~ My Journey for 2005 & New Resolutions for 2006... ~ 11:19:00 pm

2005 is finally coming to an end... It's been a long and eventful year...

Let's go through it once again...

A final year student of nursing student... Nothing can be more fun than school... Honestly...

Last day of school... I miss all my friends...

Trip to Malacca... A great one... Stress-free and carefree...

Graduation... A new beginning to a new chapter in my life...

Into the workforce... The start to my stress-full life and misery... *Sigh*...

Lastly, a confirmed staff... Which takes effect from tomorrow...

2005 has been filled with lots of happiness and sweet events and yet, a few sorrows, disappointments and LOTS of STRESS... But yet, I'm looking forward to 2006...

Resolutions? Of course there are...

1) To be more refined... Apparently, I had this same resolution for this year but I broke it in a matter of minutes which was burping loudly... *Haha*

2) To work smart... For this, I think I'm doing it already... Sometimes, you just have to save your own skin, aye...

3) To be a better daughter to my parents and sister to my siblings... This part hor, a bit difficult leh... *Hehe*... Cuz I can be quite rebellious at times...

4) To be a better Muslim... This one also a bit tough... But InsyaALLAH, I will try to do it...

5) To lose weight... For this, all I need is to suffer more at work and I will achieve it in no time... *Harhar*

6) To get my driving licence... Man, I really want this... But then again, provided if I can find the time...

7) To find a special someone... *Haha*... This one depends... Hee...

8) To be happy... It doesn't really matter if I don't achieve all the resolutions I have listed (excluding No 3 & 4)... But to find happiness, that's what's important...

The year is almost gone
But it has also made us strong
The path was long
But we walked it with a song
There were fears and tears
But we also had reasons for cheers
Wishing all of you Happy Memories of 2005
And have a great 2006

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ Shopping & Food Galore!! ~ 11:09:00 pm

Finally I'm going to post a proper entry today... Haven't had much time to do so lately since I've been busy at work or I'm just too tired or plain lazy... *Hah*...

Anyway, I've realised that I've been spending too much money on shopping lately... Something which I hardly did in the past... Furthermore, with the extra bonus money, I just couldn't stop myself from wasting my money... *Sheesh*... But then again, it's a really great feeling just to shop... *Hehe*...

Just today alone, I've spent about $300+ on 3 tops, 3 bags, 2 pairs of pants, 1 pair of earrings, 2 CD-rom games, 2 pillows (the snowbeads kind of pillows) and of course, a gift for a colleague for the gift exchange at my workplace... I practically shopped like nobody's business... *Haha*...

And on last Wednesday, I've spent slightly over a hundred bucks for a top, some chocolates and some The Body Shop products...

At the rate I'm spending, I believe that my money will deplete FAST... So it's time to stop shopping... For NOW... *Hehe*...

And oh... I finally got to savour the much-talked-about Ayam Penyet @ Lucky Plaza... And what do I think of it? It was YUMMY!! *Slurps*... The chicken was crispy and the sambal belachan was POWER!! *Hee*... Had a cup of Milo Dinosaur to go along with... And the ambience? I really felt like I was in Jakarta... *Sigh*... I miss Jakarta...


Ayam Penyet...


The food...


The Aftermath...

Not just that... Back on last Wednesday too, both me and my sis went over to Seoul Garden... It's been awhile since we last step foot into Seoul Garden... *Yummy!*...


After which, we had Starbucks...


And yesterday, had Swensen's with my 2 sisters... Had Black Pepper Seafood Pasta... (No pics for this)

I think I'm going to put on more weight... *Tsk tsk*... I already feel myself growing fatter... *Haha*...

And just look at this...


Chocolates!


Willy Wonka chocs! Just a pity there was no golden ticket in it... *Hehe*...


written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ In Loving Memory of all Tsunami Victims ~ 10:41:00 pm

26 December 2004... The day that the great tsunami affected Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, etc, and shocked the whole wide world... Never had such a great calamity happened in this time... Who would have thought such a thing would happen in this modern era... But not any human can fight against forces of nature...

Had the tsunami hit Singapore, I believe that I would not be here to write this... For I was at the beach itself at the point the tsunami happened... I really am thankful to Allah for we have escaped such a great disaster...

26 December 2005... A year on and people in the affected areas are still fighting hard to survive... People lose their homes and worse of all, their loved ones... Homes can be rebuild but you can never get back those who have passed on... My condolences to all those who have lost their family in this tsunami disaster... Therefore, I dedicate this entry to all tsunami survivors and victims...

In loving memory of all tsunami victims...

Betapa besarnya kebesaranmu, Ya ALLAH...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ Old Pictures.... ~ 4:21:00 pm

Was clearing up the house the other time and found some old, classic photos of my late grandparents and parents... Scanned them into the PC for remembrance... Anyway, here are some of it...


My late grandparents...
P.S. None of us got to see our grandmum since she passed away when my mum was only 7 years of age...


My Granddad & My Step-Grandmum...


Mum & 2nd Aunt...


My parents on their first wedding anniversary...


The Baby ME!!

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Me in the 1960s! *Haha*...
Just kidding! Got the pic edited, of course...

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Just ended my round of night shift duty this morning... The best part of doing my night shift duty this time round was having McDonald's in the wee hours @ 2am... Got the delivery guy to send it all the way up to the ward... *Haha*...

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Discovered a startling thing about a person of my past... Was kinda shocked about it at first but I'm not really surprised... Well, I just don't bother much about it, anyway...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ They're like sisters to me... ~ 8:14:00 pm

Nadhrah, Sri & Me
I used to have this perception... Friends can be colleagues... But colleagues can never be friends... But I thought wrong... It is true that there are some people who's just out to 'sabo' or backstab you... But indeed, there are people who care about you... To make sure that you're alright...

Those two people in the picture are the examples of those who still cares about me... I know that I'm still 'safe' and secure whenever they're around... Taught me a lot about things which may be good or 'bad'... *Hee*...

Nadhrah... Honestly, she's like a big sister to me... The fact that we almost have the same name made it even better (except for the confusion that we have in the ward)... One of our SAN would always ask, "Eh, where's your sister?"... Maybe that's where everything started lah... But like what someone said, "With Nadhrah around, you will always be well taken care of..." Well, I just couldn't agree any lesser...

Sri... Another one of whom I'm close with in the ward... She's a year senior than me... But honestly, I feel that she has more experience than that... One whom I can talk to freely...

Of course there are other people too like Aina, Ana and some others...

Anyway, to my dearest Kak Nadhrah & Sri, I enjoyed sitting and having a cup of ice blended with you guys today... *Hugs to the both of you*...


They both are like sisters to me... Thanks for being my colleagues and the friendship that we share...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ A Lesson to Learn... The hard way... ~ 8:52:00 pm

Sometimes, in life, people will only remember things when they learn it the hard way... For me, this is one lesson that I will never forget... Not till the day I stop working as a nurse... And this is my lesson...

I had a patient who was on chest tube... After the patient was sent down to the procedure room to have his ultrasound guided chest tube insertion, me and my fellow colleague went to check out his chest tube... As I was doing a favour to my next shift colleague, I was the one who first started the chest tube chart... It is our protocol that we have to check the chest tube from the site of insertion and all the way to the chest tube bottle, just to ensure that everything is alright...

But dumbly, I was sabotaging my own self by putting an 'X' sign on the fluctuation of the water level on the chest tube chart... And the worse part, I didn't even question myself on why the water level was not fluctuating for it is supposed to whenever a chest tube is unclamped... And now, out of our blindness or something, neither me nor my colleague knew about the existance of the three-way tap which acts as the clamp... For we believed that a chest tube can ONLY be clamped using the forceps...

The clamping of the chest tube was only being found out 2 days later after the chest tube was inserted... This matter did not became an issue... Not until the day the patient passed away... Well, I guess almost everyone in my level would know about this incident... It became quite a big issue and even our main discipline consultant gave his own opinion, which wasn't good of course...

It totally reflects on the way we nurse our patients... Are we really doing the right thing sometimes? Why are we so task-orientated that we only see on one thing and not widen our prospective? If we had done so, would patient still be alive to this very day? Are we not doing justice to this patient?

I could have just packed my bag and leave nursing but it's just so unprofessional... Why give up just like that and waste whatever I've studied for the past 3 years? Honestly, there are times when you just feel like giving up... But there are people around you who would give you the moral support that you need... And I'm really thankful to these very people who understood what I was going through and stood by me...

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"Actually, I didn't want to confirm you... I feel that your safety awareness is not there... But because you had the backing of Sister Nor and the rest of the staff, we're going to confirm you..."

Yeah, I got the confirmation but trust me, with these kind of words, I rather not get confirmed... It's just so demoralising... *Sigh*...

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Anyway, thanks to all those birthday wishes... It really made my day... Although towards the end, it just affected my mood... It's been really a bad week for me...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! To me... ~ 1:30:00 pm

20

At the stroke of 1.30pm, this is how old I will turn today...

So,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

*Hee*...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ 3 Deaths within a space of 13 hours.... ~ 11:54:00 pm

3 deaths within 2 days... And all within a space of 13 hours... What's more, 2 of the dead patients died while I was on shift... How 'lucky' can I get?

Honestly, it was a very challenging period for me... My first patient who passed away yesterday just before passing over of report, was a Coroner's case... When a patient who dies under Coroner's case, it is not an easy feat... Having to photocopy EACH AND EVERY SINGLE COPY of the patient's notes, writing a very PROPER report for whatever that is written will be reviewed by the State Coroner... *Sigh*...

Tough luck... To think that this is my first death case and it's a Coroner's case...

My second patient who passed away this morning, was almost made into a Coroner's case but thankfully, they decided that it's a non-Coroner's case... *Phew*... Anyway, the death of this particular patient was very, very sudden for he appeared to be normal at the time when I was serving the patient his medication... In fact, the patient's uncle was around for quite sometime...

Well, what I can remember was that I was following the Doctor's rounds with the main discipline doctors... Was walking towards the Nurses' station when the overflow doctors just came running out of the isolation ward, shouting "Resus, resus!!"... Putting on my N95 mask, ran into the isolation to see what really happened and what I found was really shocking...

I shall not go into details but it was an active resuscitation... ETT was inserted but in the end, patient was pronounced dead... After the whole resusctation was done, I ended up getting chased away by my more senior staffs... It was such a SUDDEN shock for me that I ended up in tears... To be honest, I'm not shocked of what I saw but because of the sudden demise of the patient, for he appeared so well when I was giving him his medications... It was just SO unexpected... But luckily for me, I managed to regained composure soon enough...

It made me realised that ANYTHING can happen ANYTIME... So, treasure your loved ones before you lose them... You'll never know when or where it will happen... *Sigh*...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ Sucky Workplace... ~ 7:12:00 pm

Each time I blog about something, I will never fail to mention things about my work... But what can I say? This is one place where I can really vent out my frustrations and anger for sometimes, nobody truly understands what I am going through...

And talking about work, sometimes I just HATE going to work and face all those people... No, please don't get me wrong... I enjoy being a nurse and caring for my 'ah kong's and 'ah ma's... Just that I hate facing those colleagues of mine... Actually, not all though... Some are pretty nice and helpful (although you may never know what they may say behind your back)... Just a handful of them... They can be pretty nasty sometimes, or rather, at MOST times...

But what to do? It's a DOG-EAT-DOG world out there... You have to be tough sometimes in order to survive... Otherwise, you will never know who might just stab you from the back... But InsyaAllah, I WILL survive...

Okay... Let's sidetrack a bit since I've already vented my frustrations out... *Hehe*...

I've just realised that it's only 3 more days to my birthday... Honestly, I'm not really counting down to it... Probably bcuz I'm caught up with my work and stuffs...

But hey! I've already got an advanced birthday wish from my future 'sister-in-law' since she'll be going to KL... *Winks*... Anyway, thanks a lot, Sarina! Really appreciate it... It really brightened up my day! *Hugs*...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ Down with flu.... ~ 8:47:00 pm

Down with flu today... It's such a drag...

Anyway, today is my DO... Purposely kept my handphone on silent mode... Had that gut instinct that my ward would call me up to return to work... Since the MC rate in my ward is horribly atrocious... And true enough, I got called back... Didn't pick up my handphone and they ended up calling my home phone... *Oh NO!*... But thankfully, my mum told them that I had something on with my family... *Phew!*... But who knows, I will get called up again tomorrow since I'm covering my PH?

And oh... I got 'scolded' by the stupid doctor yesterday... Apparently, this doctor wanted to do a chest tube insertion for a particular patient... Took me awhile to prepare the stuffs since it was my first time assisting in chest tube insertion... This particular doctor wanted this pneumothorax set, which my ward didn't have... Went to call up the Level 8 wards to borrow... One of the wards was willing to lend it to us but when I sent my junior up, she came back empty-handed, telling me that the NO refused to lend it to us... In the end, had to request one from the CSSD but just too bad for me, the doctor came before I could send someone down to get the item... As a result, the doctor talked to me in a very sarcastic manner... Okay, I'm fine with that cuz it was partly my fault too...

But the outcome was... The procedure did not even happen!!! Why? According to the doctor, the patient's lungs were constricted due to some old problem... And so, I got some sarcastic talk from the doctor and went through all the trouble for nothing! *Dumb!*...

Gonna rest now... Having a bad headache too...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ Boring Sunday afternoon........................ ~ 1:29:00 pm

I can't believe it... I'm going back to work tomorrow... *Sigh*...

Back to being a nurse again... *For once, I actually forgot that I was a nurse... Ahakz*...
Back to caring for the old apeks... *I don't mind this at all*...
Back to the work political stuffs again... *As always*...

What a boring Sunday afternoon... Here I am, facing the PC, not knowing what to blog... But the funny thing, I just feel like blogging... Weird me...

Oh well... I think I might as well arrange those 243 pictures that I had developed yesterday...

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ A day out on my own.... ~ 5:50:00 pm

Was watching the TV just now when the Pizza Hut Christmas pizza ad was shown... Immediately, I was reminded during the time when I went over to Fione's house to watch the Singapore Idol Finals (of which Taufik Batisah won) and at the same time, savouring the Christmas pizza from Pizza Hut... And that was like exactly 1 year and 2 days ago... Anyway, I really miss ya gal!! Shall we have a pizza date again soon?? =)

My day today was slightly different... Yes, I did go out but I went out on my own... After meeting up with a colleague to pass over some stuffs, I went over to Causeway Point to return 3 of the 8 DVDs which was apparently, overdued... *Hehe*... After which, I went over to the Woodlands Community Library as I didn't want to go home yet... The place was somewhat peaceful... Sat there and read a book for about an hour before heading home (as I was feeling hungry =P)...

Actually, I'm the kind of person who wants and likes company each time I go here and there... But today, I realised that going out and spending some time on my own, is not so bad after all...

Anyway, will be going out again later to collect the pics which I have sent to the shop to be developed (which cost me a whooping $101.30!!) and after that, to my granny's house...

Enjoy your weekends peeps!

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
~ Updates... ~ 8:53:00 pm

I realised how slow my blog loads with this new tagboard... If this goes on for another few more days, I'm gonna switch back to my old tagboard... At least it loads the page faster...

Anyway, 2 more days of leave and I'll be heading back to the ward... How fast time flies... How I wish I can have a longer break... But then again, having a break is better than having none... At least, I'll be more refreshed when I start work again... *Hee*...

It's been a great 5 days of leave... Been practically going out every single day without fail... In fact, my cousins and I went to the Zoo on Wednesday... Well, it was nothing great, of course... But it's the bonding that I get that is priceless... Anyway, pics will be up soon...

What else did I do? Oh... Rented 8 DVDs... *Haha*... Since there's lots of time to kill, why not?

Anyway, I will enjoy the final 2 days of leave before going back to work... And oh... I will get to see my preceptor again!! *Yippee!!*

written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi

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