Thoughts beyond my life & my travel - Bel

In spite of working in the healthcare industry, I never feel I'm so close to death until one day. It's natural that patients might pass away in hospitals but if you're not a clinical staff member, you may not be that involved as other health professionals do. I usually read from the news that people had accients or were seriously injured but a nurse told me that a baby couldn't survive in the OT one day. I felt uncomfortable and down. I was back to my room and did not have the mood to do other things. Well, I bet I should accept the fact that things like this happen and it's nothing unusual in this work environment and I will probably deal with more cases like this in the future. I learnt that a DJ-cum-a comedian was ill and hospitalised from a TV show. He's probably around forties. The host asked him a question, "Do you prefer you or your wife die first?" He said definitely his wife. He said so not because he was selfish. "I want to train her to ...

This happy new year was a bit unusual. I didn't expect Blackberry did help with my work till the New Year Eve and, the most important of all, I didn't expect I had to rush my work well before the countdown. Despite an unexpected call, some sudden news and additional work, I enjoyed my time seeing a movie and having a dinner with a friend of mine and did a countdown with an overseas friend. And I never did a countdown twice that made this New Year a bit more unusual and special. Thanks to skype, we could experience as many New Year as you want now. Well, the start of the year 2009 was already quite challenging but I still hope this will be a steady year. Be healthy, everyone.