冬天去了哪儿？？

sooo, the hunter valley roadtrip finally came and went... left in the morning at approx 0900, stopped by macdonalds for some food, and arrived at hunter valley at approx 1100... went to a few wineries and spent quite alot of money on wine... de bortoli, peterson's, scarborough, mcguigans, hungerford... finally it was time to check in, mercure resort was not as good as I expected... it was alright... the room was alright... we had some time to spare before it was time for the massage... actually regretted making the appt so late in the day, cos it did not occur to me that when we finish the massage, it would be dark and there are no streetlights there... and it was up on a hill, so definitely learnt my lesson there... the spa place was really nice, however, the actual package was not as good as the tea tree spa we went to a long time ago... pretty much spent the whole time reading the online books when we arrived back in the room... breakfast... the good thing was it was not crowded at all... food was alright, standard bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, hot choc... juice... ate till we were stuffed... went for a little walk to hunter valley gardens shopping village and bought some cookies to try... and after that, had time to kill  before it was time to check out and make our way home... and back to reality... fortunately or unfortunately... what happened on friday was that I noticed screeching sounds when I am braking, and also noticed that one of the tyres looked flat, which got me worried... and so I quickly went to change the tyres on sat, and booked a car service for today, hence I am slacking at home today instead of being back to work... 

other than that, still reading my online books, and patiently waiting for the show angel eyes to end... fran whatsapped me last night, showing me a pic of her boyfriend, and shocked me further by telling me that she has already his family and bought couple rings... she must really be quite desperate... was all I could think of... but she looked happy so hopefully things turn out well for her... other than that... nothing much interesting happening, looking forward to fran and jo visiting in june, then papa visiting in aug but also maybe june... and I decided that our next roadtrip will be to bowral in oct, gibraltar hotel and spa... so going to have to start saving up now... one week till winter and it's still warm, like 26 degrees, crazy...

超忙的。。。

did not get the job at mona vale hospital in the end... applied for another job at westmead private rehab, so we'll see if I even get an interview... it was actually pretty helpful that I sat down with Jamila that day to review my application, and get some feedback, and I actually thought that she gave me alot of useful feedback, and that meant that I did not waste my time on the application, cos I got some really good feedback in the end... the goalsetting inservice went quite well actually, and I think it's becos it was a small group that day, and people that I actually am more comfortable with, hence I was actually not that nervous and was able to generate some good discussion and also manage to make it interesting... so I was quite pleased about that... caseload wise, it's still quite hectic, but the numbers are gradually reducing, which is good... to give me some time to get on top of things with the existing patients... one grumble that I do have from this week is... our new rehab reg is useless, she has no freaking idea about anything!!! Rachel and I are sooo frustrated, john and sam were so much better! another grumble that I also have is, now that deanna is pretty much based in rehab, she kind of forgot that I do not spend all my time there, and I think she assumes that I know what is going on and that I have to keep her in the loop with the rehab patients, which she did not mention in the first place and so I did not know that she wanted me to do that, anyway, it was just a little annoying... and I think mid-week I must look quite annoyed and stressed to people, that some of them have come up and asked me if I was alright... and am thankful for people around that encouraged and just asked whether things were ok... rarely saw my motivation lately, I guess we have all been quite busy and working in different places... new PT rotating into MRT next week, have not worked with Yin before, so it should be interesting... really dreading when Kara goes on maternity leave, and I think I have mentioned this at least 3 times prior already...

otherwise, my amazing race is ending next week, running man is still ongoing, and I sooo frustrated at having to wait for the angel eyes drama to finish in june, cos I am sooo very tempted to start the show, but I know what's going to happen if I fall into that trap again... urgghhhh...

our roadtrip seems to be sooo far away... really looking forward to having a break and recharging the batteries...

HapPEniNG ALL aT ONCe...

work is still very hectic, up until yesterday, I had 12 patients... and it seems that everything is happening this week. Had my first ever guardianship hearing today, it went for 2 hours and I actually was 'sabo'ed by dear old SW on the East block to speak during the hearing and having to answer some challenging questions, damn her! nevertheless, told myself that it was a good learning experience at the end of the day, and the outcome was what we wanted... the bad news is... I will still have to remain involved until the patient is d/c at this stage...oh and Jamila told me that they are no longer advertising for the senior position in rehab now, now that Jo is apparently returning from maternity leave in June and Deanna seems to be basing herself in rehab nowadays... anyway, at this stage, I don't really care, other than the fact that I wasted time working on my application for that stupid expression of interest... hoping to get the job at mona vale or maybe the one at westmead private, we'll see...

received an email yesterday advising that I have been given an opportunity for an interview for the level 1/2 position at mona vale, unfortunately, they did not give very much notice and basically said the interview is happening the day after, which I am not able to just drop everything and take leave, so I was given the option of a phone interview instead, which I took, but now, the manager still did not confirm whether we are going ahead with the phone interview tomorrow, which means that I have to ring her up tomorrow to find out, so irritating... 

my goalsetting inservice is finally here on friday, hopefully everything will go well... will update again... did not get to do a practice run like karen and I spoke about during supervision, but we'll see... bought some choc for reward which is a bribe actually, for people at the inservice to be nice and not ask so many questions (and yes, I am referring to the consultants and Dr Chu, in particular)... 

it's freezing cold nowadays in the mornings and at night, I had to take both my work and outing jacket and coat out this year...

CHANginG SeaSOns and PeoPLe...

finally may has arrived, soooo looking forward to the roadtrip... weather is slowly becoming cold especially in the mornings and at night... 

thursday before anzac friday, day off, went to chatswood to get the will done, and then went to have the malaysian food, ordered the curry puff and the milo dinosaur, even though it's quite expensive, but I really like the food there... after that, went to auntie's to pick nainai up...

anzac friday... it was looking very cloudy, so we pretty much stayed at home for most part of the morning and went grocery shopping at hornsby... anzac sat, brought nainai to featherdale wildlife park at blacktown... not bad, quite a small park but it's quite elderly friendly and it's mostly small australian animals and birds... went for lunch at castle towers, had nandos... and then brought nainai back to auntie's... worked on sunday and that was the end of the long weekend...

back to work, it's been really hectic these few days, still covering in rehab as well... but acute has also been really busy, now that they are down to 4 pple and tina's on leave this week as well... and also just found out that there was an issue with John's contract so he can no longer work at nepean... and rachel is rotating end may instead, and PT Sarah has resigned... which meant that when Yin goes on leave in June, there may not be a relief...

saw this job opening for a level 1-2 and a senior position at mona vale inpt rehab, and I told karen that I am applying for the job, and she suggested that I apply for both actually... so we'll see if I actually get the job... although when I rang up the person, she was not very helpful and did not sound nice over the phone... 

nainai, auntie and uncle are leaving for singapore on monday... can't believe 6 months just flew by...