The Kampung Girl

I was going through my Sabah holiday photoes and saw this picture, that i promised myself to blog about it but i forgot till now..

well, for those who are from malaysia or the region, and if you hang out at Kedai Mamak often enough, you should know there is such drink call "Teh Halia/ Ginger tea". Basically is a normal milk tea with ginger flavour. Personnally, I love tea halia, especially when it is raining and cold outside. I always think that they just used some ginger powder to make up the taste, i mean, be realistic, who will really boil the ginger with hot water of put ginger in the tea at the shop for the customers? That will be so unrealistic, time consuming and costly..

anyway, it was this rainy day at Sabah, me and my friend was trying to look for this resort at Sempurna to stay in, we found the resort but dont know where is the reception, and due to the heavy rain, we decided to stop by this small but rather new kedai kopi to have a drink. and so I ordered my fav Teh Halia..When the tea arrived, to my supprise, I really got a tea HALIA:> me and my friend looking at each other and we started to laught:>

check out the photo..

A big chunk of ginger in the milk tea:> Taste real good and original:>

I was told that i have been tag..nick tagged me in his blog and make me answer all these questions, and i am suppose to tag another four bloggers to get them to do it..well, i will try:>

Four jobs I’ve had (Not including Current Job) :

1.sell Chorus, nail polish and lip sticks at Singapore Stadium

2.help my mum sell fruit at pasar malam.

3.eeeeeeeeeee..no more

4………

Four movies I could watch over and over:

1.Lord of the ring

2.Legent of the fall

3.Harry potter series

4.spirited away

Four places I have lived:

1. Seremban

2.Kota Tinggi

3. Singapore

4. London

Four TV shows I love to watch:

1.24

2.CSI

3.ER

4.Beach boy ( jap version)

Four places I have been on holiday:

1. Thailand

2.australia

3. Turkey

4. Italy

Four books you have read:

1. Harry potter Series

2. The DA Vinci code

3.Flanimals

4.Angel and Demons

Four websites I visit daily:

1. Friendster

2.Blogspot

3.yahoo

4.hotmail

Four of my favorite foods:

1.MARINARA

2.porridge

3.fish pie

4.Nandos chicken

Four places I would rather be right now:

1.home

2.camping at lake district

3. top of Kilimanjaro

4.Sempurna fish market:>

Four of your most cherished memories:

1.first time on the plane- to Turkey

2.Dinner at my fav seafood restaurant with my family b4 backed to london

3.first time reached the submit of a mountain

4.first time watch movie with the guy i like

And four bloggers I am tagging:

1.wati

2.JO

3.aida

4.eeeeeee..i onli know three regular blogger:>

hahaha…hope you guys will enjoy answering the questions:>

18/3- I have been looking forward for this day, becourse is our ladys night out..yeahhhhhhh..total 5 of us, four philipino and one chinese, thats me, we went to this karaeoka disco bar at Earl court.I was told by Janet that the mix between philipino and chinese, they called them Chinoy, so, for that nite, i am a Chinoy, becoz almost everyone there is philipino:>

Anyway,was a fun nite, people were singing and dancing, and i recorded lots of video clips, and i am going to share one of them..i know u guys will laught your head off, or jo will say I WANNA PUKE AH..but, what the heck, girl jus wanna have fun..huahuaaaaa

http://206.225.94.102/video/65205/

1:30pm-  arrived to ward, listen to report, assignment..I got first thearter case..yeah yeah..i love new case:> prepared bed space, set up ventilator..( well, it was almost well prepared by morning staff, so, i got nothing much to do:>)

2:00pm- case arrived… nil complicated history, everything went well..plan A( wean sedation, wake patient, extubate.)  Get patient settled, start sedation, pain relieve, blood gas, arrange line, ECG bla bla bla…atlast patient settled..errrrrr..not quite, oozing from drain site..hmmm

3:00pm- tea time

3:15pm- backed, patient still oozy..awaiting further review, otherwise all good..waiting for blood product for patient..

5:00pm- product arrived, start giving, platlet, FFP..drain still oozy

5:45pm- dinner.

6:15pm- backed..patient seems settled, bleeding slow down..hb 8.1..for 1 unit of blood..

7:00pm- another case came back, helping out,

8:00pm- patient blood gas good, plan- wake him up..patient awake, struggle..start bleeding perfusely from the chest wound..call dr, BP drop, more fluid challenge..bleeding doesnt stop..

9:00pm- to push back to thearter..

9:15pm- hand over, send patienrt  to thearter for chest exploration:>

9:30pm- home

generally not too bad, better than collapse:> and i got friends helping out..i would say is a good day at work:> eventful as usual, but within control:>

good night folks:>

p.s.to loh loh.. bank nurse= agency nurse, we can work as bank nurse when we have off to get extra money, and there are people just work for agency only:>

I has been in my new deparment for about two months or so, and sadly to say, i am still trying very hard to keep up with perfecting my work..yesterday was one of my good day, I worked with nice people, I managed my patient well, things went well and i updated all my chart perfectly and gave all the medication a order..

So,2130hrs ..handing over time, I handed over to this night bank nurse,everything went well, so we went on to the drug chart, as we scrolled down the chart, she suddenly pointed at tis column and ask,

"did you give this mediaction at 8pm?"

"errr..no..is orderd to be given at 10pm in the night.."

"but is BD, so you should give at 8 since 8 in the morning u gave it.."

"u have to give it before you go.."

I was stunt..seriously..

first of all, is written tobe given at 10pm drug round, secondly, is says BD..not 12 hourly..and is just senna, if it was heart medication or antibiotic, i would have totally agreed with her and give it happily..honestly my whole life I have not questioned my colleuges or junior y din they give drug that is meant to be GIVEN AT 10PM at 8pm in the evening!? I swear!!F*&%%$ hell.. I NEVER!!And I never imagine people will ask me that..haha..i don know what to say..i gave it quietly and went home..

If you ask me, I felt bullied..and sad for her..if next time she think that she might not have time to give the 10pm drug, let me know, i would be more than happy to stay back to give her a hand:> But to pick on me at this issue is just not cool at all..I never mind people tell me off for the thing that i have done wrong and i am always ready to learn and admit my mistake..if i was her, even then the drug is to be given at 8pm, i would have ask her to go home and i would give it my time, is just a laxative after all( well, I am not underestimating the effect of SENNA but…duhh)

so, I ended my day felling hurt and angry..( well, mostly with myself for not kicking her on the spot..huahuaaaaaa)

so,my first blog of complaining people:> hopefully will be the last:>

And i will not be affected by this kind of WARD bully:>If she do it one more time……………well, I still haven think of what todo when it happen again:> shall see..

Is my day off today, not only that i have updated two blogs at once, ( well, tis will be the third one:>) I also decided to do some fanciful thing to my blog page:>

YES!! I name it THE KAMPUNG GIRL:> well, reason simple, you guys know me well, i am a kampung girl:>and also my fav comic is The Kampung Boy from LATS( Malaysia)..but all my input so far is not really kampung stories:< Or about " lets view life in a kampung way- simple and nice"..Still, i dun care, i love the name:>

So, please enjoy my Kampung Girl blog page:>

This is an update for my holiday back home, went to this small town call sempurna..my fav palce would be their fish market,a truthly seafood paradise:>all fishes are fresh from the sea:>

I wished i got a kitchen next to the market:>

  colourful coral fish

wati’s fav fish, she get so upset seeing this photo, and guess wat, they only sell it for RM2

giant clam

dun know wat they call this, you can get it from jap shushi..best person to ask would be my diver friend philo:>

fish head curry anyone?

dried sting ray

in the market

this three little girls has been folowing me aroud since i stepped in to the market, they were really amazed by my digital camera, their jod is to follow all the shopper round and sell them carrier bag for the seafood that they bought..

i am JINX!!! Sigh..again!!

i has been working for six or seven years, i would said i have experienced lots of funny things and people at my work place..and here are lots of myths when you work back home, my favourite one would be we shouldnt bring PAU ( chinese bun with meat wrapped in wheat flour)to work…initially i find it very funny, WTH!! what is the silly PAU got to do with my work? Then all my senior at 5B told me: " cannot eat PAU or bring PAU to work, you see PAU looks white colour with meat inside right? just like when patient passed away we have to wrap them in a white sheet after last office.. soooooo…if u bring PAU to work, means you wanted to pack patient.." back then the silly me will show my innocent face more innocently and ask" really ah?" and of course i got the best answer-"REALLY.. see for myself"..true enough, every time when we got sick patient, and someone bring PAU and eat for lunch, thats it..end of story, we will have to pray for the patient and same time curse the fellow who eat PAU..WELL,  things like that happen on and off, and i rather take it seriously than playing a fool, i always avoid eating PAU in the ward, reason being I always wanted my patient to survive, and i can have a easier shift:> BUT STILL..I hardly have any easy shift back home, when ever i was on , there are always lots of happening…i always blamed it on the "co-workers bad combination theory".. may be certain people who borned in certain date shouldnt worked together, just like i can never go on same night shift with wati back home, either we will admit 6- 7 patient in one night, or once worse, her patient jumped down from ward, or my patient passed away, then her patient passed away 15 minutes later…wow..happening. But at time goes by, nor matter who I on with, we will still be busy, so end of the day I am the culprit..JINX they said.. Dont on with Wong, she is so jinx..they even warned my student " becareful when you on with wong huh, sure busy one..hahaha" then my student will show the innocent face" really ah?" ofcourse my friends din throw stone at me becourse of that la…we still happily ever until one day i realise, eh..my jinx is gone..errrrrr..well, not completely but seems much better compare to my first three years.so, I din hear the "must be you on la" for quite a while…then suddenly ding dong..i heard it again yesterday..DAMN…reason being- i was backed from holiday for at least three weeks already, hence i started working for three weeks, and most of my shifts seems busy to me, may be partly is becourse i am still adjusting to the new environment, things get disorganise( but how patient not peeing during my time is becoz of my disorganisation leh?)..and these round of night shift is my worse night mare ever since i came to uk..first night, my patient not peeing, spending whole nite give these that just try to make him pee.. second night i was told that the patient should be better, everything looks good..then take over, din pee enough, got to put on filter..so whole night busy with the filter..third night for a change, take a easier patient for a change..then there is a collapsed..my previous patient..urgent thearter and all the drama..so i told the nurse- must be you, atleast he din collapsed  last nite, hahaha :> then same day seven AM , my patient not breathing enuf, for re intubation:< shoot!!! What wrong ..Then my last night, i was hoping for a better luck, even change my hair band and put on different color underwear, may be the god of luck will take extra care of me for my special efford.. so, take back the same patient, seems recover better, aim for trachea insertion in te morning..after handing over, patient bp dropped..spending whole nite jus try to keep the bp till 6 am..cannot, have to start more drugs and stuff..so there goes i was running around till 7.30am handing over time..and person come on duty smile at me" haha, is must be you wong" " so what they said is right, you always very busy" " you are jinx"

sigh…what can i say… may be the color of the underwear is not right:<

( fo my non-nurses friend, we always treat patient with respect and care with all our heart, please do understand their condition turn bad is due to their own underlying problem, not becoz of the jinco nurse, we do have lots of patients go home fit and well, see for urself next time wen you guys get admitted..is true..:>)