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Saturday, August 11, 2012

I've just finished my written assignment for O&G, so I'll just post a bit about this week.

On Sunday we had our Running Focus social, which had station games pitting any 2 different teams against each other. Our group, Crossing Jordan, won the 1st station (guessing the phrase) against Mike's group, the 2nd station (passing the drawing) against Boon and Pete's combined group, the 3rd station (multiplication amidst distraction) against Mitchell's group, the 4th station (guessing by hair) against Jeremy's group, but lost the 5th station (getting rid of post-its) to Clement's group. We were tied at the end with mike's group with 4/5 wins.

Then the 2nd phase had the hide-and-seek game that's classic of Running Man, and we were pitted against Minsheng's group. They were the chasers and we were the mission team - we had to find 6 aluminium foil balls hidden around the CLB/Scientia/Library area. I found one before I got caught by Teck Khai, but it took him, Pris and Wella to tear my name tag off - mission accomplished! In the end we found 5/6 balls and because Josh kind of cheated by going out of boundaries to hide, we won. At the end of the game we came in 2nd place, because Mike's group had won their mission faster than us. Then my group, Jonno's group and Minsheng's group went to Honey Wok for a well-deserved dinner.

Then on Monday when I woke up my hip joints kind of hurt from the running that an overly-enthusiastic Josh made us do the previous day, haha. We presented our case assignment at hospital, and then I swapped my delivery suite session with Harshita, so I got lunch and went to the DS at about 12:45pm before the handover and hung around. Actually 4 women delivered while I was there, but I wasn't able to see the first two.

I saw the 3rd woman deliver, though I wasn't expecting it to happen that soon because she'd been there for a long while prior to my arrival. As for the 4th woman, I kind of helped to translate for them on occasion, and stayed until she delivered, then to help clean up before going home. My feet really hurt after standing for so long!

Tuesday was more uneventful, except that my legs hurt a lot more! Then on Wednesday I had to leave in the middle of choir practice to do this high intensity intermittent exercise thing as part of my friends' research project for which I'm a participant. It was terribly hard!

Part of the project dictates that I fast 12 hours before going for the blood testing, which meant that I had to scarf down my dinner by 8pm right after I got back from choir practice. That night was also the night for our Singapore Study Break in IH, in which we made curry chicken with bread, muah chee and teh tarik for the residents, and did a presentation on our country and taught them some Singlish.

I wasn't very helpful in the food making process, I admit, and it was kind of saddening not being able to eat any of the food or drink any of the tea (no caffeine allowed), but it's okay because I packed the muah chee and took a bottle of the teh tarik for myself to eat the next day, yay!

Then on Thursday morning I went to my friends' lab for the blood testing, which involves taking a milkshake and having my blood drawn every hour on the hour for 4 hours. I managed to complete about 2/3 of my assignment during my time there - focused!

And since it was National Day, some of us went to Renu's place to watch the NDP online live screening, though obviously we were lagging behind by quite a bit due to the screen freezing every now and again. It felt shorter this year, somehow, and I thought it was over quite quickly, but maybe that's because we missed the marching part, which is my favourite part :( I think the new song isn't very nice...

Then Michelle, Renu and I watched some of the Olympics on Renu's new tv screen! We watched some beautiful rhythmic gymnastics in the individual 2nd qualifying rounds, namely the competitors from Belarus, South Korea and France. And it would intermittently cut to the women's 10km swimming marathon at Hyde Park - those women are amazing! Kudos to the Hungarian competitor for maintaining her lead, and to the USA and Italian competitors for catching up and making it a tense last stretch near the end!

Then on Friday we had our Bible study at Josh's place, where they made chicken rice (yum yum) and we celebrated Trish and Simon's birthdays! I think my plans at being stealthy about bringing the cake kind of failed since they suspected me of doing so, but too bad. And I think the cake shop lied about there being any tiramisu flavour in the cake, hmph.

The winds in Sydney have been ridiculously strong since Friday up to today, and I read in the news that further up north or nearer the coast the winds are even stronger, to the point of roofs being torn off. I had to brave the wind both yesterday afternoon and today when I went to the library to do my assignment.

That's it for this week. O&G is over, and we're going into paediatrics next week. Hopefully the kids are easy to work with! I miss my niece and nephew, sigh.

xuan blogged at 5:07 PM

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