Birthday post~

Just a short post for my god-sis Lorene...

Happy birthday again babe!

So happy things are working out for you! Hehe... ting ting ting tingggg... hehehe...

See you in Dec hopefully! You are such an amazing person and have always been an inspiration to me!

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Much love from me xX

Catch up post

Hey all! :)

Been almost a month now since I finished placement & returned back to Auckland! Gosh 4 weeks has gone by just like that! My placement was awesome! I didn't blog at all then coz the hostel where I was staying at had DIAL UP internet which was superly slow... worse than when I used to have dial up speed at home in Brunei! I had an awesome supervisor which always makes a difference in your learning I reckon. She was a bit intimidating at first, she is one of those full on kind of people, really on to it, always thinking of how to make a change, to improve her service. She's one of those inspiring motivated sort of people. I can rave on & on about her but yea for this placement, I was at a hospital in the AT&R dayward service & also outpatients. Had to get my head around that in the beginning coz sometimes I'd be writing notes & I'm like oh shoot this is my client from dayward not outpatients & vice versa. Most clients that I saw in that 8 weeks had strokes so we were doing alot of neurorehab & upper limb rehab stuff. I LOVE this area now, really can see myself in a stroke rehab sort of area in the future. It was challenging for sure because it was my 1st placement in a physical area type setting and we don't do much neuro stuff in uni.

Also what made it fun was hanging out with M & J in the hostel! And of course meeting all the awesome med students & students from all over the world doing their electives there. I had an awesome time & am always amazed at how God really does know what is best for us & will ALWAYS provide & is ALWAYS looking out for us! Amazing! :) 8 weeks went by & soon enough I was back in Auckland with 2 weeks holiday before starting uni again. Holiday time was a bit tiring as I had an issue with uni and that whole time was so so so emotionally draining. The problem/issue is still in the process but am praying & believing that God will solve it and that I won't need to be stressed or worried over it. Eveything always works out for the best and I am constantly reminded of that each year, month, week, day.

Been back in uni now for 2 weeks and mannnnn is it stressful already! Feels like placement was such a breeze compared to what I have to do now! I am enjoying the papers for this sem but wow the committment you need to have to do the readings & research & planning is enormous. I'm doing 2 papers at the moment which involves 2 projects. Promoting occupational justice & participation paper and Implementing Change paper. I'll talk more about those papers in next few blogs as they take up a whole post on their own. There is so much on my heart at the moment, been challenged & captivated by so many issues that are happening in my life, my community, Auckland, the world.... sigh.. it's not a bad thing... I just feel like I have a 'to do list' which goes on for miles of all the things I'd like to be able to contribute to, of all the things I know God has placed in my heart, the very reason I'm an occupational therapist (soon to be), the reason for my existance on this earth & this lifetime....

Since I got back from placement, picked up the purpose driven life book which I bought to give away and realised that I had never really read the whole book anyway? Weird but I think I just scanned through my parents copy one of the summer holidays and then never thought twice about it. If you feel like you don't know why you are here on earth & what is your purpose in life I highly recommend that you give it a read. I reckon it depends on the time of your life that you're in while reading such books as well? Well I think so... :P Because, really that book for me at the moment fits right in with the current phase? mode? stage? that I'm in. I guess what I'm feeling now is that I'm almost finished with uni, need to move on to the next stage.... but then I think so what is it? What's next? Where do I go from here? Lots of uncertainty for me at the moment but I am definitely believing & trusting God to provide & guide me... to help me make the right decisions when the time comes.

In class the other day as a warm up activity- sort of, we were all given these papers that had columns with headings of where do I see myself in- 6 mths from now, 1 yr from now, 3 yrs from now, 6 yrs from now, 10 yrs from now. It was interesting to observe how some ppl were furiously writing and others were struggling to write anything at all! Then my tutor made it worse? for some by saying oh by the way research showed that people who had specific life/career goals when they were younger/leaving university ended up being more successful in life & achieving more than they had planned/aimed for even. Interesting... makes sense to me... I don't think I have ever written down career/life goals before so that was a little challenging for me. As in I had to really think ok so in one year I'll be 24 omg haha... where do i see myself etc... jumping to 10 years where I will be 33 years old- it seems young but yet 10 yrs makes it sound ages to go? Weird but that's what it feels to me can't describe it. Anyways so jumping to at 33 what do I hope to achieve or where do I see myself? I wrote down- Senior OT by then, see myself back in south east asia somewhere, working either in a neuro rehab setting or paedeatrics.. married? one kid? haha... who knows where or what I will be doing in 10 years.. these are just rough plans I guess... ultimitely now I feel that if I don't fulfill the purpose that God has created me for then what is the point of eveything anyway? Having a job i love, having a family & kids and then? what then? I know I can have all those things & more... it's the more that I'm really excited about & can't wait to find out about.

I know that all I can do now is to trust God & believe that my future is in his hands :)

Alright that's it for now I think I really need to go back to doing research for uni tomorrow! Will post again next week... soon... Lots of love to everyone... xX

God Bless :)