Thursday, April 14, 2005
*PHEW* What a week... Lets start on from Monday... The whole day was slack... recovering from the weekend that had just passed... Have been feeling very tired... Getting tired quite easily nowday... hahahaha signs of growing old? I hope not...
Was just sms-ing Caryn he whole day... she is leaving for Shanghai with her parents and Grandma for a short holiday... which is also an opportunity for her parents to recce the place... They might all be migrating to China for a short period of a few years cause her Father has got an very good job offer there...
Tuesday and Wednesday were both quite boring except for the times I was out with my Bro, Andy and his Girlfriend...
Today well, Started playing KOTOR II for long periods of time... just can't seem to put down the game... It's so interesting to actually play something where the choices you make and the way you speak to people affect the outcome of the game... Through out the week, I also have been trying to find a job... Yes I'm not a lazy and unmotivated as say I am...
Have also been trying to find out which Unis are accepted by the Singapore Nursing Board... Called them up and made a new friend... Jasmin Ng... She has such a lovely and mischevious voice... She asked me to speak to her boss the next day andthat's what I did... MRS ESTHER LIM... Supposed to be in charge of acedemic information... Knows absoultly NOTHING!!! Spoke to her and I don't think she actually THAT dumb, but she came across as that and it really annoyed me... The conversation went like this...
ME: Hello, I'd like to enquire about which Australian Universities are recognised by Singapore Nursing Board...
Mrs Lim: Hello... We do not have a list of acredited universities like the Singapore Medical Board.
Mrs Lim: Why don't you ask your employer? You're not Singaporean? It's all up to your employer to see whether he accepts the qualifications...
ME: Huh?! I AM singaporean... and I have asked the hospitals already... I've asked SGH and CGH, their HRs told me to contact the SNB for the information I seek...
Mrs Lim: OH! You Singaporean ah? Go ask your employer, they'll know...
ME: I am currently not working for any hospital... I just ORD-ed and am looking to go overseas to further my studies.
Mrs Lim: OH... you never apply for job at hospital? Go apply then ask them... don't ask the HRs... ask the nursing staff. But you do have a diploma right? Enough already what... Your degree is only to advance your careea...
ME: Yes, it's to advance me... I cannot apply for a job at the hospital cause if I take the job, I can forget about furthering my studies this July... I want to get my degree before I start working.
Mrs Lim: You have a diploma already... why need degree?
ME: Hello!! Whether I start with a diploma or a degree, is non of YOUR concern. All I need right now is information about which Unis SNB recognises.
Mrs Lim: Oh! Go ask the Hospital... You didn't apply to them right?
ME: >irritated voice< I've already ask them and they asked me to call SNB!! What do you want me to do? I asked SGH and CGH and they told me the same thing!! To call the SNB! NOW, you're telling me to call them back to ask again?!! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW??!!
Mrs Lim: >nonchalantly< We have no list what...
ME: I don't want to just go overseas, and come back with a degree I cannot use! Will you please find out for me the information.
Mrs Lim: Yah! Your degree would be a waste of time and money... You have a diploma already right?
ME: Can you find out or not?!
Mrs Lim: Okay... call me back tomorrow at this same time...
ME: Thank you very much!
>click< *hang up phone*
THE NEXT DAY -ME: Hello... I called yesterday about the information about Unis...
Mrs Lim: Yes.. I remember... Do you have Sydney in your list of Unis you applied to right?
ME: Yes, Sydney is one of the Unis...
Mrs Lim: Sydney is a popular Uni... the rest on your list not popular...
ME: I'm not concern about whether the Uni is popluar or not, I'm concern about whether the Uni is accepted?!
Mrs Lim: You got Sydney already, go there lah...
ME: And what of the others like Edith Cowan, Griffith, Queensland, Flinders...??
Mrs Lim: Oh, all not popluar... Sydney is popular... go there lah...
ME: I need to find out about the other Unis cause I cannot afford to go to Sydney Uni!!
Mrs Lim: >nonchalantly< Too bad lah...
ME: Thank you for your information!!
*SLAM* >bang phone down<Okay!! I'm so freaking pissed with the Singapore Nursing Board for having these kinda people who are suppoed to take care of the nurses welfare. I understand now why there's a shortage of local nurses in Singapore... that's cause we are treated like dirt!! You need us so badly, and yet you want to treat us like crap!! If I knew this was the attitude of our very own Nursing Board, I would never have become a Nurse... I have this urge to migrate overseas where Nurses are actually APPRECIATED!! And where we actually have our interest taken care of...
tony82
11:27 PM
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