the best friends for life

more on 2007..

hey, i wanted to continue my post, but the silly homepage forced me to do some weird things to the account. it said must transfer some rubbish. and being rather blog illiterate, i didn't really see a way around it. so i just followed it's instructions. hope i didn't screw things up to much. anyway, i'm sure the computer geniuses who generously help to maintain this blog can reverse it if what i just did was really detrimental, right.. in any case, they said now have to log in wif some google account. so i just used my own normal email. so if any of you can't log in, can try that.. really hope everything isn't too messed up.

continuing with my rather boring entry, after i was done at the law firm, i got another temp job through the job agent. it was an admin assistant job for 2 weeks with a mnc, draeger medical. 2 weeks was just right. any longer and think i'd be expert at playing freecell and hearts. the company's a german company that supplies medical equipment to most of the hospitals in singapore, like respirators and baby logs (still figuring out wat exactly that is). helped out in the accounts department, which basically consisted of one other person, cos the other girl quit, and they hadn't found anyone new yet, which is why i was there i guess. so this one other person in the accounts department (the accounts analyst) was sort of like my boss cos i worked directly under her, tho it was supposed to be the finance manager. must say i'm really fortunate that this accounts analyst was really really nice to me. she's a rather soft spoken person, the kind who will quietly do all the work piled on her, so in the end she kana bullied a bit i think. she works part time, meaning up to 2.30, but always ends up going back around the same time as me, which is 5.30. but she was saying that if she works full time, she'd prob go back at 8 even tho the official time is 5.30, so better still work part time, then can spend more time at home since she claims she's getting old. apart from meeting really nice, fun and lively people (the logistics department was in the next row and the engineering department nearby too), i didn't too much besides right checks, help put the files in order, pack cupboards, data entry..
the most exciting part of that 2 weeks was the pre-cny days. was invited to the company cny lunch on wed. it was at a chinese restaurant nearby, boon lay raja restaurant or something like that. it was interesting to see all the guys sit at one table and all the gals at other. thot this sort of thing doesn't happen in the working world, sounds childish right.. then when the guys table started tossing the raw fish salad, the big boss, this german guy, exclaimed "wat a mess!"..haha.. a lady at our table (the finance manager) jokingly told him off, said cannot say this kind of inauspicious thing..haha.. then for dessert we had this typical chinese thing. with my lousy chinese, didn't know wat it meant. only knew it sounded like ice cream in chinese and apparently it was some part of the frog. frog lens or something? anyway, it was nice and sweet so i just ate it. but the finance manager refused to eat it. then after glancing across to the other table and seeing that the big boss was half way thru his share, she asked him, "claus, do u know wat's that?".. then she kindly informed him that it was some weird part of the frog, and the poor guy didn't have another spoon of it after he found out. then on fri, the big boss went around giving out hong bao and 2 oranges to each staff. it was quite odd to see this german guy walking around the office with a stash of hongbaos sticking out from his breast pocket.. nonetheless, i was pretty glad to be on the receiving end, it was quite a bonus :) so i had a happy ending to my last day of work. my pay hasn't come in tho, i'm still waiting, they had better pay me!
apart from work, spent half a day at my uncle's clinic. went in on a saturday since i cldn't find any other day since i was working. was supposed to be in at 8.45, so i got a rude shock when he called my up at 7.45 (was still fast asleep), and asked if i wanted to see a semi-emergency surgery. so i jumped out of bed, half brushed my teeth (before deciding there wasn't enuf time), changed, haf washed my face, before he was outside my gate. girls can't get ready in 10 minutes right.. didn't even have time to put on my contacts on comb my hair. anyway, no regrets, cos it was the first surgery i saw, and must say it was pretty interesting. he was doing a cesarean for this woman who for i dunno wat reason had to deliver prematurely. by the time i entered the operating theatre (took so long to get changed cos i was so unfamiliar wif everything), the patient was already anaesthesized, and the dr had already started. thot i'd faint at the sight of everything, cutting a person right across the abdomen and seeing everything inside (shan't go into details), but it wasn't that bad somehow. in fact, it was rather interesting to see how they did things. with such ease (guess it comes with experience) that the dr was just chatting away to the anaesthetist throughout the whole surgery..anyway, the baby was tiny, it was 30 weeks, which is 10 weeks early, but i heard he's doing fine now! so that's great! spent the rest of the morning in the clinic, seeing ultrasound scan, all these anxious and excited couples, some even came with the whole entourage or grandparents and what not.. guess it's understandable.. all in all, it was interesting (limited vocab u see), much more than office work, so shall go hunt for hosp attachments..
that's pretty much bout all the "useful" stuff i've done this yr. a long and rather boring post. i'll continue to blogging some other time..
bin and oeh, must write somethng.. u both haven't written anything for ages! must be more dutiful like me :)

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