5 weeks of itp are over!

Time really flies 5 weeks of itp ord gone 2 more weeks to go...congrats to mao and king finishing their itp this week hahaz :)

Blood bank section this week was interesting learnt quite alot of blood grp things like ABO grping and gels cards to test for antigens stuff. Forward grping and reverse grping looking at agglutination and determine what's the bld grp of the patient. Preparing the antisera every morning and many many things to learn...on wed 1 senior med tech was telling me the overall concept of blood bank and all those Ag-Abs complex thingy hahaz i dun realli rmb much abt what i learnt in sch so i was gg 'ya' and 'ok' while she's talking hahaz :p so what she's telling me i onli understand half of it some of it too chim le...

Last sat's mentoring bbq me and lirong went cycling from 6-8pm i learn how to cycle faster le hahaz gg down the slope was shiok hahaz :) but gg up the slope i've to use more strength...My first time falling while cycling: I was cycling along a quite narrow path and there's 1 pregnant lady walking on my right and 2 quite big-sized guys running on my left. So i tried to siam the lady by turning to the left and fell when i knock onto 1 of the guys...he was so strong i just fall with my bicycle lahz...after tt he just run away lohz so bad and the lady actually help me with my bicycle. still have some blue-black now on my neck and knee-cap...

2 more weeks of itp to go jia you everyone!:)

LO FINALLY here...

There's nth much to do for non-routine section this week main tasks are blood gas, CSF, blood ketone, which i've ord learnt during the week at urinalysis. So i was walking ard mon & tue mainly at biochem and immuno....feeling rather boring after clearing the overnight samples for immuno on wed so went to processing section and volunteer my services there hahaz cos i think there's quite alot of things to do there...and on my 1st day there i made a so called 'heart-stopping' mistake. i put a EDTA tube into the wrong type of rack and the centrifuger went crazy it was rumbling once it starts spinning...i was so scared and rmb what fraser had said abt centrifuger tt gone crazy during 1 haemo prac. And veri luckily ya i was so lucky it was the BALANCER tt i've put into the wrong rack...becos i rmb veri clearly tt i've put the blood EDTA tube into the 'babysitter rack' phew! when i open the door the cap of the balancer was missing ord so have to find it in the centrifuger. My heart was beating real fast if it had been the blood EDTA tube 1 med tech says there'll be bld all over the centrifuger. I'll be very careful next time!

Yesterday the LO finally came to see us and i was saying 'u r finally here' hahaz...cos he says b4 ITP tt he'll be coming during the 1st 2 weeks and now it's ord the 4th week hahaz. In the middle of our talk chingyi called hahaz and LO was saying the security over at DSO is veri tight he can't get in so he'll be gg there again next week...he says tt we can actually take night shift if we r interested. Med techs on night shift must know everything de veri challenging hahaz...

Hmm the week after next we have to choose our gems...i definitely have to take biz this coming sem anyone interested in taking Customer Service? have to look at other modules too but dunno what to take...

Another week of itp is over again today have mentoring bbq hahaz enjoy this weekend then work again...everyone enjoy ya weekend hope to see ur soon! :)

1 more mth of ITP!

This week of ITP at biochem section is quite ok except for mon...was feeling rather discouraged for the 1st time for ITP becos of what 1 med tech has said (let's call her Ms. C). And this's what she said: 'students better dun do so much hands-on work'...after tt she turn to me and said: 'sorri i'm not talking abt u'...I was feeling so~i'm the onli student there at tt time lahz and she says she's not talking abt me...it's her tone tt make me feel uncomfortable lohz and for the first day at biochem i made some mistakes got scolded by her...haiz tolerate tolerate! So on tue and wed i was walking here and there went to help out at immunoassay and urinalysis sections just wanted to siam her as long as i could...phew finally i can go back to biochem yesterday becos she's working at another corner...many thanx to fairuz and karen for their guidance finally i can learn something in biochem.Today she's back to biochem and it's until today tt i find she's quite ok becos i din make any mistakes hahaz so din kana scolded by her...

Today went to east pt again to eat, wif Miss C, Salome and other colleagues who r quite fun when they talk...Drank strawberry milk tea hahaz guess i need my weekly dose of milk tea :)
The food at east pt is more xpensive than those at cgh canteen but nvm hahaz i'm earning more than what i'm spending every week shd be able to save up some for transport fees...but it's better if there's pay for ITP lahz sobz! Those wif pay for ITP treasure it!

Hahaz since somebody will not be teaching us histo in stage A, today i go ask salome whether she'll be teaching us...and what she said is tt she's sitting in for histo lecture next sem and she's not sure whether she'll be teaching histo when we'll be in stage A...

And yesterday i was laughing like siao gal in kallang mrt...met up wif jazreen becos she wanted to pass me the indeminity form and $$ for mentoring farewell dinner. She says need to wear mask and i was saying issit 'kou zhao' maybe i can get it from the lab hahaz...she's laughing at me lohz 2 siao gals laughing...i think she's referring to those mask cover whole face de i dunno mahz. We sat at the stairs at kallang mrt and was talking for 1 hr hahaz she says my itp more interesting than hers cos her 1 is doing same experiments everyday veri sianz...but hers got pay lohz!

Hahaz blog too much for this week le...next week will be at non-routine section guess i'll be walking ard the lab like a zombie go help wherever i could cos it's more fun doing different things than stuck in 1 section everyday hahaz...Gambatte everyone! 1 more mth of ITP to go enjoy! :)

Another week of ITP has passed...

Haha 2nd week of itp is over time passed so fast! Urinalysis section this week for me is quite fun learn alot of things. Urine and stool is not tt bad lahz haha...for urine just dip stick and pipette into the chamber for microscopic work and see rbc,wbc,epithelial,casts,crystals...for stool just smear and test whether it's positive for occult blood quite fun hahaz...osmolarity for urine and serum is ok too. Omg the disgusting thing is worms in the stool lohz with the worm head and tail...also look at pseudohyphae and blastoconidia and many many stuffs hahaz...

The best thing abt urinalysis section is tt when there's no urine or stool specimens i can sit there and slack hahaz...have a realli nice talk today wif Salome, SP's new A&P lecturer. I guess she'll be the lecturer taking over Ms Poon for yr 1 A&P. Just thinking abt somebody else (C~)taking over histology lecture after ms poon have left make ppl so sadz...

Had lunch wif the seniors east pt mall yesterday and 1 of the simei coffeeshop today. We are like 'er gui' just released from lunar 7th mth lohz walk beri fast hahaz...had milk tea at sweet talk so nice! After tt went back to CGH taking the shuttle bus...

Haha just met up wif king, mao and princess yesterday for dinner it's my 1st time eating 'tian ji chou' at chinatown it was yummy! Hope to meet up wif the other zhus 1 day too hahaz lets have a ZHU FAMILY reunion dinner hahaz...

1 week has passed so quickly i'll be updating my blog next week hahaz :)

First week of ITP

Haha today is ord the 4th day of itp and i think i'm the most energized today compared to the last 3 days tt i've gone thru. First day was the worst tired dao~~legs suan dao~feet sore dao~bubbles on my fingers(cos wearing gloves all day). Luckily all these tiredness soon decrease each day hahaz...

These 4 days have been quite 'enriching' for me. I got into immunoassay this week and what i learnt are daily maintenance of the machine, calibration and run controls, followed by the running of patients' bld samples. And some faxing and despatching of results...today and yesterday i was preparing the bld samples for hepatitis project and transferrin research and some dunno what thyroid research...the ppl there are quite nice hahaz got 1 med tech from SP de she says she's in DCP last time but i dunno y she came to work here...

HIV bld samples are so dangerous!today when i pour the serum for 1 of the HIV bld sample accidentally leak to my gloves...haha my 1st reaction is to change my gloves haha so scared...went in for a lecture today it's abt blood gases. Notice 1 of the med techs taking down notes while some are just knocking their heads as the prof is lecturing...haha some are even slping! include me lahz i was half listening and slping at the same time wahahaz...these lectures are just too chim...

Oh ya and the food at cgh canteen is so~~~eatable but...hope tt tmr will not rain so can go east point eat hahaz...Life after work at ITP everyday is routine as well...reach home do some laundry, bathe, dinner, slp for 1 hr, watch tv and slp again at 11pm...then came the next day have to wake up at 6.45am...hmm the timing is the same as when there's sch lohz haha but the gd thing is no tutorials and quiz whatsoever wahaha...

Jia you to all the DBS students for ITP! After this week there'll be 6 more weeks left yay! :)