My bookmark

I possessed a bookmark, which was living between the pages of my many books for almost 6 years! It was not just a bookmark, but a precious gift from one of the teachers of my high school. Another speciality of it was that, that bookmark was released as a special product during the 250th Anniversary of The British Museum. And, as per my nature, I keep gifts of anything very special and do not throw them away. This one, the bookmark was so special as it was from a teacher...and the whole point of this ranting is that I've lost it! Have been searching for the past two days and still no luck. :(
Now, as always, I wish there was an invention which finds objects at home like we can search and find words on computers!

I'm on holiday!!

At home!! Wowww, how good it feels like to be home :)
I'm on Easter holidays for a month from today. Yayyyyy!
Had a good day out yesterday with friends to Portsmouth beach and some other abouts. Also happened to watch Marley & Me. I was actually sobbing for the last ten mins of the film. Hehe. Luved it.
Haven't got any plans on how I'm going to spend this one month. But honestly, one month will fly away like a week, I am sure. I will be obviously watching movies, shopping etc. I haven't done a good shopping for ages, so hoping to do that over this holiday.

Have a good weekend :)

I have been tagged!

Tagged by Sawan and I should write 25 random things about me. Just wondering if 25 is long enough....lol, never mind I am just being sarcastic! Thanks Sawan.

"Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about YOU. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you."

Here you go...

1. I love cats :) they are so cute...aren't they?
2. I cried and didn't talk to my sis' friend for 2 days for hitting my cat, when I was 13 years old.
3. I have a lifelong dream of having a house near the beach so to wake up seeing the sun rise everyday.
   
4. The void envelopes left on the tables will hardly go to the bin without my single scribble, at home. And for this reason, mum bins them straight away before I change the texture of the envelopes and waste ink.
5. The first password I ever had was 'London' and it was not chosen by me.
6. I have a nickname "Sanu"
7. I seriously hate being on the phone for ages. I very soon run out of things to say and start thinking I'm wasting my time.
8. Sometimes I apologise even for things that I believe to have no fault of mine.
9. I managed to find my mobile that I missed on one of the buses in London, even though I was not sure where I had lost it on that day.
10. Photography is my hobby, as I claim just taking a picture can be called photography ;)
    
11. I have still never had my stethoscope around my neck. I always keep it on hands and ask someone to hold it for me when necessary.
    
12. When I was between 10-15, I used to write letters to some of those on the pen-pal section on newspapers (only for friendship). And despite the fact that I was a kid, I did get nice replies from people from different countries. :) and I remember showing them to my friends at school. Hehe.
13. I have a weird fear of looking up the ceiling when I am standing on a chair or table to reach something high.
14. I write a lot of complaint letters/e-mails to many people higher up but never ever post them. LOL.
15. I don't drink alcohol (some people find this surprising and some don't believe, ah well)
    
    
    10 more to goooo......and it already feels like to have written a lot....the thinking process speeds up now...what else about me?...
    
    
16. I had a ghost dream this evening when I had my nap...still running in my mind..
17. I am not a big fan of chocolates...they are just okay to me.
18. Listening to music has never been a disturbance to me when I revise
19. The first ever mobile of mine was Siemens...turned out to be such a crap choice.
20. I mostly end up with 2 best friends wherever I go. If one of them goes apart due to any reason, there would always be one joining right after.
21. I go very quiet with strangers and when I am angry!
22. Don't like to watch movies online
23. I was so adamant after seeing my sister dancing and cried to learn Bharatanatyam (a traditional dance) when I was 6 yrs old. And I did go to some lessons but that was it! Ended with that "some". LOL. Gotta ask my mum what exactly happened.
24. I swallowed chewing gum only once in my life and it was when I was 18 I think. And I was panicking about it whole day telling everyone I could. Lol, I am still worried if that gum is sticking somewhere on my gut tube. Between, I have heard that gum takes 7 years to be digested. Ahh.....God!.
25. I use the word "Exactly" a 100 times a day. (no...not really a 100 times but I mean a lot ;)

Done, Done, Done.

Let me tag,
Hemanth, Kumiththa, Vani, Pratap, Aneesh , Priya , Jamaal (sorry if any you have already done this tag)
& everyone who is interested in taking on :)

Take care!

Spirituality In Care, IPL Week 2

Another Friday 13th of this year. But I had a fairly fine day though ;)

IPL is over! Audit submitted, presentation done etc. I had a very nice group of students from Southampton and Portsmouth, everyone was keen and contributing. I was very glad. So, today was The End of IPLU2. Next one will only be in the 5th year. Thanks to the group... and our facilitators who assisted us to complete this audit. Just a quick note to those who are wondering as to what I am talking about, an audit was conducted on Spirituality in Care by a group of students and for more see my previous post.

I have learnt a lot of things from this IPLU2 unlike last year, which was just about getting to know the roles of the other health professionals. But this year's IPL has been great. I was wondering what I was going to learn about ?Spirituality? in care, but it indeed plays an important role in mental health and still needs to be given much more space within the care plans. Many people do not know what spirituality is. It's acceptable that it is quite unique with individuals but it is also true that this term has been misunderstood by many. I will write more about this sometime later. I was moaning about having been placed at Portsmouth but now I am very glad that I was. I have got to know so much about this topic as well as a lot about audits in these 2 weeks. It was totally productive! And I loved it! To be honest, I did not have a good understanding of audit before this and I am glad that I now do.

We had some real important people from NHS today at our presentation with a turn up of 22, I think. I am quite glad that our audit is about to turn into something that has the potential to change or improve a few things in the trust. And not just something that has been produced for the purpose of learning and to gain a pass! We have suggested some recommendations in the audit. They have promised for some changes at the spot of the presentation although they were not huge ones. However, it gave us a big mind smile. I am very happy that the first audit that I've been part of in my life was an effective one and that it really is going to get some attention for improvements in terms of the importance of spirituality in mental health patients. Hopefully.

I think IPL is an effective component of the course for us, the medical students as well as hopefully for other health professionals. Especially IPLU2. A good job, University of Southampton and Portsmouth :) I am going to miss my IPL group :(

Have a great, leisurely weekend everyone :)

IPL Week 1

On my IPL, WEEK 1 -Inter Professional Learning. This is a part of the course where we are allocated to different places as a group. There are only two of us from the Medical school and the rest would be other health care professionals including Nurses, OTs and Social workers from either the Uni. of Southampton or Portsmouth. And we have to work together to complete the assigned tasks. I had this last year too but this time it seems very hard and serious. The aim is to do a clinical audit on Spirituality in Care for the HPT (Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust).

Spirituality in Care is an interesting subject but a difficult area to Audit where it complicates the quantifying part. What also makes it harder is that Spirituality is very individual in nature and cannot have a gold standard definition.

Only 2 days have been ticked off of the scheduled 2 weeks. It still sounds more or less vague on how we are going to assess the Audit report and presentation. Presentation.....ohhh...the worrying part for me :(

And, I am in Portsmouth for the second time for IPL. Something I never expected or wanted. Hmm...

I love to write more about this Spirituality in Care, but probably sometime later, as I am tied up with so many things to do at the moment. Sorry for not showing up on your blogs, I will do soon. Thanks and Take care!