Pages of a novel : October 2013

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The year is 1922, the parties are to be bigger, the shows broader, the champagne towers higher, and the ban on alcohol has backfired. Making beer, wine and champagne free all night! It is time to celebrate the year just gone with a party to lure the young, talented and ambitious with a steady golden flow of drink and roar of party beats.

On saturday the 19th I had the pleasure of attending the annual medical radiations ball :) The theme of course was the great gatsby. I've spent the last couple of weeks collecting bits and pieces of my outfit. Kind of got lazy near the end and just got my mum to do my make up on the day. Yes, to drawn in my fake eyebrows and all.

We had a mini pre at my house except it kind of failed because we girls got together a bit late and had yet to finish putting on our make up. The guys ended up coming a bit later since we weren't ready and by the time we took photos it was starting to get a tad dark. Oh well.

The obligatory bathroom mirror shot before we all headed off to the ball!! I must say that Tam is a hair styling genius, seriously. Victoria came in on that day with her hair in a plain ponytail. Tam managed to do something intricate at the back and smooth out all the frizzles in victoria's hair (Vic said the hair dressers kind of killed when she was in China).

The party has begun!! Free sushi and snacks at the start and some mingling with the 2nd and 3rd year medical imaging students.

I find it pretty funny how we were all posing for the photo above yet Richie took one of us unawares when we were staring into Justin's camera and this one somehow turned out more artistic it's so natural.

Food!! We had a choice between Grain fed beef fillet with potato cake, balsamic thyme, mushrooms and red wine sauce

Herbed corn-fed chicken breast on mushroom risotto with asparagus and truffle vinaigrette

The third years were super crazy because it was their last medrad ball, the dance floor was filled with people jumping on each other/ falling over. Actually we saw our lecturers grinding with students and doing crazy dances for fun.

It was such a good night :D tried to get my money's worth my drinking more wine but it tasted so bad I stopped and just kept ordering lemon and lime bitters instead.

Guess I had to hang up my party shoes eventually. Till next time !

p.s Credits to Richie and Justin for most of the photos !!

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Soooo, my life has been nothing but a eating spree these days. Well I've kind of stopped myself now, since the ball is coming up. Actually attempt to get my lazy ass up to exercise and I'm not snacking like crazy anymore. I should keep this up. Anyway, lets recap. I haven't been eating like this for the last few days ok?

Went to celebrate and have a 'meet fresh' party at sunnybank after my clinical placement. Belinda, my partner at clinical was kind enough to drop me off there. Oh the joys of being able to drive. I've only done 40........minutes. Man, my co-workers at Daiso laugh at me all the time for that.

Speaking of work, the last few weeks I've been having shifts on sundays and as a result my parents have decided to go out to have breakfast at Chermside so they can drop me off there for work. Starting to like this idea of eating breakfast out.

I ordered a Salmon & Avocado stack from the Coffee Club the other day along with a lemon and lime bitter.

I also decided to crash Jennifer & An's lunch date at Pablo located in New farm. I ordered this dish thinking there wouldn't be that much mushroom in it, turns out the majority of it was mushroom. I was so devastated, considering I'd skipped breakfast just to get more value out of eating lunch out. It's ok, at least the mushrooms were decent tasting - well for mushrooms (you see, I don't really like them). An ordered this avocado dish with haloumi cheese which looked really really yummy.

We went for a little dessert afterwards at a french pastry cafe called Chouquette afterwards. Yum Yum Yum. I got a Mille-feuille whilst Jen and An shared a chocolate caramel hazelnut cake thing with coffee.

Also tried some of their Chouquettes, first time as well. It was soooo good, extremely addictive. When jen first told me her sister bought thirty I thought she was crazy. Now I understand. The pastry is pretty hollow inside so yeah.

We spent the remainder of the nice afternoon just chilling on the grass in new farm park :3 It's okay, we went to the gym a few days later and worked all the calories off (kind of). Need to go again soon though, I used up all my free day passes -sad life-

Anyway..... what we've been up to at work lately

Ta-da! Our creation

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I'm actually enjoying my clinical placements more than I thought I would. Actually, to be honest I was mostly freaking out before the clinical since I figured I'd probably be clueless about what was going on 90% of the time. Yeah, I tend to be a little slow reacting. Well, actually it's been pretty good so far, I'm slowly getting over my awkwardness. Just gotta pretend to be more confident and stop talking like I'm super hesitant (and not physically face-palming myself in front of the hospital staff whenever I say something stupid). Got to take a few X-rays and today I completed an x-ray of a wrist by myself (well the supervising radiographer checked the patient positioning and all before I took the image). So, got my competency sheet thing signed off.

I actually think I will really enjoying being a radiographer when I graduate. Fingers crossed I'll be able to get my license and actually find a job. I actually feel bad for some patients and I guess I kind of started realising how lucking I am to be so healthy. I saw elaine's dad at the hospital today, he is a Radiographer there. He told elaine he was gonna pretend he didn't know me except he ruined it when he walked into the room this morning and patted me on the head twice, it wasn't too gentle either. I told him he killed my brain cells.

We were imaging one patient who said they had a pain in their shoulder and we found out that his humeral (bone of the upper arm) head was fractured. Elaine's dad then proceeded to tell the patient. It went a little like this:

Mr. Lin: You got a fracture this time. It's not actually very funny but for some reason its called a humerus.

Patient: So what happens next?

Mr. Lin: I don't know, I'm not the doctor. I'm just the X-man.

Oh my god hahaha, it was actually pretty amusing, lame puns and all. Okay, back to curling up with my novel, I really need to fill out my clinical book soon though...I also need to try sleeping earlier. I have been waking up at 5:15am every morning for clinical placements this week.

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