Melbourne

Thanks to the the ad they put around train stations, I get to know it's only 11 days till the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.. not that we'll have time to go to any events this year but the program is indeed rather impressive. Shame most of the events I wanted to go are sold out anyway.. better luck next year, if I can stand the Aussie accent till then.. just why can't Aussies say "sIck" properly?!

Little did I know there are at least 20+ Farmers Markets in Melbourne...so.. even if we go to one every month...

After we've exhausted all the eateries in near-by Glen Waverley I guess we'll turn to this website for more inspiration.

In the mean time, Dani's kitchen is the best.

..that internal medicine is much more than a job..

Is internal medicine much more than a job? may be this New York blog will inspire you to think it is. I myself haven't read it yet.

Having just started my research based job here in Melbourne, our job is currently our life. Forget Valentines day, forget Chinese New Year.. there were really no real celebrations on the Sunday just passed. Very sad really. It's our first CNY away from home and our greetings to my folks on this all important date on the calendar lasted a little more than 30 seconds over the phone. Pathetic really.

In the middle of all this endless "researching" using Ovid/PubMed and of course google now, my hidden spiritual curiosity guided me to this website, looks good, punchy title at least. http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/ Have I read it yet? Save for later.

Tribute to Pauly Fuemana

Apart from being the man who "broke cultural barriers and put South Auckland on the map for all the right reasons.", I have many reasons to feel sad that the singer of "How Bizarre" died, among which..

- I was a Seventh Former in 1995, they just started to call it Year 13. We have a new common room for "seniors" at St Peters just the year before. How Bizarre was playing all day long there.

- I started using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to get on interent.. people still buy CD, as burning an audio CD takes about 45mins on an 1x CD burner.

- In 2006, I got into medicine. How Bizarre.

South Auckland lost one of its greatest sons on 31 Jan, 2010.