Beautiful dancing on So You Think You Can Dance
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Class 302: Shaved Snow
My boyfriend took me to this place, Class 302, today. They serve random asian food, but we came for the shaved snow. The place is a cute little cafe that has classroom desks for tables and on the side of the desks have school bags that house the napkins and straws. On the wall is a huge chalkboard with the specials written on it. Also displayed are notebooks and school uniforms. It's a very cute place. Now onto the shaved snow....
Shaved snow is different from shaved ice in that it is shaved frozen milk! This girl explained it better in her blog about the place:
"Snow is fabulous! Nothing that I could have ever imagine it being. When I first saw it, I thought it was layers of shaved white chocolate but in fact it’s super thin sheets of creamy goodiness. Just layers and layers all soft and pillowy, yet creamy and slightly sweet. It’s actually a block of frozen milk that’s shaven.
The good thing is this new addiction only has one source so it’s less likely to get out of hand but on the other it’ll be more difficult to satiate my cravings.
The restaurant is called Class 302 in Rowland Heights and is a small grade-school-themed taiwanese cafe. The tables look like little desks and the chopsticks and napkins hang in backpacks on the side of the desks. The chalkboard has “Today’s Activities” with the menu written in colored chalk and even the waiters dress like school children.
The food was decently priced and tasty and served in little lunch boxes. It’s simple and traditional Taiwanese food. But back to the snow… So far I’ve tried the snow with red beans & rice cakes, green tea snow with red beans and rice cakes, and snow with mangoes. My favorite combination is the rice cakes and red bean. The rice cakes are basically mochi. mmm… so chewy and sweet. It goes really well with the snow. The red beans are sweetened and there’s condensed milk poured all over everything. Drool…"
Now if I had known that the rice cakes were mochi balls, I would have TOTALLY ordered THAT! yum.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Intern Ceremony
This past Friday, my program held a ceremony for us interns. It was to commemorate our transition into 2nd year. There was good food, good company and a great slideshow put together by one of the Chiefs.
Dodger Game
Will and I went to an all-you-can-eat Dodger game. They played and lost to the Cubs but it was fun nonetheless.
This past Friday, my program held a ceremony for us interns. It was to commemorate our transition into 2nd year. There was good food, good company and a great slideshow put together by one of the Chiefs.
Dodger Game
Will and I went to an all-you-can-eat Dodger game. They played and lost to the Cubs but it was fun nonetheless.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
My Initiation Into Second Year
For a few months now I have been anxious about the transition from being an intern to becoming a second year/senior. I just didn't feel like I was ready to handle things on my own, not to mention, teaching an intern who is just as terrified as I am.
This weekend I had the most grueling call I've ever had since internship. Mind you, I am sure a lot of people have had worse, but for me it was enough. I am on the medicine service this month so during the day I was already taking care of the patients I would be taking care of while on call. Our list stood at 17 patients that day. Our call shift starts at 5pm.
Between 4:30 and 5pm, I got called for three different admissions. One was a consult, one was a transfer and one was a direct admit. I took the transfer and my senior went to see the direct admit. I knew I had to work fast because we had to sign out to the senior coming on with me. Luckily the case was simple and I was able to contact the consult and write orders. I ran the case by my attending breifly and rushed to the consult because she needed acute attention. The consult was a little bit more difficult because we sort of had to stabilize the patient and get her heart rate under control, but all in all pretty simple. I felt really confident and thought I handled being on my own great.
My senior was dealing with the direct admit who they called a rapid response on, while I told the oncoming senior about the patients on the list. Patient count: 20. We finished the consult admission and get paged for a 4th admission in the ER: generalized weakness. On the way we get a rapid response to the Cath Lab. Scratching our heads, we wonder, "Isn't there already a cardiologist there?" We get to the rapid response and we weren't needed anymore. My other senior shows up and we start signing out patients and getting updates, when we get a call for a delivery. I head over and deliver the baby with the attending and come back for sign out. For floorwork there was a post-operative note I had to do and we were supposed to do visuals on some of the patients. Food status: still no dinner; time: 8pm.
A little background so you all can understand how timeconsuming everything was that night, is that our attending on call and on the medicine service specializes in geriatrics. She is very particular and wants to know everything about the patient; and you know how older people are GREAT at remembering things. Our 4th admission was a 76 year old lady with generalized weakness. During our evaluation we get called for, not one, but two MORE admissions: Admission #5: 83 year old female with fall and generalized weakness; Admission #6: 75 year old female with abdominal pain/kidney problems. After admission 4 we take a 30 minute break for dinner and decompression. Patient count: 23, Time: 1130pm.
At midnight we had admission 5 and 6 to do still. I figured I would get maybe 2 hours of sleep, at most. During admission 5, we get called for yet ANOTHER admission. Admission 7 was a lady in her 70s or 80s who also fell and also had generalized weakness. This isn't going to get confusing at all! I had to tell myself multiple times to focus because my brain was slowly turning into mush and all the patients were mixing together in my head. We finished seeing the patients and presenting to our attending at around 6:45am. We never had time to do the floorwork that needed to be done. I never did that post-operative note. I had not slept. And patient count was 24.
That morning I had to round on 6 patients and rounds with the attending started at 9am. I took a really crappy 15 minute nap and went to go see them. For some reason my brain wasn't functioning the way I wanted it to and I had to go at lightning speed. At the beggining of rounds with the attending, I felt like I was going to have an anxiety attack. I felt like I didn't know any of the patients and that my presentations were sucking. After the first two presentations of the new admissions, my brain was starting to function again, and rounds weren't so bad after all. I just felt bad leaving so much floorwork for the oncoming team.
At the end of rounds, my attending commended me on a job well done. It felt really good to get that affirmation and at this point, I think I might just be ready to be a second year resident. I just need to get that darned anxiety about rapid responses out of my head!
For a few months now I have been anxious about the transition from being an intern to becoming a second year/senior. I just didn't feel like I was ready to handle things on my own, not to mention, teaching an intern who is just as terrified as I am.
This weekend I had the most grueling call I've ever had since internship. Mind you, I am sure a lot of people have had worse, but for me it was enough. I am on the medicine service this month so during the day I was already taking care of the patients I would be taking care of while on call. Our list stood at 17 patients that day. Our call shift starts at 5pm.
Between 4:30 and 5pm, I got called for three different admissions. One was a consult, one was a transfer and one was a direct admit. I took the transfer and my senior went to see the direct admit. I knew I had to work fast because we had to sign out to the senior coming on with me. Luckily the case was simple and I was able to contact the consult and write orders. I ran the case by my attending breifly and rushed to the consult because she needed acute attention. The consult was a little bit more difficult because we sort of had to stabilize the patient and get her heart rate under control, but all in all pretty simple. I felt really confident and thought I handled being on my own great.
My senior was dealing with the direct admit who they called a rapid response on, while I told the oncoming senior about the patients on the list. Patient count: 20. We finished the consult admission and get paged for a 4th admission in the ER: generalized weakness. On the way we get a rapid response to the Cath Lab. Scratching our heads, we wonder, "Isn't there already a cardiologist there?" We get to the rapid response and we weren't needed anymore. My other senior shows up and we start signing out patients and getting updates, when we get a call for a delivery. I head over and deliver the baby with the attending and come back for sign out. For floorwork there was a post-operative note I had to do and we were supposed to do visuals on some of the patients. Food status: still no dinner; time: 8pm.
A little background so you all can understand how timeconsuming everything was that night, is that our attending on call and on the medicine service specializes in geriatrics. She is very particular and wants to know everything about the patient; and you know how older people are GREAT at remembering things. Our 4th admission was a 76 year old lady with generalized weakness. During our evaluation we get called for, not one, but two MORE admissions: Admission #5: 83 year old female with fall and generalized weakness; Admission #6: 75 year old female with abdominal pain/kidney problems. After admission 4 we take a 30 minute break for dinner and decompression. Patient count: 23, Time: 1130pm.
At midnight we had admission 5 and 6 to do still. I figured I would get maybe 2 hours of sleep, at most. During admission 5, we get called for yet ANOTHER admission. Admission 7 was a lady in her 70s or 80s who also fell and also had generalized weakness. This isn't going to get confusing at all! I had to tell myself multiple times to focus because my brain was slowly turning into mush and all the patients were mixing together in my head. We finished seeing the patients and presenting to our attending at around 6:45am. We never had time to do the floorwork that needed to be done. I never did that post-operative note. I had not slept. And patient count was 24.
That morning I had to round on 6 patients and rounds with the attending started at 9am. I took a really crappy 15 minute nap and went to go see them. For some reason my brain wasn't functioning the way I wanted it to and I had to go at lightning speed. At the beggining of rounds with the attending, I felt like I was going to have an anxiety attack. I felt like I didn't know any of the patients and that my presentations were sucking. After the first two presentations of the new admissions, my brain was starting to function again, and rounds weren't so bad after all. I just felt bad leaving so much floorwork for the oncoming team.
At the end of rounds, my attending commended me on a job well done. It felt really good to get that affirmation and at this point, I think I might just be ready to be a second year resident. I just need to get that darned anxiety about rapid responses out of my head!
Monday, April 14, 2008
Sushi Party/Call of Duty 4
Since the beginning of internship, the residents have been throwing sushi parties. I missed the first one, but have made it to the subsequent 2 at Eric and Kimberly's house. The 3rd one was this evening. Kimberly was on call this time, so Eric was our gracious host. We were joined by their friends Bryce and Jenny; the gang was rounded off with me, Peter and Will. As always good food and good company.
Today I got to play Call of Duty 4 for the first time, instead of just watching the boys play. I had one really good attack kill. I was in the balcony and threw a grenade at the 3 boys down below and used my gun to finish off whoever didn't get killed. The rest of the time was me trying to find my way out of buildings and find my targets. Go ME!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
On Complications
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray" ~ Robert Burns
No matter how organized, well prepared, and determined you are, sometimes things just don't work out how you want them to. You leave 10 minutes early for work, only to be stuck in traffic for 20 minutes. Your application to medical school is rejected and you find yourself moving across the country to pursue a Master's degree instead. The only defenses you have against these unforeseen complications is a good Plan B and a great attitude.
Take, for example, our night out to Takami Sushi/Elevate. The plan was to have dinner at Takami Sushi so we wouldn't have to wait in line for club Elevate. Usually Elevate is free cover and if you eat at Takami, you're guaranteed entrance to the club. The night started off well. The food was delicious, despite being ridiculously overpriced. We had some drinks and good conversation. After we paid our bill, we were ready to tear up the dancefloor. Unfortunately we were stopped by the manager of the restaurant who informed us that there would be a $20 cover. On previous visits to the club, this was not the case. My friend proceeded to smooth talk the manager, and we were able to get four free tickets for the girls. The guys would have to pay full price. Our Plan B was to go meet other friends at another bar, but we had already paid valet, and we weren't sure we were guaranteed entrance.
During a bathroom break, my friend talked to the manager of the club who said he could get the guys in for free, but my friend would have to change his white shoes into dress shoes(he had worn his white shoes there before without a problem). While my friend went to get his dress shoes from the car, I bought the girls a drink(Pear Vodka and Sprite...yummy.) We headed over to the club entrance, only to be stopped by the bouncer because a. my guy friend was wearing a hat(which he had also worn on another occassion) and b. all the girls had drinks housed in "glass" tumblers. My cousin downed her drink and my friend and I changed out our glasses. FINALLY we were able to go into the club. We found a good spot to lounge and waited for some good music to come on. About an hour later, one of the bouncers approaches us and says we have to move because there was a private party that had that spot reserved. So we sauntered to the dancefloor and resorted to dancing, which we were perfectly happy with. Once on the dancefloor we were happy. We danced the rest of the night and it ended up being really fun.
Had we been any other group that night, we would have probably gotten really grumpy, given up and headed home. But we went with the flow, swerved at the turns, and got to our destination. My cousin and I polished the night off with carne asada fries from Albertos and watched some "How I Met Your Mother." All in all it was a good night.
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray" ~ Robert Burns
No matter how organized, well prepared, and determined you are, sometimes things just don't work out how you want them to. You leave 10 minutes early for work, only to be stuck in traffic for 20 minutes. Your application to medical school is rejected and you find yourself moving across the country to pursue a Master's degree instead. The only defenses you have against these unforeseen complications is a good Plan B and a great attitude.
Take, for example, our night out to Takami Sushi/Elevate. The plan was to have dinner at Takami Sushi so we wouldn't have to wait in line for club Elevate. Usually Elevate is free cover and if you eat at Takami, you're guaranteed entrance to the club. The night started off well. The food was delicious, despite being ridiculously overpriced. We had some drinks and good conversation. After we paid our bill, we were ready to tear up the dancefloor. Unfortunately we were stopped by the manager of the restaurant who informed us that there would be a $20 cover. On previous visits to the club, this was not the case. My friend proceeded to smooth talk the manager, and we were able to get four free tickets for the girls. The guys would have to pay full price. Our Plan B was to go meet other friends at another bar, but we had already paid valet, and we weren't sure we were guaranteed entrance.
During a bathroom break, my friend talked to the manager of the club who said he could get the guys in for free, but my friend would have to change his white shoes into dress shoes(he had worn his white shoes there before without a problem). While my friend went to get his dress shoes from the car, I bought the girls a drink(Pear Vodka and Sprite...yummy.) We headed over to the club entrance, only to be stopped by the bouncer because a. my guy friend was wearing a hat(which he had also worn on another occassion) and b. all the girls had drinks housed in "glass" tumblers. My cousin downed her drink and my friend and I changed out our glasses. FINALLY we were able to go into the club. We found a good spot to lounge and waited for some good music to come on. About an hour later, one of the bouncers approaches us and says we have to move because there was a private party that had that spot reserved. So we sauntered to the dancefloor and resorted to dancing, which we were perfectly happy with. Once on the dancefloor we were happy. We danced the rest of the night and it ended up being really fun.
Had we been any other group that night, we would have probably gotten really grumpy, given up and headed home. But we went with the flow, swerved at the turns, and got to our destination. My cousin and I polished the night off with carne asada fries from Albertos and watched some "How I Met Your Mother." All in all it was a good night.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Random Blog
1. One more week until my Medicine rotation is over. If I could sum it up in one word I would use: draining. There's so many social issues that go into the dance that is medicine. It really takes a lot out of you.
2. I miss my friends. I miss going out. I miss sleeping well. I miss sleeping in. I miss my family.
3. After next week I will have to start studying my arse off for Step 3. This, I think, is one good way to redeem myself for feeling stupid at work. I'm only kind of looking forward to the long hours at Starbucks. We'll see how it goes.
4. My personal life is so blah right now. Circles...going around in circles. I honestly think I'm just chasing my own tail. *woof!
1. One more week until my Medicine rotation is over. If I could sum it up in one word I would use: draining. There's so many social issues that go into the dance that is medicine. It really takes a lot out of you.
2. I miss my friends. I miss going out. I miss sleeping well. I miss sleeping in. I miss my family.
3. After next week I will have to start studying my arse off for Step 3. This, I think, is one good way to redeem myself for feeling stupid at work. I'm only kind of looking forward to the long hours at Starbucks. We'll see how it goes.
4. My personal life is so blah right now. Circles...going around in circles. I honestly think I'm just chasing my own tail. *woof!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Sunday, March 09, 2008
I'm obsessed with this song "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f5nj7cOjc
I haven't watched the movie it was written for ("Once",) but one of these days I will. The songs purity and honesty really grab me. The tones and chords are simple yet touching. I'm learning it on guitar right now. I asked my cousin to learn it on piano and we can play next time I'm at her house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f5nj7cOjc
I haven't watched the movie it was written for ("Once",) but one of these days I will. The songs purity and honesty really grab me. The tones and chords are simple yet touching. I'm learning it on guitar right now. I asked my cousin to learn it on piano and we can play next time I'm at her house.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Other Contributions
Not sure if any of you know but I blog on two other group sites. Lately, since I've been on vacation I've been posting quite a bit on all three of my blogs. They are located ------>
over on the side navigation bar. They're on "Jason's Blog" and "742evergreenterrace;" two very different sites. Jason's Blog used to be his own personal blog, but as his friends we took the liberty of making it our own haha. There's just random random things posted on there. It's mostly pictures and some inside jokes. 742 is mostly a review blog, but we've been adding some personal blogs on there as well. However the posts are usually limited to entertainment. So check it out if you're bored.
Not sure if any of you know but I blog on two other group sites. Lately, since I've been on vacation I've been posting quite a bit on all three of my blogs. They are located ------>
over on the side navigation bar. They're on "Jason's Blog" and "742evergreenterrace;" two very different sites. Jason's Blog used to be his own personal blog, but as his friends we took the liberty of making it our own haha. There's just random random things posted on there. It's mostly pictures and some inside jokes. 742 is mostly a review blog, but we've been adding some personal blogs on there as well. However the posts are usually limited to entertainment. So check it out if you're bored.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Finally Got a New Guitar
For a couple of months now I've been wanting to get a new guitar since my old guitar is over 15 years old and, well, is a junior guitar. I feel like my artistic side has been dying since I started medical school so this is one of the things I'm doing to remedy that. So today I marched into Guitar Center looking for a particular guitar, the Jasmine by Takamine which was on sale for 100 bucks. However, they didn't have that particular one. I tried playing some other guitars on display and found the Epiphone PR-150 for 30 bucks more and got it. I'm loving it right now. :)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Vegas 2008: Off the Strip
After testing out multiple photo servicers online, I finally decided on Picasa for my Vegas album. It does everything I want and it's easy to use. AND it has this nifty little thing where I can embed a slideshow in a blog.
The reason for my trip to Vegas was because I was on vacation and I've always wanted to see a show. I decided to take my family and go see KA at the MGM. Three weeks before my trip, I found out my friend Sheila from Chicago was ALSO going to be on vacation at the same time! So I booked the room and she booked her flight.
Our first night we all ate Dinner at Nora's Cuisine off the strip. My friend had had her rehearsal dinner there and I thought it was one of the best itialian food I've tasted. Afterwards, we headed over to the Orleans to watch Step Up 2 the Streets, which was actually better than what I had expected. Sheila and I shared some coffee while my mom played the slots. She won 100 bucks! SWEET.
The next morning, I woke up at 5am thanks to the construction outside of our hotel room! I moved into the living room where Sheila was sleeping and slept for the rest of the morning. My mom wanted to go to Chinatown for Boba because we had seen a lady drinking Boba the night before. So we headed over to Chinatown, again, off the strip and had some fantastic DimSum. Since we were stuffed, we decided to walk it off and shop at the nearby center. There, we found Boba and good deals on cheap jewelry. We stopped off at Rio because my mom wanted to shop at this store there. While we were there she suggested we catch the "Show in the Sky" which was supposed to start in 30 minutes. Hmmm what could we do while we waited? We played the slots of course! And THANK goodness we did! I won 450 bucks!
We headed back to the hotel for a much needed nap and got ready for KA. The show was amazing. The technology was as impressive as all the gymnastic tricks that were performed. Back at the hotel, we ate the leftover italian food and called it a night. The next morning we ate at Paris buffet and took Sheila to the airport. Good times.
On our ride home there was heavy rain and heavy sunshine at random times. Very interesting drive. It definitely kept me on my toes. What a great way to start off my vacation!
After testing out multiple photo servicers online, I finally decided on Picasa for my Vegas album. It does everything I want and it's easy to use. AND it has this nifty little thing where I can embed a slideshow in a blog.
The reason for my trip to Vegas was because I was on vacation and I've always wanted to see a show. I decided to take my family and go see KA at the MGM. Three weeks before my trip, I found out my friend Sheila from Chicago was ALSO going to be on vacation at the same time! So I booked the room and she booked her flight.
Our first night we all ate Dinner at Nora's Cuisine off the strip. My friend had had her rehearsal dinner there and I thought it was one of the best itialian food I've tasted. Afterwards, we headed over to the Orleans to watch Step Up 2 the Streets, which was actually better than what I had expected. Sheila and I shared some coffee while my mom played the slots. She won 100 bucks! SWEET.
The next morning, I woke up at 5am thanks to the construction outside of our hotel room! I moved into the living room where Sheila was sleeping and slept for the rest of the morning. My mom wanted to go to Chinatown for Boba because we had seen a lady drinking Boba the night before. So we headed over to Chinatown, again, off the strip and had some fantastic DimSum. Since we were stuffed, we decided to walk it off and shop at the nearby center. There, we found Boba and good deals on cheap jewelry. We stopped off at Rio because my mom wanted to shop at this store there. While we were there she suggested we catch the "Show in the Sky" which was supposed to start in 30 minutes. Hmmm what could we do while we waited? We played the slots of course! And THANK goodness we did! I won 450 bucks!
We headed back to the hotel for a much needed nap and got ready for KA. The show was amazing. The technology was as impressive as all the gymnastic tricks that were performed. Back at the hotel, we ate the leftover italian food and called it a night. The next morning we ate at Paris buffet and took Sheila to the airport. Good times.
On our ride home there was heavy rain and heavy sunshine at random times. Very interesting drive. It definitely kept me on my toes. What a great way to start off my vacation!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Market Broiler
The fact that my family has been going to Market Broiler at the Ontario Mills Mall consistently for a couple of years now can attest to how freakin' fabulous this place is. What kept us coming was the Snow Crab that comes with this creamy butter sauce. Mixed with lemon, it is hands down THE best crab out there. It is always fresh and I've never had a bad crab in that place.
This year(or last year) they opened up the Kamiyama Sushi side to the restaurant only available in Ontario. We've tried a few rolls, including the Dragon roll, the Krunch roll and Tuna roll which are all available on the regular menu. On the Kamiyama Sushi menu, there was an albacore tuna roll I wanted to get. At the time I ordered it, they were out of all their tuna. So the chef made me this awesome roll with salmon for free. I don't know what it was called, but it was great and kudos to them for giving it to me for free. Talk about service!
Today, my mom's boyfriend took us out to dinner to Market Broiler for Valentine's day and I was definitely in for a pleasant surprise.
For appetizers we wanted to get a roll. We decided on the OC roll which had tuna(I can't remember), cream cheese, hints of wasabi, topped with panko and drizzled with sauce; OMG #1.
For entree, I decided to get the Duo platter with my staple, the Snow Crab and something new, the Hawaiian Glazed ribs. I'm not usually a rib person, but I had gone to Lucille's the previous weekend so I figured I'd try these out and OMG. The meat was practically falling off the rib and it was full of flavor; I didn't even need to add the hoisin sauce they provided.
My mom's boyfriend got the surf and turf with the NY steak and the King Crab, of which I had a bite and another OMG! I came into to the restaurant grumpy and left full and satisfied. Not only is the seafood there always a pleaser, but now I've discovered their non-seafood just as good! AWESOME!
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