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:

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?

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 :)

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.

OMG, Back to school soon!

Argh!!

Seriously

I hate the thought of having to return to school soon..


*sighs* a million times and over.

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.

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!!

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?

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

The 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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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!