mum:)

mummy and me:)
Family photo.

2nd day of cny. on the way to JB

in JB:) eden hotel.

we didn't take alot of photos this year.

Forever

2009-01-23T22:16:00.000-08:00

i prefer this version:)

Forever

2009-01-22T07:29:00.000-08:00

been trying to upload youtube video. at last can le:) thanks for the help!
i love this song:) enjoy!

Forever
I'll Worship at Your Throne
Whisper my own love song
With all my heart I'll sing
For You my Dad and King
I'll live for all my days
To Put a smile on Your face
And when we finally meet
It'll be for eternity

And Oh how wide You open up Your arms
When I need Your love
And how far You would come
If ever I was lost
And You said that all You feel for me
Is undying love
That You showed me through the cross

I'll worship You my God
I'll worship You my God
I love You
I love You
Forever I will sing
Forever I will be with You
Be with You

2009-01-16T05:52:00.000-08:00

attachment is gg to end in 2 weeks! 3 months passed so so fast! really wanna thank God for His strength and protection:) i have no plans for the next 2.5 months of hols. everything happened s0 fast starting from August 2008 till now
final year project
exam
overseas attachment

OT and A&E attachment

PRCP

Yvonne's 21st birthday party

church camp

thanksgiving

co- workers

CNY shopping

suddenly, i have 2.5 months!!! every time when is near hols i have got lots of plan and will always look forward to it. but now i don know wat to do? work? rest? go for some course?

think i was too busy for the past few months, didn't have time to think and plan for hol.

one more thing! very impt!

i need wisdom! we are given 2 option to choose which area we wanna work. eg paeds surg, paeds med, gynae, obs....

pls pray tat i will put the choices wisely, be happy in whatever ward i end up in and may His will be done:)

this is super impt! gonna work there for at least 2 years!

time for pics. decided to post the US photos:)

photos in Philadelphia- independence hall, US mint and liberty bell center

Washington D.C- capitol hill

Yvonne's bag, full of food!

waiting for time to pass, we reached the place too early.

we brought quite little stuff for the 7 day tour. left most of the stuff in Dr wang's place

breakfast in Phil, at the park near independence hall

Independence hallliberty bell centerMint in Philadelphia

After visiting places in Phil, we went down to Washington. it is only 2hours bus ride.

Capitol hill

In Washington, we went to quite a few places. shall post abt it next time. gg to sleep:) working tmr morning:(

P6 2008 1st session!!!

2009-01-07T06:03:00.001-08:00

i took this class for 2 years, when they are pri 5to pri 6. they really mature and grow alot in the past 2 years and also become more bonded and united.
really thank God for them, they also taught me alot in these two years.
take care Guys!
may you all continue to seek Him and stay close to Him!
All the best in your new sch.
Feel free to look for us/ contact us:)

2007:) thanksgiving.

Nice candid shot by Jabez:) all of doing different things.

zhang Qi got bullied by the guys.

caleb, asking the gals to stand on the chair.

me, trying to ask matthew to take the pic with us.

lowell, enjoying himself in Europe.

All the pictures looks the same, however if you see properly they are actually different.

Night shift

2008-12-22T06:34:00.000-08:00

my night shift is ok. not bad, throughout the night nothing much happen. just take hourly para, then 3 hourly feeding(1st night don have), do the I/O chat, push pt to CT scan and that's all. cos most of the kids parents are there.
during my 2nd night, there is a 3 day old baby in my cubicle, her parents are not ard. she is the onli one that kept me busy for the night. eg crying, feeding, sponging.
after the 1st night i was super duper ultra tired. at ard 5, 6 am i am practically stoning. i can just lie down on the floor and sleep, i went home, bath and then sleep. but after the 2nd night not that bad. i am not that tired. still managed to go for ypm after sleeping for a few hours.

so far so good

2008-12-17T20:58:00.000-08:00

i took my first case this week! tuesday, 16/12/08, was quite worried. thank God everything turned out well:) nothing much happen to the patient when it is my shift. not much changes for the pt also cos she is a long term patient.

tonight will be my first night shift! 9pm to 7am, for 2 nights. then i will have off days on sat and sun!!!! at last!!! i got weekend off!!!! YIPEE!!!!! sunday there is rehearsal for D24:(

some photos taken during our OT posting

i seriously don't like the cap. make us look like we are from tong xin yuan.

Yvonne and I:) she is in KKH too!

YY and I:) we are from the same lecture grp:)

lastly hai yan:) just got to know her through this posting.

obviously we can't take pictures inside the operating room itself. so we too pictures in the changing room. and i love the scrub suit we are wearing:) no need to wash uniform also. shift work only starts at 8am.

2008-12-15T06:59:00.000-08:00

went to visit ypm camp on the 2nd and 3rd night.
sermon by Glenn is gd:)
reminded me once again abt Faith and God's will in life.

working on most weekends:( super sad....

sunday:
morning shift- not gg to church
afternoon shift- leave 2nd service halfway and rush down to work

HAPPY 21ST!

2008-11-27T01:33:00.000-08:00

i got a hard time uploading the pics. took me more then 6 hours! Gosh! so pls spend more time looking at it.

ok sorry for the super lack of post. been really busy preparing for thanksgiving 2008! really glad that is over, can have a good good rest and well done everybody! everybody did a great job man! there is still one more round, 24th dec, Christmas eve:)

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.

after the video:) the video includes her baby, pri, sec, JC, uni, church and family photos.

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.

SAB!

Andrea:)

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!

A&E @KKH

2008-11-04T06:41:00.000-08:00

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

Before going off

2008-10-30T06:32:00.000-07:00

managed to upload one pic after trying and refreshing lots of time. this is before we go for our tour, on the way to the transportation center.
we reached early, i think like 45 mins, so we took some photos. but i onli managed to upload one random pic:(

deepavali:
went cycling with church ppl and sab. borrowed caleb's bike and sab used wayne's bike. can't even remember when i last cycled. so so long since the last time, maybe a year or 2? when we were young we always go cycling @ ubi park. cycle, play catching, swing, basketball..... now i don know wat happen lar, but at least i still got go play badminton, not sedentary lifestyle.
in the evening all 3 of us went to lisi's house. suppose to go in the noon but then it started raining, so got to wait for the rain to stop and also we got wet and dirty so got to go home and bath b4 gg over.
we had dinner together and then we make desert at her house!!! she is studying culinary and she is having attachment at a hotel restaurant. her restaurant is top 60 in the world! she taught us molten chocolate cake. the outside is a chocolate cake and the inside is melted chocolate. we also bought ice cream so is molten chocolate cake with ice cream. damn nice:) we sort of know how to make but don know if will be sucessful ma. we shall try baking it next time:)

attachment:
now we are in kkh A&E:) tmr is our last day, so fast! shall blog abt it after tmr.

I CAN"T UPLOAD PHOTOS!

2008-10-25T07:57:00.000-07:00

don know why cannot upload photos:(
ARGH!!!

Operating Theater KKH

2008-10-25T06:41:00.000-07:00

ok i have not updated my blog for 2 weeks. really busy last week and this week. last week is more of meeting up with ppl and camp. this week i am having my attachment in kkh OT.

kkh OT
is not as cold as i expected and i think it is not as cold as other hospital. we wore the same OT attire as the staff there, just that we wore different colour shower cap.
the operations i saw are eg. Hysterectomy, pelvic floor repair, termination of pregnancy (abortion), ectopic pregnancy and Cesarean section!!! the whole atmosphere will change when the baby is out and when you hear the baby crying:) at first everybody is really tensed, cos anything can happen during the op eg. baby stop breathing/ baby cannot come out....
so cesarean section is the best thing i saw in the OT. we also witnessed the birth of a twin, a baby boy and gal.
for the kids OT, we are allowed to go to the day surgery and not the major operating theaters. we saw cryptorchidism, circumcision, herniorrhapy, removal of port catheter and testosterone implantation.
i also got my posting for the final sem. i am posted to the kids high dependency ward for 3 months. A high dependency unit is an area for patients who require more intensive observation, treatment and nursing care than are usually provided on a general ward. It is a standard of care between the general ward and full intensive care. quite scary as it will be challenging:) after the 3 months posting is over, we will graduate and become a staff nurse. the posting is impt as most ppl will usually go back to that ward after they grad and work there and also if we don pass the posting we got to repeat it. will try out working in the ward for 3 months? if it is not wat i want maybe work in the OT/ A&E? during the 3 months, we will be doing shift work, so we might not be able to get off day on weekend. i might have to work on sat and sun! Argh!
last year, i am still able to go for cm camp, ypm camp and thanksgiving cos can just skip sch for a few hours (those not impt lesson) and we are also free at night. but now cannot le, got attachment and shift work:(

Friday night, went to meet my nursing friends+Halley:) we talk, talk and talk........ talked about attachment, my US trip, Singapore, sch.... went home very late, about 2 plus. next time it will be hard for us to meet. all of us different shift and then some morning shift the next day so cannot stay so late also:( sad sad. we got to think of something man!

sat, went to church at 11 plus. suppose to have lunch with the kids at 12pm, then change to 1.30, 2pm, 3pm and lastly 4pm! aiyo! went to eat pasta, had a great time together. hope that they also enjoyed the lunch:) went to YPM, sermon is about forgiveness. went for dinner and then home:) so happy to be back early:) we always reach home at 10 plus 11 on sat cos of rehearsal and stuff. lowell is playing drums tmr, i am freeeeeeeeeee.................. that's why i got time to update my blog:) hehe.

HOME SWEET HOME!

2008-10-13T15:29:00.001-07:00

YEAH!!! I am back! so happy to be back in Singapore and to see my family and friends! at last i see them not in the screen but in front of me. miss them so much!

i am blogging at some weird timing. 6am in the morning. woke up at 4 plus and cannot get back to sleep:( symptom of jet lag i guess.

reached sin on Sunday morning, around 2am cos the flight is delayed. we survived the long hour flight:)unfortunately Meijiao lost her MP3 player in the plane. we suspect that somebody stole it:( don know if she is able to claim from the insurance company.

On sunday, went to church. did not go for CM and went for second service instead. too early and not able to wake up. I was early for 2nd service so went to visit my P6 class. Miss the kids too, so happy to see them:) so gald that they finished their PSLE and they look more relax now. ZQ, Lowell and Caleb also organised a surprise Birthday Celebration.

saw lots of familiar faces, quite a few ppl welcome me back even though is only a short 6 weeks trip. catch up with different ppl and also realised that there lots of events gg on. spiritual milk camp, children camp, thanksgiving, P6 outing, YpM camp. booths are set up and posters are pasted at different area. will not be gg for most of them as i will be having attachment during that period, so sad lor. that's the thing abt working shift and weekend:( but i will visit them at night? when i am free.

is so different when you are alone and so far away. when you are feeling down, there is nobody there. when you are enjoying and having fun, they are not able to experience it with you. Haizz, nvm, we shall go together next time:)

quite a few ppl also ask abt the financial crisis, they ask whether the Americans are affected, how are they reacting, and wat's the situation like there? honestly, they look normal, they don look depress.i think we are not there long enough and are unable to tell the differences. we hear lots of ppl there talking and discussing abt it and it is the headline almost everyday, that's all.

sunday night was family time:) mom prepared steamboat! haha. miss home cooked food the most and not hokkien mee, satay, prata, laska, mee siam..... then after dinner is the highlight of the night! SAB's happiest moment minus the time she see me in the airport i guess. UNPACKING LUGGAGE!

i bought quite a lot of things. i went with 1 luggage and was back with 2. bought quite a lot of things for my family:) i'm gald that they like the stuff i got for them. is quite easy to get things for sab and dajie. sab loves everything and dajie is very sui bian and also i know their sizes. but is not easy getting it for dad, i don know his size, got a hard time choosing and guessing his size.plus i've nv bought clothes for guys, including him

never really get anything for mum, cos she is quite picky (think i am like her) and she keep telling me not to get anything for her, she is afraid that i will get the wrong stuff and she she will not like it. that's why for mother's day/ BD we usually give her voucher. over the years we became smarter.

schedule for this week:

tues- jamming (so long since i touched the drumset) ( Aaron, thanks for organising it)

wed- badminton (really looking forward to it, been wanting to play for months) (Tiew, thanks for booking the court)

thurs- OIPP presentation discussion. thinking of meeting lisi after that. don know if she is free

fri- sun: spiritual milk camp. (*ahem, somebody is suppose to send me the details of the camp. i hope he is reading this, haha)

fri night: if i am able to leave camp will go meet up with nursing friends!!! so long nv see them liao, they having attachment:( JIA YOU!!!

now i shall blog about things that happened more than 2 weeks ago.

b4 leaving for the tour Dr. Muecke organised a brunch at Inn at Penn. she also invited Lisa, Kate and our lecturers.

the photos are abit blur.

lobby of Inn at Penn

Dr. Muecke giving out certificate. it is just a cert to say that we attended their programme for 4 weeks

with Geri (her secretary) and Ann Marie (Module coordinator)

after 4 weeks!

Back in Philadelphia

2008-10-06T16:46:00.000-07:00

our trip was AWESOME.
Canada is really cold.
shall blog about it some other time. got so much things to do before going off to New York.
got to meet up with ppl b4 leaving, pack our stuff (so many things!!!), do laundry...........
we will be going to new york on wed morning. will be staying there for 2 nights and will be flying back on friday. (22hours of flight! Gosh!)
i think this will probably be my last entry in US. Shall blog about the trip when i am back and when i am free:) so many things to update.
take care!!!

AWAY!

2008-09-28T21:20:00.000-07:00

this is gonna be a short post.
i will be away for the next 7 days.................. going for a tour. will be bringing my laptop too. but not sure if i can assess to the Internet.
Day1: going to tour around Philadelphia and Washington D.C
Day2: Hershey's chocolate world and night view of Niagara falls
Day3: Niagara falls from the Canada view, Toronto (yes we are going to Canada!!!)
Day4: Toronto- Thousand Island and Ottawa- Montreal
Day5: Montreal- Quebec City- Boston
Day6: Boston and new york
Day 7: New york and then back to Philadelphia.

ok i hope it will be fun:) blog when i got Internet assess/ when i am back:)
we got the tour from Chinatown. is buy 2 get 1 free:) just nice the 3 for us!!! so we paid $372USD each. but it does not include entrance fee and food. so only accommodation and transport

take care and God bless you guys!!!

week 4 mon to fri

2008-09-26T20:47:00.000-07:00

last week of sch. a mixture of feelings. kind of sad that it ended. gonna miss my clinical group i guess. at first i feel out of place but as time pass, it is better. happy no more sch, gg for tour! no need to wake up early:)

Monday: went home after sch, showed kate around on the way home. we end sch early that day. think about 1130. then after stayed at home. i took a nap.

tues: clinical day. yvonne had pizza lunch with her grp, meijiao end at 1pm, me at 2pm so we decided to go home our own. before i go home. i went to explore some places and also went to shop. i reached home 2.5 hours later. so sorry to keep them worried. they smsed me, but my hp got some problem that day and did not receive.

wed: last day of class. went for lecture. took photo with prof ann marie, the module coordinator. then after that we went shopping at the factory outlet, franklin mill mall. the place is far, took us about 1.5 hours? i bought alot of stuff. but something happened. i bought a bag, the bag is suppose to be on a discount but the person sell it to me at the usual price. i am so blur and onli realised it when i reached home. cos i thought the price tag dropped and did not see the price tag. the price tag is actually in the bag. the salesperson also did not see the price tag. he sell it to me $40USD extra which is abt $60 sin. ARGH! and the bag is quite expansive. $60 sin is a lot! because of this i am not able to sleep well. i keep thinking if i can get my money back. will they think that i just stick a price there myself or will they acknowledge the mistake and pay me back. i want to go back to the place badly!

then on the last day of my clinical (thurs) i shared with them about singapore. they cannot believe that singapore has no four season and that it is just a dot in the map. and i guess they don't where is singapore. shared with them about our healthcare system too. eg. the A to C class bed, the medisave, medifund, medishield and eldershield. also shared with them about male nurses unable to take care of female pt unlike in US. a few other stuff also. blog more about the difference between US and Singapore next time. i had a great time sharing with them and they asking qn, they are shock abt the differnces. after that took some photos. then head home and sleep

friday: stayed home in the morning and noon. talked to my family. our usual meeting time is fri, sat and sun night. which is my morning. i wake up early to talk to them. show them wat i got for them also. sab is very excited! and then her face will change when you say there is nothing for her. very practical. then pack some stuff and then do laundry. i realised tat i have a problem, i got too many things and i don know how am i gonna bring the things back. think i got to get a new luggage, anyway the one i got is kind of old. (my mum ask me to get a new one too) in the evening we went to terminal market with Dr Wang, actually suppose to watch ome jazz concert but don have. then went for dinner, chinese restaurant, food is not bad. Dr wang's treat. talked about some global health issues and it inspired me somehow. Dr Wang major in global health.

after dinner we went to a Obama watchnight party. as you all know US election is nearing, Obama and McCain. and then they have a debate session live. so most americans will be watching it. there are few pubs and restaurant where ppl can watch together and they call it a watchnight party. watch from 8-10pm ate cake and ice cream at the same time. Dr wang's treat again:) the restaurant we went to is for Obama supportor as Dr wang is one of them. you can hear ppl cheering and clapping as Obama spaeks. i learnt alot too, know more about politics and stuff. listen to americans comments and disscussion abt them, listen to the debate. in singapore i don even care wat is happening, be it PAP or oppositionhaha and after this i found out that ppl we are voting for can male a difference in our life. and i think americans must elect their president wisely, a capable one to bring them out from the situation (bush's mess, wars and financal criss) and also America economy can affect lots of country in the world. it can also affect singapore indirectly cos we've got qutie abit of investment here i think. Now i support OBAMA!!!! if i can vote i will sure vote for him! hope he wins also. i brought a badge that says phily for Obama. haha. he thinks and care for his citizen.
ok enough of politics

Photos!
Wharton School!

lecture

tatlking about peritoneal dialysis

lecture

studying, pls do not disturb.

meijiao, yvonne and me:)

our snack for break. this is the free expired food.

break time

us and prof Ann Marie

after shopping. bags of stuff.

franklin mills

happy me after retail therapy

heading home when sky is gg dark.

my clinical group! group 101

me and rachel. she is my partner for clinical

my clinical instructor: Hope Mckee!!! she is really nice and knowledgeable

Hospital!

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania!

sunday

2008-09-25T18:35:00.000-07:00

haha i am so behind time, now is already thurs and i am still talking abt sunday.guess i am not a on time and enthu blogger after all. i am trying to recall wat happened on sunday by looking through the pics:)

Firstly, in the morning, i went to the church with lit soo. A singaporen in Penn nursing doing PHD. we went to Renewal Presbyterian Church: 48th & spruce street. http://www.emmanuelchurch.net/ we went for the 12 o clock service. cos lit soo say tat there are more youth at that time.

lit soo is from new creation church and in Philadelphia she usually attends the one in Penn. but she say she don mind trying other church. so we went to the one quite near my place. the church is nice. is very korea. there are many korean i guess. more than half. so it actually feels quite like singapaore. as they speak el and have black hair

the service includes P&W, prayer, announcements, offering, testimony, sermon then song of response. the sermon is good! think the pastor is a korean also. the posters and signboards have korean words. the sermon is on David and Goliath. (1 samuel 17) i always view this story as a child who overcome a giant. God can do anything, he can use a small boy to overcome a giant. but this sermon brought my attention to another side of the story. it can also be viewed as God's glory through a boy of faith and a boy who give all glory to God.

at that time the Israelites are dismayed and terrified by the 9 feet giant. however David said "Who is the uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God." (verse 26) He he not forgotten about the Lord.

He has to go through 3 obstacles/discouragement

his brother, Eliab said "why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? i know you are conceited you are and how wicked your heart is: you came down only to watch the battle" (verse 28) he actually blamed David for leaving the sheep and accuse him that he came down to watch the battle.

next is king saul, he said "you are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him: you are only a boy, and he has been fighting man from his youth"

lastly, we have got Goliath the giant.

he gives all glory to God. all his achievement.he said this to Saul: "The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of the Philistine."

apart from God's power and might being shown through David. we must also not forget that David is a humble boy with faith who believe that God will deliver him:) God does not use him just like tat.

OK! so this is wat i learnt from the sermon.

after church i went home, eat, slack and then went out. we went to the art museum and the park. the museum close at 5, so we onli got like 15 mins. we might be gg back again if we have the time.

Photos!

on our way to the museum. we saw singapore flag and got really excited! haha

but now it looks like a Indonesia flag.

The Museum is at the far end

city hall and center city

this one is really funny. they just finished a marathon and then they still have leftover food and cereal biscuits.

so they are giving it out to ppl. if not they will throw it away also.

so the typical singaporean Kiasuism we took alot of packets. think about 60 packets?

XX took alot also.

Meijiao overjoyed with free food!

trying out the food. not bad

we got some breads also. this is our breakfast for 4 days?

but the best part it that, after taking so many packets we realised that they are expired. haha. but we still brought it home and ate it hoping that it is not spoiled

me and xx

art museum

nice view from the art museum

me, yvonne and meijiao

in the art museum

Hey Kirks, look, our relative is in the wall of fame:)

on our way to the park after the museum. xx hugging the lampost.

xx!

the park. the first thing Yvonne did is to smell the lavander. but she say no smell de.

busy taking photos

this is a bit dark, but look at the lovely clouds

another side of the park

nice right? but i don know wat is this. a lake?

let me introduce you our new thai friend. Kate!

Guess who?

Our dinner in Chinatown! Dr Wang treat us to La Mian. i ate beef la mian.

that's all for sunday! i will try blog about my week asap. when i am free:)

firday and sat

2008-09-20T22:23:00.000-07:00

friday:
we went out in the noon about 2pm to chinatown to book our tour. is a 7 day tour(will share more about it next time). after that we went for a late lunch at the same chinese restaurant. the food there is nice but the service there is really horrible:(
yvonne found a cockroach smashed in the menu. afer lunch we went to a park and to 40th walnut street for shopping

sat:
this day is really FUN! Dr wang, French family and us went out together. we went to Penn's landing, is a river and then we went for a buffet. lastly we went to this Halloween shop! and we went crazy inside. took lots of pic and had lots of fun there. but so sad in singapore we don;t celebrate Halloween! and we are leaving b4 Halloween.
we went home to wait for a Thai lady who will be staying in the basement. we also explore the whole house. xiao xuang's house and the basement. the thai lady name is Kate. she is nice and very polite.
the onli thing we know in thai is Sawadeeka. haha. but she know english lar. she come here to do penn nursing PHD. so in the house, there are lots of nurses. lisa, kate and the 3 of us. haha.

i think we are having better food. haha. and we are always looking for and eating chinese food!

Chinese. we ordered 2 set meals and is a lot already

The Park

George Washington

40th street shops

Benjamin Franklin

Theatre in Philadelphia. USA oldest theatre. Hairspray is popular here and is still showing.

waiting for train to go to Penn Landing

Xiao Xuang and family

Crazy us waving to the duck tour ppl. me and yvonne. the other hand and leg belongs to Yvonne

This ship is used to rear fish

me in the ship

Group Photo!

Fair

Free Oyster

Yvonne and the XX's parents queing for Oyster

The oyster is nice. there is butter garlic sauce and hot sauce. is not blood hor

Buffet restaurant

we are deprive from seafood for the pass few weeks. ate lots of prawn and crab

Yvonne and Kingcrab

The Halloween shop

Me, Yvonne and Meijiao

this is wat we always watch. our drama. lei huo xiong xin. is about fire-fighter.

Yvonne:)

Mr Beardy

Meijiao anf her friend:)

Alien

My favourite Pic!

Why So Serious?

Monster with a hat

My new Boyfriend!

weekday

2008-09-19T19:36:00.000-07:00

my weekday is only monday to thurs. cos fri no sch and is our weekend. we have got long weekend:)

this week we actually studied. haha after so many days of slacking. so we actually banned ourselves from watching drama for two days. and we studied in the afternoon after we come back frm sch.

wed is the test and the test is tough! firstly cos we are not really prepared for the test. secondly, the question are not from the lecture notes, they are mainly from the recommended reading or the txbk. thirdly, is more of a application qn. a scenario and then wat will you do. eg pt gg for op, NBM and then wat will you do. a)give normal insulin b)check and then administer insulin c)give a lower dose d)don give insulin as NBM. then after choosing must give rationale lor. haizz. lastly, cos the options are really close. you don know whether to choose A or B. but nvm, is ok. at least it is over! and is time to enjoy. haha

after the test they will have a grp test. that means they will spilt into groups and do the test again. they can earn up to 5 marks if their grp do well. we never take part in this as our test is not graded unlike them. so we actully went off early. we finish sch at 1030 on wed! so happy!

we went to terminal market for lunch and then chinatown to check the price of the tour. we joining a 7 day tour. cos we extended our stay for 2 weeks after Upenn. thank God the tour got buy 2 get 1 free and just nice, the 3 of us! Yipee! so we paid about USD372 each. lastly we went shopping and then went home early to rest.

on thurs, we went for clinical, hospital attachment. after clinical we went to Penn museum! is a archaeology and anthropology museum. quite nice, got eyypt, greek, china, Israel, africa, and islam stuff.

Photos of last sunday, on our way to buy fruits from the truck/trolley.

the fruit truck, their fruits are cheaper

the trolley. this one sells vegetable

wed, after test. this is a subway. behind got a staircase down to the subway

woodland, haha!

meijiao and I

meijiao, yvonne and me!

this is the staircase to the subway

this is part of Penn

city hall

hardrock cafe

inside hardrock cafe of Philadelphia

i stood in the middle of the road while crossing the road to take this pic. and i love this pic:)

fire engine, we see them everyday. is very common. don know why also?

terminal market. think they love tomatoes

our lunch. yes, chinese food again

the hospital we are attached to. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. is very near our sch.

the museum we visited after work

all these are real stuff

real mummies

real skeleton in coffin

found this in the museum too

this is wat we cook. haha. cai xin with chicken and sardine.

mee sua with chicken and mushroom

there are more photos. shall get it from yvonne and meijiao someday.

anyway the weather here is getting really cold. is like 13 degree. so different from last week. it keep changing. weird.

weekend!

2008-09-14T19:10:00.001-07:00

Weekend again! this weekend is better then last week as last week i am sick:) ok let's start on friday!!!

friday we went to south street again. went there to shop and stuff... but guess wat i didn't buy anything after shopping the whole day. never see anything i like leh. (sab i think you must be disappointed, haha). it also rained the whole day and the weather is cold. wore long sleeves and jacket. we reached home at night and then we celebrated xiao xuang's birthday! he is 2 years old already! super cute and handsome. Dr wang bought 3 cake for him. haha.

sat we went to chinatown to celebrate lantern festival. everybody went. 3 of us, lisa(housemate), Dr wang,xiao xuang and family. is crowded there. a lot of chinese and there are activities and programme. then at night we went for dinner together. went to a chinese restaurant. the food is superb. i ate a lot... haha. cos never eaten such nice food for so long already! got toufu, veg, chicken, duck... and then one person pay $7. went and buy soem stuff b4 we go home. we bought rice, chai xin, mee xua, sardine and lisa bought salted egg. all these are really rare can onli be found in chinatown. we also saw durian, haha so happy to see all these, we can cook better food!

sun morning i went to look for the church. someone told me that 46 street, 621, there is a church. i walked up and down the streets for about 30 mins and i can't find it. went home and Dr Wang told me the add is wrong. she say she go with me to a church next week. then the whole afternoon we watched drama and in the evening we went to the laundry shop and also to the supermarket.

Pics!

going to south street

meijiao and me

chocolate and candy shop

the shop is nice:)

meijiao, me and yvonne. walking to south street

music room. one of the south street shop

birthday boy and mummy

meijiao, me, Dr Wang, Yvonne, Lisa, xiao xuang, and xx's mum

xiao xuang and family

me and xiao xuang

3 of us and xx

me playing with xx

chinatown

lantern festival

dinner

this shop caught our attention. heard from Dr Wang that it is nice.

xiao xuang

city hall at night

one of our dinner with the ABC soup.

First clinical day!

2008-09-11T19:04:00.000-07:00

today is the first day on the ward. my attachment time is 8 to 2pm. and is really really SLACK! from 8 to 9 there is a pre conference. we will sit in the discussion room and discuss the patient for today. the student will have the select a pt the day b4 and go read abt the case and stuff. so from 8 to 9 will go one round talking abt the pt and review the plan for the day.

from 9 till 1230 will go and implement the care. but each student onli got one pt! so for today, i followed Rachel. we got a cardiac pt. he is waiting to go for a ablation. however they found clots in the blood vessel. thus op is delayed and he is on warfirin and heparin. the pt is independent and well. the onli think Rachel did is physical examination on him and vital sign. this onli take like 30mins. after that we really got nothing to do. so the whole day my clinical group just hang around, chat, look at pt's notes, and then wait patiently for the time to pass. time pass really slow when you got nothing to do. unlike in singapore we are busy like CRAZY! like some mad woman running ard the ward.

then from 1230 to 2, got to go grab lunch then post conference. sit down and reflect on the day over lunch. talk how did the day go? what have you done? anything interesting happened? that's all.

i onli have 4 more clinical and 4 more class to attend and then i am done! there is a test coming up on wed. we plan to start studying on monday. haha. we are so busy with our drama. haha.

after attachment went to meet yvonne and meijiao. they finish at 1pm and they waited for me. went for lunch, then to buy fruits and then went home for drama.

we got quite a lot of food in the fridge now. we got ourselves quite alot of junks. ice-cream, waffles, lays, gummies, yogurt, apple pie.... haha. Yipee!

ok time for some PICTURES!!!

Boot camp

that is my clinical instructor Hope Mckee! she is really nice!

students in action

you can really listen to his heart and lung sound

Food truck, where we buy our lunch

outdoor lunch.

my lunch. cheese steak bread.

squirrel, is really common here.

supermarket fresh grocer

our walk to sch

raining... it seldom rain here

NURSING!

Me and Yvonne in Penn transit. a van that will fetch you home. but onli after 6pm.

this is a ice-cream van! there is music. so when you hear the music you will know that ice cream is here. is really cool.

fried rice

long bean and egg.

at first the long bean taste really horrible. thus we decided to add sauce. and we added spaghetti sauce. haha. cos we got no other sauce.

i recovered!

2008-09-10T17:55:00.000-07:00

i officially recovered! YAH! sick and depress for the past 5 days. now i am all happy and alive again!!! Muhahahaha.. thanks everybody for your prayers and concern! Angela is OK now!!!! all happy again. think i made my family really worried. sorry guys. wo mei shi le! wo hao le. sheng ti qian kang.

ok so the days when i am sick i rested at home, we watched drama. lie huo xiong xin. we spent most of our afternoon after sch watching drama. haha. there is part 1 and 2. one part 44 episode. one episode 45mins. haha. yvonne brought the disc.

when i am sick they also cooked dinner and soup for me. the ABC soup (corn, potato and carrot) super nice, like the one at home.

monday is lecture.is on peri-op and post op care. attended 3 hours of lecture. also, two Singaporean came and approach us. they are doing their PHD here in Penn Nursing! so cool lar, they tell us more about Penn, advice us and they showed us around Penn. one of them even treat us lunch! thanks man! i wasn't feeling well that day so we left early. she gave me some medicine she got from Singapore and then we went on separate way. that day i was really sick so went home and sleep the whole day.

tuesday is boot camp, there are 7 stations and we have to complete all stations. all the stations teach different stuff and will prepare the students to go for their clinical. the stations includes eg. physical assessment, I/V, body mechanics, hospital personnel, standard precaution, vital signs, documentation. this is to familiarise the student with the skills and the hospital before they are out for clinical. is really useful and help to recap and reinforce the impt points b4 clinical officially starts on thurs. then after class, we went home to watch drama.

today, went for lecture, 3 hours class. nothing much learnt about pain assessment and alcohol dependence. after class we went to buy lunch and had lunch outdoor with nature. the weather is good today. cooling! really nice weather. after lunch, we went to shop at places around Penn. i bought some stuff:) so happy! then we went to Fresh Grocer to buy grocery (is a big supermarket) we took the Penn bus home. the ride is less than 5 mins. if we walk it will take us 20mins. but the bus is onli avaliable after 6pm. so reach home about 6 plus, eat, drama, blog, bath, sleep.

photos of last friday, at south street which i promise

our transportation to the south street. is call a trolley bus i think. it can go underground and land

me and yvonne

one of the stop. this is xiao xuang and the father (the French family)

our second transport. we got to change to another train

the station where we alight. the 2nd street.

south street at night!

we went to eat yogurt

lots of flavor! self service.

toppings!

our product!

Banana, cookies and cream and peach + lots of toppings

Tattoo.....

before we go home we went for a drink. that is Dr Wang, her treat!

we got hot chocolate and there is a fortune biscuit. there is a note inside the biscuit. mine says " Simplicity and clarity should be your theme in dress." i agree man! haha.

Xiao Xuang and Mummy

we saw this too! haha. super big!

Gonna blog till here. will upload my pics on boot camp and stuff next time. bb!

first weekend: sick:(

2008-09-07T19:39:00.000-07:00

my first weekend here. bad:(
on friday i am not feeling well already felt abit feverish. took the fever med and went to sleep in the noon. at night was better and we went out.
Dr Wang brought us to south street. the most happening place at night. the place is really unique. got a lot unique stuff and each shops is really special. is not the typical departmental store kind. we aslo went with the french couple and the kid. the kid is really handsome and cute. the couple stay at the first floor, while we are at the 3rd flo0r.
when we are coming home it started raining heavily:( we reached home quite late. about 12 plus? went to bath then sleep. BUT in the middle of the night i have fever again. woke up and ate the fever med. i hate being sick. feel very uncomfortable. and miss home!!!

sat morning i woke up not feeling very good also. saw my family and i suddenly miss home a lot. think cos i am not feeling well. my mum always take care of me when i am sick. when i am young i had asthma, and she will really take care of me. cook, bring my med, see if i am having fever. sometimes i will sleep with her. now i have to take care of myself, keep popping panadol and drinks lots of water. being sick all alone is really horrible.
i have fever again in the noon and night. slept early, around 7 plus all the way till the next day 8.

sunday morning, i was thinking, yeah! had lots of rest plus no fever throughout the sleep. was quite happy, went online, talk to shiwei, yihui, wan chin and aaron! webcam with sab. but after a few hours, i felt tired and cold. told sab i gtg first. FEVER IS BACK! ARGH!!!! went to take panadol again and sleep. then meijiao and yvonne went to do laundry and went to the supermarket while i stayed at home. (thanks guys) when they are back we spent our evening watching drama. the show is really nice.
from morning till now, got no sign of fever. Thank GOD!!!

that's all for the weekend. is all about fever. will upload some pic next time, when i am better. sch gg to start tmr.

pls pray for me. God's healing and strength! thanks

first day of clinical

2008-09-05T06:17:00.000-07:00

clinical is suppose to be from 8 to 2pm. but the students got a training in the morning so we got half day off. so clinical is from 11 to 2pm:) yah!

3 of us are in different clinical group. each clinical grp got abt 7 to 8 students and a clinical instructor.

our hospital: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (is near sch, just abt 5 mins walk)
the hospital is like our NUH, where the uni and hospital is sort of linked and related.

my ward: Founders 12.
a student will wait for us at the lobby and bring us to our ward.

my clinical instructor: Hope Mckee.

today in the ward is onli orientation. the whole day Hope just talk about the ward, expectation, assignment, taking care of the pt.........

we also walk around the ward.
the setting is about the same as singapore. they have staff lounge, clean and dirty utility, med store, pantry. but all these need password/code to enter.

the ward is quite messy.laundry trolley seems to be everywhere. things seems to be everywhere. maybe cos i am not use to the setting yet.

for attachment our roles is to OBSERVE! not to do. cos of some liability issues. so we will be following a student and see how they do their work and stuff.
after our attachment, we went to meet Geri again. and our Penncard is ready but not the com acc. so we walked to the penncard center and get our card.

after getting the card we went back to the office. we meet Dr Marjorie. she tell us about the tourist attraction here in Philadelphia. where we can visit and go.

lastly, my LUNCH!!!
i bought Chinese rice from this food truck near sch. and is the best food i had over here. i have not eaten rice for the past few days. i bought hanan chicken. is not bad, but not as good as Singapore and home cooked food.

after everything we went home and reached home about 4 plus. i wanna take a nap at 6 plus till 8. i set the alarm but off it when it rang. SO i slept all the way till the next morning!!!
slept from 0630 to 0630. 12hrs of sleep!!! think i never sleep for 12 hrs for years le!
our sleeping time is so weird. we sleep in the noon and wake up late in the night. eg 3 or 4am think we are experiencing jet lag and we are so lag to experience that.

Lunch

Yvonne, Snapple and Lunch

Penncard

our med surg book, files and notes

Dr Wang gave us mooncake! she bought it from NY. is greentea mooncake. haven try it yet.

first day of lecture

2008-09-05T05:23:00.000-07:00

Our timetable:
monday and wednesday: lecture, 9am-12pm
tuesday and thursday: hospital attachment, 7am-1pm (Meijiao and Yvonne) 8am-2pm (Angela)
friday: OFF
saturday: OFF
sunday: OFF

our timetable looks good ar? cos we are attending onli one module. the students here will attend 2 module and a elective.

our module: nursing care for the middle age and young adult n240

For the first 1.5 hours, Dr Ann Marie talked about the course objective, clinical placement and assessment. is just a introduction to the course
then we have 20 mins break.
after the break we have lesson. the first lecture is on functional status and development.

we got onli one set of notes as our computer acc is not set up yet. all the lecture notes are from the computer. they put it into a system call blackboard.

the ppl in lecture are really enthu, they will answer qn when the lecturer ask qn. unlike in singapore we will just stone or sleep. they are really vocal.

after class we went to look for geri to meet her regarding our com acc and penn card. she say is not ready yet as the com system broke down. she say we will have to go tmr instead.

before we go home, we went to the supermarket to buy some stuff. we brought hot dogs, cereal, and SNAPPLE! Snapple here is like yeo's in singapore. is everywhere and is really cheap. one bottle only USD 99cents. compared to singapore about $3+. so we decided to buy the whole carton. 12 bottle cost onli $8+ USD. so worth it

so we carried the 12 bottles all the way home. walking down about 3 streets? is quite far and is heavy!

The 12 bottles of Snapple!

we bought gummies sweet too. i love gummies and chewy sweets:)

one of the building in campus

This is the Penn Bookstore. Is huge

When we reached home is 4 plus. yvonne is not feeling well, she is having flu and fever. so all of us just sleep. i slept all the way till 11 plus then went online till 2plus woke up at 7am the next day.

First day in Upenn

2008-09-03T21:33:00.000-07:00

This is pasted at the door of our room

Our desk and working area. There is also fridge, microwave and stuff.

FIRST DAY IN SCHOOL!!!

the sch is big and we met Dr Muecke and Geri

the first day is orientation so we did nothing much. went for a welcome lunch and a talk to global health. also went to explore a children's hospital ourselves.
met up with the module coordinator also Dr Ann Marie and she lent us a book (thick Med surg book and this is the recommended text)

after that we went straight home cos the book is really heavy.

sch is onli from 0930 to 1300

corridors to the lecture hall

lecture hall

tutorial room

Penn nursing

Me, Yvonne and Meijiao

Our orientation lunch

we got one hour break so went to explore around.
This is the Children hospital. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
there are security guards at each entrance. thank God we managed to enter.
after taking some photos, we heard from the nurse that we are not allowed to take photos and if we are caught they will take away our camera. :(

the entrance

The main lobby

Interactive Health Information for kids

Pharmacy- so colourful

Lastly, me cooking dinner! guess wat? MAGGI MEE!!

3rd day

2008-09-03T20:32:00.000-07:00

we did nothing much today. we just stayed home the whole day. rest, sleep and relax. get ready for sch the next day:)

wat we did is onli cooking.

haha

for breakfast we got pancakes and dinner we got porridge and ikan bilis

2nd day

2008-09-02T18:33:00.000-07:00

today we went to the city hall.

we took a trolley to the city hall each ride cost a token regardless of distance. we went there with Dr Wang as she is gg to NY and she need to take a bus from there.

there is a mini Chinatown there and i saw BUBBLETEA there! haha. but i never try. then we went for shopping!

we ate subway for lunch. a footlong only cost $5 and we also got a pizza from subway. total only about $11 for 3 person.

then after we went shopping!

at 3 plus we decided to start walking home. at the same time we can look at the place and save on our transportation.

Pennsylvania convention center

hard rock cafe Pennsylvania

tourist bus

machine where you buy the token

city hall

starbucks is really everywhere.

one of the station and random building

we went to the supermarket to cook for dinner and breakfast. in total we walked for 2hrs! Dr Wang say only 40mins but we ended walking for 2hrs!

we bought stuff for spaghetti and pancake. we also bought strawberries too.

our dinner and a left over pizza from lunch

we brought quite a lot of food from Singapore also. haha the typical Singaporean.

we got biscuits, maggi mee, instant porridge, rice, ikan bilis, garlic chilli, milo, tea..............

today i also bought sab wish list item 1

a book from borders