The Once Upon A Time American Dream

I gone through someone's blog and I started thinking.....

Today I thought about US and of how I wanted to do the USMLE and ended up not.

I always ask myself why didn't I push through and was it that I didn't really took my goal too seriously, or was it that I was too scared, or was it that I didn't see the use to it, or was it this or that.

Will I ever take it at some point of my life? I do not know. Maybe. The Australian way seems convenient enough.

And how I backed out of going to the States altogether. Again was I secretly lying to myself that my parents were the reason. Or was it coz I lack the confidence to try. 

Despite these thoughts, I honor the plan of me ultimately ending up here in Adelaide. 

Like Christine said, Addy is not a place that you'll go, "Whoooa, I want to spend my life here entirely!" It grows on you. I totally agree.

It's one those moments when you rewind back life and think of the whys.

Ortho : Man's land

Ortho is the jock of docs.

I'm one week into ORIFs and TKR and THR and nope, I don't think I'm very interested in the bones. 

Groans and Moans.

But I don't dread the ward rounds. Though if you ask me, ward rounds seemed more like a walk in the park swooshing through patient A and zooming to patient B and good-day-ing patient C before patient B replies. But as I said, I don't dread my ward rounds. I try my utterly best to always make my time productive and useful. And this my friends, shall be discussed in private. 

The teaching we have is fantastic given a fantastic orthopod Mr. P as the programme coordinator of this rotation in me current hospital. Lovely dedicated man.

The regs and some of the other consultants are keen teachers as well.

I also noticed it's a predominantly guy specialty. Wait. It's a 99.99999% guy specialty. 

Orthopaedics - you break it, we fix it. ONLY it. 

p/s : i'm enjoying ortho for all the wrong reasons. *LOL. really loud* all the gals and gheys gotta agree with me - it's friggin eyecandypaedics.

The time now reads 2:09 am. I recall having to fall asleep but got up after a nightmare (I was actually hurting someone like PHYSICALLY) and so I got scared and decided to sit up. Said a prayer, got a lil' thirsty and headed up to see my housemates studying in the kitchen. 

I felt relieved to know that the dream was stupid and not that I'm having any sort of mental disorder.

They said it's the coffee I had. I totally agree. 

And I think I'm sort lactose-intolerant. I had a cuppa milk a few hours prior and I'm passing GAS.a.lot.

Sigh. Zompei lor tomorrow.

Update Part II

I have landed back in Adeadland. 

The first thing I noticed when I stepped out of the airport was that it's cold. Thank goodness for the Burberryness <3. 

I also noticed that this land is now familiar territory. The Ikea and all the ugly, useless shops (stuff for cars, toilets etc etc) that we passed on the way back.

We were greeted by the ol' guard and my room looked just the way it did before I left. Neat. Didn't smell all that good though - which I now know as mildew.

I can now say I *heart* Adeadlaide.

Tomorrow I'm starting on ORTHOPAEDICS. *shudders* Don't feel it's gonna be very interesting though. Like the ugly, useless shops. But the upside to this boredom is that I'm at the Royal Adelaide - 5 mins walk to Rundle St. 

Shopping glorious shopping. Weeeeeeeee

Okay. Now gotta do Life-Rewind.

So before I actually got back to KL, I wandered to Melbourne a few days before it became the CAPITAL of swineflu.

I probably did contract the flu coz the only thing I did was PIGGING-out on all the glorious food of Melbourne. 

First things first, after unpacking, it was seeing the old pal and making a new friend.

We did Korean Food first. 

NATASSYA and XUE FANG. (picture is the other way around)

They got the whole day planned out for me to SWINE OUT.

We also DFO-ed. I got a sexaayyy pair of boots and yea just ONE pair of boots. The one regret in my life. Too lil' shopping in DFO - the place for cheaplak BRANDED goods.

And then back to swining at Crowns. I did go into Crown Casino on my last night there with my cousin bro and it was beautiful. Too bad I don't gamble and no pics, not even an illegal one with the iphone. 

Nah, I didn't Nobu-ed. We had this pizza - the size of a lorry's wheel. I'm not kiddin'. C&G.

We then got into a paying elevator of Eureka Tower and do the touristy stuff of seeing the sorta spectacular view of Melbourne. I really liked the outdoor thingy where we stood out in this enclosure to see the brightly-litted city despite the shytty cold weather.

Thanks babes for bringing me around. Nat dear, it was great having to see you there after so many years of empty promises (I'm unreliable, enuff said) and cheers to my new friend Xue Fang. It was a pleasure having two graduates bringing their not so lil' student friend out . <3

Max Brenner.

The next day, I did WICKED. It was wickedly good man. And I did it all alone in the Regent Theatre. Despite that, have I mentioned that it was good?

Haha. The irony. Wicked and good.

Illegal pics ahead. F*k it la. Too good too not take pic.

Anyway, yea, I got really good seats despite me buying the tickets at the 11th hour. The venue. The drinks. The merchandise. The friggin' play and that leng zhai. OMG. 

Oh well, if you're in Melby (who will be these flu days..), but if you are there - go watch it. If not it'll be like me and that one pair of boots - only worse.

After that, I met up with my cousin and we pigged out with his friend. And after pigging out, he brought me to church. 

Guess what we did after a short service - SURPRISE - we had dinner. We had dinner @ 15 Melbourne with my other cousins and aunty and uncle. It a Jamie Oliver's restaurant you silly. Food was okayyy la. Not Michelin's material but okayy la. 

The next day, I got up pretty late after a long night of Wii-ing with my cousins and that marked my adventure of the epitomy of eating with me cousin and his friends. I can blog a whole novel here about the stuff I ate but I don't think you'll be too interested.

Choc churos

In between all that, I DFO-ed again and got 2 pairs of CK jeans. CHEAP CHEAP. I *heart* DFO.

And we had fine-dining again at "The Lake" or was it the "The Pond". Whatever. I had steak (and the yucky bone marrow) freak I didn't know it was friggin' marrow that was fat. Really fatty and good.

Koko black.

That's Melbourne. A playground. I guess I like it to stay that way. So next time when I'm bored- I'll head to me playground - Melby (mental note to self : and will DFO more).

having branded things make you hurt!

:(

EMooooooooo my belt SCrraattchhh like mad...

Emooooo my macbook got a big scratch for life...

sigh...

nvm. personality development.

wishful thinking.

Update Part I

And since I'm struck with a bug almost as lethal as the H1N1 called LaZy, I reckoned that I should blog in phases.

Firstly, being home is great. My culture shock didn't last too long before I realized this is HOME. I didn't miss food as much as I thought I did but nevertheless, I still stuffed myself silly since I was home a week ago. 

Did I already mention that my parents are amazing? No more SOPs, no more ear-ringing complains (a bit la, but that's what make them parents), my freedom to use money and the lil' things that make me feel - bahagia. My bro is also sooo much nicer to me. We only fought ONCE since I came home. LOL. 

Me aunt and our lil' H. 

And I realised that I am showing more signs that I love them. I am using phrases like "take care", "bye bye", "good morning" and "thank you". Yes, I was a very ungrateful being 4 months ago.

Another person I can't thank enough is Mel!ssa Raj, me BFF. This lady took 3 blardy days of leave for me, bringing the definition of friend to a whole new level. No worries other pals, this fatty indian friend is a self-professed B.B.Q - (Best Bodek Queen).

The friends I've met and will be meeting, like I've never left. 

Enough of the emo session.

As promised pictures. ;)

Firstly, I think I owed the world Geoff's birthday pics about a month and half ago. 

Omg. I just realised Jan look damn ghey. And btw, peeps, it's his birthday the day before.

And then there was the twins birthday and many more events in between which either I haven't any pictures of them or I'm...LaZy. Sorry yea. :P

There was Phantom. The show I wanted to watch so much. It was a great show really but I was quite disappointed with the seats.

The last picture is explanatory but the blockade was not as mild as how it is depicted in the picture when the show started. Oh, the phantom was greeatt. :P

Next up...MELBOURNE.

this space was supposed to be reserved for the happy things i did the past few days. i will. 

but today, right now, i'm feeling a lil' teeny bit overwhelmed with the death of someone i do not even know. i might have crossed path with him before. maybe in the park in front of my house, maybe when i used to walk out to get lunch. i really can't recall but that picture looked awfully familiar.

this young lad who lost his life i supposed tragically and more importantly, very suddenly and well.....very young. the friends who cherished  him. the girl who loved him. the family who adored him. i read them. i heard about them. 

don't ask me why i'm blogging about mr. john doe but every time someone dies unexpectedly, i sink myself into the shoes of a loved one and think. i'm a weird 23 year old, i reckon.

and the second i allow myself to be that position, it's scary. it feels like a decade worth of nightmares cramped in that one moment. 

for me now, i thank God.

and again i'll say...i love you, i love you, i love you.

p/s: i pampered my ooo so beautiful today.:>