There is a free scotch tasting today at Vinomania (liquor store on jasper ave) from 12-4. with 15% of scotch purchases. I'm probably heading over around 3ish. want to learn something and get my dad a gift. Anyone up for some fine drinking?

Well frankly I guess I should push harder or I would be letting at least two people down:

Hello friends,

You may have noticed that a certain asian engineer’s upper lip has gotten darker, and you may have wondered if it is dirt or that he forget to shave? The answer to your questions is that he is hopelessly trying to grow a moustache to raise funds for a cause very dear to his heart. What event you may ask could cause him to do such a thing? Well recently a very close friend of mine was diagnosed with stomach cancer and just before the critical operation was to be performed he married his childhood sweat heart so that he would have something to fight for. In another instance a cousin was diagnosed with cancer and is still struggling with it. I for one don’t want anyone to close their eyes on a operating table hoping the next time they open them that they can see the love of their life again, nor do I think that we should think that we have to struggle alone. So I ask you my friends to please give what you can so that together we can give hope for a future where no one has to struggle alone or die needlessly.

Movember

Thank you for your time,
Albert Yeong

Not to mention a production company named after a Simpsons reference.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for the parody hard-boiled detective. I love loved the recent Venture Bros. that did it, cheesy though the parody was.

Hey Guys and Gals!

Want to contribute to a good cause and watch me vainly try and grow facial hair?

Well you can by donating to Movember under my name. Or you can donate by cash or cheque and I'll just fill out the form.

My Movember page

Thanks,
Albert

THAT explains this oh so well... I was bored and wandering through Flickr today when I came across the following:





At the time I was looking at those three, the photographer hadn't added any tags, and I am living in a pop culture void, so this Rally to Restore Sanity was completely off my radar. ... and therefore a protest with those ^ signs in DC made little sense to me. I mean, it makes perfect sense, it's about time people actually said something about the nonsense coming from the tea party, but to have that many people organised enough to make signs that say "this is a sign", well... that takes a bigger force than I could think of...


Seriously, this is a lot of people.



Apparently Where's Waldo was being played at the same time... there were multiple Waldos in the crowd, from the photos...

Good grief, Par. $5000 for two tests? Let me guess, there are also yearly membership dues to be paid, aren't there?

What a racket.

Glad to hear the tests are designed to let you all pass, though. I mean, what with med school being so intensely rigorous, it's nice to know there's an academic break at the end of the road, even if it's a financial drain.

Advance apologies to all vegetarians and sensitive viewers...

I visit a website called Cake Wrecks that is essentially a blog that, well, shows off cake-wrecks. Like train wrecks, but all cakey. Bakery disasters of epic proportions like poorly executed icing adventures, mistranslated inscriptions, edible photo paper, and then just really awful looking cakes.

They have this whole series of baby shower themed cakes. ... like these. The really godawful one is sandwiched in the middle, just so you're forewarned.







I don't understand the fascination with babies and pregnant bellies as cakes. ... or meatloaf. ugh. meatloaf baby. Onions brown in the oven, too, so those eyes are gonna be creepy.

Yes, the exam is finished, hopefully successfully (results available in a mere 2 months!)

Also, it is the Medical Council of Canada which charges $2000 for a test; a test which the overwhelming majority of Canadian graduates pass (in no small part because Canadian universities spend a good deal of time preparing us for such an exam).

Moreover, the test covers general medicine but can only be taken at least one year after the beginning of residency, when many residents training to become specialists are at least 1 year and more likely 2-3 years away from their last experiences managing deliveries and dealing with children and they will never have to do either of those things again.

Who says the system makes sense?

Now, just one more $3000 test left in May. Woo!