What's good is my mood (dayyum, it rhymes!!!).
Yup, it's winter break (finally) and I have never felt myself more cheerful. Four days into the three-week hols and I'm spending it wisely by doing things I hardly have time to do. I've been catching up on some TV shows that I have to miss due to the nature of my FoCP. I know some thinks being a couch potato hardly counts as wisely or beneficial or fruitful but hey, cut me some slack! I'm on holiday and I spent the last three and a half months learning how to save people's lives! And that's not all I've been doing.
Mostly, I spend time with my friends unwinding and relaxing and catching up since I've not met some of them because we were sent to different hospitals for FoCP. I finally have some time to go shopping (just window as I'm waiting to splurge for the post-Christmas sale =)) apart from learning how to play Mahjong. Whoever invented the game was pure genius!
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| hotpot at David's...been a looooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg while since we had dinner together and had a good talk |
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| mahjong time!!! |
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| it's a good thing I'm pretty quick-witted (relatively speaking) to learn the trick of the game... |
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| quick-witted enough to have won the first round of my first ever mahjong game although only by a small score...not bad for a first-timer I'd say! |
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| gahhh, the sales are driving me crazy...pity my wallet and my back account =/ |
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| I loveeeeeeeeeeeee the Christmas decorations all around the mall...really put me right into Christmas mood! |
What's bad is the worsening weather, again! Pretty much all my friends who were travelling this week, either back home or for holidays to some other warmer parts of the world, complained about being stuck and stranded either at airports or train stations. Both my Facebook newsfeed and Twitter timeline have been flooded with friends complaining and lamenting about their cancelled, delayed or suspended flights or trains. The same seems to be happening to my friends' newsfeeds.
A friend on the way back from Edinburgh was stuck in the train for 7 hours when it only takes less than 2 hours to travel from Edinburgh to Newcastle. A friend checked in on her flight online only to be told her flight was cancelled only when she arrived at the airport. A friend told me about her friend who got stuck in the traffic for 12 hours. A friend's friend's flight got delayed for 3 hours in Heathrow before she was told to go home for an indeterminable period of delay, came back to catch the delayed flight for the second time 20 hours later only to have the flight cancelled!
I sorta predicted that it was gonna be this bad so I cancelled my plan to take the Eurostar to Belgium to experience the Christmas market (it claims to be the biggest in the whole world with lotsa yummy food!!!) but this is beyond the beyond. I personally think the closure of both Heathrow and Gatwick airports reflected how unprepared the authority is in handling the unpredictable weather. It's understandable when aiports in Edinburgh and Newcastle are closed given the crazier northern weather the places are expereincing but London has it a lot milder. A friend who was in London for the weekend constantly tweeted about how the underground service was either delayed or suspended when the snow wasn't half as bad as the one we're experiencing in Newcastle.
Then again, the air traffic in Europe is such a chaos in itself very few flights will actually make it to fly across the continent. I can only hope the weather settles down a bit by the time of new year's eve. I'm not gonna like it if my train to London is delayed. I want to see some fireworks and musicals and shop in London. Dayyum, I miss that city!!!
The So-so
The so-so was my exam. Last week I mentioned that I was severely unmotivated so it cameas no surprised that I wasn't totally at ease with how the exam had progressed.
OSCE was really average. For every station that I could be satisfactorily happy for having done the best I could, there would always be another station in which I could have done a lot better had I prepared more so there was no net winner in terms of whether I did good or bad. Simply average.
As for the paper exam, I would say it wasn't a complete disaster although in I'd admit that I'd never done so much guesswork in my whole life as compared to the last fifteen minutes of the exam.
Anyway, it's all over and I'm just trying to enjoy my short holiday to the fullest!!!
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