The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

woke up soup early to catch the 6.36am train. got that timing ingrained in my memory til now. so we all looked crap! ))):

as usual, my mini bladder started looking for a toilet. found one and it was waaay cleaner than i imagined it would be. for a moment, i thought i was in japan!


reached kaohsiung finally, after napping, after drinking tons of soy bean, after drinking tons of yakult....


frickin ticket cost us close to 5o bucks.....


the train in almost every country i've been to recently are more or less the same. clean. hygenic. blah.


we found our hotel, couldn't check in yet because it was like 8am or something. so dumped our stuff and headed out to cijin island! got brekkie at this breakfast place...


this makes my hungry everytime i look at it, it's called dan bing or egg biscuit. but it's basically pancake enveloping an omelette with crispy pork flosss.....mmm! easily my favourite food of the trip.


we rented bikes that cost like about 5 bucks for the entire day.


but we had to push them onto this ferry to reach the island. so this makes the island to kaohsiung what sentosa is to singapore.



barely 30m from the ferry point, we found a stall selling hats so we got us some!


i can't rem what this was, some poop ice cream or something.


first landmark we hit was this cave with glow in the dark astrological stuff...


and on the other side of the cave was the beach (((: so many failed jumpshots!


mehhh looked like crappers in the only alright one....



have a pre-reg following me around these days. it happened that they were inserting a CVP line into a patient by the bedside. i told him he could go see, and ended seeing the procedure for myself. and boy wow i would never have the guts to do what i saw. amazing, kudos to the drs. and it was supposed to be an eeney miney procedure. breah i'm easily impressed.

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Escape from the straitjacket of mundane life...

The mandatory bus ride from the international airport to the city centre never fails to put me in a state of jaded-ness, a far cry from the excited bubble I was the moment the plane touched down. Perhaps it's the intrusion into another's culture, all the similar MNCs macs mos 7-11 etc all housed in oh so slightly different buildings from home. I find myself trying to immerse myself in this new fishtank, staring goggle-eyed at the brightly lit shops manned by scantily clad girls. What are they selling, I asked my travel companions. Something that stains your mouth red was the answer, betel nuts. Oh and the further away from the city these shops are, the less clothing you'll find on them.

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This june saw andrea, car and i heading to taiwan for lil trip, we've been planning for it ever since we started our kickboxing lessons. It almost didn't materialise when tickets on jetstar cost 700 bucks, but we just let loose the pocket strings and clicked 'BOOK'!

stayed at a proper hotel on the first night, it was slightly costly and breakfast were these kfc coupons that we didn't get to use coz we took the first high-speed rail train in the morning out of taipei..


but it was a really decent place...


threw our stuff down, went to get our high speed rail tickets and then started exploring taipei. at this time it was already 11pm but we were all rearing to go.

first up was this jelly (beancurd?)-redbean-yam sticky balls dessert...


took a short walk to ximending where we had to try the all famous ah zhong mian xian, instead of oysters they had pig's intestines in it..it tasted yummers until i realised they were intestines..haha but i still like my kway chap. thing is this thing wasn't soy sauce coloured. it was pale white euyew?


and so the bubble tea count starts! it's andrea's favourite drink, she made it a point to drink at least one cup everyday.


and then we started proper on the street food! peanut pancakes, fried mushroom cups, corn dogs, sotong balls (abit too fishy!) and grilled meat....


the grilled meat really killed our appetite. it looked awesome on the grill. but what we didn't know is that they massacred a million spring onion plants and hid it beneath the grilled meat. i took one such roll of meat and think my face turned green immediately. i didn't dare touch a single spring onion during the rest of the trip.


another one of those bubble tea before we called it a night...



yays i managed to wake up bright and early today to sneak a run in before work! and boy does it feel good to have a run in before the day barely starts. in addition, bathing in the morning actually feels good! coz i'm all clean when i get in to work.

i'm surprised though at the number of people at the park in the morning of a working day. singaporeans are a healthy lot aren't they. when i get back late at midnight-ish, i see people pounding the streets all the same!

fell asleep at 9pm yesterday.

the next time i opened my eyes, the lights were on, i felt super rested, my sis was awake. so i thought it was 7am but no it wasn't even midnight.

so i went back to sleep. woke up at 4am, and this time i really couldn't fall asleep. godfinger-ed for awhile, read my mail, got a thought-invoking mail from teetoos. drifted in and out of consciousness while those thoughts floated around. somewhere along the waves of thought, i got reminded that my contact lens i bought 4 years back were expiring in 2010. soup random...

i headed to work at 8am, an hour early. so i managed to knock off early today. wanted to head out for a run. changed into my running stuff, and then i passed out on my bed. next time i woke up it was dinner! so apparently 10 hours of sleep wasn't enough roars.

very very annoyed with myself.

ugh i hate feeling like this.

i think i'm gg crazy. i'm feeling darn emo but i'm like laughing all the same. coz my sis is singing in her sleep. nice (((:

awww she's trying to cheer me up even when she's asleep...okay it's close to 3am. i shld be turning in soon as well....emooooooooo

today was crazy mad i wanna shake my hair and roars day. but at the end of the day, it kinda felt great when i looked back at how different i'd have handled today two months ago. and during dispensing today, i judged someone, based on his meds, based on his looks. and after it all, i felt like the wicked witch of the east. omgawd the poor guy )): i truly felt all the guilt in the world. so aggy no judging no matter what. dispense with an open mind.


updates from the weekend, here's what i got down to on sunday since it was one of those few rare weeks that we didn't head to the gramp's.

my mum came home from weekend grocery shopping and somehow had this immense desire to head out for high tea buffet. she wanted putien but my sis suggested this new japanese sweets desert place instead called Let's Sweets.




it was a one hour buffet with a stopwatch on the table to remind you how much time you have left to grab your food. i think it's quite a gd idea. you get your pick but you don't end up being overly full.


so being a japanese sweets place, there were of course lots of desserts to choose from. i'd recommend this place to gals. i doubt guys wld be attracted and satieted by the desserts.





there was the savoury corner as well. and i must say that i do prefer the savoury stuff in favour of desserts. took more stuff from this corner instead. there was japanese curry rice, omu rice, scrambled eggs, cute little finger food, three kinds of pasta, loads of thin crust pizzas, a miniature salad bowl, and home made bread.


there's a station for three different type of crepes, a fondue and tea place, as well as a station that made dancing yaki mochi, google it to find out what those are!


had soup spoon with greg pegs on saturday in town as well! velvety mushroom stroganoff yumsssss!!! its gao-ness is super shiok haha...my sis says there's a new soup restaurant in town called souperlicious that's slightly cheaper and tastes not too shabby as well!

and on national day, momo ordered me to pack my place before i could head out to meet the jc peeps. and i found all my old shopping bags wheee so pretty!


okay my eyes are barely open again...time to zzzzz!

nahh things aren't that bad but i just can't seem to break the habit. ugh...one step at a time. past week have been so busy but it ain't that bad coz it passed by in a blur..will have to jot it down here fast before i forget stuff...

been having a flu, proper time for me to get a mc but i'm not, what is frickin wrong with me? anyhows i've been looking for ballet flats to wear at work for some time now. affordable ones that don't cost a bomb. coz those that do are uncomfortable anyways! when sher told me that rubi sells those for a penny, i hopped down to the store and got me a couple! added some ribbons to make them look different....alright my eyes are barely open, bedtime!



day 3 right now. easier. or not. been squeezing so much into my time today. jam-packed. ran for the first time since shape run. how in the world did i ever manage to run 10k. seriously i did 4k today and i was huffing and puffing like any. coincidentally, fb puts super dated photo albums of friends on the right. and i saw the pharmacy run pics and oh to be like that again. i know there was darn exams but oh gosh those carefree days.

and i know them gel nails lasted about a month now, but i couldn't help but pluck the one on my thumb out and now it looks so horrible ugh. i'm scared of my own thumb.

and fb and its links to people really sucks. it does to memories what a farmer tossing hay does. ugh as much as i would like to call someone petty, i think it's pretty much my fault as well )): mehhhs.

and july passed by so quickly. first one third of it was spent overseas. the remnants of july was spend on don't know what...okay don't really know how to put what i wanted to voice out in words here, battery's dying...it's one in the morning, i shld sleep....

Day 2 passed easier than i expected, still not gonna get ahead of myself by being impudent. key is to keep busy, surround myself with people. the night held a little temptation though. still i had to collect items for a friend so the thought was banished.

some days at work you feel like you're soaring, you pick the easy baskets, get the easy patients. today unfortch was not those days. picked a basket with x10000 items. had a run-in with the sup over an intervention, found out that a patient passed away on saturday, stupid printer machine wouldn't print the second part of a label. but as much as i'm complaining, i'm still thankful there's someone out there who's looking out, the sup instead of being pissed told me i was let off the hook and strangely smiled delightfully at me later in the day, the script with the strange label that wouldn't be printed belonged to a maid who didn't make a fuss about waiting, and i'm getting into the alternate weekend roster! wheeees!

and life is a drama, told a friend bout stuff that i normally wouldn't :x

my friend's life is a drama, 'nuff said. but at least i know that this friend doesn't spill more than what's necessary bout things we share.

the first day is always the easiest. that said, i was still tempted in the morning to completely revert back. there's always the urge to do a last minute scramble. so day one started strong because i kept myself busy and i was surrounded by family. the real trial starts tomorrow i guess!

on a side note, it was siti's last day at work on saturday. as much as i'm upset to see her leave, knowing she left for grad studies totally justifies it. i guess in a way it's because she started her first day at the hospital with me. and her leaving for greener pastures makes me think whether i shld do so as well. but no, i'm pretty much comfortable at work right now. three more farewells in the next month. )):