O&G

Just finished my second session at the birthing suite. Unlucky me, still has no chance of watching a woman does the most noble thing on earth, which is to give birth to a baby, normally.

As usual, monday blues, i used enormous of strength to pull me out from the comfy bed and went to birthing suite and hoping there would be some interesting case for me to watch. The session was started pleasantly by meeting a nice male O&G consultant who brought me along with his team to visit a lady who was about to be induced in order to deliver a baby by today. That time i was thinking it's gonna be my lucky day. So i went back to the room to build up some rapport with the mother like what a student should do even though we don't feel like doing it most of the time.

The mother gave me her permission, but she worried that her husband might not be ok with a male student standing in the room during the delivery. Few hours later her husband came and he really was not ok for me to watch his wife giving birth. WTFFFFF........ I'm not doing anything to your wife, for goodness sake, my presence is definitely, utterly, solely on academic purpose. Chill..... so i just let my female colleague went in and watched the delivery. Wasted all the rapport built.

Then another potential case came in. I asked the midwife to get consent from the mother. She said yea. And guess what, she never came back to me until the chief midwife went in and asked her again. The midwife was a real bi*ch! I saw her so many times at the corridor and she could just ignored my request as if it's not important. Hey, i need to fill my log book, ok? Of course with her attitude like that, the mother also turned me down.

However, at least after this incident, i know who shall i rely on and who shall i loathe at. The chief midwife, Rhonda, is the nicest person in the suite. She purposely stayed back after her shift just to make sure the midwives get back to us. After so many big no-no to my face, she even consoled me and said, 'those midwives just don't understand that this is a teaching hospital and they should convince the patients to let you all go in and learn, and it's gonna be harder for you because you are a guy!'

Sexist! Chauvinist!

今年的除夕夜

夜深了，我才恍然记得今晚是除夕夜。没有家人在身边，农历新年也只不过是平凡的一天。有所感触当然是免不了，能做的就只是祝福家人欢乐喜庆。

回想以往的除夕夜，是多么的令人雀跃万分。 久违的亲戚，压岁钱，满宴，烟花，贺岁片，假期，红包，零食等都让每个小孩眉开眼笑。中学以后到外地求学，除夕夜变得更具有意义，深受体会团圆饭的重要性。尤其是那一刹那与多日不见的双亲重逢，不管生活有多艰难，你都会知道他们永远的默默支持你，守护你 ，站在那扇永不关闭的家门口。

去年年尾假期有幸与家人团聚，已足以补尝今年独自在外地过年的感伤。不知何时何日再共能享这份天伦之乐。。。 但愿人长久，千里共婵眷。

我这儿的时钟已过了12点，那岂不是大年初一了！恭喜发财！ 在家乡的家人们必定还在慢尝那顿团圆饭 。披着疲惫身躯的我，刚从妇产部值班12小时回来，誓要写完这份稿才安心，忽然想起家母时常说的一句话：‘[广东音]好就女人，不好就累人‘，真好笑！

今年的农历新年，是我养蓄精神的好一天，太阳不晒屁股都不会离床。祝大家新年快乐，心想事成，读书的学业猛进，打工的步步高升，做生意的横贯满盈，搞政治的快快反省，oops!

February

I'm back in Christchurch!

Everything is already well settled. My new accommodation at ymca is fine, the only thing i hate about it is that the hostel does not provide internet service. So i gotta walk to school everyday just to reconnect myself to the virtual world.

The weather here is still quite cozy, so happy to be able to wear singlet and sleep at night. Met a few juniors and seniors, glad to catch up with them again.

The school starts tomorrow, officially. O&G is my first run, omg omg..... My biggest fear because repro was never my strong subject, and now i'm getting it for my first posting, please have mercy on me! Gotta be strong and nail it!

Interesting fact to share with you all. Do you know February 2010 has 4 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays? It only happens every 11 year. So have a great February!

Auckland Seafood Festival

Last Sunday, James brought us to this annual Auckland Seafood Festival at Viaduct. The place was pretty secluded and it took us more half an hour to walk to that place. General admission to the event was $15, but no free food provided, sob sob.....

Apart from food stalls, Auckland Seafood Festival also set up a few stages for various performances at different corners. Highlight of the day, i believed, was the cooking demostration by a big chef, sadly i wasn't the type that enter the kitchen and ignite the stove.

Walking along the pier after paying the entrance fee, bee ling was the cameraman

James: "yo people, let's go" ... Kee Ping: "wait till i finish posing"

Very nice grilled salmon

New World Supermarket booth. The platter only costed $5 *ain't what you do is the way that you do it*

Good food must be shared together

My Birthday

Memorable birthday celebration at Auckland. Thank you so much, my friends!

Summer Retreat at Gold Coast

A vacation inspired from a swimming session at Vista Commonwealth C pool, was regarded as a joke at the beginning but after 'a meticulous proper' planning, we finally had made this dream came true.

You know, i always had been a big fan of AirAsia "Now Everyone Can Fly". But after this flight from KL to Gold Coast, i am indeed very disappointed with its service. Before i booked the ticket, i knew this would be a long haul flight, so i decided to pay more and buy its XL seat, which supposed to have bigger leg room and able to recline more compare to the economy one. Unfortunately the reality wasn't consistent to whatever they advertised on the internet. The seat was definitely bigger than the usual one and there is ample of leg room, however what i needed the most was the recliner. Guess what, all the XL seats cannot be reclined! According to a air stewardess, she said this is an old airplane, only the XL seats in the new plane can be reclined. WHAT!!! I felt so cheated! I had a bigger seat, so what? my arse isn't that fat! I had bigger leg room, so what? my leg isn't that long! Not to mention the RM12 baby's portion nasi briyani, ew.......

Thus the whole 8 hours in the mid air was really tormenting. And that's not all, i was stopped by a custom officer and interrogated for a few more minutes after we landed. Luckily they didn't asked me to enter a room and strip. Do i look like a terrorist? Hmph....gotta do some make over soon.

The first thing we did after checking in to the hotel was Zzzzzzz. Exploration of the town only started after we snoozed for a couple of hours. In general, gold coast is a pretty place. The beaches from Main Beach to Surfers Paradise to Broadbeach were sandy and fine. Temperature wise, panas! We could hardly walk on the beach barefooted because it was sizzling hot. That's why i don't understand why the Caucasians can stay under the sun for so long without feeling burned.

The main purpose of visiting Gold Coast was definitely not sun bathing at the beach, but because of the theme parks. We managed to enter 4 theme parks across 5 days. One word to conclude all theme parks: Queuing. All theme parks were so damn crowded because it's summer holiday. Lesson learned.

Pictures certainly could describe my excitement more than words. Enjoy!

International Beach Resort, the place where we stayed. It is just 5 minutes walk away from the core of Surfers Paradise.

The view from our apartment's balcony

Trying to do a jumping shot at the beach

Surfers Boulevard, the centre of Surfers Paradise

Pasific Fair, the biggest shopping centre in Gold Coast

The alcoholic and her triple platinum margaritta

Dracula's Carbaret Show, Vampirates. It is a very interesting place, the whole buidling is decorated with dracula's concept, even the waiters and workers put on funny make up.

At King Tut's Putt Putt, for golfer wannabe. I guess we were the oldest player apart from the parents who accompanied their young kids

This is the Egytian Course, 18 holes in total. James was the winner, scoring the highest score

The last hole of the course. Posing victoriously with the king cobra statue

Theme Park 1: Wet n Wild

Got sunburned over my shoulders even though i had put on sunblock, sob sob......

Theme Park 2: Movie World

Cartoon Characters' Parade

Best roller coaster, Superman's MRT (not sure if it's offcial name). The ride's speed was exhilarating and the best of all was that the queue wasn't too long

Cute pig statue & me, hehe!

Posing at the Main Street of Movie World before we left

Theme Park 3: Dreamworld

Did i tell you that koala bear is so adorable? It looked like a soft toy when i pet it. Wish i could rear one in my house

James and his sno kon, something like ice kacang but without kacang

Swarna hot flushing with her $10 fan

Special performance from MTV

Posing at the Animal Island with kangaroos hooping here and there at the sides. We didn't take much pictures from the rides because we were too dazed to do so. Oh, we are proud to say that we had tried the world tallest freefall, The Giant Drop, haha!

Theme Park 4: Sea World

The sea lion peformed really well

Nice shot from James. But i still prefered the dolphin performance in Ocean Park, HK

Thank you Swarna and James, i really enjoyed this last vacation before our graduation. Next vacation at Six Flags, US perhaps? Haha!

Gold Coast, Australia

Awesome vacation, more updates coming up!