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Went out with Aisyah and Tini last night, supposedly for clubbing. We went to The Arena first but it was utterly boring. The songs they played was nice but not something we could dance to. So we left the club early and decided to go to Zouk instead. But it seemed packed and we had to pay for the entry. So, no, thank you.











Went back to Clarke Quay and we took the G-Max Reverse Bungee and Xtreme Swing! SO FUN! I was really excited. For some reason, I feel like we three had the special treatment from the crew or something. We purchased tickets for the combo rides, bungee and swing and got them at student price even though we weren't students. The crew knew that but she gave us the tix at only S$50. Super cool.





We took the Reverse Bungee first. We got harnessed up and the whole seat got tilted back. I could hear the chains and machine sounds as the string gets taut. It was nerve wrecking. There we were, tilted back, facing the sky, on the ground, listening to the sounds of the chains clanking slightly, imagining the feeling of being suddenly thrown upwards, not knowing when they will finally shoot us up into the heavens. While waiting to be shot upwards, we went like "Oh my God, Oh my God" countless of times. Suddenly the chains let go and we went flying upwards at 200kph! Shocked me almost to death! I was the only one screaming at first as Aisyah and Tini tried to get to terms with the fear, their throats choked up. So up and down we bounced way up high in the air, the seat somersaulting front and back. Tini and Aisyah was screaming my name like it's my fault they're on the ride. Hahah. I tried to open my eyes but once I got it opened I got terrified of the view and closed it back until we gradually slowed down back to the ground. WOW! The adrenaline rush was awesome! When we finally stopped, the crew suddenly threw the seat backwards, scaring the shit out of us. They didn't do that to other people! I thought they were going to shoot us up again! Wah seh. But they didn't la. Our ride was video-ed and they played it for everyone to see at the end. Hahah. So embarrassing and my name got aired to the public.

So after the bungee it was time for our next ride, the swing. I thought it wouldn't be that scary cuz it's just gonna swing back and forth. But I almost cried at the beginning of that ride. Haha. I became the 'pilot', the person to push down a lever when the green light lights up. So the swing got pulled way back until it was practically 90degrees to the ground. It was way, way high up. And as it slowly went up, I felt myself slipping a little bit and I tried as hell not to imagine what would happen if my harness were to snap open. It took so long to get to the maximum height that I wanted to cry. It was scary shit, I tell you. Aisyah was like saying to Tini "I'm sorry Tini, I am so, so sorry." because Tini was the one who's practically dreading to go on the rides. The whole way up I didn't know what the lever was for. They did tell me but I guess I didn't catch it. What I heard was if I didn't push the lever we'd be up in the sky forever. So I just thought the light would light up while we were swinging and that we'd be swinging back and forth forever until I push the lever down, or until the crew do it for us anyway. So we were strung up high in the air, facing downwards, people were like miniature dolls. Then the light turned green. The instruction was to count to 5 or 10 and then push down the lever. I was like "Eh, that was fast." And I still didn't know what the lever was for. So anyway, I was too terrified to count, numbers got all jumbled up and I ended up asking Tini and Aisyah shall I push the lever now. I heard tiny, fear-filled replies of yes and so I pushed the lever down. With a sudden jerk we went to meet the ground and back up the other side at high speed. We screamed like no one's business. But then that's it. After the initial shock of the first swing, it just swung back and forth, side to side which wasn't that scary.






And that was it, we got off the seats, head spinning, knees and hands trembling. We went to take a seat to get a hold of ourselves. Hahah. But the weird thing was, everyone said the swing would be the more exciting, the scarier one. But for the three of us, the bungee was way more terrifying. Haha.

Anyway, it was awesome. I loved it. It's definitely memorable. Next, the REAL bungee jump! Haha.

After that, we went to eat and stayed over at Aisyah's place.
In my own world,
10:12 AM

6 days away from work this time round feels so fast! Usually when I had 5 days it felt like 2 weeks. But now, it's like, where did the days go? I'm back to work tomorrow! Damn. Back to reality.

Anyway, I drove! Haha. Thursday drove all the way from East side to the West side. The furthest I've driven, ever. I love driving to Class 95!

Yesterday, I met up with Jaclyn. Finally. After 5 years. Had lunch at Palais Renaissance Cafe. You can't eat there every day, unless you're filthy rich. We had a plate of Lasagna, a slice of Sweet and Sour Lemon Pie, and two glasses of water. And I really mean one plate and one slice. We shared the dishes. Hahah. Altogether it cost us S$41.20, including tax and stuff! Imagine, for two, we could have paid like at least S$80! It's simply outrageous. But I've got to admit, the food are nice. I started drooling after a bite of the pie.













After that, of course, we went shopping. She went shopping actually. I didn't have anything in mind to buy. It was so weird that there weren't anything nice to buy. Or maybe it's just that whatever we like and find is nice, it's super damn expensive. The prices are seriously outrageous. I just don't understand why it has to be so expensive. A simple white tank top can cost like S$20. Like, what the hell? Went to countless shops and still couldn't find anything. It was only at our last stop, Fox, that we purchased something. The prices are still freaking high and we could have gotten 25% discount if we used a UOB card (which we didn't have) but we liked what we picked out too much and just had to buy them. So yea. I got this simple striped spag top for S$30. Now that I see it in print, it's like, S$30??!! What the hell? Robbery in broad daylight, I tell you.













We caught up with each other's lives. In the train on the way home, I taught her some sign language. Hmm.. that SO reminds me of something. Everything reminds me of that particular something. So annoying.

Oh well. Lots of love,



Me!
In my own world,
8:50 AM

I just finished my 4 nights. My first time doing 4 nights straight. And.. it wasn't as bad as I thought. I thought I was going to die of exhaustion after the 2nd night, and according to some of my colleagues, I'd be super tired on the 3rd night. But.. I didn't feel that tired. I mean I was tired from work but not as bad as some of my colleagues said it would be. I'm quite amazed myself. But I know the reason why I'm not dead. It's because I've been awake most nights for quite some time now. I've been doing nights, if not, afternoon or E shifts. That usually means I'd be sleeping during the day time and awake when the sun sets and the moon rises.

That's terrible. But I have 6 days to get my melatonin levels back in shape, meaning having melatonin at night instead of in the day time.

On to another topic. I have many pet peeves. Top on my list is, of course, bad English. Somewhere below is when women put on make up in public. Just touching up on the lip gloss is fine, but pulling out all layers and phases of cosmetics out of the bag and painting your whole face in public, that's like eww! I mean it's embarrassing. If you can't do it at home, at least go find a washroom somewhere else to put on your full make up. Not in the train! Yea. I was seating in the train opposite this woman who looked to be in her late 30s and was forced to witness the act of making her face up. From liquid foundation, to loose powder, to concealer, to blusher, eyeliner, eye shadow, mascara, lip stick and lip gloss. Really! She pulled out so many cosmetic out of her bag that I wondered if that's what all that her bag contained. I was shocked. She fished out so many different mirrors that I kept going "Oh my God, Oh my God". I snorted a bit too hard when she pulled out her mascara that snot actually came out of my nose. Actually no, nothing came out. It almost did but nothing anybody could see.

I mean, seriously. Why do you have to put on the full make up in public? Why do you have to let men see what we do to our faces? We are supposed to look natural and effortlessly beautiful when we step out of our house, even if there are hints of make up on our faces. Just don't show the steps! Geez.
In my own world,
3:42 AM

I have insomnia! I hate not being able to sleep at night. Last night I only fell asleep at 7am la sia! The whole night kept tossing and turning in bed, my brain also kept churning thoughts that I wished I could get a hold of, put it in a box and throw it away. In the end at about 5.30am I messaged him telling him that he's missed, by me. He replied back at 7am which I only read at 12.30pm when I woke up.

=) I've been thinking about you lately too.

Wah! I want to be happy but I forced myself not to read too much into it. I'm taking it slow. But the rest of his messages is forcing the light of hope into my eyes. I shouldn't be hoping. I should just be happy with what it is now. Oh well. See how it goes. For now, we are friends. And maybe that's all it is to it.

Work was quite good today except for some things (more like someone) which only me and Sheryn are really pissed about. I had to press Glucose 50%-soaked gauzes around a kid's swollen penis. It took almost 1.5 hours just to reduce the swelling la. I truly enjoyed it because the kid and his parents are super nice. At the end when his foreskin is able to close around his penis they were all like "Thank you Nurse Nadiah!". Feel super damn good la. And Dr. Yeo said I can be a penis specialist, be a "pe-nurse". What the. Hahaha. And he said should my husband have this problem I'd know what to do, no need to bring him to the A&E. Wah seh. In front of the patient and the mother some more. Very good.

The thing that got me a little upset was when I was finally free to go for break, even if it is 15 minutes, he didn't allow. Then when finishing my shift, which is actually at 1.30am, he told me to go at 1am. But there were hardly any nurses around as most went for break. So if I go, what if busy? He can cope alone meh? I hung around so that I can at least help out some until the others come back from break. But he actually scolded me for not going, saying that he already tell me to go so many times, still never go. What the.
In my own world,
3:16 AM

Argh!! I met Jaclyn last evening just before I started work! I was walking towards CE when I saw this two ladies in a PT/OT uniform at the vending machine, and I was just wondering that the uniform looks like those that they wear in CGH. And I just happened to look up and realized one of them was Jaclyn, my close friend in secondary school. We were quite close then but not so close to actually keep in touch every week after graduation. After 2004, we went seperate ways. In early 2008, we got back in touch by just chatting in MSN like twice or thrice. And now, March '09 we finally met! 5 years! Oh my God.

When she saw me, the look of surprise and shock was evident on her face. We hugged. Hahah. I got so excited to see her. She's been on attachment at KKH for already 3 weeks now. And her department is just next to mine. We were so close and yet we didn't know it. So still in a state of shock words like "Oh my God!" and "I miss you!" and "Oh my God!"(again) and "It's been SO long!" got into our short conversation. Hahaha. Got each other's numbers, which were still the same since 5 years ago. We still had each other's numbers after all these years. And we've now set a date to meet up for high tea.

Gosh! I miss her a lot! We love books and she used to borrow my Julie Garwood books because we love her. And we'd love it so much that we call each other Lady Nadiah and Lady Jaclyn and we'd plan to go horseback riding. We were in concert band together and we used to hate the many band practices but now are sorely missed. We studied at the Airport and after that would go sight-seeing for cute guys. Once we tailed two guys all the way to the Boarding Gate. Hahah. Unseen, of course. We'd go Orchard and take Neoprints. There were also quite a handful of times when she'd invite me to her house after school just to watch DVD or do homework or play with her hamsters or learn how to put on makeup for our prom/grad night or play badminton under the block with her younger sister and her maid or help her with the scrapbook she made for this guy she used to have a huge crush on for his birthday. Anyway, we were close enough that I her maid and her sister knew me and one Hari Raya they mailed a personalised greetings card to me. I still have it, safely kept in a box in the drawer next to my bed. Oh! And I remember the time during our O-levels planning to go to JC, especially ACJC. So in case we couldn't make it with our O-level results, we thought we could get in by the CCA way, Concert Band. So they had tryouts and we went. Well, she went and I accompanied her. I didn't want to play in the band anymore actually. But while accompanying her, I got dragged in. The band members kinda persuaded me to play. So.. forced to la. But in the end, forget it.

Anyway, in the utmost end, she went into JC while I went to poly. And now we're both in the healthcare industry.

I miss her I miss her! I can't wait to meet up with her!
In my own world,
2:21 AM

I was blog hopping and landed on Amanda Lim's blog. She mentioned about the piano piece by Richard Clayderman 'Mariage D'Amour' being her favourite classical piece. So being the curious lady that I am, I went to youtube.com to get a listen on the piece. Very nice indeed. I watched how he played the piano, so elegant, so full of emotions. Then I thought about musical instruments and musicals and music. Somehow it brought me to Pearl Harbor the movie, my favourite of ALL time. Ever. Forever and ever it will be my favourite movie to cry to, to get nostalgic or melancholic.

I already have two different versions of the piece by Hans Zimmer 'Tennessee' in my MP3. It's a soundtrack from Pearl Harbor. One is the piano version, the other one is the band version (all the violin and wind/brass instruments). Whenever this two songs come on, I'd tend to stare off into space and think about the instruments in the song being played. It's utterly beautiful.

So anyway, I decided to search it on youtube.com too, to WATCH instead of only listening. So.. I found some. One of the video brought my hands to my mouth, almost wanted to cry by the amazing-ness, the beauty of the song. But that was just some guy playing different instruments and putting it all together at his home or something. Then I found one where a band played the piece. Dear God. If I were to attend a band concert, and they played 'Tennessee', I'd for damn sure cry my eyes out.

I'd really bow down to Hans Zimmer. He's a musical genius. So is Andrew Lloyd Webber. Especially 'Phantom of the Opera'. The music is really really good.

I wish there would be a band that'll play pieces by Hans Zimmer and Andrew Lloyd Webber in some theatre. I'd definitely attend. Tissues in hand.
In my own world,
2:14 AM

Four girls had a night out at The Arena. I had fun! Never danced like I did. Hahah. It was really fun. Just look at the company, it's no wonder.













And now I'm on the brink of getting to know a new friend. Via Francine. Haha.

Anyway, I just got back from my sign language class just now. I really thought I was going to be alone. As in not know anyone. It was such a surprise when Lixia turned up! She works in KKH too. She was my preceptor while I was having my PRCP in Ward 43. Haha. Yay! I've got a partner.
In my own world,
4:50 PM