My results are out! ...

..and it's a MSc with Distinction! Wooohooo!!!! :D

Ramadan in Turkey

Whirling Dervishes in Istanbul

Croc along

I must admit I find the footwear from Crocs Inc absolutely hideous. But I couldn't resist trying on the ballet-inspired version -Prima and boy are they comfy and oh so light! Would love a pair in silver but I'll probably be getting a black pair for work. :)

Cappadocia: Goreme Open-Air Museum

This is one of the highlights in Cappadocia. Helps to have a good guide along to explain the frescoes in the early cave churches. We had an interesting time but I can't quite remember the details though! Oh well...enjoy the pics! :)

Cappadocia: Where we stayed

Ha! I am just too lazy to do a write-up on our Turkey trip. :P
Will post random pics every now and then instead! Enjoy!


Kelebek Pension: Highly recommended!


Check out our cave room! Cool eh? :)


View from the dining area. Lucky Kitty!

Restless

That pretty much sums up the way I feel since I submitted my thesis (results still pending). I've had my fun in the past weeks - I got to catch up with friends I've neglected for a while...hosted a chocolate fondue cum pizza party at my place...watched a dance *dreamy sigh*...shopping,shopping and more shopping! (Really gotta watch that spending!)...laughed ourselves hoarse at the one night stand bar and comedy club...attended the wedding of my ex-boyfriend (together with hubs, mum and granny and we got to sit with the relatives! *hehe*)...and I also fell really sick for the first time in years on Deepavali. Food poisoning - puked my guts out and had to spend the entire day confined to the bed and the sofa. *ugh!*
NOW, the restless bit comes from work. With time in my hands again, I start to re-examine my life and goals and suddenly, I find myself in want of a career change. No, it's not that I don't enjoy my work but I feel that my career has reached a plateau. Am thinking of dabbling in some full time admin or teaching for a change - view things from a different perspective perhaps...
Oh well, I don't know...just restless...

Hot air ballooning across Cappadocian skies

Bloated Tomato: Oh...it was absolutely amazing! I'm so glad we did it! :D

"You girl...want to come home with me?"

That was the pick-up line a FIVE year old boy used on me at a wedding dinner this evening (hubby by my side.*ahem*). That after he insisted that his mum handed me his share of mango sago dessert. *haha*
I cannot for the life of me figure out what the little boy saw in me!
Two possible explanations:

1) I look like a kid
2) I look like his mum

Hmmm...I really don't know if I should be flattered or embarrassed...

We're back from Turkey! :)

But only to be greeted by this...


*Bleah*

Anyhow, we had a wonderful time in Turkey! Will update when I'm done with all the washing and the cleaning. :)

Conversation with the taxi driver

On my way to the baby shower yesterday...

Taxi driver (looking in rear view mirror): Are you a student?
Me: No, I'm working.
Taxi driver: Are you sure? You look like a student.
Me: Yes, I am sure. I've been working for x years.
Taxi driver: What?! you sure or not? Did you start work straight after primary school?
Me (#@&!): Uncle, you think I sell drinks one, issit? (wanted to say something a little more inappropriate but I managed to exercise some self restraints. heh.) No, I worked after I graduated from uni.
Taxi driver: Wah! I really "siao kan" (underestimated) you. So...it must be very difficult for you to get promoted looking so young, hor?
Me: #@&%!

14 ladies and one very pregnant woman...

It's TL's baby shower today! Sniffing out "chocolate poop" from diapers, force feeding one another with baby food (it was damn gross...can't imagine putting my baby through that kinda diet!), making diapers out of toilet paper and identifying celebrity baby pics were some of the fun stuff we did today! And of course what is a baby shower without the baby gifts! The only thing is we do not know the baby's sex so shopping for the baby's gift was particularly difficult- I kept gravitating towards the baby girl's section. It was pot luck as well and we had a nice spread of food. I only wished we hadn't played that yucky baby food game before we ate though -it really killed my appetite. *puke*
Anyway, we had loads of fun today. Can't wait to meet the little one soon!:)

"Be gentle. It's my first time."

I've been contemplating on having my hair permed for a really long time and today I finally mustered enough courage to walk into the hair salon (Shunji Matsuo) and ask for a perm. I wanted a Japanese perm initially but after consulting the hair stylist, it was decided that my hair texture was probably more suited for digital perm (wah...very expensive leh! $360 + $65 for director's cut! But she was nice enough to waive off the haircut fee. It was after all just a trim!) So I spent a good half a day having my hair fried at the salon and trying my best not to fall asleep.

The verdict:
Hmm...am still trying to get used to the new look. The curls are mainly at the bottom and I suspect they may straighten out a lot sooner than the estimated 6 months. And I am actually looking my age for the first time in my life (which may or may not be a good thing :P). Well, but hubby seems to like it, so good lah! :D

I'm loved!

Flowers from hubby to brighten my day! :D

Keep dreaming, guys!

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Ripped this off Middle-Age Man's website. *heh*

Hubby suggested that I consider becoming a full-time homemaker after reading this(solely for his benefit, of course!). *haha*

One of my favourite songs

Just felt like sharing...:)

Now I really should be getting back to work!

"This is what it sounds like..when you snore at night!"

I made hubby listen to a 60 sec recording of his snoring this morning.

It was loud and it had kept me up all night! :(

Ordinarily, I would have nudged, pushed, turned his head to one side and even resorted to pinching his nose just to have a good night's sleep. But last night, I could not bear to wake him up from his sonorous slumber since he had a really rough night call the day before. So I laid there wide eyed for most of the night. Cranky? You bet! But thank goodness, his snoring only comes on occasionally when he is really exhausted.

Well, guess I'll try to catch up on some sleep this afternoon! (I am officially a student again for a month!:))

Less than a month....

...to the submission of my Master's thesis and I am suffering from major mental block!!!! *Arghhhhh!*

I am in big doodoo. *sobs* :(

Practicality and familarity Vs stylishness

About a year ago, hubby had gotten me a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX7 in replacement of my Canon Powershot A60 that had gone cranky. The Lumix is very sleek, comes in my favourite colour (blue) and has a lovely wide screen which captures the scenes beautifully. But for some strange reasons, it simply does not gel with me and the pictures have not been turning out right especially in lowlight settings. I was rather upset when my pictures for our recent dinner and dance turned out with a distinct orange hue. Maybe it's because I haven't ploughed through the user guide sufficiently (I hate reading manuals!) but I've never had any issues with my Canon Powershot (my virgin digital camera). I decided I wanted my good ol' Canon Powershot back. Yesterday, after seeing the promotions in the newspapers, hubby and I dropped by Courts (didn't want to squeeze with the crowd at Comex) and got me this...



See the huge grin on my face now? :D

Drama at work

My patients seem to have conspired and decided that I needed some excitement at work. Was assessing a patient with lung infection the other day when I realised that his resting oxygen saturation was only 46% (norm: 98-100%) and he was drowning in his secretions! I did a quick check of his pulse and blood pressure to make sure he has not collapsed, got a student nurse to inform the medical staff and went on to perform chest physiotherapy on him. After half an hour of aggressive chest physio and suctioning [to remove the secretions] with the help of the medical officer, we finally managed to bring his oxygen level up to 90%.

On a separate day, I had just stepped into the intensive care unit when I heard the alarms coming from one of the cubicles. Went to check and was horrified to discover that the patient had yanked out the tubing connecting his trachy to the ventilator. There had been 2 new admissions that morning so the nurses were busy attending to them and weren't able to respond to the alarms as quickly as they normally would. In the next few minutes, I was actually engaged in a tug-of-war with the patient - he simply refused to let me hook it back on! I was worried sick that he might end up pulling out his trachy which would have resulted in a medical emergency! Thank goodness he calmed down after a while and allowed me to reconnect the tube. *phew!*

Seriously...I can do without all these drama at work!