Inspiration

Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me

And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street

My corner . . . . . . . . . . . 
=)

Brunch with Style

In my 2 week rotation in inpatient peds, I met this Sub intern who tells me everything about this place called "Sabrina's" and promoted it so much, that the curiosity got the better of me. 


Exploration TIME!!!!

I know these few days it's all about food food and food. But that's all I've been doing. Getting fat fatter and fattest (sorry broken english there but can't help it).

The menu

My verdict based on first impression : Lovely. This place reminds me of BonBon in Msia. A nice neighbourhood house converted into a cafe serving breakfast/brunch. Well we always see Americans in TV show do brunches for dates. This is a typical morning/noon place. I like it.

Food!!

Mandatory Caffeine. I've become a caffeine junkie. 

Humongous oversized portion of omelet. 

Diabetic french toast. 

Way to start the day with an unhealthy brunch. 

I loved Sabrina's, except I am too guilty about my caloric intake to be going there often. 

Shelfs on Friday again. Yeapz it's been six weeks liao. Time sure flies. I don't wanna leave peds rotation for ob!!! Sobs. 

A good break

The labour day weekend was a really good break for me. Never actually realise how good a public holiday was until you are actually working.

Lovely neighbourhood street. Nice day to be outdoors.

Plus, the art museum in Philadelphia is free every first Sunday. No prize to guessing where we went for our weekend retreat!


To start the day, Queen and I decided to get our hair cut. It's been ages since I had my hair back in tidy length instead of messy uneven strands flying all over. And then, we had dim sum like typical tai tai's. We were easing into our advancing age man. Met like a gazillion people at the dimsum place it was scary.


And then, we walked to the Schuykill river. Beautiful place. Great for jogging and cycling (but I don't do either).

 Looks so beautiful!

Self shot - win (Queen mata sepet)

Shiny Water!

Okay we reached the art museum at 4pm, cos we were so busy savouring sunlight and enjoying the nice breeze outdoors and taking pictures. Museum close at 5pm. But its okay, it's free every first Sunday of the month can come back next month.

Museum main entrance 

Cloister with Elements from the Abbey of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines from France. Source : *click for link*

Turkish exhibition

Pillared Temple Hall, Tamil Nadu, India. Source : *click for link*

Modern art. ( I personally don't understand modern art. It's a few piece of metal, or soil, or a shattered pieces of glass stacked together, and they claim it to be art)

The Thinker, France. Source : *click for link*

The Four Seasons (Winter, Summer, Spring, Fall), Belgium. Source : *click for link*

Young Girl, France. Source : *click for link*

Towards the night, we had dinner at Twenty Manning. A restaurant is kinda posh to me. Lolz.

Ordered turkey burger.

Yummm. Alright. Thats it for now. 

Hari Raya in Philadelphia

A while ago,we were taking a bus from Market street ready to go to Temple for a Malaysia Hari Raya gathering. Yeaps. There is a Malaysian community in Temple (mostly Malays though). And mostly JPA scholars. 


So since there wasn't enough space to fit all 7 of us into a senior's car, me and Zhi Ven have to take the bus. Urgh, really hated the bus wait. The bus was half an hour late, and there was this lady with long dirty blonde hair carrying 3 huge bags, wearing long floral skirt which looks dirty, and was shouting into a non-functioning phone to a non-existing police man about someone stealing her purse (which probably is non-existing either).  Then next to me there is this dirty looking guy trying to tell me the lady is crazy. And when I ignored him, he walked over to tell 3 other random strangers that the lady is crazy. And he pissed of this security guard so bad she was shouting at him to leave her alone with lots of profanities. 


And 10 feets away, was this guy wearing a body hugging green shirt pole dancing with the lamp post.


This is Philadelphia after 5pm for you. 


Sometime I resent being sent here. I wished TJU was in Miami or NYC or Washington at least. Or maybe every city in America is full of weird schizophrenics and drug abuse homeless people sleeping in subways making the train station smell like pee. 


And just a few days ago I was telling my resident how firearms and guns should be made illegal here. Then America will be a much safer place to live in. For now, I'll just avoid going to ghetto places.


Anyways, back to Hari Raya. Apparently there is a Malaysian community association thingi in Washington DC, and the Malaysian Malay community is pretty tight here. Did not knew that. What I heard is that, the community used to be a  scholar thing strictly, until one year there were 3 Malaysian that died in America, 1 a scolar, 2 others not-government funded, and only the scholar's body was sent back. So the families of the other 2 were pissed, saying that Malaysia government only care about their scholars and not the Malaysians in general. So now they are keeping in touch with non-scholars too. Like me. 


Which is why I got the invitation for their Hari Raya thing. 


No pictures though, because it was dark and I was busy eating nice Malay/Pakistan food and making new friends. But it was kinda familiar being surrounded by a lot of Malays again, with them in their new baju kurungs and all.


Alright. Wordy post ends here. 

I'm a big big girl in a big big world

My two girl hamsters have not been getting along well. Little Ferr is too aggressive and hates it when little Furee intrude her space. And they will end up in a life to life battle. Kinda scary. Came home one day and found blood on little Furr's paw. 

So I had to make a really tough decision. To buy a new cage for little Ferr? Or to give little Ferr away?


It was a super hard choice. It took me 2 days to decide (in which little Ferr stayed in my Adidas shoe box)

I wanted to keep her for sentimental reasons. I had her since she was 4 weeks old, and now she's almost 2-3 months old. But then again, I already have 2 hamster cages in my room. If I get one more, it'll start to look like a pet shop. 


I had to do what I needed to do. 





See how violent they get when they fight. They will punch each other non stop.


I had to give Ferr away.

It was a tough decision. I almost cried when I left her at the pet shop. I wanted to turn back and take her back home again. I was really on the verge of getting another cage. Ready to spend more money and effort on her.


But my conscience took over the better of me. It was not practical.

So goodbye cute little Ferr. Mommy had to give you away because you were being naughty. I hope you find another good mommy that will love you endlessly and give you a nice big home with a big wheel to run in. And loads of sunflower seeds since it is your favourite. But do eat your fiber pellets too please, they are good for you.


I will miss you a lot. 

You were made for big things. 
You were created for a purpose.
God bless you.

Naked Bike Rides

Imagine walking out on the streets one fine day, and then a naked person riding a bike just waves at you. In Malaysia, what happens is that there will be a report to the police about sexual harassment, and the poor biker spends the night in jail. Or, the person will be diagnosed with paraphilia and goes to Tanjung Rambutan.


Imagine 10 naked person riding on a bike. The jail will be ten times more crowded. Or Tanjung Rambutan will be ten times more crowded.


Imagine 500 person. Malaysia jail can close down liao. And Namewee will sing a song about police arresting the rights of people to go naked. 


Last Saturday, Philadelphia held a awareness event for fuel consumption, and also for bike riding safety. Or something like that. It was called the annual "naked bike ride". Now about 500 (my rough estimation) people where riding naked on the streets of Philadelphia, for a good 2 hours as well. This is something in which will NEVER happen back home.


So, the participants gathered at Lemon Hill before the official ride started. And being naturally a busy body, and pretty hyped up about these rare events, the 3 of us girls where slowly walking our ways to see naked people gather. It was indeed interesting.

What we actually saw from afar was a lot of people slowly stripping down to their underwear. And of course, some brave souls actually stripe all the way. Well, it was a great display of body shapes I think. No comment on that. 


My only question is, won't it hurt the guys a lot to ride naked?

This is a panoramic view of the gathering. Do click on the picture to actually see the massive amount of people. They look like little ants from afar actually. But click on it and you'll see how naked they are. 

Queen too happy until fainted. 

I shan't post too many pictures cos I don't want to display boobs and penis on my blog. But I shall post one conservative one for all to see where there are no boobs or penis display. Lolz. 

If you wanna see more pictures, go to their website *clicks*


Interesting weekend indeed. 

I miss me hair. Sobs

I was browsing through some old pictures and was reminiscence the lovely past, and one thing I miss a lot apart from the Sailing Dancing Cheerleading Family Friends Malaysia blablablablablablablablabla . . . . . . is my lovely LONG COLOURED HAIR.


Man. I want my long brownish red hair back. I don't like my current black-dull hair colour. Sigh.

December 2007. The second time I got my hair coloured. 

The reason why I have my hair coloured back jet black colour was because I didn't want ugly black roots to sprout on top of my head while I am in America. It cost a ton to get them touch up here. So I figured having my hair black would be the easiest option. It is the easiest option. But I don't like it. Sigh. I like the browny hair better.

May 2008. My reddish hair for my birthday celebration.

June 2009. Hair still a lovely shade of brown.

I am really tempted to go home and have my hair turn brown again this coming December. But it's not a wise idea because, it will COST A BOMB to have the roots maintained. So black hair I guess. Sob sob

Black hair me for the next 2 yrs. With a cute little hammie!