Play Day :-)

WARNING: Longest post in the history of my blogging...hence just skim the bold to get the gist if you're actually interested but not THAT INTERESTED! *LOL

Thursday is usually my one Dedicated Day Off!^^ Usually, it necessitates spending almost the entire day getting the house back into a decent living state, doing my organic groceries, cooking, and catching up with admin stuff like attending to mail...

But today...was All PLAY! :-)

Met up with E over a bowl of warm congee in Chinatown to catch up on girly goss. Inspected her latest TCM induced war-wounds: was horrified to hear of the latest application of guinea pig acupuncture with literally burning needles!

...arghhhh! It's torturous and inhumane and I stubbornly refuse to attend that class when my turn comes...cos I don't intend to practice in China and I don't need any more pain or scarring and really, I don't see why such ancient methods are either necessary or applicable today. Yeah call me a wuss, but I do have a point!

Meanwhile as I sat eating my congee, a small cockroach ran across the table and the waiter pleasantly got a napkin and squished it right between the bowl and me!...Seriously not impressed...dodgy Chinatown restaurants...you always wonder why it tastes so good?! :-P

In any case, I don't know whether it had anything to do with the treatment of infertility with TCM talk we went to last night, but not only is E starting to seriously consider marrying a guy she was going to dump a few months ago but she's also freaking out like a typical girl on my behalf that I'll be sad and alone and all dried up at age 40 because of my "pickiness"!

It's sad that once you hit your late twenties, society (possibly more so when you're in medical circles) bludgeons into your head the whole biological clock ticking factor...this possibly reflects the numerous engagements and weddings I have heard of in the past week alone and the fact that the vast majority of girls I know have openly admitted they would "settle" by a certain age...

Things like this don't really phase-sorry faze- me though mostly cos I believe in what's meant to be will be but also cos that is one area where TCM really excels and is arguably superior to conventional medicine especially if you don't have the spare $7000-$10000 required per IVF attempt!!(No doubt why the popularity of our practice is burgeoning in this area!)...The other ‘en vogue’ application bringing customers running lately is cosmetic acupuncture - which is significantly cheaper than botox treatments...this area of practice and the type of clientele it attracts SO doesn't interest me though, even though I know it would be an easy money spinner!

Today, the other main highlight I managed to squeeze in to a packed day was an alternative/spiritual/natural/hippie festival cos my mum managed to score me a free ticket! Sheesh, conventional types think I'M such an alternative-hippie-rebel...I had nothing on those there! But it was definitely an interesting couple of hours...and I did get pretty loose-fingered happy- between these kinds of festivals and healthy fine food/natural health stores, I'm pretty uninhibited...hence the $ damage was pretty major today but at least I’m 100% happy with my unplanned :P purchases...(notice how as the day wears on purchases got bolder and bolder...)

1) some tangerine dairy free chocolate(couldn’t resist the ‘festival’ special price!)
2) some chia seed chocolate mud cake fudge(cos not only is the chia good for you but it was irresistibly tasty!)
3) a sparkly sunstone
4) aromatherapy oils
5) an egg-shaped Himalayan salt lamp - LooooooVE!(they generate negative ions and emit a pleasant calming vibe so much so that they can be found in the kids wards of certain hospitals!)
6) a Nada Chair (which my lower back is so grateful to have discovered!)

The most interesting part of the day for me however, was coming across a guy who took photos of auras- I was so fascinated, having read about Kirlian cameras before! This aura taking camera was a further development: not only able to detect the electromagnetic fields emitted by a person by measuring the energy in the meridians, but it also then converted this information to the corresponding colour frequencies in the UV spectrum! Very techy, but VERY COOL! The cost of one of these fandangly contraptions is...$12000 – not so bad but still, how many people could that sustain in starving communities in the developing world?!!

The other mentionable part of the day was being preyed on to do a “stress test” by a member of that ‘infamous Hollywood celebrity religion’! I had to hold these weird silver cylinders that was attached to some severity dial kind of contraption- I think the woman was getting really annoyed cos it just wasn’t working on me...and I even tried really hard to think of people that stress me and stressful situations. I had to apologise: “Sorry I’m just going through a really good time in my life right now- I’m just not stressed!”

I think it peed her off even more cos while she was trying her best to get a verifiable stress reaction from me, the DJ I met a few weeks back happened to happen by: in any case I was buoyed to reflect that I actually randomly BUMP into people these days!! Before I could easily go whole months without Ever bumping into ANYONE such was the sad fact that I never knew people with the same interests as me and did not know a whole lot of people to start with...so maybe I’m making progress so that is good! And then because I was so distracted by said lady and crazy cylinders, I didn’t even have my usual pathetically shy antisocial (that comes across as rude) reaction to the unfamiliar stranger DJ so that was good :)

So that was my most interesting day in a while!

On the study front, things are picking up: I’m starting to settle more, casting away the incredible restlessness that I have been in the grips of these past few months...I’ve been a lot more able to FOCUS(thank you, Si Jun Zi Tang!) and been feeling a lot more motivated which is good cos I figure if you’re going to bother doing something, you may as well do it WELL! (At first, in the interests of not stressing out, I came with the thought of “Stuff it! good grades don’t make a good clinician!” but then it occurred to me they would probably have significant weight when trying to convince the best practitioners in the business to take you on for training!)

...I think I’m just really slow adjusting to change and no doubt life has been really dynamic and probably just a wee bit TOO stimulating and exciting!