Rick’s Tid-bits

For the past week… it was one hell of a week.  A 7 year old injury had finally resurfaced itself and came to greet me once more.  For those people that knew me 7 years ago, I popped my right should, stretched my ligament, dislocated it right out of its socket…  It was a peaceful night when I was just enjoying my 2-on-2 badminton at Bayview Secondary School, perhaps it was lack of warm up and a bad posture in the air had let me losing connection with my right arm.

My experience:

Tuesday night as soon as I dislocated my shoulder the badminton manager Jack immediately called the ambulance.  This is a good move, despite what kind of injury, if it causes pain, call 911 right away.  Two ambulance ladies came in found me sitting on the floor groaning to my pain started to ask me the standard questions.  I find them really pushy, I mean being the injured person they treated me as if I’m a little kid that doesn’t speak English.  And another thing is if they are rushing to go somewhere; I was in extreme pain and they kept hurrying me to stand up and sit my ass on their stretch.  If pain could cause a person to shake uncontrollably, let him/her some time to find firm steps to stand and sit down on the stretch; don’t be pushy!

The ride to the hospital was bumpy, due to bad road condition, as it shakes more pain crawls up my spine…  As we arrived to the hospital, same thing, pushy pushy pushy.  The nurse that took care of me is much better, she knew what she’s doing and other staffs that brought me to x-ray and back are extremely nice too.  I was glad they had upgraded their x-ray machine, i no longer had to stand up this time, lying flat was all I had to do.  (Yes, I had done this before and yes, lying flat is harder than it sounds when the injury is so close to your spine, very muscles hurt)

The first doctor that came in, introduced himself, was a very cocky individual.  I don’t know, I mean you do not have to show authority because you already told me you are a doctor and I respect that, no need to give me attitudes.  The second doctor that came in was the actual person that put my arm back into its rightful place.  The second doctor sounds much more experienced and had a very calm voice.  I couldn’t see their faces clearly because my glasses was off, but I was glad the night was over, it was 2pm in the morning.

I could finally type with both hands, after a whole week of left handed life.  I could freely move half of my right arm, but lifting it up is still a big challenge.

Thank you all whom have been there for me, both mentally and physically, I appreciate them all.

I mean the night before my exam obviously I’m studying… or am I really?!?! Why am I here updating my blog, GAWD!

Anyways, work is busy, school is busy, life is busy, and rick is a mess.

Thoughts: James! Smell my fingers!

I spent my long weekend @ NYC. The trip itself was very well planned out despite some unfortunate mistakes, but I’m more determined now that NYC is not my type of city to be in. And it’s definitely not a place for people that needs a quiet vacation. So I will list out what I had done over the weekend.

Friday:
- Arrived to Laguardia Airport (NYC) around 3ish in the afternoon
- Had the worst Pho in the world, expensive and noodles taste like plastic
- Hotel located right in the Korean district, so many Ahn-ion’s!
- We arrived to Time Square, visited Sephora and Toys ‘R’ Us
- Proceeded to Broadway streets where many shows are hosted, too bad all good seats are sold out
- Ben & Jerry for some ice cream, smoothies and milk shake
- Next stop was Grand Central station, very much like our Union station except prettier
- Jannie was tired so she slept uber early that night while me and Ka went to Shila for some good Korean food

Saturday:
- First thing in the morning we head to the shopping district of Big Apple
- Nintendo World (even though we didn’t buy much we spent more than hour in this store)
- Lunch with some good Hearty Soups
- More Walking
- The NBA store
- MOMA - Museum of Modern Arts
- Nokia Store - Round 1
- Apple Store
- A cup of coffee at the Trump Tower
- Nike Town (Good 4 or 5 floors), bought a new pair of walking shoes (aren’t all shoes meant for walking?)
- Central Park
- Guggenheim Museum, we could go in as they are doing some major exterior restoration
- New York Museum, I think that’s the name…
- Head over to Little Italy for some Italian cuisine!
- Then we walked around headlessly to a bar/restaurant for some sweet dessert, tiramisu and tarufu?

Sunday:
- First thing in the morning we head to NYC’s Auto Show (they claim it’s the 2nd biggest north American auto show…)
- We were separated from Jannie, we ended up looking for her than looking at cars
- We then walked over Brookly bridge
- We were looking for a famous pizza store, but it was closed, we ended up in some random restaurant
- Ground zero - World Trade Center
- Starbucks coffee on Wall street across from the other Trump tower (this one looks like it has more gold trimming)
- We are still craving for pizza so we went back to Time Square for some good NYC pizza
- Back to hotel for some lazy night activity - Nintendo DS & Junk foods

Monday:
- (11am) Back to Nokia store: me and Jannie each bought a N95
- Head to airport, we noticed we were really late (now it’s about 12 noon)
- We then figured out the flight was at 11am, hahaha
- Waited in-line at the US Airway counter, their system was down it took literally 2 hours
- We got onto the next flight which was around 5:30ish we finally went back to Buffalo
- Drove through custom without much trouble
- Went for Noodles at Time Square (Our Time Square :P)
- Then we went home~

Thanks to Jannie and Karman for organizing the trip. I had a good time with you two and look forward to the next one~

Full gallery of the pictures can be found here: Click

What do you call it when shit start falling off the sky? well, it is Raining Shit!  Excuse my fluent French.  Anyways, recently I just noticed there are so many things to do and apparently I can’t focus at all.  What worries me is final exam for engineering econ is just around the corner, like literally and there are so many things to cover at work too.

A coworker that used to do the automated testing script was so happy that he doesn’t need to touch it anymore.  Where I’m on the other hand I have to fix up his script and make it super duper.  Oh hell, things are turning up side down.

Enough with the whining, 2 more days than NYC here I come.  2.5 weeks from now, final exam here I come.

Thoughts: too many and I want it to stop!