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I’m not gonna’ boast that i’m the best cook, because I’m really not. I learned cooking just in 2 years and before that I can barely fry an egg.
But I really enjoy watching food network, and my boyfriend is just so appreciative of my small efforts until it became cooking to a 2-inch ribeye steak. It was honestly very risky because I have never done it in my entire life. But i guess,, thats what love can do. Make you do all the things you’ve never done before.
Somehow, it did turn out really great. he was very pleased and very surprised. lol.
I’m not even sure if I can do it again… but I do hope I will be able to. heheh.
The Power – Rhonda Byrnes (one of my favorite quote)
“Respond intelligently to an unintelligent treatment” Lao Tzu
I’ve been trying to read this book for almost a year now and I haven’t had the chance. Now, I make it a point that not only will I finish it, internalising on its life lessons and teachings are really crucial.
There are few moments in life where I wish I could have handled some situations differently. But I can’t dwell on the past, sometimes we just have to shrug it off and not let it affect us. Past is past. We all learn from it.
I really can relate to the saying above — means, I try to be positive about any given situation. At work, in a bad situation, or simply when things are not going accordingly. I always tell my boyfriend to laugh at negative situations and make it a learning experience instead.
He is an emergency physician and me — a nurse. We all got good days and bad work days – some pain-in-the-ass kind of days; rude patients, patients screaming at you demanding to be seen immediately because they have cough and colds.. I mean, come on… We do try to find something to smile at or find something interesting in easy cases like haemorrhoid or headache. There should be something behind patients attitude. Maybe he had a bad day at work, or maybe he’s got financial problems, or got divorced with his wife.. or whatever leading him or her to have some kind of attitude or symptom… who knows?
There is always something to be glad about.
Always feel good, lighten up, and don’t sweat the small stuff!
13 months
13 months and 14 days.
This is how long I worked as an opd nurse in the former company where I worked before I resigned to pursue my speciality of being an ICU Nurse in a government hospital.
I am always grateful for the opportunity that came my way. The nice people I met, the skills I learned, and the daily experience with catering patient needs is more than enough to be thankful for.
I believe that what is really meant for us will really find a way no matter what.
When I started in my former work, they promised to transfer me to my speciality and that I have to wait for a few weeks and then they can transfer me as soon as they find a replacement.
Well, 13 months after and still, my hope gets crushed day by day, and the feeling of grieving for my skills as it becomes dormant is eating my soul and work has become depressing really fast. I truly believe that if you do something, do it with all your heart. Go Big or die trying!
I am really skilled – I love the sound of ECG machines, ventilators, the smell of icu .. getting busy with critical patients –it gives that sense of accomplishment, that sense of hype.
6 months after I started, and a day after finding out that the lady who was supposed to replace me went AWOL, my feeling of hope really flew out the window. Its like being thrown out in the sinkhole of nothingness. I remember feeling so hopeless inspite having everyhing prepared and laid out; endorsements printed, patient updates all compiled in spreadsheets – it was like doing it for nothing. I come to work day by day so depressed and I really thought that I’d get stuck in OPD doing paperworks and calling patients asking for follow-up. To be honest, it is not really how I imagined my career to be.
With a glimpse of hope disappearing… I got an email for an interview in a government hospital, they asked for my CV, and a few days after — I was sitting outside on queue in the HR Department. It was an interview supposedly for woundcare nurse, and I said why not? I’m an ICU Nurse and I was a Hemodialysis specialist before that, I might as well try my luck and go for it.
Well, inside the room of 4 people including the HR Manager, Director Nursing, ICU Specialist, and HR personnel they checked my file and grilled me with question after question. After a moment of silence and their look on their faces — they finally asked me if I would like to work in ICU. I honestly cried in-front of them. It was everything that I asked and prayed for! I cannot imagine having this opportunity. It was like a fire lit my spirit and I was soaring high!
I truly believe that having faith in yourself and patience.. everything that is meant for us will always find a way. Everyday I am so grateful for everything in my life; my boyfriend, having a roof over my head, sun in the sky, the air we breathe, the everyday opportunities and events, my cats and everything else that makes up everyday.
I am truly happy.
Taken by Love – Melissa Foster
I have a hunger for crime novels. But once in a while I find Contemporary Romance easy to read and enjoyable.
This book is just well written. A very first of my Melissa Foster’s Series of novels.
Highly recommended.
5 stars.
Thankful for Being ALIVE.
Thank you for the air we breathe.
For being grounded.
For the love around me.
For days that brings opportunities.
For Being ALIVE.
Silence.
Sorry I’ve been MIA for the past few months.
I’ve been putting my priorities, and dealing with life’s rollercoaster ride. Inspite the trials, and falling deep into the sinkhole, I tend to have found light in silence and books.
I’ve read quiet a few books. I’m honestly a sucker for crime and mystery, and recently I found books of Kristina Ohlsson really interesting and I read DISAPPEARED, and UNWANTED in 2 days.
Apart from reading, I kind of enhanced my cooking skills — as you all know, I’m really horrible in the kitchen. I’m still doing basics and taking baby steps in learning which ingredient goes best with what. It’s a work in progress..
I learned so much that Life teaches us lessons everyday, we need to be sensitive to its teachings and to be grateful for whatever it brings.
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“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami
Just Quotes:
Dawson(Of Dawson’s Creek) : [describing heartbreak]
It’s agony. Complete, excruciating agony.
It’s like your heart has been ripped out of your chest and stomped on, and you can’t breathe…
you don’t want to eat… you can’t function.
It’s the most intense pain that you’ll ever feel, and the worst part is, there’s no way to relieve it.
It’s unyielding, merciless torture, and you *know* that it’s yours for life.
Melt Cosmetics.
I got crazy over these Melt Lipsticks and bought each and every color they have!
Definitely a must buy. Very matte and long lasting. Highly recommended.
Being a cat Mom — Mimi’s surgery.
I grew up in a house with a lot of dogs. When I say a lot.. i mean like could to up to 15-20 dogs in a time. My grandma loves dogs and I still remember each and everyones names and from different dog breeds. We had german shepherd, shih tzu, labrador, terrier, doberman to bulldog.. we had all different breeds. They were family.
I never really expected I get to love cats as I do now. Coming here to Dubai, there were certain restrictions to pet allowed in the building. So me and hubby decided to adopt a cat. Coco a ginger 7 y.o. moon faced Persian.
It didn’t take long we fell inlove to this jet black 1 y.o Persian-Chantilly girl Mimi. We took her home and since then she was our princess..
2 weeks before my travel to Oman for visa change exit, mimi transformed from being so feisty and playful to being severely weak. I was so worried that I had to rush her to the clinic and needs immediate surgery. The doctor did xray and ultrasound, and some IV fluids were given to rehydrate her as she was severely dehydrated– her skin was mottled and her BP was very low that time. I was in total panic and worried that it hurts to think that she might die.
We got her admitted and did whatever was necessary for her surgery.
I hear her cry, I think it was when they were trying to insert her IV and because of the severe dehydration it was almost impossible for them to find a vein. It was hurting me.. as if she was my child and I’m imagining that they had to poke her with needle several times. I know because as a nurse I know how difficult it is to find a vein to a severely dehydrated patient.
PHOTOS below during her hospitalization – she was so weak and lost a huge amount of weight during the 3 days of suffering.
Me and my partner waiting for 3 hours while Mimi is in OT.
It was gruesome wait we don’t know what to expect or how everything will be. He’s a doctor and me being an icu nurse I feel sick to my stomach thinking that Mimi as if she’s our child to undergo such pain. The anxiety was definitely killing us. We were so restless but there was nothing that we can do.
Finally, after surgery the vet came out and told us that we can see her. They did laparoscopy and took out bundles of thread blocking her gut. My mimi had obstruction. We knew from the time before I rushed her to the hospital that she hadn’t passed stool or even urinated, she wanted to eat and drink but unable to.. minutes out from surgery she was groggy from the sedative but she knew that we were there and she wanted to come to us. She even peed after a while. The doctor said it was a good sign. Seeing her fighting to be strong I am deeply proud of her. Our Mimi is a very strong girl.. ❤
We had to leave her at the clinic and checking on her everyday til she fully recovers and ready to be back home with us.
After 5 days of admission, I received a call from the Petzone personnel that we can take her home. Without any delay we went to pay off bills and took her home. Below is a photo of her and her daddy tired and asleep.. So happy to have her back!
2nd time in Oman. Mahadha Hotel
3 months after coming back from exit in Oman, my long term visit visa expired again which leaves me to exit again for visa change at the same place — Mahadha Hotel, Buraimi, Oman.
This time I decided that I will stay with the people in the room and just suck it all in. I met friends at the agency while we were waiting for the bus to arrive.
I remember last January we took the shuttle or a minivan and 24 people were crammed up on a 7 hour road trip to Oman not mentioning the 3 borders/checkpoints before finally arriving to the hotel.
This time, 41 of us and surprised that they gave us a bigger bus and definitely more comfortable.
Luckily, the people I knew were also from my previous exit who they say they saw me and actually talked to me at the reception — after that, we immediately clicked.
Compared to 3 months ago, travel time is a lot longer the bus took off 7pm and we arrived 2:30 am. An almost 8-hour road trip that we had to endure for visa change.
The border checkpoints also increased.
- 1st checkpoint was for Dubai exit stamping where we had to pay 35aed and for those who have overstay, they had to be paid in this station..
- 2nd was for Oman visa checking and entry stamp.
- 3rd was for luggage check
- 4th checkpoint was for Oman entry stamp verification.
we had to get in and out of the bus several times and even had to have a final stop around 1:30am at a restaurant in Oman for food and toilet. Everyone was so glad to be able to stretch a little, have food and coffee, and all of us were definitely anxious to get to hotel and settle ourselves in.
Internet connection is always an issue. During my first exit here, I bought myself an omani sim card and purchased a month of unlimited data connection, but even with that, signal is either weak or unstable.
Photo Below- is at the Grocery store. This building located at the back of the Main hotel and one of the 3 areas where they have installed a router for public usage. In any situation where you get connected, you will never want to leave otherwise no matter how much you try.. reconnecting will be such a pain in the ass.
The following day, we were so bored and all of us went to Lulu Hypermarket. This hotel offers a free transport to Lulu for an hour but limited to only 4 trips everyday. If in any case you wanna go and they say free trips are over, then you have to pay 25aed at the reception and request for a special transport — still limited to an hour to do grocery, eat out, or send and/or receive money .
(Left to right: Ate Azenith – HR administrator, Adrian – Architect, Francis – IT guy, and Cindy – waitress) – we all have each our different life stories and sometimes having no internet makes it even more fun because we get to communicate properly and get to know each other deeper.
3rd day and we receive our visas. We spent the whole day making it worth being there: we went to the Disco area where they have a huge swimming pool, it was quite a bit of a walk and it wasn’t necessarily clean either so we decided not to stay there. . We resorted to buying fish and lamb chops to grill… something like a little get together at the poolside.
And after 5 hours of travel from Oman – Dubai the following day, we all got together for a hopefully not last meal together at a chinese hot pot restaurant just near the agency. And we each went our separate ways not knowing whether we will see each other again. Our individual stories and shared experience during our visa change exit will be the one thing that we will all share and bring us close together.
dK 