it's been only my 1st week here and i've got more than 600 photos.. been trying to upload them but i cant.. i'll try again now


finally!! one foto :)
these are my darlings at rehab
in the foreground there's christ in her yellow n blue dress
then the row of kids behind her starts w cheeza, daphne, christian, emmanuel. and me!! they are so cute, i'll miss them when they leave. now their granny's in the medical ward. apart frm daphne, the rest are siblings and they've been abused by their dad. christian is diplegic, cheeza has a squint n an ataxic gait and emmanuel cant speak. but they are such beautiful kids that i love to carry n hug.

ok i cant seem to upload anymore so just one foto for now :)

6 happy people at changi airport..
this is a "before" picture we'll take another one when we get home.
So here begins our exciting african journey! :)

my parents bro n sis-in-law sent me off at the airport on 03/04/08

wow.. i've finally got internet connection at Kisiizi Hospital, Uganda!
greetings to all my frens... :D
I've been here for a week already and starting to get use to the way of life here.
It's a beautiful place surrounded by mountains and we climbed up the moutains a few times already, it's kinda chilly here as well, esp in the evening or when it rains :)
The pace of life is kinda slow and the concept of time is slightly different tho..

We are very well fed here as well, fantastic food prepared by the housegirls like Stella, Generous, Allen.. It's always Western food w potatos, stew, occ Chepati and rice and there's always dessert, custard or fruits but forever pineapple/banana +/- passionfruit etc I'll get fat here :( ha

The hospital is a nice place, filled with nice and happy pple. but the lack of some facilities makes us feel kinda helpless. I feel useless n stupid q abit and sometimes it’s kinda frustrating, cause there is so much I don’t know, esp when the outpt dept allows u to see everyone, it can be a paeds/ ONG pt or pts who have complaints frm each systems as u go thru systemic review because they accumulate all their probs before they come.

Went to the anti-retroviral clinic and saw many patients. Sister Maureen says that it’s easier to catch ladies because we see them at antenatal outreach clinic and paeds ward. Some patients will come forward to be tested and some HIV + patients form gps to go ard telling pple how to prevent HIV transmission. Sis Maureen is a wonderful lady and so are all the nurses we’ve come to meet so far

I love the kids at rehab. Emmanuel is my fav boy and there are the little ones like daphne Christian, Christ, cheeza and they big boys like Apollo who is so shy, bensen, bright, deus, Edison…. How can I pass them their fotos?

Went for outreach programme that’s really meaningful. Altho I don’t do much except hang kids on a karang-guni like weighing scale to weigh them n do BP for the preg mums but I think it’s a great prog. Mothers from the villages will come down when the outreach team comes by once a mth, letting their babies get vaccination, getting their abd palpated by midwives, getting BP, and HIV testing. Some walked great distances to come to the area where we do the prog. I cant imagine how many more km they gotta walk to Kisiizi to get these services if there isn’t such prog. Most of them have young babies or are heavily pregnant. But it was a great experience

There are so many stories to tell, I’ve be diligently keeping a diary jing gave me so it’s good I tink. Will write more next time.
Me Peiyun Ningyi Bingzhu are safe and fine here at Kisiizi :) Think wenhann n jialin are too :)

photos of my dage's wedding!

my family at the tea ceremony.. :)


my parents w my bro n sis-in-law at the tea ceremony! :)


my dear gang who helped out as the MCs n receptionist.. :D


my family at my dage's wedding :)

i have not blogged for a really long time.. haa i guess it's because my TPN proj was so draining that everyday i get home, i just struggle to keep awake to continue more data analysis or data entry or sumthing related to sch work.

these few weeks have been q an experience.. i see me n my frens working when we're v stressed.. haaa my temper isnt exactly the best when i'm stressed i guess, but glad everything has come to close for now. my project bit and i can cont when i get bk..
getting stuck in the MRO for days/nights is no joke, altho we met wonderful people like the mr funny-guy-who-loves-to-watch-videos on wkends and of coz babara.. she's a really nice lady v helpful v cheerful has a strong loud voice that is ever so distinctive.. the little things she does for us is v sweet and kind of her. there's also a v softspoken florence, frm our dept that i've gotten to know and i really like her as well. of coz our tutor. dr L has alot more in him then wat u might expect from your first impression of him. he's v gentlemanly and q funny and did many Awww things for us that makes us feel alot better alot we r slogging our ass off while he's skiing :P then there is dr T in the land of Anyonghaseyo whom we missed, him and of coz all his Mudderhood statments that can appear in our abstracts haa.

altho my posting turned out to be 90%research n 10% clinical to my disappointment but i dont feel v upset coz i tink there are lessons i've learnt frm this whole elective. i know where to find many things in the casenotes now.. things that i never knew. read abt the admissions of so many patients and sometimes it feels that i'm there in the past sometimes in 2006.. with them as i witness how they present at hosp, how they progessed, got well get d/c or got worse and died. these are like true stories, if u think look upon it as reading a book. but i regret to say my revision is no where near where i shud b, but i hope to catch up on abit of work in Uganda.

we went down to tuas once, the cisco recall place. it was q an interesting experience cause i spent a few hrs in the morning at the park opp.. i sat on the swing for a long time, dozing off on my book and watching little kids w their mums, watching old people exercising. it felt surreal? haaa a stark difference frm my bz bz days. i was just on the bench watching people go by and i feel old, like an old homeless lady in the park watching time flow by. but that was only for a couple of hrs before i get bk to where i came frm, the land of casenotes n projects.

had a few memorable meetings w frens. judogirls met up for steamboat.. think it's our first ever and it was nice, just chilling out over food for hours and ending off w yummy desserts, altho we met a guy that freaked us out abit cause we were wondering if he was some bad guy n he looked kinda suspicious. but i dint think much happened after that. met mel as well, a dear fren i hafnt seen for a yr?
Gang had our first midnight movie that was nice. Stepup2.. my first movie since ratatoullie? if i rem correctly. hanging out till late into the night was fun but it's a pity me n ser where too tired on sat to go stjames. we must do it when i get bk ya :) then there was CG13 outing!! we hafnt met for 2 mths since we parted aft patho exam and i really missed everyone. i've always had v nice CGmates but my CGs dont really go out together but this is the first, mayb cause we were together for more than a yr and we've gotten used to having each other ard. they are the funny pple of my freq, potentiates my lewd-ness, make me laugh and feel at home. it was CG outing to explore T3 and a rare sight to see ah hong eating fast food haaa. we sent jh off to uk and sent jenheng off to india. have a safe trip guys, cya when we're all bk in singapore.

i'm leaving on a jet plane..
well i know i'll b bk on the 17th near midnight.

when my fellow ugandians (ahaa) prayed for our trip the one thing that really tugged at my heart is praying for those we leave behind, while we embark on this journey. thinking abt it makes my eyes water again. hai..
i'll miss my dad my mum my brothers my dearest frens when i leave tmr afternoon.
i'll miss my comfort in s'pore my bed which i refuse to get up frm this morning, all the conveniences and familiarites i can find here.
but i'm excited and i'm looking forward to everything i'll see, feel, smell, hear and everyone i'm going to meet.
i hope this will be an enriching experience and a trip that we change me, that i can tell people i'll never be the same if i hafnt gone on this trip.
i dont really have much expectations but i hope to learn about life and about people.

i really need to get to packing and i'll post fotos if i've time before i set off tmr.