The Good
What's good was the Christmas dinner my friends and I had on Christmas eve. It was sorta my second time enjoying Christmas with my friends (although I've gone through three December 25th in the UK, I remember just sleeping off the first one back in my first year). Like 2009, my friends and I decided to do a cook-out and spend the time together because we happened to be without or families on the festive season.
So yeah, on Christmas eve, we all gathered together and started cooking and I'd say the chaotic moment in the kitchen was a lot more fun than what happened later during dinner (although it was just as much fun). Despite the minor glitched involving a tripped fuse causing the entire first floor (including the kitchen) to be out of electricity, we managed to pull it off and enjoyed the night with some great food, great company and cheap alcohol (although I just settled for my pineapple juice lah)
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| stuffing Java and I made...took forever for Mami to make the breadcrumbs, bless her! |
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| David getting putting his final touch on the amazing cheesecake =p |
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| chickens ready to roast...we had one last year but it was not enough so we got two and we had enough for lunch the next day |
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| after the fuse tripped, we had to put the roast, which was almost done luckily, in the microwave oven |
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| that's Mami, anothe sample of crazy Japanese =p |
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| Sharon, Pina, Mami, David sitting and Moi and Java at the back...cool people always hang out the back =p |
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| toasting to great food, great company, and cheap wine and pineapple juice =p |
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| and we later played Mahjong and Monopoly Deal and cards |
The Bad
The bad was that I woke up one day with and eye infection or stye or 'ketumbit' as it's more commonly known among the Malay community. I first felt it on the edge of my right eye few days before Christmas day but my eye only started to get swollen on Christmas eve. I just hated the idea of having it because the last time I had stye (more info about it on Wikipedia - yes, I regard Wikipedia as biblical!) was back when I was 17 and somehow the idea of getting it again after 5 years really worried me.
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| woke up with a swollen eye on Christmas morning...Santa must have hated me for some reason =( |
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| got worse on Boxing day and I can't go out shopping, bummer =( |
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| got slightly better yesterday... |
Lucky for me, the swelling went down like two days after it started (technically just yesterday) and I didn't feel the pain I'd usually feel so I felt really good because I was already planning to see my GP and I don't like the idea of it because I'd only go see a doctor only when something is really bad. The last time I went to see a doctor was in May after dealing with excruciating colicky pain for two days thanks to my IBS.
The Resolute
The Resolute was me, of course =p. Being the second last week of the year, I've sort of started thinking about 2011 and what I hope it's gonna bring me, or rather, what sort of changes I myself am gonna bring into my life.
I'm not much of a new-year-resolution kind of person so I rarely have any and this time around I'm still a little vague. However, over the years that I've lived (just 22 =P), I've learnt not to dream too big, or get lost in big dreams but to focus on little things more achievable and practical so one of the thing I'm planning to do in 2011 is to subscribe to TIME magazine. I picked up the edition featuring Mark Zuckerberg and reading it, it sort of opened me to an entirely different world I seem to know very little of (politics, sociology, economy, human rights, etc.) and I hate not knowing so I thought subscribing it would broaden my horizon a lil' bit and I think it would be a good escapade from the world of medicine now and again. Back when I was doing my IB, I used to subscribe to Reader's Digest and Discovery Channel magazine and I found reading something non-medical was a good way to de-stress so I'm gonna start the habit again. I'm also thinking of subscribing to RD again although I found the UK edition less interesting than the Asia edition. I guess it feels a lil' less homey.
Another thing I'm planning to do was to keep a diary-planner sort of thing. I'm not the most disorganised person on earth (I always manage to keep up with my assignment deadlines with minimal effort) but I thought it would be nice to have something to check regularly to keep me up to date with everything. As it is, I've already filled my planner (which I got free when I bought RD January publication) with dates of my rotations beginning January next year. I'm sure, just like how my three-month FoCP flew like a gust of wind, my EJR is gonna passed by like a bullet train it'lls be July in the blink of an eye. Medicine sure keeps my life hectic and fast!
Other than that, I'm not very sure about other resolutions yet but at least I'm starting somewhere. After all, a year of 365 days starts with just that one 1st January =P!!!
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