Yesterday, I suddenly noticed a bunch of pimples had appeared out of nowhere sitting happily on my left chin.
I poked and prodded at the spots to no avail.
Ran into Ed's room.
He was on the phone.
Showed him my spots, and ran away after that.
He said to his friend on the phone, "Anita is showing me her spots" and his friend replied sarcastically, "That's nice of her".
Ran back in.
Ask him if he had any anti-blemish cream.
He said, "No." Then as an after thought he added, "you can barely see the pimples though"
I thought I had seen some cream somewhere so I rummaged through his toiletries bag, looking for anything I can put on my face.
I'm so jealous of his face cleaning set.
All from Clinique.
So jealous.
Was contemplating using his Clinique Scruffing lotion which is akin to a toner.
Ended up finding a tube of Savlon cream.
Frantically dabbed some onto those evil red spots.
*dab*dab*dab*
He said, "Savlon cream is for wounds."
I said," Well it's an antiseptic cream, and pimples have bacteria."
He said, "Anita, you're a weirdo."
I said, "Well you're bonkers."
Runs away again.
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Substance Misuse Clinic
I decided to switch back to my old blog skin in the end, cause I finally managed to figure out why I had to keep looking at html. Rupa-rupanya I was on the edit HTML mode. Argh!
So yeah where was I?
Took the bus down to Elgin today for substance misuse clinic.
Guess what!!
I didn't have to pay for the bus ride down!!
I got up on the bus, and ask the driver for a return bus ticket to Forres,
and the bus driver who was a youngish lad said that the machine had broken down and he couldn't issue any return tickets, and just ask me to hop onto the bus.
Wahhaa!! good stuff eh?
I managed to catch a ride back with the nurse I was attached to cause she is from Forres too. She's so nice :)
But then I ended up spending money, and buying a birthday card for mum, and a belt for myself.
*sighs*
The sales are evil I tell you!!
Elgin is bigger than I thought, there are so many shops there.
Anyway I'm going back there again on Thursday for orthopaedic clinic.
I spent most of my time at the substance misuse clinic reading my book- Sophie's world, cause everybody was busy doing their work, due to lack of staff.
Oh by the way, I saw lots of condoms everywhere.
Even Durex! Durex is to condoms what Jimmy Choo is to shoes.
I told the patient that they were free condoms, and I said Durex condoms are quite expensive aren't they? and he ended up taking a bunch and stuffing them into his pocket and said, "Never know when I might get lucky eh?"
LOLz! :)
Then in another room, I saw flavoured condoms.
Wow! I was so surprised.
Then, an evil plan popped into my head to wind Ed up and I asked the nurse if I could have some so that I could give them to my friend, and she packed vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavoured ones into a bag for me.
So damn pai seh!
But I persevered.
I kept saying that, I didn't want them for myself, and I wanted them to wind my friend up, and she was like, "That's what you're saying."
Hahhahaa.
Anyway I would like to once again proclaim my innocence.
I really did get them for my housemate.
See I'm such a good and considerate friend ok.
Hahahaha.
I came back knock on his door.
Ask him if I could ask him a personal question, all the while, giggling like mad.
He said, " I don't think I want to answer your question."
Anyway ask him if he was into er... *censored*
Then I gave him his Christmas present.
Then I ran away laughing.
So yeah where was I?
Took the bus down to Elgin today for substance misuse clinic.
Guess what!!
I didn't have to pay for the bus ride down!!
I got up on the bus, and ask the driver for a return bus ticket to Forres,
and the bus driver who was a youngish lad said that the machine had broken down and he couldn't issue any return tickets, and just ask me to hop onto the bus.
Wahhaa!! good stuff eh?
I managed to catch a ride back with the nurse I was attached to cause she is from Forres too. She's so nice :)
But then I ended up spending money, and buying a birthday card for mum, and a belt for myself.
*sighs*
The sales are evil I tell you!!
Elgin is bigger than I thought, there are so many shops there.
Anyway I'm going back there again on Thursday for orthopaedic clinic.
I spent most of my time at the substance misuse clinic reading my book- Sophie's world, cause everybody was busy doing their work, due to lack of staff.
Oh by the way, I saw lots of condoms everywhere.
Even Durex! Durex is to condoms what Jimmy Choo is to shoes.
I told the patient that they were free condoms, and I said Durex condoms are quite expensive aren't they? and he ended up taking a bunch and stuffing them into his pocket and said, "Never know when I might get lucky eh?"
LOLz! :)
Then in another room, I saw flavoured condoms.
Wow! I was so surprised.
Then, an evil plan popped into my head to wind Ed up and I asked the nurse if I could have some so that I could give them to my friend, and she packed vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavoured ones into a bag for me.
So damn pai seh!
But I persevered.
I kept saying that, I didn't want them for myself, and I wanted them to wind my friend up, and she was like, "That's what you're saying."
Hahhahaa.
Anyway I would like to once again proclaim my innocence.
I really did get them for my housemate.
See I'm such a good and considerate friend ok.
Hahahaha.
I came back knock on his door.
Ask him if I could ask him a personal question, all the while, giggling like mad.
He said, " I don't think I want to answer your question."
Anyway ask him if he was into er... *censored*
Then I gave him his Christmas present.
Then I ran away laughing.
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Phone Number
My friend Yin Hui is on msn telling me about how last time in secondary school, we used to go for Kasturi tuition and his friend Jason was interested in this Malay mix with Japanese girl and wanted to get her name and phone number but was too chicken to do it. So apparently in the end I got it for him. Anyway her name was Khairulnisa and she's quite pretty.
Hhahahahahah Anyway I kinda forgot that I did such a thing before.
So yeah anyway if anyone out there scared to do anything, come and ask me. I'll ask the girl out for you. Hahahhahaha.
By the way I seem to be playing knight in shining armour and rescuing all the "damsels in distress". Pleas note my obvious sarcasm there :)
1. I fixed Edward's wireless internet connection for him.
2. I figured out how to turn Edward's heater down.
3. And he made me read the map and direct him on how to get to Dingwall. So I teased him and said that he doesn't know how to read the map. And he replied that, he can't read the map while driving :P By the way, I HATE reading maps.
4. Then last time in Aberdeen in the hotel room, when all the lights went off, and us plus the concierge were hunting all over for the electricity box, and I found it in the end, so the concierge managed to get the electricity back on.
5. The time when those two called me up on the phone, and was complaining about how the washing machine and heater and this and that was not working in the new flat. And I was wondering how come one is a boy and the other one is an engineer, calling me up the girl who is a medic and I was staying far away from the house to ask me about their flat stuff when I'm not even there. Anyway in the end I did go back during that weekend, and figured out why the washing machine was not working.
The reason was because they didn't switch on the electricity plug point properly -_-
I can't think of anymore examples at the moment, but I think that will suffice.
Hhahahahahah Anyway I kinda forgot that I did such a thing before.
So yeah anyway if anyone out there scared to do anything, come and ask me. I'll ask the girl out for you. Hahahhahaha.
By the way I seem to be playing knight in shining armour and rescuing all the "damsels in distress". Pleas note my obvious sarcasm there :)
1. I fixed Edward's wireless internet connection for him.
2. I figured out how to turn Edward's heater down.
3. And he made me read the map and direct him on how to get to Dingwall. So I teased him and said that he doesn't know how to read the map. And he replied that, he can't read the map while driving :P By the way, I HATE reading maps.
4. Then last time in Aberdeen in the hotel room, when all the lights went off, and us plus the concierge were hunting all over for the electricity box, and I found it in the end, so the concierge managed to get the electricity back on.
5. The time when those two called me up on the phone, and was complaining about how the washing machine and heater and this and that was not working in the new flat. And I was wondering how come one is a boy and the other one is an engineer, calling me up the girl who is a medic and I was staying far away from the house to ask me about their flat stuff when I'm not even there. Anyway in the end I did go back during that weekend, and figured out why the washing machine was not working.
The reason was because they didn't switch on the electricity plug point properly -_-
I can't think of anymore examples at the moment, but I think that will suffice.
Monday, 1 December 2008
How to become muscular
So anyway right today I was seeing patients in clinic, then one of my patients asked me on advice how to beef up and become more muscular cause he said he has been going to the gym a lot and also eating a lot of junk food.
Hmmm...So I didn't really know how to answer his question,
then my GP told him that it's all due to genetics and some people eat and exercise a lot but are still not able to become muscular and advised him to eat healthy and exercise.
So over dinner, I asked Edward about it.
Cause you know Edward goes to the gym a lot so he is quite muscular.
By the way, don't let Edward know I put his picture up on the internet, he will kill me. LOL.
Also Edward's friend Gareth suddenly became super muscular over summer (yeah I'm so shocked too, cause I saw his pictures on facebook), and gave him some good advice on it.
What Edward told me was:
1. Do more anaerobic exercise e.g lifting weight, swimming etc.
2. Don't do aerobic exercises.
3. Eat lots and lots and lots of protein.
So yeah that's the 3 step programme on how to build bulk.
As for me, the best advice I can give is on how to become a fatty bom-bom like me. OMG seriously I put on damn a lot of weight in the past month staying in the bed and breakfast.
1. Eat lots of food. Just finish up everything you are given.
2. Eat a fatty cooked breakfast every morning. The works: Sausage, black pudding, bacon, scrambled eggs, beans, fried mushroom, toast, fruit, yoghurt, coffee, orange juice.
3. Eat lots and lots of dessert cakes, pudding. Basically whatever you can lay your hands on. Yummylicious :)
4. Sit in bed all day.
5. Don't do any exercise. I have quite a good excuse for this one--damn cold outside!
6. Sleep a lot.
7. Watch lots of tv, read a book, skype, telephone just sit on your bed and don't get out to get any fresh air.
Hahahahah good stuff right? No wonder I'm so fat already, and I can hardly button my pants :0
Hmmm...So I didn't really know how to answer his question,
then my GP told him that it's all due to genetics and some people eat and exercise a lot but are still not able to become muscular and advised him to eat healthy and exercise.
So over dinner, I asked Edward about it.
Cause you know Edward goes to the gym a lot so he is quite muscular.
By the way, don't let Edward know I put his picture up on the internet, he will kill me. LOL.
Also Edward's friend Gareth suddenly became super muscular over summer (yeah I'm so shocked too, cause I saw his pictures on facebook), and gave him some good advice on it.
What Edward told me was:
1. Do more anaerobic exercise e.g lifting weight, swimming etc.
2. Don't do aerobic exercises.
3. Eat lots and lots and lots of protein.
So yeah that's the 3 step programme on how to build bulk.
As for me, the best advice I can give is on how to become a fatty bom-bom like me. OMG seriously I put on damn a lot of weight in the past month staying in the bed and breakfast.
1. Eat lots of food. Just finish up everything you are given.
2. Eat a fatty cooked breakfast every morning. The works: Sausage, black pudding, bacon, scrambled eggs, beans, fried mushroom, toast, fruit, yoghurt, coffee, orange juice.
3. Eat lots and lots of dessert cakes, pudding. Basically whatever you can lay your hands on. Yummylicious :)
4. Sit in bed all day.
5. Don't do any exercise. I have quite a good excuse for this one--damn cold outside!
6. Sleep a lot.
7. Watch lots of tv, read a book, skype, telephone just sit on your bed and don't get out to get any fresh air.
Hahahahah good stuff right? No wonder I'm so fat already, and I can hardly button my pants :0
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Sloth
OMG..
Why am I so lazy??
I really should be updating this blog more often.
Anyway hrmm...let me think what's new..
Well I'm currently in Forres doing my GP attachment for 7 weeks.
As you guess from the name Forres, the town seems to be in the middle of a forest. It's got trees everywhere, and most people work in the forestry industry.
By the way, it's autumn and the place is gorgeous, cause the trees are all changing colours, and it's all just multi-coloured. To be frank though, it's probably not as nice now, cause all the trees have gone bald, and most of the leaves have been shed, but about 1-2 weeks ago, the place was just gorgeous, with trees filled with beautiful yellow, brown gold leaves.
If you were wondering where the heck is Forres, well it's approximately 1 hour and 43 minutes train ride away from Aberdeen. Twice, I took the freaking bus, and it took more than 3 hours. Bleurghhhh..I hate taking the bus. I only take it sometimes cause it's much cheaper than the train. shit, need to be less kiam siap.
I am really enjoying GP here.
I used to absolutely hate GP work, especially as I didn't have a good experience with my previous GP attachments, and I thought it absolutely horrid and boring, but this attachment has absolutely changed my outlook on GP work.
Everybody here is absolutely lovely and nice.
My Gp- Dr Thomson is absolutely brilliant. I'm so sooo glad that I put him as my first choice in the GP choice form, and thank God they gave me my first choice too =)
And the other GP Dr Sneddon absolutely cracks me up. He tells the best best stories ever. I was listening to him tell me stories about this doctor who was supposed to be working, but escaped away to play golf, and was struck by lightning and ended having quite severe burns. Absolutely hilarious! Oh did I mention that he goes hunting and fishing for salmon. He hunts deers, pheasants etc. Wow, I find it so absolutely fascinating, hunting seems so medieval and I didn't even know that people still did that, I used to think only English aristocracy practiced such sports. It's like as if he stepped out of a story book or something.
By the way, I was also fascinated by how the surgeon in Wick-Mr Fisher is able to fly a plane, sail a boat and chops wood for his house. Oh oh, did I tell you that Mr Fisher is tall and charming to boot. His wife is very beautiful, tall and slim with the most gorgeous green eyes, and whom I had to perform venepuncture on, in more lay man terms- take a blood sample from her. But anyway I digress.
I'm so spell-bound and impressed by everybody. Seriously I only read about people who do such things in story books. Haha, I guess life here is really different compared to my old life living in a big city with all its infrastructure and buildings and fast-paced life and pollutions.
Oh yeah, I would also like to add how I feel like such an idiot!!
Dr Sneddon was telling me about how he won so many prizes as a medical student, and that he and Dr Thomson were both distinction students in medical school. And the rest of the doctors in the practice have passed various other post graduate exams. And and Dr Thomson has like two degrees, I can't remember what degree he did before doing medicine. And Dr Sneddon was showing me his books and the stuff he had to memorise as a medical student, and he was telling me about how hard he studied as a medical student. Oh by the way, I also want to add that Sueyi got 99 again for her USMLE Step 2 exam, so damn geng!! Congrats again!!!
Why am I surrounded by so many smart smart people!??
To be fair, all these people worked really hard, so I think they totally deserve all their successes.
As the title of this post suggest, yes I do have to admit that I have been lazy of late, especially since 5th year begun because we don't have major exams this year. Our major exam was in 4th year. And basically 5th year is just about shadowing the houseman in hospital, and helping them do their work which is quite no-brainer. Cause it's just taking history, doing examination, taking bloods. In other words, almost like a glorified clerk :P
So in comparison I am definitely enjoying GP work more as I get to see more diverse cases and use my brains to figure out things cause I get asked a lot more questions. Although I do feel that I was being a bit sneaky during my surgical attachment, as I used to run away from the surgical ward to attend all the different clinics going on downstairs. But to be fair to me, there wasn't a lot going on in the surgical ward in Wick and it was extremely quiet at times, and I was bored witless sitting around doing nothing!!
Ok, that's enough for today, shall continue again later on as I have to go off for a shower now.
Why am I so lazy??
I really should be updating this blog more often.
Anyway hrmm...let me think what's new..
Well I'm currently in Forres doing my GP attachment for 7 weeks.
As you guess from the name Forres, the town seems to be in the middle of a forest. It's got trees everywhere, and most people work in the forestry industry.
By the way, it's autumn and the place is gorgeous, cause the trees are all changing colours, and it's all just multi-coloured. To be frank though, it's probably not as nice now, cause all the trees have gone bald, and most of the leaves have been shed, but about 1-2 weeks ago, the place was just gorgeous, with trees filled with beautiful yellow, brown gold leaves.
If you were wondering where the heck is Forres, well it's approximately 1 hour and 43 minutes train ride away from Aberdeen. Twice, I took the freaking bus, and it took more than 3 hours. Bleurghhhh..I hate taking the bus. I only take it sometimes cause it's much cheaper than the train. shit, need to be less kiam siap.
I am really enjoying GP here.
I used to absolutely hate GP work, especially as I didn't have a good experience with my previous GP attachments, and I thought it absolutely horrid and boring, but this attachment has absolutely changed my outlook on GP work.
Everybody here is absolutely lovely and nice.
My Gp- Dr Thomson is absolutely brilliant. I'm so sooo glad that I put him as my first choice in the GP choice form, and thank God they gave me my first choice too =)
And the other GP Dr Sneddon absolutely cracks me up. He tells the best best stories ever. I was listening to him tell me stories about this doctor who was supposed to be working, but escaped away to play golf, and was struck by lightning and ended having quite severe burns. Absolutely hilarious! Oh did I mention that he goes hunting and fishing for salmon. He hunts deers, pheasants etc. Wow, I find it so absolutely fascinating, hunting seems so medieval and I didn't even know that people still did that, I used to think only English aristocracy practiced such sports. It's like as if he stepped out of a story book or something.
By the way, I was also fascinated by how the surgeon in Wick-Mr Fisher is able to fly a plane, sail a boat and chops wood for his house. Oh oh, did I tell you that Mr Fisher is tall and charming to boot. His wife is very beautiful, tall and slim with the most gorgeous green eyes, and whom I had to perform venepuncture on, in more lay man terms- take a blood sample from her. But anyway I digress.
I'm so spell-bound and impressed by everybody. Seriously I only read about people who do such things in story books. Haha, I guess life here is really different compared to my old life living in a big city with all its infrastructure and buildings and fast-paced life and pollutions.
Oh yeah, I would also like to add how I feel like such an idiot!!
Dr Sneddon was telling me about how he won so many prizes as a medical student, and that he and Dr Thomson were both distinction students in medical school. And the rest of the doctors in the practice have passed various other post graduate exams. And and Dr Thomson has like two degrees, I can't remember what degree he did before doing medicine. And Dr Sneddon was showing me his books and the stuff he had to memorise as a medical student, and he was telling me about how hard he studied as a medical student. Oh by the way, I also want to add that Sueyi got 99 again for her USMLE Step 2 exam, so damn geng!! Congrats again!!!
Why am I surrounded by so many smart smart people!??
To be fair, all these people worked really hard, so I think they totally deserve all their successes.
As the title of this post suggest, yes I do have to admit that I have been lazy of late, especially since 5th year begun because we don't have major exams this year. Our major exam was in 4th year. And basically 5th year is just about shadowing the houseman in hospital, and helping them do their work which is quite no-brainer. Cause it's just taking history, doing examination, taking bloods. In other words, almost like a glorified clerk :P
So in comparison I am definitely enjoying GP work more as I get to see more diverse cases and use my brains to figure out things cause I get asked a lot more questions. Although I do feel that I was being a bit sneaky during my surgical attachment, as I used to run away from the surgical ward to attend all the different clinics going on downstairs. But to be fair to me, there wasn't a lot going on in the surgical ward in Wick and it was extremely quiet at times, and I was bored witless sitting around doing nothing!!
Ok, that's enough for today, shall continue again later on as I have to go off for a shower now.
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Roast Lamb
One day, bought a leg of lamb on offer and decided to make roast lamb.
This is so extremely simple to make and oh soo delicious.
Heat oven at up 200 degrees Celsius.
Firstly wash the leg of lamb, then shake it dry.
Then, marinate with salt and pepper.
Then then, make wee slits all over the lamb and chop up some garlic and stuff garlic, pepper and rosemary into the wee slits.
Chop up some red onions and put under the lamb. In the picture I used shallots instead cause no onions lying around.
Then put some slices of butter on the lamb.
Then throw it into the oven and let it roast.
Every 15 mins or so you can take it out and baste the lamb. Which means take the juice from the bottom of the baking dish and pour it over the lamb.
If you want you can also roast potatoes or parsnips and carrots to go with the dish.
I roasted the lamb for about 2 hours and a bit. I'm not sure about the timing but just do a rough estimate by looking at the lamb.
Then you can also make gravy with the rest of the sauce left in the baking dish after you're done roasting the lamb, by combining it with wine/sherry, and some cornflour. But I'm very lazy to make gravy. I think the lamb was nice by itself.
And....
TA-DAAAA!
This is so extremely simple to make and oh soo delicious.
Heat oven at up 200 degrees Celsius.
Firstly wash the leg of lamb, then shake it dry.
Then, marinate with salt and pepper.
Then then, make wee slits all over the lamb and chop up some garlic and stuff garlic, pepper and rosemary into the wee slits.
Chop up some red onions and put under the lamb. In the picture I used shallots instead cause no onions lying around.
Then put some slices of butter on the lamb.
Then throw it into the oven and let it roast.
Every 15 mins or so you can take it out and baste the lamb. Which means take the juice from the bottom of the baking dish and pour it over the lamb.
If you want you can also roast potatoes or parsnips and carrots to go with the dish.
I roasted the lamb for about 2 hours and a bit. I'm not sure about the timing but just do a rough estimate by looking at the lamb.
Then you can also make gravy with the rest of the sauce left in the baking dish after you're done roasting the lamb, by combining it with wine/sherry, and some cornflour. But I'm very lazy to make gravy. I think the lamb was nice by itself.
And....
TA-DAAAA!
Thorntons Chocolate Cake
Once upon a time during the summer holidays in London,went to Waitrose and guess what!
We found Thorntons Chocolate cake being sold at only 2.99 pounds because it was going to expire soon. The normal price for the cake is about 15 pounds I reckon.
Absolute INDULGENCE......
Oh man, this chocolate cake is just sooo DIVINE!!!
In addition it's got truffles on top of the cake too. Delicious :)
Oops forgot to add, absolutely fattening too.
I have no idea how me and my brother managed to finish up the whole cake.
We found Thorntons Chocolate cake being sold at only 2.99 pounds because it was going to expire soon. The normal price for the cake is about 15 pounds I reckon.
Absolute INDULGENCE......
Oh man, this chocolate cake is just sooo DIVINE!!!
In addition it's got truffles on top of the cake too. Delicious :)
Oops forgot to add, absolutely fattening too.
I have no idea how me and my brother managed to finish up the whole cake.
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Yucky Chinese Food
Seriously,
NEVER EVER EVER EVER eat Chinese food in a small place like Wick.
Crap.
The food was seriously bad bad bad bad.
What a waste of money!!
Gah!!
Below is a picture of green curry ordered at a Chinese restaurant in Wick.
Actually this dish was among the better tasting dish out of the lot.
I couldn't be bothered to take pictures of the rest of the food, cause the food was just seriously crap.
Yucks.
I just wanna use dettol to rinse my mouth out.
Although we ordered a variety of dishes, all the dishes seem to use the same ingredients i.e. bamboo shoots, onions, peppers.
What the heck.
I wonder if they have shortage of Chinese ingredients here.
I hate the way some of the Chinese restaurants here like to westernised their Chinese food. Not only do they westernised it, they make it taste so horrible.
What's the point of eating Chinese food then if it's not authentic and GOOD?
NEVER EVER EVER EVER eat Chinese food in a small place like Wick.
Crap.
The food was seriously bad bad bad bad.
What a waste of money!!
Gah!!
Below is a picture of green curry ordered at a Chinese restaurant in Wick.
Actually this dish was among the better tasting dish out of the lot.
I couldn't be bothered to take pictures of the rest of the food, cause the food was just seriously crap.
Yucks.
I just wanna use dettol to rinse my mouth out.
Although we ordered a variety of dishes, all the dishes seem to use the same ingredients i.e. bamboo shoots, onions, peppers.
What the heck.
I wonder if they have shortage of Chinese ingredients here.
I hate the way some of the Chinese restaurants here like to westernised their Chinese food. Not only do they westernised it, they make it taste so horrible.
What's the point of eating Chinese food then if it's not authentic and GOOD?
Sachin's Birthday!
It was Sachin's 29th birthday last Friday (19th Sept).
By the way, Sachin is the surgical registrar.
Me and Sx bought him a cake from Marks and Spencer in Inverness and brought it all the way back to Wick.
By the time we brought it back......
Guess what happened!??
The CAKE MELTED!!
(*&(*$$^%*^&&$&#**#(%(^(^(^
But anyhow, cake was extremely delicious even though it was melted!
We each had spoons and proceeded to dig into the cake!!
*DIG* *DIG* *DIG*
*scoops into mouth*
=Repeats process all over again=
He was so delighted that we bought him a cake that he took us out for dinner!!!
Wheeeee........
Indian Food!!
Yums!!
Interior of the restaurant
THE STARTERS
Indian food galore!!
Lovin' curries!
Surgical people!
By the way, Sachin is the surgical registrar.
Me and Sx bought him a cake from Marks and Spencer in Inverness and brought it all the way back to Wick.
By the time we brought it back......
Guess what happened!??
The CAKE MELTED!!
(*&(*$$^%*^&&$&#**#(%(^(^(^
But anyhow, cake was extremely delicious even though it was melted!
We each had spoons and proceeded to dig into the cake!!
*DIG* *DIG* *DIG*
*scoops into mouth*
=Repeats process all over again=
He was so delighted that we bought him a cake that he took us out for dinner!!!
Wheeeee........
Indian Food!!
Yums!!
Interior of the restaurant
THE STARTERS
Indian food galore!!
Lovin' curries!
Surgical people!
Me and the castle
During my second weekend here,
Took a super long walk.
Ended up at the Castle of Old Wick :)
Gorgeous views of rocky cliffs overlooking the deep blue sea.
Castle overlooking cliff
Me attempting my best not to slip off the cliff, while crawling to the edge to snap more photos.
It's a long long long drop down.
It's probably quite difficult to tell from the pictures how high the cliffs are.
Took a super long walk.
Ended up at the Castle of Old Wick :)
Gorgeous views of rocky cliffs overlooking the deep blue sea.
Castle overlooking cliff
Me attempting my best not to slip off the cliff, while crawling to the edge to snap more photos.
It's a long long long drop down.
It's probably quite difficult to tell from the pictures how high the cliffs are.
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Away to Inverness tomorrow
By the way,
I'm away to Inverness tomorrow to attend the Intermediate Life Support course on Thursday. They're so nice and they even provided accommodation for us, because it takes about 3 hours to get down from Wick to Inverness and there's no way we can make it down for the course which starts at 9am till 5pm.
I'm quite excited! I'm looking forward to visiting some of my patients who have been transferred over to Raigmore Hospital to see if they are getting better. Fingers cross!
Me and Shi Xian are planning on eating Jimmy Chung Buffet for lunch.
Seriously, we went out for Chinese food the other night at one of the Chinese restaurants in Wick, and the food was so horrible!! Therefore even though Jimmy Chung food is not great, but it is definitely better than crap Wick Chinese food, and also it's cheap! Hahah!
Hopefully I am not going to end up shopping in Inverness. Let's hope that Inverness doesn't have anymore sales! Please please NO MORE!!
Also I'm quite looking forward to seeing some of my friends in Inverness, which includes my ex-housemate Sidd who is a FY1 doctor! Hehe.
Coming back late on Thursday night means we are going to miss Curry Night!! What a shame!!! *sighs*. Yes I know I'm a sad case, whereby the highlight of my week is Curry night with the other medical students and doctors, as if I don't see them enough in hospital. Hahaahaha.
Oh man, I realized that I sound more like I'm going for a holiday compared to going to attend a course.
I'm away to Inverness tomorrow to attend the Intermediate Life Support course on Thursday. They're so nice and they even provided accommodation for us, because it takes about 3 hours to get down from Wick to Inverness and there's no way we can make it down for the course which starts at 9am till 5pm.
I'm quite excited! I'm looking forward to visiting some of my patients who have been transferred over to Raigmore Hospital to see if they are getting better. Fingers cross!
Me and Shi Xian are planning on eating Jimmy Chung Buffet for lunch.
Seriously, we went out for Chinese food the other night at one of the Chinese restaurants in Wick, and the food was so horrible!! Therefore even though Jimmy Chung food is not great, but it is definitely better than crap Wick Chinese food, and also it's cheap! Hahah!
Hopefully I am not going to end up shopping in Inverness. Let's hope that Inverness doesn't have anymore sales! Please please NO MORE!!
Also I'm quite looking forward to seeing some of my friends in Inverness, which includes my ex-housemate Sidd who is a FY1 doctor! Hehe.
Coming back late on Thursday night means we are going to miss Curry Night!! What a shame!!! *sighs*. Yes I know I'm a sad case, whereby the highlight of my week is Curry night with the other medical students and doctors, as if I don't see them enough in hospital. Hahaahaha.
Oh man, I realized that I sound more like I'm going for a holiday compared to going to attend a course.
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Wick
I have been in Wick for nearly 3 weeks! - Hahah note the alliterations Week & Wick :P
This was how the room looked like when I first arrived.
3 weeks ago, I took the train from
The train ride was 2.5 hours to Inverness, and then there was a stopover for about 45 minutes, and in the meantime I decided to walk around
My slippers look nicer in real life!!
This was followed by a 4 hour journey to Wick.
So freaking long!
The train stopped at every single small town in
Total travel time: More than 7 hours.
This didn't even include my train journey from
I think my bum is gonna get pressure sores just from sitting for that long.
Thankfully I managed to sleep most of the way there, and when I got bored, I switched on my laptop to watch a movie. Speaking of that, the train is evil! They only provide electricity plug points to the customers in first class! I I guess you get what you pay for.
Oh by the way, on my train ride from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, I met this ginger haired man who is a dancing teacher in Edinburgh and he used to perform in musicals e.g. phantom of the opera etc.
More complaints I want to make, the university did not inform us anything at all regarding Wick. I have never been to Wick in my entire life, and I had no idea about the place at all, or where I was going to stay, and where everything was located etc.
I just realized how "adventurous" I am, venturing off to a place far far away which I was totally clueless about.
I met this nice lady on the train and she told me that the hospital was just behind the train station, and she walked me to the hospital. I turned up at the reception and they gave me keys to the accommodation which they said was located a mile away. I was thinking of walking there and was asking for directions, but the receptionist was on her way home, and her husband drove me there in the car. Haha it was very nice of them :)
On arrival at the accommodation, I had trouble finding where our flat was and I was walking around in circles but finally managed to locate it. You have to go through two doors to enter it. The layout of the accommodation is a bit strange, if I must say so myself.
When I first unlocked my room door, oh my goodness I was so disappointed! The room was so small!! I had no place to walk even!
But anyway I managed to do some rearranging of the furniture and my room looks quite big now :)
This was how the room looked like when I first arrived.
Look at the terrible arrangement of the furniture.
I was getting quite lonely and bored during the first two days when I arrived, as the place seems to be totally empty. But then Shi Xian arrived on Sunday night, and I welcomed her with open arms :P
After I arrived, I went walking around town which consists of the high street. There are a few pubs and shops littered around. There is also a Wetherspoon pub in town! Wetherspoon pub is where I get my very very cheap fish & chips from. The pub has an afternoon deal 2-5pm for fish & chips with tea/coffee for only 3.10 pounds if I am not mistaken.
The hospital is just located next to the town center. There are no modern shops around in town, in fact the most modern shops which is the retail center is located just near our accommodation and there is Lidl, Argos, New Look, Superdrug etc. By the way, I was so bored I went to New Look to look around and ended up buying clothes which were quite nice and cheap :) I seem to think the clothes in
Then I walked to Tesco which is about 20 minutes from town to get some groceries and stuff.
This is quite a small town, so it's quite easy to find your way around, every place is reached by walking down a straight road until you reach the place.
Back online!!
Hello everyone!!
I am back!!!!
I am currently in Wick doing my surgical attachment in Bignold ward in Caithness General Hospital.
Wick is considered to be a rural area, a nicer term would be "remote area".
The medical students are staying in the nurses accommodation in Town and County Hospital which is about a mile from Caithness General Hospital.
Me and Shi Xian are staying next to each other and we have the whole flat to ourselves.
We also managed to get internet in our accommodation!!! That's why I can come online now!! Very happy!!
Shall update more in the next post.
Stay tuned :)
I am back!!!!
I am currently in Wick doing my surgical attachment in Bignold ward in Caithness General Hospital.
Wick is considered to be a rural area, a nicer term would be "remote area".
The medical students are staying in the nurses accommodation in Town and County Hospital which is about a mile from Caithness General Hospital.
Me and Shi Xian are staying next to each other and we have the whole flat to ourselves.
We also managed to get internet in our accommodation!!! That's why I can come online now!! Very happy!!
Shall update more in the next post.
Stay tuned :)
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Thoughts...
Past couple of days have been spent watching this documentary on Charles Darwin's work.
I must said it's pretty interesting and this has stimulated me into giving much thought on the creationism versus evolution theory.
I don't support either side and in fact I have worked up some arguments supporting or rebutting both theories. Most of the time I throw my ideas at my brother to see if he would have anything to add or to refute my ideas, because I can be quite unsure if some of my thoughts on it are right, or perhaps there could be some fallacy to the logic which I have applied for the arguments.
Well I think perhaps I'm a bit too inquisitive especially during holidays when I'm bored and have nothing better to do then think of such things to occupy my mind. I don't know if I am wasting my time thinking of such things, but isn't that why God gave us brains, or perhaps we have been evolved into having a brain to think for ourselves and to think and question things happening around us? Somebody told me not to waste my time thinking about things which I cannot change, or perhaps would not even affect me and instead spend my time studying. Which is also probably true. Oh well, when term starts I shall go back to my studying.
For one, we certainly can't deny that evolution does exist, as it's been proven by science, but sometimes cannot come out of nothing. There must be somebody which created it.
Which might probably bring us back to the age old argument of did the chicken or egg come first?
or perhaps;
If God created the earth and everything in it, then who created God, as something cannot come out of nothing?
I am kinda freaked out by the idea of evolution, as humans aka homo sapiens might one day evolve into some other species, and I wonder what sort of weird species would it be which would be far superior to us. It just completely scares me.
By the way, I have discovered the book The origin of the species by Charles Darwin online. I wonder if I should download it and read it?
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species-6th-edition/
Oh yeah, there's this other argument about truth, but I'm not going to elaborate very much on it either. There's too many ways of looking at it, and you could argue it from a philosophical point of view or perhaps from a logical sense, etc.
Firstly, we need to ask ourself what is truth?
Well I've checked the dictionary and it's come up with this:
I would like to know if truth is relative?
For example, there was a car accident, and there are 2 witnesses A and B.
A saw that the red car knocked into the blue car.
Whereas B saw the blue car knocked into the red car.
So which one of the above is the truth then?
Is the truth just relative from each person's point of view of what they believe in or what they saw happened?
I might be giving a poor example, but I hope you would be able to see my point.
But to argue that what a person believes to be the truth should be the truth, this argument cannot withstand because if a person believes the world is flat.
Is the world flat then?
Of course it isn't!
What else? I think I'm going to stop here.
The problem with questions is that it just leads to more questions. So should I then stop questioning so much, as it's all pointless arguments anyway?
I must said it's pretty interesting and this has stimulated me into giving much thought on the creationism versus evolution theory.
I don't support either side and in fact I have worked up some arguments supporting or rebutting both theories. Most of the time I throw my ideas at my brother to see if he would have anything to add or to refute my ideas, because I can be quite unsure if some of my thoughts on it are right, or perhaps there could be some fallacy to the logic which I have applied for the arguments.
Well I think perhaps I'm a bit too inquisitive especially during holidays when I'm bored and have nothing better to do then think of such things to occupy my mind. I don't know if I am wasting my time thinking of such things, but isn't that why God gave us brains, or perhaps we have been evolved into having a brain to think for ourselves and to think and question things happening around us? Somebody told me not to waste my time thinking about things which I cannot change, or perhaps would not even affect me and instead spend my time studying. Which is also probably true. Oh well, when term starts I shall go back to my studying.
For one, we certainly can't deny that evolution does exist, as it's been proven by science, but sometimes cannot come out of nothing. There must be somebody which created it.
Which might probably bring us back to the age old argument of did the chicken or egg come first?
or perhaps;
If God created the earth and everything in it, then who created God, as something cannot come out of nothing?
I am kinda freaked out by the idea of evolution, as humans aka homo sapiens might one day evolve into some other species, and I wonder what sort of weird species would it be which would be far superior to us. It just completely scares me.
By the way, I have discovered the book The origin of the species by Charles Darwin online. I wonder if I should download it and read it?
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species-6th-edition/
Oh yeah, there's this other argument about truth, but I'm not going to elaborate very much on it either. There's too many ways of looking at it, and you could argue it from a philosophical point of view or perhaps from a logical sense, etc.
Firstly, we need to ask ourself what is truth?
Well I've checked the dictionary and it's come up with this:
| 1. | the true or actual state of a matter. |
| 2. | conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement. |
| 3. | a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths. |
| 4. | the state or character of being true. |
| 5. | actuality or actual existence. |
I would like to know if truth is relative?
For example, there was a car accident, and there are 2 witnesses A and B.
A saw that the red car knocked into the blue car.
Whereas B saw the blue car knocked into the red car.
So which one of the above is the truth then?
Is the truth just relative from each person's point of view of what they believe in or what they saw happened?
I might be giving a poor example, but I hope you would be able to see my point.
But to argue that what a person believes to be the truth should be the truth, this argument cannot withstand because if a person believes the world is flat.
Is the world flat then?
Of course it isn't!
What else? I think I'm going to stop here.
The Aristotelian definition of truth states:
"To say of something which is that it is not, or to say of something which is not that it is, is false. However, to say of something which is that it is, or of something which is not that it is not, is true."
Confusing enough?The problem with questions is that it just leads to more questions. So should I then stop questioning so much, as it's all pointless arguments anyway?
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Inverness 4th year attachment
Omg, I'm damn bored.
It's nearly 3am in the morning and I can't sleep.
So I'll write some nonsense on Inverness to entertain whoever who bothers to read my blog.
Well basically as a 4th year medical student in University of Aberdeen, you're required to go to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for at least one block (5 weeks) for placements.
Anyway most people are given 2 blocks there.
If I'm not mistaken, Inverness was about 2.5 hours away from Aberdeen by the school bus. I think if you take the train it's probably about 2 hours. I seriously can't remember.
The WORST mode of transport you can take there is the public bus.
OMG, I swear I nearly died. It's like freaking 4 hours. Anyway that was the only time I took it cause I exchanged with my friend to do another block there, so I had to find my own transport there, and I thought the school wasn't going to reimburse me for travelling so I choose the cheapest mode of transport. wtf. I'm so stupid. Actually I could get it reimbursed. Haih. If I knew that earlier, I so would have taken the train.
When I first heard that I was supposed to go Inverness to do placements, I was like wtf!
I thought it was some sua-ku kampung hospital, where the teaching won't be as good as in Aberdeen.
and I thought I was going to stay in some crappy accommodation.
and I thought I was going to die of loneliness, because only the 3 of us IMU people were sent there for the 2 blocks in July/Aug/Sept 2007, while the rest of the lucky people were all going together in Jan/Feb/March 2008, and I don't know the rest of my ang moh classmates!!
hahaha
Anyway, I was proven WRONG.
Haha, I like it when things surpass my expectations :)
So Aberdeen University is very GOOD!!
Haha, that's the university I'm studying in, of course I have to praise it!
But then I swear it's really good and well organized.
One thing is during the placements, we don't have to pay for rental or any bills to stay in Raigmore Hospital student accommodation. How good is that??
And when I went there, they just finished renovating the student accommodation and it was all new furniture and fresh coats of paint, so it was super nice :)
The university also provided transport free in the form of a bus to ferry us students there for our placements.
Yeah yeah, I know the very expensive school fees which I am paying all went in for that.
Anyway, my point is, I know there are a lot of other schools where you pay expensive fees but you don't get treated as well.
Yeah, that's my room. I stayed in Juniper Court the first time I was there in summer.
I think it's soo damn nice!! They even provided towels, sheets, toilet paper, everything.
Plus, we even have cleaners to clean the toilets, shower, kitchen almost everyday.
They even clean our sheets for us, we just have to throw them outside our door every Tuesday.
Like staying in a freaking hotel.
Yes I also know that I'm damn weird and I actually prefer staying in student accommodation more than a proper house.
Anita/Amy/Fraser/Chris
My most fantastic house mates ever!!
I couldn't ask for better house mates :)
It's nearly 3am in the morning and I can't sleep.
So I'll write some nonsense on Inverness to entertain whoever who bothers to read my blog.
Well basically as a 4th year medical student in University of Aberdeen, you're required to go to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for at least one block (5 weeks) for placements.
Anyway most people are given 2 blocks there.
If I'm not mistaken, Inverness was about 2.5 hours away from Aberdeen by the school bus. I think if you take the train it's probably about 2 hours. I seriously can't remember.
The WORST mode of transport you can take there is the public bus.
OMG, I swear I nearly died. It's like freaking 4 hours. Anyway that was the only time I took it cause I exchanged with my friend to do another block there, so I had to find my own transport there, and I thought the school wasn't going to reimburse me for travelling so I choose the cheapest mode of transport. wtf. I'm so stupid. Actually I could get it reimbursed. Haih. If I knew that earlier, I so would have taken the train.
When I first heard that I was supposed to go Inverness to do placements, I was like wtf!
I thought it was some sua-ku kampung hospital, where the teaching won't be as good as in Aberdeen.
and I thought I was going to stay in some crappy accommodation.
and I thought I was going to die of loneliness, because only the 3 of us IMU people were sent there for the 2 blocks in July/Aug/Sept 2007, while the rest of the lucky people were all going together in Jan/Feb/March 2008, and I don't know the rest of my ang moh classmates!!
hahaha
Anyway, I was proven WRONG.
Haha, I like it when things surpass my expectations :)
So Aberdeen University is very GOOD!!
Haha, that's the university I'm studying in, of course I have to praise it!
But then I swear it's really good and well organized.
One thing is during the placements, we don't have to pay for rental or any bills to stay in Raigmore Hospital student accommodation. How good is that??
And when I went there, they just finished renovating the student accommodation and it was all new furniture and fresh coats of paint, so it was super nice :)
The university also provided transport free in the form of a bus to ferry us students there for our placements.
Yeah yeah, I know the very expensive school fees which I am paying all went in for that.
Anyway, my point is, I know there are a lot of other schools where you pay expensive fees but you don't get treated as well.
Yeah, that's my room. I stayed in Juniper Court the first time I was there in summer.
I think it's soo damn nice!! They even provided towels, sheets, toilet paper, everything.
Plus, we even have cleaners to clean the toilets, shower, kitchen almost everyday.
They even clean our sheets for us, we just have to throw them outside our door every Tuesday.
Like staying in a freaking hotel.
Yes I also know that I'm damn weird and I actually prefer staying in student accommodation more than a proper house.
Anita/Amy/Fraser/ChrisMy most fantastic house mates ever!!
I couldn't ask for better house mates :)
Dementia
I swear I am having freaking premature DEMENTIA.
It's like simple things which I can normally remember I keep forgetting.
Like my bloody user ID.
WTH.
This summer, it's like the freaking dunno how many time which I have forgotten my user ID, and then I have to torture myself trying to remember to again. Haih!
I think my summer holidays is too long until I never use my brain cells, then my brain cells have all atrophied.
By the way, I'm reading this book called The Mahathir Legacy.
It's a really good book :)
I tried making creme patisserie/pastry cream again.
OMG, I dunno why always tak jadi.
I think this time around I put in too much flour. wtf.
I think I'm gonna give up soon. *sighs*
wahhaha by the way, I changed my blog template.
Duh.
Kinda obvious right?
Took me so long to find a template.
All these HTML configuring is so confusing.
Haih, I realized that I write like a bimbo,
and not like an intellectual future doc I should be.
Whatever.
It's like simple things which I can normally remember I keep forgetting.
Like my bloody user ID.
WTH.
This summer, it's like the freaking dunno how many time which I have forgotten my user ID, and then I have to torture myself trying to remember to again. Haih!
I think my summer holidays is too long until I never use my brain cells, then my brain cells have all atrophied.
By the way, I'm reading this book called The Mahathir Legacy.
It's a really good book :)
I tried making creme patisserie/pastry cream again.
OMG, I dunno why always tak jadi.
I think this time around I put in too much flour. wtf.
I think I'm gonna give up soon. *sighs*
wahhaha by the way, I changed my blog template.
Duh.
Kinda obvious right?
Took me so long to find a template.
All these HTML configuring is so confusing.
Haih, I realized that I write like a bimbo,
and not like an intellectual future doc I should be.
Whatever.
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
OMG, Back to school soon!
Argh!!
Seriously
I hate the thought of having to return to school soon..
*sighs* a million times and over.
Seriously
I hate the thought of having to return to school soon..
*sighs* a million times and over.
Monday, 11 August 2008
Buckie Part 2
I just realized how much I like to make everything into a series of parts.
I guess I'm just too damn lazy to type everything out into one post.
I've been checking my site meter and realized that there are people who come to my blog looking for how to get from Aberdeen to Buckie.
So since I'm bored and I can't sleep and also due to the fact that I'm such a nice person, I'm going to provide people with the various alternatives of getting to Buckie.
Buckie is located at:
Check the map below yourself.
This is a map of part of Scotland in case you're wondering, and still can't get your head around where I'm trying to show you. Anyway, I've circled Buckie and Aberdeen in RED, so you would be able to identify the places.
Next, the following options for public transport would be:
1) You could take the bus there. There are stagecoach buses which go to Buckie from Aberdeen bus station. I have provided the link here. It's bus number 305 stagecoach, which takes you to Buckie. But I do have to warn you that it's a really long journey, it takes about 3 hours to reach there, as the bus stops at every small, tiny, little, freaking town along the way. I guess it's nice if you enjoy looking at the scenery and checking out all the small towns along the way.
2) Alternatively, you could take the train from Aberdeen to Keith, and from Keith, you could take a bus to Buckie. You can check the train times and the price at this link.
In my opinion, the train is a much more comfortable way to travel although you have to change twice. The train is also more expensive compared to taking the bus, but the total travelling time is 1.5 hours versus 3 hours by bus.
I guess I'm just too damn lazy to type everything out into one post.
I've been checking my site meter and realized that there are people who come to my blog looking for how to get from Aberdeen to Buckie.
So since I'm bored and I can't sleep and also due to the fact that I'm such a nice person, I'm going to provide people with the various alternatives of getting to Buckie.
Buckie is located at:
Check the map below yourself.
This is a map of part of Scotland in case you're wondering, and still can't get your head around where I'm trying to show you. Anyway, I've circled Buckie and Aberdeen in RED, so you would be able to identify the places.Next, the following options for public transport would be:
1) You could take the bus there. There are stagecoach buses which go to Buckie from Aberdeen bus station. I have provided the link here. It's bus number 305 stagecoach, which takes you to Buckie. But I do have to warn you that it's a really long journey, it takes about 3 hours to reach there, as the bus stops at every small, tiny, little, freaking town along the way. I guess it's nice if you enjoy looking at the scenery and checking out all the small towns along the way.
2) Alternatively, you could take the train from Aberdeen to Keith, and from Keith, you could take a bus to Buckie. You can check the train times and the price at this link.
In my opinion, the train is a much more comfortable way to travel although you have to change twice. The train is also more expensive compared to taking the bus, but the total travelling time is 1.5 hours versus 3 hours by bus.
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Random crap I've been thinking about
Crap, do you know that my hair is super messy again.
Just one month after getting my hair cut in a stylo manner, it has started growing out and it's looking quite shaggy. I could be mistaken for a dog I swear! Worse bit is, I always crawl out of bed with my messy hair, throw on my smelly blue hoodie and go around walking outside, and I always end up bumping into people. So embarrassing! See I never learn from my mistakes. *sighs*
I think I need to get my hair cut and dyed again. I'm not quite sure when I should do it though.
Yes I did tell my brother that these type of hair styles are quite high maintenance.
High maintenance in the sense that it needs to be trimmed every few weeks, and use of styling products to keep it in some shape.
There's this pepper in the kitchen called Aji-shio, which is a mixture of Pepper and Ajinomoto.
I've been getting addicted to it, I shake it indiscriminately into all my food.
Seriously it makes your food taste sooo much better!!
It's like some sort of magic pepper where you sprinkle it into your porridge, soup and *voila* your food suddenly becomes so much more tasty!
I know that it's terribly unhealthy, but haih, I can't help it.
What a terrible future doctor I'm going to be.
"Do as I say, not as I do!"
Don't eat so much Ajinomoto!!
I've been fretting about starting school soon too.
About how to ship all the stuff from London to Aberdeen, how many boxes I need, when to ship etc etc.
So many things to contemplate.
In addition I still need to book train tickets to from Aberdeen to Wick where I will be starting my first block.
I still need to figure out where I want to apply to work next year too!
I'm quite sure that I would still prefer to stay in Scotland.
And I would also like very much to work in the smaller, friendlier hospitals e.g. Elgin and Inverness, but this will be at the cost of having less friends/meeting less people/less chances of meeting future partner (ignore the last one please).
By the way, I'm not even sure I might get my choices in the first place.
Also I did think about other places for working like Glasgow, but I think the place is quite dodgy.
I guess I'm not a very adventurous person and I don't like getting out of my comfort zone much.
I'd probably have to figure out all this sooner or later because I have to start applying for jobs soon.
I've also has nothing else better to do, and I've been surfing and reading blogs, news all day which has resulted in me discovering certain scandals which has been entertaining me for the past couple of days. I think I've reached the point where I'm getting way too addicted. I need to stop and get a grip of myself and start reading some serious articles/books again instead of rubbish scandals. Argh!!
Oh by the way, all these frequent feasting every day and night and now I have taken ill!
Stupid phlegm in my throat and I have to keep swallowing it down, and constant coughing, in-between my occasional sneezing. So annoyed. I think the weather has also contributed to my illness.
It's been raining/drizzling EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
The weather here is so rubbish, it's supposed to be summer, and it's really gloomy and cold outside most of the time. I guess I prefer it to the strangulating heat.
Alright, that's all of my rants for today.
Another thing I want to add is Gu chocolate souffle.
Well we're very disappointed with it.
Such nice packaging and such good marketing, but unfortunately taste-wise, it seems to be a bit lacking,
We suspect that they have been using cheap chocolate in the souffle.
Seriously for the price you pay for it, and you get cheap chocolate in it!
What a rip-off!!
Just one month after getting my hair cut in a stylo manner, it has started growing out and it's looking quite shaggy. I could be mistaken for a dog I swear! Worse bit is, I always crawl out of bed with my messy hair, throw on my smelly blue hoodie and go around walking outside, and I always end up bumping into people. So embarrassing! See I never learn from my mistakes. *sighs*
I think I need to get my hair cut and dyed again. I'm not quite sure when I should do it though.
Yes I did tell my brother that these type of hair styles are quite high maintenance.
High maintenance in the sense that it needs to be trimmed every few weeks, and use of styling products to keep it in some shape.
There's this pepper in the kitchen called Aji-shio, which is a mixture of Pepper and Ajinomoto.
I've been getting addicted to it, I shake it indiscriminately into all my food.
Seriously it makes your food taste sooo much better!!
It's like some sort of magic pepper where you sprinkle it into your porridge, soup and *voila* your food suddenly becomes so much more tasty!
I know that it's terribly unhealthy, but haih, I can't help it.
What a terrible future doctor I'm going to be.
"Do as I say, not as I do!"
Don't eat so much Ajinomoto!!
I've been fretting about starting school soon too.
About how to ship all the stuff from London to Aberdeen, how many boxes I need, when to ship etc etc.
So many things to contemplate.
In addition I still need to book train tickets to from Aberdeen to Wick where I will be starting my first block.
I still need to figure out where I want to apply to work next year too!
I'm quite sure that I would still prefer to stay in Scotland.
And I would also like very much to work in the smaller, friendlier hospitals e.g. Elgin and Inverness, but this will be at the cost of having less friends/meeting less people/less chances of meeting future partner (ignore the last one please).
By the way, I'm not even sure I might get my choices in the first place.
Also I did think about other places for working like Glasgow, but I think the place is quite dodgy.
I guess I'm not a very adventurous person and I don't like getting out of my comfort zone much.
I'd probably have to figure out all this sooner or later because I have to start applying for jobs soon.
I've also has nothing else better to do, and I've been surfing and reading blogs, news all day which has resulted in me discovering certain scandals which has been entertaining me for the past couple of days. I think I've reached the point where I'm getting way too addicted. I need to stop and get a grip of myself and start reading some serious articles/books again instead of rubbish scandals. Argh!!
Oh by the way, all these frequent feasting every day and night and now I have taken ill!
Stupid phlegm in my throat and I have to keep swallowing it down, and constant coughing, in-between my occasional sneezing. So annoyed. I think the weather has also contributed to my illness.
It's been raining/drizzling EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
The weather here is so rubbish, it's supposed to be summer, and it's really gloomy and cold outside most of the time. I guess I prefer it to the strangulating heat.
Alright, that's all of my rants for today.
Another thing I want to add is Gu chocolate souffle.
Well we're very disappointed with it.
Such nice packaging and such good marketing, but unfortunately taste-wise, it seems to be a bit lacking,
We suspect that they have been using cheap chocolate in the souffle.
Seriously for the price you pay for it, and you get cheap chocolate in it!
What a rip-off!!
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Krispy Kreme!!
Day before yesterday, me and my brother went off to Angel to get some food shopping done.
Our fridge was like totally EMPTY!
So off we went on another long long walk off to Angel.
As you can see I indulge in taking long walks, it's the only exercise I get!!
Anyway when we arrived at Angel, we found out that there was a wet market there!
Buying fresh food at the wet market was much much cheaper compared to at Sainsburys, obviously. Imagine two big boxes of strawberries for only 1 pound! And 3 big bunches of coriander for 1 pound, but my brother bargained with the store owner and we got it for 80 pence :)
Normally a small bunch of coriander in supermarkets are around 80-90 pence.
So later on our way home, we stopped over at the French Patisserie near our house and bought some cakes to eat.
These cakes are really good stuff I tell you.
The one on the right taste exactly like Nutella and Ferrero Rocher....crunchy, chocolatery, hazelnuty. Heaven on earth!
The one on the left is good too. Can't remember how it taste like except that it's good. It's got liquor in between the layers, although not very much of it.
I really like this French Bakery, I think it's called Pattisserie Deux Amis and it's located on Judd Street near King's Cross. Walked into the shop and you find yourself in a quiet, relaxing atmosphere, and the decor in the shop is so pretty and old-school, almost like some French cafe in some small village in France. And the girl manning the shop is so PRETTY!! omg! A delightful, pleasant French girl who will gladly recommend and explain the different types of cakes available.
I'm not sure she's French, but I think she's French cause she keeps giving me the names of the cakes in French, and I'll look at her and go,"Huh?"
Well sounds French to me anyway.
And and everytime I go there, the lady will be making coffee to serve to customers and it smells super GOOD!!
Anyways, after eating cake, got down to cooking dinner....
Eh, it seriously taste better than it looks ok!
Lots of hard work of deboning the chicken, chopping, cutting and cooking went into it.
And what's my reward for all my hard work?
Here it is!! Hehehhehee.
Stephanie brought Krispy Kreme for dessert!!!
yeay!! Love her to bits for bringing my favourite doughnuts!
Check it out baby!!!
Freaking good stuff!!
Super sweet, super fattening!!
Hungry yet?
Our fridge was like totally EMPTY!
So off we went on another long long walk off to Angel.
As you can see I indulge in taking long walks, it's the only exercise I get!!
Anyway when we arrived at Angel, we found out that there was a wet market there!
Buying fresh food at the wet market was much much cheaper compared to at Sainsburys, obviously. Imagine two big boxes of strawberries for only 1 pound! And 3 big bunches of coriander for 1 pound, but my brother bargained with the store owner and we got it for 80 pence :)
Normally a small bunch of coriander in supermarkets are around 80-90 pence.
So later on our way home, we stopped over at the French Patisserie near our house and bought some cakes to eat.
These cakes are really good stuff I tell you.
The one on the right taste exactly like Nutella and Ferrero Rocher....crunchy, chocolatery, hazelnuty. Heaven on earth!
The one on the left is good too. Can't remember how it taste like except that it's good. It's got liquor in between the layers, although not very much of it.
I really like this French Bakery, I think it's called Pattisserie Deux Amis and it's located on Judd Street near King's Cross. Walked into the shop and you find yourself in a quiet, relaxing atmosphere, and the decor in the shop is so pretty and old-school, almost like some French cafe in some small village in France. And the girl manning the shop is so PRETTY!! omg! A delightful, pleasant French girl who will gladly recommend and explain the different types of cakes available.
I'm not sure she's French, but I think she's French cause she keeps giving me the names of the cakes in French, and I'll look at her and go,"Huh?"
Well sounds French to me anyway.
And and everytime I go there, the lady will be making coffee to serve to customers and it smells super GOOD!!
Anyways, after eating cake, got down to cooking dinner....
Eh, it seriously taste better than it looks ok!
Lots of hard work of deboning the chicken, chopping, cutting and cooking went into it.
And what's my reward for all my hard work?
Here it is!! Hehehhehee.
Stephanie brought Krispy Kreme for dessert!!!
yeay!! Love her to bits for bringing my favourite doughnuts!
Check it out baby!!!
Freaking good stuff!!
Super sweet, super fattening!!
Hungry yet?
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Maison Blanc
On Monday, me and my brother went in search of a French Patisserie Shop called Maison Blanc. My cousin Victor has been raving about it for ages, but when we ask him where it was located, he said that it was too far away for us to go.
My brother went on the internet to look for the website and found one of the outlets in St John's Wood, so off we went on a long long walk there walking through Regent's Park...
We reach St John's Wood at last.
This is the high street.
Anyway for everybody's information, high street in UK means any street with lots of shops on both sides.
Well that's what I think it means anyway.
If you think I'm talking crap then you can go google/wikipedia the meaning, cause I'm probably talking crap. Hahaha.
Oh well, let's continue on with our journey....
Then...we spotted the shop from afar!
It's Maison Blanc!!!
Wow damn hungry, we walked all the way there and we haven't even eaten breakfast/lunch yet!!
The cakes/pastries on display.
Argh! So many cakes are gone!!
I suspect the nice ones are finished!
I couldn't take more pictures as we were not allowed to take photos in the shop.
Photography is not allowed in a lot of shops. I've been scolded countless times for taking photos.
WTF!
Anyhow we went and ask the lady to recommend us some nice cakes.
My suspicions are confirmed, most of the yummy cakes are gone.
*sighs*
Also apparently they only hire French workers in the shop.
Oh there was this very cute shop assistant who is tall with gorgeous tousled brown hair.
Hehe the cakes are so nicely wrapped up in paper and then put into plastic bags for us to carry. Very nice added touch!
Ah the first one, some raspberry pastry, don't ask me what it's called. It's got pastry layers and in between there's creme pattiserie and raspberries. Very yummeh!
Passion Fruit mousse and Apple Tart
My brother went on the internet to look for the website and found one of the outlets in St John's Wood, so off we went on a long long walk there walking through Regent's Park...
We reach St John's Wood at last.This is the high street.
Anyway for everybody's information, high street in UK means any street with lots of shops on both sides.
Well that's what I think it means anyway.
If you think I'm talking crap then you can go google/wikipedia the meaning, cause I'm probably talking crap. Hahaha.
Oh well, let's continue on with our journey....
Then...we spotted the shop from afar!
It's Maison Blanc!!!
Wow damn hungry, we walked all the way there and we haven't even eaten breakfast/lunch yet!!
The cakes/pastries on display.Argh! So many cakes are gone!!
I suspect the nice ones are finished!
I couldn't take more pictures as we were not allowed to take photos in the shop.
Photography is not allowed in a lot of shops. I've been scolded countless times for taking photos.
WTF!
Anyhow we went and ask the lady to recommend us some nice cakes.
My suspicions are confirmed, most of the yummy cakes are gone.
*sighs*
Also apparently they only hire French workers in the shop.
Oh there was this very cute shop assistant who is tall with gorgeous tousled brown hair.
Hehe the cakes are so nicely wrapped up in paper and then put into plastic bags for us to carry. Very nice added touch!
Ah the first one, some raspberry pastry, don't ask me what it's called. It's got pastry layers and in between there's creme pattiserie and raspberries. Very yummeh!
Passion Fruit mousse and Apple TartThe passion fruit mousse was absolutely delicious. Its sweet and tangy taste complementing each other very well. Mousse just absolutely melted in my mouth.
Apple tart was so-so. There was a layer of apple compote below the apple slices.
Well, later then we thought that we had to walk back all the way again, but Stephanie who is very very nice came and fetch us home with her car :)
Wah I didn't know cars are so canggih these days. Got built in GPS system some more.
Also apparently if you have a hybrid car you don't have to pay for congestion charges within central London and you also save a lot on petrol with the hybrid car.
Apple tart was so-so. There was a layer of apple compote below the apple slices.
Well, later then we thought that we had to walk back all the way again, but Stephanie who is very very nice came and fetch us home with her car :)
Wah I didn't know cars are so canggih these days. Got built in GPS system some more.
Also apparently if you have a hybrid car you don't have to pay for congestion charges within central London and you also save a lot on petrol with the hybrid car.
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Picasa
Oh damnit, all along I was wondering how people were creating collages and putting them on blogs, facebook, whatever. Then yesterday I found out that I could download this programme called Picasa which could allow you to create collages. Picasa is owned by Google I think.
Haha. What an idiot I am!
Anyway I've been sleeping the whole day today. I managed to crawl out of bed at like 1pm, and then went out lunch at 2 plus I think.
Guess what I had for lunch??
It's PENANG PRAWN MEE!!
It's so yummylicious!
Haha sorry it looks a bit messy, I already had a few bites off it before I decided to take the picture.
This bowl is like freaking huge ok!
Got like 3 HUGE tiger prawns!
wahlau my mouth super watering now!
Oh yeah the soup is like sooooo SWEET....
I was saying that the prawn mee is better compared to the ones in Malaysia. I don't even eat prawn mee in Malaysia!
Oh yes I know higher price too, don't have to remind me.
I've think I've ended up eating at Hare and Tortoise two weekends in a row. Haha!
Then you know what I went to do after that?
I went home and continued sleeping again.
zzZzzzzz....
Oh, by the way I just woke up again!
Haha. What an idiot I am!
Anyway I've been sleeping the whole day today. I managed to crawl out of bed at like 1pm, and then went out lunch at 2 plus I think.
Guess what I had for lunch??
It's PENANG PRAWN MEE!!
It's so yummylicious!
Haha sorry it looks a bit messy, I already had a few bites off it before I decided to take the picture.
This bowl is like freaking huge ok!
Got like 3 HUGE tiger prawns!
wahlau my mouth super watering now!
Oh yeah the soup is like sooooo SWEET....
I was saying that the prawn mee is better compared to the ones in Malaysia. I don't even eat prawn mee in Malaysia!
Oh yes I know higher price too, don't have to remind me.
I've think I've ended up eating at Hare and Tortoise two weekends in a row. Haha!
Then you know what I went to do after that?
I went home and continued sleeping again.
zzZzzzzz....
Oh, by the way I just woke up again!
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Borough Market - Part two. BEST COFFEE EVER!! Monmouth Coffee Company :-)
Since I came back again to UK to study, I've developed a very bad habit of drinking lots of coffee and tea!!!
Most of the time in the Hospital, after rounds, during the start of clinics, between surgeries,the most common thing you would hear uttered would be , "Would you like a cup of coffee/tea?"
Sorry I really couldn't resist the urge to say no! Which is weird, as I hardly drank it in Malaysia.
So, between surgeries, I had this tendency to run to the coffee lounge and help myself to lots of free coffee/tea!! Hehehe!!
And then I ended up reading all the gossip magazines there instead of reading my Oxford Handbook *sighs*
So at that time I knew more about all the gossips going on in Big Brother, and I don't even watch that stupid show. Yes I do think it's a stupid show! I don't understand why are people so entertained watching a bunch of people sitting around the house doing nothing?
Anyhow, this has resulted in me being totally utterly ADDICTED to coffee/tea!! Argh.....
Yes! Coffee/tea does keep me awake and perky most of the time, especially in the morning, when all I want to do is to crawl back beneath my warm covers and go back to zzZzzzz again. Aberdeen so cold most of the time! Haih!
Anyway, here's introducing one of the best coffee I've tasted!!
It's Monmouth Coffee Company! They have two branches in Borough Market alone, and I think they have one more branch in Covent Garden, although till today, I still haven't found that branch yet. Also due to the fact that I'm kinda blur and not very familiar with London, and have a very high tendency of getting lost. I'm also damn lazy to look at the map, so this has compounded my problem.
So I decided to try this coffee as it came highly recommended from my cousin and brother :)
Yeah baby! Skinny jeans is still very in here in the UK!
Check out the cute butt :)
Done looking yet??
We shall continue then.
Most of the drinks here cost about 2 quid. Well you can click on the picture above to see the different prices for how you would like your coffee to be made.
Basically they have different types of coffee beans which you can choose from, and they will grind the coffee beans there and then and proceed to make you a nice steaming cup of coffee.
All the different types of coffee available sourced from all over the world
I think they call this drip coffee if I'm not mistaken.
They put the beans on top of the filter paper and pour hot water and wait for the water to drain from those white filter cups above into another cup below.
Wah, the wonderful aroma of freshly made coffee wafting up into the air!
At the side of the table there is brown sugar, liquid sugar, and milk for you to add according to suit your own taste :)
Here's the other branch located somewhere in Borough Market too.
This one is a proper shop with tables and chairs and they sell other food too.
They sell pastries here too!
And on the table there's bread, butter and jam, of course you need to pay for it!
Do you think this is a cool picture???
Well I do!!
I didn't take the picture, in case you were wondering if I was being thick-skinned and praising my own photo-taking skills.
Open your eyes wide-wide, I think you can see some bread sitting on the table.
Whoever knew pictures took so much time and effort to upload!! Also whoever knew blogging is such hard work! and very time consuming I must add.
Due to my obvious laziness, you can see that my blog is becoming more and more full of pictures, so I can write less! Hehe, not that I'm much of a brilliant writer to begin with. But I have a feeling that my level has further deteriorated since entering medical school. *Sighs*
Okay, shall continue writing more soon!
Most of the time in the Hospital, after rounds, during the start of clinics, between surgeries,the most common thing you would hear uttered would be , "Would you like a cup of coffee/tea?"
Sorry I really couldn't resist the urge to say no! Which is weird, as I hardly drank it in Malaysia.
So, between surgeries, I had this tendency to run to the coffee lounge and help myself to lots of free coffee/tea!! Hehehe!!
And then I ended up reading all the gossip magazines there instead of reading my Oxford Handbook *sighs*
So at that time I knew more about all the gossips going on in Big Brother, and I don't even watch that stupid show. Yes I do think it's a stupid show! I don't understand why are people so entertained watching a bunch of people sitting around the house doing nothing?
Anyhow, this has resulted in me being totally utterly ADDICTED to coffee/tea!! Argh.....
Yes! Coffee/tea does keep me awake and perky most of the time, especially in the morning, when all I want to do is to crawl back beneath my warm covers and go back to zzZzzzz again. Aberdeen so cold most of the time! Haih!
Anyway, here's introducing one of the best coffee I've tasted!!
It's Monmouth Coffee Company! They have two branches in Borough Market alone, and I think they have one more branch in Covent Garden, although till today, I still haven't found that branch yet. Also due to the fact that I'm kinda blur and not very familiar with London, and have a very high tendency of getting lost. I'm also damn lazy to look at the map, so this has compounded my problem.
So I decided to try this coffee as it came highly recommended from my cousin and brother :)
Yeah baby! Skinny jeans is still very in here in the UK! Check out the cute butt :)
Done looking yet??
We shall continue then.
Most of the drinks here cost about 2 quid. Well you can click on the picture above to see the different prices for how you would like your coffee to be made.
Basically they have different types of coffee beans which you can choose from, and they will grind the coffee beans there and then and proceed to make you a nice steaming cup of coffee.
All the different types of coffee available sourced from all over the world 
I think they call this drip coffee if I'm not mistaken.They put the beans on top of the filter paper and pour hot water and wait for the water to drain from those white filter cups above into another cup below.
Wah, the wonderful aroma of freshly made coffee wafting up into the air!
At the side of the table there is brown sugar, liquid sugar, and milk for you to add according to suit your own taste :)
Here's the other branch located somewhere in Borough Market too.This one is a proper shop with tables and chairs and they sell other food too.
They sell pastries here too!And on the table there's bread, butter and jam, of course you need to pay for it!
Do you think this is a cool picture???
Well I do!!
I didn't take the picture, in case you were wondering if I was being thick-skinned and praising my own photo-taking skills.
Open your eyes wide-wide, I think you can see some bread sitting on the table.Whoever knew pictures took so much time and effort to upload!! Also whoever knew blogging is such hard work! and very time consuming I must add.
Due to my obvious laziness, you can see that my blog is becoming more and more full of pictures, so I can write less! Hehe, not that I'm much of a brilliant writer to begin with. But I have a feeling that my level has further deteriorated since entering medical school. *Sighs*
Okay, shall continue writing more soon!
Vietnamese Food!
Yoohoo!
One fine day, the three musketeers ie. me, bro and cousin decided to venture out to Zone 2 to get some Vietnamese food!!
My cousin has been raving about this place for ages. But we've been too lazy to go.
So off we went on the red double-decker bus off to...............don't know where.....somewhere....hmm....
Got off the bus, and they were this sweet smell of honey permeating the air......
Bro exclaims: Zone 2 air smells sweeter!!!
Oh anyway we found the flowers which was giving off the sweet smell of honey, it looks a bit like Lavender and it's purple too.
And from across the street, LO AND BEHOLD....
I bring to you......Vietnamese food in London :)
It's quite a tiny shop
"Ah, I wonder what should I order????"
What the heck? A bowl of salad!
At first I thought it was salad to be eaten raw, then rupa-rupanya I realize later on that it's actually to be mixed into the soup. I can be so silly sometimes.
Some raw beef soup thing.
I believe that they slice the beef quite thinly and later pour hot soup over it.
Another beef soup thingy.
Different part of the cow.
Meat taste a bit tougher.
Both of the soups are the same I believe. But soup was very very delicious! I think they use superior stock, whereby they use the same soup stock and reboil it again and add more bones to make it sweeter and sweeter.
Some other dish thing which I have no idea what it's called. Anyway got popiah, peanuts and pork in the bowl including various other things. Supposed to mix it up to eat.
I like this dish the least out of the three.
Anyway each dish of food was 6 pounds.
I guess the price is a bit steep for Zone 2 food.
I expected the food to be about 4-5 pounds perhaps.
Hmm...but I reason out that they gave us a lot of meat, and also most of the ingredients for the dishes are imported, therefore accounting for the higher cost.
Also the bowls were HUGE!
I think pictures don't do much justice most of the time.
Anyway this was good food!!
Compared to some other crap food which I have been consuming, and I'm certainly NOT talking about my own cooking mind you!
One fine day, the three musketeers ie. me, bro and cousin decided to venture out to Zone 2 to get some Vietnamese food!!
My cousin has been raving about this place for ages. But we've been too lazy to go.
So off we went on the red double-decker bus off to...............don't know where.....somewhere....hmm....
Got off the bus, and they were this sweet smell of honey permeating the air......
Bro exclaims: Zone 2 air smells sweeter!!!
Oh anyway we found the flowers which was giving off the sweet smell of honey, it looks a bit like Lavender and it's purple too.
And from across the street, LO AND BEHOLD....
I bring to you......Vietnamese food in London :)
It's quite a tiny shop
"Ah, I wonder what should I order????"
What the heck? A bowl of salad!At first I thought it was salad to be eaten raw, then rupa-rupanya I realize later on that it's actually to be mixed into the soup. I can be so silly sometimes.
Some raw beef soup thing.I believe that they slice the beef quite thinly and later pour hot soup over it.
Another beef soup thingy.Different part of the cow.
Meat taste a bit tougher.
Both of the soups are the same I believe. But soup was very very delicious! I think they use superior stock, whereby they use the same soup stock and reboil it again and add more bones to make it sweeter and sweeter.
Some other dish thing which I have no idea what it's called. Anyway got popiah, peanuts and pork in the bowl including various other things. Supposed to mix it up to eat.I like this dish the least out of the three.
Anyway each dish of food was 6 pounds.
I guess the price is a bit steep for Zone 2 food.
I expected the food to be about 4-5 pounds perhaps.
Hmm...but I reason out that they gave us a lot of meat, and also most of the ingredients for the dishes are imported, therefore accounting for the higher cost.
Also the bowls were HUGE!
I think pictures don't do much justice most of the time.
Anyway this was good food!!
Compared to some other crap food which I have been consuming, and I'm certainly NOT talking about my own cooking mind you!
Friday, 1 August 2008
Borough Market - Part One
SPOTTED: Hot guy in Borough Market ;-)
I was walking around aimless among the various stores, and we came across this store which sold beers from all over the world. Seriously they have row after row of beers. An Alcoholic's Haven :)
Anyway, saw this really cute guy who I thought looked like Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Picture below:
It's the guy on the left!
(Sorry pic is kinda blur and it also isn't a frontal picture)
And I don't give a crap if you don't agree with me that he looks like Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Nevertheless, I do still think he's cute!!
I also don't give a crap if you think I have bad taste in men.
Bah, people care too much about what others think of them these days!
The Real Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I think this picture was from Bend it like Beckham
I was walking around aimless among the various stores, and we came across this store which sold beers from all over the world. Seriously they have row after row of beers. An Alcoholic's Haven :)Anyway, saw this really cute guy who I thought looked like Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Picture below:
It's the guy on the left!(Sorry pic is kinda blur and it also isn't a frontal picture)
And I don't give a crap if you don't agree with me that he looks like Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Nevertheless, I do still think he's cute!!
I also don't give a crap if you think I have bad taste in men.
Bah, people care too much about what others think of them these days!
The Real Jonathan Rhys MeyersI think this picture was from Bend it like Beckham
Anyhow, I think Jonathan Rhys Meyers is utterly gorgeous.
An embodiment of what a man should be!
Very drool worthy!
Oh totally fell in love with him in August Rush. That was brilliant acting, and he's so exceedingly charismatic and charming, and absolutely love love the guitar playing!!
He also appears in the Tudors which revolves around the Tudor Dynasty involving the Boleyn scandal. Go wikipedia it if you have no idea what I'm talking about (also cause you're intellectually challenged and don't know enough of history) :P
Personally I've always found the Tudor dynasty the most fascinating out of the lot. Especially King Henry the VIII and his 6 wives. So Scandalous!! I likey!
Bye! Getting back to my movie!
An embodiment of what a man should be!
Very drool worthy!
Oh totally fell in love with him in August Rush. That was brilliant acting, and he's so exceedingly charismatic and charming, and absolutely love love the guitar playing!!
He also appears in the Tudors which revolves around the Tudor Dynasty involving the Boleyn scandal. Go wikipedia it if you have no idea what I'm talking about (also cause you're intellectually challenged and don't know enough of history) :P
Personally I've always found the Tudor dynasty the most fascinating out of the lot. Especially King Henry the VIII and his 6 wives. So Scandalous!! I likey!
Bye! Getting back to my movie!
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Ogling
Oh my, the hot hot weather here has rendered many a hot sweaty young men to remove their shirts exposing those wash board abs of theirs to its full glory and allowing me to ogle and salivate all over it.
Haha.
Seriously I'm not that horny ya.
Yes but I do admit that taking a walk around Regent's Park, does allow for full cuci-mata/eye-washing/ogling potential ;)
Haha.
Seriously I'm not that horny ya.
Yes but I do admit that taking a walk around Regent's Park, does allow for full cuci-mata/eye-washing/ogling potential ;)
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Shopping
These past few weeks, I've been accompanying people for shopping!
I've not bought anything so far during this summer sale.
Except the one time shopping trip after the exams.
Haha I have immense amount of self control I must say!
Anyway been following guys around while they go shopping, and from my own personal observation I realize that guys are just as vain, fashion conscious as the girls are, perhaps even more so. I wonder if I have the tendency to hang out with the new breed of guys who are very metro-sexual and like to look good in what they wear. Hmm.....*ponders*
Although I would like to say I don't think there's anything wrong with guys being vain etc. In fact a quality I would much admire, although not to the extreme. At least they make an effort in dressing up to look good :)
I bet everybody has a secret narcissistic alter-ego hidden deep within. Come on admit it, who doesn't like looking good eh??
Ah.....Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that guys actually have some sort of low self-esteem. I'm not quite sure if I could call it low self-esteem.
Imagine me standing at the side, and the other person standing in front of the mirror preening while uttering things like "I need to lose weight", "I need to go to the gym to work out look good in this top"
Hahhaa. Oh my goodness, words I thought only would come out of a girls' mouth.
Oh not forgetting my close guy friend who threw open his wardrobe to let me have a sneak peek into his clothes, accompanied by a running commentary on where he got his clothes from etc. I gotta say I'm kinda jealous with all the nice and expensive clothes he has. Tsk!
Forgot to mention the one more guy friend who has a HUGE HUGE walk-in-closet.
Eat your heart out Carrie Bradshaw!
And lastly who could forget the most memorable quote of someone's housemate who said he rather not eat use the money to buy clothes instead!
I've not bought anything so far during this summer sale.
Except the one time shopping trip after the exams.
Haha I have immense amount of self control I must say!
Anyway been following guys around while they go shopping, and from my own personal observation I realize that guys are just as vain, fashion conscious as the girls are, perhaps even more so. I wonder if I have the tendency to hang out with the new breed of guys who are very metro-sexual and like to look good in what they wear. Hmm.....*ponders*
Although I would like to say I don't think there's anything wrong with guys being vain etc. In fact a quality I would much admire, although not to the extreme. At least they make an effort in dressing up to look good :)
I bet everybody has a secret narcissistic alter-ego hidden deep within. Come on admit it, who doesn't like looking good eh??
Ah.....Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that guys actually have some sort of low self-esteem. I'm not quite sure if I could call it low self-esteem.
Imagine me standing at the side, and the other person standing in front of the mirror preening while uttering things like "I need to lose weight", "I need to go to the gym to work out look good in this top"
Hahhaa. Oh my goodness, words I thought only would come out of a girls' mouth.
Oh not forgetting my close guy friend who threw open his wardrobe to let me have a sneak peek into his clothes, accompanied by a running commentary on where he got his clothes from etc. I gotta say I'm kinda jealous with all the nice and expensive clothes he has. Tsk!
Forgot to mention the one more guy friend who has a HUGE HUGE walk-in-closet.
Eat your heart out Carrie Bradshaw!
And lastly who could forget the most memorable quote of someone's housemate who said he rather not eat use the money to buy clothes instead!
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Sweltering Heat
Lately I've been totally consumed by my utmost laziness, and strangled alive by the smoldering heat.
My brains' occasionally well-oiled clockwork has given way to rust and is on the brink of slowing to a stop.
~long interval in between cause was too lazy to write more~
Hey!
It's raining at last.
Cool breeze coming in through the window at long last as oppose to the hot smoky air!
Nice!
My brains' occasionally well-oiled clockwork has given way to rust and is on the brink of slowing to a stop.
~long interval in between cause was too lazy to write more~
Hey!
It's raining at last.
Cool breeze coming in through the window at long last as oppose to the hot smoky air!
Nice!
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Dim Sum Again!
Went out on Sunday for Dim Sum with my senior.
anddd...I've reached the official conclusion that...
LONDON FOOD SUCKS!!!!!!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh!!!!
I think I'm better off sitting at home and cooking myself!! GAH!!
anddd...I've reached the official conclusion that...
LONDON FOOD SUCKS!!!!!!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh!!!!
I think I'm better off sitting at home and cooking myself!! GAH!!
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Lazy lazy
Damn lazy to go out.
I can seriously sit in bed the whole day and facebook, google, youtube and wikipedia.
I can seriously sit in bed the whole day and facebook, google, youtube and wikipedia.
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Korean Restaurant Arang
Since I'm so free now, so I shall continue attempting to entertain everyone by posting more nonsense up.
Okay continuation of my review of lousy restaurant food!
I think in my previous post I've already mentioned about this Korean restaurant.
Shueh Hao actually told me before that the food here is good.
But too bad cause I think the food here sucks!
Let's start off with some obligatory cam-whore photos. Cam-whoring is so much fun! Whee!! (Please note my sarcasm)
This next dish is Cod with Teriyaki sauce.
Anyway it's so YUCKS!
So sickeningly sweet.
YUCKS YUCKS YUCKS!!
What's wrong with the cook? trying to give me diabetes I think.
Seriously, feel like dumping the food on the cook's head and see the sauce dripping from his hair! Argh!
Oh by the way, we decided to bring the food to the park opposite the restaurant to eat.
Ended up sitting on one of the benches beside these two French women who were conversing away in French, and who ended up smoking, with all the fumes blowing into our faces when we were eating. How infuriating.
Hate the smell of cigarettes! Bah.
Anyway my conclusion is, eat the stuff here only if you're prepared to pay more money for the more expensive food. But I honestly think, if they can't even make the cheap food properly, I doubt I would be willing to shell out money for the more expensive food!
Okay continuation of my review of lousy restaurant food!
I think in my previous post I've already mentioned about this Korean restaurant.
Shueh Hao actually told me before that the food here is good.
But too bad cause I think the food here sucks!
Let's start off with some obligatory cam-whore photos. Cam-whoring is so much fun! Whee!! (Please note my sarcasm)Anyway, firstly just to let everybody know, we actually ordered the lunch take-away menu. Cause I am kiam siap and the lunch take-away menu is the cheapest.
This could also be one of the contributory factors of why I thought the food sucks.
My brother's theory was that the lunch take away menu food was catered for the Caucasian crowd, and he thinks that the food in Arang should be quite good as he always see lots of Koreans going there to eat.
Let me tell you the other food in the menu is expensive!
Can't afford..... :(
This could also be one of the contributory factors of why I thought the food sucks.
My brother's theory was that the lunch take away menu food was catered for the Caucasian crowd, and he thinks that the food in Arang should be quite good as he always see lots of Koreans going there to eat.
Let me tell you the other food in the menu is expensive!
Can't afford..... :(
So anyway this is what we ordered, first up is spicy beef with rice and salad I think. I ate this nearly 2 weeks plus ago so I can't exactly remember the names of the food.
By the way, if you pay extra 50p for the meal you get an additional canned drink :)
Anyway this dish nothing great, just very ordinary. I think I can cook the same the at home too!
By the way, if you pay extra 50p for the meal you get an additional canned drink :)
Anyway this dish nothing great, just very ordinary. I think I can cook the same the at home too!
This next dish is Cod with Teriyaki sauce.
Anyway it's so YUCKS!
So sickeningly sweet.
YUCKS YUCKS YUCKS!!
What's wrong with the cook? trying to give me diabetes I think.
Seriously, feel like dumping the food on the cook's head and see the sauce dripping from his hair! Argh!
Oh by the way, we decided to bring the food to the park opposite the restaurant to eat.
Ended up sitting on one of the benches beside these two French women who were conversing away in French, and who ended up smoking, with all the fumes blowing into our faces when we were eating. How infuriating.
Hate the smell of cigarettes! Bah.
Anyway my conclusion is, eat the stuff here only if you're prepared to pay more money for the more expensive food. But I honestly think, if they can't even make the cheap food properly, I doubt I would be willing to shell out money for the more expensive food!
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