Waiting and looking forward... ...

.... for my 1st overseas trip ever since I started working!!!!!!

But that's not the main reason......

.... the main reason is ... ... because...... YOU are going!!!! =P

But meanwhile...... GOOD LUCK and ALL THE BEST FOR YOUR EXAMS!!!

I'll pray for you... ...

... to score As for your exams...

... a good luck charm for you ...

... one more japanese version ... ...

And this crystal to stimulate your willpower and the desire for success, promotes your self confidence, self esteem, integrity, positive outlook on life as well as arms you with strength, courage and determination.

加油！加油！加油！

Great Eastern Run 2008

I just completed my 10km run yesterday. Luckily managed to complete. Didn't train for the past 2 weeks. Been having flu and exhausion.

Woke up as early as 5am to prepare so that I can leave my house at 6am.

Met Juat, Yeng Yeng and Racheal at Raffles City Shopping Centre. We also went to the toilet before the race starts....

How can we forget about some photo taking when we reached Padang... ....

Posing for camera

Waiting for the race to start

After the run... ...

Resting... ...

My 2nd Great Eastern Run 10k Medal

Racheal and me....

Juat and me

Juat and me again....

Juat and Rachael

ME!!

All the 4 of us!

Me and Yeng Yeng

Kissing my medal!!

Spotted a Ferrari outside Swissotel The Stamford Hotel on my way for breakfast

A collage to end my Great Eastern Run Post 2008... ...

After this..... I gonna prepare for my Standard Chartered 21km.... don't know if I can every survive.... we shall see.....

Sagittarius

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Letting Go... ...

In life, sometimes we have to learn to let go. To some, letting go is difficult because you may have spent so much time and effort in that person/work/situation/life. Letting go is difficult because the road before you gets cloudy or blurred and you do not know how to walk the road anymore.

Is there something that you guys hold on tightly that you do not know whether to let go or not? Even letting go requires alot of courage and determination. We know about letting go of job, letting go of a friendship/relationship, letting go of opportunity, etc.

How about letting go of your life? I guess this require alot of courage to do that as well.

God bless my ex-adult client who has decided to choose this path after days and 2 weeks of struggle. I will always remember the good times during therapy, where we chatted anything under the sun from food to technology to soccer to places in Singapore/overseas, etc. You displayed the strong determination in therapy despite other medical conditions that you had. Though the last journey of yours was tough, you still displayed your strong willpower to survive, before you decided to make the decision to allow your family to LET YOU GO.

I pray that the road will lead you to a place with happiness and no sufferings for you. May you have internal peace and you will always be remembered in our hearts.

From this incident, I learnt that we should cherish our time with our loved ones and hestitate no more to say how much we care for each other and love each other, before it is too late. Though birth, aging, sickness and death is part and parcel of life, we will never know when it will occur and how long it will be. Before we know it, it might be too late to regret.

"I LOVE YOU EVERYBODY WHO IS IMPORTANT TO ME AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR ME!"

Burnout

What exactly is burnout?

According to Wikipedia, burnout is "a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest (depersonalization or cynicism), usually in the context of work. It is also used as an English slang term to mean exhaustion. Burnout is often construed as the result of a period of expending too much effort at work while having too little recovery"

It was also reported that "health care workers are often prone to burnout. Cordes and Doherty (1993), in their study of employees within this industry, found that workers who have frequent intense or emotionally charged interactions with others are more susceptible to burnout."

I don't know if I am experiencing burnout, but I just know that I am very tired... ... caring for my clients, caring for my loved ones.... caring for friends..... caring for people who are important to me. Neither do I know if I had chronic fatigue syndrome. Everything is just so tiring... ....

I guess I just needed my breaks so much... .... for me to re-charge.... from my life... ...

Does everyone needs to be appreciated for what they have done?

I am just tired... .... of....... everything... ...

Thanks for the doggie... ...

Thanks Weiting for the doggie.... =P

I'm alright already..... =)

A closed-up of the doggie.....

Touching words from Ms Pow....

Name and DOB of the doggie....

I guess this doggie is also ARIES..... as it's date of birth is soooo closed to someone's. lolx....
Boomer also caused me to relate to the phrase "Late Bloomer". lolx.....

Anyway, I did a photoshop of the photos of Girl Girl.....
Don't know why.... it wasn't very well done.....

Thanks to those who has been there for me during this episode. =)

Group Assignment Discussion and Dinner

xP, wT and I had a group discussion at xP's hse yesterday. We had discussion from around 3 pm to like about 9pm at night!!!

We see our laptop screen till our eyes were tired. I can't imagine looking through 800+ abstracts of articles for just 5 "best article" for our assignment, yet it wasn't the best 5 i suppose. Just had to send it to Scott, our lecturer in La Trobe to see how it goes. We also discussed our other assignment which is to be presented on the 1st Nov 2008... so near yet so far away..... tonnes of details to be confirmed.

Since I was around AMK/Serangoon vincinity and Alvin also haven't had his dinner, I asked if he was interested to meet up for dinner. It was around 5 pm when I asked him. As he does not like places with alot of people, he said maybe he will have supper@ Mac instead. Hmm.... we were still confirming for the past few hours if we were going to meet, till it was confirmed at 9pm since I was still at my friend's place.

We had dinner at S11. =D
Then I took bus back to Tampines. I didn't join in the queue for 22 as Alvin was waiting with me for my bus and we chatting for a while. Luckily still have seats for me in the bus as it was single deck. I was little disappointed with the bus being single deck. Alvin still sort of laugh la... lolx....
Anyway I am alright so long I have my seat.... and no stranger sitting beside me... =P

Last Bi-monthly In-service @ TheCentral

Yesterday we had our last bi-monthly inservice @ TheCentral. This is the first time that the committe sought for an external venue other than the Headquarters @ Tiong Bahru.

Anyway, we were having our inservice at the NVPC. It was a very nice place. Yesterday session was a teambuilding session. And I was in the BLUE team. That explains why I was wearing BLUE!! Many of my Tampines Colleagues were in the same team as me. And they are: Mark, Yeng Yeng, Juat, Soo Mui and Sunita!!! And guess what? BLUE team won the TEAMBUILDING GAME!!!! lolx.... cos got me mah... lolx.... just kidding..... =P

Here they are.......

Me and Mark

Me and Soo Mui

Me and Sunita

The Ladies..... (where is Ruchi and Yeng Yeng?)

1 more time... ...

Me and Juat

Me and Juat again......
Juat said I am a "vain pot" cause I ensure that I take photo only with my right face.... lolx

Me......

Me again.....

Should have look up a bit.... now see abit of my double chin..... lolx.... but who cares.... lolx... =P

sZ Birthday Celebration on 10 Oct

This is an long overdued post. Been very tired and lazy to put the photos up. And lazy to photoshop them. Thus..... just going to upload the photos....

Hmmm.... that day, the whole regular gang turned up..... sZ, wC, aZ, hC, zJ and cH.

We were having our dinner at Tampines Mall Swensen. This is the second time I've been here. The first time I was also having dinner there. That time it has just opened for business.

Anyway... these are the pictures... ....

My Clayfish pasta!!!

Me and my pasta.....

Fries

Somebody's baked rice.....

aZ who ate his pizza before I took photo of it!!
#$@#$#%$
lolx.....

Of course after that...... we went for our 2nd round for coffee and desserts @ .... .....

Above is our birthday "boy".... NOT so "boy" after all.... lolx...

Their "lame" act of distracting ppl from knowing who is the actual birthday boy.....

wC who is busy helping hC to cure his laptop.....

aZ enjoying the cake.....

sZ, cH and zJ

The above picture includes 2 稀客 and they are the 2 extreme right people. zJ, my "super glue sister" being busy during weekdays.... weekend she will enjoy being her Tai Tai.... going out with her husband-to-be or play mahjong......

cH, a navy trained personnel, yet is a pilot at times. I wondered where did he learn the skills of flying aeroplane. Bewildered. I seriously think he got identity crisis. dunno whether he is a sailor or pilot..... Lolx....