Fav House on Wellington St

I can see my favourite house from outside my office. I just love the A frame roof top with little balcony. Narrow and Cosy!

I wonder if I could build something like that in my backyard.... - dream on -

Construction area bit is going to be a part of multi-storeys car park. Cancer council car park.

Brrrrrrrrr

Nice sun shiny day in down down under but frost/snow every where. Nope we don't get snow in Perth TAS [not yet anyway] but road closures everywhere this week. Cold mornings and cold nights but the day is very stunning. Good times for photographers.

Melbourne images for those who miss Melbourne!

I must confest that I don't know Melbourne all that well. Where to get nice Malaysian cuisine? No idea (but somebody mentioned Little Burke St). Last Friday the training took me to PMCI [Peter MacCallum Cancer Insitute] at St Andrews.

We arrived (my registrar and I) early. I managed to go to Brunswick before arriving at PeterMac, to get tonnes of sucuk!**

The location of PMCI is really nice.. nice in everyway basically - nice cafes, nice garden, nice church. (I wish I have a wider angle cam. DSLR?? but I am not that into photography) - point and shoot is just good enough for me

One of the entrances.

Don't know what tree is this but it has such a gorgeous light green flowers (almost fluorescence). At first glance I thought it might be the new shoots but a close inspection revealed that they are actually flowers.. green flowers, how wonderful

Close up.

Fake river flowing outside the church.

Inside

Amazing architecture.

The garden beside PMCI. I wonder why they don't put daffodils under these trees instead of just 'pine bark'??

Another school holiday activity

Little Indiana Jones

Meet Indiana Jones of 41 Main Road.
With whip and gun

My kids are making money!!

School holiday activities.

I was busy (with the exam that I flunk!) and kids needs activities especially Aladdin! Since it was still ramadhaan - can't eat. Can't play outside due to wet weather. So this was what they up to. Making moneys!
papers everywhere!
Kids + papers + scissors = not good at all

Then they took of the pillow cases! - put their paper money in it - Because they wanted to be 'robbers' - aiyyo!

Rohan in the background: busy putting up his 'drawings' on the fridge! busy making mess!

These pictures was taken during school holiday but Aladdin wore school uniform several days into holidays - yeah mummy not coping - so I figure just let him wear whatever... save on washing powders. Aminah [my neighbour] said Aladdin has minimum carbon foot print! Same shirt for weeks!

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Springing into Spring

This is quite an old-ish picture [perhaps 2 weeks ago?]
It was pretty cool back then - even though some flowers are out, just last week we had snow close to ground level.
I wonder if there are more cool/cold surprises till summer.

Reality Check

Yes, the recent exam made me realised:
1- How not-prepared I was
2- How high is the standard that my professional body required of me
3- How badly I underestimated the exam
4- How small small small small I feel
5- How lucky to I am to have such 'high' position with so little knowledge I have!

What next??
1- I still need to past my exam - March 2011 probably not realistic for me because my number one priority is still my family [yeah right I heard Hisham said] - I will have to work smarter. {yeah I refused to work harder} - More quality time with kids and Hisham maybe and get them to help me out at home. Get kids* more involved in cleaning up their own mess. *kids = include Hisham - yes dahling! - so Sep. 2011??

2- Set up home-based office. I hate to be coming to office on weekend just because I don't have the resources [fast internet]- so will look into that

3- Get into healthier routine [I've said this a million times and failed a million times] - this time get the whole family involved. Maybe go to bed earlier [hard to do in summer]. Get active and attractive... [easier said than done] - healthier food?

Tonnes of training sessions to attend - tonnes to learn.. Can I??? Lots of inter-states travelling [oh my poor poor old body!]

4- MOST important thing: to enjoy the whole process! YES I LUUUUUURVVEEEEEE MY JOB!

I remember one quotes from my school years : WHEN LUCK ENTERS GIVE HIM A SEAT

Yes - I have given the 'luck' a seat but now he wants food-drinks-care-attention-etc-etc
more than I have time for it!

5-Less blogging and facebooking??? {yeah I can really see how it is going to happen!}

Exam

READY OR NOT..... HERE I COME!!

Yeah.... head first! doink!

What Hari Raya means to my kids

"I like end of ramadhaan mummy" - said Rohan

because of sparklers...

It's $3 well spent- $3 for 6 small boxes. I think there's about 10 or 12 per box.

This was on the eve of Eid/Raya. After "bunga api" session, we went out to K-mart for Eid presents.

Rohan chose a $11 robot, Orion $14 Star Wars figurine-key chain thingy and Aladdin......

"I am still thinking mummy"

.....

"still thinking"....

Initially he wanted a $300 lego [partly my fault since I introduced this toy - last year - I thought it will be educational toy] but as a collection --- I seriously think he needs to earn himself. He sort of forgetting that he wanted a 'scooter' originally

then he got lost amongst Monster Trucks, radio control cars...legos...

Kept on choosing legos... how abt this one?

$150 - NO

this one?

$50 -NO

Finally..... I managed to persuade him off legoland... something that you not just do it once - short lived joy kinda "toy"

So back to scooter - but it wasn't cheap but I think it is better because he is on it every day n night now. At night because this scooter can also produce sparks....

-no picture of scooter yet!

oh he also got a new helmet.

One of my toys at work

Ga ga oo la la Romma ra a a
This is Mr Rando. I call it 'mr' although he got ONE boob.
We use "rando phantom" to access what sort of dose patients would receive [guestimation]

It has real human bone inside [spoooookieeeeee]
It come in slices.
I put some detector in it and to make it stick together I have this fragile tape [don't know where it's from]...
and what do I get???
Lady Ga Ga rando!

auchhh ! my have brain painnnnnnnnnnn because I hate studying!

I love exam... i love exam... i love exam.... i love exam... i love exam.... i love exam...