Are we there yet?

Is it over already?

*peek*

No?

Gosh, everyday feels like a century long.

I’ve never been in a posting which felt like time was crawling ever so slowly by. Seriously. Every time we stop and think how much more time do we need to pay in this department, we’d be amazed that we’re still only about halfway there. Let’s see.. as of today, I’ve got 45 more days here (provided that I don’t get extended, of course). Feels like forever… sigh.

A large portion of that leftover days will be spent in the dreaded labour room… that time is inching much closer than before. When I mean it being an inch close, it’s actually starting tomorrow. Oh! The horror of horrors. lol. Don’t ask me why I feel so terrified of labour room, cuz I just am. I’ll definitely be dragging my feet to work tomorrow and with my knees trembling.

On a brighter note, I’ve been wanting to buy a pair of crocs for my month’s worth of work in the labour room since I anticipate a lot of walking and dirty stuff going here and there. No, I’ve still not bought my pair but while surfing through the main crocs website, I stumbled upon this. Wow. I am honoured. It is a pretty well designed pair, I must say

Someone I’d like you to meet

It’s been too long since I’ve been gone from writing but every time I put up my writer to attempt to write, I come short of inspiration. Work’s the usual…nothing much is different. A lot of contemplations, reflections and prayers about the future. Still, nothing much to post up to share…

…until I stumbled upon this from a blog I subscribe to.

 

 

 

You can read more about him here and here
or visit his official website here.

What a tear-jerking video. It’s alright to admit it.. I shed a few tears myself. It put me to shame about how I’ve always felt like I could not do much because I’m your average Jane and here is this guy, much limited in his physical ability but doing so much more in encouraging and inspiring others.

So listen to what he said.. next time you fall and feeling like the weight of the world is upon you that you just can’t seem to get back up, keep trying, keep praying. One day, you will… and you will soar.

New music and language

I’ve always been drawn towards the voice of the cello. I absolutely love the smooth mellow and soothing warm tone it produces especially when played under skilful hands. If you’ve heard music which has a cello part in it, it would sound like it’s singing in a human voice.

It’s eerily beautiful.

I could only wished that I had a steady work schedule so I could slot in cello classes.. but I don’t and a cello simply costs too much. Maybe I’ll pick it up in the future – I don’t know, we’ll see.

Since I’m dwelling on the topic of picking up certain skills, there’s another skill I feel the need to pick up – to speak Burmese. We have so many foreigners coming in pregnant and giving birth in my hospital and the Indonesians and Burmese top the list. The problem with some of these Burmese ladies is that they have no command of any local language at all. Some can barely make it through with Malay language but I’ve seen more than enough who would give you blank stares when trying to communicate with them. I have to end up giving hand signals which is not easy to ask whether they are having contractions and whether the baby is moving fine in their tummy.

One of my colleagues felt the same way and has already bought the language book. We’ve tried it together and Burmese is not an easy language to learn at all. Unlike Japanese where there isn’t a tone to change the meaning of syllables, Burmese is somewhat like Mandarin with tones and stops within the word which could alter the word into a whole different meaning. It sounds a lot like Thai. Super not easy.. but it’s a challenge I feel very much strongly for, in order for me to be able to communicate well with my patients. One can argue that they should be the ones who must learn our language because they set foot on our land.. but I beg to differ because there is absolutely no harm in picking up an extra language. If we want to be better doctors, we must understand our patients in order to fully know the health problems in which they face.

I should be buying the book soon… I hope.