Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Great Manchester Run - Thanks!!!

On 20th May, I completed my first charity run! It is only the 2nd time in my life I run 10km, the 1st one was a practice few days before the real run! haha... 1:01:24 is not a great time, but not bad for a first timer I think.

Thanks to everyone who has either sponsored or supported me. I had a great day. Good exercise and 200 pounds for charity. Great!

Just to prove that I actually completed the run, here are some photos and the certificate. The photos are only thumbnails as these pictures are taken by the official photographer and they charge a fortune for the full size pictures and I refuse to pay.


Thursday, April 12, 2007

Cornwall Trip

The easter weekend was fantastic! Great weather and I have a great trip to cornwall! For those who do not know, Cornwall is a county at the southwest of England. I heard a lot about it and this is the first time I actually visited the place. Sunshine, nice beaches, beautiful farm houses, delicious fish and chip, scenic walk........ I can go on and on. I don't really like to write, let the pictures do the talking......








Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Trip to London

I had a very good trip to London last weekend. I spent 2 nights there and met up with many friends. Also some really nice food too..... fabulous Thai duck curry, dim sim on a floating restaurant and Singapore laksa!

Unfortunately I did not bring my camera with me. So have to wait for my friend to send me some photo.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

UK Specialist Training Recruitment in Chaos

This has become so ridiculous that I think it is worth a mention here. It is too complicated for me to explain it. It is well covered in the news. See links below. These are just a few of many articles.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/02/nhs02.xml

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=440521&in_page_id=1774

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/08/ndocs08.xml

And this little nice cartoon on the Telegraph.

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Weekend Manchester Trip

I went up to Manchester for a friend's birthday party. I had a really good time. Lots of good food and met lots of friends. It is nice to be back there again.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

The Year of Golden Pig!

Today is the first day of chinese new year. We went down to Chinatown for celebration. Not a bad celebration I have to say. Lots of people and good performances! I am most impressed by the lion dance. Althought it is done by caucasians, it is actually really good!



Thursday, February 15, 2007

Depressing News - Doctor Died

A Pakistani doctor who challenged the legality of changes in immigration rules requiring foreign doctors and dentists to obtain work permits has died. A High Court judge, upholding the new rules, said Dr Imran Yousaf, who had run up huge debts after failing to get a UK job, took his own life.

My deepest condolence. May he RIP.

More news can be found at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/09/ndoctors109.xml

Friday, February 9, 2007

Too much!

I had been asking for snow and now I am getting too much! It snowed very heavily this afternoon for hours and it caused massive chaos on the road! Some people took 4-5 hours to get home and some people had to abandon their cars! It was really dangerous as my car was sliding all over the place on the road. As the traffic was so heavy, I decided to catch a movie at a cinema beside the hospital. Although the movie (Goal 2) wasn't that good, I did get the clear road after the movie! haha....

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Snow of the Winter!

This morning we have the heaviest snow this winter! It is still snowing now! Althought I have been here for few years now, snow still excites me. It is a nice change in scenery. Sad thing is I have to go to work now. Damn.



Just want to show you a few pictures taken outside my house.

Monday, February 5, 2007

Freezing freezing!


Today's weather forecast. Doesn't look good, does it?

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Chinese New Year coming!

It has been few years since I last celebrated Chinese New Year away from home. This is my first year in Birmingham and apparently there will be a celebration event in the Arcadian Center on Nian Cu Yi. Hope it will be good. I walked past the Acardian Center earlier and there are some decoration up there already!

Monday, January 29, 2007

Public Transport

Since I bought my car, I rarely use public transport. Today I decided to take public transport to hospital. I was pleasantly surprised by the efficient public transport system in Birmingham! It was quite easy to find the way and the bus and train I took were both on time! The only thing is that it is not cheap though. Today I spent about 5 pounds. I think it is quite a bit for public transport. But I guess people who use public transport regularly will have some sort of saver card which makes it cheaper.

Now I am seriously considering the option of not driving to work. The heavy traffic sometimes does make me crazy. Time to check out the price of some sort of saver card or regular travel card, whatever it is called here.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

The Secret

Out of curiosity, I went to The Secret website and watched The Secret video yesterday. It is an interesting video and what it shows does make some sense. Do you want to know what is it? I can not tell you... it is the secret!

If you are interested, check it out http://thesecret.tv/. You need to pay to watch it and just to be clear, I do not receive any commission from it.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

No Snow

Well..... hmm...... It did snow for about an hour last night. I knew that because I was awake till 1am. Not able to sleep. Woke up this morning and there is no snow left! Damn it! Can't believe my friend in London got more snow than me. You wait and see... it will be my turn next time.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Snow, Golf, Duvet

Just a few things to share..... nothing mega....

Think about Golf. Have been practising for a while now, still not much improvement. May be I am not working hard enough or may be I am doing the wrong thing. Time to get a lesson I think.

It is forecasted to snow tonight. Hopefully I will see some snow tomorrow morning. So that I can take a picture and post it here. The only reason is to make my friend in London jealous..... haha.... don't think it will snow there.

You know how I can tell if the temperature falls below zero without looking at a thermometer and news? Well..... I have a reasonably good duvet. It is not the best or thickest one as I do not like it too warm on a warmer night. The one I have is good enough for anything above zero degree. When the temperature dips below that, I usually wake up in cold and have to put on more clothes! Poor me..... but it only happens few times a year. And when it happens, I know I have to wake up earlier to defrost my car!

Friday, January 19, 2007

My workstation


Feeling a bit bored at work today, so I was playing around with my camera phone. This is my little messy work station. Yes... there is no computer on my desk. There is one on my colleague's desk and it is not working!

Welcome!

Inspired by my friend who has a regularly updated and popular blog, I thought I want one too! I am usually not very good at writing and typing. So this is something challenging for me.

Hope this can last more than 3 days. (this is the max time I spend on any new project before moving on to something else, as I am so inpatience!)