Last day of Internship!!

Woot!! So yesterday was my last day of my internship!! =D

Was a bit slack, and cutting laminating some resources for them.

And poor bearbear had to cut and paste his species.
we made him take a photo with his species, but he refused to show his face. Poor bearbear is ashamed of his own type! Haha

At night, we went for dinner with one of our lovely colleagues, Shelby!! Heh. She's like the nicest and our most favourite person at work! :) Yay so she treated us to this restaurant near our work place, Café Iguana @ Greenwood Avenue. If you've seen the one at Clarke Quay, that one's more bar-like. This one has a more café-like ambience! =)

Anyway, the place serves yummy Mexican food! It's my first time eating, so we made Shelby order some dishes for us to share. Hehe.

Frozen Lime Margaritas for Shelby & Bearbear! They have been gushing about margarita for days! Hahaha. So they were happy last night, coz the place had a happy hour price for margaritas and they were quite cheap :)

Julyn and I decided to be guai (not like I can drink without itching anyway), and ordered the mock margaritas instead. Haha. Strawberry flavored. It's nicely blended la, but like normal frappacino lidat lor. Haha

Free (i think) and refillable Nachos! Served once you sit down! Haha. I'm not exactly a fan of nachos la. But they were not bad..like oven-hot! :)

Taco Salad! It's one of the appetizers. Quotes description from website: "Crispy tortilla bowl filled with mixed greens and a layer of borracho beans, served with low-fat ranchero dressing and a choice of beef, chicken or vegetable skewer." We ordered the beef skewer one, and the beef was very yummy!! :)

Quesadillas! Another appetizer.. "Flour tortillas filled with cheese & mushroom". It's very nice too!! :)

Mini Chimichangas - our 3rd appetizer! =X "Fried flour tortillas filled with cheese and a choice of chicken or beef" We had chicken and it was very niceeeee (again)!!! Tasted abit like Chinese food though haha.

And so we became full from appetizers already, and Shelby called for the MENU!!! O_O

Fajitas!! My personal favorite! =D "Sizzling platter served with flour tortillas, sautéed onions and peppers, sour cream and guacamole"
the camera quality's kind of bad lah, so photos doesn't do justice! We opted for a beef and chicken combo la. And it's kind of you giap the thingy on the hot pan, and wrap into the flour tortillas, add whatever sauce you want, ......

and EAT!!! :) very niceeeeeeee~~

As if we were not full to the max already, Shelby went "OOOH~~ let's have dessert!!" o_O Haha, but it was without regrets! :) :)

Ancho Chile Chocolate Cake - "The flourless cake that made us famous with margarita sauce and ice cream" WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I can still remember the taste! Hehe. As they say, it's made without any flour! So awesome hor, according to Miss Julyn-Knows-How-to-Bake, "I tried before it's very difficult ok!" Haha. And it has a very special taste, and although the person say it has a little CHILLI, but it doesn't taste like chilli leh, just tastes very nice. Heheh. And it's WARM inside!! wheeet~ I love cakes with warm insides! =D

Ok, end of foodies~ =)

Café Iguana, literally has an iguana fountain, which unfortunately looks like a real iguana climbing across the wall in the photo. *grimaces*

Teacher Shelby~~ ^^

Yay! Happy people!! =) =) =D

Ok, i'm damn hungry now. For the first time in 2 months, I woke up past 10.30am! Hehe. Gonna eat now.. Tchao!! =D

Intern!! =)

Yay! Today (Tuesday) will be my official last day at my intern!



And here is the very awkward/shy/demure looking photo of us! Hahahaahahahaaaaa

I'm glad there's you guys! =) =)

More photos!!

10jun vivocity gathering with the dans! =) huiyu mia =(

























14june lbox with electrons! =) lijiao's missing from all the photos! =[

mab & wilson


bert & me!


foooodie!!


meeee looking weird, mabbieeee & wilson farawayyy!


the narcissist trying to look grumpy *gag gag*


mabbie & bert


mabbie & bert 之 灵异怪谈~~ haha


woooohoo!! =) =)

Beeeeelated photos!

Ok i suddenly realised i've yet to upload these photos of stephie baobei's bday celebration! hahahah. pro right. super belated liao.




happy 22nd belated birthday to stephie and jiaying!
happy 23rd belated birthday to bobo!!

=)

Lalala~ Tingting is a happy girl! :)

Singapore Flyer

Yay. Went on the flyer on Wednesday. Too tired to blog about it now though. Was promo price for students 10bucks only! =P

Camera was cui so ended up with either too bright or too dark photos since we took the flyer at night. Haha. So the photos attached here are mostly taken randomly while waiting for the bus. Wahaha












Super sleeeeepy! Nights =)

Random

I've been hanging out alot for the past few days! Haha. Finally a break today! :)

Finally finished my main project at my intern on Saturday! *phew* Hopefully won't be so busy with miscellaneous stuff anymore for the remaining one week! =) We're starting to go fancy restaurant dining with the colleagues! Haha. Yay. Finally internship is ending after like 2 months! It wasn't always sweet, but at least i've learnt alot.....especially about PEOPLE. PEOPLE in general, not just just the kids who come in and out of the clinic everyday. Oh well. Let's leave it at that about how unique PEOPLE can be! =]

Went out with deardear & co. on Saturday night! If you haven't seen Illuma @ Bugis level 4 before, perhaps you would like to check it out - Ebisboshi Shotengai; it's like this whole hugeeeee area of fancy Japanese restaurants that looks kind of whoaaaa~ And our dear friend checked the reviews and chose one: Tsubohachi - and we queued for like uber long (16 of us!), with hordes of other people. And the poor neighbouring restaurant has like zero queue! =X When we finally got 4x4pax tables, and landed food in our mouths, I gladly declare that it's the worst Japanese restaurant i've eaten at! O_O Ok, I feel so extremely cheated by the looks and the price! And I think the Cha Soba served in plastic containers I ate at Sakae Buffet tasted much better than this!! Eeeeeeeeek! Never ever going back again.

So, disgruntled, we went off to Bedok Simpang in search of supper! Hahaha. Dear and his xiaomei and I arrived later than the rest and shared a Roti John.. Well, we ordered prata too, but the person seemed to forgot about it, and so we never got to eat them. Plus we were quite full already, so decided not to remind the person! hahaha. The rest ate lots of other things though like chicken wings, rice, mee goreng blahblah. Haha. Well, i think it's nicer than wasting my money at te horrible restaurant! O_O

Hahahaa

And I met gungun yesterday!! Woooot. Like finally, huh. Haha. It was nice and lame crap as usual. Ate jap food again (zzz), but it was at the new Paradiz Centre (duno what's the new name called?). Kind of like a food court, which sells only jap food. Heh. I have to insist again, that it's not that fantastic, but at least better than Tsubohachi! =X

Oh ya, forgot to mention. I saw the weirdest thing on Friday night. Deardear and I were strolling along Katong as usual after a full meal of Astons, when we walked past this rather special coffee shop, where everybody was seated around the usual chairs and tables, except durian shells were on the tables, and they were all eating nothing but durians. Well. That wasn't the weird thing. I caught sight of this girl, sparring the durian from the shell with her fork. Erm, ok. So I continued walking and guess what I saw!? This woman scooping the durian up from the shell with a soup spoon in her left hand, and a pair of chopsticks in her right hand, ready to giap the durian!! Wahhhhhhh. BTH!! I just walked on until some distance away, and started laughing my head off. Omg lah! I can't believe it mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn !!!!! O_O

Hahahaha. Hahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! =D

I try not to be rude, but I honestly prefer the more authentic way of eating durians with my hands. *ahems*

Alrightey. Going off!! :) Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~~~

Babies are such a joy!

Reading that made me feel happy and excited for them! Yay! =)

Be thankful for the things we take for granted.

On Monday, I sat in for an assessment done by a pediatrician and a physiotherapist. And I think it may have just changed my life forever.

The patient came seeking for a more accurate diagnosis for their child. They were an overseas client from a not very developed country, but were relatively well-to-do. So they came into our clinic as their country doesn't provide the appropriate services they were seeking.

While the doctor talked to the parents, I played with the child. I can't say she built a rapport with me immediately, nor did she took notice of all the toys I was dnagling in front of her. Most of the time she stared blankly at the sounds the toys made and looked like she wanted to play. When I took her hands and placed them on the toy, she finally turned and looked at me, and smiled blankly. And the physiotherapist and I just went gaga at the blank smile. And then, she just kept giving that blank smile on and off after that. It may or may not be a heartfelt smile coming from her, but it always twisted something in me to see her smile.

There were clearly many problems with her, which for the confidentiality issues, I can't elaborate here. But after the consultation was over, and the doctor and I were alone, I asked her what the problem was. And she told me she suspected it to be a genetic problem, which in summary, caused delays in almost everything from speech to IQ. She had to see a genticist to confirm it anyway. And so I asked casually "If it's confirmed to be the blahblahblah syndrome, will she eventually be able to talk?" and the doctor replied me just as casually "no" while continuing to scribble her notes.

That "no" left me haunted for days.

The family was only supposed to be in Singapore for a week anyway. The child was arranged to see the geneticist the next day, and came back for other therapies every day up til Thursday, where it was the closing session before they returned to their home on Saturday. Everyday I saw her, I went up to her happily and called her. She continued to give that blank melting smile, which haunted me even more. I chatted with the mummy after their closing session on Thursday, about stuff like where they were bringing her to play before returning home on Saturday, etc... And that was the last I saw of them, and the blank melting smile.

I never asked the mummy nor the doctor about the diagnosis eventually. It would likely be what the doctor suspected, but I never wanted to find out; it had already left me thinking about it for days anyway.

I always thought reading the developmental psych textbook created an immense awareness in me about the too many many birth defects possible. And I told myself at that point of time, the birth of a healthy baby is simply a miracle enough already.

Indeed, my fellow internmate said more than once "Working here makes you scared of having your own baby." After thinking about that blank melting smile for days and days, I realised to me, it was more about being thankful if I ever have my own dozen of miraculously healthy babies.

And if I ever go into clinical practice one day, I hope I don't talk like the clinicians I talk to everyday. It's scary to become immune like that...

I'm fine! =)

Hey peeps,

I'm really fine.. Thanks for everybody's concern! :) Just super busy after I came back from Malaysia, so didn't update le lor.

I'll prob try to update more frequently after my intern/FOC is over ba. Hahaha. Which is of coz almost end of July liao. Haha!

Thanks for asking anyway. I'm much better already!! =D

Cheers,
Ting

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...

And may all that is left be the love and the memories...

For as long as possible...

There's a tingling fear in the air that snaps every time the phone rings..
Yet you hope this fear goes on forever, and never be broken.

Please hold on and wait for us.. for as long as possible.

Weird!

underestimates what I feel about somebody who bombards me with 16 documents within minutes and expect me to read and comment about them.

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Anyway, results were surprisingly better than I thought I could ever achieve O_O Xian says it's the first time in years wluek's satisfied with her results. My GPA is of course nothing compared to hers, yet i'm reallyyyy satisfied too! =) Haha. It's a matter of perception la. And I finally managed to pull myself up to a borderline nutcase. Phew!

And i'm so happy with myself that I did not S/U-ed my languages! Yay. Hard work always seem to pay off when it comes to languages, no matter how hard the paper was! Haha. See, ppl? Stop saying i'm mad. Everybody should just start clearing their remaining UEs with languages! Lol. Try Spanish for a start - very manageable! =)

And so with my remaining little major prescribed, I promise to carefully choose next sem to secure my very risky gpa! Hahah. In retrospect though, 2 labs was not a bad choice! Haha. I've found an inner peace (NOT) typing reports than regurgitating textbooks! No, equally not fun. *makes a face*

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French revision is still a mess, although i'm starting to get accustomed to the mess. Hmmmm.

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I hope life gets better though. I'll be praying for the next 2 weeks or months or preferrably, years. Sigh.

The Magical Kiss!

Today I was in the midst of an observation, and the little boy gave me 2 noisy kisses on the cheek! =D wahahaha. he is damn funny! totally stunned me. lol. But still, it was nice!! =P

There's this thing about getting hugged or kissed by little kids that always considerably brightens up my day =) Haha. I'm not paedophillic ok. I just think kids are lovely and adorable.

Alas, happiness is short-lived and gives way to the jitters! Wluek wluek's nerves finally rubbed off on me. At least once a day, since days ago, she'll tell me how many days it is away from release of exams results. Haha. She is super kua zhang. And today she randomly went:
"10 more hours left leh"
"huh?" (thinking about knocking off)
"to results lor"

-_-'''

Hahaha relax leh girl. Now you making me nervous le lah.

Oh well. All the best to everyone anyway! =) I hope we all get what we want to get~ Aye!

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Anyways, I met the whole world yesterday! Saw Erly after PFO meeting and we totally screamed in the middle of the shopping centre (and in front of my committee members) =X Eh excited ma, think almost 2 years never see her liao. Hehe. So happy! =D Then when I reached Pasir Ris, saw Cao Bei & Win!! ^^ Hahaha was just lamenting on how we always don't get to see each other during gatherings, then saw them right at Pasir Ris!!! =D Happy happY! Her tummy is becoming bigger and she looks very pretty in maternity wear!! ^^ I want to get nice nice maternity wear too next time! =X

Hahaha. Which reminds me, every ABCDEFG at work is either engaged or expecting! o_O Hahaha. Although it's very exciting to hear that, it's very amazing when suddenly all the people around you are like that! Hahaha. Bearbear says "we're at the age where we need to start noticing ppl's fingers liao" Hah. Anyway, babies are reallyyy adorable though! =)

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I pray very very hard for everybody's health and safety! =(

BUSY.

again!!

I'm so busy although theoretically speaking, interns ought to be very free once they step out of the work place! But I have to study french (urrgh fail), settle GP issues (yay!), settle orientation issues (bah!) and goodness-knows-what-else.

I've been so busy that my french test, now less than 1 week away only, is super neglected! I haven't been studying proper! And even when I do the papers, they are all damn hard and I take damn long!! x_x everything looks like never learn before! O_O And i've been so busy and tired from work and GP matters that once I step into the trains and buses, or even when I reach home, I just conk out straightaway, which means even lesser time left!

Argh!!!
I don't know what possessed me to register for the exam man!! O_O

Hahah. Anyway, we celebrated Stephie & Jiaying's belated and be-early birthdays respectively! Yay. Happy birthday girls! :) We had dinner at Lucky Plaza Pizza Hut which was super ulu and service not very good. It'll be good to work there though, coz it's ulu nobody goes there to eat and the staff all look super free. Hahah. It's rather empty too, so a good place to go sit there very long n chat! =) Hahahaa. Anyway, it's nice to meet up with everyone again even though most of us are at our interns or working in the respective places. And yea, most of us just looked oddly formal.. Hahaha. Not the typical outing attire~ Lol. Ahhh. It was a fun night of chatter and laughter and I was just happy to see everyone (almost everyone) again =) Yay!

Alright. FRENCHHHHHHHHHH...or bed? =x


**GUNGUN!!! I know I still owe you a birthday treat/outing!! Next Sat/Sun?? =D Will you be working? :)

ERNIEEEEEEEEEEEE!! How are you!?? Haven't heard from you for so long!! Grrrr. School started? (:

Cya all! =)

Queen of Chronic

I think i missed it all out..

i'm CHRONICALLY IN LOVE.

hahaha!

=X

*ahem*

Chronic self-mutilation

As it seems, everyone around me has a chronic habit of self-mutilation. There's the chronically stressed, the chronically anxious, the chronically paranoid, chronically i-want-good-grades.

I think i'm most less self-mutilating though. I'm simply chronically busy and chronically manic!

I love my intern!

I think i'm learning alot everyday! =)

Not like i'm given some majorly important thing to do or what lah. Most of the time I do lots of clinical admin, and I just started sitting into sessions more this week. And it's really very eye-opening! I really learnt many many things that could never be learnt in the textbooks! Clinical work is really so different compared to the textbooks and the research! =) Although i don't deny, and all the more recognise the importance of knowing your textbook facts well too! Even if I don't sit in, I gain more knowledge just by talking to more professionals! =) And no denying I do lots of random stuff like bulletin boards and stuff. But many little things like these actually increases my understanding of how things work in a clinic! Haha. Optimistic hor. =P

Yay! They should have done this earlier! Then I would have felt more enthu about my textbooks. Hahaha. Fakeeeeeeeeeee. I would just be as lazy even if I knew all this earlier. It's just me to fall asleep at the sight of textbooks. HAH!

=X

Ok, not exactly something to be proud of huh. Hahaha.

There's somebody weird at work who upsets my schema of 'clearing up'!! Hahaha.

PLUS. Macbooks major piss me off!! I have to bring my stuff to the macbook to get them printed out. And all my nice nice fonts turn ugly coz the macbook don't have that font!! -_-''' And it doesn't help that I bring my stuff 5 stories down to get them printed, and end up standing in front of the damn Macbook editing all my fonts. Grrrrrrrr!

Oh welllllllllll! O_O

Anyways, I'm so happy Jul joined me! =D and BB's coming in next wk too. Woot! So happening! Gonna gang up with Jul bully him. Wheeeet! hahahaa

Ou xiang ju/s...

are totally bimboooo!!!! O_O

Intern!

My internship finally started yesterday. If you still don't know, it's at a developmental/paediatric clinic lah.
Common question: "What are you supposed to do there??"
Typical reply: "I don't know lah. Don't ask me"

Haha. Actually i'm just lazy to explain. Plus I wasn't exactly given a clear idea as well. Anyway, I don't really want to elaborate either coz of confidentiality issues, coz I tend to get excited and don't draw the line properly across what to or not to reveal. Hah. You know me lah. Can get quite excited when I start talking.

Anyways, it's been quite okay so far other than being very hectic. I haven't been knocking off on time, and I can't wait for J&B to faster come in have lunch together with me! Hahaha. But so far I still have nothing against what I've been doing for the past 2 days other than having to wear a mask =X Bah! And be warned that i've been doing nothing glamorous, but am contented with it coz I kind of believe all these menial stuff needs to be done first to understand the full operations of the clinic. Besides, I think i've learnt alot more in the past 2 days than the past 2 months! =X Hah. I think I know the EXACT reason why. But I shall save it for gossip, not here.

Lalala~

It's a really interesting experience! I think my biggest takeaway today would be how parents make a hell LOT of difference. Yes.
Moral of the story: Don't have a kid if you're not ready.

And you know what the different therapists are like after awhile. Hmmmm!

Ha. I'm typing very carefully and missing out a lot of details. Oh well! I'm glad I went on this eye-opening intern! =)

Stepping into a new nothing! Nothing but shopping.

Ahhhhhh. I'm officially starting my internship tmr! Yet i'm not exactly nervous and excited as the average intern probably coz we've been into there before le ba. Though what we'll be doing for this official period will probably be different from before lah. And I still feel abit dots about certain things that leave me feeling puzzled about what I ought to be doing tmr.. BAH! It's the thing about being the first to go in, like not knowing what to expect. Sigh.

Anyway, I've burned an uber hole in the pocket before I even started work lah. She cheerily replied me "pants and collared blouse. jeans on fri/sat only. no need to buy clothes!". Never did she know the harmless sms she shoot out harmed my purse strings in a huge way ok. Sigh. I can only console myself that it's a worthy investment for future work in a year's time! oh Yay! =]

Haha. Anyways, my dearie mabbie and I broke our own record again today - we spent more than 5 hours shopping in Tampines! =O Tampines always seem like a can't-finish-shopping-there place whenever I shop with her leh. Hahaha. When we're in a hurry, we can't finish looking through the shops. When we're not in a hurry, we can walk and re-browse the shops more than once o_O hahaha. Something is seriously very wrong with us man.

And I realised from my blog-surfing that the whole world is crazy about Uniqlo! O_O I have no idea why!! I think it's too crowded and messy!! I have walked past it 3 or 4 times and each time it looks so scarily crowded like it's having some crazy sale that I just hate staying inside the shop! =X Hahaha. Mabbie says the crowd will clear in awhile, but it's always crowded when I pass by! Hahaha. Okay, i'll give it a chance and visit it again when the crazy crowd at t1 starts dying down. Hah! =P

Yea just being random.

Sheeeeeeeesh! I need to start studying for my French soon too! Ahaaa. And there are things waiting to be confirmed and done. And things to fret over. And friends to meet up with of coz! =) =)

ERNIE. WHEN ARE YOU FLYING OFFFFFFFF!???

Hah. TUDOU!!