Monday, 29-Dec-2003 7:14 PM

Hope you're all having a good time! I am! :D See you in the New Year!

Tuesday, 23-Dec-2003 6:45 AM

Takin a little break!

I'm picking him up in a short while :D Haha, I can't contain myself :)

Have a great Christmas and New Year everyone =) Thanks for all the guestbook signages! Always made me smile =)

Monday, 22-Dec-2003 9:11 AM

Yesterday was crazy. Did laundry. Pulled out some weeds in the garden. Dashed out to get stuff. Took longer than I intended because there was a homeware store there (kind of like Bayswiss) with 50% off everything and I was so tempted to get things I didn't need! I was holding on to some stuff too but I'm glad to say I put it all away :D Came back home to hang laundry up and put another load in. Steam cleaned the carpet. Went out to Balmain to eat lunch with my sis and her bf...turned out into a window shopping day (ie wasting more time). Came home, cleared my room then vacuumed and steam cleaned it. My cousin rocks up out of nowhere. She's leaving her car at our place while she's back in Malaysia. We all go out to her new apt and show my sister's bf around. Then he goes home and we all eat at a Indonesian place in Kensington. It was too dark to do more of the carpets when we came back so I just reorganised my room. Put a new shelf in, which I stole from my sister (so now she has to find somewhere to put all her stuff. Hey! She said I could :P ). Now all my folders and books on the floor have a new home and aren't leaning against my desk, preventing me from opening the drawer :)

I didn't know my cousin was going to come over before she left. I wouldn't have eaten the truffles that I was going to give her otherwise :D I'm doing her a favor anyway :P

Now I know he's used to my mess but I just really want a clean and empty room. I kind of also feel like things are back to front with him being much neater and organised than me. I've found this to be the case with all my male friends too. Why is that!?! Grr. Things are going to change this summer.

I found a nice box for the truffles. Gave them to my sister's bf for helping find the flight ticket last minute :) He looked like a little boy in chocolate heaven when he ate it. Heheh

Sunday, 21-Dec-2003 9:12 AM

These are what the truffles were supposed to look like! Mine were swimming around in their cases :D ehhe

So much to clean up before he gets here. Ugh! I've just either been too busy or too lazy. You know me well enough to figure which it is. I can't believe I've left it all til now. PLUS my christmas shopping too =/

Alright, that's why I'm up so early...better get to it.

Saturday, 20-Dec-2003 0:20 AM

Truffles!

I didn't know truffles were these things. I always thought those were rum balls and truffles were those flaky chocolate looking things at the chocolate store. Anyhow..I halfed everything the recipe asked for because I didn't want to make 60 truffles. I thought 30 was a lot too but from strangely I only made about 15 from what I had! They were small too! But ooooooh so delicious :D We have a food processor somewhere but I couldn't be bothered to take it out and use it (cause I'm too lazy to wash all the parts afterwards) so I thought I'd just use this hand held mixer thing we have. Bad idea. Everything flew everywhere and I stupidly tried to use the blender on the lowest setting but that didn't work. So in the end I just had to go with the hand blender and let everything fly everywhere. Which means....I ended up washing way more things than if I'd just stuck with using the food processor.

It was so hot today, I really couldn't do much. I felt like my skin was melting off my body and trying to do anything just exhausted me. I ended up sleeping the late afternoon away. Argh, which means more to do this weekend. Plus I'm working tomorrow. Lets hope it's a good day. Scary supervisor is on tomorrow.

Friday, 19-Dec-2003 10:53 AM

Wednesday's Front Desk Fun-Day

They've changed the clinic roster so I don't have to go in today for T. GOOD. This week at clinic has been crazy. When I took his shift on Wednesday, his patients cancelled on me and some random guy booked in and he wouldn't stop talking. He did insist on coming back to see ME though and not the other student that had him before. I found a couple of things on him, including an ilium misalignment and a problem at his him. When I pressed over the area and asked if it hurt, he turned and looked at up me in amazement and said 'YES! Oh my god! How did you know that!? How come Matthew never touched that area before!? How come???' I just smiled and said that we all have different opinions about what's going on with a patient and so sometimes we find different things. He seemed so amazed. I didn't want to tell him that at the time, I didn't actually know what it was that I found, it felt funny, so I just thought I'd ask if it hurt :P

That night I was on reception for the last shift, with another guy. It was really busy and at one point this man came in for his appointment but the intern was still with her previous patient so all three of us talked and joked around. I went to knock on A's door to tell her that her patient was waiting and she said okay. Ten minutes later, she doesn't come out and the other receptionist goes to knock on her door again. The man got agitated and we asked if he wanted to see another available intern. He said no and that he wanted to speak to our supervisor. He went a little psycho at her about how she can't run the clinic and that he is never more than 5 minutes late with his clients etc etc. He also called her incompetent numerous times. Then he demanded to speak to the head of department and said he's already made complaints before. He then was asking what she was going to offer him and she said he could be treated now (it had been half an hour by this stage) or get his money back and leave. He said he was never coming back here and that he was going to go to a proper chiro. Then he asked again what she was going to offer and said that if she could fix him in ten minutes, then okay. She said no. More arguing. Then he comes to get his money back and I give it to him. He tells us to know who he is and remember his name cause when he complains, it's definitely noted and that he was going to see to it that she wasn't going to be working there anymore etc etc. Then he stormed out and tried to slam the door but it's a vacuum spring thing so it closed slowly.

A few minutes later, I see him standing out the front on his mobile phone. He was trying to make it obvious to us what he was doing. He comes back in and asks me for the supervisors name. I give it to him and he writes it on a card and says he's made a complaint to the head of department about her. Righty-o then.

A few minutes after that, I get a call. It's him again. He wanted to know if the supervisor was part of the Chiro Assoc. I didn't have a clue. I told him I could find out but he'd have to hold the line. He was actually normal on the phone to me. The supervisor ended up talking to him again.

After that I get another call. It's the head of department. I'm told I have to write a report on the entire incident - what I saw, what I thought etc etc. I'm also asked if there's a free slot the following day at 9am.

The supervisor comes out of her room and she writes that man's name down for the following day, 9am. Hah. After his huge stint, he's coming back!!? Then I see her writing "no charge" under his name. Gees. I'm told to give the intern that will be treating him a call to make sure she comes on time etc. She freaked out when I called. She realised something big must have happened because she too got a call from the head of department.

Poor A. She was the one that was supposed to treat him that night and she had never seen him before (it wasn't a regular patient of hers). She didn't have to write a report either. We spoke on the phone later and she was saying how bad she felt because it was all her fault and everyone else had to cop it.

It took me forever to type up that report. I really don't want to be a part of things like that. We'll see how it all goes.

But for now, I'm going to take advantage of this day off! I should be cleaning everything before Salami gets here (hehe, I didn't mention that we found him a flight here in the end :D ) but I'm going to make chocolate truffles instead! :D

Saturday, 13-Dec-2003 10:16 PM

Oh man, I really need help right now trying to decide if I should be crazy/stupid/foolish enough to email the boy because it's his birthday. I hadn't planned on wishing him a happy birthday through any means but I say this every year and every year I end up doing so. I'm not sure if it's something I regret but it seems like a tradition now, why break it no?

Sometimes when we talk, as little as we do, I get the feeling that he wishes things had worked out between us. Beyond that hard exterior, he's actually pretty damn vulnerable.

Ahhh, someone stop me. Here I go with the birthday email..

Friday, 12-Dec-2003 11:29 PM

Got home after 8pm last night from the clinic. We finished our shift early. I've got another patient! Clocking them up slowly but I don't mind. I'm still hesitant about doing things. While eating dinner in front of the tv I felt the house shake a little and heard the windows and glass door rumble. Freaked me out. At first I thought that damn kid across the road is playing football again and has kicked the ball against our garage door but then I realised it was past 9pm and he wouldn't be playing at that hour because there's no light. Then I got all paranoid thinking someone was trying to break into the house and didn't care to be subtle about it either. I sat still for so long but it didn't happen again.

Later that night when my sister and I was flicking through the tv channels, we stopped on the news and they said there was an earthquake earlier and it happened to be at the same time I felt the rumble. Wow! Years and years ago I was so mad for sleeping through a small earthquake in Bangkok. Everyone else in my family was awake. It bothered me for a loooong time. But now I've had my piece! And no one else felt it. Hmm...that just looks like I'm making it up.

Anyhow...I woke up at 5:30am because I felt more rumbling and whatnot. Windows shivered too. I seriously thought something major was about to happen. Jumped out of bed...stared out the window...tried to check the news for any newflash information....turned the radio on (but had it super soft so I could still hear the rumbling outside). I guess it was nothing. Just thunder approaching. It lasted a long time and then rained most of the day.

Wanted to get a lot done today but didn't end up doing much. Talked to Salami for almost two hours and then went to the doctor at uni. Bumped into a friend who apparently failed one of the subjects and was there to complain. I also went to get my clinic name badge. Everyone else has theirs and has had theirs for months now but ME. When they gave them out, mine had half my fricken name on it. Stupid people. Why does this kind of stuff always happen to me. No one was in the office so the two of us waited a bit and then went to look for them at the cafeteria seeing as it was lunchtime. I felt bad...I didn't want to stick around so the poor guy had to hang around and wait by himself.

Went to do some shopping but didn't get anything as usual. I'm craving chocolate and cake and brownies and all that good stuff that kills ya :) Not so much eating it but I really want to make those things. I almost bought a cookbook of desserts :D Good thing it was right at closing time and the people working there turned the lights out to give us all a hint :P

Mom left yesterday and I didn't really get a chance to say a proper goodbye. I was running late and getting all pissed off (not at her, but she was around). I gave her a quick hug and got in the car. Then I got all teary and came back out to give her another hug. Sometimes I fear that it might be the last hug. The last goodbye. It make me want to give her another hug and not let go. This was the first time none of us could drop her at the airport :(

Wednesday, 10-Dec-2003 7:41 PM

There's one question all my patients ask me, without fail.

'What's that?' I asked the surgeon. 'I'm waiting for you to ask me' he said. There really weren't any questions I had in mind except I was curious about the color of the stitches since the last time I got stitches they were dark blue and everyone thought there was a fly on me.

Apparently everyone always asks how many stitches they got. Oh, I don't care I tell him. One stitch, 10 stitches, there are still stitches on me regardless of the number.

'I gave you 104 stitches.'

'Yeah whatever, I know you didn't.'

'How do you know that? How many did I give you then?'

(Me being a smartass and taking a guess) 'I could hear you stitching! You gave me 4 stitches'

He's quiet.

'Very good guess. You're really close.'

Anyways, around 6 stitches. Minus one now because one whole stitch came out a couple of hours after I got home because I couldn't stop licking at it.

I'd like to make up something cool and say I got in some fight with a bitch of a girl and she swung at me so I knocked her out and scattered her teeth all over the sidewalk BUT, I didn't and I'm just really a wuss of a girl who hates going to the dentist and doctor and all that, not because it's painful, but I just hate getting off my ass to do those health checks. So anyway, I had to get a mole removed that happened to be on my lip. The sun here is really bad and I guess my lip just couldn't handle being kissed by it. Strangely enough, there's two other friends of mine who have the same thing, on their lip too.

Anyways, the surgeon. When I saw him for a consultation a few months ago he made me feel rather uncomfortable. I thought he was hitting on me. He took my hand and was feeling it and all. When I was leaving, he ran out after me and asked if I knew how to get to the surgery place. I said I'd find it, it wouldn't be a problem but he persisted to draw me a map. Then he went back in his office with the new patient and I was talking to the receptionist and I heard him calling my name out from inside his office! Eeugh... so I was pretty hesistant on Monday. Kept telling myself not to argue about chiropractic philosophy with him (he brings it up) and to just agree with anything he says because I don't want a madman poking my lip with a scalpel. He started testing me on my neurology, asking me what nerve he was about to stick the needle in. Can you not ask me that now???

'Okay, I'm sticking it into the mental nerve. Do you know where the mental travels from?' He proceeds to give me a very descriptive explanation. All this while I'm trying to ignore him and concentrate on the sound of the water trickling off the water feature on the wall. It was being drowned out by the club music he was playing in the background. He asked a bunch of questions and wanted me to respond while he was doing the surgery. I kept thinking that if I did, he'd cut more than he should so I was trying not to talk and he said 'oh, I know the type of girl you are. I know just the type.' and assumed I was the kind of girl who withheld information.

Alright, I really shouldn't make him sound worse than he is. He was really good and the swelling has gone down so fast so I'm happy about that. Lets just hope when I'm in clinic tomorrow, no one tells me there's a fly on my lip.

Tuesday, 09-Dec-2003 11:42 AM

Guess who has stitches across her lip! I'd throw in a picture but it's kind of gross :) Looked much like a baseball before.

Anyways, I've SO much to do! Why is it that I just keep sitting my ass in front of the computer and doing nothing?! I've looked at all my daily sites. Twice. Looked at the news, ebay etc etc. Even looked at what other people on ebay are getting. Ergh!

Hmm, I wonder what's on tv.

Monday, 08-Dec-2003 0:42 AM

Bring me back a piece of durian.

Is it safe for me to say that for now, T is my favorite uni friend? Because he cares, or at least he leads me to believe so. He's going back home for the holidays and taking an extra week off too so I've agreed to take his shifts at the clinic. I'll miss him! He was nice enough to ask if there was anything I wanted from over there. Three times.

It made me think about the times we drove together to visit Mr Nice out where he lived. I insisted I knew the way so the second time we went, he told me to direct him there and tell him which roads were coming up etc while he drove. I can't do roads, I tell him. I know my way by houses and funny objects.

Go straight until you reach the new villas, then turn left. Head straight and pass a weird two-storey house that has nothing but open space and a hammock on the second level. Continue until you pass a house on the right with an ugly fence, then turn left.

Ugly fence??! How am I supposed to know what house that is??!

Oh trust me. When you see it you'll know.

Hey, is that it?

Yes! See! I told you. I give good directions.

So what happens if they change it? You won't find your way anymore.

Of course I will. It'll be the house that used to have an ugly fence!

Ahh, I'll miss him :)

Sunday, 07-Dec-2003 1:21 AM

I got bored. As we all know, when I'm bored, this is what ends up happening:

Woah. Now I would think that last one was really cool, in fact, I did...until that image loaded up. If that character represents perfect, then hell no! I'm changing my answers:P

Saturday, 06-Dec-2003 0:35 AM

Check out the store!

I got bored after my exams and sat at my desk one day and made a whole bunch of stuff! So if you're stuck for some xmas gifts, take a look!

Here's a few for show:

Friday, 05-Dec-2003 0:14 AM

It sucks when you can't be with the people you want to be with during the holidays. I am completely depressed right now. I think he left it a little too late to book a flight here so basically there are none, unless you want to pay some ridiculous amount like 6 grand. I don't want to say I told you so but bloody hell. There are no flights back home either so it looks like I'm spending the Christmas break alone.

Wednesday, 02-Dec-2003 9:35 PM

First day on Monday.

First day at clinic was pretty good. I didn't think I had any patients because Mr Nice was on reception during the shift before mine and he sent me a text message on my phone saying I didn't have anyone scheduled in for the day. When I got there however, I saw I had a someone in the appointment book and the letters 'N/P' under their name.

Hey, does N slash P stand for No Pain?? (me thinking I got lucky)

No. It stands for New Patient. You poor thing. Goodluck !

Great. He was real nice though and we talked quite a bit. I spent like an hour and forty minutes with him. The thing with new patients is you don't know what they're coming in for. Which means you gotta be on your toes, damnit. You need to know the ins and outs and all the nitty gritty things that they could be presenting with.

I kept forgetting to do things and had to keep getting him to sit, then stand, then sit, then stand. I felt bad about that :) The other thing was, after taking his patient history and all that, I told him I'd leave him to undress and put on the gown. While waiting outside, I realised I forgot to tell him to put the gown on so that it ties up the back and not the front, so I had this image in my mind of him standing there, wearing the gown back to front. When I opened the door, there he was lying on the table, wearing nothing but red underwear. BRIGHT RED! Good lord I didn't know I could avert my eyes so fast. He said he didn't know how to put the gown on so he didn't bother with it.

Let me tell you something about the underwear though...they didn't exactly stay on. WOAH. I just realised what I said. Ahhh.,..that's not it at all! I meant they were a little baggy! I could see his buttcrack. Hmm anyhow. I had to get the supervisor in afterwards to check over everything. I didn't get the primary diagnosis (it was actually what I had listed as secondary) but anyhow, it was a good learning experience. Did some massage and trigger point on him and tried an inferior adjustment which didn't go. While I was setting him up for the adjustment (which requires his knee to be between my legs), he says to me 'wow! this is a sexy adjustment!' .....err...all I could do was laugh. Or knee his balls I suppose. Nah, he really was a nice guy. Aussie dude married to a japanese lady. Has a 16 mth old baby and disclosed to me that his wife was pregnant again. I feel so special! :D

When he left, I had to write up the care plan and it was almost time to close up the clinic. Everyone was telling me to hurry up because they wanted to leave early :P So the supervisor ended up telling me what to write and I just scribbled it all down. Someone brought a cake too so everyone was pigging out on that and watching me stress out. There actually was way too many of us there. We're still in the middle of the changeover where the final year students leave and we take over.

You know what. This entry is so boring, I can't even read it again. So with that..gnite :P