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  • Happy Chinese New Year!

    Posted on January 31st, 2006 dabao No comments

    I just had a fabulous weekend, went to Boston with VP, Narin and Jane, bought lots of Chinese food, saw Ron Artest’s first game with the Kings and ate dessert at the Top of the Hub. Then on Saturday, slept in, cooked dinner (nian gao) and had some classmates over for dinner and Cranium (fun game). I had a blast.

    It was a great way to kick off the year of the Dog. Happy New Year y’all!

  • Best Beef Noodles in Taipei

    Posted on January 18th, 2006 dabao No comments

    No name Beef Noodles

    # 15 Tao Yuang st. if you take subway

    the exit is next to train station , “West Gate’ exit 4-FarEast department store , Tao Yuang st is between Pao-Ching rd & Hung -Yuang rd.

  • I am forgetful

    Posted on January 18th, 2006 dabao No comments

    I am forgetful, scatterbrained, absent-minded. I often wander about not knowing where I left something, where it was I intended to go or trying to remember something I lost. It is a result of an inability to focus my thoughts in one particular area. I am always thinking of something else, even as I am trying to do just one thing. It makes it tough to study and altogether impossible to relax sometimes without feeling like I am forgetting something.

    Even now, while I am trying to get in a nap before a marathon session of biochemistry reading, I cannot sleep as I think about what I need to study, the summer job I want to get, someone who annoyed me today and wanting to document it all on my blog. Perhaps I need some ritalin or just to relax and take it easy. Yet when I do, I almost prefer to think of nothing than to focus on just one thing. Perhaps that is why I continue to search and self reflect. I am looking for that one elusive activity that I can lose myself in. That perfect job where the tedium and chore of “work” fades into the background and what’s left is happiness, fulfillment, curiosity, pride and ownership.

    Yet deep down I know that there is no such job out there for me and I worry about whether or not I will have the drive or conviction to create my own path. What does this mean for med school? Right here, right now? Perhaps nothing, perhaps everything . . . but for now I am content and the next four years will be a welcome break from having to wander. Perhaps medical school will force me to focus on what is important for both my career and my life. Or I will keep wandering to some other place. Either way, that’s one expensive piece of paper I’m buying

    :)

  • Back at Dartmouth

    Posted on January 18th, 2006 dabao No comments

    Back in Lebanon, NH! Yay, quiz coming up, study study study . . . trying also to get a summer job. I’m still back and forth about whether or not I want to work or take it easy and study for the boards. Relaxing and more vacation sounds pretty good right now . . .

    Just had some damn good kimchi bokum at Yama’s (the one good Asian restaurant around here) . . . yum yum yum

  • Happy 2006!

    Posted on January 1st, 2006 dabao No comments

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    Happy 2006 from Taipei everyone!

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    My NY resolutions:
    1. More studying, more sleep
    2. Lose the 20lbs I gained in first term med school