Thinking Of An Announcement

Hmmm...I have been thinking of how best to make an announcement without any diversion on your concentration for your pending examinations. All in all, it looks like a bad timing to me. Nonetheless, after the revision I felt relief that majority of you folks will highly likely make it for the MS module...although I would be more impressed if you all could demonstrate your ability to link up patho and the care (which many a times form the rationales behind the interventions. Have you realise it!??), esp the ENs (stress ya?). Please keep up the good work and the learning spirit!

I guess I would not have to worry too much as long as you could keep your thinking hats on...not only during the course but more importantly in the clinical settings as many events are happening simultaneously, be it routine or sub-acute, it is easy to get sensory overloaded. In turn, it may affects your judgment and impact on patient outcomes. No matter what, please be kind to the patients. Majority of the patients are, indeed, at our mercy.

A year more to go folks! And soon I would look forward meeting you all at a different platform...hang on.

All the best for your exams! I know you can do it.

A New Look! New CP

Dear fellow members of Group 2,

As you can see from the blog, there are some new changes:

The design and the photos are finally updated. I've also included a link to our student activities council blog. Do show your support by visiting the blog and post something. If you need permission to access the SAC blog, you can let Jocelyn Suarez or me know, so we can grant access.

As Su had mentioned, this semester passed quite fast and here we are going for our CP again. This is a good time for reflecting on our past strength and mistakes. It is also a good time to add in your thoughts as we progressed through our CP. From my personal chinese blog on QQ's Qzone, I've seen quite a few active members of our group, blogging away in your native language. I strongly encourage all of you to contribute some of your thoughts here too! After all, this blog was set up for us!

I have the intention of setting the permission to view our blog to be public. That will mean that everyone will get to see it. Although its mostly ramblings from me! haha.

Expect more ramblings and grumblings from me! Blog posts tend to increase during CP time.

I wish all of you the best for your CP.

Regards,

Stan

There are going to be some updates soon!

Dear Group 2,

The recent stressors of school term are coming to an end. I look forward to putting up more entries into our group blog and I hope many more will contribute their thoughts/feelings about school/life/general.

I had been quite busy in dealing with some recent additional responsibilities. I got appointed to be the official photographer for the Student Activities Club and also unofficial 2nd photographer for group 3 (they got another photo nut, like me!). Also helping out with the President of the SAC to create/design the SAC's blog so that we have a online platform to commemorate our activities.

Then there are school assignments, projects and stuffs to worry about. Politics to avoid, playing Aunt Agony (or Uncle? hmm...) to some, dealing with my sometimes wild mood swings, all added to the humongous load of things to do. My to-do list is like a 5000 words essay.... and that's only for a month... and nope, I'm not kidding! hahaha!

On my family front, there are the usual Big Brother's responsibilities to take care of. Things like advising siblings, mediate between them and parents, playing host to visiting relatives from far-away, etc.. etc....

Well, after all these, I'm still here and still alive. Things can get pretty stressful after awhile but in retrospect, I felt that going through everything that happened, made me become a tougher person. The experiences enriched my perspective and allow me to see the past(good or bad) with fond remembrance. I only hope nursing school can 'rough' me up enough to attempt Uni or even med school. Like my good friend once said, "If you wanna climb Mt. Kinabalu, then you better be able to climb Mt. Faber first!". Well, he got a point, except that this 'nursing mountain' is bloody hard to climb too!

This is a random post about what's going on around me. The updates will come once I consolidated those pictures that we have taken for the past 2 months and upload them here!

All the best to all of you and I hope you will post something here too.

Regards,

Stanley

Wish for exam !!!

Hi ... everybody from Group 2,

Now Yr 2, Sems 2 is nearly finished.
We start studying now for our final exam, don't we?
I wish all the best with our final exam.
I'd like to suggest that not only enjoy your studying week, but also study hard to pass the exam with good grades.

I am very proud of our group 2 as we are very united !!!

With love,
Suzanne.