Thoughts

Work has been really tiring. Busy, tiring, but fun and fulfilling. And satisfying to say the least. As with all human interactions, people step on your toes and irritation arises, but we are only humans after all. Been so busy with work that I seriously barely have anytime for myself - work is 830 - 1800h, and I've worked for 7 consecutive weekends. Talk about hectic schedule much? Can't wait for 7th November 2013 to be over so work can gradually get slower and less fast paced and stressful. Can't wait for my long-awaited 2 weeks break in December too :) :D

Ever since I've started work, I've started to realize that there are many things beyond my control - for example, the mean patient who snaps at nurses for no reason, uncooperative staff who are selfish and refuse to help you out, even if it's for the patients' sake. Despite some difficulties that I've faced at work, I am thankful for the nice patients who appreciate whatever we do for them, the helpful and supportive nurse managers who support us in all our events, and the patients who are responsive to the work that we do. I am thankful, that despite some negativeness that I feel when tackling the hard part of the job, there is still a silver lining in every cloud. Sometimes the positiveness really > the negativeness.

I guess in life it's kinda easy to forget whatever you have in life and focus on what you don't - it's much easier to be envious of what others have that you lack, rather than being contented and thankful for whatever you have. I think I'm like that - sometimes I forget what I have, but looking at the patients I realize that I'm actually extremely lucky. I think I need to constantly remind myself of this. That I am really, really lucky and privileged.

Ever since I graduated in May, I haven't really been updating this space with pictures - not that I think people actually read again. But then again I'm not blogging for the hits, but for memory's sake. Europe pictures, BKK pictures, ton of Instagram photos to update as well. Since May 2013, I think I probably have a backlog of... 3000 photos? Crazy. Since May 2013 I've gone from HTC One X --> Galaxy S3 --> iPhone all at once. Scratch that, since August 2013 I've gone through that sequence of phones.

I stare at all the photos and I realize.. I don't know what pictures to start blogging about. So maybe I'll talk about my new pet.



SAY HI TO PEANUT!!!!!!! :D Isn't he the cutest hehehehe

Here he is, just minding his own business trying to sleep.  

So cute right hehehe :')

 

So cute there he is eating a grape in the left picture! And ignore my stupid face in the right picture ha ha ha



Peanut and his extremely gay strawberry food place (not exactly a bowl lol) hehe he's the cutest!! Work is less dreary with him to irritate (waking him up hahaha)



And.. Random pictures of the boyfriend and I at Shangri-La last weekend :)

 

Have a good weekend ahead! x

Wanderlust; Italy

Wow come to think of it, I've been back from Europe for nearly 2 months and I think I'm still suffering from withdrawal symptoms haha. Nearly every morning I wake up only to realize in dismay that I'm staring at my own ceiling and not the hotel's; I miss the fluffy beds, the European hotels that don't have free wi-fi (seriously.. Europe? Lol), lousy hotel breakfasts (seriously, try eating hard bread/toasts + super watery and bland scrambled eggs + bacon and sausages soaked in oil hahah), rude Italians, marveling at every single European thing. Despite the bad experiences we had in Europe (stupid annoying China people everywhere lol, tour guide's bags getting stolen right under our noses, witnessing the Europeans extorting money from tourists), I really miss the antiquated charming architecture, the cobbled steps, and the pretty scenery. Europe has so much to offer and I cannot wait to be back there again :) 

This post is going to be a little long plus wordy (pix + tons of experiences and feelings to share lol) so please bear with me :) Otherwise you can just skip to look at the pix hahaha.

The first stop of our Europe tour was Italy, and our tour guide's bag got stolen the moment we reached the place :( He kept reminding us to be careful, to take good care of our things and not leave them out of our sight, but it happened to him. He was helping all of us load our luggage onto our bus with the driver so he left his hand carry bag (with phone, money, passport, our tour tickets etc) on the bus. We all boarded the bus alrdy and were waiting for him and the driver to be done with the bags when this angmoh got up the bus.. We all thought he was the local tour manager so we didn't think anything of it, but it turns out that bastard was the thief -_- when we realized it was too late, the guide asked the driver to go round the airport for us to try to spot the thief but obviously he was alrdy gone :( So that's the first exciting (but unfortunate part) of our tour hahaha. 

Imo, I thought many Italians were kinda unfriendly - the all appeared to wake up on the wrong side of the bed, many of them were super grumpy. Or maybe because we were Asians? Lol. When we visited the Vatican City, our tour group got swamped by another China tour group sheesh. They kept pushing us and eventually overtook us. Damn ass hahaha hate them! 

Okay enough of words, time for pix :) 

Italy countryside! Heading to the city center from the airport 

Everything looks prettier in Europe hahaha even the skies were ore blue and the trees were more green HAHA 

Tiny smart cars! They were quite cute la but I think it does shit for safety 'cause while we were in Germany/Paris there was some smart car that was smashed on a highway accident.. Needless to say the driver died :/ 

First glimpse of the Roman city :) 

Daddy! 

I think we were waiting to go to the Vatican! 

LOOK, the skies really are more blue!!! 

The first window from the right (on the top floor) is where the Pope comes out to say hi to people or something hahaha it's his office, and another of the windows on the same floor is his bedroom! Every Sunday, the square in front of the Vatican city will be crazily packed with people. 

In the freaking long queue that never seems to end.. With ah tiongs inching towards us hahahaha (Eh my eye looks so weird man) 

Love the architecture ^^ 

It was actually kinda hot HAHAHAHA we thought it'd be slightly chilly :( 

I can't really remember specifics about the things inside the Vatican because it was kinda long ago hahaha (Wikipedia it yo ;D) but I really loved some of the paintings. 

There are many other pix which I skipped for fear of boring y'all hahaha :P But I think it gets a little sian after awhile lol. I enjoyed looking at the pix and all that but after awhile it got a little dry :/ But I loved taking pix of the place la I took a lot! 

After we were done with the Vatican, we were standing around waiting because one of the walkie talkie sets got lost (the local guide gave it out to someone who wasn't from our group sheesh) and then the person who didn't take it (there was one short to begin with, then he gave one away to someone who wasn't from our group so the Vatican security thought we misplaced one set and demanded that the guy who didn't take the walkie talkie to pay 50 Euros) refused to pay the money so they wanted to call the cops hahahaha. SO MUCH DRAMA IN 2 HOURS. 

 

Gangsta 

Preeeeeetz!! 

When we were about to leave the Vatican city, some guy realized he lost his wife (lol it just keeps getting better doesn't it) and it took damn long before we found her again. She didn't have a phone.....

After lunch and all that we went to the Colosseum!!!! :D 

Omg so amazing!! Read about it in UGC texts and then seeing it come to life in front of your eyes IT'S SO PRETTY 

It was really crowded (as is with all other tourist areas) 

I need a wide angle lens man hahaha

So hot so sunny la 

I take really nice pix ;) 

Some people don't (HELLO never take the entire Colosseum!) 

SO EXCITED 

^^ 

I will forever stand in awe of how the ancient Romans built these magnificent thing without modern machines 

 

We didn't go up though, didn't have much time to linger and the crowd was insane 

V happy la!! Hahahaha 

 

 

 

GAY 

Random wall haha 

Hehe 

Trekking back to our bus! 

TREVI FOUNTAIN!! 

Making our wishes. Threw it the right way to ensure we would be back in Europe :) 

Mad packed 

Yummy gelato!!! 

Was really amazed by this!!! Then we Googled it when we got back and found out how it works hahaha 

But looks damn amazing la right 

Did some light shopping in the area but didn't end up buying anything (not yet :P) hahahaha 

This sums up our first day in Europe, more accurately Rome! We didn't stay in one place for long, we moved around a lot and were packing our bags nearly every day hahahaha. Can't wait to go back to Europe free and easy style :)