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Dr. Chris' space5月30日 I bid adieu to you!Well...as you can tell, I haven't been here in awhile.
Truth is...I am simply having far, far more fun with facebook. I enjoyed the blogging part, but I guess deep down: I'm more of a socialist rather than a preacher....I prefer talking with people, rather than talking at people.
So, I'm not going to shut this space down, but no more blogging for now!
Cheerio, C 5月6日 Where's Laura?So here I am back on Saba (known as 'the Rock'). Sadly all by myself this time....Kim and the boys struck off for home.
Craziness, living in a tropical environment: I leave for 7 days and come back to what? More friggin mold....mostly in places where the boys love to spill stuff, slobber on, chew on, etc, etc.
We had an absolutely fantastic time in St. Maarten during the break. Beaches galore, in the pool galore. The kids are both water fanatics.
Speaking of water, it has been seriously dry here on Saba, my cistern was the lowest I have seen it. Thankfully, today it is pouring rain for greater than 5 minutes...and we need it to fill up the ole cistern.
Between Kim and I, we've managed to sell most of the kid's stuff, aside from the crib and other baby furniture....I'll keep throwing out the sales pitch until we can unload it for someone else to use, rather than spend lots of silly money shipping stuff in.
So I noticed Laura is gone....dropped off of the face of the Windows Spaces. I hope she comes back. Although I only got to her space sporadically, she is juggling quite a bit and still managed to find time to post comments on mine, and I assume many, many others. I guess that means Lexi that you'll have to kick the comments up a notch! Let's hope Laura makes it back sometime.
Last night we found out that the Chinese restaurant had the DeLaHoya/Mayweather boxing match televised. I went with my mates Andy (Halifax) and Raj (Vancouver), we were able to get front row seats at the bar...and this is because we were only 3 hours early for the fight. urps! So what else do you do to kill time but drink: heavily. I consumed far too much rum, rye, vodka, beer. Raj lost the bet on the fight. His punishment? Had to do a shot of Chinese rum in a bottle filled with 2 pickled baby iguanas.
Even though I luckily did not get iguana juice, i'm feelin' mighty low at the moment, thanks for asking though.
I am seriously turning into a facebook-whore: I am continually amazed at finding people that I haven't seen or heard from in years. Facebook allows you to blog, and I'm still working out the nooks, crannies and kinks of facebook, but if it can do the same blog style as here: I'll be dropping this site and movin on to facebook, full time! Since I'm guessing Laura's space got shut down by the microsoft live space people...my continual sales pitch for facebook should expedite my space being removed exponentially.
Well, I'm going to take a nap: LATER!
C 4月26日 St. Maarten for a last hurrah...It's official...Kim and the boys are heading home May 4th: for good. It will be a tough 4 month stretch for sure...the longest time ever I have been apart from Kim and the kids. The only upside to this is:
Really though, I would much rather be together then apart, but we have no choice. Kim has to meet with all the schools to see which one is best for Noah this September (he has autism, relatively mild on the spectrum of autism disorders). So, my folks are coming down this Saturday, and we are flying over to St. Maarten to meet them. We are staying there for 6 days, then Kim and the boys fly home with my parents, while I head back....all by myself We have compiled a list of stuff for sale, along with the sweet Hyundai. So far stuff is selling like hotcakes. Which makes me wonder why do hotcakes sell so well? Are we talking flapjacks or bakery style hot cakes? Glad everyone likes the pics...it honestly takes me forever to upload them from here. My top download speed is a whopping 15 K per second. Fast as my hyundai. The funny thing, our car has been super-reliable here, but I would bet it would last less than 5 minutes on the 401, since it never goes above speeds of 40 Km/hour on Saba. I'll try to do one last post before flying out on Saturday. C 4月22日 Saba Election TimeSince there really is NOT a lot to do on the island, election time is a really big deal. And I mean really!
Saba is presently part of the Netherlands-Antilles. The island of Curacao is the 'head island', meaning all money stems from Curacao. Most locals believe that Curacao is corrupt (a corrupt government: go figure!) and doesn't distribute the wealth evenly. In defense of this argument: Saba's infrastructure is truly in disrepair and underfunded.
In 2008, the Netherlands-Antilles as a country is being dismantled, as all of the other islands have had enough of Curacao. Saba is going to become a Dutch island. This basically means that our flow of Heineken and Gouda cheese will be uninterrupted (thank heavens, we would have mass rioting otherwise), but probably won't have legalized prostitution or marijuana use (and just when it sounded oh so promising).
Back to my point, the elections this year were truly important, as they are the leaders heading into this huge transition.
What I find more amusing, is the rules involved with voting. Basically, the whole island shuts down after 12 noon on Friday and everyone votes and gets wasted. You cannot buy alcohol at any store, bar, shanty. BUT, most if not all of the candidates running have open houses at their homes: filled to the rim with what else.....copious amounts of booze.
So on this small island (with 1200 local population) every citizen votes, unwind, drink......and then get in their cars, driving around and blasting their horns: non-stop.
Needless to say, Saturday morning was perhaps the quietest I have ever heard, even the roosters must have partaked as they were quiet.
I finally got around to posting some new pics...We still don't have any great pictures of both the boys together, but alas they are 4 and 2, so whatcha see is what ya get.
That's about it for now...
C
4月19日 So famous...I'm infamousI wrote my finals yesterday, things went well; though I'm not sure if all of my class will make it through pharmacology.
We were supposed to have a "shelf" exam that was worth 25% of our grade on Monday. Turns out some med student somewhere in the universe posted all of the questions (and answers) on the internet.
Since these questions are 'retired' US medical licensing exam questions, the school has to order this exam way, way in advance. The school was notified on Friday that the exam was compromised, therefore throwing our grading system for pharm in flux.
We still took the shelf on Monday...but our prof said that it wouldn't count for anything. So now our grading is on the previous 4 block exams, plus the final block exam I wrote yesterday. Since supposedly 15-20% of my class was failing the exam going into that final, and with the shelf not counting, I was expecting a very straightforward, piece of cake exam.
Instead of cake, we got an instruction manual for how to make the oven, using chewing gum, paperclips and balsa wood....it was a tough bugger. I studied like a maniac for it, came out with an 88%. I guess this is finally the semester where the prof doesn't push everyone on through. Hard to say though, since our final marks won't be posted online until probably next week.....stay tuned.
Either way for me, ended up with an A and felt like I had good command of the material...so I'm smiling, just not sure if those people that are borderline will be frowning, or turning the frown upside down or just downright miffed.
Anyways, had my big B-day yesterday: I have to do math now to figure it out, but 35 years....good thing I still feel like I'm 25, normally I don't even think of my B-day: but with the posts here, along with the oodles of posts on facebook, and a class anouncement: I was a celebrity for one day. Thanks though for the B-day wishes.
Speaking of celebrity.....Did you guys read the National Post paper on Monday? I was front page news (I'm serious). My school's administration was aware of my effort to get an article in Toronto Star: which totally fell through. A senior reporter from the post was writing an article regarding Canadians that have to go abroad to study medicine, since we have a grand total of oh....17 medical schools for the whole friggin' country.
Anyways check it out, it's honestly a bit of a lame-O article, but at least it gets the word out to the public that without IMG (international med grads...Canada will ALWAYS have a physician shortage). 25% of Ontario doctors study out of country according to the provincial licensing body.
National Post: "Would-be MDs forced overseas for studies"
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d65c3773-f81d-42d1-a707-0a55a24ef0b1&k=99299 I'm looking to hire an agent with my new found fame and notoriety....right.
Actually, i'm hangin out with the kids as much as possible...since I won't be seeing them for 4 months (Kim travels home for good in early May). Will post again and upload photos in the next couple days.
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