1st day at work

in the local population of 4 plus million, in a place equal to 16 football fields aka sgeeach, 40 fresh grads gathered to listen to management talktalktalkzzz. we were idiotly informed that fate has brought us together.

my fave speakers of the day were the plant engineer who spoke to us about fire extinguishers and showed us something that i'm not supposed to write here but it's gotta do something with doors and emergencies and the diagnostic radiographer who told us that radiographer are poly grads, radiologists are doctors, that's the difference. and he tells us how he loves that he can see through us and he loves all his xray films. it reminds me of zhengjie saying how he loves his ugly cornea sheets, just that zhengjie concedes that they are ugly.

i thought that i was passionate, but when i hear them speak, 15, 20 years of experience and still loving their jobs, i realise i'm just a kid - albeit with beautiful dreams. may my passion last me for the next 25 years.

got to meet matthew at lunch, was told that Jeffrey is probably my buddy. freaking no idea who Jeffrey is, but I hope somehow PTB has infected him with all his smiles and gentlemanliness. ahhh. i won't get to see PTB til 13 July cos orientation is freakingly 2 weeks long. whyyyyyyyyyyy.

met the girls who are at svc ops/working closely with svc ops. There's Vanessa who took away my discharge planning project. Chloe who's working at inpatients but comes by to discuss stuffs with Vanessa. Tiffany who's at Perf Management who churns the balance scorecards so we can engineer processes for dept to keep up with the KPIs. Yangwei is coming to svc ops too. He is as lost on his project as mine cos we are both reporting for work for the first time today. anw, the main point about the girls is that they are a whole bunch of talkative girls, and when yixin says someone is talkative, it means very very very extremely talkative non-stop action talkative.

I refrained from showing my excitement when they talk about where to go for lunch. Tiong Bahru, Chinatown (bubble tea??) but they ended up at sgeeach kopitiam while i settled for takeaway for briefing with Yvonne from HR.

it's terrible when the number of ppl who knows my name and recognizes my face escalate, though not as dramatically as the number of H1N1 cases in Singapore. the nurse at staff clinic still can't clear my medical. and it's scaring me a little, the way the nurse looks at me. telling me that it's nothing dangerous, but the doctor needs more time to consider.

speaking of H1N1, svc ops is in charge of the command centre in sgeeach. matthew says that should our big brother move us to orange alert, we will take turns to come back on saturdays to command the command centre at FOURTEEN hour shifts. good morning.

my complaint to my aunt hit back with "wow! you are in the thick of the action! aren't u excited?"

NO.