Birthday Musings

Another year has flown by, and I can certainly identify this years wrinkles. Perhaps it is time to invest in a good anti-wrinkle cream, but at the same time isn't that admitting that one has aged?

I had a wonderful evening with the girls. Went bowling, played pool and ended up having dinner in a quaintly decorated restaurant. It really was a great evening.
I have to admit I did miss Mum and Dad, but the next best thing is to be either surrounded by good friends, good wine and good food or to for a detox weekend and ignore your birthday altogether if you can't be surrounded by the "good" people.

Funnily enough this must be one of the few birthdays when I haven't had to suffer the whole cake and candle scenario.

The anaesthesiology cycle has also began, quite enjoying it despite the fact the lack of real patients. They're not very keen on letting us try to intubate real patients, they simply keep making us repeat every step on dummies till we tire of them. I appreciate the fact that letting us lose on patient isn't really ideal, however I can't stop wishing they'd let me intubate a real patient.

The new one-a-day Atripla has been approved by the EU. I wonder if many will be switching from their current 3-a-day tablets to the new version.

An Enchanting Chocolate Evening

It's that time of the year again when I feel the need to ramble publicly.
Having spent the day moving dust from one end to the next, I was glad when Edite finally called me from the bus stop.
We had planned to bake a cake for Pete, but since neither of us really wanted to see the old man, we decided to enjoy the fruits of our labour ourselves.

For an easy chocolate cake:
6 medium eggs
200g of Laima "Christmas chocolate" -dark chocolate
250g of butter
250g of sugar
250g of self raising flour- or if like me you're in a country which as yet does not sell self-raising flour- just plain white wheat flour and the necessary amount of baking powder.

Pre-heat the oven 180C
Beat the eggs till they become light and almost fluffy- faster to use food processor
Melt chocolate
Melt butter
Sieve flour into a large mixing bowl.
Add all the other ingredients, and whisk everything into a homogeneous mixture.
Butter a cake tin, pour the mixture into it, and bake for 30-40 min at 180C .
Well somehow, we managed to bake a rather moist chocolate cake.


We saw "Enchanted" , the new Disney film. I am still a little perplexed by the whole experience. Should I be happy that Giselle chose to remain in our imperfect world or appalled at her lack of judgment in refusing the "happily ever after" that all my fellow humans yearn for?
Is this Disney's attempt at making amends for the brain washing of many of my contemporaries?
The acting wasn't particularly notable nor was the plot, but overall an enjoyable fun movie, if you're not looking to stimulate any part of your grey matter.

As I type, I'm listening to the soundtrack from the Kollywood film "Rameshwaram". Somehow I always find the portrayal of Tamil Sri Lankans (TSLs) or any films about TSLs mildly offensive...

I've somehow ended up with an absolute evil, noisy cow of a flatmate this year. Wondering if God has put me on the same list as the wonderfully competent members of DoH ...
I dream of creating a voodoo doll in her image so that I could vent all my pent up anger on it, instead of the actual stupid girl.

Another snow less December week has passed by. The majority of Rigans are quite upset with the weather, and its inability to provide them with the necessary and much awaited precipitations. I on the other hand am enjoying the mild beginning to this year's winter.
Enough rambling for one night, I'm going back to the intricacies of thyroidectomies.




"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God"
Matthew 4