These are the thoughts, imaginations, ruminations, complaints, etc. about the life of a girl who thinks too much, whose imagination is too wild for her own good, who ruminates on her personal issues, who complains about her life (or the lack of it)....
My new elliptical trainer has finally been delivered to my house today...yay!!! was hurrying home from work to wait for the deliverymen..so when they finally arrived with my new 'baby', i test 'drove' it immediately...it was a good workout...now that i've got an outlet for my accumulated & accumulating fats, there's no need to worry about calories anymore, hehe...
Then again, maybe i should just watch my diet for at least the whole of April...coz i do want to look good in my bikini ;P anyway, gonna burn some rubber..i mean flubber....just watch the fat melt away.......;)
I've finally received my certificate of participation for the borneo international marathon that was held on 12 october 2008...i should have gone to their office and get it earlier but well, i'm a procrastinator...it was very nice of them to mail it to me...so there...the proof of my 'impossible' mission...i actually ran a marathon...in 6 hours 15 mins 39 seconds...that put me among the last few runners in the race...but that's ok...point was...i've done something which i used to think would be impossible for me...of course i didn't run the whole way...by halfway, my right knee was almost ready to give up on me...
So anyway, don't think my right knee ever recovered since then...i've been trying to jog again but i can only last 2 rounds and my right knee feels like it's been osteoarthritic for the past 10 years..so i thought i'd go swimming instead..but it's been raining in the evenings..and i'm too lazy to get up in the morning to swim when i'm doing pm shifts..so finally i decided i'd get myself an exercise machine...those elliptical trainers which has low impact on the knees...cost me half a month's salary..but hey, at least it won't close down on me after 3 months (unlike my stupid gym which cost me more but ran off with my money, leaving me gym-less)...
My new machine will be delivered to my house on Monday...looking forward to an intensive month-long training...hehe, why? coz i'll be going to Bali in early May...must get into shape so i won't get the "when are you due?" questions when ppl see me in my bikini...sigh...the suffering us girls need to go through in the name of vanity...
1. See all the 7 wonders of the world, the Pyramids of Giza, Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon. 2. Do mission work as a mission doctor in at least 5 countries besides Malaysia. 3. Watch Khalil Fong live in concert at least once. 4. Run a marathon..again..under 5 hours this time. 5. Buy a boat and explore the Greek Islands. 6. Watch the sunrise at the peak of Everest. 7. Scuba-dive at the Great Barrier Reefs. 8. See my kids graduate (in the event i do have kids). 9. Fly a plane. 10.Ski in the Alps.
It doesn't have to happen in that order...whichever comes first would be fine...hhmmm, i wonder if any of it will actually be realized..but hey, always dream big...God loves a big dreamer...the list might grow as i grow...hehe...
I'm on call today...and i had quite a scare this morning...they posted a 17 year-old girl for EUA and T & S under GA coz she had a bilateral parasymphysis fracture of the mandible and a dentoalveolar fracture of the right maxilla and some laceration wound..the girl, let's call her A, was involved in an accident yesterday night when the motorcycle she was riding collided with a bus (not sure if it was a stationary bus)..but i supposed she was darn lucky to have escaped with just the above mentioned injury and a closed proximal 1/3 fracture of the right femur.. So anyway, i started the case without much thought...the dental team wanted nasal intubation..after inducing her, i proceeded with the intubation...i inserted the nasal tube into her right nostril (really, what was i thinking?)..it went into the pharyngeal area after some initial resistance but when i was trying to view the vocal cord region, all i saw was blood pool...i think i traumatized her soft tissue while inserting the nasal tube so it started bleeding...i couldn't see the vocal cord coz of all the blood..then patient desaturated and became bradycardic...had to manually bag her till her saturation picked up again...thank God for my MA...i was quite panicky and i couldn't bag properly..so he took over and managed to intubate A with an oral tube...but A aspirated some blood somehow... I called my specialist to come in coz the dental team still wanted nasal intubation...so my boss came in and tried intubating the left nostril but he couldn't get the tube to pass into the pharyngeal region...we guessed there was probably some injury around her nasal region as well...so anyway, they settled for the oral tube and proceeded with the surgery...boss decided to send patient to ICU post-op coz she aspirated... So i learnt a lesson today...next time if i have a patient with facial injury, inform boss and ask boss to come in for help..oh, another lesson...do not think i'm smart enough for my own good....no one's infallible...
Elaine and Siang Lin came down from Kudat yesterday morning..Elaine lamented that this was the only weekend she wasn't on call and could finally come down to KK...which was why I've been looking forward to this weekend..our karaoke session..hehe.. Anyway, i did my first saturday locum OT yesterday...would rather have slept in on a saturday morning instead..but well, i just thought i'd give it a try..that was quite uneventful...met up with Elaine and Siang Lin for lunch...then we went for our karaoke session...it was also our chinese tuition class...coz we'd sing chinese songs that we knew how to sing...yea, no prize for guessing whose songs i'll be singing mostly...i've been learning Khalil's songs dilligently for the past few days...so i could sing them even without Mozilla's add-on to help me read the chinese words...but much to my disappointment, most of Khalil's songs couldn't be played by the karaoke machine...bummer!!! it's like a bloody conspiration against me singing his songs...well, still it didn't stop us from singing for almost 4 hours...phew!!! Oh, Siang Lin went to get a haircut while we were singing our hearts out...and he came back with his new hairstyle a la Khalil Fong...hehe, Siang Lin actually looked more fashionable...though personally, i thought that look on Khalil makes him look a teeny bit too nerdy, hehe...but then again, Khalil can look however he wants, his voice and music will still be as good as ever...
I just found some videos on youtube on Jason Mraz's concert that was held in early March..he was in Hong Kong on 2/3/09 and Malaysia on 4/3/09 (too bad i couldn't go back for that)..but guess who was Jason Mraz's guest star in Hong Kong? It was Khalil Fong!!! Ok, so he wasn't the only one..Fiona Sit was there too..Anyway, Jason and Khalil were singing Jason's "Live High"...it was so cool..although initially Khalil did sound a bit muffled..but it was probably coz the crowd went wild when he started singing and kinda drowned his voice..and he did look a little awkward..though eventually he did get into the groove..it's good to know that Khalil held his own even when singing next to Jason Mraz..:)
Anyway, here a link to the video (not sure if you can actually get there from here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOcNzrMU0gE
And here's the lyrics to "Live High" (should be correct now, since i checked with the lyrics from the album)
I try to picture a girl
Through a looking glass
See her as a carbon atom
See her eyes and stare back at them
See that girl
As her own new world
Though her home is on the surface, she is still a universe
Glory god or goddess peeking through the blinds
Are we all here standing naked
Taking guesses at the actual date and time
Oh my, justifying reasons why
Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by
Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously
Taking it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously
I try to picture the man
To always have an open hand
And see him as a giving tree
See him as matter
Matter of fact he's not a beast
No not the devil either
Always a good deed doer
And it's laughter that we're making after all
The call of the wild is still an order nation wide
In the order of the primates
All our politics are too late
Oh my, the congregation in my mind
Is an assembly singing their gratitude
And practicing ther loving of you
Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously
Taking it easy
Live high, live mighty
Oh live righteously
Just take it easy
And celebrate the malleable reality
Because nothing is ever as it seems
Yeah this life is but a dream
Lift me up to Thee Almighty
Raise your hands and start acknowledging He
If you're living it righteously
Then you're taking the easy way
Just just just take take take takin' it easy
Live mighty mighty mighty
Living righteously
Live high
Lift me up to Thee
Living righteously
Live high
Celebrate and feel the love inside
Live high
Oh live righteously..
Just take it easy
It's late..need to sleep..good night..live high...zzzzzzz
So i've been listening to Khalil's songs and this particular one has been popping up in my head whenever i feel like humming a tune...it's from his first album 'Soulboy'...this song is called mei tian mei tian...or everyday...i use an add-on that Kok Wei recommended on Mozilla Firefox to help me read the chinese characters..very very helpful...i'll attempt to translate (please excuse my lousy attempt)
每天每天 站在忙亂又無聊的路旁 (everyday, standing by the side of the busy road)
等你向我走來 (waiting for you to come by my way)
每天每天 一直看見到你和你說話 (everyday, talking to you when i see you)
才算有個開始 (only then can it be considered a start)
每天每天 我都沒感覺我們有什麼改變 (everyday, i don't feel like there's any difference about us)
我一直以為 這是永遠 (i always thought, this is forever)
而我無法想像你會離開 (and i cannot imagine that you will leave)
我已習慣 你走在我的右手邊 (i'm used to you walking on my right)
一起看無聊搞笑片 (together we watch nonsensical and funny movies)
約好去看地中海的藍 (go and see the Mediterranean sea)
我已習慣 我們在一起像Old friend (i'm used to us being like old friends)
分享生活裡的一切 我知道你每個笑 (sharing everything in life, i know your every smile)
有不同的意義存在 (has a different meaning)
明白讓你走會後悔(不願意你離開) (understand that letting you go i'll regret [reluctant for you to leave])
這樣的感情太可貴(我現在已瞭解) (this feeling is too precious [now i understand])
