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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
It’s been four weeks since Buddy died. I am still grieving but I seem to be holding up better than I was the first week; maybe it’s just because my body ran out of tears. I am still tremendously sad but have been trying to think of the fact that Buddy is now in peace and no longer feeling any pain or frustration as a way for me to outweigh the sadness. So far, there has been cycles of ups and downs… well, not really “ups” but feeling okay as opposed to feeling nothing but sadness. Smiling or laughing has been difficult without the quick afterthought of Buddy being gone. After the first week, work has been distracting me some but even during work, I’ve had hard time focusing on anything.
This was my first loss of a loved one and it’s been overwhelmingly the saddest event of my life. Aside from the suddenness of the loss that pretty much shocked me into a state of complete numbness, I didn’t know what to do or think. It was as if my brain went into an endless loop trying to process what it meant when the vet on the phone told me that Buddy had passed away. The obvious questions that my brain expected to ask the vet that morning like “how is he doing now? how did the antibiotics work? when can I pick him up to take him home?” ran through my head but my head didn’t come back with the different possible answers to expect back from such questions like it normally would.
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Buddy Hwang, my dog, passed away today. He was twelve years and eight months old long-haired Chihuahua with a heart bigger than mine. He used to follow me everywhere when he could see. He was very ferociously protective of me yet easy to coerce with treats but was so quick to turn back into ferocious mode after he finished. I used to play hide-and-seek with him and he would always find me. Even when he was blind, he would walk around the living room until he felt or smelled me then sit or lay down making contact so that he’ll know when I move. Somehow, he would always make me feel better regardless of what was happening. He was diagnosed with diabetes relatively recently and had been blind for the last few years of his life yet his determination and ability to show me love and loyalty was unbelievable and this is what I will miss most about him. (more…)
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
I decided to take a short hiatus from my 4+ month hiatus from blogging on my blog to request that you support the Haiti Earthquake Relief. The devastation and destruction there is simply unimaginable.
Every dollar counts. Every thoughtful gesture counts. Every prayer counts regardless of your religious beliefs.
Also, don’t forget to check with your employer as they may provide a charitable matching gifts program.
Back to my indefinite hiatus from blogging because I didn’t get the memo that (full) blogging is now lame and you should (micro) blog in less than 140 characters per entry but at a higher frequency.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
A couple of Scrubs quotes for your enjoyment.
Dr. Cox: (peptalk to new residents) Each and every one of you is going to kill a patient. At some point in your residency, you will screw up, they will die, and it will be burned in your conscience forever. Now take pee pants here. He just might go get himself a good clean kill this morning seeing as his patient, Ms. Samson, is in DKA and he hasn’t been tracking her phosphate level, her phosphate level, her phosphate level.
JD: Doug! Stop writing and go!
Dr. Cox: That young man has killed so many patients I’m starting to think he just might be a government operative. The point is, the harder you study, the longer you just might be able to hold off that first kill. Other then that, I guess cross your fingers and hope that the guy you murder is a jackass with no family. Great to see you kids. All the best.
And another…
JD: Ooh, Dr. Cox- can I ask you something?
Dr. Cox: The answer is yes, it was me who saw you doing leg lifts in the gym on that inflatable ball. Quite the display of girl power. Ab-so-lutely love the leg warmers.
JD: First of all, they were just big socks. Okay? And secondly, if you need to do some laundry, here’s the washboard (lifting up scrubs to show flat abs), riiiighht?
And another…
Dr. Kelso: That young man’s father is very important.
Dr. Cox: Don’t tell me, he donated a wing.
Dr. Kelso: He donated a wing, a thigh, and a breast.
JD: Sir…
Dr. Kelso: Yes, genius, in this metaphor the hospital is a chicken.
JD: Please sir, I totally get that. (Inner monologue: How can a hospital be a chicken?)
… yes, I’ve been watching reruns of Scrubs lately. 
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Farewell, 2007. It was a good and honorable year. I hope everyone had a spectacular year as well in 2007. I am very much excited about 2008 although I don’t really know why. There were a lot of resolutions (and expectations) I made a year ago that I have yet to fulfill. Shamefully, I would have to admit that 90% of it was purely because I was being lazy and have not correctly prioritize everything that I wanted to accomplish. Briefly reflecting upon my previous year’s goals, it seems to me that there are three major reasons why I can’t seem to complete some of my goals:
- Not making myself accountable
- Too many segregated goals (ie. Seven Projects)
- Lack of continuity
The first two reasons are pretty much self-explanatory. I’ll need to figure out a way to make myself accountable to failing to work on some of my goals somehow but the problem is that since these are personal goals, there are no negative consequences except for maybe personal shame. I could use some ideas on this one. Second reason is that maybe I put too many things on my plate and that just overwhelms me to the point where I don’t want to work on any of it. One way I can think to fix this is to prioritize my goals carefully and work on them bottom-up. The third reason may need some more elaboration. I currently have what I consider to be a good full-time job that I consider to be rewarding in a multitude of ways and also necessary. I also have a great hobby in photography that I delve into as much as possible but not really necessary but very fun and interesting. My goals are in between these two things and I consider it rather difficult to “shift gears” between each and keep the continuity of the things I am working on.
So my initial thoughts are NOT make the same mistake I did just last year by listing out all the things I want to work on but to just keep it simple and work on goals one at a time so that at the end of 2008, I can write a totally different type of blog post that will reflect back upon things that I was able to complete instead of focusing on the things that I wasn’t.
There, I am very much looking forward to 2008.
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
I completely forgot about these photos that I took on Thanksgiving Day. My family met at my eldest sister’s house and most of the food was prepared by Cecilia and Johnny. We actually ate the food for lunch but it was so much food, I don’t think I ate dinner until near midnight on Thursday. Most of the photos are pretty much self-explanatory… except for the last one; yes, that is kimchi. What did you expect?
Needless to say, the food tasted as good as it looks in the pictures. The food was… mmm mmmm good!
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