We are the world 25 for Haiti...

[Justin Bieber]
There comes a time
When we heed a certain call
[Nicole Scherzinger & Jennifer Hudson]
When the world must come together as one
[Jennifer Hudson]
There are people dying
[Jennifer Nettles]
And it’s time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
[Josh Groban]
We can’t go on
Pretending day by day
[Tony Bennet]
that someone, somehow will soon make a change
[Mary J Blige]
We are all a part of
God’s great big family
And the truth, you know love is all we need

[Chorus]
[Michael Jackson]
We are the world
We are the children
[Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson]
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
[Barbra Streisand]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Miley Cyrus]
Send them your heart
So they’ll know that someone cares
[Enrique Iglesias]
so their cries for help
will not be in vain
[Nicole Scherzinger]
We can’t let them suffer
no we cannot turn away
[Jamie Foxx]
Right now they need a helping hand
[Wyclef Jean]
Nou se mond la
We are the Children
[Adam Levine]
We are the ones who make a brighter day
so lets start giving
[Pink]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
[BeBe Winans]
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Michael Jackson]
When you’re down and out
There seems no hope at all
[Usher]
But if you just believe
There’s no way we can fall
[Celine Dion]
Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change can only come
[Fergie]
When we stand together as one

[Chorus - All]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
[Nick Jonas]
Got to start giving
[All]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
[Toni Braxton]
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me
[Mary Mary]
We are the world
We are the children
[Tony Bennet]
Its for the children
[Isaac Slade]
We are the ones who make a brighter day
[Toni Braxton]
So lets start giving

[Lil Wayne]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Chorus - All]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
[Akon]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we make a better day
Just you and me

[T-Pain]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
[Jamie Foxx imitating Ray Charles]
Choice we're making
saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Rapping - LL Cool J, Will-I-Am, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Swizz Beatz]
We all need somebody that we can lean on
when you wake up look around and see that your dream's gone
when the earth quakes we’ll help you make it through the storm
when the floor breaks a magic carpet to stand on
we are the World united by love so strong
when the radio isn’t on you can hear the songs
a guided light on the dark road your walking on
a sign post to find the dreams you thought was gone
someone to help you move the obstacles you stumbled on
someone to help you rebuild after the rubble’s gone
we are the World connected by a common bond
Love the whole planet sing it along
[Wyclef]
CABARETT

[Chorus - All]

[Kanye West]
Everyday citizens
everybody pitching in

[Singing - Children & Wyclef Jean]
Nou se mond la
nou se timoun yo

[Will-I-Am]
You and I
You and I
[Kanye West]
Uh, 12 days no water
whats your will to live?
[Will-I-Am]
we amplified the love we watch it multiply
[Kanye West]
Feeling like the World's end
we can make the World win
[Will-I-Am]
Like Katrina, Africa, Indonesia
and now Haiti needs us, the need us, they need us

[Chorus - All]
[Wyclef Jean]
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
lyrics courtesy of www.killerhiphop.com
[End]

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Really thank Grace for telling me about this song. =) Beautiful, meaningful and inspirational. It makes one feel like there's still hope, you know? And that we can be a part of making that hope a reality...

Sporadic updates...

Hmm... my updates seem to be more sporadic as days pass me by. I suppose the inclination to blog fluctuates depending on what goes on in my life.
I started my adult inpatient psych rotation this week, and it's been... OK. My opinion on psych as a whole can be summed up by these 2 letters. It's amazing how perceptive the consultants and registrars are, how insightful they can be when it comes to piecing the fragments of the patient's story together, how they seem to know so much. I remember when one of them drew the attention of the class of 8 medical students to the fact that what happened in the patient's family in the past could be related to the current mental illness that the patient has in the present. The whole room echoed with the revelatory "oh~". Yet I find myself feeling... underwhelmed? dissatisfied? disgruntled? I'm not sure but I do know that psych is not a particular interest of mine.
I saw yet another patient restrained this week. The patient was very intent on banging his head on the door of the room he was in, and was running full speed headlong into said door. The male nurse in the room rugby-tackled him to stop him and then pressed the duress alarm. Within minutes the room was swarmed by all the staff and personnel on the ward. The patient was actively swearing and was later placed in seclusion.
Had life group today. Enjoyed it very much, especially the Yu Wan and Fawn Special. =) And was strongly reminded that:

It's all about You, Jesus,
And all this is for You,
For Your glory and Your name,
It's not about me,
As if You should do things my way,
You alone are God,
And I surrender, to Your ways.

Hospital life...

Hmm..., so I've just completed my rotation in the aged psychiatric ward, and have seen the fair share of rather aggressive patients. The first one was male elderly gentleman who refused his medications. He kept coming by the nurses' station, insisting that his cigarettes were kept there. He got angry when the nurses couldn't find them and due to some unfortunate circumstances and perhaps carelessness on our part, he entered the nurses' station to rummage through the drawers himself. The medical staff then left the station and called security to remove him. He was then placed in seclusion, where he ripped a toenail off by banging against the doors. And all along, the cigarettes were actually with him, and he had dropped them onto the floor. The second one was also an elderly gentleman who presented with paranoid delusions and had a background of aggression and violence. He was certain that the medical staff were preventing his family from visiting him and insisted on leaving the ward. Medical staff had to call security in order to give him his zuclopenthixol acetate injection. The snag was that he was so strong and muscular and fit that at least 5 guards were required to subdue him. The area was cleared and each security guard took hold of a limb and one stabilised the trunk. They then lifted him into seclusion and had to restrain him so that the nurse could give him his injection. The third was an elderly gentleman who somehow got hold of a branch with a sharp end. He was holding it threateningly and was subdued by 2 nurses. He was then placed in the HDU but somehow got out of it and almost managed to enter the nurses' station, where my friend and I were getting our duress alarms.
It was quite scary to see the situations where the patients were escalating and becoming aggressive and menacing. Yet at the same time, I have to remind myself that they are unwell, that they are not always that threatening. And it makes me realise that the nurses in the psych wards are amazing - brave and calm in the face of the storm.
That said however, my experience at the aged psych ward was a fulfilling one. Affa and I got to call patients' relatives and GPs, write in patients' files and even presented an MSE during the team meeing in front of the consultant. =) We felt like part of the treating team, that we were helping the intern and the registrars, that we were contributing and not merely wallflowers. We were so proud and excited at getting to write in the notes. Imagine being excited about paperwork, LOL.
My next rotation is adult inpatient psychiatric ward. I wonder how it will be like...