Brighten up my day

Today, 2 clients of mine makes my day.

"You know ah.... this thing that you do ah... when they do at HQ ah... always very pain one.... now you do not pain leh... can raise high more also....."

The maid added on....
"Come here 1 month plus... so good already....."

Another client.....
"You know ah... I always thought PTs are better than OTs. But ah... when I come here (where I work), then I see you stretch for me.... Then I know OTs can be so strong."

Well, the above are some "happy" clients but there are otherwise but like I always say,

"We can't please everyone all the time. Just do our best and be truthful to ourselves and that will be more than enough."


Another incident that makes my day... ...

(which was a shock at first)When I reached home, I saw a sticker with some words on the letter box. I took a small steps at a time, only to realize that it was a note that says something like,

"My 2yo son has playing with the letter box and placed their keys into your letter box.... please give us a call..... we stay at XX-XXX."

Without any hesitation, I went up the stairs to pass over the keys.



Another colleague of mine also said something last friday that I still remembers:

"I really appreciate you. Really. You have already experience alot at your age. Having to work for your education... ... God will see your hard work and will take good care of you. Really."

I really hope so too.... sometimes it is really great to have such colleagues around. ;) That brightens my day too.

Unmotivated

There is alot of things for me to do at home e.g. clean my room, packed my notes, etc. but I have been rather unmotivated to do any of these.

I have been lazing in my bed, taking my long sleep to recuperate myself from all the energy that I've used in work... as well as those sleepless night when I was a student. But none of these few weekends' sleep seems to help. I still feel tired.... perhaps what I need is some physical workout as well as some social activities.

But I hope I will soon be motivated to do things that I always wanted to do....

Hope is of no use.... Action speaks louder than words..... ;)

Working near your home

To many, working near home has many advantages, which I agree... but it has its disadvantages too.

Advantages:
- SAVE at least $80 on transportation
- Get to wake up slightly later

Disadvantage:
- Lesser social activities esp. when it is at town area ( I will hesitate to go to town after work esp. when home is just 15 mins walk from workplace....)

Thus, if you all want to arrange to meet.... try to arrange it in the east lah... haha.... if not... Friday's evening at Town will be okay too.... ;)

Too personal

What can I do to reduce my tendency in taking things too personal?

Working on my goals

Hey,

Currently I am starting to work on my goals. I started playing badminton with my colleagues. All of them played well. Not too sure if this will become a regular sports for me... but yes at the moment. =)

Gonna start on my sports/rock climbing with lenn soon..... have not been climbing for donkey years.... I'm sure I will enjoy it.

Enquire about some saving/saving investment/saving insurance plan with POSB when I went to apply for my Debit card and ask some stuff regarding my tuition fee loan that I took up.

Hehe..... not too bad at the moment.... maybe will start to prepare myself and my body for the training for marathons.... soon, I hope. =)

Updates

Hey,

Apologizes for my long silence. Been rather tired after work and thus too tired to blog. Maybe just some updates about myself 1st.

1st month pay
Very happy to receive my 1st full-time pay. And I did a very embarrassing mistake. I gave additional $50 to my dad by mistake and had to take back from him when we both returned from work. With my 1st month pay, I finally got a fan that I always NEEDED but no $$ to buy. Now I can say 'bye bye' to all my 'night sauna'. I realized now that we had 'abit more money', we tend to think abit lesser when purchasing affordable stuff which may seems to be alittle ex when we were 'poor student'. Nevertheless, I am now starting to try to put aside some regular savings and perhaps some 'safe' investments so that I can do my degree conversion. =)

With my first month pay, I just went for a hair trimming and treatment. Photos will be uploaded soon I hope. I gave up the idea of rebonding at the moment as it is abit expensive and furthermore how can I leave my hair untied when doing therapy? Perhaps I will try re-bonding after I pass my probation in another 5 months time and as well as a birthday treat to myself. haha....


Graduation - The Class of 2007
Unbelievable that I have survived 3 years of OT Education. It has been truly 3 years. I can still remember sitting next to HuiHui during Orientation and found out that we were both born in 1984. I remembered Pam was sitting either in front or behind me too. That day was 5th July 2004. I still remembers that while waiting to go and play some telematch, we all sat in a circle. We also often mixed up Sze Jie and Zixian. On that day of orientation, OTs claimed more than 1/2 of the luck draw prizes, clinching all the reference books and on top of that OT0401 gotten 1st in the telematch and we won ourselves a basket of tidbits if you all could remember.

To me, the hardest time to past was in year 1 where we were struggling. Not sure if it was for the rest, at least it was for me. Being someone who hates to memorize things, anatomy was tedious, esp. having to remember all the muscles attachments and actions... ... And I can still remember an anatomy prac where all of us scored an 'A'. It was great to see Dr Uma during graduation. Her scent always reminded me of anatomy classes.

And year 2 was the 'funnest' year where we have fun, joy and lots of 'play'. It was the time where we started to build our friendship and starting to be closer to each other.

Year 3 was the most tedious and stressful period where assignments starts to pile up with FYP stuff.... staying till 9pm in the library has became a routine for all of us. The thing that we most hated was to hear the music being played at 8.30pm, telling us that the library will be closing. To add on the 'hate' was that they like to switch off the back lights at 8.45pm.

But it was very heartening to see all of us brave through the storms together as one. Helping one another through clinicals. Being there for one another, lending a listening ears to all to 'grumble' about clinicals and supervisors. We have all gone a long way.... and this is just the beginning....

All the best to all those who will have a chance to experience the seasonal changes in Australia and UK. Study and play hard!

To those who are in the work force, may the force be with you! And of course, we can still meet up and 'grumble' about work, like how we used to do when we happens to met up in the school library.

More updates will be up soon.... gonna zzZZzzz....