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going to have a stadium that look like a PAN SAI TANG cover?

Someone clothes got cooked

hi everyone this is where I do my laundry, washing machine at the bottom and dryer on top. The silly dryer is damn ex, a dollar for only 15 min of drying time. Hardly enough time to dry anything at all!

I guess somebody was not too happy with the deal and must have pop a few extra dollar coins to extend the drying time.

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Little did he know that that will turn the dryer into an incinerator!

Burnt underwear!! ha!

alrite truth is, everyone got woken up up at 3am today by a burning dryer that set the fire alarm screaming away. Apparently someone (drunk???) must have attempted to dry his/her god knows what at the unearthly time (3am??) and turn the dryer into an incinerator! And so his/her god knows what got cooked big time. Police are still investigating the matter. Ridiculous!

--Darek Lam reporting live from brisbane queensland!!???

I also can Manip ok!

haha, some of you guys know that I am such a sceptic when it comes to manip and all the "feeling" kinda physio techniques. It's just that no one was able to convince me through the years.

BUT Some fantastic tutors here are starting to shift my mindset. Today I managed my first CRACK in a long time and my name is on the CRACK SCORE board too!

Hng! : )

too warm too cool

The weather is slowly changing as we approach autumn. I find myself craving the aircon in the afternoon and setting the air con to heated mode at night.

physio for U18 maggies

I am officially the physio for the under18 players. Quite a nice bunch of guys who are all being groomed for the first team. Less demanding than the first team, their game is also much shorter, still there are punches flying all over the place. Nice game, but I wouldn't play it! Sure kena bulldozed by the guys.

to gold coast and back

very proud of myself today.

managed to drive to the coast and back.

was there to cover a AFL game.

my "chng" racing wheel. Cool rite?

this view for 1 hr to and fro.

Relieved

After a flurry of calls, my dad convinced me that he is alrite now.

Immense relief.
Dr Gan said that ?TIA ?seizure ?source ?carotid? the question marks are not really useful, but the doctor was quite good to reassure me.

Thank you all for making this episode . . . so humane. Special thanks again to Uncle Tony, dear sheila, Kit, Jean and Megan, Dr Jimmy Ong, Yarli, Eileen, ppl at ward 15 and my dearest mom of course.

Dad doing his prescriped exercise by yours truely.. : )

u will be ok dad.

Sheila called today, and told me that Dad is in the hospital...

my heart sank.

TIA again i heard.

Dad says that everything is ok now and told me not to worry.

He is awaiting the MRI scan now.

Tomorrow I will call up the neuro Dr for an update.

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Thanks uncle Tony for sending him to the hospital.

Dad after taking the treadmil test in feb, just before I left. He aced it big time.

Speak Hokkien

Je kow da bor is Kevin, si taiwan kia, mah see tak physio masters eh. Gai yi gong hokkien waay see bei ho chio.

Translation: This is Kevin (the one to my left) from Taiwan, also studying Masters, really fun speaking hokkien to him!

Qi Jiao (Bird Feeding)

Was woken up by this bird chirping away in my balcony one day. It seem to be waiting for something. . .

The birdy in my balcony
Had a peep outside and saw brendan feeding the bird (its a Magpie, this one is the baby and doesn't have the adult's darker colouration).
These days a family of 3 will come at 730 am sharp and start demanding breakfast! These guys have since gotten used to us and would even wander into our rooms for their breakfast. Quite fun except for their POO POO.

Golfing

6th weekend!

I have been meaning to take golf lessons for ages, just needed someone to correct my technique and stuff. And I did! A$85 for 5 lessons and made a few more friends.

Found a driving range here as well. Quite a nice little public range with great views of the city.

Little ones having a go.
Just one lesson and some work on the wrist and my balls are so much straighter! Well done Darek!

Hai yang visits!

Haiyang and his wife pop by for a visit from Sunshine coast today. Really pure serendipity how we met... I was just walking home from the library and I spotted him across the road. Apparently, he was trying to contact me. How queer?!

We spent the afternoon sorting out my car registration and insurance while he got to reminisce about his times in UQ.

Mr Tan making sure my room is JCIA compliant.
Dinner was extremely satisfying with real RICE. We were joined by John, chap studying in UQ as well.

It's really nice to see a familiar face from home. Thanks mate.

Sherwood Magpies

As part of the curiculum, I have to be attached to a sports club. I chose this Aussie rule club called Sherwood magpies. Just about 10 min drive away, and the chance to see a crazy game... why not? Aussie rule (think it is spelt this way) is a mixed game of rugby, football and NETBALL! I have yet to figure the rules out???

BBQ dinner

Wah! not bad man. Outdoor BBQ dinner last saturday. Hey, cromwell college is pretty creative in keeping her residents happy.

Just for you hon.

Hey sweetie, i hired a plane to write a sky messge for you today. Hope you like it......

Damn the bugger spelled wrongly!!! i told him to stop and got my money back. Next time maybe.... hehe

Lao Pok Car

TA TA TAN! ok this is the car I should be getting (recommended by Dale Mason, one of the dean looking after my college) Looks and feel pretty decent and bargained it down to 2.2k. It is a Mitsubitshi Lancer '94 and has racing kit fitted.

test drive
Brendan kindly went down to inspect the car with me (he used to work at the mechanics, so he knows his stuff) Cheers mate, appreciate it.
Looks ok from the outside.

jingle bell jingle bell...................and 2 breathes

5th weekend here already. Times truely flies. Anyway 10 of us masters students spent this weekend together for our first aid certification. Interesting how the instructor can put so much animation into such a dry topic. For example, instead of counting the CPR 30 compression to 2 breathes cycle, he suggested singing jingle bells jingle bells instead. He reckon that will equate to 30 compressions! (just remember to sing it silently to yourself!)

Rubber mask to practise CPR on our dummies

Fauzan from sg! He is doing paeds though. Small world No.1 : he was the physio for sheila's cousin couple years back.

Aspi from the Philippines. Doing sports physio with me.

Small world No.2 Declan from Ireland, my schoolmate from Manchester Uni. Haven't seen him since 03 and here he is in Queensland!

Brooke

The rest of the gals (on the left is Wenjing from sg too, doing geri. On the right is Nessa from Ireland)

Formal Dinner

Every week we will all sit down and have a formal dinner, everyone dressed in gown and formal attire. Good time to sit down and meet everyone.

Ernest from Malaysia, thank goodness someone that can understand what i am saying without me rattling off in some accent.

Main course

Cheese platter...erhm....

Take picture take picture!

This morning I was woken up by a intercom system (who the hell put it there?) informing us to dress up and take group photo. Drowsy as we are, we got up in our shirts and tie for the shot. Here are some aftermath shots. Alistair (Chap next door)

Looking sharp heh?

Anyone watch Rocky already?

Yes Rocky Balboa. The last instalment! What a great way to end the series. Again, there are so many lessons to be learnt and still the best part for me is the line "there is no Tomorrow!!!" when rocky wanted to throw in the towel, someone shot that line into his head.

Cottage Mate!

Hey everyone, this is Brendan who live just 1 room away. Brilliant guy who homestudied man. Have to pretty darn disciplined if you ask me. Though 21, he speaks beyond his age, different from the rest of the 17 year old college kiddies.

What do you call a Boomerang that doesn't come back??

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Settling in quite nicely

I am paying shit loads for this room, which I am quite happy with. Nothing much to complain about with the attached toilet (cleaned once a week by a cleaner), fridge, air conditioner, balcony and tea making facilities.

Course mates!

It is quite nice to have a few course mates that you can talk to and reminisce about homely things. From the left Zhiqi (or Ziggy i think), yandao, Agnes and Joyce.

Zhiqi studied and worked in Oz for quite a while, Agnes is from TTSH and Joyce is from hongkong.

Andre is also from Hongkong and plans to continue working here once he complete his masters
We got together on one of the weekend and enjoyed a pint out in the sweltering Australian heat.