Dru's Media Sales Friends

Ok I haven't updated my blog for like more than a week, and I'm sorry. But I really haven't been doing much apart from working......

On Friday, Erik had originally planned to go out to Gas Nightclub (some event was supposedly happening there) but when he went to pick up the tickets on Thursday, he realised that the date was 17th of Feb, NOT the 10th of Feb. So it seems that I'll be going out clubbing this coming Friday night instead. Erik was sooo so so so so embarrassed that he got the date wrong. He's said that he owes me a drink or two this Friday because he stuffed up *hehehe* That's good cos I'm poorer than he is :P

So therefore since clubbing wasn't on anymore, I went out for after-work drinks at Bungalow 8 with Dru and his new bunch of Media Sales course friends from uni. I met so many people that night! But Dru kept bumping into other friends and leaving me alone by myself that I had to be friendly and make conversation with everyone. I actually remember many of their names and the faces they belong to... which usually is a difficult feat for me. (Only because there's so many people and so many names and faces to remember!) They really were nice people though, so it wasn't too bad. I hope I meet them all again soon!!

There was one guy there called Ewen who was a big source of entertainment for all of us there that night.

The reason why he was so entertaining was not because of his ability to talk. Ooohh no.

He simply could not hold his liquor.

We started drinks at about 6-6:30pm and he had one beer at about 7pm, then Dru, Ewen and I went for dinner at James Squire. During dinner, Ewen was already seeming a little tipsy and saying a lot of things he probably wouldn't be saying if he was sober. And that was only with one drink! He says that he doesn't like to drink anything with alcohol in it, so I guess his liver was just very unskilled at detoxing alcohol in the blood stream. After dinner he had only another half a beer and that was it for the night. And by the time he was getting to the halfway mark on his second beer, he was quite out of it.

Example: One of the girls asked him something about a guy named Paul and she pointed in Paul's direction. Ewen looked in the general direction she pointed, saw a boat (he probably didn't hear what she said) and said, 'It's a boat!' It was just totally irrelevant to the question asked, and we couldn't help but just laugh at him. It was kinda cute, but just sooo funny cos he was drunk!

During dinner, he asked me when Dru and I are getting married, conveniently when Dru had gone off to the toilet, and I said that he should ask Dru instead. His reply was that he's already asked Dru but what did I think? I doubted that he really did ask Dru that question but I hounded him about what Dru had said anyway, but he wouldn't tell me :(

I asked Dru but he wouldn't tell me either. Oh well.

We left at around 10-10:30pm but I got home after midnight cos we had to take a train to Cabra then Dru had to drive me back to Parra where I'd parked my car outside my workplace, then I had to drive myself home whilst Dru had to drive back down south home. We both had a quick nap on the train and we almost didn't wake up in time to get off the train!

I wore my new heels and got the worst blisters on both my big toes!

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It's Valentine's Day tomorrow..... I wonder whether I'll get any flowers?!

I hope I do!!!!

My Saturday

I had a pretty good, eventful Saturday. One of my friends from high school, Natalie, has just come back from Denmark last month and asked me on Friday whether I wanted to go out to lunch with her and several other high school friends on Saturday.

I had earlier already asked Genie, Helen and Dru to go out to dinner on Saturday, sort of to celebrate my getting a job. So now I had lunch at 12pm then dinner at 6pm. But I thought, 'Hey, why not go to Castle Towers a bit early so I could go get a blood test at the Medical Centre, then shop around a bit for some work stuff, THEN meet up for lunch and make good use of my time?'

So it was already getting to be a bit of a full day on Saturday. I bought new tops for work and had 4 tubes of blood taken, had lunch with 4 high school friends whom I haven't seen for like 5 years, caught up with what everyone's been up to, where they work now, so it was a pretty good lunch. Too bad I didn't think to bring my camera with me.

I booked dinner at Temasek at 6pm. Dru was a little late in picking me up and we still had to pick up Helen before we head down to Parra.

I hate being late for anything, it's just something that I don't like and haven't liked since I was in high school. Must be the way I was brought up *shrugs*

Actually we made it to Temasek about 6:05pm, which wasn't too bad. Genie called to say she'll be about 15 minutes late and then she didn't know how to get into the carpark behind Temasek. It can be a little complicated if you're not too familiar with the area.

Dinner was great, except that out of 3 dishes, one was a curry and one had chili in it..... and I can't really take much chili.... :( Dru, Helen and Genie had no problems, all three grew up eating quite a lot of chili. I was there fanning my mouth out and could only eat one of the many Singaporean Chili King Prawns. The Serai Chicken was very nice though... *mmmmm* Yum! Just thinking about it makes me want more of it. I love lemongrass-flavoured dishes!!

After dinner, it was almost 8pm and Genie wanted dessert, so I suggested going to Ziggy's where Dru and I went when we just started going out and had the most yummiest Tiramisu. But Genie wanted to go to an ice-creamery called Cold Rock (or something like that) on Church St, so we ended up going there instead. The ice-cream was quite nice actually, I was quite surprised. They did this thing where you can chose your confectionery (e.g. M&Ms, Clinkers, Gummi Bears, etc.) and they mix it into the ice-cream for you for 70c extra each. I chose Cookies and Cream with Marshmallows...... it was so nice (the marshmallows go all hard, but not as badly as the gummi bears do!) that it actually got me buying my own tiny marshmallows and ice-cream and mixing it up myself at home. It's sorta like Rocky Road without the nuts. So nice!

Anyway, while I was in the middle of choosing what I wanted, Erik calls me up and asks whether I wanted to go out that night to Roof Bar. I did, but I didn't... but I ended up convincing Dru to go with me anyway, but we both had to go home and change first. Lucky there was plenty of time!

Gosh the parking was bad on Saturday night!! I know it's usually pretty bad Friday night and weekends but it was just BAD! *ugh!* Almost wanted to head home after a while.

It was a bit past 11pm when we finally got to Roof Bar, but the place was pretty dead that night. Erik and his friends said it's normally pretty good, but frankly, it wasn't all that great.


I swear it must've been because I had blood taken that morning, but I got pretty bad after only 1 and a half drinks.... and I absolutely swear my alcohol tolerance normally isn't that low. (I swear!) Or maybe Erik slipped something into my drinks....?? *LoL*, I don't know what it was, but I felt so sick. We left before it was 2am... I think. Poor Dru, he was so tired but he drove anyway. I felt so bad :(

He slept until 11-12 the next day!

So that was my jam-packed full-of-fun Saturday. My Saturdays haven't been that busy for a loooong time!

Damn Parvovirus!

Bloody computer, I almost finished writing my blog entry and then it suddenly turned off without warning! And when I clicked on 'recover post', there was nothing there to recover! Dammit! Now I gotta rewrite the whole entry again... and I don't know whether I can be bothered doing it.

I just wanted to talk about my day at work, where I had two cases of Parvovirus! I know that my non-vet friends probably don't know what Parvovirus is... it's a very contagious virus that causes vomiting, severe bloody diarrhoea, anorexia, dehydration and could be fatal if not treated promptly. Everything that comes into contact with the dog needs to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with bleach.

The first case was a Mastiff cross that came in late morning. He had his puppy vaccinations but since then hasn't had any booster vaccinations. He was really depressed and lethargic and had some blood in his faeces. It was lucky that I asked about the vaccinations 'cos that's what caused us to think that it might be Parvo, as he isn't fully vaccinated. We didn't do the Parvo test until about 2 hours since he'd been in hospital.... so if any puppies came in after the case, I hope they're okay and haven't caught the Parvo. When he was positive on the test, we had to quickly bleach the waiting room, consult room, the hallway... basically anywhere that the dog had been!!

He had to go on fluids, and a lot of injections... I quoted the owner about $1,400 to $1,900! He's a big boy, so that's why it's so expensive.

Then as soon as I'd stabilised the first case, I got a Pug that only had his 8 week vaccination but no boosters a month after and she had been vomiting and had diarrhoea. When I first saw the case, I jokingly thought, 'Oh yes, this is another Parvo!' However when I saw the blood on the thermometer, my heart sank... I thought, 'CRAP! This IS another Parvo....' We quickly did a Parvo test on the Pug which was strongly positive.

We had to put this one on fluids and drugs as well. Because the Pug is only quite small, I only quoted the owner $700 to $1,200, which is a big difference to the large sum of money the Mastiff cross' owner is most likely to spend.

We haven't had Parvo cases in the hospital for a long while and we suddenly get 2 cases in one day. And I did the consults for both cases... I felt like 'Parvo Woman'! One of the nurses joked that I shouldn't do any more consultations in case I bring in more Parvo cases! *LoL*

I think I got aquainted with that disease quite closely today.....! I had to bleach my labcoat and pants when I got home. Lucky I don't have any dogs at home (although I guess they'd be fully vaccinated if I did have any, so it wouldn't be a problem!) That's one thing I've always been afraid of, that I'd bring home diseases and infect my cats with it!

Anyway, it's getting quite late and I need to go to bed!

I guess the moral of the story is:

MAKE SURE YOU VACCINATE YOUR NEW PUPPIES & KITTENS AND THEN GET THEM VACCINATED YEARLY!