Thursday, August 28, 2008

Tiff's so gonna gloat and say 'see I told you!' Had my bloods checked last week and my cholesterol has gone up again! Man.. A year after graduation and I've gone from plain tiredness to mild anemia, and now borderline hyperlipidemia! This is becoming scary. 

I'm gonna take better care of myself from now - no more eggs, less steaks, less seafood, plus compliance to all my supplements.  Oh, and how could I forget the all-important-but-most-impossible E-word. Time to look for my tennis kakis.

i was slacking at 1:34 AM

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Yet another splurging session at Kuriya today. Not as great as I expected, but good nonetheless. One of the nicest chawanmushi I've had. Unfortunately there wasn't any budget for the catch of the day.

I still hold my ground on preferring old aunties to ah peks. No doubt that it's the aunties who tend to push and shove you for that seat on the train/bus, but this freaking lao ah pek scolded me today! For what? For not wanting to sell him 100 tabs of piriton because he already had 50 in hand to show me as a sample. So why did he need so many tabs, I asked. Because he gives them away to anyone who needs it. And here comes the ridiculous part. He started saying how his tabs run out very quickly because he has to give them out to a lot of people, and that I'm being very heartless and totally unkind for refusing him. ?

i was slacking at 12:40 AM

Friday, May 16, 2008

There are good bosses out there. Yesterday mine won me over a 110% by granting me leave. By canceling her own leave to grant me mine that is. No doubt it was just one day's leave.. But still, I was half prepared to go fight for my leave by psycho-ing some other person to postpone his leave.

This totally makes up for the monster's doing. 

i was slacking at 12:51 AM

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Long time no blog. Work was mad busy this week. First time I worked seven days a week. Add next week in and it's 13 consecutive days. Am I overworked or what? But I take comfort in having to work earthly hours only.

Going solo for TPN was also a first for me. Bloody stressful. Hope I start getting the hang of it before I get removed. But as Malcolm Gladwell says, I just need practice, practice and more practice. Bloody hell, if the optimal state of arousal (the range in which stress improves performance) is 115 - 145 beats per min, my heart must have been going at 160. Actually it was probably just Murphy's law at work, having everything that shouldn't be happening happen. Bumping into P again after so long, misreading the I/O chart, having to race against time, misplacing my pen and then having this selfish woman ignore my plea for a pen. What the hell. I should throw half a dozen pens in her face next time.

i was slacking at 10:51 PM

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Who needs photoshop when you've got iPhoto?? 
For a novice like me at least..

On sunday duty this week (again) but I feel so awake - maybe it's the excitement from discovering the wonder of iPhoto.

So the irony of the past 9 arduous months boils down to one sole being - one who dealt me with the hardest blow, but also lavished me with the greatest compliments.

Truth be told though, a small part of me believes the former to hold more truth than the latter.

i was slacking at 2:14 AM

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Finally got to watch Happy Together after so long. It was a good movie - one of the few, or rather, the only Wong Kar Wai movie I didn't feel bored watching. Come to think of it, is it just me or do most gay movies tend to be sad? Bishonen, lan yu, brokeback, and now this.

i was slacking at 1:02 AM

Monday, March 17, 2008

Awesome awesome! Apple finally came up with an update for the Airport. MSN had better not dc so ridiculously often anymore.

i was slacking at 1:06 AM

Monday, February 11, 2008

There's no denying - my reputation as a potato was about sealed today. First day of real dispensing and I astounded some colleagues (and myself) with my atrocious chinese. You may collect the remaining medication within a year of the prescription date became 你还有药, 可以在一年前拿. I resolve to eat less potatoes from this day on.

i was slacking at 9:25 PM

Friday, December 21, 2007

I got freaked out looking at what's left of 07 and thinking of all my work that's piling up. Some baseline level of stoicism is actually good for buffering these times of panic.

So, stress calls for remembrance of happier times. Can't believe I've been back for a week already. Seems like yesterday when I was enjoying the best dan dan mian ever.

The photo doesn't seem to do it much justice - it kind of looks like spaghetti doesn't it.

Squab with lettuce was pretty good; the french beans with XO sauce was quite ordinary.

Fried rice. There was also crab meat soup that was nothing to shout about.

4 pieces of fatty glazed pork for 32USD! I had to make sure I savoured each piece slowly. It was good, no doubt - just not quite worthy of its price though.

Seriously the place doesn't look like a chinese restaurant at all.

The best part of it was seeing the paparazzi at work actually. It was so surreal. I was tempted to take some photos of them but that would have been quite stupid. Too bad I didn't get to see any big stars.. Oh well, there's always next time. Hopefully in London or NY. Hehe.

i was slacking at 12:50 AM

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

NCC didn't turn out to be as depressing as I expected. Most of the patients I saw today exuded positivity and hope. Let's hope it stays that way. TPN was way worse, with so many of them terminally ill. I heard one of them passed away shortly after transferring to another hospital, at a grand age of... 44, leaving behind 2 children aged 2 and 6 mths.

On a lighter note, I came across one of the geekiest guys today. Seriously, I don't know of any (other) living thing who burns his entire weekend doing THREE HUNDRED practice mcqs just to prepare for basic theory test. Ok maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if he started cursing at how he wasted his time over-preparing. But this is how the conversation went:

A: This book's good - it's got everything in colour. . .
V: Why is this in Chinese?
A: Oh.. I was scared they'd ask questions in Chinese so I translated some of the stuff.

C: NO ONE fails the basic theory test.. ('cept a certain Miss Wong I know.. but I sincerely believe that she failed it on purpose. haha.)
A: That's not true.. the questions were really tricky! And the passing mark is like 90%..!
C: Yeah yeah ok.. the failure rate may be like 5% at best...
A: No no that's not true.. statistics show that the failure rate is quite high, like 50%.
C: .....

Yeah and guess who's 23 and who's 28ish?

i was slacking at 12:12 AM

Thursday, October 18, 2007

I must be holiday-starved. Soaking my tired feet made me think of Italy. But at least I finally found the answer to our question after, er, 4 long months?

Bidet
Ah, the mysterious bidet. Most people have no idea what this funny shaped, low, cross between a sink and a basin is used for. The answer is quite simple; it is for washing your behind after using the toilet. It is also useful for many other things such as rinsing sand off your feet when you come home from the beach, cleaning dog poop off your shoe, soaking a stained garment etc. The tricky part of the bidet is that each one has a different faucet.. ..I'm not exactly sure why this curious yet useful device never caught on in this country, perhaps it has to do with saving space? Or maybe we just don't want to explain to our guests what they're meant to do with it? Whatever the reason, I don't think we're going to see a surge in bidet installations any time soon. One thing is for sure...the Italians, and most Europeans for that matter, must have exceptionally clean bottoms!

i was slacking at 9:31 PM

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Song of the week


i was slacking at 2:04 AM