Sayonara 2014.
To me, the year went by SO quickly.
It was a year full of ups and downs,
but thankfully, many more ups than downs.
You’ve treated me well.
But I have a hunch…
…that this new year is going to be a better year.
It’s a pleasure to meet you, 2015. ย ๐
PS: happy birthday to my dearest walrus!
I participated in this year’s Relay for Life, a fundraising event for the Cancer Council. This event involves a group of people running or walking in a relay style for 24 hours. I am very proud to say I was able to raise $350 for this event. Thank you to all who sponsored me ๐
http://wa.cancercouncilfundraising.org.au/rebeccalam
My team,ย Le Rรฉsistance, consisted of Xing (our team leader), Nick, Sennie, Keith, Sahan, Daven, Ben, Angel, Mel, and myself. Our team raised $700 in total ^^ thanks everyone!
The event began at 12pm on Saturday, so a few of the team members came earlier to set up tents and stuff. We ended up taking a very long time setting up a small tent, only to realise that it was the cover we were setting up, and not the tent itself. Thankfully, Ben brought a nice large tent which we spent most of our time in if we weren’t on the track.
X rostered each of us on 5 or 6x one hour shifts in pairs. I’m glad it was done this way, otherwise walking alone for an hour would have been rather boring. Originally I thought waiting around for the shifts could be boring, but even though we played no games, time passed quite quickly for me.
There was a candle ceremony at night to remember all those who had/have cancer, and to think about those who are constantly fighting back cancer. Throughout the event, music was being played, even during the night when some tried to nap.
My aim for the relay was 100 laps, which I did achieve. Yay ^^
Overall, I thought it was a good experience, especially since it was for a good cause. It was fun, and our baton survived the whole time! Thanks for organising our team, X ๐
Team: Le Rรฉsistance
Baton: the egg, Mx3 (Max)
Yesterday I attempted baking carrot cake. I believe it was a success ๐
No photo though, because it doesn’t look very pretty hahah
Also, N and I were rather amazed at the magic ability of egg whites turning into a stiff mixture just by whisking lol
For some reason, we have a massive box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes sitting on our kitchen table. So one day, I decided to make the honey cornflake cup thingys. Remember eating those in primary school? The recipe was on the cereal box, and they called them “Honey Joys”. My mum really liked them haha I don’t think she’s ever had them before.
Very late post, but at least it’s here :p
Following my trip to Vancouver, my next placement was at Albany. Normally it would take about 5 hours to drive down to Albany, but I get anxious driving at speeds higher than 100kph. So, instead of driving at the speed limit of 110kph, I stayed at 100kph, and ended up taking about 6 hours to get to Albany.
This rotation involves me living with one other student, Clare. During the past 4 years of dental school, I can’t say I interacted much with her, so I was determined to be “BFFs” with her during this one month living with each other. I really owe her for being our main chef, but I definitely learnt a lot from her, and am very greatful for all the lovely meals we had ๐
So albany. I’ve been once many years ago, and I remember it being a relatively boring place. I came to realise that Albany is actually a very nice place to live in. It has everything you need, and traffic conditions are wonderful, and the people are lovely, and the surroundings are nice and green too! haha
Clinic was really fun. I love our supervisor. He was extremely entertaining and I do miss him so. In our spare time, Clare and I would play hangman and pictionary. We started getting bored of drawing single words, so we moved on to drawing idioms. That was fun ๐
Over the weekends, we visited nearby towns. We drove through Denmark and its tourist drive, Scotsdale Road. There, we went to see some wineries, without buying anything. We visited the cheese factory, and other little stores. Another weekend, we spent climbing Castle Rock. The view was very pretty at the top ๐ We also dove to Pemberton, where we climbed the bicentennial tree. Climbing up was alright, but climbing down was the scary part =\ Once again, the view was pretty cool at the top, but all you are treetops lol.
All in all, Albany was really good. I enjoyed it more than I did at Bunbury!
Oh and I forgot to mention..Clare likes dancing tango, and there was a tango group in Albany, so she ended up convincing me to try it out. It was actually fun ahha, although the instructor dumped a whole lot of dance moves on me as a first timer..
On March 12th at 11.55pm, the plane took off. It was about an 8 hour flight to Hong Kong. When we arrived, we took the MTR to Mong Kok, where we walked around a LOT to eat and shop! It was a bit sad at first because I couldn’t find anything to buy, but then we got to ่ฑๅญ่ก where I bought more clothes xD
Then we headed back to the airport to take our 4.25pm flight to Vancouver! woohoo! This flight took about 12hours. N and I watched three movies during this time and tried not to sleep, but towards the end of the flight we started to get really tired. As the plane was descending down to Vancouver, I experienced something I could never forget. My frontal sinus was aching from the pressure change, then the ache spread down to the maxillary sinus, where a sudden sharp intense pain hit me. I now know what a tooth ache feels like. It is seriously painful. I clawed onto N’s arm to support myself. But luckily, it went away eventually.
So yes, I am now in Vancouver. We spent our first day at UBC today, and met lots of Japanese exchange students. They are so cute ๐ and the students we met are all super nice. We all went out for dinner at some Greek restaurant. Btw, when we arrived at our hotel in Vancouver, I just slept until like 9pm, then went for dinner at Maccas, then went back to sleep. So because of this, I woke up at 2.30am today…I am so tired right now lol. Goodnight! ๐
We were all sleeping peacefully at home.
I suddenly get woken up by the voice of my brother yelling out “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
It scared the living daylights out of me at the time!!! But thinking back now…LOL
For Valentine’s Day this year, N and I went to the Marlston Hill Lookout in Bunbury. It wasn’t a very tall lookout, but it was on a high ground, so everything still looked pretty. Then we went to the beach nearby, where the sun was setting, and the whole sky just looked beautiful. I then decided to do something random, so I suggested to N that we ran across the beach for fun. We didn’t have to run too far before I got tired =p so he piggybacked me back to the car. Our romantic Valentine’s Day dinner ended up being at Nando’s, but it was still yum, and that’s all that matters (although Perth’s ones are better I think) hehe
Happy 3 year anniversary N!
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Matilda Bay restaurant was yummy ๐
We arrived as per normal at the Bunbury clinic at 7:45am, but just as the nurses were setting up for the first lot of patients, we received a call from our supervisor saying he was ill. And so this means………………………………day off!! Since we are not legally allowed to see patients without a supervisor, all the patients for the day had to be cancelled.It seemed too good to be true haha because for once, we have time! A lot of time. One whole day. So we went to rent out movies ๐ Today we watched Bridesmaids and The Dark Knight Rises, but we also borrowed out Robin Hood, The Machinist, and Watchmen.
Moments 