Day 15,16,17&18

Day 18

super sunset series-melbourne zoo-4km

first fun run of the year.ran round the zoo for the first 2km and then inside the zoo. it was an interesting experience running inside the zoo,saw a few animals whilst i was running-gorillas,giraffes and baboons.

the next run will be on the 10th,the docklands dash,another 4km run.

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Day 15-17

last minute surfing trip with the girls. drove to lorne and spent the whole day by the beach & shops. it was a lake at lorne on sunday,i think there were only 2 waves in 2 hours but it picked up late in the arvo. spent monday at torquay and it was awesome!! back to back great waves and because it was a monday there were barely anyone on the beach! i spent the next day bumming at home cause i was exhausted from all the fun at the beach.

the woohoo revue played while we were having lunch

magic mushroom from the bottle of milk,lorne

bells beach

torquay

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so while i was away from updating the blog,here's what i did :

registered to a do few fun runs-doing 2x4km,5.2km for run for the kids and 4.7km for mother's day classic.

bought new runners :)

*A arrived for the week and i indulged in a few things i would never eat whilst alone like crepe and chocolate for example.spent an extra hour at the gym the very next day.

i'm currently reading the new jasper fforde-my fav non-fiction writer.am planning to reread the thursday next series after this.

brekkie at south melb- the usual mediterranean and a skinny chai followed by fresh&cheap oysters :) the ideal start for any lady of leisure.

Day 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 &14

sorry,i've been MIA.

i've been working the last 3 days and i needed one whole day to recover from 30 hours of work. initially i decided i'd take at least a month off before working part time but the offer was too good to say no.plus it was an easy but busy job to do-ICU so even though it was tiring it was a lot of fun!

i'll upload pics of what i've been up to soon but it's pretty much been hanging out,eating out and the gym.my first 4km run will be on the 24th around the melbourne zoo.hopefully i'll survive till the finish line.

tomorrow we're going surfing so i'm excited :)

i'll be back with pictures on monday.

Day 4

started the day at the gym and completed 8.2 (2nd run of week 8) of couchto5k. struggled a lot to keep running but all i did was focus on the wall infront of me till the time was up. i'm easily distracted when i'm running on the threadmill cause i can't decide what to look at!

can't believe i'm one week away to finishing the whole program then i'm going to start registering for runs in melb-who wants to join me?

image from google

the big goal is to run the penang bridge in november.the penang bridge connects mainland malaysia to the island of penang (where i live).it's about 13.5km but i'm going to start with the 10 km fun run. i've managed to convince a few friends to join me as well.it's something i've always wanted to do-ever since we moved to penang in 1995.the only problem was i'm not a runner-swimmer,yes,runner,no.give me the pool/sea/water and i'll jump in :)

so as part of my quarter life crisis last year (i'll explain that in another entry) i decided to pick up running after finding out about the couchto5K program online.the most awesome thing about it is now u can also get it as an iphone app. all u have to do is turn your music and run-then a voice will come on and say "run now" or "jog now" or the best one "one minute left".i highly recommend it to anyone who wants to start running.

Day 3

when i found out my brother was coming back on tuesday,i had to do a major clean up of the house.

so i finished last week doing nights and i've been slowly trying to pick up after myself.i reckon working nights does crazy things to you. all i do when i get back from work is sleep-no decent food,no cleaning up,no gym.hence everytime i am on nights the house becomes a mess.

inspired by recent pics by CM and her new ikea-fied bedroom,i bought the shelf from GH who had a help-me-get-rid-of-my-stuff sale.

a cleanup of my bedroom will be done in the next few days. baby steps to house cleaning i say :) my bedroom is another warzone. the reason my computer is in the living room is because my desk is full of stuff-i can't even remember the last time i used the desk to do anything,probably never.

i also spoke to an agency about doing some locuming* work.made it clear to them that i had to be based my melb and not some random rural area.as much as i'd love to make money-i'll miss out on things on my to do list if i'm away.

*for my non-medical buddies: locuming-working part time where there are shortages of doctors in a hospital. the best part is some locum shift pay $72-100 compared to the minute amount of $27/hr (variable) for fulltime doctors.

will be dropping by CAE tomorrow to enquire about their arabic classes,i hope it's not too late to register.

Day 2

my first sunday as lady of leisure and knowing the fact that I didn't have to go to work the next day was awesome.

started the day early at camberwell market.

yoga at the market anyone?

we drove to camberwell blasting 'easy',the faith no more version. it was the theme of the day!

borders

spent the next few hours at borders and in the 75% off box was this book. the journal or scribbles of a comedian-full of random thoughts.

N&Z's housewarming-great company and malaysian food.we played band heroes until it was dark.

everyone was talking about what they were doing this year.the new medical year starts on Monday-so there were some excitement about starting new jobs for some of my friends...I wish them all the best.

for me I've got nothing planned for the next 2 weeks :)

Day 1

just got back from my last shift at work.

so this is the start of my year off-hopefully filled with awesome/crazy/productive/educational activities.

but first i need to sleep.

the year has just began :)

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started the day at the gym-the plan this year is to do as many fun runs before the Penang bridge run in nov.

I'll make a list of the runs I'm planning to do later on during the week.

I've been doing the couch to 5k program for the past 7 weeks and am happy to say I've survived till week 8!!

then it was dinner by the sea at my fav vegetarian restaurant in town.

so the purpose of this blog is to document my year away from a full time medical job.I'll be splitting the time between melb and malaysia but I'm planning to do a few small trips here and there.

the main goal this year is to do things I've always wanted to but haven't because I'm either stuck at work or catching up on sleep.

I'm making a list of things to do and will write about it soon.