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December is a month to party

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Life is always fun all year round. Workwise, it’s about closing on the accounts, updating targets and planning for the new year. I am just excited to get the programmes going for 2023. It is also my final year in OUM although I think I’ll graduate by 2024 cause there is no way I am able to fit in all my subjects in just 3 semesters. Especially when your limit is only 12 credits per semester. I mean once I submit my Industrial Training paper, can I request additional subjects to take?

December started with the WAD celebration at the clinic.

Then it was my son and niece’s birthday bask followed by a farewell party for my 4 other colleagues.

I have my exams next week. And then there will be one final course to organize in the last week of December after another party at my sister’s house on the 25th. Can you feel the joy already?

I bought a chocolate cake for my son. As always from my favourite bakery in Melaka, Italy Cake House. The cake was called Devil Temptation. It was nice, not too sweet or bland. I got him a Portugal jersey and a mini-ball (FIFA vibes). For my niece, I got her a few dresses and hair clips. On Saturday, the whole family went to watch Mechamoto. That requires a different post altogether.

Since I had a Zoom meeting, I couldn’t really join my friend’s farewell from the beginning. But I still get to have the food and join in the games. I wish my colleagues huge good luck in their future endeavours. They are really fun people. My contribution to this farewell is as usual the video part. Gosh… I want to be on the decoration committee next time. ha ha ha. But I actually enjoyed putting the video together. Must start planning for next year’s Doctor’s Day, Awareness Days and Farewells. I super love the green theme for this farewell party. There are lots of colours to explore in the coming years.

Friends at work are getting more creative with their videos which is a delight.. Looking forward to more of these..

World AIDS Day 2022

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Last Friday, our HIV team organized a staff CME and Tabata exercise to commemorate WAD. My team leader was excited to have a balloon arch for the ceremony. I wasn’t keen as we don’t have many team members to execute the task. It’s not like we have a multidisciplinary team to lend muscles for the project. Anyhow, I am a very supportive team member. We went ahead with the idea and I enlisted the help of other people outside the team.

I was distraught with the ribbon. The task was delegated to this one person and I was honestly flabbergasted to note that the ribbon was not ready on the morning of the CME. You had ONE JOB to do and yet YOU fail to execute it. The reason, baru dapat glue gun. SHITty reason. If it was entirely up to me, I would have settled everything before we started the ceremony. Can you imagine how I felt when I saw that the ribbons were less than 20 pieces?

Putting that aside, I delivered my CME and joined the TABATA. It was fun. Looking forward to next year’s targets.

The TABATA session

My talk was about the history of AIDS and an explanation of the current theme: EQUALIZE

I find it challenging to ensure that while providing care to members of the key population, it is in line with my faith as well. I have to learn to use the correct vocabulary so it will not appear discriminating but not condoning the act as well. Finding that safe line between treating and protecting at the same time.