I PASSED WHOO HOOO!!!

Whoo hoo, just found out I passed all my classes this term which means that . . . I . . . am . . . officially a THIRD YEAR MED STUDENT

(yea lame, I know, but seriously, its finally done with the basic science crap and onto to the really interesting stuff, taking care of patients, clinical medicine and B-school)

Now hopefully my exuberance can translate into work ethic for boards studying

There’re 15 more minutes left of my birthdayyyyyyy!!!! wheeeeeeeeee
I am an old sucker, poor me….all 29 years of me~~ At least I have a great girlfriend who likes me for who I am!!!!
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News from the frontlines in Iraq

So I interviewed a GI today on R&R back from Iraq who is going back in two weeks. He actually said some interesting things

1) it seems like the main problem all along has been the difficulty in distinguishing civilians and insurgents since by Iraqi law, all citizens are allowed one AK-47 and the US military is not allowed to take them away. This is apparently one of the issues behind the whole, rules of engagement issue.

2) his perception was that Iraq/Iran and that whole mesopotamia region has been embroiled in a longstanding low grade religious conflict that we were audacious/stupid enough to believe we could ignore or even change with our intervention

3) Also apparently weddings are celebrated over there by firing guns into the air (which has led to some controversy when US troops respond in a trigger happy way or mistake this as some form of aggression)

Overeducated here I come!

Just found out that I have been accepted to the MD/MBA program here at Dartmouth. What this means is that I am now spending 5 not 4 years of my life in Hanover (whoo hoo) and I will be taking one year off from the MD in 2008 to do the MBA. Crazy you say? I wonder that myself sometimes . . . then I look at the avg graduating salaries of Tuck students and surgeons . . . I wonder if I can hold down two jobs at once . . . hmmmm doctor by day . . .

Xmas break itinerary

My holiday travel itinerary, lemme know if anyone will be overlapping with me.

12/18 arrive in Taipei
12/21 Taipei-Shanghai
12/25 Shanghai-Cambodia
12/30 return to Taipei
1/3 depart for US

Happy Holidays all!