Christmas in Kuala Lumpur

Merry Christmas boys and girls!!!
December is a month of joy and love, and also a month for gathering...
The girls gather to go shopping, because the Year End Sale (YES) is everywhere in Malaysian shopping centers....
Family members gather together, because almost every friday in December is public holiday, Selangor's Sultan's birthday, Awal Muharam, Christmas and also the coming New Year 2010....
Friends gather together, for a short distance trip or foods, cuti-cuti Malaysia....
and the couples also gather together, as they always do.... ahha!

Still able to walk around major shopping centers nearby Kuala Lumpur, before my Orthopaedic (bone specialist) end of posting test, trying to add some shirts to my collections and also hers, before the sales end. Finished my test yesterday, went to 1 Utama trying to watch Avatar 3D but couldn't get tickets, sigh... and this was how I celebrate my Christmas eve.... haha! Quite stupid isn't?

Now I should bring you to walk around those shopping centers I have been to and enjoyed their Christmas decorations!

1) Sungei Wang Plaza, the stage looks not bad, got "POWER RANGERS JUNGLE FURY CHRISTMAS SHOWDOWN" nearby also!! used to be my favourite!

2) Berjaya Times Square, themed "Santa's Snowy Cottage", below the magnificent christmas trees are little gift shops selling present for you and your friends!

3) Pavilion KL, as it always been famous for, the "Royale Christmas 2009" had the most luxurious decorations I've ever seen!!

4) Starhill Gallery, simple decorations but still very gorgeous and arrogant. It was happened that I managed to see the cat walk show of "The Journey through Time III", the Asia's largest luxury watch and jewellery showcase, watched a musical drama at the same place also!

5) Sunway Pyramid, "Magnifique Christmas" is actually a French themed decorations! What a new experience...

Gigantic Stitch and beer bottles-built Christmas tree outside Sunway Pyramid

6) The Curve, "Bedazzled Christmas", the decorations and little angles that I loved the most, makes The Curve so pretty!! "Bedazzle" actually means to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light, what is the link between this and Christmas?? hmm...

The Walk @ The Curve, still filled with festival's mood... by the way, it was her birthday night! Happy birthday my dear...

7) Ikano Power Center, "Underwater Christmas", brand new theme and quite creative I would say, but mostly for children to enjoy... not as beautiful as last year's decorations.

8) outside e@Curve (previously known as Cineleisure Damansara), lucky we went there at night, the lighting was amazing!!

9) Tropicana City Mall, "Sparkling Christmas", the simplest decorations among all... some more it was quite quiet during weekdays...

10) "Glad Tiding We Bring" at The Gardens Mall, another luxurious experience!

11) Mid Valley Megamall, "Magical Christmas", the candles were floating around the castle... wow!

12) Last but not least, "A white lyrical Christmas" at 1 Utama, always been my favourite! Note the giant music box on the stage.

男孩与他的朋友

有一个男孩，因为小时候看得戏多，以为每个人都可以找到最好的友谊，即所谓的“称兄道弟”，有什么事情都有那兄弟出来帮忙解决，无所不谈。当然他也明白感情或友谊是建立在两个人的身上，所以双方都要付出，感情才会建立起来，因此，他都会全心全意付出诚意地对待某某人，如果那个人是可靠的。

生命中进进出出那么多人，男孩找到了一些他觉得可靠的人，希望他可以把自己当成兄弟，所以他就会尽全力的和那人维持关系，也希望他们的友谊永固。虽然没有拥有完全相近的嗜好，但至少希望可以和这个朋友分享与分担开心与不开心的事。希望有这个朋友愿意为自己的生日动动脑筋，帮自己庆祝生日。

渐渐的，相聚的日子越来越少了，每个人都要为了自己的理想而需要离开曾经一起相聚的地方，以后的日子虽然不能时常在一起了，可是男孩依然希望他们的友谊不会因分离而不被继续，希望时不时的电话和短讯，能够让朋友感到自己的关怀，让大家再约出来聚一聚，感情不散。

到头来男孩发现，原来他找到的那些人都不能像自己想象中那样，可以做最好的朋友。其中一人还说，原来当时他们可以那么好，是因为在班上坐在一起。男孩失望，因为他的诚意，换来的是肤浅的对待，他想，以后不能再那么容易让自己失望了，要带眼识人。

深沉的想一想，其实每个人都有自己生活的方式，最要好的那两个人，也不可能将所有的东西都付出来，就算是两夫妻都还有自己的生活空间，不对吗？男孩一向明白这个道理，从来没有要求太多，只是希望自己在需要的时候，对方能够及时伸于援手，明白自己的困难。他也知道，不能对某某人有太大的期望(expectation)，因为期望越高，伤害愈重，所以呢"when you expect nothing, then everything will be gift！"友谊也不应该有那么多期望与条件的；如果每个人都那么单纯的话，那世界会很美好！

Love changes everything

by Michael Ball

Love, love changes everything
Hands and faces, earth and sky
Love, love changes everything
How you live and how you die
Love, can make the summer fly
Or a night seem like a lifetime
Yes love, love changes everything
Now I tremble at your name
Nothing in the world will ever be the same

Love, love changes everything
Days are longer, words mean more
Love, love changes everything
Pain is deeper than before
Love will turn your world around
And that world will last forever
Yes love, love changes everything
Brings you glory, brings you shame
Nothing in the world will ever be the same

Off into the world we go
Planning futures, shaping years
Love comes in and suddenly all our wisdom disappears
Love makes fools of everyone
All the rules we made are broken
Yes love, love changes everyone
Live or perish in its flame
Love will never never let you be the same
Love will never never let you be the same

Newly learned song, share it here so that everyone can take care of his or her love and feeling, to live and to love with rationalism, and to appreciate the double blinded love relationship... so complicated right?? ahha!!

美罗，我们的家！

这一个我们曾经朝夕相对的地方
岁月，学业和工作逼使我们不得不离开这个安乐窝
什么时候有回来？让我们再聚一聚？

美罗大石山，已经没人去了，可是依然那么美！美罗真是山明水秀啊！

感恩我们依然在一起！

照片框住了当时的笑容，成了永恒的回忆！何时还要再回味？

Famous eve of the morning's Curry wantan mee

Once in while, we might do something crazily to make our life a little bit "different" despite a routine life we are having.

Last Saturday morning, I woke up at 5am just to purposely joined my friend to this famous curry wantan mee that have been having good reviews from many of my coursemates and other people. Reached there half an hour later, it was not too far from my campus, just that somebody woke up late and therefore we all had to wait for him.

When we reached there, the famous curry wantan mee was sold off!! Left over with meehun, mee, and kuey teow. We could not leave our stomach empty anyway, thus I ordered curry meehun to satisfy my stomach. Although the look of the curry meehun was not striking, but what was more attracting was the smell coming out from the little bowl and the pot full of curry at the stalls!! The tasty smell of the curry spices of the curry soup was also very different from the other curry soup that I tasted before, probably due to less coconut milk I think. The curry tasted so original and so tasty, yet not so spicy, really suitable for traditional chinese people like me, who can't bear spicy so much! ahha!

Looks spicy but not so spicy actually... with many ingredients in it: tauhu pok, minced pork, fish balls, and tauge.

thanks to Chuan Huan for taking me there and took this picture for me...

There also sell other types of soup such as "qing tang" and "gan lau" with combination of different noodles... KL style lar... Served with 2 sizes: large RM 4.20 and small RM3.80.

Interviewed the boss there why she wanted to operate her stall at such time when most people are asleep, she said this is the tradition inherited from her father and they have been selling this curry wantan mee more than 40 years, used to have a shop to sell their noodles but did not know how they ended up here. And she starts her business at 4am soon after she moves all the things to the place.

After coming back, few coursemates went there earlier at 3.30am and one said there had been lots of people queuing up before the stall was set up completely, waiting for the curry wantan mee... that's why lar it was finished when we reached at 5.30am... wow!! Wonder why so many people craving for this mee...

How to get there?? It's near Seapark PJ and the most apparent landmark is Maybank, once you get to Maybank the there will be few stalls in the middle of Jalan 21/22. Reminder, it is not opened on Sunday's morning!


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Can't be too grandiose

So long haven't been feeling depressed after finished examination. Today I just finished my psychiatric video test, hence my psychiatry posting is officially over. Whenever examination is over, normally people will respond it with a cheerful feeling because another examination is over, so do I, however, this time I really couldn't enjoy the cheerfulness, because I was so depressed.

Accoding to my coursemates who did psychiatric before, this is an easy subject and patients are easily manageable, and the examinations questions were always expected and very easy to answer, most importantly, many people could score A from this examination. I trust in it, as I also think this is not a though subject, and I expected myself to score A also, so long did not score A in any tests, as I am an average student.

After the written and the video tests, my mood dropped down so drastically, I even lost my temper (mildly), why they can asked so difficult questions and tricked us in the questions?? And for the video test, the patient was mumbling all over saying Malay that I could hardly understand, even my Malay colleagues also found it difficult to listen what she spoke. And she did not show signs of that particular diagnosis, which was mania. At the end, I diagnosed wrongly, and many of my friends did mention that it was again a though one and had different ideas about the diagnosis. Whatever it is, I had done my best and on few occasions, I was still blaming myself for not doing it as good as others who could diagnose it correctly.

I think I will no longer get A for this examination, will be very grateful if I can pass. I was so depressed, my mission was failed. Went out with her and 1 of my best friend, Min Min, and shared my sadness with them. Suddenly Min Min said "maybe you expected too much?" （你把目标放得太高了吧？）suddenly, I realized, it was me made myself suffered so much, I shouldn't compared myself to others who usually did well in all sorts of examinations, I can't be too grandiose! (grandiosity= inflated self esteem) When thinking from the other aspects, I did not put more efforts than usual to enable myself to score A, I just got prepared as little as I prepared for the other previous examinations. Do I deserve an A if I did not put enough in it?? I shouldn't have so stubborn （执着）, I should understand my level and if I wanted to achieve something, I should have planned better and even put more effort in it.

Thanks to her and Min Min. Hope my experience will not drag into next time and this can serve as a guidance for you in facing your similar problems. Sometimes people just can't be too grandiose, if not, you will suffer like a patient with bipolar mania!

It's not a pleasant Friday night

All these while i have been recording the pleasant or satisfactory moments in my life, but today, I am writing something quite usual, but the internal feeling is totally different.

Friday is my second favourite day in a week, after Saturday. Whenever it comes to Friday, no matter how much works I have on this day, I will have full of energy to finish them up quickly so that I can enjoy the pleasant night of Friday, waiting for the better Saturday.

It's all because of my incompetency, something should have done earlier, but I kept dragging it to the very last minute, and that's why I am suffering right now.

This is my second last week of my psychiatry posting, next Monday will be my end of posting test, not so worry about it as many coursemates who went through it said it is quite easy to score. Fine lets just believe what they say and I think I have quite good basic knowledge in this subject, hmm... shouldn't be a problem. Another matter is the 5 cases write up for the end of posting assessment, I just have submitted 1. Although I have already got cases to write on, but it took me 2 to 3 days to finish writing 1 case, as I was so distracted in writing the cases. While writing, I have to recall the story told by the patient, then started got into their story and analyzed what was actually happened to them, it was very very time and energy consuming.

Tonight, after my discussion with my study-group-mates, I came back again looking at this laptop, so stressed up and I have only 1 intention, which is to finish my works as quickly as possible!! Therefore no more enjoyment, unlike other Friday nights I usually have, that's why it's not a pleasant Friday night.

This morning, I went to 6th National Addiction Conference at Legend Hotel, learned something extra that we won't study ourselves, served with good foods, I felt so thankful, to my tutor who brought me there. However, this did not raise my interest towards psychiatry...