Embrace

Just received news from my lecturer that I will be returning to Adelaide for my community placements next year. Not sure how to describe my feelings. I'm feeling as if I am an irony. Here's why:

I remember myself saying that I hope to be able to do my placements in Adelaide so that I will be gain some experience before returning to the dietetics scene in Singapore hospitals. However, as time changes things, I soon began embracing the fact that I may have to return to Singapore to do my community placements at Health Promotion Board (HPB) as the other 4 Singaporeans were not keen at HPB. After embracing the fact for some time, Phoebe and I received a "bombshell" from one of the Singaporean that she is keen in returning to Singapore and doing her community placement at HPB. Great! This means that either Phoebe or I need to return to Adelaide for our community placement.

Anyways, a woman's sixth sense tend to be pretty accurate, mine did not fail on me. I had the feeling that I will be returning to Adelaide. True enough, I did! To make matters worst, the time frame for community placements is from 5th Feb to 23rd March, which means, I will be missing Lunar New Year which I really do not want to. Its the most important festival in the Lunar calendar and it also symbolise that a time where families reunite during that festival. To families who are supersitious, not reuniting during this period may bode bad luck for the rest of the Lunar calendar. As such, I am clinging onto a thin rope and hope that my parents will allow me to return for a short period to celebrate Lunar New Year.

This also spells that I will be spending about 2 short months in the sunny island before returning to Adelaide for placements. Time certainly waits for no man!