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Well well... what can I say. It's been a really draining week... hopefully I don't get so many things packed on my hatchday week next year. Hmm. But then again, I think I will be tremendously busy next year this period of time. *insert scary music* Haha... :)

Went through an intensive course on Choice Theory / Reality Therapy (CTRT) with fifteen other colleagues on Mon, Tue, Thu and Fri... took leave on Wed to attend my clinical attachment with Mount Elizabeth - Charter Behavioural Health Services. I must say it's been a week of really great learning - took away with a lot of nuggets (not literally ya) which I hope I'll be able to share with the guys in time to come.

The counselling course was particular enriching; not only was I able to use it as another approach in my counselling work, the personal takeaway by far outweighs the professional work benefit.

In choice theory, we talk about an individual's "quality world", whereby it's made up of people and things that will fulfill the person's basic needs in life, deemed as the following five in CTRT - that of survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun.

Come to think of it... I realise I've got quite a number of people in my quality world. I guess it explains why I felt the elation over the course of the few days as certain people did certain things for me for my birthday... and why I felt the opposite end as well when no news came from some who're considered close to the heart. It's good to know that whereas I cannot control my feeling and physiology, the way I think and act can be. And so I chose to take joy and gladness in those things that the people did. Dear dear did so much! :) Then the bunch of boys who did up the board... Leonard who stuck the board to the wall and wrote the ending words, Ernest who told whoever to get green colour for the board, all those who wrote the notes, however long or short, and the mystery boy who mooted the whole idea and gotten it out. They seem quite adamant not to let me know... Haha.

Okay my head's spinning for now... shall hope for a good night's sleep. Till then!!