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March

hAHa sorry, we’re not having any CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) tv drama based in Perth. The CSI: Perth that I’m talking about is the Clinical Scientific Innovative… say what? You can click away now before I bore you with my ramblings of dental conventions and what not.

The 33rd Australian Dental Congress and Exhibition in Perth is just around the corner, yaY!? I know that there’s actually not much to get excited over, I mean who wants to sit in on lectures during the weekend?

I don’t mind though, because I know that I have a long way to go before I can confidently say that I’m the best at what I’m doing. There’s so many articles, research journals and new products, to read up on. Even after you finish one, you realise that there’s a whole stack of other articles contradicting the one you’ve just read…. it’s just never ending!

So anyway, I’ve looked through the Programme quite thoroughly and I have a fair idea of what I’m sitting in on (or in some cases what I’m NOT sitting in on). I just wish there was a little more detail into the presentations, I’ld rather not listen in on something that bores me to tears… I think I would rather have a monotone lecturer with an interesting topic than an animated lecturer with a boring topic.

Download the Scientific Programme here

I think Sunday is the one I’m most looking forward to, geriatrics and paediatrics… not exactly sure why because those patients aren’t exactly my favourites I suppose it’s because it’s most rewarding when you finally convince the stubborn 70yo or bratty 6yo to brush their teeth. Obviously I haven’t quite mastered the right way in handling these types of patients

Well, hopefully the other days won’t drain my brain too much…

Category: Dental Blog, Events Tags: convention, Dental Blog, perth 2 Comments

Australian Disasters

February

Selina Lai

It’s been a very busy start to the new year for Australia… Flooding, heat waves and bush fires. See the list Wiki has of other Australian Disasters to realise just how damaging it has been.

09 Feb 2009 – Nine News Bushfires ground zero

03 Feb 2009 – ABC News NQ flooding

Category: Events Tags: australia, disaster, video One Comment

Happy Ox Year!

February

Selina Lai

It’s been a busy busy week.
Not only because of the Chinese New Year celebrations (aka eating lots of food) and relatives visiting (aka eating lots more food), but it’s also been a week for friends and a strange week at work too…

I seemed to have a lot of clashed events (sorry!) which is annoyingly common for some reason. Usually a busy week of everything follows my relaxing down time, nevertheless I think (hope) that’s over now.

At the rate things are going, this year will zip by in a blink of an eye! It’ll be interesting to see what this year has to bring!

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我最近忙着找房子买，累死了！

Category: Events Tags: new year One Comment

New Years Resolutions

December

Selina Lai

A new year and a new start. If you haven’t already made some New Years Resolutions, it’s time to take ACTION and get some New Years Resolutions written down!

Take some time-out to look back on the past year
Write down and reflect on the achievements and fantastic memories you have made in 2008
Ask yourself: What will I do in 2009 to gain more out of life?
Write down S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-orientated) goals
Celebrate the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009!

Some examples of some New Years Resolutions might be:

I will brush my teeth every morning and every night for the rest of my life
I will floss every night for the rest of my life
I will tell myself everyday that, “rinsing my mouth does not physically remove plaque bacteria” for the next 12 months

See you all in the New Year! =)

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Christmas 2008~!

December

Selina Lai

It’s this time of year again, Christmas Time! =)

I can’t help but think of this time last year. It will always be one of the Best Christmases I’ll ever have. Not only was it because I spent it with a fantastic bunch of friends, with an amazing Christmas Dinner, as well as having a heart warming Christmas Eve, it was also the first Christmas which I felt so mind-numbingly cold that it was so appropriate to stay indoors and chow down on masses of food =P

Christmas Tree in Beijing

The Christmases in the southern hemisphere just doesn’t fit with the snow covered Christmas Tree or jolly fat Santa covered in furs found on those Christmas Cards. Instead, my Christmases in Australia have always revolved around food (similar to Chinese New Year but with ‘western food’). One Christmas in HK was spent shopping at the markets. The Christmas in Yunnan, China was spent on the plane flying to somewhere I don’t quite remember.

So an actual cozy Christmas Dinner in Beijing was something that I really appreciated. But of course Christmas has it’s downsides in a foreign country, one being no family and the other being the crowd. Despite being used to the typical Beijing crowd, the Christmas rush was completely unexpected. The locals use Christmas as an excuse to go on romantic dates… which is fine by me, the problem comes when the whole Beijing population decides to move around on that day!

Christmas Eve in Beijing

So Christmas in 2008 is back in Australia, I’m thanking my lucky stars that it’s not the 40ºC+ weather they experienced last year! And I’m extremely glad it’s with my family, and the extended family =)

Christmas Feast

I ended up stuffing myself silly (again) but it’s alright because it can be worked off during the After Christmas Sales (Boxing Day Sales)!~ =)

Category: Events, Food, Observations, Travelling in China Tags: christmas, christmas in australia, christmas in beijing One Comment

Hey Small Fry~

December

Selina Lai

I know what you’re thinking, “Why is a convicted fish killer allowed to own a fighting fish?”

In my defense, my roommate in Beijing was supposed to help me take care of my two goldfish (Jin and Hei) when I went away for the weekend to Dalian (thankfully one of the two survived). My message was obviously lost in translation because I found one very dead fish being nipped by the other obviously hungry fish. Mind you, even before I left them for the weekend, I expected the little Hei to die soon because the much more dominant and bigger Jin kept head-butting Hei and chasing the poor thing around the bowl.

In the case of the dead fighting (aka betta) fish, I blame the crazy Beijing winter. I didn’t put it near the heater like my friends because, they might have possibly boiled their fishies to death… But I suspect the fighting fish I got might have actually enjoyed the sauna…

I must also blame the fact that the poor little fighting fish had to endure a 10-15min walk from the Lotus shopping complex back to my dorms in the freezing cold of Beijing winter, as well as being jostled around when I had to avoid bicycles, cars, people, potholes and uneven pavements.

Okay, so enough of the pointing fingers. At the end of the day, C let me have one of his babies! And after a week, Small Fry has his? beautiful blue/aqua/teal colouring! The actual colour depends heavily on the time of day, temperature, angle, and if I make Fry angry.