Thursday, February 09, 2006
The trick is to keep breathing
The prophesy I made last year has finally materialised!
I will be eating, drinking and breathing OT next semester.What are the signs?
- When school for you commences at 9 in the morning and ends drearily at 8+ at night amidst incomplete of discussions of of a work program for the mentally ill - which constitutes a measly 20% of the module!
- When you sleep at 1am in the morning in order to wake up at 6+am the next morning to do work, just in time to see your fellow classmates on MSN as well.
- When you apply deep breathing techniques on yourself ( Eh don't look down on me ok. I have led relaxation sessions a few times!) at 1am in the morning and remain insomniac for the rest of the night.
- When words and acronyms such as MOHO, RMBT, SI, ADLs, TEP, SE, HB, HL, JH, SY, CM, occupational performance, apraxia, cognition and Kielhofner dominate your indecipherable thoughts and speech.
- When you find youself seeing OT books as a symbol of power and perversely refusing to return them even as they are reserved by your fellow peers.
- When you find youself spending more time with the photocopy machine than with your own diary.
- When you find youself buying a new box of paper-fasteners.
- When piles of OT journal articles start piling up in your PARENTS' room.
- When you find youself collecting NTUC plastic bags to contain the same pile of journal articles which are deemed less than useful.
Hence, I have decided to take a tearful hiatus from my sacred quest of converting this class blog into my own personal shrine. Kindly take advantage of my unwilling absence and do something about it.
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Xiu Juan out
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