bonjour brightside

this week was completely awful. ugh. i hope i never have to relive it again, and as much as i was annoyed and frustrated i really didn’t like being angry at others. anger always makes me feel like a bad person, so i am putting it all behind me.

anyway, on to happier things- i actually had a GREAT weekend! i met gwenda in the city for some lunching and we went into one of the cafes along flinder’s lane because it was pouring (and i finally fulfilled my craving for poached eggs!!) and it was really nice to be able to spend quality time with a friend i’ve known since my teenage years i love having friends visit melbourne, it always seems kind of surreal when they’re over cos everyone is pretty much overseas and all over the place nowadays and it’s so hard to meet up sometimes. anyway i’m glad gwenda really likes melbourne, i love melbourne and am very proud of it! although i make a very bad tour guide, just because i don’t go to the city much (i live in the burbs) and generally because i can’t read maps for nuts. :s

p.s. i would post pictures of my delicious lunch with gwenda but i brought a camera with a flat battery (classic, i know) so yeah. ’nuff said. although, we did take one picture using gwenda’s cam. on that note, i can’t believe she takes such lovely pictures without having to use a dSLR! some people are just photog geniuses

anyway here are some piccas from lou’s 21st party (which was actually suz’s 21st- complicated, i know) – this was last week

and yesterday night we had deb’s housewarming, where the theme was ‘chequered’ and i had NO chequered clothing. so i had to borrow from robin, who very kindly lent me his RL shirt which i actually kind of dig…. in a cowgirlish kind of way

i especially LOVE this picture that i took with Cat! it makes me happy

and here is mer, and big jem, who unfortunately has his leg in a plaster cast. nevertheless he was very nice and sporting to let me snap a picture!

okay, end of post. my computer is getting progressively less temperamental, i hope its a good sign. although a very clever senior of mine diagnosed my computer breakdown due to a spoilt fan (after i told him exactly what happened, with all the relevant signs and symptoms), which i think was probably spot-on!

alas, my laptop scare was more than a scare! i now have to accept the painful reality that my poor abused laptop is on the brink of death it died on me 3 times yesterday, and now i can’t use it for more than 30 minutes at a go, because it just shuts itself down! i had to go to the hospital so i could use the computer there to do up my case presentation. rawr. i really don’t fancy the thought of getting a new computer, i’m way too used to this one (it has served me unwaveringly for 3 years and counting, without even crashing once- i really should have treated it better.) i hope and pray that maybe N-that’s my laptop’s name(yes, i like to name my possesions)- will last me till the end of the year, so i don’t have to deal with all the backing up and reformatting in the middle of my semester!

anyway, moving on to things that make me feel a little happier (about the world in general):

+ i saw these pictures on teenvogue and thought they were so perfectly pretty! am particularly loving the backdrops in both scenes! i wish i could teleport myself to their fashion paradise. and i really want to wear a huge tulle skirt just so i can see how it balloons from my waist and makes me look about five years old.

+ i spent half my day in clinic with Dr C today and saw the most delightful 3 year old ever! he had golden blond curls too! i read him 5 stories just because he kept asking me to (in his very cute babbly voice) and he wouldn’t stop talking in his baby-gibberish the whole time. very, very cute indeed. too bad he had a sleepwalking problem which drove his mother quite mad, and Dr C couldn’t really do anything but offer advice in an empathic manner.

+ H, one of my good ol’ mates, called me at 9am while i was walking to clinic, i said “hi! what’s up?” and he said “oh i just woke up and wanted to say goodbye before leaving”. i thought that was pretty sweet, and so we had a little chat until i reached Dr C’s clinic and our conversation mainly ended with “ok take care and don’t study too much E!” and me retorting “sure i’ll just study for you cos i know you won’t!” (which is true 80% of the time, he doesn’t ever study!)

+ i stopped by Safeway on the way home to buy nuts! i love nuts! got some brazilian nuts, macadamias, cashews and almonds to motivate myself into healthy snacking- that is, if i don’t wolf them all down in 2 days. they make such lovely treats but whyyy in the world are they so ridiculously expensive?! i think i must have spent about $7.50 AUD on 300gms of nuts. insane.

+ gwenda’s coming to Melbourne! a nice catch-up sesh is in store, certainly, and very soon too! whoopeedoo!

ok and now my laptop’s nearly dying, i have to go. ta!

i just had a bad scare! my laptop shut down while i was enjoying my daily dose of facebook, so i tried to turn it on again but it refused to start up (bad computer!) i realised that i hadn’t backed up my hard drive, and it didn’t help that i desperately needed to start on my case presentation. naturally, i panicked and nearly had a heart attack (i am easily frightened).

fortunately i turned it on again after half an hour, and it worked- thank God! i hope it doesn’t give me anymore scares, because i now have enough adrenaline to keep me awake all night.

anyway, on to less stressful events: yesterday we celebrated lou’s and suz’s 21st! lou’s house is amazing. i covet her swimming pool and jacuzzi. *sighs dreamily* it was a lovely celebration, complete with 21st speeches, alcohol and pretty profiterole cake adorned with sparklers. i *love* profiteroles! hopefully the cake fairy will bestow a profiterole cake on me for my birthday too!

anddd i finally touched up my roots! i have been enduring distasteful hair for too long. i dyed it dark brown and it looks heaps better, now all i need is some conditioner. i feel like cutting some bangs! although i’ll have you know that every time i try to trim my fringe, it inevitably ends in disaster, but i always cut it anyway and live to regret it. i’m getting a little tired of my hair. it always looks the same!

and this can only mean three things:

1. celebrating our amazing God!
2. HOLIDAYS (though technically i only get friday and monday off)
3. chocolate chocolate chocolate (easter bunnies and eggs of course)! wooo!

anyway i meant to post this a couple of days ago but as usual, didn’t have the time to upload photos but since i have half a day off tomorrow, i am (relatively) less busy so here we go

last saturday we went to a food, music and wine festival at m0rdiall0c, by the foreshore. the weather was amazing (not too hot or too cold, for once) and it was a only 15-minute drive away so that was even more awesome

and here we are looking set to rock and roll (only jem wanted to get drunk on the wines.)

besides live music and wines (which i still have yet to learn how to appreciate), there were lots of rides- this one was called the Scorpion and it went round and round and spun like crazy. i imagine it would not be wise to go on it after dinner, haha

and this one was called ‘Hangover’. THIS was the horrendous ride i sat on!!! we got turned upside down and i felt like my insides were churning

honestly i was going to chicken out, i had no idea what in the world i was thinking when i said ‘yes let’s go on it!’

when the ride started carol and i practically screamed our heads off! that’s us at the top, topsy turvy- not the nicest position i would say. anyway it was a frightening but sort of exciting experience for me, given that i have this massive phobia of heights (but then again i am the kind of person who occasionally likes to scare myself). i thought i was going to have a heart attack there and then! no more scary rides for me (at least not in a long time coming)

and then we remembered that we should try the pancakes but the queue was so long and i got lazy, so i settled for some passionfruit yoghurt ice cream instead, which was goooood . although i did want to try the fig, honey and pistachio flavoured one, but it was melted and the lady said she couldn’t sell it

and one last photo to end the night- we had a fantastic time and i’m hoping we get to do this again soon!

and HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! wooo i finally get to sleep in

HI!!! sorry i have been remiss in updating. i’ve just started my 2nd paediatrics rotation at B0xh1ll Hospital, which is an hour away and so i’ve been waking up at 6am for 8am tutes, trudging back and forth by bus and attending ward rounds and clinics…… tres tiring but i’m getting the hang of it! BHH is kind of small, nothing like MMC (boo! i miss MMC) but it helps that the people there are awfully nice, i get to go to the special care nursery to cuddle the little bubs ….can i just tell you that i love doing baby checks! and clinics are pretty interesting as well, so that probably justifies the time and money spent on transport.

anyway, i do have pictures to update and stories to tell! will post soon after i get my studying done. meanwhile here is a little preview!

ANDDDD. Easter Break is coming up! though i only have a 4-day break but it’s always lovely to have holidays! plus i’ve booked my tickets to Sydney over Anzac weekend, wooo! many exciting things coming up, i’m pysched!! i can feeeel it already