Amelia's birthday dinner at eastwood...

PiCtUrEs FroM EasTer RoAdtrip...

At kangaroo valley... look at all the cows...

kangaroo valley... so pretty...

Isn't the scenery beautiful??!! Taken when we were doing the bridge walk...

How huge is the cliff??!!

Taken at a chinese temple at Wollongong...

RaiNiNg heAviLy...

monday was the last day of placement at northcott... went out for lunch with the two teams, MFS and PSOS... had thai food... the food was only okay not that great... and they were really nice to treat us too... after that, we did our final evaluation and tidied up the stuff and I was off... said goodbye to everyone and wished them luck in their future... and hopefully we might be able to work together next time... now I have two weeks break before starting the next placement at westmead hospital...

last saturday, i finally got my new woolies uniform, after being in white for so long, it felt weird being in green... and the uniform was quite uncomfortable actually... still working during the weekends, nothing much happening at work...

driving... i have officially clocked 30 hours of driving now... drove to the airport and back today... very long journey and it was raining quite heavily along the way too... on the way back, i was feeling quite sleepy already... but if things go well, i should be able to get my red Ps by july... and i am trying to save money to buy a small car now...

PP3A iS oVeR!!!

at last, tomorrow is the last day of my 6 week placement at northcott... both happy and sad... happy bcos well, this placement has ended and i must say that i have worked really hard during these past few weeks and deserved the marks that i got during the placement... sad bcos this has got to be one of the better placements so far, cos pple there were all really nice and i felt like i was a part of their team... now that the placement for PP3A is over, i will be on a two week break before going on the next placement at westmead hospital... hopefully it will also be a good placement although i am quite worried cos it is a hospital placement which meant that i will really have my own patients... quite anxious to know which area i will be working in though...

anyway, nothing much happened this past week, just met up with amelia, karen, yochi and anna on thurday at eastwood for dinner at this korean-chinese restaurant... the food was okay, not that great and it was just nice seeing them again and talking about what is going on in their lives... sometimes i feel so out of touch with uni and like i dun feel like a uni student anymore... the two week break will be a good time for me to just relax and then prepare for the next placement... went over to amelia's house on friday... bought pizza and we watched ocean's eleven... and she lent me quite a few chinese series to watch during the break... haha...

SEcOnD laST weEk...

easter monday... was actually planning to just stay at home and catch up on the placement stuff... but got pulled into going to swim at lane cove and then walking after... and then watching fun with dick and jane later at night... it was funny but like all usual jim carrey shows, it's those funny but stupid kind of shows...

and then it's back to placement again... second last week of placement... found out that i have like 9 extra hours accumulated and i have to use them somehow... but it's been so busy everyday and tuesday and wednesday, we had to go to wheelchair trials and when we got back to the office, it was so late already... which i really hate cos it's so dark outside and i really can't miss the last bus otherwise i will really be in deep shit... thank god so far, that has not happened yet and hopefully never will... and i found out two days ago where my next placement will be... it's at westmead hospital... the good thing is it is quite close to the train station... but the bad thing is i am the only one going there...and i actually wrote on the preference form that i would like to do a mental health placement... oh well... hopefully it will be a good placement and the pple there are nice...

went to the movies yesterday with prisy, uncle and auntie at hornsby... watched sunshine... like i thought it was a science fiction show cos it appeared like that on the trailer... but towards the end of the show, the movie became quite scary bcos if an unexpected presence on the crew's ship and this crazy person started going around killing the crews... btw, michelle yeoh's in the movie... just thought it's worth mentioning... but i would not recommend watching it... cos the storyline's not great and it's got the creepy-looking guy cilian murphy in it...

EAstER roAdTriP...

was working on saturday and man, the store was quite busy, when i started my shift, all the checkouts were used so I was asked to do returns instead... and after that, I was asked to mop the express area... it's not that I am complaining or pampered... the mop that I had to use was so crap and I have never used that kind of mop bucket before, it was like you had to step on it with one foot and use your other foot to push the lever down and slowly squeeze the water out of the mop... and my stupid supervisor was like... aiyoh, singaporean kids are all like that... and I was like hey, aren't you singaporean too??!! anyway, I did not even get to use the registers much that day... was mostly doing the tickets actually... and towards the end of the day... the seafood section was selling all their stuff at half price so I quickly called auntie and michelle to come grab some before all are gone...

yesterday, we went on a roadtrip... started out at 8:40am... drove for almost 3 hours to this lookout point called Bulli Lookout where we could see the coastal line and the city of Wollongong below... it was really pretty... then we drove into the city of Wollongong to visit this rare Chinese temple called Nan Tien Temple... it was just weird for me to see a chinese temple here and there alot of tourists there when we arrived... apparently the temple is very commercialised but it was huge... did not spend much time there but prisy met her friend wenndy there... what a coincidence... then we continued our journey to the Grand Pacific Highway... which apparently is after Wollongong and there is like a bridge walk which you can do along the coastal line of the ocean... we only did like half of the walk actually... there were also quite alot of people doing the walk... and it's absolutely amazing... to see the ocean and there was like a huge cliff on the opposite, and the weather was great, and you could see people hand-gliding and doing parasailing at the beach area... we wanted to walk the whole way but it was getting quite late and we are still planning to go further... we then continued our journey to this country town called Berry... and the shops were open... and it's bustling with activity, unlike in sydney, where it's like dead quiet cos it's easter sunday... prisy and I bought ice cream... yummy... and once we got back into the car, it started to rain... i thought the weather was really kind to us yesterday, like it only rained when we were in the car, but when were out strolling along the shops, the weather was so nice... continued along on our journey to Kangaroo Valley... the scenery was just beautiful... mountains, farms, cows, acres of green everywhere... really amazing... then we stopped at the town area, where we spent awhile looking at the shops selling all the handicrafts, jewellery, nice stuff... then it was time to head home... went to eastwood to eat dinner and when we finally arrived home, it was like 9pm... all in all, the roadtrip took us 12 hours to and fro... pretty amazing...

A LoNg-NeeDeD brEaK...

it's the long easter weekend... well, i would say that it is a long and much needed break for me... went to castle towers to do some shopping with prisy but i did not get anything, and then came home to watch children of men... i thought the show was quite good... but they should have elaborated on the ending a little more... actually prisy and i have watched it the other day, but i was so tired that i only watched half of the show and prisy finished it the other day... we also watched monster house on wednesday night... although it was a cartoon, it was pretty scary... but it was also quite funny, especially the main character's friend...

then on easter friday, went bowling at fox studios with prisy michelle, steve and toufic... the special thing abt this bowling venue was that it was kind of like cosmic bowling... glow in the dark, so it was quite exciting... and we had lebanese bread for lunch... so basically it's like a pizza bread base thing and they have either herb, cheese or meat on it... the herb and cheese ones were nice, did not really the meat one... then after bowling, we went to this chocolate shop to eat, but i did not get anything cos the stuff there were quite expensive... then after we came home for awhile then went to myat's house for their cousins' night... she cooked some burmese noodle dish... and we were actually late cos michelle wanted to bake a pudding at the last minute... played last chance and i laughed so much that my facial muscles were actually aching and i literally had tears in my eyes... myat was really funny, she cracks me up sometimes... played till quite late and we were making alot of noise... was really tired by the time the last round was played...

FiNALLy auTuMnS hERe...

last week has been so hectic... and i have accumulated almost 5 hours of extra time during placement... so that means that i can actually go home early this week if i can... which i will try to make use of... it's going okay at the moment, just that i have reports to write and the skills for wheelies thing to think about and there is just so much to prepare and organise for the day... and i have a good news, well for myself really... i succeeded in doing a partial wheelie... yay!! it was definitely not easy, and i think i will never be brave enough to do a full wheelie... it is way too scary... i just have to do enough of a wheelie to get myself over a kerb...

and saturday was a really good day for me... cos i took a day off work and prisy and me went out into the city... when we got to the train station, we realised that the trains were not operating and we had to drive all the way into the city... and we parked at Nao's house... went to my favourite sussex centre to eat my favourite spicy beef rice which i have been craving since... yummy... and after we walked to big echo for karaoke... and then after, edlyn came to join us and we all want for dessert at passionflower... we actually skipped dinner and went straight for dessert... haha... and wendy and her mum and sister also came to join us for dessert... i had the super duper brownie and it was delicious... oh man... like saturday was one of the best days ever... got to eat and do my favourite stuff... and the weather was good also... sunny but also windy... but i did not buy anything though... now that I think back, i have not been doing any shopping or watch any movies for ages...

but then sunday had to come and i am once again back at work... working a ten hour shift again... nothing really exciting happened... except that woolies will be closed on easter friday and sunday, so that means that i will get two days off... but apparently i am working on easter monday... but also bcos of easter break... i will have to do an extra day of clinicals... oh well... i quite like the place that I am doing my placement so it's okay...