今度美保子と美智子ねーちゃんはシンガポールに来って、私本当にうれしかった！

私と美保子は三月前にわかれて、今もう一度会えて、よかった！

私と美智子 ねーちゃんもう6年間あわなくて、久ぶりです。

だから今度の三日間短くても、すごいです。

こんな特別の友情は、ぜったい大事にしています。

みんながんばってください、仕事とか、学校とか、お元気でね！

家族のみんなもよろしくね！

私の家に

お父さん、美智子ねーちゃん、美保子、お母さん

お母さんと私たち、LITTLE INDIA で！

さきCOMPASSPOINTとMUSTAFAにいきました。。

Heineken ビール

カンパイ！

お父さんと美保子と美智子ねーちゃん

boon tong kee のチケンライスといろいろ中国料理、おいしかった

古いの電話

お父さんの推薦！

ぶたのしっぽ、キドニ-、あし、レバ-。。。

bak ku teh!

ぶたしっぽ。。。

指似ってる！

美保子と美智子ねーちゃん、お手洗いに xD

わたしたち、tramに。

昨夜は、ちょっと雨降ったから、すごく涼しくて、気持いい！

キリン、ゾウ、カバ、シカ、サイ。。。見た。かわいい！

night safari は久しくいきません。今回はすごく楽しかった。いろいろ動物みて、シオーをみて、おもしろかった！

while i hafnt been sick in a long while and this time it's q jialat.. headache x 3/7 fever X 1/7 - fluctuating, Tmax unknow a/w chills erm i tink no rigors la.. also a/w malaise, malygia, sorethroat, slight non productive cough.. haiz no good sia

anyway i've been sleeping alot trying to recover w lots of paracetamol & lozenges & homebrew crysanthemum tea + 2 little kinder chocolate.

i got a shock of my life this evening when i checked my mail and found out that my jap frens mihoko and michiko-ne chan is coming to singapore this week.. i immed called japan and my god they actually arrived in singapore this afternoon at 4 pm!!!!
but actually they were following a tour group but they haf free time tmr aft 3 pm so my parents n me, we're going to host them tmr nite! :) how exciting right and gotta see if they have anymore free time on fri and sat or not then i can bring them ard more..

actualli i cant wait 2 see them..
parted w mihoko abt 2mths back when i went over japan to visit their family n stayed w them for abt 5 days.. but hafnt seen michiko ne chan for abt 6 years?? coz she was working in kyushyu i think n missed her when i visited her place in june...
hope they r all fine.. chatted w her over the fone just now abit.. she still sounds the same... like 6 years ago the nites we spent lugging jap-eng eng-jap dictionaries around telling each other abt our countries.. even resorting to drawing pix n stuff just to communicate.. now w my degenerated jap.. hope we can communicate still la..

okok i'll see them tmr.
better do work coz i napped my night away... argh i'm aching all over :(

spent 1.5 weekends watching the show and i finally finished it all, thnx to pple posting it up on youtube. :) i really like the show, it's really funny.. very sweet and awww.. some parts were really touching too.. oh well when i finish a whole drama serial, i'm back to reality once more :) there's always this emptiness that comes with it, isnt it?

i met this japanese couple at city hall mrt station on friday.
the man was queueing up at the ticket machine a couple of people in front of me, but he kept allowing them to go ahead so as to observe how they buy the standard ticket but most people were there to top up their farecard.. so he wasnt sure how to do it.. until it was my turn.. i kinda just went up to him and asked if he needed help.. n w my poorly structured jap sentenses.. we could have some form of communication and he manage to get his tix :) glad to be of help..
it really wont be such a big deal to me if my tutor didnt had a japanese patient up in the ward at KRW..
every morning during rounds i would go into his room.. and see them, his wife looks really friendly and this really proficient translator would be doing her job.. i could more or less understand wat she says but there are certain words that's medically related that's not in my vocab yet.. and they way she speaks with good gramma and very polite . that impresses me.. i've been wanting to have a chat w the patient n his wife but was worried of being impolite and i have no business to disturb patients in the paying class wards anyway so haha just didnt get down to try to commuicate with them.. and after friday's wardrounds.. i wont see them ever again cause he'll b discharged.. and to think i met another japanese couple on friday nite. wat a coincidence.

this is the game i love to play at bernard's place :)
altho yinxian challenged me to link up 2 cubes. i failed :(
i'll try again the next time i go visit.. 

if i've gotten a better camera other than the one of my phone it would have turned out nicer. love the flickering flame that brings a warm glow to the table and the pple around me.. n my martini glass 

end of wk 2 of surg posting
being in the hpb team was very exciting and i think my tutor is really quite nice. Although I had heard alot of stories about him before i started the week with him, it didnt really quite turn out that way.
My tutor taught me from step1 how to scrub in and got me to follow him step by step and later allowed me to join the a laproscopic cholecystectomy and even let me try to put the gallbladder into the plastic bag although i couldnt really do it properly.. n he said i cant b a surgeon with that kinda skill... haa oh well he wasnt the first to say that.

then there was the staying back every night to read case files as i had to know all the patients on his team list well, and present about them on friday.. i was really stressed throughout the whole week and didnt really sleep very well especially on thursday night. sigh. but it was good training i guess.. and i learnt quite abit about the management of some conditions. thanx peiyun for staying back with me and helping me copy case files.

then there was chasing a patient into the ot.. to clerk him but well i was asked to go ahead and clerk him even though he was under GA... haiz thanx ar dr cheong.. and the anesthetist told me he would be really afraid if the patient started talking to me.. it was quite exciting to have tutorial in an ot.. do a pr examination to feel a ca and feel the ca aft the colon was resected.. and yea i was allowed to remove stones from the gallbladder too.

and friday came and went. the presentation went ok, cause i kinda got the patients figured out but i feel quite bad disappointing my tutor, he really expected more and i did too, of myself but i fell short of it i guess. but he was really nice about it and he calls me his mafan "daughter" haha

the whole team's really nice with the nice, well most of it at least and we got a free pizza treat from a patient who was very grateful to have recovered under their care.

i was totally drained by end of ward rounds on friday... but pbl was exciting and fun i must say. like py said, it makes so much more sense now..

at the end of friday.. i was glad huay organize a meeting at timbre.. haa need a drink to let me sleep well and wake up feeling good.
met a couple of her frens from nottingham and drank like 3 glasses? the berry daiquiri is still serene's fav but pls remind me never to order the apple martini ever again.. it was so disappointing.. something similar to the taste of cough syrup? bleagh

anyway the music was good.. as usual but there was this other band who played that was q entertaining.. funnily entertaining and as usual we got q high laugh and stupid things.. it was a good nite out i guess.. miss huayu and to date it's probably our first drink together.. minus the time we got free beer at the country club because it was her birthday... i rem that time i couldnt really drink yet.. haa that seemed like a really long time ago.

i really must apologize for dozing off and getting everyone lost on my way home.. got onto tpe sle instead of tpe pie.. sorry sorry.. especially to huay who drove me back even after she reached her doorstep first. ;( it was 1am+ and i got everyone reaching home much later than we all should have. but thnx huay for the ride. really :)

it was a nice cooling nite to remember.

today we had a farewell dinner for caleb.. he'll b off to taiwan for 1/2 year? or maybe more.. glad to have known this fren and senior.. from the YN '04 trip.. i had been fun :) hope he feel happy over there... n may it b an adventure.. like wat bernard said.

my mum told me alot of stuff over the phone today.. i cant agree more and by agreeing i cant say much as well. because i'm at fault.
i really am.
i'm such a disappointment.