International Dateline

Been watching the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, but bloody channel Seven ruins it, by putting ads in the way, so we're not getting an uncut, full version. I doubt other countries are any better off. It's definitely very good looking, I mean China has thousands of years of history to draw on, so plenty of source material so to speak. But I'm skipping the rest of the opening ceremony now. It just doesn't seem to click with me, probably since I'm not Chinese. The Sydney 2000 was the best, but I'm biased since Australia is my home and Australian is who I am. The whole opening ceremony thingo just has me thinking.

Even though I'm Vietnamese in origin, I can say that I have any special affinity for Vietnam in general. It's an alien place, that I've never been too and only heard the stories. I can speak Vietnamese, I can eat the food, I know the culture, but with my parents being refugees, escaping the Communist government and settling in Australia, I don't feel any strong connection to my country of origin. Even if Vietnam was to host an Olympic games I'd probably walk out halfway during the opening ceremony, like the Chinese one, not because it is bad, but simply it doesn't click with me. But I'm glad at least that a whole bunch of people are thrilled and moved by it. China wants to show the world what it can do, and despite the political situations, it's a successful and powerful country. It'll get there.

Three weeks of clinical down and another three to go. I'm so glad that the halfway point has been reached. Clinical is awesome in the sense that it puts theory to practice and you get much needed practice and advice, but it's not all about lounging about . It can be tough going sometimes, especially if you're short on staff. And the assignments don't really help either. They are more of a nuisance rather than a help. It's just too short and restrictive to write anything meaningful about them. At least reflective journals or articles allows me to through some truthful musings in all the bullshit I pull out.


I think someone wanted to see a picture of my room a long while back, and here is most of it. This was a few days ago when I was doing my assignments, so it's pretty messy with all the papers, radiographs and books lying about.

At least there's a birthday dinner happening tomorrow. It'll be funny talking with friends and swapping radiography war stories and whatnot. Makes me wonder what I'll do for my birthday. Probably have a cake and a drink to the fact that I've lived for another year.