Sunday, August 24, 2008

What a spectacular closing ceremony for olympic games 2008!!!

It's a pity that i missed the opening ceremony. Well , at least i did not miss the closing ceremony. Luckily, i managed to catch the Mens Volleyball Final , USA Vs Brazil. It was an exciting challenge for the gold medal. It's kinda funny when i dun play volleyball but i love to watch volleyball games. And it is always more exciting to watch the guys play than the gals. They made everything looks so easier and effortless manipulating the direction of the ball. However, i missed the basketball finals. Missed Kobe bryan in action. Darn....

Let's congratulate China for being such an fantastic host for the games. She has made everyone proud of them for the success of the games 2008.

10:31 PM
Caris

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Sometimes i really wonder if i have the capability to control my emotional outbreaks. My mood swings gets pretty bad these few days. Maybe it is just because i was just too tired. No time to rest well over the long weekend due to work commitment. For those who worked with me over the years, may have experienced my emotional outbreak at work. Oops earthquake right .. hee hee Today i had a few episode and the last one ,,,, i dun really think it is necessary and could have mishandled the situation. Well, just see if there's any complaint lodged tomorrow for being rude.

I always know that there's lots of communication problem among departments in hospital. They dun talk to one another. They dun communicate through emails sometimes and most importantly they dun have the basic understanding of good communication skills. Many issues could be resolved if they have made prior arrangement before the event happened. For example, if they booked an appointment in the evening almost to end of operation hours for tomorrow case. Out in the corporate world, the person should have the courtesy to call and inform the section personally to inform of the late add on appointment so that the other party could prepare for that. The case listing was printed out at the end of the day before the gals knocked off. So if anything add on after that it will not reflect in the listing and the following day, no one will notice the changes coz there's not time to check for latest update. If not, then we should start a system to check for the latest updated list every morning. Everyone work as a team, so if the communication is well facilitated, the event today could be prevented all together. It's not just the effort of one party . Dun tell me things like in that case i dun have to request in SAP. If you dun request in SAP, there's no request form , there will be also no slot booked for the procedure. i getting sick of such system where by everyone thinks that everyone have all the time in the world to check what other people are doing. i hate the working environment where everyone just point fingers at others when something pops up and runs away from responsibilities... i hate running the show with so many people giving different commands which not only confusing and inefficient. The entire work process are mostly inefficient. When can they wake up from the little world of theirs?

As i aged over the years, my stamina had also decreased significantly especially over the past one year. Here i am, trying to sought a way to lead a balance lifestyle but no matter how i try, i still struck in this hectic work lifestyle.

Not that i dunno what i want in life. just that i could not control myself to reject many tasks assigned to me for no reasons. Sometimes being selfish do help in a way, however, it's up to individual to make that decision. Being a peace loving person, most of the time i could not bring myself to do that. Silly me... but that's me. If not, i will have this feeling of guilt that i did someone wrong.

8:41 PM
Caris

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Yesterday, we were celebrating our nation's birthday.

i did not really get to enjoy the national day parade as around 6 plus in the evening, we received a phone call from LA that my grandma had passed away.

The news did not came as a surprise as she has been in and out of hospital since the heart failure episode about a year ago. Since then, she was plagued with kidney failure which resulted in regular dialysis sessions. Then followed by the amputation scare of the foot which turned out to be misdiagnosed. The recent event was that she was admitted for acute appendicitis and had the appendix removed surgically. Complications after surgery as she did not really regain her appetite. Guess that also made her prone to infections. She was admitted again on monday with colitis and UTI. As usual, she was put on antibiotics which probably made her even more sick. Clinical history of our family is that we could not take strong antibiotics. Our bodies will develop negative effect from the antibiotics. That's something i observed from my mum and myself. Nothing to really pinpoint the medical treatment she had received over there in states.

i guess she had enough of the pain and suffering she has tolerated so far. She could not take it anymore, she had chose to give up the hope of living , her will to live has diminished even further after the final blow to the fact that she had expressed more than thrice that she did not want to live and more. She wants to die. she dun even want to wait for my cousin's wedding next year and my younger brother's wedding at the end of the year.

To a certain extent, we wanted her sufferings to end too. Being confined to bed was already a torture for an active old lady like her. At least, from what described to us, she died peacefully.

Although she was a very fierce grandma when i was young, the recent meet up with her had changed my impression of her as i grew up and understand all her unpleasant plights she had underwent during her younger days. She is the maternal grandma of mine and i will always remember how she took time and effort to cook for me and my mum when we went over to states to visit her four years ago. Even when she came back to singapore for a short visit last year, she was elated that she could come over to our place and whip up a decent dinner for us and my favourite dish , sambal prawn, for us. i could see that she was contented to be able to cook for her bunch for grandchildren whom was not closed to her due to the fact that we were always closer to our foster grandma more than her. she always like to mention that i finished all her sambal prawns in states the last time. Regrets that we did not manage to take a family photo with her then.

At her healthy days when she shifted to elderly home, she would make a point to give us an oversea call every sunday to chat with my mum. And according to my auntie, grandma even prepared several sets of blankets at home in preparation for our visit to states again. We had promised to go last year but was postponed due to my foster grandma's medical conditions. With her heart failure episode, we wanted to visit her after my younger brother's wedding this year. She could not wait for us. ...... ....

Sad that i did not really do much for her and of course in a way i am glad that she dun have to suffer anymore.

in memory of my grandma....... ..... may u rest in peace..


4:43 PM
Caris

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