winter trip (2) VieNna

the city of arts. ViEnNa. wei-ye-na in chinese. before anything. let me share something with you. there was a story i watched on a series during school time. there was this pretty young lady, Lydia who played piano all her life. her dad wanted nothing more than sending her to vienna to do music. she met him. he was a rebellious kid. she fell for him. dad tried to stop by forcing her to vienna. she ran away in the airport. she ran to him. she started a total new different life with the boy. she wasnt touching any piano keys anymore but always dealing with his wounds from his fights. stuffing herself everyday with worries that he might be slashed apart at any second. her right hand was injured bcos of him. she couldnt play piano again. Oh man, i would have js ran to the beautiful vienna.somtimes in life, you have to walk further n when u look back, those things that matter so much once to u, just dont anymore. well. youth is certainly full of stupidities at times.

ok. i have been procastinating my winter trip blog. it has been ages. i am basically sticking to the laptop screen watching nonsense and all. i just couldnt be very bothered to do this. so now im blogging using what is remained in my brain cells after so many ages passed.

well i finished the horryfying CAT. instead of sitting around doin nothing i might as well js do this. since my personal photographer koay beetee had been chasing me to upload his fav piece of work---> I SERIOUSLY don think the pic below is any exciting. the photographer mr koay is realli proud that he could capture how i was touching the tip of Rathaus (city council of vienna city). like really touching the tip. but why is the mr koay so insistent tat its the pic of the trip? I DON UNDERSTAND.


so vienna. it was realli cold. so cold the pond froze! it was a bit freaky to walk on it. i was worried the ice might just break at any point i didnt wanna go further. but this random european guy at the side was giving me encouragement. he couldnt really speak english but he was giving me this gesture like "heyy i am this big, i am much heavier n the ice didnt break, go on you!" well it was freezing cold i couldnt afford to get wet at that point. so tats as far as i would go. like a meter away from the edge lol. Neptune well looked prettier with ice than water.
welcome to the palace! i think i stil lov the sleepin beauty's palace in the disneyland. pink and happy.

walking up the hills to Gloriette. it was a bright happy day. upon request. jump!
up at the gorgeous Gloriette. the sun was shining somehow. it helped with the brutal coldnes. a bit. sunsine is always more appreciated here in the western land. and with 10layers of clothing(realli!!!), i think i don need the tonnes of sunblock i use during summer.

it was so freezy i had to walk into this parliament building just to steal a bit of warmth. well spent a bit of time playing with their high-tech computers which explained the history of the country n stuff. not very interested in tat. well quite nice in there.
new hafburg. residence of kings and emporors. u have the spanish riding school here as well. so, if you have to be careful with cars in the UK, u maybe hav to watch out the horses in vienna. they are just everywhere. i mean, everywhere. at one point we were crossing the road n mr koay was shouting "HEYYY WATCH OUT THE CAR!" omg we were almost knocked down by a few horses which were marching towards us. tat was hilarious. watch out the car? horses! i laughed till my tears were out. the horses were kinda scary when they were tat near. and they were marching on like they wouldnt have stopped for us. i wonder wad would have happened if we were like a bit slower in crossing the road.


state opera. not really expensive to go in. like 4euro for a tour. but a realli quick one tho. but to see a real opera costs a fortune. had a look at the back stage. u will be surprised to see how many people are qorking with the background changing and costumes. HUGE.state opera musuem. meet our board of honourable conductors!!!!!!
one the most class city halls. its being repainted so its kinda half white top and half balck bottom. looked more like a snow-covered building. i lov the view.

vienna is stereotypically beautiful and classic. its like a fairy tale land. so, lets js look at another part of the city. OMG a donkey!!!!!!!!!!! such a poor thing. the master brought it around so people can have a ride n he can make a living. i mean, who wil want to ride on that poor little thing?


wiener riesenrad (vienna giant wheel) at the entrance of prater amusement park. mmm. its on like every postcard. its really quite tiny. compared to the one in london, or even the one in manchester. this is really js the size for a theme park. beautiful tho.


come to vienna. if u wanna remind yourself life is worth more to see more to feel more to get to. there are so many magnificient things around waiting for you to explore. walk further. see further.

c mon ai ling!!!

i am so tired.

things have been goin a bit wrong.

i keep tellin myself. the beauty of all shit coming together is- things can only go better now.

i am hoping i have not collapsed myself before the silver lining comes looking for me.

expectations are heavy. i am trying to hold the weight.

somone tells me "only if u feel the shit now u can see how great u have been when things come true". maybe.

somone else tells me. "ai ling don u dare stop laughing and having fun. ur laughters are the best in u"

n somone who has cared so much about me told me he dreamt i had a realli bad time. tat i wasnt happy. and he was worried about me. how unbelievable dreams can b. wadever it is. ai ling wanna tel u, ai ling has grown up. ai ling is stronger now. don worry about me. you are always a great man. a great shelter. a great everything.

and i believe laughters maybe is the best thing in me.

i wil stil smile no matter wad shit comes.

u deserve to be happy. luck will come bac one day.

one of those days again.

tuesday. i dread tuesdays because of the paeds outreach. im not particularly good with children. and my very first patient was a bit of a pain. i was traumatised. n it takes like 45 mins on the bus to reach the place. n if i hav something in the morning in dental hospital i will have to have lunch on the speeding bus. anyway, after tuesday i always always feel such a relief.

n today started with radiology interpretation. it was like such a long long long session. my dear kiran was yawning on a minutely basis beside me. n it was infectious. very soon me n other people started doin the same thing. at one point i was carried away. the tutor was talking about trauma and kept showing us some posh radiographs (posterios anterior, occipitomental n wadever while my brain contains not very much more than simple periapical and bitewings). then a coffee break. i thought i might be ok after tat. the seminar went on with cysts. omg cysts AGAIN. she was showing thousands of slides and i was sure most of the people knew the answers but no one was bothered enough to answer anything. it was 12.15 when we finished and kiran n i woke up and rushed to wythenshawe for paeds. lunch on the bus again.

so, i kept on telling kiran that i wasnt in the mood for children. why were we so attached to the course. thats really no way we could skip the session cause the poor kids with toothache will be left alone. its not like u can sleep in and skip your lectures. u are the dentist and they are the patients. you just need to turn up no matter what.

then sure enough, things went a bit wrong. my 3 years old patient needed a fluoride prescription and i was quite sure it was 500micrograms for kids of tat age. then i started writing:

sodium fluoride 2.2mg (fluoride 1mg)tablets
500micrograms a daily
to be chewed or sucked.

thinking the pharmacist will divide the tablets into halves for the patient, i happily asked for signature from the tutor. then the tutor came in n i just got really really really screwed. "how could u just randomly write things?!" well i wasnt really randomly writing anything. i really thought the tablets only came with 1mg fluoride and nothing else. n doctors in malaysia always always split the pills and ask me to take half or one and a half. then i tried to explain but she was really really mad and started scribbling on the prescription sheet.

sodium fluoride 500 micrograms tablets
to be chewed or sucked.

well it still didnt make a difference to me. if u can split the pill n if it will come up the the same amount of fluoride whats the big deal then? u have to be flexible sometime in life dont u?

then she started saying "what were u doing when i was doin the induction? i told u all!". so i went like"mmmm on induction day, u were not around." i supposed i said the wrong thing again. she was like well shdnt u already know this thing anyway. ok ok. my fault.

n then. next patient. a small cavity was done on the E and she asked me what would i use to fill it. so i went like, since its small n shallow and its on primary tooth, i would use GIC. then she went like "NO, COMPOMER with GIC lining!". i didnt quite get it why. i was confused the whole day. then the patient was having a few cavities and the tutor was tellin the mom the gal had a good mouth n wont need to come back---->i was ultimately confused. i confirmed with her again if the patient didnt need to come back and she was like "no". then the patient was about to leave and she was suddenly saying, "heyy i was just thinking, your gal has got a few holes so i think u shd come bac." well, i was like zzZZzzzz.

then a mom came in with a very very cute little gal. they are from philipine. n my nurse was tryin to be very nice and friendly. and the conversation was, to me, just so hilarious.

nurse: heyyy so hows your Xmas and new year?
mom: oooo, i celebrate chinese new year n it is on 26th jan.
nurse: really? chinese new year?
mom: yea cause im chinese we have our calendar.
nurse: oooo...so when is your Xmas then???
mom: mmmm....well...25 dec...

hahahhahah tat was just funny. tat made my day. kinda wiped away the shitty things from the whole day.

i was laughing on the bus with liam, farah and kiran and they went on talking about carrot-and-stick stuff. i am hte carrot and kiran is the stick in this partnering business. it was a good laugh.

shitty day. but really, when i step out from the hospital, i don bring the shit home. life is more than just dentistry isnt it?

winter trip (1) BudaPeSt.

i m very very lazy to blog. but im know if i don do it still, it will never get done. i have so much to say and the trip was good fun. so i m squeezing my very last bit of energy here at the end of the week to blog. and omg. i m so tired right now.

if i can describe the trip with one word. tat will be COLD. it was so freezing cold in europe that when i stepped my foot in england i felt that i would never ever complain this place is cold again. no joke. i was arming myself with clothes layer after layer but once we stepped outside we were shivering crazily. it was COLD.

so budapest. i heard it was beautiful and cheap. mmm maybe pounds drop, it wasnt particularly cheap. it was cheaper in prague when i went there 2 years ago. but again, maybe because pound is dropping. and people like us who survive on the government donation really feel the impact of the rotting economy. n mmm...budapest wasnt ugly, it was just not really up to my expectation. i was expecting a fairy-tale city, a place so beautiful you would think u are in a dream. so well it was ok. just maybe not on top of the list.

the parliament was like a painting. the first sigh of budapest wasnt too bad =)

the fisherman's bastian. they said u never visit budapest without seeing this. mmm i wonder y?
the coldness was killing us. my ears were frozen at one point. and my gloves were useless. i felt so naked. as soon as we saw the market we rushed in to get something to arm ourselves. tat hat was amazing, otherwise i would now walk around earless, seriously.

chain bridge. my nose was leaking like a tap. the coldness was ultimate.

spent some time in the palace and got lost inside.

hero square. it was so cold that we decided to do some exercise. jump jump jump. it was a fun square. we generated some heat. for a while it was a little warmer.

we kept saying this is like the brandenburg gate in germany. look so alike. anyway, we couldnt stop playing with it.

follow me home. i will love u like my baby.

ok now ladies and gentlemen. let me introduce u to the wolrd largest hourglass!!! it will be turned over at the end of each year. noreen read about in on the internet and insisted we should give this impressive huge piece of thing a visit.
so tak-daaaaaaaa, world biggest hourglassss!!!! ok ok dont cheyyyyyy first. look at the next one.

it is this BIG.

budapest did make me feel at home at a point... because i found my car there! ok dream on.


tats one thing i must mention about our trip to budapest----->the food. they were all, i mean all SALTY. noreen the medical student kept on saying she was really curious about the fugure of hypertension in hungary. n beetee kept on saying "wei salt here no need to pay isit?!"
i saw this stall n rushed there to get something to munch. so happy. not till i bit on it. omg this thing was possibly the saltiest thing i have ever ever ever put into my mouth. so damn geli. yakkkkkkkkkkkkkk.


have faith. maybe dessert wont be tat bad. we went into this lovely shop and omg their cakes all looked soooooooooooooo yummy. n three of us got something to taste. n people, u really hav to believe that looks can be deceiving, for those cakes were really the worst cakes we have tasted. even those pandan cakes in pasar malam are way better.

then we found this chinese fast food shop. omg saviour. so far we see chinese food in every single european country we hav been to. they are our hope really. cheap n yummy.

the night was even colder. changed my useless gloves with beetee to go on.

statue of liberty.

the night budapest was a bit silent. high up in citadel it was a bit empty. i said couples there are blessed with a nice place to date.

after 2 days in budapest, noreen was heading back to liverpool. me n beetee continued our way to the next stop, vienna.

08 Xmas

before i say anything, people, please offer your help. we really need a hand from u in this. if u spread your voice it will mean so much. thank you.

SpREad RumOuRsss!!!!!!!!!!!!!! scandalousssss!!!!

so, Xmas in manchester. it was nothing like wad u see in movie- bright lights, happenings streets and crowd; it was just all empty and soulless.

still, not too bad, yipei cooked. we had a small party. oliver came to steal a lot of cutleries from my place. the night was actually quite warm. i was just wearing a jacket n a small t-shirt n was sweating a bit. oliver said it was warm but he was all wrapped up. zzz.

n ta-daaa, party started.

our two strong korean mates wif fancy nails; forgive them, they were dressing as women for the Xmas party the night before. quite disturbing but quite cool.

cut cut cut. eat eat eat.

hello. tats my yoyo. stop looking oliver!

so cute. just like kids.

smile for the coming calories and fats!

yum yum.

merry Xmas!