17 November, 2005
(0 ) 20:03 Guess I should, you know, post something. Finished that Korean drama I was watching. It has a good plot, and shies away from cliches, but it didn't really move me until the very very end. Haha.
And I guess I also should write about my TAG experience, seeing that I'm already on my 3rd day.
Overall, I would say it's a fun attachment, although on the first day there wasn't much to do and we got to go home early. I also got to make more friends, i.e. the people whom I go on this attachment with, aside from Jocelyn, who I know from choir. And unlike some other attachments where you're going at it alone, the four of us work together, so it makes things less boring.
On the first day we were given a short powerpoint briefing thingy, introducing us to the Singapore Cancer Society and what it does, blah blah blah. After that, we were shuttled off to eat some early lunch, more likely because they didn't know what to do with us. Haha. Anyway, came back to join one of the support groups, the New Voice Club, which is a support group for throat cancer survivors. I think. They've got their larynx removed, so they can't talk, eat or breathe like normal people do. Instead, they have a stoma (hole) at the base of their throat where they can do all these things. The members were mostly men in their 60s or 70s, and they were extremely friendly, as well as adamant that we do not ever smoke. They're avid ping pong players, and we lost to them every time. XP
On the second day, we were attached to the finance department. We began the day with putting receipts and address labels on envelopes, and then after that filing receipts which got returned due to invalid addresses, etc. They were quite annoying to file because some of the files were huuuge, like, 10 cm thick, and you had to match the month and year as well as the receipt number to staple it back. So yeah. Finance has A LOT of paperwork to do 'cos the money in-out thing needs to be recorded really carefully. After that, we helped to cut the flaps of their donation bags. See, their donation bags have this flap thing at the point where you insert a coin. But this has caused a lot of problems as money tends to get stuck there, so we have to cut them off. Yup. So we spent the rest of the day doing that, and we found like, $91 in total from those bags. Haha.
Today, which is the third day, we continued cutting the flaps out of those bags. It's tedious, mindless work, and we finished all of it. We did 3 sacks yesterday, and then one more sack today, plus 5 boxes. One sack had about 200+ bags in it, while the box easily had two or more times more of those bags. Phew! We're fast, efficient workers. XD We also tidied up the storeroom a bit, and stacked some of those left-over sticker sheets properly. Oh yeah, we found A LOT of money today, like, over $100. We also learned a lot about fund raising 'cos the person briefing us (notice that I can't remember names, LOL) speaks very well and eloquently. We would have had a lot more fun if we came during the end of October (when we were slogging away for PW =.=;), 'cos we could have helped out with the preparation of the charity show thingy. XD Anyway, after finishing the bags, we went for lunch, then came back to help tidy up their little library thing. Their library has books related to cancer (duh) and we were supposed to shelve them properly. So what we did was to drag everything off the shelves and recategorise them. Haha. We did learn one thing though, and that is that there are many forms of cancer, and that they can strike every part of your body. Now we're halfway through cataloguing the books, which are a PAIN, really. Because there are so many missing we have to write them down too. =P
Tomorrow we'll be attached to public education or something. And we have to finish the cataloguing, which I think will be quite fast. I'm looking forward to Monday though, when we will be attached to the homenurses, who go out on visits to patients. Then on Tuesday, we might get an extra bonus attachment day if Alexandra Hospital allows us to go in and take a looksee. XD How exciting.
Phew. I think that's a long post. >.<
Oh yeah, one thing I realised, is to NOT listen to the radio in public, because you'll start laughing for no apparent reason, and that's not a good thing.
And I guess I also should write about my TAG experience, seeing that I'm already on my 3rd day.
Overall, I would say it's a fun attachment, although on the first day there wasn't much to do and we got to go home early. I also got to make more friends, i.e. the people whom I go on this attachment with, aside from Jocelyn, who I know from choir. And unlike some other attachments where you're going at it alone, the four of us work together, so it makes things less boring.
On the first day we were given a short powerpoint briefing thingy, introducing us to the Singapore Cancer Society and what it does, blah blah blah. After that, we were shuttled off to eat some early lunch, more likely because they didn't know what to do with us. Haha. Anyway, came back to join one of the support groups, the New Voice Club, which is a support group for throat cancer survivors. I think. They've got their larynx removed, so they can't talk, eat or breathe like normal people do. Instead, they have a stoma (hole) at the base of their throat where they can do all these things. The members were mostly men in their 60s or 70s, and they were extremely friendly, as well as adamant that we do not ever smoke. They're avid ping pong players, and we lost to them every time. XP
On the second day, we were attached to the finance department. We began the day with putting receipts and address labels on envelopes, and then after that filing receipts which got returned due to invalid addresses, etc. They were quite annoying to file because some of the files were huuuge, like, 10 cm thick, and you had to match the month and year as well as the receipt number to staple it back. So yeah. Finance has A LOT of paperwork to do 'cos the money in-out thing needs to be recorded really carefully. After that, we helped to cut the flaps of their donation bags. See, their donation bags have this flap thing at the point where you insert a coin. But this has caused a lot of problems as money tends to get stuck there, so we have to cut them off. Yup. So we spent the rest of the day doing that, and we found like, $91 in total from those bags. Haha.
Today, which is the third day, we continued cutting the flaps out of those bags. It's tedious, mindless work, and we finished all of it. We did 3 sacks yesterday, and then one more sack today, plus 5 boxes. One sack had about 200+ bags in it, while the box easily had two or more times more of those bags. Phew! We're fast, efficient workers. XD We also tidied up the storeroom a bit, and stacked some of those left-over sticker sheets properly. Oh yeah, we found A LOT of money today, like, over $100. We also learned a lot about fund raising 'cos the person briefing us (notice that I can't remember names, LOL) speaks very well and eloquently. We would have had a lot more fun if we came during the end of October (when we were slogging away for PW =.=;), 'cos we could have helped out with the preparation of the charity show thingy. XD Anyway, after finishing the bags, we went for lunch, then came back to help tidy up their little library thing. Their library has books related to cancer (duh) and we were supposed to shelve them properly. So what we did was to drag everything off the shelves and recategorise them. Haha. We did learn one thing though, and that is that there are many forms of cancer, and that they can strike every part of your body. Now we're halfway through cataloguing the books, which are a PAIN, really. Because there are so many missing we have to write them down too. =P
Tomorrow we'll be attached to public education or something. And we have to finish the cataloguing, which I think will be quite fast. I'm looking forward to Monday though, when we will be attached to the homenurses, who go out on visits to patients. Then on Tuesday, we might get an extra bonus attachment day if Alexandra Hospital allows us to go in and take a looksee. XD How exciting.
Phew. I think that's a long post. >.<
Oh yeah, one thing I realised, is to NOT listen to the radio in public, because you'll start laughing for no apparent reason, and that's not a good thing.