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Disneyland With The Family

August 20, 2009 by 8 Comments

Last Sunday (August 16, 2009) I went to Disneyland with the family. I decided to bring along my camcorder and see what I could record. After a day I had an hour and 15 minutes on tape (yes, I do use a camcorder with a tape. For the techies out there, I have a Canon HV30.)

The first hour was from random things filmed throughout the day. I whittled that down to about 20 minutes but then had to split it in half because of YouTube’s 10 minute limit for non-partners. The last 15 minutes was the Disney Fireworks show. I had heard from a friend that the Disneyland’s fireworks “sucked,” but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the show. I thought it was pretty good. The fireworks display can be viewed in the last two video clips.

Also, the video editing was just for fun. I just wanted to try my hand at it and see what I came up with. It’ll probably be extremely boring for anyone not related to me — well, my mom actually said it was boring to watch (But she was referring to the raw, unedited footage. Although, she didn’t say anything after I showed her the edited one, so this one might be boring too.). So consider this your fair warning!

But if anyone actually does watch, I’d suggest clicking the “HQ.”

Disneyland (1/2)

Disneyland (2/2)

Fireworks (1/2)

Fireworks (2/2)

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Photoblogging and My Life

August 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment

For those of you who don’t know, I am a huge photography fan. Every once in a while I get to go out and shoot some pictures. Granted, I don’t get out as much as I’d like to because of school and all.

Anyways, I decided to start a Photoblog. You can get to it by clicking on the link right below the header or by clicking here. Hopefully I can spend an average of one day a week to shoot something interesting enough to post there.

I’ve also added another category on this blog. The new category is “Outside of Medicine” and I will use it to post random nothings about my life that have nothing to do with medicine (I’m sure that was obvious by the name I chose for the new category). For the longest time I avoided mixing personal life on this blog. I felt that there was some rule stating that this blog had to contain only medical school and healthcare related posts.

But then I realized it’s my blog. I can do whatever I want with it. So I’m adding another category in an act of silent rebellion (although I am still not sure what I am rebelling against). Yeah. So watch out, world!

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Need Some Back to School Gear?

July 30, 2009 by 2 Comments

Lenovo is having a giveaway for this back-to-school season. Now I’d normally encourage others to go with Apple unless they absolutely must run windows (even though I know about and use Boot Camp). But if I were to get a PC, I’d definitely go with these guys.

You can enter every day from now until September 14. They are also running some online sales for the next few days. So if you’re in the need, stroll on over to Lenovo.com. But be sure to click the widget below and see if you win anything. Go ahead.. you can thank me later 😉

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Random Thoughts For The Day

January 2, 2009 by 8 Comments

Over the past few days I have re-watched the two Disney adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia — The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe & Prince Caspian.

I was always a big fan of the books so it was interesting to see the beloved characters portrayed on film.

And it got me thinking about the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. I have often seen these genres grouped together. And I suppose there are similarities between the two. One must be able to suspend one’s own belief in reality for a moment to really get into the story.

But there are differences. In Fantasy, one tends to find magic, dwarves, giants and the like fighting with swords, spears and arrows. In the SciFi realm, there are distant galaxies populated with multi-colored aliens, space battles, and energy weapons.

I’m just wondering… why don’t we ever read about a futuristic, space-traveling, laser-toting dwarf?

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On another note, I was thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. I found my post from last year about what my resolution for 2008 was going to be. I don’t think I have anything else to add to that list of two. So I guess I’ll just have to stick to those.

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Nice People Make Me Smile

December 8, 2008 by 2 Comments

I just came home from the grocery store because I needed to buy some bread. So I walked in, picked up a bag of 6 rolls and then looked for a cashier. But there were only two cashiers working. As I looked at aisle one I saw a cart that was packed with food. You’d have thought she was preparing for Thanksgiving dinner.

I turned around and got in line at aisle ten. This was the 15-items-or-less line. But it had quite a number of people. Just as I got in line, I heard some older (and by older, I mean older than me) lady call out to me. Turning around I saw that she was about to push her cart into a lane that was just opening. But, noticing I only had one item, she called me over to go ahead of her.

And I drove home thinking, “I like nice people.”

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Kauai Pictures

August 31, 2008 by 14 Comments

This is not at all related to medical school. But my last post was written while still on vacation in Kauai. These are some of the pictures I took while over there.

(Click on the thumbnails for a larger view)

IMG_0005 IMG_0001 IMG_0173 IMG_0155 CRW_0147 IMG_0073 Fishing

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The Differential – A medical student (group) blog

June 24, 2008 by 8 Comments

A while ago, I mentioned that I received an email from one of the editors of The Differential — a medical student blog that is part of Medscape. Medscape is a part of WebMD and is aimed at health professionals and students.

The email, as I wrote before, asked if I would be interested in joining The Differential as a student writer. After a few email exchanges with the editor, I am now one of the medical student bloggers at the Differential. As per our agreement, the posts I write for them will not be showing up here (at least not immediately).

So check out that site. There are currently seven authors, all medical students. And everyone should be posting at least once a week.

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