Dear Diary...

1. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
2. Alice In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass (CS Lewis)
3. Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
5. Step On It Cupid (Lorelai Mathias) - a Little Black Dress book
6. Twenties Girl (Sophie Kinsella)

[Target: 10 books]

1. Received a compliment from Mr Fong today. He said I "looked cool"... haha!
   (I tried out a new matching clothes today, my old grey HangTen shirt + grey bolero)
2. Christine cancelled so I managed to ask Mrs Gan to shift till later
   (ask and you shall receive)
3. Ate yummy chicken chop (from Tanjung Tokong Food Court) with mom in hospital

1. Woke early, did yoga
2. Went hospital, signed consent form, brought Recormon, watched Oprah - Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King
3. Bought porridge for mom and ama
4. Grocery shopping for Tom - bacon, UHT, 100 Plus
5. KFC for Tom and me
6. Brought porridge for ama
7. Brought porridge for mom
8. Flu jab
9. Had a nice nap at Jockey Road

The past few weeks have been a soul searching experience for me. Full of frustration, doubt, uncertainty and heh, depression.

Today I realised, hey I'm just going through a PHASE, this too will pass.
It's not as if life totally gave me a raw deal. I had a good time in Singapore, a time of personal discovery, of self-improvement, knowing a lot of people, fun and fredom.

Anicca, things change, and now you enter a new phase in your life (it was getting "boring" and predictable in Singapore too right?)
It's time to develop the other aspects in your life. Spiritual, family, so what if you put self-improvement on hold for a bit? Sometimes people do plateau, it's not uncommon. But don't get me wrong, it doesn't mean you stop having fun yeah!!

Today's interview with Gloria Steinem on Oprah is really an eye opener and encouragement. She's 74 years old and she looks Fabulous!!! Don't feel as if life is at a dead-end... it's not true... look at Gloria Steinem, I'm sure she went through a lot of "phases" as well and learnt a whole lot of things...

Bottom line, Love Yourself and Have Fun!

Good things happen when you start your day early.

Accomplished a lot, even before noon! :)

1. Serviced my car at Perodua
2. Collected bloodtest results for Eng Hoe and me
3. Dropped by Auntie Sui Mui's to return her CD/book. Managed to stay and watch some Ex-SGGS dinner video and chat with her
   
   All this before lunch!! bBasyaaahh!! :)
   
4. Fetched mom to Ideal
5. Taught the Korean boys
6. Shopped for books, Times clearance sale; bought How Starbucks Saved My Life, Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Eloise (chinese version)

Way To Go!! Keep It UP!

Surprisingly Grey's Anatomy gave some flashes of wisdom that I can totally benefit from at this point.

1. There was one scene where one doctor was panicking when the procedure went wrong. Dr Hahn came and saved the day.
   Her first step: try to CALM DOWN the doctor first. The doctor was lamenting and regretting the decision to do the procedure, saying the patient would still be alright if she didn't decide to do it. Dr Hahn REASSURED her that trying out new procedure is not a wrong thing, in fact should be encouraged to push the boundaries of medicine. PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
   2nd step: Calm down further, take DEEP BREATHS
   3rd step: CALMLY talk her through what she remembers, going step by step, re-phrasing it for her, ASK QUESTIONS to prompt her.
2. The scene where Dr Owen Hunt, the army doctor cabut-ed the icicle out of Dr Yang. Dr Yang was saying how she was the best intern last time and she never made mistakes, but that day one of her patients died cos of a mistake she made. Dr Hunt said that, he makes mistakes too, but her learns from them, and the next time he doesn't repeat them again. Mistakes are opportunities for us to learn.