终于回到家。。。

24 Dec 2011... arrival in singapore, home sweet home... was asked at the airport if I would like to volunteer to go on a later flight as my flight was overbooked, so I put my name down but was not needed in the end... lost out on a refund of AUD$400 and meal being paid for... damn... first time sitting right next to the emergency exit, good thing is more leg room and the screen is not so close to you, bad things are no windows, the tray is very narrow and close to you making it difficult to eat... was turbulent approaching singapore due to the rain apparently... first thing I did when I landed was head to the foodcourt and ate fishball noodle... yummy! the fishballs are sooo much more fresher here... and my iced lemon tea from Macdonalds'... arrived home finally, rested a little, and unpacked my stuff...

25 Dec 2011... went to whampoa market for breakfast and proceeded to visit temples to give thanks for their blessings for the past year... went out for dinner with auntie esther and uncle jeffrey... did not like the food at all, and it was totally not worth it for the price we paid...

26 Dec 2011... went out to upper thomson for prata for breakfast... and when we arrived, there were already alot of people even though it was quite early... apparently this place is quite famous for its prata... shop name is called casuarina prata... the prata was not as nice as the hype was... probably becos I prefer my prata to be a little less crispy... baked Kueh lapis when we got back home... it was a very tedious cake to bake... and the outcome was not as successful... well, this is probably the last time we will be baking this... knowing what actually goes into the cake... met up with huimin and fran at clementi for dinner... new shopping centre at clementi (what's new?)... ended up eating chai tao kui at the hawker centre, not bad... and after that, huimin bought bubble tea and we went to sit and chat at the food court... both of them looked the same...

27 Dec 2011... brought nainai to new shopping centre Nex... got there too early and the shops are not open yet... usually open around 11am... bumped into uncle peter and family... sat down and chatted alittle with them, and had long john silver's for lunch... yummy... and proceeded to the peranakan museum... not many people which was really good and rare nowadays really... when we completed the tour, it started to pour and nainai was hungry, so took a bus to city square mall and it was pouring outside, so we had to stay indoors and wait for the rain to subside before heading to san yi po's house... finally the rain stopped and we stayed and chatted for awhile before heading home... bought ben and jerry's and haagen dazz ice cream... not that they were any cheaper really...

28 Dec 2011... woke up in the morning and headed to macritchie reservoir for a little exercise, after eating all that food for the last few days... the weather was pretty good in the morning but started pouring when we returned home... went out for lunch at IMM, had swensen's... yummy! had both mains and dessert... was so stuffed after... made our way to Vivocity planning to watch a movie... we bought a zoo... it was sooo crowded when we got there... long queues at the theatres... was told that it was pretty much fully booked that session and the next session as well... decided not to watch... did a little shopping, visited this largest floating library called Logos Hope... decided to head home after as we were both tired...

SOme ENLighTEnmENt pLs...

had a long weekend but pretty much did nothing but present shopping, and as usual, there are crowds everywhere busy doing xmas shopping, and stuff are definitely not cheap now... after 3 days of searching, finally found stuff which were more appropriate... received my kris kringle present today... some really lollipops (did not know they were lollipops initially), another xmas bauble which says Aussie Oi Oi Oi, God knows what that means... and lastly a book called Aussie Slang dictionary (this is a joke) becos apparently I am lacking in my knowledge of aussie slang... my first thought was yup another useless book (remember I got given a 'recipe' book with really weird stuff to cook before and is still sitting in the box, cannot even regift them)...

the weather has been holding up pretty good, considering we are now in summer, temp are still in low 20's, raining on some days, but definitely better than stinking hot so I am definitely not complaining...

today was called into the manager's office for a chat, cos some people have concerns about me not managing my workload, me included... for some reason, I am just not getting through patients as quick as others, and I myself cannot understand the reason for this... and it's definitely not like I am not working hard, but the first thing my manager said to me was 'since you started in aged care, you do not look happy'... which is probably true... I really want to know what I am doing wrong becos I am quite stressed and not even having a full caseload... so now I have got Karen, Collette and Deanna helping me work out some strategies, and hopefully they work and will get to the stage when I am managing a full caseload efficiently and be on top of it... so to borrow Gary's famous word... STRESS!!!

OnE MOrE WeeK...

after saying in the last post that I have had enough of xmas parties, I decided to attend the rehab dinner... cos it was chinese and the price was reasonable... so went for the dinner yesterday, the food was crap, but I had a better time as compared to the aged care dinner...

work has been really stressful this week, can't sleep as a result... and yesterday, I was working till 6pm to finish up handovers, student stuff and the plan to do some stats did not happen at all... I am so glad that the week is over and it's a long weekend for me this week... really looking forward to going home...

went out for lunch this afternoon to celebrate uncle's birthday and we went to takeru... and went to watch mission impossible 4 after... it was ok, not as good as I thought it would be... and we went to watch new year's eve last week, I thought that it was really touching, although it did not get good ratings... 2 more movie tickets left which are expiring when I am away, so I am trying to sell it to work people...

nothing really much happening at this stage, mainly work being very stressful, still watching running man... no new dramas, previewed the chinese remake of brilliant legacy, with jerry yen in it, not as nice... now that xmas is approaching, the shops are so crowded... looking for gifts for people... today when we were at macquarie, I found a huge box of guylian chocolates for only $20!!! bought one box but am seriously thinking of buying more... one more week to home sweet home...

nO moRE xMaS paRtiEs PLs...

this weekend was a weekend of work xmas parties... it was more obligation than me wanting to go really... friday night was the aged care one... I was not wanting to go becos it was $50 for dinner and additional for drinks... and work on friday was really busy, so by the time we finish, I was already getting a headache... and my period really did not help by deciding to come on that day too... Bonita one of the social workers invited me to change at her place, so went there with Laura and Katherine another social worker, got changed and headed to the venue... the venue was quite nice, and they must have booked out the entire place, cos we were the only ones there... I can't say the same abt the food and the dessert though... a waste of money... left abt 2130 cos it was a long drive home and the headache was getting worse... and the dress I was wearing was not the most comfortable either...

one of the good things this week was that despite it being the the start of summer, it is actually quite cool now... wish that the weather would stay like that for longer...

yesterday was the OT dept xmas party at rooty hill rsl... I went to all 3 things: bowling, dinner and laser tag... despite having bowling on xbox, it was definitely not the same as playing the actual thing, cos I really sucked during the game yesterday... there were quite a few people playing bowling and after that, went to dinner, the food was not great again... and most of the dept came... but the conversation was not as funny as the last time at Kate's farewell... not sure why, could be bcos people were tired (like me) or becos the managers were there so may not be appropriate to gossip about other people, which was pretty much what we were doing that night... and after dinner, there was laser tag... alot of people pulled out of that, I did not feel like going, but on the other hand, I wanted to know what it was and so ended up going... there were only abt 9 of us in the end... 2 games of 20 mins each... it was exciting and fun in like the first 15 mins, and after that it was like oh man when is this going to end... and becos out numbers are little, we had to play with other people as well... it was not as scary as I thought it would be... but by the end of 2 games, we were all sweating and yucky...

so in summary, my pocket now has a huge gaping hole and had enough of xmas parties and work people for now...