Four Years and Counting

It had been 4 years since I uploaded my first entry into this blog. The first real upload happened while I was contemplating the projects to do during my sabbatical, which hopefully would lead up into a PhD plan. It was way past midnight, in the bedroom in front of the laptop when everybody else had been fast asleep.

I decided, why not structure a blog. I had been hearing about SquareSpace, and decided to give that a go. The platform let me blog from anywhere, and I just caught the big from then on. And this would be my 1666th entry, just on this journal alone. Not exactly prolific but often work got in the way.

It was always great to be able to post up my own photos, document my travel, and after a few years look back at what was penned down. Certainly brought back great memories, and a few no too great ones. I had certainly aged a lot since then. I left the University, got my own practice, my boys all grown up. It formed my personal diary, and I felt I got a lot from the writing.

I hoped to be doing more traveling in the future, and enrich the blog with more tales. I wish that I could have more free time to do just that, but hopefully when we move into our new apartment, I would be able to cut down on the traveling time - for me time wasted on the road - and consolidate my other blogs, which I have a problem updating.

Here's to four more years. Cheers!

Fringing Apart?

I finally had time to catch up with the fourth season of Fringe, even though I had the DVD since the end of last year - a legal one this time. What spurred me was the fact that I managed to get episodes from the fifth - and final - season from my DVD peddler a couple of weeks back. Time to catch up ….

I was afraid that the series was doing an X-Files on me. It was getting way to personal in terms of plot lines. I prefer the Fringe team exploring the supernatural happenings, rather than talking about the new world order and invasion of alien beings. I want it to be kept real! The moment I found out that of of the main character was shot and then brought back to life, I started to doubt that the new season would be as good as the previous.

The same happened during the fourth season of Galactica when the story became personal - with the crew being grounded at a planet since Galactica ran out of fuel and there was mutiny amongst the crew. The plot started to become thin and at times excruciating. Once the Cylons found out about the new colony, Galactica packed up and started moving and the story then became interesting again. I think Sci-Fi should never take themselves too seriously when it comes to plot. You could turn to daytime soap opera for that ….

Well, I watched the final two-parter last night and it had enough hook for me to soldier on for the final season. Will start with the first episode tonight if I had the time ….

A Nice Weekend

It was a nice weekend in the end. After sorting out my patients in the ward on Saturday, we went to watch a movie at nearby Gardens. Jack the Giant Slayer it was. The boys enjoyed it. Which was the most important thing since we had a couple of movies to catch up on between the two of us without the kids. That would be for later.

A nice dinner followed, and then back to the apartment to watch United outplayed Norwich. Kagawa scored a hat trick, which was great. Bring on Real next. I felt asleep soon after the match ended.

Saturday was a really hot day for swimmingBut Sunday session was cut short due to lightningAfter the morning rounds, we went back to Gombak as there were prospective buyers came to visit our Cemerlang House. That took an hour. Next came the boys swimming lesson. It was cut short however due to lightning. A quick stop at the apartment, and then we returned back to Gombak after a nice weekend at the apartment.

I would be taking an extended weekend next week, and we were planning to head to Port Dickson. Our apartment there needed some repairs, so we had to find another place to stay. I was sure Puan Anita would come up with the arrangements.

Irfan's Flower

On the day I returned from the US, Irfan had been bugging me to help him plant some seeds he bought from Cameron Highlands the week before. He bought a handful of them, and planted everything the same afternoon.

After a couple of months, only the sunflower survived, but the pot it was planted into might be a touch too small. Would need to move it soon and plant it on a proper bed ......

The Boys Are Here

An unexpected surprise. Puan Anita and the boys joined me today at the apartment during my call. It looked like we would be spending the weekend there. The first time at the new place for the troupe.

Dinner was pretty simple. Take out from Chicken Rice Shop. But soon after, I had to head back to the hospital for an evening rounds of admission.

Looking forward to the rest of the weekend.