stolen colours

I spent Vesak Day eating out with my family. Lunch was at dim sum at Pearl River Palace, conveniently located at Suntec Convention Centre so that we could go to the PC Fair after.

I quite liked the dim sum; very elegant. We also ordered one of their ba zhang specials. The shui jing bao was literally a shui jing bao, with its transparent skin.

My favourite dish was the scallop with pumpkin, which looked a lot like a chibi
pumpkin in its bright yellow skin. I loved the pumpkin skin!

The PC Fair was so crowded! I’d originally intended to take a look at cameras, but trying to squeeze through that crowd if you’re not going to buy anything is sheer stupidity.

Met up with Timothy on Tuesday evening for dinner at Wahiro; I seem to be having weekly get-togethers with various people who’re flying off soon. The other agenda of the evening was to test out the Canon Powershot S3 that Timothy’s uncle had loaned him. (It didn’t come with a manual, so we frustrated ourselves trying to get it to take nice shots…we suck lah…)

Anyway, on to the food!

The sashimi was very fresh XD. Next time, let’s get the large platter.

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When one is too bored, one goes on msn:

ying: my camera is a retro camera.
me: *goes to link* wah. looks like megatron.
ying: haha my camera can cosplay megatron!
me: err can it transform?

Anyway, I’ve finished watching Bakumatsu over the past few days. My thoughts below.

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So I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End today. Well, even less screen time for Jack Sparrow in this movie *grr* But Barbossa is strangely endearing. Spoilers below.

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Well well, I witnessed the ill effects of polypharmacy today, kind of. This elderly gentleman, otherwise very lucid and orientated, swallowed the plastic stopper of his IV plug. Well, someone removed a plug, left the stopper on the table, and the patient swallowed it with a swig of water from his cup. As told to the nurse by his visitor. The abdominal X-ray the next day showed an opacity in the bowel, just the size of the stopper. (The consultant actually went to get a new stopper to try.)

The rheumatology tutorial with Dr F was very good. Didn’t expect her to spend more than 2 hours with us, but I’m always grateful whenever doctors give us tutorials even though they don’t have to. Hmm. I really need to brush up a LOT of things. My standard’s pretty awful right now.

We left at 5.20pm. They went for Starbucks, I headed home. Bushed.

I got this comment on my second post on Marutama Ramen:

from: waiter of marutama

clarke quay central

thanks for e compliments..
on behalf of all e staffs of MARUTAMA i thanks yew once again n welcome u back to MARUTAMA again. thanks you.

Heh. Well, I will try the ebi ramen there the next time. (Wonder if this commentor is Naruto?)

Well, anyway, on Tuesday I met up with pyn for dinner. He’s been in New York for a year now, so dinner was “SOMETHING CHEAP!” and “NO WESTERN FOOD, I WANT LOCAL”. Ended up at Food Republic at Wisma, i.e. place where people queue for food that is overrated.

Let’s just get the food pics out of the way first.

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I had a blast with qiong today at KTV!
We spent our three hours there singing Mayday songs and about 6 songs by others. Uhm, also spent a significant amount of time fangirling and drooling over the band, and wondering who their stylist for the later albums is. I think that the Ci Xiong Tong Tie video is the ultimate for Guai Shou eyecandy, really. Give him white feather boas and white scarves (in one video for the latest album) and we’ll all be happy.

When Mayday puts out the next album, three hours won’t be enough! We sung a lot of songs that I normally don’t listen to very frequently or pay much attention to the lyrics to; so I was gratified to find that they REALLY do have a song for me at every point in my life. I love Mayday. Can’t wait for the concert, too bad qiong’ll miss it. It was really good to catch up with her and just talk. Lyrics below! The 5th album is really a gem as every song within is worthy of being a single by itself.

Anime update: (spoilers)

Claymore 7 – Argh! I wish they’d stop the suspense! Numbers 4 and 5 are just like any mecha pilots bickering, heh heh. I suppose Teresa will just breeze through it all. I wonder how Clare got herself into the organisation, though.

Seirei no Moribito 6 – Is it just me, but does each Seirei episode feel very short? I’m glad they managed to escape, albeit in a rather improbable manner.

Lyrics below:
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There’s nothing to cheer you up like a pretty postcard from abroad. Shmeen sent me a lovely one of the Sydney Opera House at sunset, but there’s a 3 cm rip in it at the middle of the left border, nicely dissecting the orange clouds from the white clouds.

Some exciting weekends ahead:

• 19/5: KTV with qiong at the all so happening town of AMK – Mayday madness! XD
• 26/5: Pirates of the Caribbean (Father had free tickets from Volvo) XD XD
• 2/6: MAYDAY CONCERT AT EXPO. I cannot wait. XD XD XD

The elective has been getting more enjoyable. We’re more involved now in the ward rounds, helping to write down the routine stuff in the files, searching for x-rays, examining and talking to the patients (as the HO and MO are dialect-challenged, haha.) The MO is quite friendly and the HO is really sweet. She complains, “Everyone thinks that I’m a nurse, basket.” I get a feeling that we’ll be saying that in a year’s time, assuming I pass, of course. I think my dialect is improving. Next: to quickly get a crash course on Cantonese from Mother since no one in the team knows Cantonese except for the consultant. And Malay from Father.

I think that being a trio of three girls, we’re less intimidating to patients. There was one who lectured us, “get a man you can control”, lol. And one sweet old lady who told me to go out (since it was Friday) and find a boyfriend. HAHAHA. Well, the days of leisurely clerking and chatting with the patients will soon be gone. It’s such a hi-bye, time-constrained relationship in the hospital. But the Western hospitals that some of my friends are doing electives at take things to the other extreme: the doctors chat so much with the patients that they take forever to finish seeing just 10 patients during ward rounds. A happy balance is good, yes.

Spent 2 hours looking at wordpress tutorials and not understanding a word. Oh dear. Then spent 1 hour staring at photoshop realizing that I have no creative springs within.

Hence this layout taken from themes.wordpress.com just because I wanted a change.

I always thought that I’d wait for some wonderful photo to be taken during a trip abroad. Or some wonderful food photo, but right now, I can’t use any of them; it’ll only make me depressed whenever I look at my blog.

I’m not adventurous now. I find that I don’t really want to make new friends because it just takes so much energy; I just want to stay in this comfort zone with the people I know so well already. This year will be wonderful since all my close secondary school friends (save one in Hong Kong) will be returning for good. Well, at least till they work off their bonds. More people to meet up with on weekends, the only respite from living and breathing exam medicine in year 5.

Don’t you hate it when people aren’t honest with you?

Today we had lunch at 1pm and left the hospital at 4pm, thus setting the earliest record ever! I know so little compared to everyone else, argh.

Anyway, Bakumatsu is finally out. I’ll download episode 26, then burn everything onto DVD and start watching from …episode 11, I think. Such a long backlog. And should I start watching Heroes too?

Will be meeting up with qiong this weekend for ktv, which will be a Mayday-predominated affair. In anticipation, here’re lyrics to one of my favourite songs by them. Somehow I’m interpreting them differently this time. Weird, I thought the lacrimals had dried up a long time ago.

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