The Final Quarter
1) Tomorrow heralds the start of a 6 week stint in the Australian outback, a town west of Brisbane, population 5000. After which, the requisite end of rotation exams, before the start of summer holidays.
2) The countdown to the year end holiday begins. Hello Muntri Mews Penang, long lazy lunches, and the joy of getting lost and discovering.
Doughnut Dreaming
Remember sharing that paper bag of steaming doughnuts in the bitter Melbourne cold?
Moments, moments.
Light
Tsukiji Fish Market, 2008
Apple and posh nosh
The folks will arrive in the Big Apple in 2 days, for the brother’s graduation, and when it comes to my brother, graduations and dining in a michelin star awarded restaurant seem to go hand in hand. We celebrated the completion of his undergraduate degree at Gordon Ramsy’s, Petrus, in London.
To mark the end of his Masters, and what the brother hopes will be, the end of his life in academia, the family will be dining at Per se, which is Thomas Keller’s sister restaurant of his highly acclaimed French Laundry in Nappa Valley, a restaurant I hope to visit one day when I have oodles of money, and hopefully, still premenopausal when that day finally comes :p
After his graduation ceremony, and the dinner, they will be jetting off to Peru, to see Machu Picchu, then fly back and head to DC for a tour of the white house and back to NY for a tour of the UN, oh as well as the Statue of Liberty.
Not fair.
My only request was, that they get me some hot chocolate powder from Serendipity Cafe.
Bah.
More beauty
One of my travel goals is to make it to the nordic region, in particular Norway, Sweden and Iceland, in part because I harbor mad hopes to see the aurora borealis before I kick the bucket.
There is so much aching beauty in the world, my heart and mind sometimes cannot contain it all.
Here’s some Icelandic post rock in the form of Sigur Ros in Heima, just because. If you watch past 4:30, you’ll be treated to some amazing cinematic icelandic landscapes 
4 days left and all that remains…
India has been an epic experience emotionally and physically.
I’ll be home soon, home to rainy (so I hear) Singapore, and will try to write again regularly.
No promises though!
In the meantime, here is a current favourite photo from the trip.
Tokyo
It has been a year since… I promise to return, after figuring out how to pre purchase studio ghibli tickets Tokyo, there is magic in your air.
Prague 2008
At Gordon Ramsay’s Maze located in the Hilton. Rose water flavoured turkish delights, so soft and delicate, see how the sides cave in ever so slightly under the light pressure applied on both sides by the brother’s fingers. Oh yum!
The promise
I need to get from New Delhi to Guatemala and back to India again in a weekend for a wedding.
This was an eleven year promise made way back between three friends who were all serving time in boarding school, a promise I would very much like to keep!
This wedding will be in the middle of my clinical elective, meaning, I cannot afford to miss a single day during my time in India, i.e: I have to depart friday evening, and return in time for a early monday morning start at the hospital.
Is it even possible?
Anyone knows Richard Branson personally? :p
Argh!
