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In your bio it says you're a student nurse. What schools or unis do you reccomend for international students that want to take up nursing and or transferable programs from a diff country ?

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:29:58 +0100

Hi Anon, it would’ve been easier to reply if you’re not anonymous.

Anyway, I haven’t been to different uni’s therefore I can’t give comparison and recommendation. I am an upcoming second year at the University of the West of England in Bristol and I can only give you few things about my uni regarding nursing course. The curriculum differs in different uni’s but there will be 50% of theory based learning and 50% on practice placements. Also, take note that in England, there are different nursing route you can take up - adult, child, mental and learning disability. So, it really depends. And, entry wise for international students - I don’t know but you can check the university site for the entry requirements.

Check this link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8697472/The-top-10-nursing-degree-courses.html?image=1

..it will give you the top 10 nursing uni’s. :)

One thing I can tell you though, I know someone from other country who is a qualified nurse and came to England and did an adaptation course to be a registered nurse. Sorry, if I haven’t answered your question. Have a good day.

Alive: Creating madness

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:52:09 +0100

LOL at the title. But yeah, I am alive and my blog’s recently dead due to lack of updates.

Rewind. For the last few months my life was jam packed with paper works, placement and part-time job. All those hard work paid off and I can officially say that I survived the first year and I am going to be a second year student nurse next term :3

I am back home at my parent’s house and I am currently regaining my energy back after being ill for a couple of days. Thanks to Covonia! c(: I miss Brizzle already - the people I’ve become friends with and the work. Ever since I came back, I had nothing to do but to clean after people’s mess -.-”

Anyway, since I had nothing to do and out of boredom, I created something..something nice.

I made a dress into a skirt to a top and the black top into a skirt & turn it into a dress. :)

On a winding road

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:59:00 +0100

…not literally. I am just bored, sat in front of the computer nearby ( £2 for 20 minutes :| ) at Heathrow Terminal 4 airport waiting for my auntie from Sweden to arrive. I have been waiting here since quarter past twelve noon time and I still have another hour and few minutes to wait. Then, another 2 hours to wait for the coach before we can both go back to my flat in Bristol.

My stomach is in pain (blame period cramps/I need to take a shit LOL ), hungry and feeling very sleepy. Dear time, please hurry up. Love, me.

Soon to be over

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:00:06 +0100

One month from now and first year of Nursing will soon to be over. I need a long break off uni and I cannot wait for the summer break to begin. Yes, I will be going home and my plan of staying here at Bristol has been cancelled. /long-story.

I have passed all my exams and essays for the first year, but, I still have to finish my eight-weeks long of placement at the hospital (4 weeks left) and get all the papers signed - including the OAR, skills sheets - , portfolio and the EU requirements. So much work to do, so little time. :S Not to mention, I have part-time work and packing to worry about.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and unfortunately it’s Monday again tomorrow.

Summer books of love

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 02:22:00 +0100

Oh my word. This is the first thought comes into my mind right now. I am trying to construct a sentence about the past events that happened to me, but my brain is half dead because it’s past two in the morning :| /apologies for grammar errors. As you may not know, I have had no use of internet for weeks and to save me from boredom, I have been reading books.

You’ve seen the Summer of Love by Katie Fforde posted few weeks back and I remember saying that I was having a hard time reading the book because I prefer reading in first-person rather than third-person narration.

Anyway, I bought another book called One Perfect Summer by Paige Toon and I must say that the story has a slight resemblance with Summer of Love, book. I don’t know what’s with me buying books with ‘summer’ in it and a romance genre. But, I have both finished reading the books and what I liked the most, is that, it ended with a happy-ever-after tale. I am such a loser when it comes to reading love stories, it makes my heart melt with tears and joy /haha so cheesy.

The moral lesson from reading the OPS books is, don’t settle for the one you dont truly love, because, you might regret it when the person you used to love comes along and still loves you..and the feelings are still there. It’s not too late to recapture what once a happy memories even if it was years ago. :) I love this book.

Sorry I have been MIA on tumblr for the last two (almost three)...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:47:00 +0100

Sorry I have been MIA on tumblr for the last two (almost three) weeks. My laptop’s hard drive failed and I had to buy a new one. I thought it would work straight away after replacing it, but no, I had to buy the operating system disc which cost me a fortune. Oh well, it’s working now. I have a lot of things to be catching up, so, I will update my ~~dead~~ blog as soon as I have finished everything that I need to be doing. That’s it for now.

May = officially the worst month!

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:37:00 +0100

There are so much bad things happened for the last few days, weeks and I just want this month to be over.

Spent so much money on fucked up train tickets! I originally paid £9.90 but got fined £24.50 for getting on the train early. And, my sister bought £21.50 return ticket but because I forgot my railcard I had to buy new ticket for £33.00. Seriously! that is a lot of money!

Above all that is because of the stupid work induction that supposed to be last Saturday! On my birthday, but didn’t even got a call that day! what a waste of time waiting. And today, they phoned me to ask if I’m available at five in the afternoon. Seriously, how stupid can they get? 5pm induction? Can’t they arrange a date and appropriate time in advanced? because it just fucked up my other plans! How I wish I didn’t apply for the job.

And, there’s this girl who is pathetic loser for putting up a fight, just because his boyfriend (who happens to be my friend) talks to me and calling me names and stuff yet she doesn’t even know me and I don’t even know her! Just fucking calm ya tits girl!

End of rant.

Saturday wasn’t a good start. I was waiting for a phone...

Sun, 13 May 2012 22:12:00 +0100

Saturday wasn’t a good start. I was waiting for a phone call yet didn’t received it and I got fined £24+ on the train as I got on to the early train than what’s supposed to be on my ticket. I was very pissed off with >.

I got off at Exeter St Davis train and got a lift from my parents and head off to my nan’s place. Around seven in the evening, we went to a Nepalese/Indian restaurant to celebrate my 21st Birthday! I had a great night and thanks to my family for everything. Also, to the restaurant staff for the birthday cake surprise and flowers! It was a night to remember despite of bad things happened on that day. ♥

You, yes you!

Fri, 04 May 2012 23:05:00 +0100

You may not read this, and you never will. I just want to say that you have been in my thoughts throughout the day, every single day even. I don’t know what you have, but there is something that you left marked on my mind and heart. There might not be a chance that we will meet again, but when that happens; I want to let you know that I like you and I don’t want to let go of you. If only you could say those six words. :) I’m happy that I have met you. Goodbye for now.

Guess what? Who’s got the job as a team member at KFC?...

Fri, 04 May 2012 18:38:47 +0100

Guess what? Who’s got the job as a team member at KFC? Well, that’s me! :D KFC may not be the ‘ideal’ job or a good pay, but nonetheless it’s a nice work environment to experience. I shouldn’t be juggling part-time work with my studies plus work-placements but, I have to earn money for summer because I am not going home. I will be living independently which only means; finding a flat to live, pay the rent, and whatever-money-left-for-food.

The downside is, it’s going to be challenging…but, before that I need to focus more on my exams which I still have yet to revise for! I really need motivation and should stop procrastinating! Damn.

Fun-filled Wednesday! After lecture, we went window shopping at...

Wed, 02 May 2012 19:40:00 +0100

Fun-filled Wednesday! After lecture, we went window shopping at the mall and watched Marvels Avengers at Vue cinema. It was good! I was so confused at first because the characters seems to be from their own movie. Thor from Thor movie, Stark of Iron Man and Banter of Hulk etc. But in the end I got it and enjoyed the movie all the way until the end. :D

And, then we went to Preview Bar & Grill and had eat-all-you can meal for £6.95. I had about three course of meal and got stuffed! It was worth it! Unfortunately, I’m broke :( I have to stop spending money or better I have to find a job.

Lastly, my hard work of cleaning the kitchen paid off! :) Got a star! I wonder how long the cleanliness will lasts.

Month of May

Tue, 01 May 2012 22:15:43 +0100

First day of May was spent cleaning the flat’s kitchen for tomorrow’s inspection. I overslept until one in the afternoon and thought of revising but end up doing something else - which often happens. So, I cleaned the stove, microwave, the fridge and mop the floor. I did it by myself because - well - you wouldn’t want to wait for others to do it when you know they don’t give a shit about cleaning but often the ones doing the mess. If you ask me, there won’t be anything to clean if no one mess about.They should learn to clean after their own mess, but hey, they never do.

Then, half of the afternoon was spent eating Domino’s pizza and it was my first time to have one. Of course, it’s a fair share of pizza slice which I paid half of the amount. Afterwards, went to shop for food at Morrison’s; it wasn’t in a plan but since my flat mate insist of driving, I thought why not grab the chance to get a lift, rather than walk.

Talking about revision, I’ll leave it for tomorrow, again.

This is the result of boredom. I doodled a copy of cute couple...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:34:00 +0100

This is the result of boredom. I doodled a copy of cute couple illustration that I found circulating on Google images. I’m thinking of colouring it in but it looks much better without it.

Anyway, I should be revising for my exam which is in sixteen days starting tomorrow, but I have no motivation to open up a page of my UAN module book. I must at least make a start tonight! Err..but seriously I MUST! Motivation where art thou?! I want you in my mind and heart right now. :D

It’s my mum’s birthday today! I usually give card on...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:02:12 +0100

It’s my mum’s birthday today! I usually give card on birthday’s but since I am miles away from her and I am on money crisis I thought I’d just make a birthday letter for her. If you don’t know I am into writing letters - old fashion type girl. Heh ~ But yeah, my mum mentioned about wanting to receive one from whoever and thought this is the chance I can write one for her. I hope she will like it and hope her day will turn out wonderful as she is. ♥

And, I really hope she will get this letter because I only sent it via the red postbox with a first class stamp and not at the post-office, either way I hope she’ll receive it today!

What a bipolar weather!

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:30:00 +0100

It has been days or weeks (I think) that the weather’s so dull. One minute it rains and the next bright sun shine…so on and so forth.

Not a tint of blue can bee seen in the sky and it’s so depressing. I can’t even go out on the day, well except today - I was out with friends at the gym and went to McDonald afterwards :D But most of the time when I was invited to go out - I always end up not going because my mood goes with whatever-the-weather-mood has. Like right now, I feel like going to sleep, so I might as well.

I was at Waterstone, books store yesterday and I spent hours...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:50:00 +0100

I was at Waterstone, books store yesterday and I spent hours looking for a good book to read particularly romantic fiction or some sort of mystery adventure. But, in the end I left the store empty-handed because the thought of “I still have some books to read” crossed my mind. Bummer.

These are the books I currently own - from contemporary romantic novel to spirituality. One may be familiar to some; Remember me by Sophie Kinsella which I have read and the other two that I ought to read.

I have started reading Summer of Love but I got bored after three or four pages because when it comes to reading books - I am particularly interested in reading in first person; meaning the use of ‘I’, because it makes me feel like I was in the story which captivates me the most to keep on reading. But this book is in third person and presented in like story-telling e.g. “…beautiful sunshine…”, Anne said - and the likes, which can get boring and confusing - well for me it is.

Make my Mama Proud

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:27:55 +0100

Last year of September was the happiest month for me and my mum. When she found out that I passed my tests, she was over-the-moon and in tears with happiness.

I want my mum to feel the same, at that same moment because everything I’m doing - I want my mum to be part of it. I may be miles away from her and there’s no day that I don’t miss her. But, I have to live for myself, for once. I hope I can make her proud and prove to myself that I can do it!

Love is a game.

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:23:43 +0100

You may not agree, but to me it’s all a game that we play. We either win it or lost it. Sadly, I lost.
There is this guy who once told me ‘I don’t want to lose you’ and I was so stupid to believe in his lies. It took me days to get over him and even though there wasn’t us, I fall for him.

The Capital.

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:16:34 +0100

Hi! I have been out and about for the last few weeks hence the lack of updates. We stayed in Staines which I believe in Surrey, outskirts of London for four good nights and travelled to London via underground tube during the day.

First stop was London Bridge from London Waterloo and you can catch a glimpse of the Tower Bridge as soon as you walk out into the bridge. I have lived in England for almost eight years and yet I haven’t been to London. So, London is something new to me.

And, finally I got to see the London Eye but unfortunately we didn’t get to ride on it. The queue was too long and the place was too crowded. I can say the Ferris wheel was huge, as in MASSIVE, hence being as the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe!

This is the Palace of Westminster and it’s tower clock known as ‘Big Ben’, one of the famous landmarks in London. I honestly don’t know why it’s called Big Ben and its history.

We also, visited the Queen’s house the next day, a.k.a the Buckingham Palace and other landmarks that I have no idea what they are called. I have to say that it has been a great experience to see the different side of the country. I am not a city girl and London seems to be a really nice place but Boracay Island is where my heart at.