Today was spent being extra tired. Was fighting to keep awake throughout the talks in the morning, and even through the afternoon and night. I guess keeping myself actively doing something relli helps. A few things i accomplished today.

1. Bought a new pair of shoes (after i sold my previous one to jiashen)
2. Ate AV chicken rice jia gian jia kwa
3. Watched 6 episodes of naruto
4. Convince myself dat my future does not lie in DOTA
5. Ate 2 packets of seaweed
6. PS my JC classmates for gathering

Back to nepal...



Day 1 of the trek, and we were thoroughly drenched. Someone had the idea of doing a "night-trek", which didn't quite go all too well. Its started pouring, and the rain and wind was so heavy, dat at one point in time, i could not see where i was walking to. The rain was pelting in my glasses, and which point in time, i thought we'll be in for a long night. But thankfully the rain subsided after abt 30min.



Got to our first rest stop, which happens to be the most pok of all the guesthouses dat we stayed throughout the journey. But i kinda like it, very basic, have to climb rickety wooden steps to our little wooden cabin.

What u see on the table, is the infamous Dhal Bhat of nepal. It's basically rice (tonnes), some little bit of bitter vege and potato, and Dhal (aka soupish thing). How the nepalese eat is this -- they pour the dhal (which can range from tasty to tasting like water) into their rice, put the vege in, and make rojak out of the whole thing with their hands, and off they go.



Benny striking an extremely sexy pose sleeping opposite me. Above him lies all our wet stuff.



The view in the morning from our window. We are in a river valley, and very much trekking our way up the river. It's quite a beautiful sight, since we arrived in the dark and was unable to appreciate the beauty of the place.

Just got back from a mahjong session with the gang. Been a long time since i last played with them. Somehow dun have the stamina to last thru one of those crazy sessions in the past. Now play half a dong i already feel tired. Won some money though, so bought the guys supper.

Now to continue with a bit more nepal

This is a shot of the first room we stayed in. Quite basic, even have an attached bathroom, but the hotwater doesn't quite work. So we come out of the place freezing. Kathmandu is actually quite cool at night, being at cameron highland's kinda height. Managed to bargain this room to abt sgd30 for 2 days, meaning about sgd4 pax/night, which is quite the standard price.

Dat's me writing my travel journal by the window, which happen to be looking straight into another window abt 3m away, which was occupied by some angmohs. Interesting views from this window of the opposite room... haha.

Spent the next day wandering around kathmandu, and eventually venturing out of the maps dat we have. And so we saw the real kathmandu, the narrow streets, half completed buildings, and rubbish everywhere.

This is a view from the top of a building in Thamel, which is quite the tourist center of kathmandu. Lots and lots of guesthouses here to choose from, and of course a huge variety of very affordable ang moh food.

Just realised that there is actually a cap on the amt of space my photos can take up in blogspot. And since most of my photos are close to 1mb in size, maybe i should shrink them down before i upload them, which is actually quite a hassle... haihz...

ok, since i have nothing much to blog about, and i have tonnes of time to spare, maybe i'll just blog abt past trips dat i have la. Thought these are a bit more interesting den blogging about day to day stuff, which i can't blog about very soon, since i'll be sued if i reveal abt patient's confidentiality.

Think we can start with some photos abt nepal den, which is my post-grad trip.

This is the gang at changi airport early in the morning. Managed to secure a taxi ride from leonghai the night before -- though i probably underpaid him. All still looking fresh from the end of MBBS and ready to chiong some nepalese mountain.

Dun quite know how i managed to convince them to go on this trip. Think i'm quite good at selling "tour packages" to ppl. Maybe i should be working in the travel industry instead.

Airport at Kathmandu. Which is actually very basic. It was actually quite hot when we arrived, despite being 1.4km above sea level. Had a bad experience with some guy at the airport, who was offering to help us grab our luggage and push our trolley. Told him repeatedly dat we dun need his help, but he kept on going. Had the feeling he'll ask for a tip, and eventually he did. Told him firmly no, and he stormed away looking extremely displeased. These ppl dun get it do they?

Need to head off now, ciaoz

First post

Hmmm, this does seem to be much easier to use den blurty. And more importantly is the ability to add photos in at the click of a button! Or dat is at least i think... let me try...














Wow, nice. Still figuring out how this thing works. Anyway, this is a photo of the various beers we tried in Nepal. If u are going there, pls give the one on the right a miss. Oranjeboom or something. Taste horrible.

This photo thing doesn't seem to be well aligned... no WYSIWYG (pronounced Wee-See-Wig). Been a long time since i last used this abbreviation. Still recall the old days of Wordperfect and Coraldraw, now very much superceded by Microsoft word and Adobe photoshop

Will throw more photos in at a later date, perhaps some on my recent trip to nepal. It's a relli beautiful place. Lots of unfinished business over there.