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Where should I go?

What should I be?

All these questions seem easier to be answered before this. And it seems rather hard to answer them now…

Had been experiencing this problem with my MAC MSN. When I sign up my MSN account, lots of pop ups will come asking to add my old friends back to my contact list, and all of the names on the list of contacts will have (blocked) written beside them.

The fix is easy.

1. Shut down your MAC MSN messenger
2. Go to finder and select: //library/preferences/microsoft/
3. Delete “Microsoft Messenger User Cache.plist”

And hopefully problem solved!

Vung Tao is a place where you can visit if you happen to be in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh. It is not really expensive to take a fast boat there. The journey was pleasant for us at least.

Since both of us are lazy bumps, we decided to stay in the hotel directly opposite the port where we landed. A fever was coming up to me that time. Lazy to walk. Well, and greeted by really nice Vietnamese girls.

Vung Tao is a peaceful seaside town, with unstable electricity supply (they take turns to supply parts of their city), and much less traffic compared to the hectic Saigon.

We rented a bike for 2 days, and ride along the coastal roads during evening, which is highly recommended! The traffic flow of Vietnamese cyclists is superb. When you are on a bike there, you experience the real Vietnam deal.

The view during evening was superb. A great place to rest, and for me, a good place for me to recover from that stupid high fever that I got when I was there.

Open air church, kinda romantic right?

Sunset was even better. People start coming out, chilling at the seaside, talking, eating ice creams, just like how a small quiet town should be.

Very cool..

Hope the pictures did the talking.

I think it has been sooooo long since I actually write something here. Had been busy most of the time, adapting to the new demanding department, and at the same time, still trying to adapt now.

Entering surgical department is definitely an experience worth sharing. It is a place which the old school houseman training is still on the go. We have to be in ward as early as 6.30am (still considered late by surgeons), review our patients deep down to the details of how many piece of bread they eat and how much water they drink, and start the whole tedious rounds until late afternoon, complete the orders, and another round during the afternoon, and if we are lucky, it ends a bit later than 5pm, but if not, drags till 7pm, and later on a short dinner before yet another round of reviews, and night round, and if lucky, get my ass back to my room by 10pm, and if not, at least around 12am.

It is a department who seldom show signs that we are appreciated by the seniors.

It is a department where when you are in it, people will automatically understand why you have a stress face.

It is a department where you train urself to do things efficiently, fast and effective, and if you are up to the game, push urself to become more and more efficient.

Even thou it seems all sober and sad, but i do find something nice during this whole time and it comes from our clients.

They see us get screwed, they see us trying to be better, they see us struggle and in the end, when they got to leave home healthily, most of the time we get words of thank you, a friendly shake from the old auntie, or the grateful eyes of the family members. Even thou those moment doesn’t last long, but at least, it is something to soothe my already stressed up mood for the whole day. It is AT LEAST a bit of something.

No matter how busy, I think when I’m thinking back about all these experience later, I will still laugh about it with all my ward-mates who had been covering each others’ asses all the time. I think by the end of the day, this is exactly like what the bosses said, there is no compromise for such trainings, and it is a must.

Taking off this week end. Hopefully the coming weeks will be peaceful ones and hopefully I get through surgical without much hassle. And most important, I hope I could still maintain this blog as a place where I complain and hopefully, serves as a very good diary when I grow older later.

Hope that the host will still be there for this website. Haha.

Would want to post up second batch of Vietnam pictures and some nice places that I discovered in Melaka lately. Laters.

Finally I’ve got time to sit down and blog! Can’t believe my last update was on the 1st of May! I thought I had updated something view iPhone or something but weirdly it didn’t published successfully. Nevermind. Cut the crap, and have a feast of pictures which I took in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

Things that really intrigue me.

Saigon’s telecommunication. The mass wiring and I wonder how could they probably differentiate which is which? Anyway, it still shows that they are seriously doing something on their network. Haha.

Glad that the hat is still quite popular in Vietnam.

And so many many many scooters, Vespa and Yamahas! I like the traffic in Vietnam. A foreigner would at first think that it is hell and everything seems to be without rules and system but actually, when the drivers are nice enough to tolerate each other and give way, there is no need for much traffic lights. And Vietnam’s bikers totally fit the bill.

I could cross a road with my eyes closed. And I would be safe. But imagine doing that in Malaysia. Malaysia’s drivers/bikers are way too rude to compromise anything for their own good.

And Vietnam’s own delicacy ‘Pho’ is a must try! We went around the area trying all sorts of Pho :)

The Pho.

The very much missed (even when we are back in Malaysia) shrimp noodles and curry noodles. 5/5.

And the Vietnamese version of ‘kuih mangkuk’.

This is my traveling partner, who is very intrigue by the coffee mixer and how he is suppose to do it. Luckily we didn’t embarrass ourselves too much. The shopkeeper girls are seriously friendly as well, even thou they don’t know any English and we are practically showing signs and trying our best to get our messages across.

Nah, one of the many landmark of Saigon. The Notre Dame.

Poor, but happy? Or contented.

This is mostly what we see during the day 1. More to come, and our adventure to Vong Dau.

The reminiscence.

I was informed by DeFa that this 1st of May will be the 25th Anniversary of YBF. I have to admit that I was a bit reluctant to go as I wasn’t sure about my off days and all but I guess I made the right choice :)

I was greeted by that same building that once spent a lot of time in. I guess it was the same for everybody. And the very first thing that I noticed is…

Doesn’t he look like our Tan Tho Wei?!?!?!!

Different generation. Same face. Haha. Well, it straight away brought me back to sweet old times. LOL. But I never got to talk to this more ‘in’ version of ThoWei.

A walk around the building revealed this.

Meaning good food after the event! The same old aunties cooking for all the camps and events including Wesak day. It is certainly something to look forward to.

At first I was a bit bored because of the small quantity of people who presented. This is merely 10% of us here! 10% from the 1st YBF camp & members till the current 24th YBF camp members. Anyway, the even kicked off. A speech from the current chairman of Kluang Young Buddhist Fellowship.

And then the very core of YBF, and also at the same time, the founder of this big family.

Like I said, these are merely 10% of this big family. Seriously.

And then we have a talk session, for the older generations to tell us what this is all about 25 years ago, how everything evolves and what YBF meant to them during that time.

Most talk about a lot of stuffs. The odd time of bathing in 3 mins or less. The limit of water usage during YBF camp. The memory of singing the Triple Gem Song, the moments together with friends, to treasure our big family friendship. I particularly like something which was said by one senior that there will never be a gap between us, the older YBF and the younger ones, because we are one big family :)

Well, what I noticed, be in older generations who joined YBF 20 years ago or those who join during the past 10 years, we never shy away from cameras.

SO nice to see people smile. I think I need some smile dose myself.

Later on we have some singing session. And sang some of the all time favorite Buddhist songs. Can’t believe we sang the 4 songs compilation -__-”

Anyway, it was fun! Until seniors beh tahan that the younger generation holding hands and singing happily on the floor. He practically took over and shoo the guitarists to back stage. LOL.

They challenged us for a song vs song situation. The younger vs older YBF thingy. LOL.

Note who is the guitarists now!

And demanded for the very first Buddhist song book which they used 25 years ago!

Some songs were written by the seniors. And the writer itself could not remember how to sing them. Haha.

And a peaceful ‘joint venture’ of the lovelit image song bridging the ‘gap’. Come to think of it. Things didn’t really changed. We do shared the same memory, same song book, and same likings.

Ah wa making the birthday cake for YBF.

And the end, before eating and lots of big family pics!

The ‘older’ generations. Very sensitive word among them by the way. The word old shouldn’t be said often!

And the younger but also old us. 10% of us i guess.

And the current happy YBF. 25% of them i guess.

And our future!

And those all who present.

This is definitely only some of us. Where are all of you? Hopefully the next anniversary will be more happening. With more old friends appearing.

This is how we grew!

Sadhu sadhu sadhu! :)

Just at the title denotes, is a puppy love story. First love story.

A bit too realistic lur. Sometimes the one you like do not always end up together.. Hmm.. Deep deep..

Planing for end-posting trip!

Edited*

I think I need to edit this post because I found out that my page was quite high up in the google search rank for this title. And I didn’t write much about the movie. Guilty for not promoting local production.

Had come to know about this singer Ah Niu since secondary school. Instantly fall in love with most of his songs. Even thou some think that there are some standard issues, I think it suits my mind. And when I know he filmed a movie, I practically forced my fren to go watch with me.

She was quite skeptical about local production.

The movie was shot well. The story line is good. And the song, well, I just replayed the song few times before I post this. So what you think?

I know sometimes it is hard to take the first step to support local production. But the fact is that our Malaysian artists sometimes do have more potential and sometimes even perform better than overseas. Yea, you might think whether this movie is worth your RM6 to watch it in the cinema or not but hey, buy a doubt with RM6, and enjoy the guilt for being skeptical in the first place.

Seriously, I think local Love Me Butch sings better than Linkin Park.

Seriously, I think this movie is better than a lot of Chinese movie out there.

It is a movie that leave you an after taste. Bitter or sweet.

Did I mention I like the song?

Yo.. didn’t notice that it had been such a long time since I last updated!

Well, some brief updates.

I was busy because, well, as usual, there are more important things to be done, there are more matters nearer to the heart to settle, and there are lots of planning going on.

First of all am very happy to be done with my orthopedic’s presentation. And the logbook is almost filled up and now left the viva. I think my boss wouldn’t make it too hard for me since he always ask me all sorts of things already.

And even thou I have 5 days of end posting leave but I don’t know how to make use of them. Planning to go somewhere, but where? Well, let me think for the time being.

And of course with the coming new month, new wards allocation, and I hope all those patients seen by me in the new block will get well soon and get themselves discharge real early. No use staying in hospital for too long.

Plus a month in periphery with lack of branulla and blood drawing practices, i think my skill is going down the drain again. Haha.

Something special this month would be meeting up ShihMun, Albert and Euveng in Melaka. Of course it was really fun bring them around, especially for Euveng as this is the first time we FINALLY meet up after knowing each others existence since June! Or maybe earlier than that.

What I have to say, if it is fated, then things will happen. No use pushing too hard I guess.

Hopefully my end-posting plans really works. And next stop will be Surgery! Beginning of mother of nightmares.

Today I woke up post call. Luckily yesterday’s rain didn’t bring me any open fracture which I need to enter OT to assist!

Anyway, woke up in the cooling morning is quite refreshing! And then the next problem is, don’t know what to do.

Albert had text me the other day saying he is in Malacca but he didn’t contacted me after that.

So, as usual, pulled Karen up for breakfast, at this place near jonker street which serves dai pao with gravy in it!

Dimsum for Sunday morning is always nice. But no pictures, too bad.

And later on meet up with Albert in chicken rice shop, and brought him to walk around the place. Nothing much as usual as he has limited time. Chendol was a must.

And I was surprised when I saw Shihmun’s at chicken rice shop hugging that sign board because of the heat.

-__-”

She never told she is gonna come. I think she wanna paktoh so I pandai pandai didn’t kacau them during that first part.

After sending Albert off, I meet up with Shihmun n bf instead. And had a walk to Qing Yun Ting, a place where I had always wanna go but well.. procrastinator.

ShihMun praying to get married fast.

And I went to tilik my future. Quite straight forward and true also. I think is the exact thing that I need to hear now.

And later on add oil for myself. LOL. For myself and family I should say. Add oil means jia you. I need to jia you here and there. Can see my name there?

And I like what is written on one of the door.

You can interpret it differently as ‘Who am I?’ or ‘I live for who?’. Very deep kan?..

Monday coming…. :(

Woke up for breakfast and lunch, with another 6 HO. Quite good numbers right? Haha.. Too bad Karen sleeping :P

Later on went for paparazi tutorial with Gan.

A very sexy shot? LOL.

And pass over the panning technique to Gan.

Went kite-ing once again.

A very good chance to pick up photography again at where I left off. Tons to do but no time to accomplish. Damn.. I shall start putting deadlines for myself. Summon to pay, bills to pay, blablabla.. Hate adult life la, should have go back to kids and just play and be happy with simple things (just ranting).

Up & downs. These are just up & downs. One day later I wouldn’t even remember what I felt today.