~Aaron~

Harrods:

Been working here at for quite some time. Tired…but rich.Hehehe. My last at day at work was of a mixed feeling - happy that I finally finished doing ‘low’ jobs; sad that I’m going to such a wonderful work environment, since everyone there including the my bosses, are reeeeaaally nice! I thoroughly sincerely enjoyed myself working there, and I might consider working there in summer (if don’t have any plans yet). They are soooooooooo sweet, getting me a BIG farewell card on my last day.

I was already offered to work there as sales assistant twice but I had to reject both. First one, because it’s a full time job, and that’s definitely impossible for as a student. Second one, although a part time offer,demand 20 hours a week which are spread to 5 hours a day,including weekdays,will not fit my time table. It’s still possible if I want it badly, but not worth it considering the travelling  time from Whitechapel to Knightsbridge. Two good offers, end up being rejected. I must place my priorities right. My studies come first; and not that I’m desperate for money (although extra money can be used to do more shopping!HAHAHHAHA).

A quick fact: Harrods is 7 floors up….and 7 floors below ground; a dog couple got married in Harrods..their owners paid 1 million pounds for the wedding ‘gowns’, which were encrusted with diamonds! Wah, this people had so much money!

Cardiff:

Cardiff was lovely!!!!!!!!

Trauma conference:
It’s an excellent conference that I attended. Made me have that ‘ER’ feeling when attending the conference, especially during the practicals sessions with firemen- saving road traffic accidents vicitm demo(which I myself did too), suturing, cricothyroidtomy and chess decompression (not sure of the correct terms). Then the lectures were really cool too.

They had sparked my interest in specialising in trauma medicine, esp max fax. Just amazes me how max fax (and plastic surgeons) can reconstruct and restore body parts that are almost mutilated by all sorts of accidents. But I am aware of the intense pressure that one has to face during such times of emergency. I guess I have quite a good tolerance level to that. But once beyond that,I’ll just switch - feeling helpless and and really at lost of what to do next. Furthermore, it will be a huge mess when I first see the victim, and I’m suppose to be one to be in-charged of handling the situation.

Bloody gory but interesting.

p/s there was lucky draw for this conference.and guess what!? I won tickets for two to the London Eye!

Les Miserables:
It was an extremely lucky offer that I got when I purchased the tickets to watch Victor Hugo’s play "les Miserables". That time it was on offer by London Underround (company which handles London public transport system) - 2 tickets for the price of 1. So, Pei Chia and I bought the most expensive seat (!) and each of us only need to pay 25pounds (the original price was 50pounds each!)! And I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally loved the show! Was ToooTAlly blown away! It’s like….woah!!! It’s worth it! Even if I were to pay for the full price, I would still be very satisfied with the outstanding performance quality shown. I don’t mind watching it again!

The Godfather
I have been reading quite a number of books and right now, I’m indulging my with Mario Puzo’ s "The Godfather". Basically it’s a story about the mafia group of Don Corleone. I learnt modus operandi of the mafia group in great details through this book. And I really admire Don Corleone because he’s damn powerful - influential,prudent,rich and respectful.Hm…if only I’m soooo like him.

learning
to love without expecting.

learning
to laugh without crying.

learning
to dream without slipping.

learning
to dance without tripping.

learning
to live without complaining.

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to play and not go astray.

learning
to jump and not fall.

learning
to give and always give.

learning
to breathe, chill and never fret.

learning
to fight and never die.

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to forgive and be happy.

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to understand contradictions, failures and heartaches.

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to keep my head when all is lost.

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to smile and always smile even when its raining.

Only now I realised that it’s been a looooooooong while since I updated my blog. Guess I’m too busy with work at Harrods (guess what, they liked me; they extended my contract until mid of next month!)

During the summer sales it was busy down there at Harrods, but now, it’s kinda boring, but it’s relaxing I guess. But all I care, I got some spare cash to burn!Oh ya forget to tell: the other day there’s this competition between different departments at Harrods and my dept became champion: guess what each people (including me) in the dept got: a Harrod’s GBP60 voucher!!! (p/s To my ex-flatmate Zul who before this tried ceaselessly convincing me to go back instead spending 3 months in UK for summer hols, I have a message for you : It’s worth it staying here! ngehehehehe)

So what else had I been doing apart from working? Well, nothing much, since I worked five out of seven days in a week; and sometimes more if I do overtime. But when I’m free, I settled quite a number of things like settling bank stuff (change address,which is pain coz my flat is flat ‘o’, and this predictably can also be misunderstood as ‘zero’), sending JPA result, (still)looking for a good gym, hunting for price-slashed designer clothes shops (when they slashed, it can as much as 70%!), planning holiday trip to Netherland, Belgium and Ireland. Btw, I visited Anuar at Cardiff too!

My travel: Like I said I visited Anuar over the weekend at Cardiff. Cardiff is lovely, man! I want to go there again! Next stop is gonna be the European countries. ‘Netherland (a.k.a Holland), Belgium….and suddenly IRELAND?’ you may ask. Well, I’m going to Ireland to go to Gallway and Belfast - places which I didn’t manage to go on my first visit during easter - to visit my exclassmates there and do a bit of sightseeing. One spot not to be missed is Cliff of Moher.Oh yeah! On the hand, I’m planning to spend bout 3-4 nights at Europe to check Amsterdam (hehe),and since Belgium is just like an hour by bus from Amsterdam, I said to myself ‘why not, visit there too?"And I want to see windmill too. Great things looking forward to after I stop working!

And now, just one more month to Year 2 medicine MBBS course…and just 4 more months before I go back home !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!