Friday, February 23, 2007
A Mini-break for CNY
Ya this is me. Standing in front of where i work, Hospital Taiping. My ward is at 4th floor, medical male ward. Was planning to take a 5-day leaves for CNY, but sadly it was reduced to 3 days, then finally TWO, due to the shortage of HO. 2 days leave for CNY, gosh. But better than none anyway.
Just to show some good views in Taiping. This is definitely one of the best places to go here,
Sunday, February 11, 2007
black belt dinner
Sometimes you've just got to kick back and have a little fun with the people with whom you usually just kick and punch. The Annual Seido Karate Black Belt Dinner is such an occassion. It was originally an opportunity to honor our grandmaster before his actual birthday. And I understand it was quite the spectacle in the old days. Apparently bottles of sake were the order of the day. Even today, it is often marked by the curious Japanese custom of embarrassing attendees by insisting they sing! Karaoke anyone? But this year's seemed to be very civilized, and at least at the table I was fortunate to be sitting at -- one heck of a good time with good friends.
Friday, February 9, 2007
do you mind if i dream?
Can't believe it's been about 2 months since I last blogged, but I suppose it has been a busy time. I've been wrapping up my book Magic Medicine and am almost! finished and ready to self publish.
In the meantime, I've been having some very astonishing dreams and hope you don't mind if I use this blog to write them down. I suppose I might start a dream journal, but I already have SO MANY different journals and projects going, I like to be able to combine them when I can...
So... last night I dreamed I was on a woman's houseboat up the mountain from where I live. Larry was there too. I was out on the porce with the woman (I have no clue who she was), and she was fixing something for us - I can't remember what. Something woven or sewn? I remember her using her hands carefully. I looked out from the top of the mountain, and could see a lake off to the right, and what looked like the Hudson River spread out directly west. But it turned out it was just the roads, slick with rain, that looked like water. A moment of magic, and then gone.
But the house was surrounded by swirling water, and the front porch was a little scary. A sudden thud... something fell off the porch into the waters. It was only a bundle of magazines. But it looked like a gift.
When I went back inside, there was a man there who hadn't been there before. The woman stayed on the porch a while longer, finishing up whatever it was she was fixing.
I went into the bathroom, where Larry was showering and that's all I remember of that little dream.
As I'm writing, I think of my Aunt Sherrell and Uncle Bob's house on a lake in New Jersey. A place we went when we were kids. It was pretty magical. I remember sleeping lofts and hidden cozy corners. And lots of dead fish in the lake after a rain. Also eels which were terrifying. And sunnies - jumping sun fish!
The next dream was I think a remix of yesterday's news: Anna Nicole Smith died. I was on a beach somewhere. Australia? Hawaii? And walking with two girls, one of whom was pregnant. They were doing some kind of drugs. And asked about ticks when we walked through some tall grass. The one who was pregnant was boasting that she was 37 but looked like 31. I later found out she died. Not such a magical dream, just an odd bit of one.
And of course there were others, that are now lost to my conscious mind.
I really could have slept all day today, and would have been happy drifting in and out of dream and consciousness.
But I've got a half day of work at Aveda today, and tonight is the annual black belt dinner for our karate school. Tomorrow, we've got to take Simon the cat to the vet and learn how to give him sub Q fluids because he's in kidney failure.
More about all of this -- or none of it -- in a future post.
Stay tuned.
In the meantime, I've been having some very astonishing dreams and hope you don't mind if I use this blog to write them down. I suppose I might start a dream journal, but I already have SO MANY different journals and projects going, I like to be able to combine them when I can...
So... last night I dreamed I was on a woman's houseboat up the mountain from where I live. Larry was there too. I was out on the porce with the woman (I have no clue who she was), and she was fixing something for us - I can't remember what. Something woven or sewn? I remember her using her hands carefully. I looked out from the top of the mountain, and could see a lake off to the right, and what looked like the Hudson River spread out directly west. But it turned out it was just the roads, slick with rain, that looked like water. A moment of magic, and then gone.
But the house was surrounded by swirling water, and the front porch was a little scary. A sudden thud... something fell off the porch into the waters. It was only a bundle of magazines. But it looked like a gift.
When I went back inside, there was a man there who hadn't been there before. The woman stayed on the porch a while longer, finishing up whatever it was she was fixing.
I went into the bathroom, where Larry was showering and that's all I remember of that little dream.
As I'm writing, I think of my Aunt Sherrell and Uncle Bob's house on a lake in New Jersey. A place we went when we were kids. It was pretty magical. I remember sleeping lofts and hidden cozy corners. And lots of dead fish in the lake after a rain. Also eels which were terrifying. And sunnies - jumping sun fish!
The next dream was I think a remix of yesterday's news: Anna Nicole Smith died. I was on a beach somewhere. Australia? Hawaii? And walking with two girls, one of whom was pregnant. They were doing some kind of drugs. And asked about ticks when we walked through some tall grass. The one who was pregnant was boasting that she was 37 but looked like 31. I later found out she died. Not such a magical dream, just an odd bit of one.
And of course there were others, that are now lost to my conscious mind.
I really could have slept all day today, and would have been happy drifting in and out of dream and consciousness.
But I've got a half day of work at Aveda today, and tonight is the annual black belt dinner for our karate school. Tomorrow, we've got to take Simon the cat to the vet and learn how to give him sub Q fluids because he's in kidney failure.
More about all of this -- or none of it -- in a future post.
Stay tuned.
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