I have switched to a new internet provider since last Friday and till now I have not used that provider's line to go on to the net. I have been constantly calling them and asking them to fix the line or cable and yes, they did come over to TRY to fix it. But to no extent did any of these fixing helped my cable worked.
Let me give u a overview of what they did.
On Monday, i called them and old them about the cable problem. They said that they will send someone over the next day to fix it. So be it. On Tuesday, that repairman came at around 7 when they said they will come at 5. Never mind then, better late than never rite. After he went through all sorts of check, he said and concluded that the port is overloaded and they need to change a new port.
Since I am living in an apartment and the port is located on the roof and they need the key to get on the roof while the key can only be taken from a certain someone during a short period of time for example 12 till 2pm. They say they will try to get the key and put the portal the next day and would come again around 5pm.
The next day, around 6 they came and guess what? He came in just to tell me that they do not have the key and can't do anything. And next he said goodbye!
The next day i called over and asked with a little anger what is going on and they said that everything will be done on the next day (Friday) and that they couldn't do anything today.
When I asked if the cable would be working or not after installing a new portal they said yes. Then today I called early in the morning to give them some pressure and they ensure me their repairman will come around 5pm to install it.At 5pm when I called over they told me that the people are installing it and asked me to wait for half an hour and the cable would be working. I asked what if it doesn't work. She confidently told me that it will be. Fine, I trusted her. After half an hour I tried to go online but was once finding myself facing the screen full with anger.
I called the company again and ask what was going on and this time I was really mad, all she ask was when are you free tomorrow, we will send a repairman over as we have no idea what is wrong with the cable. I was so angry that I just kept scolding her. But she just repeatedly told me to wait till tomorrow for the repairman to come.
If it was on a normal school day when there is not festival coming soon I would have been more patient but now Chinese New Year Eve is tomorrow night and I still do not have my internet with me which renders me unable to use the web to call back and have a dinner with my family which this year my sister is back from Australia. That is what pisses me the most!!!
I really want to kill now !!!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Practicals
I have not been updating my blog for quite a few days and have not been on the net for quite sometime as well. This is because I and my house mates have decided to change our internet provider and we had a miscommunication with the provider so they only provided us with one line when we needed three. So I am still here waiting for them to come and do the cabling in hope of reconnecting with the world.
On Monday, the road was really slippery as the temperature rose to a little above zero. The roads were all covered with only a thin layer of water over the thick layer of ice making it unbelievably slippery. When i reached the hospital for my practicals, everyone was chatting about how each of them almost fell down on the way to practicals.
Though after sometime, the temperature rose and it snowed heavily. Hence, while going back home after the practicals the roads were very nice to walk on. It was like walking on the sandy beaches as the snow was mixed with the sand that was sprinkled all over the ice earlier to help people get better grips while walking.
This week, I find myself looking forward to the practicals as the nurses have started to trust our skills and is beginning to give us more jobs that are more related with medical procedures. First, they allowed us to see the jabs that they were giving patients, and now, today I gave my first injection to a patient(intramuscular injection). Though, I think it wasn't done very well as normally an intramuscular injection shouldn't bleed too much but after the injection, the patient's area of injection was bleeding more than normal. When the nurse asked her if it was painful she said no. But, I thought I saw her wiping her tears of her eyes. I do not what to think about it. Let's hope that it wasn't too painful for her and what I did didn't give her any trauma. Cheers to the beginning of my medical life.
On Monday, the road was really slippery as the temperature rose to a little above zero. The roads were all covered with only a thin layer of water over the thick layer of ice making it unbelievably slippery. When i reached the hospital for my practicals, everyone was chatting about how each of them almost fell down on the way to practicals.
Though after sometime, the temperature rose and it snowed heavily. Hence, while going back home after the practicals the roads were very nice to walk on. It was like walking on the sandy beaches as the snow was mixed with the sand that was sprinkled all over the ice earlier to help people get better grips while walking.
This week, I find myself looking forward to the practicals as the nurses have started to trust our skills and is beginning to give us more jobs that are more related with medical procedures. First, they allowed us to see the jabs that they were giving patients, and now, today I gave my first injection to a patient(intramuscular injection). Though, I think it wasn't done very well as normally an intramuscular injection shouldn't bleed too much but after the injection, the patient's area of injection was bleeding more than normal. When the nurse asked her if it was painful she said no. But, I thought I saw her wiping her tears of her eyes. I do not what to think about it. Let's hope that it wasn't too painful for her and what I did didn't give her any trauma. Cheers to the beginning of my medical life.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Practicals, a continuation
So, now I have been doing my practicals for 3 days. Other than the waiting for the nurses to order us to help out part which was plain boring. The part where I actually get to do some work was actually quite fun.
For example yesterday, I went to get new bottles of isotonic solution from the hospital pharmacy in which I saw that the hospital actually produces some of its medicines and isotonic solutions. It was so cool.
Today, when I finally gather my courage to ask the nurse if I could overlook while she was giving patients their daily jabs, I was astonished that she said that it is fine and did not scold me (as most Russians do not like us foreign students to follow them) I got to follow her into the ward and observe her giving an intravascular injection and was lucky enough to see the training doctor giving another patient a drainage of the urethra (I was doing my practicals in the Urology Department)
I can't wait till they allow us to do more medical procedure and less of the stuff like folding bandages and gauze napkins. I really find treating patients a very interesting job.
Also, I am looking forward to Monday night as me and my housemates are changing our internet service to another provider which is cheaper. I am currently paying Rub 380 a month for unlimited access of 1Mbps while the new provider is charging at rub 350 monthly also for unlimited access but at the speed of 2Mbps. Hope everything will be done and I can get faster internet access soon. (not that I really need it though.)
For example yesterday, I went to get new bottles of isotonic solution from the hospital pharmacy in which I saw that the hospital actually produces some of its medicines and isotonic solutions. It was so cool.
Today, when I finally gather my courage to ask the nurse if I could overlook while she was giving patients their daily jabs, I was astonished that she said that it is fine and did not scold me (as most Russians do not like us foreign students to follow them) I got to follow her into the ward and observe her giving an intravascular injection and was lucky enough to see the training doctor giving another patient a drainage of the urethra (I was doing my practicals in the Urology Department)
I can't wait till they allow us to do more medical procedure and less of the stuff like folding bandages and gauze napkins. I really find treating patients a very interesting job.
Also, I am looking forward to Monday night as me and my housemates are changing our internet service to another provider which is cheaper. I am currently paying Rub 380 a month for unlimited access of 1Mbps while the new provider is charging at rub 350 monthly also for unlimited access but at the speed of 2Mbps. Hope everything will be done and I can get faster internet access soon. (not that I really need it though.)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Practicals and A reformatted laptop
As I posted a few days ago, I had my laptop reformatted to clear off all the unused data and programs. I didn't think of upgrading my computer but in the end, with a little push from my friend. My computer is now upgraded into a Windows 7 version.
I used to use Vista on my computer but since it clashes with my university's program I had it downgraded into Windows XP and man, it was bad. The graphics of XP and Vista are so much of a difference that one is unable to take the sudden change.
Though, now that my laptop is running Windows 7, the graphics are so much nicer than when it was in XP and I am very grateful of it.
Today was also my 1st day of the winter practicals. I was sent to the urology department with another fellow group mate of mine. There we sat for an hour before they gave us something to do. That something was not a very tough thing. It was folding the bandages and cotton wools into cotton balls.
Pretty stupid huh ? What I found more interesting was that these jobs that we did were supposed to be written down on a book. I am alright if we are supposed to write down procedures such as giving intramuscular injection or something of that sort but when they told me that what I did today (they called it preparation of bandages and cotton balls) are also to be written down I was really astonished.
To add to my disappointment in range of work I was given, I sat there from 12 till 3 with nothing to do. Just sitting there like a vase. To make matter worse, all my friends had already left their respective departments. I was so disappointed.
I used to use Vista on my computer but since it clashes with my university's program I had it downgraded into Windows XP and man, it was bad. The graphics of XP and Vista are so much of a difference that one is unable to take the sudden change.
Though, now that my laptop is running Windows 7, the graphics are so much nicer than when it was in XP and I am very grateful of it.
Today was also my 1st day of the winter practicals. I was sent to the urology department with another fellow group mate of mine. There we sat for an hour before they gave us something to do. That something was not a very tough thing. It was folding the bandages and cotton wools into cotton balls.
Pretty stupid huh ? What I found more interesting was that these jobs that we did were supposed to be written down on a book. I am alright if we are supposed to write down procedures such as giving intramuscular injection or something of that sort but when they told me that what I did today (they called it preparation of bandages and cotton balls) are also to be written down I was really astonished.
To add to my disappointment in range of work I was given, I sat there from 12 till 3 with nothing to do. Just sitting there like a vase. To make matter worse, all my friends had already left their respective departments. I was so disappointed.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Going Away
My computer might be gone for a day or 2 since I am passing my laptop over to my friend to reformat it as there are a lot of problems with it. Hence i might be missing for a day or 2.
Yesterday night, me and my housemates were helping our friend to cook for his open house. We offered to help him cook curry. It was a success, and let me tell u this. The secret to cooking nice curry (or in my POV anything that is taste delicious) is normally to cook it the way like you are not going to eat it. Use lots and lots of oil. We had a lot of fun cooking it. Though in the end we did end up eating the curry.
This morning when I woke up, after I opened my Facebook account, I watched a clip (proposal). I felt very touched and thought the guys actions were very very romantic and i thought so there are guys like this out there, these things don't only happen in the movies. Then I saw another clip which was the song Star from the movie 200 pounds beauty.
Later I listened to some songs from movies I saw during my childhood, and I did, one was listening to Climb Every Mountain from the Sound of Music and If We Hold on Together from the movie The Land Before Time. (if you want to listen to the clips i listened to just go to my wall on Facebook)
Yesterday night, me and my housemates were helping our friend to cook for his open house. We offered to help him cook curry. It was a success, and let me tell u this. The secret to cooking nice curry (or in my POV anything that is taste delicious) is normally to cook it the way like you are not going to eat it. Use lots and lots of oil. We had a lot of fun cooking it. Though in the end we did end up eating the curry.
This morning when I woke up, after I opened my Facebook account, I watched a clip (proposal). I felt very touched and thought the guys actions were very very romantic and i thought so there are guys like this out there, these things don't only happen in the movies. Then I saw another clip which was the song Star from the movie 200 pounds beauty.
Later I listened to some songs from movies I saw during my childhood, and I did, one was listening to Climb Every Mountain from the Sound of Music and If We Hold on Together from the movie The Land Before Time. (if you want to listen to the clips i listened to just go to my wall on Facebook)
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Another Nice Meal
As I am currently having my post examination holidays, so what I do everyday is just eat, sleep, watching movies and playing games. Hence, when I woke up this morning, I had a sudden urge to cook something nice.
Thus, I cooked up this dish, Tomyam Fried Mee with prawns . Enjoy the view
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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