Sam’s

Accident and Emergency Department was not where I would love to work in. The thought of ambulance siren and patients being pushed in with half a dozen of health-care workers surrounding them, holding all sorts of medical equipments, getting ready to lay their hands on the poor patients made me feel like steering half a mile away.

Just about a week ago, I felt like I had no choice but to end up witnessing all these for the next 7 weeks. I was not sure if my body could cope with all the adrenaline rush because whenever it happens, my brain tends not to work properly. After staring into my copy of timetable, I concluded that these 7 weeks would be all tied down to just A&E. Besides the usual early and late shifts, clinics, teachings etc, I have got 2 weekend shifts where I have to work all day on my precious Saturday and Sunday, and 2 night shifts from 7pm to 7am when I am supposed to be savouring my plate of dinner, watching television and enjoying my very important sleep!

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*It sounded like I could not go any further*

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One week into it and I got to say that I actually quite enjoyed it, surprisingly. It is just a strange feeling of getting to do something useful and productive that contributed to that little tinge of joy.

I should wait another 6 weeks before I fix a conclusion. Who knows what might happen.

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By the way, Happy Halloween everyone!

Just happened to come across this early this year in www.digg.com and found it extremely interesting. If we’re asked to summarise life in a few words, most of us would find difficulties finding the right words to shorten the description of life to just a few words. But one picture can do it. Just one.

How interesting, but at the same time somewhat eerie and scary.

Visit www.digg.com

Burberry new Nova Check tote and shoulder bags in berry red are here! The canvas is printed with fine striped pink hearts with metallic heart charm attached to the shoulder straps. Totally feminie and beautiful! Priced at £395 and £225 respectively.

Visit www.burberry.com

Here are the Louis Vuitton speedy from different lines. Which of these do you like the most? I personally like the Azur one.

I remember just blogging about the Chanel application for iPhone about 24 hours ago, and secretly expressed my wish for a Gucci and Burberry App. About an hour ago, I received an email from Gucci, introducing the new Gucci App. It was just about a week ago when I tried searching “Gucci” in the app store and found nothing and here it is now.

I would need to fiddle with it for a while before I know what treasure it contained inside. For Gucci fans out there who have an iPhone / iPod Touch, search “Gucci” in the App store and get it for free! I secretly think they actually heard my wish or read my blog. So…..Burberry, it’s time!

The simple and classic Chanel interlocked double C logo is perhaps the first thing you would spot from afar. The Chanel application is nothing about purchasing any Chanel items online, but more of containing the latest videos and photos of the latest shows.

When you click on the app, the top-most row displays the video of the latest show, which currently is the Chanel ready-to-wear 2009/2010. Followed by looks and accessories, Chanel news and store locator.

When you click play on the video, you can watch in full-screen a few minutes of fashion show playing with background music. Never mind not being able to attend the real one, this video was captured and played in a way that it maximizes quality. You can watch it anywhere and anytime.

Under looks and accessories, you get to see each look as a whole and the magic begins here. When you flip the phone horizontally, the screen will display individual items worn or used by the model before. What a brilliant idea to whoever who thought of this! Bravo!

Next, this is something people usually do early in the morning during breakfast, either via television, radio or newspaper. Yes, the news. But this is not just any news, it’s Chanel news! It shows all latest news regarding Chanel and you can have it in English. Definitely something that I would do on a train or bus rather than staring out of the window looking at the same field and houses everyday.

Last but not least, if you are a frequent traveller and of course a fan of Chanel, this is important to you! The Chanel store locator can locate any Chanel store around the world in just seconds. You can choose from four main categories i.e. America, Asia, Europe and Oceanna and from there tap on any country of preference, narrow down to the city and voila, the addresses and contact numbers of the Chanel boutiques available will be in your hands.

All in all, I love this application, and I think someone else should come up with something similar for Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Burberry as well.

Prior to May this year, I have lost touch with piano for almost 7 years. My first and only piano which served me for 11 years was sold when I gave up on my diploma 7 years ago, and since then I never imagined that I would be sitting before a piano playing a song again.

I was never good at it, and I knew I wasn’t born talented in it. But whenever I get to play a good song, it was like nourishing my heart cells with nutrients. It was just so satisfying.

Canon in C to many people is probably a very simple and common song, but somehow I really like it. Whenever I play it, it makes me feel like my fingers still work well, and my heart smiles.

It is just one of those little things that makes me happy.

One fifth of this academic year is over, and I will continue to count down till THE DAY. 7 weeks of my first rotation flew past like it was just 2 weeks. It was enjoyable from the aspects of the flexibility of my timetable, friendly and approachable staffs, my kind and helpful supervisor and most of all, it as different from everything that I have done before. Although what I see everyday is a mere black and white, like

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and this,

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I still think there is a lot of colours to it than just the black and white. This aspect of medicine is like an art, not that abstract, not that vivid. It is a piece of art that you cannot just interpret however way you want to, but there is a story hiding in it which you got to find out. These pieces are dead, but when you look at them, they stare at you as if telling you they need help.

So in short, I did not regret picking this specialty using my “ruling out technique”. It doesn’t matter if I didn’t bear any bit of interest in it before, most importantly, I came out with a smile, and more interests than I originally had.

Exercise, was a word I once fancied hearing, or rather fancied doing. In fact, I was totally obsessed with exercising and playing sports, but that was almost more than 10 years ago. In my early teens, I was slim(mer), my complexion was tanner, and my muscles were firmer. Those were the days, the good old days of looking more fit.

My physical stamina has deteriorated so much in the past decade that I dare not believe my current capability, or rather my incapability. I silently feel ashamed of myself when older people jog past me while I was busy catching my breaths and resting my lactic-acid-filled muscles.

I know it is an odd time of the year to make a resolution. New year is about two months away and yea, I actually can’t wait for the next two months to pass quickly. 2010 is indeed going to be a changing point for me. I am going to move from my status as a student (for the past God-knows-how-many-years) to an employee of NHS (National Health Service). A big jump, it indeed is.

I need to put my lethargic image away. Now.

For the sake of saving time and making things easier and more convenient for myself, I have saved shortcuts of websites I frequent in a toolbar right at the top of my Firefox. So every time I want to visit a particular site, I would just need to click on the icon and it will link me straight to where I want to go to.

This is exactly how it looks like.

Well, you can ignore the tabs in my Firefox. But in case if you have already accidentally seen them, I was actually doing my assignment and writing up my case reports which are due next week. DO IGNORE the last two tabs, the last one ESPECIALLY.

The shortcuts I was mentioning before this are those small square colourful icons lining up in a row two rows above those unimportant tabs you saw. 27 of them altogether. I am sure you can recognize a few of them as you probably visit them as well. They have been there for God-knows-how-long, probably since I started my medical studies over here. Now that I realized I actually spent ample time each day clicking on those links. It has been so regular and habitual that now I am doing it in my subconscious! *guilt*

I actually don’t see any shortcut that link me to the University of Liverpool website. I think I have actually forgotten to add it. But well, as a final year student I will be out of the university in no time.

It felt like I haven’t been away for a good holiday for ages. The last time I went out of UK was just about 2 months ago, but that was to Malaysia and it was going back home. Not exactly a holiday, at least not for me. A perfect holiday to me is when you are able to open up your heart, remove all the burden on your shoulder, and leave it all behind. Let me bring you back in time to December 2008, 9 months ago to be exact, when I had a perfect, perfect holiday,

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in Switzerland.

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A perfect holiday is when you get to

stalk the Louis Vuitton store after it has closed,

or merely admire the Chanel store from the outside.

Besides having mesmerizing and breathtaking views to admire,

there were fun and joy,

and most importantly, friends to share them.

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This is what I call a perfect holiday. Don’t you all agree with me?

Weighing just a little more than 600 grams, Sony VAIO P Series is one of the smallest, slimmest and lightest available netbook, which couldn’t be more perfect if you are a frequent traveller. The design itself cannot be more stylish. Comes in 4 modern sleeky colours: black, white, red and green.

It is about £700 in the market at the moment. I personally like the red one, perfect for ladies!

For more information, visit www.sony.co.uk/product/vn-p-series

This was my first attempt with an acrylic painting while referring to a sample put up on deviantART.

Sample

Sam's painting

Looks like my painting has failed in many aspects:

1. Overall, it obviously looks not vibrant enough.

2. It looks more like a watercolour painting than an acrylic painting.

3. I had problems mixing the right green, therefore the trees look rather strange.

4. The ground was so difficult to paint but I managed to make it look slightly like a wet ground, but not enough.

5. I used too much black due to plain laziness to mix my own colours.

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Overall, my piece just looks slightly ‘off’, with a lot of room for improvement. Anyway, this was my first attempt, and it was a good and enjoyable one.

P/s: Sorry to whoever’s piece of BEAUTIFUL art on DeviantART which I took as the sample. I hope this isn’t plagiarism

When you are clad in a tunic top, a mini skirt, and leggings, try putting one of these bright red court shoes. They really turn heads. I am planning to get myself one of these pairs.

Very affordable shoes from New Look. From my experience, their shoes are pretty comfortable to wear. A very good investment at such prices. Price from L to R, £20, £10 and £22 respectively.

Visit www.newlook.co.uk

Walkers crisps is one of my all-time favourite junk food since I came to the UK. It made up one of my components of ‘culture shock’ seeing how popular it is over here. Everyone eats it, from old people to working class to teenagers to kids. And they eat it all the time, when they’re hungry, when they’re not, when they just feel like munching something, when they finish their main course etc etc. Cheese and onion was my favourite flavour of all, and it still is.

It made me think back of old times. When I was much much younger back in primary school days, this was what I, and most of us used to eat.

I think those of us who were born in the 1980s might have invested our pocket money quite a number of times on these. They came with a little toy in it, made us jump in joy every time our parents bought us a box. If I knew back then that kids 20 years from then eat walkers crisps, I wouldn’t have been so perked up.

I guess many of you who are reading this would have already done it, at least once.

When you were younger,others used to say, ” That is what adults do. You will come to this stage one day.”

You just wished back then that you were an adult.

We thought, how cool it is, we finally get to do something ourselves.

Something that is thought and said to bring satisfaction and comfort to one’s life. Hmmmm…

I am now in the process of doing it.

And I am doing it for the very first time.

I had no experience at all.

I fear.

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I fear my very first job application process.

I was searching for a perfect camera to replace my 2.5 years old red Sony T100 which has served me well. Thousands of photos were taken with it, but none with the quality anywhere close to that taken by a DSLR. However, not being a person who likes a few kilograms of weight hanging around my neck or carrying a huge camera bag just to fit large zoom lens, I tried to settle down for something in between, better quality than normal digital camera and SMALL, small enough to fit into my everyday bag.

So, here it is,

The Olympus PEN E-P1, looking half like a digital camera and half like an SLR. Perfect!! Comes in one of the two lenses, 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lens or 17mm f/2.8 lens. For the 14-42mm zoom lens, it is priced at approximately £650 (RM 3900) but only costs about RM 2500 in Malaysia.

Hehehe. I have decided what my graduation gift for myself would be.

First of all, weekends pass so fast that it feels like Mondays occur five times more frequent than Saturdays.

Secondly, you try to do your best at work to impress your supervisor but somehow you still get spanked for little silly mistakes.

Thirdly, money always runs out at a rate that shocks yourself. Even renewing a visa costs £565 or RM3390 to be exact.

Fourthly, you try to get a good sleep but somehow you wake up the next morning feeling all drained.

Fifthly, you see that little bag so so pretty on sale, but when you finally decide to get it there is no more stock.

Sixthly, fat cells seem to like expanding and dividing so much that a single party causes them to multiply from thousands to millions.

Seventhly, you plan so hard for a holiday only to find out that you need to cancel it owing to something at work you need to attend that day, something you dread and dislike!

Eighthly, you just blame the clouds for clouding the blue sky and the wind that makes you shiver your bones off.

Ninthly, you just want to get annoyed at everything around you. No reasons!

And lastly, blame the hormones in your body that simply regulate whatever way they desire.

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So, ARRGHHHHH!!!  I don’t know which of the above reasons apply to me now.

When your wardrobe starts to get full,

and you wish half of the clothes aren’t there,

or when you wish you did not buy them in the first place,

so you could save some money which you had already spent,

turn to,

A place to get rid of your old stuffs.

Unless old stuffs go away, new stuffs would not come.

Plus, old $$$ comes flowing back too.

For more information, visit ebay.co.uk or ebay.com.

Alternatively, scroll down and drop me a message.