NOG guiding

Drizzling a bit today but all is fine. Guided 3 Italianos and 2 trainee guides (not the volunteer kind but those going for licensing exams one - very easy to recognise since they copy like no one's business).

Went a bit earlier to recce but then the blooming season is at all time low. Enjoyed the kaya toast from the Kopitiam there though.

Met a CH tourist who was commenting that the cicadas in SG are louder than those in CH - must be kiasuism even in the entomological world.

Managed to catch hold of a nice presentation of Dillenia suffructicosa flower and fruits


Then walked past the Bandstand post-rain


Today sooo yellow


More yellow


All freshly planted.

A couple of Chinese cymbids in flower. Too bad the weather here is too hot for scent production

All claimed to be Cymbidium ensifolium




Then you got Cymbidium finlaysonianum from SEA


Dendrobium farmeri's in bloom at the Orchidarium




So's the Sobralia sp.


Newly planted hybrids at the THSMH





Jasmine-scented Vanda Mimi Palmer



Like this yellow one:


Ornithochilus fuscatus in bloom in the Cool House

Went to watch Harry potter yesterday

Have not read the book (boh eng), so the plot changes did not affect me much. The special FX sucked in certain parts -e.e. when Sirius Black was speaking via a fireplace - the FX of the similar scene in Globlet of Fire was much better.

Miss Umbridge is unsurpassed in her role -e xcept by Rong Momo in Huanzhugege. Very well controlled acting where most people will burst out in laughter when trying out that role.

When Fudge discovered that the Dark Lord has return, someone in the audience went "Duh!"

My inaugural yell-out

or rather yelled at.

My infection is still being cleared - all the thick thick yellow muscus slowly extruded out. But then today the ears still feel a bit stuck. It's like the entire muscosal area being sloughed off.

Already started dispensing since Monday. Starting to familiarise with most of the regular medication. For some reason (may be I was seen doing triage so often), some of the patients like to come to me. Very unfortunate that none are pretty and available.

Check medicine halfway, will disturb me - had to point them to triage counter.

I had to move over to get a PIL for that script just in case and when I checked finish the script and called the patient - the volcano erupted. She started losing her head. She yelled at me saying that I should be serving her first since I already got hold of her medication, saying that she saw me serve the other patients first, then went on to scream that for the past 10 times she was here, the same thing happened.

I've no intention of serving those who walked up just like that - I tried to divert them to the triage counter, my primary intent is to check and dispense.

Whatever the case, one should remain calm and empathise with the patient - the pharmacy is the last stop and they had already been in the hospital for the whole day: bottle up then BOOM. Do drug counselling first with a straight face then after that if tak boleh tahan, just go into packing area to weep. You are so going to cause a scene if both sides fight.

May be I'm approachable that's why all the patients start to move to me - I think have to start a 1900 chatline - $5/min - confirm can earn my current monthly salary in 5 hours.

I wonder if it was the pertussis season - got so many whooping cough scripts coming up.