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Change of Blog!

Pardon me for my stupidness.

I am switching my blog back to blogger again.

I am not really used to wordpress till NOW.

Blogger looks more idiot-proof and user friendly for simple-minded people like me……

Here you go to my new link:

http://www.themissyblog.blogspot.com

Please change your link to my blog once again….paisay


So free yet so busy

I am blogging inside a sea-view hotel room of Swiss Garden Resort located in Kuantan, Pahang.

While deardear visits here for his business trip, his baobei is relaxing in this super nice resort here…

Unfortunately, Valerie had forgotten her camera’s USB cable. Therefore no photo uploading this time.

Will upload once I get back the USB cable in hand….hee

 

I started my leaves on 18/7/09, which is ending on the 30/7/09. Haha….

I flied to Penang to meet my dear on 18/7/09 as he was having business trip there. Along the way we visited Bukit Mertajam, Ipoh, Subang, Melaka….Came back only on the 22/7/09.

And now we are here in Kuantan!! hahaha…….will be back to JB only on29/7/09.

Hahaha….such a fruitful vacation for me when the accommodation is no longer a wallet-burning factor….

 

Recently we have bought a new apartment located at bayu puteri. It is just before the permas bridge, right opposite to the bakar batu low cost flat.

I like the unit number #18-08!! Huat ah…….

So we are now busy with bank loan and the renovation ideas with our future home.

 

Hee..this vacation is so well-spent….


A Black Week

Ya. It was an unfortunate week for me, last week.

That I lost my most important item, the proposal ring that was gifted on 28/1/09. Merely a five months ago.

I cried so hard, teared so much for a return, yet all the searching to no avail.

I left my key pouch on the key hole of my locker, due to my severe forgetfullness. The ring was kept within.

Police report was made. Stupid CCTVs in our change room are just plain dummy! That invited investigator’s mockery and of zero help to my lost.

I woke up by sadness for few days. Especially when he was away at Sabah for business trip.

Hardly can I spread this news to him via phone calls, my only support was from Kim and Joel before I could tell him in person .

What to do? This is my fault. I got to face it.


Lost and FOUND!!

Still remember that I lost one micro dilator as mentioned previously?!

I was informed that the dilator has been found when brother and sister saw me early in this morning.

Firstly, sister told me they have found it in a sink. So I was wondering which sink is that? Could I be careless to have overlooked of that dilator and it was left in the sink after washing?? Or, rather, TSSU people left it in their sink after they did their cleaning process. Therefore, my question to sister:” Which sink is that?

“I yet to find out.”

Okay. Yet to find out.

When I was wondering about this, brother came and said :” Valerie, the dilator has been found.”

“Which sink is that?”

“It’s in sink of ultrasonic machine.”

As it happened repeatedly, it was found ‘swimming’ in the ultrasonic machine!!!!!!!!!!

ULTRASONIC MACHINE?!?!

Can the bloody TSSU staff do their job PROPERLY?!?!?!

I repeat, PROPERLY!!!!

Do they know the meaning of properly??

Why must they count the instruments only after their washing??

Why in the first place they don’t count it when they first touch it??

Why must they malign me when they were the culprit??

SCAPEGOAT!

They maligned me when they realize they lost it!

Wow, such an honest staff!

Before this ‘dilator’ issue, they alerted my brother that I also lost another micro forcep from the liver micro-instrument set.

Luckily they managed to locate it after a shortwhile.

Do you know where did they find this forcep??

It was mixed with other LOOSE INSTRUMENTS!!!!!!!!!!

I declare, I PERSONALLY sent those micro instrument to TSSU. In order to prevent any confusion, I PLACED THEM ON A TROLLEY, and arranged them in accordance to their container.

Well, what I can comment is,

CAN YOU ALL PLEASE DO YOUR GOD DAMN JOB PROPERLY!!

Do you know that I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat well after I received the news?

BULL SHIT!


Scapegoated!

While everyone was enjoying their weekend, I worked.

Having a Friday as night duty and slept on Saturday.

Scrubbed from 10am until 12mid night on the Sunday….. LIVER RECIPIENT!

Talk about that, I have story to tell…..

The poor 5-year-old child suffer from maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) and the family decided to have a liver transplanted.

That’s why I worked on Sunday and continuously standing for 14 hours!

Actually it ended at 11 hours later, which is around 9pm. After the mass closure, the radiologists detected NO blood flow in the hepatic artery and the professor decided to send the child for an urgent CT angio.

Upon the result of the CT angio, the child needed to be sent back to theatre for reopening.

So actually the artery was thrombosis (blood clot formation)! and reanastomosis done and this made me stay for another 3 hours!

I was so tired at the end of the night after washing and clearing up the instruments that I concussed until Monday 4pm!

During my sleep, my nurse manager called me. He claimed that I lost two micro-instruments from two different sets!

What the hell! It woke me up completely!!

After that he told me that TSSU had found one micro-instrument among the loose instruments and the other one remained lost.

You know what, I WASHED. COUNTED and SENT those micro-instruments personally back to TSSU and left them on a TROLLEY!!

How can they said they found one of the micro among the loose instruments?!?!?!?!?!

They scapegoated me!!

Angry..!

They’re still searching for the other micro-instruments………..

The missing dilator cound be ended up retained in patient body…..but I’ve done my instruments count. So that should be out of question….


Sometime I envy those stewardesses.

Seeing them smiling happily in the photos that they have snapped, just making my heart aches.

They are paid to travel around the world while I am working like slave with a pathetic wages.

Again, their job is boring. Smiling, greeting, serving, cleaning…….they’re somehow function like waitresses in the air.

I know I have chosen a right path in a WRONG place, while opportunities gush in frequently.

I know I would become an influential people one day in MOT, but it does not satisfy me.

Here come the confusion.

Ambitious: Being an air stewardess as it is her childhood dream. Taking nursing course was initially supposed to facilitate her application into airlines.

Current occupation: Perioperative nurse who just got her training completed in Seoul, Korea. Recently awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) with merely one and a half year working experience.

A question to throw: Which one will you choose, a dream or a career?


Welcome back!

Finally has back to Malaysia…gotta start working tomorrow…

I am so not used to the weather here that I has been sweating since i woke up…..HOT~!!!

The only thing that I miss is their weather and my friends in Seoul….

I touched down at 0045hours, the saw Deardear was standing right in front of the gate, waiting for me patiently.

Miss him so much when I was away….and I know he misses me much too!

My fav Daisy form my deardear~

My fav Daisy form my deardear~

Thanks deardear~


Comes to the end….

Time flies…………………

My 2 weeks has come to the last episode…I got my training certificate from Asan Medical Centre!

My fruitful return after the two weeks training in Korea, Seoul, Asan Medical Centre

My fruitful return after the two weeks training in Korea, Seoul, Asan Medical Centre

I’m so sad and I was sobbing away when I said goodbye with them. The LT unit is so unbeatable……….be it the standard of patient care, excellent assisting skill, amazing teamwork…..they are really a Dream Team of liver transplant.

I will always miss them, especially to my preceptors Shin Su-Young and Kang Jeom-In, as well as our OR nurse translator Lee Ji-Yang……….

Dang shi ni ge ri woo go ya…………

I will bring my sweet memories with them back to Singapore…and the rest of my life….


Korea Food Centre

After 3 days in Korea, I find that Korean are self-disciplined generally.

Do you know that there is merely one shop tender in most stalls?

Do you know that there isn’t any cleaner in food centres?

Food centres are neat and tidy, clean and quiet.

This is how their food centre works:

  1. Place your order at the respective stall.
  2. Proceed to cashier for your payment.

This is where we pay for the food we ordered.

       3.   You’ll be given receipts with a queue number assigned.

       4.   Be seated while waiting for your food to be prepared.

       5.  When your food is ready, stall tender will alarm your number and your number appears.

See the numbering?

See the numbering?

After the meals, Korean will bring their own utensils back to the stall tender! They help to tidy their own table and get the table ready for the next patron…..


An nyong ha sae yo~

Long time no see, long time no see…really LONG LONG time didn’t see you guys!

Mi an ne yo~! (I’m sorry….)

Ever since I came to Korea from 28th March, I tried to adapt their language in order to communicate with them….I was forced by situation here! Most of the people here doesn’t know any English, not even a SINGLE language! I got so frustrated at times when I tried to express myself……really oh my god!

Okay, speaking of that, I shall start to elaborate more……..

FIRST DAY 1st March 2009.

We touched town to Icheon international airport at 7am in the morning, and we were welcomed by the soothing weather of 2 degree celcius.

Welcome to Korea...

Welcome to Korea...

Am I being innorant? Hotels in Korea are non air-conditioned when it’s during winter, there is only heater available in their rooms.When we first entered the room, it was like a sauna room! It’s just so warm and stuffy…

With the help of our Korean J&J sales representative, we managed to change our room.

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Good morning! First sleep in Seoul...

We couldn’t wait to enjoy Seoul’s breezing weather right after we settled down in hotel, this is the first thing we saw…….

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'Just Married'

When XiauXuang saw this picture via my facebook, she commented that this looked like a funeral car! Oh no, luckily the couple didn’t know about this……..

Smiling away...~

Smiling away...~