Updates... ...

Hi all.... Sorry for the long silence... it has been almost 2 weeks since I blogged.... as usual... alot of things are better left unsaid due to client confidentiality..... but none the less... something to share with you guys on my last 2 weeks... ....

I went to little India with some residents last wednesday.... and on our way back, there was this resident who wanted to buy a bottle of drink and guess what? The shop owner did not accept the money and on top of that, he gave another 5 bottle of drinks to the rest of the residents!!!! hmmm.... i was shocked and gald that at least there are still some kind souls around....

Planning to get my resident back to work.... but his intrinsic motivation is so low... but hopefully he can do some work before I leave the placement... ...

I had been busy with paperwork as well.... just can't imangine the amount of documentation I need to do everyday... and if I don't clear... it gets piled up.... and the greatest number of documentations that I have to write per day can go up to 9 - 11...... depending who I decided to see for my individual session if I have group session that day.....

Still got few things to finish.... or rather alot of things to do.... but I'm tired... just want to take a rest before I start my stuff...

I hope things will not be this way when we started working..... if not.... we will be burnt out real soon....

Take care to all..... jiayou... another 4 more days...... and HAppy Labour Day in advance.... =p

Attachments - Less stressful than normal school time?

I saw one of my friends MSN nick and it triggered me to write a post on this. Her nick was: Appreciate IA. With monthly Allowance, no exams, and less stress.

And I think if I were to write about IA(It is Industrial Attachment BTW... similar to our clinicals), it would be:
Appreciate IA. But no monthly allowance, plus it is graded, more stress and more prone to sickness.

And I suddenly remembered that when I went to the doctor on the 1st Friday of my clinical, he was asking what was I doing now. I told him I was having my attachment and he thought I was studying psychology.

Anyway, he asked how many attachments do I have and I replied that we will have 1 attachment every semester. And he replied, "Oh then you must have earned alot from these attachments."

I was like.... er.... we are not paid for all our attachments..... And guess what was his response?

"Oh... then why you choose this course?"

I was totally lost for words at what he had said... ...

Hmm.... so the moral of the story?

We are different from everyone else... ... And perhaps the word to describe us is altruism. Maybe that is why we are so stressful during clinicals. Sometimes, I admit is due to fear of not performing up to expectations but often than not, we are stress because we are worried that we are not able to do as much as we should/ we can with our clients... ...

Maybe that is why we are so stressful... ...

14 more days.... Jiayou everybody!

What my soul really looks like?

What Your Soul Really Looks Like

You are quite expressive and thoughtful. You see the world in a way that others are blind to. You are a grounded person, but you also leave room for imagination and dreams. You feet may be on the ground, but you're head is in the clouds. You believe that people see you as larger than life and important. While this is true, they also think you're a bit full of yourself. Your near future is calm, relaxing, and pretty much what you want. And it's something you've been anticipating for a while now. For you, love is all about caring and comfort. You couldn't fall in love with someone you didn't trust.

Inside the Room of Your Soul

1st entry on CE3C

Hey OTties.... here's an update on how am I surviving in my current placement....

Week 1
Settling down in the new placment.... my first mental health placement ever... getting used to the place and the residents here..... and the way things are being run here.... fall sick on Friday... Clinicals are always the time students fall sick easily as we are more prone to viruses and diseases.... Especially when our immune system are the lowest at this point of time due to the lack of rest since our last placement which ended last early decemeber....

Week 2
Hmm.... Monday wasn't a good start of the week as I couldn't find my Ezlink card early in the morning and I spent 10- 15 mins finding and still to no avail... and thus resulting me to take a cab after I took a feeder bus to the interchange. Then I got to the shop and save near my placement centre to get some ingredients as I was doing my 1st ever group session in this placement.... and later I found out that my sup is on MC.... and was told to do my session on tuesday instead.

That wasn't all... I was told by another OT to stand in for another group session, also meal preparation as the supposingly person-in-charge is on MC too.... okay... so I just took the group at the last minute without preparing anything at all... so... I resort to using the ingredients that I bought for my group for this group instead... luckily the session wasn't that bad...

And my sup was understanding enuff that I had to take the other group that was not under my care.... =)

Conducted my very own 1st group session on Tuesday.... that wasn't that bad too actually... they had made their 1st ever Kueh Dadar....

Then came Wednesday where I went to the segregation ward to have session with the residents... Hmm... Have to do alot of prompts as some of them has quite low level of arousal.... and some requires physical cues....

Soon came Thursday... the last day of the week..... did few interviews with my residents to find out more about them....

The Health Attendant (HA) at the homes are also very helpful to us, in helping us get our residents... and retreiving the casenotes.... we were also treated very well with coffee when we were looking at the casenotes at the homes in the admin office.... lol....

Looking forward to next few sessions..... really hope that we can do more for these residents here....

Gambatte all OTties!!!! Last 4 weeks to go....

Quiz: Am I a perfectionist?

You Are 71% Perfectionist

You are a true perfectionist. You are both demanding of yourself and others. While it's great to have goals and standards, they don't need to be sky high!

Are You a Perfectionist?

Stressed... ...

Remember that a lady who had my fortune told said to me,

"You tends to get angry with yourself."

Daddy Sanath also once mentioned:

"You are very dedicated and you tend to 'punish' yourself if things don't work out the way you want it to. Commitment is one thing, and you need to balance it well .

Having a stubborn streak can impair your thought process as it stops you from receiving and asking for help... Good to have a stubborn streak and good to be flexible too... Like I use to say, Be rigid but flexible.

You love your fellow mates and that's very comforting for ppl around you...

You're a perfectionist and you need stubborness to be that. Just like Daddy!"

I also know I will tend to blame myself if things don't go the way I wanted to as I am someone who takes success and failure quite seriously. Not everyone see this side of me. While other may see it as stubborn, some will see it as anal, some see it as perfectionist. Whatever it is, I know very well myself that if I know I can do it well and nothing should stop me from doing it. And if that happens, then I will get affected.

Perhaps is the expectations that I set for myself... and sometimes is all these that causing me stress.... more often that not, it is always me stressing myself and no others.... who else will give me stress? If I choose not to set an expectation for myself.... there will be no stress... But I still choose to... ...

Though I am not appear to be a performer... ... results to me is as important as the process... ...
If someone tells you process is more impt... it is bullshit actually... ...
How about telling a person that how good he does etc and tell him he got poor for his results ....
The above is not targeted at any situation la... it is just some thoughts that comes to my mind...

if process is more impt... then how about telling all the students that so long they attended 4 yrs of secondary school... they can be considered pass no matter how badly they did in their school's results?

Maybe, I should learn to take things lightly? Or don't blame myself.... blame others? Haha.... whichever it is.... it is me lah.... and it's my fate lah... BUT the fate is in my hand to be changed.... lol....

=)

Me a good cook?

You Are an Excellent Cook

You're a top cook, but you weren't born that way. It's taken a lot of practice, a lot of experimenting, and a lot of learning. It's likely that you have what it takes to be a top chef, should you have the desire...

Are You A Good Cook?

Haha... hope it helps... I'm gonna conduct "Yummy King" aka meal preparation with my clients tomorrow... =p