It has been a rather busy week for me. In between sorting out my prac preparations, attending tutorials, reading up on rehab and assessment techniques I managed to have a breather down at Amanda’s place in North Dandalup over the weekend. I tell you, that was definitely a weekend well spent. We went down on Friday night and came back on Sunday arvo and I’m feeling a little less stressed with prac prep and a little more on the ball. We all went down for the Leaders’ Retreat for church and it was a wonderful time of relaxing and seeking God. I think I feel a bit more ready to start cell in semester 2 with more to give.
I’m currently reading up on my Trombly & Radomski book, which my supervisor has given me prep readings to do. And I’m supposed to be skimming through half the book in a matter of a few days. I’ve prepared most of my paperwork so it isn’t going to be so bad on the 1st day of prac. I guess I have to say, expect less updates cause I’ll be away from home at 7am till 6pm 5 days a week and I have reading to do after work and sleep to catch up on.
Here’s to an exciting prac!
Just came back from a job interview and a photo shoot for the community newspaper. Boy, have I never more hated cheapo grease laden doughnuts. We had to pose with a few cheapo stuff in our bid for the Operation E-mail Krispy Kreme I helped start on Facebook. Those doughnuts that we had to hold were beyond disgusting. They leaked grease everywhere and when I was told to squish the doughnuts for the picture, the doughnuts were still intact after I did. Just a little misshapen but no breakages.
After that 15 minutes of photo taking, I must admit photo shoots are fun. Now I want to be a model…Haha
Anyways, it has been a long week so far. I finally finished writing my 200 page project and just going to write up the final project report to satisfy the unit coordinators and I’m done with the unit. Then, moving along to psychiatry and studying for the placement at Charlies. I am so looking forward to that! 
Well, suffice to say that I have been out of action for a while. I have my hands full trying to manage between studying for my psychiatry prac (I have an orientation file to read as well as the Sadock & Sadock book to go throu, not to mention my mental health and psychiatry unit notes to skim), finishing off my self-directed prac (which involves me writing the last lot of 50 pages for the banking task), finishing up my bible study book, and picking up and learning stuff for cell. In between that, I’ve got barely enough time to do things. But oh well, I like being busy rather than being bored.
I just got my hair coloured professionally and let’s put it this way: I LOVE it! Is that subtle enough? Unfortunately I can’t really capture the colours with my camera since most of it is at the back so it’ll be a while before pictures are up.
Gotta run now. Toodles!
I got an e-mail from my supervisor over at SCGH this morning and it is been confirmed that I am in the psychiatry department. If you know me well enough, that was the department that I NEVER wanted to get placed in for several reasons. First was the fact that I am afraid of leading groups, especially groups for things that are not hard science: things with gray areas.
second of all, from the feedback I have heard over the past few months about the pracs at SCGH, I really wanted to be in either of the neuro wards, either neurosurgery or neurology. I wanted to experience the fast paced ward settings and where time flies by really fast.
I guess God has other plans for me. I’ve spoken to a few other people about the psychiatry ward and its not that bad so far. I heard that I have to do arts & craft with them and cooking tasks. and apparently I have to wear a durress alarm while working there. Joy joy. One of the consolations is that I don’t have to wear a uniform but rather smart casual clothes.
Well, that dampened my spirit a bit but I guess I’ll have to put up with it. I get to see people in their acute stages of their disorder which means I should buckle down and start reviewing my psychiatry and mental health unit. I still have the self-directed project to finish within these 3 weeks so I best get to it! Oh and I have decided to apply to be a carer at the nursing home as it is good money and I think it’ll be a good experience for me. Wish me luck!
Quite literally it has been a rather wet and windy week. Yesterday I went to uni, relying on the weather forecast of cloudy, occasional sunshine, sans umbrella. The result? Look below for how it turned out.
I’m not a happy camper.
Just checked the graduation dates for 2009 and found out that I graduate on Valentine’s Day 2009 at 8pm, which is coincidentally a Saturday.
I guess having a final graduation date to look forward to is like a full stop to this chapter in life. After 12th December 2008, I would have finished my practicals and thus finished my 4 year OT degree. After that, I’m no longer classified as a student and will be either unemployed or waiting to start employment, depending on applications and stuff. No doubt it is exciting, after 4 long years to finally end up with a degree in my hand. But it is bittersweet in a way, starting off in the working world. No more 3 month summer breaks, no more winter breaks, no more hanging out between classes.
Ahhh…Only 7 more months of slogging it out and I’m done
I was perusing through the online news just now and I found this story. I don’t believe it. School uniform is sexy it seems.
This is the school uniform they say is sexy due to the white blouse underneath.
That uniform has been around for ages and only now that they must complain.
“The white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction,” National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia vice-president Munirah Bahari said in a statement.
“It becomes a distraction to men, who are drawn to it, whether or not they like looking at it”
Munirah said that “covering up” according to Islamic precepts was important to fend off social ills, including “rape, sexual harassment and even premarital sex.”
“This leads to babies born out of wedlock and, to an extent, even prostitution”
Tell me that what she is trying to say is not that we, women, are a distraction to men because we are wearing uniforms which the education department told us to wear and that wearing said blouses can lead to babies born out of wedlock and prostitution.
Things that make headlines in the news today really amuse me actually. So now girls are supposed to cover up so we don’t become prostitutes? And cover up so we don’t have babies out of wedlock? Tell me, what the logic is behind that? So wearing a blouse with a different colour or wearing layers of clothes is going to fend off rape?
It all boils down to this: cover up girls cause we are responsible for the way men behave.
Are we living in a civilised society or the dark ages?
I drove to Gen and Glo’s apartment in the city yesterday. I tell you, that was probably one of my more educational driving trips. I had to try and get into the parking lot of the Sheraton, couldn’t really get in with the queue, cut a U-turn, try again and finally giving up and then parallel parking on the street. I think I might just stick to forwards parking for the time being. LOL
Drove Amanda home after that and I feel rather accomplished. Though I think I should send my car for another service…It is sounding a bit funny. It has just come back from a service 2 months ago….Oh well, I don’t really expect much from a Proton haha
Well, today I managed to slice my left thumb with a vege peeler while peeling a stupidly small potato. So now, my thumbs are sorta symmetrical in a sense that my right thumbnail was grated off while I was grating chocolate yesterday and today the skin on my left thumb is sliced while I was peeling potatoes.
Just goes to show my cooking prowess!
Don’t worry, I bake better than I cook. LOL
Speaking of food, we went to lunch today at Penang Hawker in Northbridge. Had yummy asam laksa and cendol. I miss food at home.
While walking to lunch today, I snapped these pictures. In between snapping both pictures, me and Elizabeth nearly got rolled over by 2 cars….Just prior to that, I was joking that since the 3 boys were in front and so engrossed in their conversation, they wouldn’t notice us screaming for help behind them. Usually its the girls that walk in front so the guys can keep a lookout for them.
But when they heard I think me screeching trying to avoid the car, they stopped and waited for us. Haha…so they do check for us girls once in a while.
That there was one of the cars that we had to avoid. We didn’t look to the left and nearly got hit. Twice LOL
I took the pictures cause they looked quite funny the 3 of them walking in a row with different dress styles and shoes LOL
Today at church we went around getting to know people better and it was quite amusing. Elder James Seow was reacquainting us with the church vision which is “A united people with passion and purpose: Loving God - Making Disciples”. So he was saying we should be united and get to know each others names and such. That’s when my brain went into Champion League mode and I thought, “Hey! We are men united!” Lame but yea.
That’s all for today. Got a ton of work to do