Thursday, December 6, 2012

Final Year MBBS: Melbourne, Australia

Journey through my Iphone
4th of July - 29th of September
Rotations in Melbourne

The Couple Lol


A330


Last one to board the plane because of duty free commitments


Joy = having an empty seat next to you for the flight  having your darling next to you for the flight


Does not make sense 


Freddo's before it closed for winter


Outside Flinders, was here a year ago


AUD 30 / night
#ripoff


Morning briefing


St Ali's roasted pork


To recoup loses - trying our luck for AUD 13million


Studio Unit


2nd winter for the year


Dandenong Ranges


Guys checking out a chick behind me


Souvlaki


Anshuman's - where I got my AGE from
#worstexperience #didntshowerfor4days


Hardware Societe: Smoked Salmon on a bun Lol


Little boy waiting for his school bus every morning


Can't understand how he can stand siting (pun intended) on the cold pavement


She CAN cook! 


Green tea fix


Latte Art


More Brunch


Crown! 


Chocolait


Private bus and private driver every morning on the 862


Winter is ending


Hot nurse! 
Went all the way to Glen Waverley on her own to get me soup just because I was sick
#AcuteGastroEnteritis  #bedbound


More Brunch: Poached Egg, Salmon Cake, Hollandaise Sauce


Tonkatsu Ramen and an Ocha Float


Jeffery my outstanding ward partner, explaining himself


He's the Pathology Prize Winner who used to study at HwaChong
We could not recognize each other although we met a year ago at the Awards Ceremony
And that is TakYee - my very kind senior
All in all it was a good rotation, although we could have had a better consultant


Vantage Point


Surprise Birthday Cake at a parking lot


Girls


Black Saturday


 Always buy flowers haha


Peninsula Hot Springs in the cold


 Best Buddy!


Girlfriends don't let their boyfriends play bball alone


 Mexican Fair


 Free potato chips and a big chippy smile


 BBQ at MRS


 Caramelizing the onions
This was also where PinTet made his epic leather beef


 Man and his meat


 Glee


 My room is on the top row, third from the left


 Different angle


 Is it spring yet? 


 The Party Hall


Parking Lot

 The dining hall is right at the end of the corridor


 Dandenong Hospital 
#Southernhealth


 Royce Milkshake


 More Brunch at ThreeBagsFull


 Dinner Date


Simple Japanese Fushion


 Is this the Yarra River? 


 
Girlfriend had to leave Australia because of an emergency back home :(


 BBQ again


 Was it 2kg or more?


 You know you have real pork belly if you can see tits


 Definitely one of the more memorable times in Australia
good food. good tales. good fellowship. good memories.


 If you look carefully, someone has got a reddish-purple complexion


 The Potterhouse did not disappoint


 Monash grounds


 Always missed the bus


Fruitful trip to Essendon (:


2nd round after Essendon


 haha


 Meeting up with friends


 
 Dressed for spring


 
 TimTams and coke for supper


 Scotch Fillet


 1.5 minutes later


 3 minutes later - Medium Rare
#photodoesnotdojustice


 Packed Up


Last Day


 Alexander at Rose Garden with penang certified chicken ribs

 
 On my way home
#abouttime


 New Usain Bolt shoes
#donthate








Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Risk Appetite

1. People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

2. What's measured improves

3. I had the opportunity to visit Meals on Wheels in Victoria- a service catered to delivering pasteurized meals to the elderly or disabled who would otherwise be unable to prepare their own. Each meal costs an average of AUD 8. The service derives it's funds from the local and federal government. It is run by volunteers who turn up each morning to deliver the meals. I was designated to be a jockey for my partner who was a 70 year old gentleman from Hungary. During the course our conversation in between delivering meals, I found out that he arrived in Melbourne 55 years ago at the age of 15. At that time, a revolution was happening in Hungary which heralded the fall of Communism. The borders to the country began to open up and his family decided to seek refuge somewhere else. The US was the obvious choice but it was already full. Canada was their second option but that too did not materialize and so they ended up in Australia. My point is- when I'm 70 like him, I still want to be the one volunteering to deliver meals and not the other way round.


Thursday, August 2, 2012

but seek

No life is complete that does not feel upon it some great compulsion, driving it. We want to learn to be loving and patient with all sorts of people, but it is difficult to have patience with some men! Their eye never gleams, they have no passion, no power; they drift. A man that is a real man has something that drives, something that creates enthusiasm.

Campbell Morgan