Random Thought Bubbles

Ramblings on of someone still finding the way

2months of silence

not too much to ask

2months of silence

silence

last blog entry. see you all in 2 months

to find someone you love you have to be someone you love

these four walls will be my friends. at least they don't bite back and they don't talk and they don't make mistakes

at least i'll be losing the weight... sigh.

stab stab stab, stabbed

how can someone this beautiful be so ugly?

how can someone say she wants something so badly and do the exact opposite?

how can someone understand only so late?

turn back, you who are spiralling, before it's too late.

run, run like hell, before it's too late

everything that reminds i don't avoid

when before i would've, so that i'd forget

scrub away, rub out, scratch off

even something simple like vanilla coke

when before i would've blanked out

frantically grabbing for any strand of rubbish

that i may be relieved of any open wounds

may this wound never heal

may i carry it the remainder of the days

no more slipping, no more slipping

no more next times

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i fall asleep at night and wake up before my alarm. there is no initial glad that everything never happened. i fall asleep knowing and wake knowing. where was this guilt? where were these thoughts? where was this sense? i am left to fumble on my own. i cannot fumble any longer. so i just stop. every small moment, happy and sad, i follow through instead of going around to avoid. i tell myself, this is what you threw away, this is what you broke, this is what you lost, this is what you didn't think for, was it worth it, what was so wrong you had to wrong back. i rehash every memory. never heal, wounds. all i ever had to do was think. why was it so much to ask.

this life

and i can only sit back and pain at what my own hands have done

no self-pity but only regret that i didn't stay changed

this burden i will not relinquish to yet another excuse

so that it will serve to remind, to reprimand, to punish

that i will never forget

one moment to erase made me erased

no excuse, no excuse, these actions were uncalled

everyday for a long time i will write think

till these walls are empty of that selfish monster child

dear moth i wronged you, brushed you under another ugly bruise

no more hiding, i remember you too.

odd silencing of the turmoil within from before

when all was clear to all but not clear to me

odd white noise shushing, shushing that child

and i can hear my heart beat every step

thunk thunk, empty heart, thunk thunk

i dare not move in fear of my own shadow

they will be staring and pointing and spitting

i dare not move in fear

such a weak mind, such a weak spirit

be changed be changed for goodness sake be changed

assignments still need to be done

exams need to taken and passed

people will still tell me bluntly

days cannot be passed sitting blankly at the screen

nights cannot be just slept through

and i must learn to not just move on and start over and not learn from my mistakes.

because moving on and starting over has always been easy

too late again but i'm stopping here. just stopping.

why stuff up when i was so close

why go off the track when i was so near the finishing line

why the same mistake when i thought i'd learnt

why sink here again when i was there

why throw everything away when so much was at stake

why test the strength of a person when i didn't have to

why push everyone away

why not work for the very thing i wanted

why not just stop

why not just think

why not just be a decent human being

why lie

why hide

why hold back when i should've been putting everything into it

why keep quiet when things should've been said

why

and let me have the strength to change

and stay changed

i'm staying

erase me, lest i forget

erase all those times and moments, nothing to you now

erase all thought, all care, lest i should widdle back

erase sound and image and memory, meaningless now

erase words and promises, ashes and dust

erase all dreams each of us had

erase all hope, i broke that, amongst all other things

erase, erase, erase...

i'll stay, maybe too late, to stay.

one step forward, a lifetime steps back

more steps forward, don't look back.

erase erase erase

i lost faith a long time ago. faith in everything. and then i lost everything. it sounds like self-pity but it's not. i say it as a fact. i lost everything. some sick part of me is satisfied that i lost everything because it proved her right. that everyone leaves in the end so why try. sick sick sick. what sane person would come up with that?

if losing everything is what i had to have happen to me to learn, so be it.

swish, swish,

pariah stands to face the crowd

swish, swish,

pariah falls to the ground

swish, swish,

pariah learns the magnitude of actions

swish, swish,

pariah remembers only now

swish, swish,

pariah faces the black rain

accepts that change must begin

swish,

black rain don't let pariah forget

stop, stop making the same mistakes again.

to him who loved me, to him who trusted.

i have wronged you terribly.

the world should continue its rampage.

throw every arrow and stone and wooden slipper at me.

there's nowhere lower i could go

is busy. try again later.

i say i am wrong. i deserve no less punishment than to be publicly stoned.

and i need a shrink. a person cannot be this stupid without a psych problem.

this is a pretty shell with an ugly content. glittering gold and silver only to reveal a mucky grey no one should expect. then to think there are so many one could offer but don't. because there are so many reasons a person is selfish. so who are we but humans who make mistakes? some lesser than others? count those lucky who have the self respect. count those foolish who have no strength. in one landslide lose a love. in one flash lose a minute. in one sentence lose a faith. in one word lose a life.

i only repent too late. i have no faith and i have no backbone. there, i said it. to the world, i say i am nothing. nothing. empty shell of a human being not worth saving. do your worst. thank you consequence for kicking me in the face. because that was what i needed to learn. thank you bad mistakes. thank you lies. thank you. because i never learn from you. i dare backslide yet again and yet again i never learn and repent only too late. why is doing the right thing so difficult? why is being a decent person so much to ask? why must i insist on ruining myself? why must i insist on becoming stained? why can't i just stick to being good? why am i so impatient? why so stupid? why so lost? why so selfish? why so self-centred? why must everything be about me? why can't i just think about other people? why push away everyone who cares? why hurt the ones i love?

i feel i've just lost everything.

words, words can strike and maim and kill. funny how they have an ability to proliferate, multiply and twist in ways too many. then to come out from those you thought were friendly. and each whispered syllable, jagged-edged sword cloaked, rings through the masses. weaving, weaving. nicking bits from imaginative wits then creative monster takes the reigns. suddenly there dawns a time to be invisible.

invisible.

we each of us have flaws too ugly to mention. in daylight, shiny and bright, bear these scars self-inflicted. in borrowed light, high on stereotypes, some of us lose too much reflected. dare they throw the stones to break these bones. yes, they do and throw they do. swish, swish. fall of another pariah at the hands of black rain. till time forgets and pariah is invisible again.

invisible.

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poof goes the magician, thin air, thin air. precious nothing under all that pretty hair.

to change out of this skin,
that's worn and torn and

inappropriate.

so marred by wrecks of past
mistakes and habits i am now

inappropriate.

let those thunders strike, wounded
bleeding, fallen, felled, still

inappropriate.

then to renew, i concede defeat
i accept these terms on stranger grounds

to be less

inappropriate.

silence those willful words, they
do no good, no work towards

being less

inappropriate.

thus the violent kick pushes through
it is a time of change

to being less

inappropriate.

Heaven bent to take my hand
And lead me through the fire
Be the long awaited answer
To a long and painful fight

Truth be told I've tried my best
But somewhere along the way
I got caught up in all there was to offer
And the cost was so much more than I could bear

Though I've tried, I've fallen...
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here
And tell me I told you so...

We all begin with good intent
Love was raw and young
We believed that we could change ourselves
The past could be undone
But we carry on our backs the burden
Time always reveals
The lonely light of morning
The wound that would not heal
It's the bitter taste of losing everything
That I have held so dear.

I've fallen...
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here
And tell me I told you so...

Heaven bent to take my hand
Nowhere left to turn
I'm lost to those I thought were friends
To everyone I know
Oh they turned their heads embarassed
Pretend that they don't see
But it's one missed step
You'll slip before you know it
And there doesn't seem a way to be redeemed

Though I've tried, I've fallen...
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here
And tell me I told you so...

by sarah mclachlan

I haven't been posting much at all... hmmm... mostly because by the time I'm back from the hospital I'm pooped and I'm just barely trying to keep myself awake as I try and study something for the next day. Haha! Ya well... we're all probably suffering from some sorta chronic fatigue syndrome... all of us are zombie-like these days, except probably Moush who seems to be enjoying her general surgery run out in Middlemore.

So I'm on my orthopaedic run right now and honestly I feel so lost. It's been 4 days and I'm finally getting some of my bearings in order. It's so extremely lax and most of the time the house surgeons and the registrars are like, "so what do you want to do today?" and Dhivyan and I go, "er, well we can go through physical examinations or we can practise taking history if there are patients to see since we have to do a case report... er, is there anything else we can learn?" Haha... *lost expressions left, right and center* Yep, so that's more or less how a days runs.

Mornings we get there at 7.30am for a handover session where we sit around blur watching the consultants and everyone else discussing management of the patients and looking at their x-rays and stuff... and hopefully if there's a question we can answer it. (most of the time someone does which is good although it'd be nice to score brownie points answering something impressive) and then we go on a ward round and watch alot. It's like Seremban again but at least it's not humid and hot and everyone speaks English (hallelujah!).

And then we're free to do whatever... I wish we were just scheduled for stuff but I guess it's a 'take an initiative to learn' kinda thing. Bleks =P

In other news, I finally went clubbing in Auckland! It was St. Patrick's Day (Irish holiday where everyone makes an excuse to go party, drink and generally go nuts) and I went out with a Sun and a Kalpa. It was quite silly really because another Russian girl was supposed to come along but she'd gone out already and came home quite drunk and fell comatose on her sofa. I amazingly had fun anyway and we club hopped a bunch of places since they don't have cover charge. YAY! And the music was good which was what saved the night. And I only had 3 tequila shots.

Sun, Me, Kalpa. Behind us is the marina where there's a bunch of sailboats... It's quite nice really =) but too bad I didn't catch it =P


Another random bit of my time here... we had a plaster session one day and we got to put casts on each other. That was a fun afternoon =)

Dhivyan - Mr. Plaster my arm man and Wei San with her cast =D

This is my casted arm =) It's quite hot in a cast, haha, and also quite tight in there =P

This is the saw you cut it open with. It's very cool... you'll never be able to saw through someone's arm, unless you deliberately rub it against the skin repeatedly. I don't know how it works but it saws through the cast but won't cut skin if you go too deep.


So yep, haven't been doing much aside from sitting around after hospital time at the end of the day and studying and possibly exacerbating my herniated disc and altogether looking so very forward to the weekends. It's just such a shame that Saturdays and Sundays go by too quickly.

And since I'm such a narcissist, here's a picture of me before I cut my hair, out at a BBQ at some park with someone else's shades on =) Look quite the duh but I don't care! =D

I cut my hair again!

Free!

Courtesy of Toni and Guy, Newmarket, Auckland. I saved NZ$80 today! And as usual, I have taken photos of myself to show the world (narcissist me =P) I must say I was a little uncomfortable with what Misuzu (that the Japanese stylist who offered me the free cut) was explaining to me before she started cutting but since she was practising for a competition coming up this Sunday (which she won last year) I figured it couldn't go too far wrong. Hee hee!


Front side =)


Right side


Left side

It's gewd... and she only took 45min... because she only has 45min to cut, blow and style the do on the competition day itself. I was quite impressed. She had out her little pink, extremely jewelled flip phone out to time herself. So happy! I love it... even though I've already had one comment that it looks dyke-ish. Haha!

Other than the haircut my days here have been interesting enough. I'm on my anaesthetics run right now so it's alot of operating theatre time and lots of watching people being put to sleep and people being woken up. I got to do a few IV cannulas and intubated once and yep... generally trying to appear as interested as I can... yep yep... I MISS KL! But Auckland okay too =D