"chuchu says ... hi!"

i'm starting to get the hang of A&E this week... getting more used to the idea of people coming in for stupid reasons, looking (or pretending to be, if you have to say) more professional in front of things i am not familiar with, and feeling more comfortable in looking at fractures and gross things like messed up flesh and fish bones in the throat (imagine the big smile on my face when i extracted the fish bone out of their throat with a long pair of forceps myself! such satisfaction, hehe!). it isn't too bad really, i enjoy talking to indian and parkistani little children and looking into their throats and feeling the babies' tummies :) and i'm also enjoying going home after work not having to dream about their problems every night, feeling free and light walking back home in the fresh autumn breeze.

so life is finally starting to take good shape...

tonight i'm back at my parents' home again after having dinner with sharon and brian in taikoo shing. it feels so good to talk like how you wanted without much reservations. you know in this world where people are so frightened of saying wrong things or saying anything truthful to one another, where true friends are rarer than diamonds... to have real friends is one of my biggest blessings in life. and i'm glad i have them!!

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did i mention i finally bought a pink Nike yoga mat earlier? i started to have this plan of doing some yoga everyday. of course that didn't happen, i ended up sitting in a yoga position on the mat one day and started my medicine revision. well, not a bad thing isn't it? funnily enough, i'm now more used to having myself at home without anybody else. i don't feel lonesome finally. i know why god gave me the challenge that i hated so much after coming to tuen mun, but it made me realise the significant difference between 'gesture' and 'love'. although i still think i'm full of love i only began to learn now that someone could have just given me gestures all that years. it's sad but at least i now know.

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um, do you think i should bring my newly bought sketch book to bangkok to do some sketching of the temples? i think my companion might decide to go off somewhere else if i do that... in fact i am only learning to draw flowers now, how will that take me to drawing temples, i wonder? oh yes, are you interested in seeing my flower drawings?

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my parents bought a DVD recorder for themselves after i had bought mine, and they are now recording the tapes that they made on their 1st trip to england, that is to say when i was 17 and still at sherborne, where daffodils grow in early summer and there is the greenest grass and freshest frost in winter! my mother said to me tonight, that i looked so sweet and innocent in the video, in my school uniform with short straight hair :) haha, i cannot wait to see them. next time i'll play it at my place when my friends come to visit. that will be really funny...

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ok, enough for tonight. i'm gonna have an 'electronic-free' evening tonight reading 'A simple path: the Life of Mother Teresa"....

night and take care on this breezy and lovely autumn night. oh how much i have fallen in love with autumn, you can just never have guessed why...
betty