Good Bye 2011

It certainly had not been a great end to 2011. My beloved United managed to get their collective underpants in a twist and got ourselves beaten by Blackburn at home. The squad was clearly ravaged by injuries but that should not have been an excuse as Blackburn was languishing at the bottom of the table, and were thumped 7-1 last season at Old Trafford. What a way to celebrate Sir Alex's 70th birthday!

So, it is half past eleven. 30 more minutes before 2012 enters the horizon, quite literally. 2011 had been a great year for me on a personal level. It was a year of transition. I had decided to take the bull by the horn and made some major changes in my life after a huge opportunity was offered to me. Those who knows me personally would be able to tell what I meant.

Right after the football match, I flipped through the movie channel - in frustration - just in time to catch the opening title of the movie "Watchmen". The some on the title was a Dylan classic - happened to be one of the late Steve Jobs' favourite song - "The Times They Are A-Changin'". An appropriate sone to end this transition year of mine I thought.

"Come writers and critics, who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again
For the wheel's still in spin, and there's no telling who
For its namin' for the loser now, will be later to win"

"The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
The slow one now, will later be fast
As the present now, will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin', and the first one now will later be last"

Beautiful. Happy 2012. Alhamdulillah.

Calendars

I wish that my Day Care clinic desk is bigger. Why? Because I got too much stuffs on it. All the blood forms, patient notes and other utensils. I'll probably buy another cabinet just for my research materials at the rate I was going.

As for this morning, I had another things to content with. Calendars. Ee were talking loads of them. It was January and of course, one of the ways the Pharmaceuticals wanted to entice us Doctors were to give freebies such ad calendars and diaries. I had 7 calendars on my desk today. I ended up giving away all of them since I prefer wall charts to on desk calendars. I keep a digital diaries however on my iPhone.

If I see another Pharma agent handing me a calendar, I'd probably do insane!