Thanksgiving

I had a great thanksgiving, filled with lots of friend/family time. Hope you did, too.

Jeff (aka Harry Potter) came down Friday.

Saturday – had dim sum, then hung out at Calvin’s place with friends to watch the Big Game (Go Bears!). Played bang, because that’s what we do…

Sunday – Jeff and I cooked a 22 pound turkey for the church/med school friends potluck. It turned out awesome! Score for my mom’s super awesome recipe. It had glutinous rice stuffing…nom nom nom

The guys thought it would be funny to take a picture of me eating the entire table of food.

The remains…

Thanksgiving day we went to Palos Verdes to play football with Alex’s church. Good times

love the expression on Mikey’s face…hehe

I fell on the one patch of dirt in the middle of an entire field of grass. Good job, Vicky.

Had a sushi dinner with my parents, my aunt and cousin. This was one of many delicious courses…

parents :]

 

more light trails!

I convinced some of my wonderful friends to take more light trail pictures with me. We had a grand time

If you have three girls, you’re bound to draw hearts. It’s inevitable.

yeah, that’s right. we can spell.

Then we tried to spell “yay”, and this is what happened.

creepy face!

then the boys joined in on the fun…and this their attempt at a cell. (yes, we are very nerdy)

This is “pac man and ghost”. yeah.

Finally, the really talented people stepped forward and made a christmas tree. Pretty awesomeeee!

angel or butterfly…you decide!

 

light trails!!

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time…crank up the shutter speed to 1 or 2 seconds, and wave lights around my room, haha. It was fun!! Next time I am recruiting people to help and come up with neato ideas for what we can do with the lights

love the texture of the light in this one…looks like a ribbon (I used two pens that light up for these pictures)

raving like mad

 

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yes, I know I have a problem

I’m sharing this with all of you. Please don’t judge me ;]

The sad part is, when I uploaded the picture to my computer today I realized I had even more highlighters/pens sitting near my bed that I forgot to include in the picture. And some more in my white coat. And some refills for the Pilot G-2 pens.

 

 

If I ever run out of pens to write with I’ll let you know. Somehow I doubt that will ever happen.

 

a little early for thanksgiving, but…

I’m feeling especially thankful today. God is soooo good, and He blesses me more than I deserve, although I am apt to forget that in the midst of my insecurities and worries about the future. Here are just a couple of things that I’m thankful for at the moment:

• a really encouraging mid-rotation eval by my preceptor at the peds clinic. I’ve been working hard and putting a lot of effort into the clinic, but have also been feeling very anxious about performing well/making a good impression since I am considering pediatrics as a future career…hearing her positive feedback definitely made me feel relieved :]
• doing decently well on my neurology shelf exam. I was hoping to get a better score than what I got on the surgery shelf, but only did marginally better. But then I realized that I didn’t put a lot of effort into studying neurology…so I’m glad I did as well as I did, and now I have the motivation to work harder so my other shelf exam scores are better.
• talking to other students and figuring out that I’m not the only one who is having trouble finding motivation to study 3rd year. Makes me feel less like a slacker =]
• free breakfast today at morning conference. I’m so Chinese…haha
• diet coke. hehe
• I got a snowboard + boots + bindings at Ski dazzle last last weekend. Early birthday present for myself :] (pictures to come!)
• finally getting somewhat plugged in at Cornerstone and going to care group. It’s nice despite my introverted-ness :]

fin!

 

so cute!

The video is awesome! I have a soft spot for birds because I used to have a pet cockatiel when I was younger. The bird in the video isn’t a cockatiel (indian ringneck??) but omg….i’m melting. He gives kisses to the bunny!!! ahhhhh!

source: cute overload (yes, I do read this site a lot…how could you tell? )

 

wheee!

A while back I posted a picture of a fish I took at Guppy House and was sad cuz they didn’t post the pictures I submitted…but hooray! Today they did! You can check it out here! This totally made my day

And in other happy news, last weekend Jeff and I ran a half-marathon together (Silicon Valley Marathon). It was an amazing experience; I would definitely do one again (as for a full marathon, well, I’m not so sure ). The weather was amazing and we ran most of it along the Los Gatos Creek trail, which was reasonably scenic…then we got to run a bit around a lake which was absolutely gorgeous.

All the finishers got medals. We also got these really cool dri-fit t-shirts which I ran in.

So excited to finish my first half marathon! Jeff was tired and refused to take a jumping picture with me (thanks Jeff for running it with me!!). But then later he got to do what he loves best – playing football:

I used the 100 mm macro to take these pics…omg. LOVE the lens! The pictures that came out were amazing.

I really love this series:

and…we’ll end this post with a nice picture of Jeff’s butt:

 

Chewie

My friend BJ got a dog recently…

isn’t he a cutie?

heh heh heh…eventually he got tired and I was able to do this:

can’t wait till I get one of my own. next year, if Jeff will let me

 

hawaii!

Hey, I update about once a month! not bad…considering I’m still on my surgery rotation. As much as I like it, I can’t wait to catch up on some zzzz’s…and hopefully not stay up running around the hospital on call every four or five days.

I did manage to sneak in a trip to Hawaii during my first week of general surgery. Luckily the attendings were really nice about letting me take the weekend off (I know, way too short for a trip to Hawaii right?!). Too bad I couldn’t stay longer

The reason for the trip was my grandma’s birthday:

She turned eighty.

of course the scenery was gorgeous.

*sigh*

needless to say…I wish I were there right now

 

hmmm…it’s been a while. Since my last post, I’ve started my third year of medical school (hooray!), and in fact have completed six weeks of my surgery rotation already. It’s been a crazy ride (you can read about it here).

On the photography front, I’ve had quite a few opportunities to take photos over the summer – went to a couple of weddings, a few day trips here and there. Not a lot of time to edit the photos, however…although I did recently get a new macbook and I keep telling myself that I will learn how to use iPhoto one of these days.

Anyways, in no particular order:

San Bernardino National Forest

some lake in the San Bernardino National Forest

bluejay

Dan and Kim’s wedding

Sherman

praying mantis eating a fly. great opportunity to use my macro lens; I wish I had used a tripod, though.

Miranda and He-Joon’s Wedding

Golden Gate Bridge

random squirrel