<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608</id><updated>2011-09-01T05:30:19.459-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BITE-THE-APPLE</title><subtitle type='html'>A blog started to pass on the skill of spreading butter...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>28</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115575491315980342</id><published>2006-08-16T11:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T12:01:53.160-07:00</updated><title type='text'>what a crazy night</title><content type='html'>Last night was intense.. whilst walking home frome dinner i was encouraged to join some mexicanos for a cerveza(beer).&lt;br /&gt;It became clear that my spanish still needs so much work.. i was lost.&lt;br /&gt;the weather is great.&lt;br /&gt;there are some great waves, museums and wild animals here (esp. sea turtles).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115575491315980342?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115575491315980342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115575491315980342' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115575491315980342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115575491315980342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/08/what-crazy-night.html' title='what a crazy night'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115567275694110224</id><published>2006-08-15T12:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T11:55:10.166-07:00</updated><title type='text'>tu quiere me?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Boy am i sure glad(southern accent) that i did not update this blog yesterday! it would have been blossoming in coarse and hostile words. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;After a 24 hour hour bus ride from rosarita i arrived in la paz on monday morning.. once there it became clear that a ferry to the main land was going to be just as expensive as a flight. i flew into mazatlan for 150usd... if adding this to the 127usd for the bus i could have hve just flown right here in the first place. what a bummer.. or perhaps blessing in disguise. the latter i hope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;once here i spent four hours waiting for a bus to the city..i arrived and finally managed to scramble to the beach through the grided grimy streets of the shanty town.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;I guess not all would consider it a blessing to find a hotel with rooms for only 25usd, but when i had this building in full view i felt like i was under the full care of the creator.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;THis morning i had the first surf in almost a week.. a shame.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;It is highly likely that i will fall in love once i leave this cafe.. it has already happened 10times since the morning!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;anyhoo... time up on the internet so i guess i´ll try update in about two days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;take care all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;ps. super cool hurricane outside.. you got to love the tropics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;adios&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115567275694110224?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115567275694110224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115567275694110224' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115567275694110224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115567275694110224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/08/tu-quiere-me.html' title='tu quiere me?'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115525641204054215</id><published>2006-08-10T17:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T17:33:32.130-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Algonas veces me gosta tomo cerveza</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Well tonight is the night that we've all been waiting for... especially my mom and dad who are worried sick about my coming down with yellow fever etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;approx. 9pm is departure time for Mexico! The first town i will be staying in is just a little south of Ensenada and the surf break is called Las Gaviotas which means 'the sea gulls' (at least thats what i got from the dictionary, any corrections are greatly appreciated;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;I have no idea what access to the net will look like during the next couple of days on Baja California... I hope to be able to get something on this blog as soon as pos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Here's a pic of Gerrald and I. The surfer whom I was lucky enough to meet on the bus as his family accomodated me for the past week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/IMG_4274.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;The waves at this beach are absolute. Almost like the Vodka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;There is a program which is based in Phoenix, Arizona. It's called the flying Samaritans and it's a whole bunch of ppl who  volunteer to help out in various parts of Mexico and central america... the volunteers are flown from place to place in these little bush planes and the whole thing just sounds like something I'd really love to be doing... I sent an email out and was told that if i got to Phoenix tomorrow I could join them on there next mission to loreto for just 70USD.. thats by far the best price for any volunteer program I have come across, but sadly i Wouldnt get to Phoenix on time... Mom and dad, I'll have to come back next year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115525641204054215?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115525641204054215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115525641204054215' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115525641204054215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115525641204054215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/08/algonas-veces-me-gosta-tomo-cerveza.html' title='Algonas veces me gosta tomo cerveza'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115505888424364221</id><published>2006-08-08T10:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T10:41:24.386-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another bite into the apple</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Yesterday i finally found my place in san diego... a beach called blacks at the foot of these orange cliffs that was delivering some pretty perfect 2-4ft lefts.. wow. the surf wasnt too crowded and the multitude of sand banks was providing plenty a wave. I didn't catch too many as my poor shape didn't permit this, but there were some awesome ones tha came my way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;I leave for mexico with ppl from here on thursday and shall stay with them on Baja Norte till sunday, after this I am on My own and will hopefully be able to get into the depths of mexico for a good 15days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;adios&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115505888424364221?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115505888424364221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115505888424364221' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115505888424364221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115505888424364221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/08/another-bite-into-apple.html' title='Another bite into the apple'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115482881449702649</id><published>2006-08-05T18:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T18:46:55.090-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sandy-A-go</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;The sun is definately shining and the weather is bright... after landing in long beach a bus journey got me to San Diego. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;The surf is pretty dissapointing at the moment but there are still some waves to be had. I am staying with the family of a surfer whom I met on the bus down here, they have been awesome but a little too controling. For this reason I am probably going to depart for Mexico as soon as I can.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;Tuesday sounds like a plan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;For my fellow Capetonians:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;It gives ne pleasure to announce Cape Town's superior beauty when comparing to everywhere that I have been so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;The image of california that had filled my imagination prior to arriving here was very different to the one before me now. this place is a dessert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;The surfing scene is very built up and there is a lot more money in it here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;Most of the people with surfboards at the beach dont really surf.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;Lots of muscley and bronzed up guys, and many made up girls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115482881449702649?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115482881449702649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115482881449702649' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115482881449702649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115482881449702649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/08/sandy-go.html' title='Sandy-A-go'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115465830347785839</id><published>2006-08-03T19:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T19:31:57.306-07:00</updated><title type='text'>'You can't make chicken sandwiches from chiken shit'...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffffcc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;time up for Boston and I.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's thursday night and in one hour I shall be heading for the airport where I'll sleep in the terminal till 5am tomorrow. That's the time at which I'm guesin I'll board the jet blue flight to Longbeach, Cali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last few days in Boston have been quite hectic, lots of running around trying to bid the many new friends farewell. Funny how you can be saying goodbye to something new.. time flies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffcc;"&gt;tuesday was my last day in the OR, and it was very interesting... I also got to attend at an autopsy which was very hectic.&lt;br /&gt;The deceased had died from the many complications caused by portal hypertension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this moment It's hard to tell where the road will take me. It would be great to spend some time surfing Huntington beach but if this will be to complicated I think that the bus to San Diego will be my next move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may become a little harder to keep updating this blog.. I havent been to dilligent about it even with a compuiter at my disposal, but I hope ya'll keep reading. I'll try my best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has also come to my attention that there are many Readers who choose to visit bite-the-apple in stealth mode! So if youre one of those people, Please drop a lonely guy a comment!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos may become a problem but I guarranty a magnificent gallery once I get back to europe..&lt;br /&gt;My landlords have just returned home from scavenging the neighborhood for furniture ppl have put out for the refuse guys..&lt;br /&gt;America's nuts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway. I hope everyone in the world I know Is happy. My best wishes and please give word of your adventures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;till next time, I'm george and this is your favorite butter spreading network;)&lt;br /&gt;adios&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115465830347785839?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115465830347785839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115465830347785839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115465830347785839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115465830347785839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-cant-make-chicken-sandwiches-from.html' title='&apos;You can&apos;t make chicken sandwiches from chiken shit&apos;...'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115431987265783594</id><published>2006-07-30T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T21:25:38.230-07:00</updated><title type='text'>'What would jesus drive?'&gt; from who killed the electric car</title><content type='html'>The past month in Boston has turned me in to quite the&lt;strong&gt; movie go'er.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been watching &lt;strong&gt;mostly Hollywood releases like 'the devil wears prada'&lt;/strong&gt;, 'you me and &lt;strong&gt;dupree', 'Click' etc&lt;/strong&gt;. All the movies mentioned above are great, but I should also mention the fact that there are fantastic &lt;strong&gt;independent movie theatres&lt;/strong&gt; here. Today I watched a &lt;strong&gt;documentary called &lt;em&gt;'who killed the electric car'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at one with a fellow saffa whom I know since the age of six. Guys and girls watch this if you can... maybe I am giving it too much credit as I really love the whole &lt;strong&gt;oil company conspiracy&lt;/strong&gt; stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other than documentary viewing I was also Lucky enough to spend my Sunday afternoon in the &lt;strong&gt;hospital writing up a draft case review on Friday's Cystic Hygroma in the mesentery of the small bowel excision.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was given this oportunity by &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Elizabeth Raskin&lt;/strong&gt; who is definately my Boston Medical heroine! Appart from being an incredible surgeon, she is a great person and a supporter of the &lt;strong&gt;Springboks (South Africa's national rugby team&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess thats all from my side.. Can you imagine how damn excited I am for going surfing on Friday!&lt;br /&gt;I think I may have to delay my breakfast plans with Angelina Jolie and go for a dawnie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115431987265783594?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115431987265783594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115431987265783594' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115431987265783594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115431987265783594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/what-would-jesus-drive-from-who-killed.html' title='&apos;What would jesus drive?&apos;&gt; from who killed the electric car'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115423709768163068</id><published>2006-07-29T16:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:24:57.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SPanish</title><content type='html'>THe Or schedule hasn't appeared on this blog for some time, so here is Fridays:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;3M M Bilat. inguinal hernia repair and circumcision&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;4M F  Lap. PEG.&lt;br /&gt;1Y M &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Removal of lump&lt;strong&gt; from right aspect of occiput&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6Y M Removal of an abdominal mass&gt; this was an extremely rare case of a cystic lygroma on the transverse mesocolon. I was the one taking pictures&lt;/strong&gt; and now the op may be published in the new england medical journal!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Other than OR stuff, Today I went o the guatemalan family down the road. they are givin me spanish lessons for beer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Im starting to feel really unprepared for central america!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;Later&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115423709768163068?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115423709768163068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115423709768163068' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115423709768163068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115423709768163068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/spanish.html' title='SPanish'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115402521412920161</id><published>2006-07-27T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T11:37:29.643-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Polyphonic melody&lt;/strong&gt; fills the still and silent room. After it's silenced the&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; blue back light remains on illuminating the time. 5am.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;The shower's first cold spray disrupts the body's &lt;strong&gt;hypnotic state. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;The opened fridge reveals &lt;strong&gt;no food, and&lt;/strong&gt; the opened wardrobe has &lt;em&gt;no clean underwear.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entering the new day (commando) through the front door hurridley to arrive in a room that's&lt;/em&gt; extremely bright from &lt;strong&gt;neon light. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;In between the front door and the neon lit room lie the many phases of commuting. First there's the walk, then the T and Lastly there's a road to cross and your almost there. Just an elevator ride remains.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many things have happened in the last few days that I have been in Boston.&lt;br /&gt;Let me begin with the thing thing that impacted me most:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Monday evening at the new england medical center news of an emergency reached the OR.&lt;br /&gt;It was a 23 week old baby that had been born prematurely.&lt;br /&gt;The baby was suffering from an insufficient blood supply to the gut and thus wasn't absorbing enough nutrients from the food it was getting.&lt;br /&gt;The surgeon decided to operate aiming to save the child by removing the dead parts of the gut.&lt;br /&gt;There wasnt too much optimism amongst the OR staff, and the general concensus was that the child would not make it through the night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the operation the child only lived for another 30min.. this was very sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other than that there have been a couple of interesting operations performed, but all similar to the ones previously mentioned so I wont go on about them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday morning saw the arrival of my landlord :( Party is over...&lt;br /&gt;He got here in the morning and fell asleep almosty straight away. After this I decided to meet up with Amer and some of his other friends for a game of soccer on the boston common. We played for about 4hrs and this was extremely tiring. the full effects of the game on the musculature are being felt today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The begging of this post was aimed at illustrating a portion of my daily routine... as you can see I have a limited amount of things to write about, so for now I'll leave you with a promise for more creative writing when I reach the shores of Cali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is due to happen on the 4th of August.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please stay in touch ladies and gentleman.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115402521412920161?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115402521412920161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115402521412920161' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115402521412920161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115402521412920161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/update.html' title='Update'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115359501355085077</id><published>2006-07-22T11:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T12:03:33.560-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NYC pics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/069_69.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/069_69.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/067_67.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="196" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/067_67.0.jpg" width="240" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115359501355085077?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115359501355085077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115359501355085077' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115359501355085077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115359501355085077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/nyc-pics.html' title='NYC pics'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115353580681585200</id><published>2006-07-21T19:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T11:22:51.583-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More NYC pics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/105_105.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/105_105.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/106_106.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/106_106.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/103_103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/103_103.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/102_102.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/102_102.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/100_100.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/100_100.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/100_100.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/092_92.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/092_92.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/089_89.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/089_89.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Old friend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/086_86.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/086_86.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/083_83.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/083_83.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 9/11 Timeline&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/079_79.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/079_79.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/077_77.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 135px" height="150" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/077_77.jpg" width="480" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Marta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/072_72.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" height="207" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/072_72.jpg" width="255" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; My friends at Union sq.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115353580681585200?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115353580681585200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115353580681585200' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115353580681585200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115353580681585200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-nyc-pics.html' title='More NYC pics'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115353220735108150</id><published>2006-07-21T18:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T12:37:38.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ps. New York</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/065_65.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll start with today's OR schedule;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The surgeon performed four op's today:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Orchiopexy.&lt;br /&gt;2. L inguinal hernia repair and hydrocelectomy&lt;br /&gt;3. Lapariscopic PEG&lt;br /&gt;4. Excision of a left hip mas (Lyoma)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except for the first op, where I got to feel for the herniation, I performed only my basic nursing duties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Dad I'd appreciate any extra info on the cases mentioned, thanks-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Wednesday afternoon I caught the 'Fung-Wah' bus &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/065_65.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/065_65.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;from Boston's South Station to Chinatown, NY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon Arrival In NY contact with my family friend Marta was established. I spent the evening following her and her friend around the midtown and financial districts.&lt;br /&gt;They were also nice enough to provide me with a place to sleep in their dorm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next morning met my early rise. I was out und about on Fulton str. by around 8.20am. From there I walked to Broadway and thence all the way along it till I reached Central Park.&lt;br /&gt;This walke allowed for a great viewing of the City and life in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the Square's and avenues and streets to be noted were noted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not much money was spent on my part, the whole trip cost 85USD, and the main expense was my 40dollar future fins which I finally got! Hooyyipeyyaya!!!&lt;br /&gt;Maybe tomorrow I will be posting some surf pics;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At around 3pm I began heading back for the 'Fung-Wah' station. The 5pm bus took me home to Boston...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/015_15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/015_15.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My place...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/016_16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/016_16.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my ex bicycle...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/066_66.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/066_66.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goin' inta Ny...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115353220735108150?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115353220735108150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115353220735108150' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115353220735108150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115353220735108150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/ps-new-york.html' title='Ps. New York'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115311067549528236</id><published>2006-07-16T20:50:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T12:10:18.686-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sentiments from the weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Friday&lt;/strong&gt; I managed to&lt;strong&gt; drop my camera 3 times...&lt;/strong&gt; yes, not just once, but &lt;strong&gt;3times!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Good news; It still works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Friday evening I cycled &lt;strong&gt;to BU central (&lt;/strong&gt;on the green line&lt;strong&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt; to meet my &lt;strong&gt;Italian friend. &lt;/strong&gt;We hung around the&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;downtown area&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; and then she went on to meet some other friends&lt;strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;I began heading home on the T, on which I bumped into &lt;strong&gt;two &lt;em&gt;South Africans, Rodwa and Kelesh&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;We got off at Kenmore station and headed for the clubs nearby Fenway park.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;The place we ended up in is called &lt;strong&gt;Avalon, and it was quite busy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About 15min after I walked in, I bumped into no one other but the infamous Brian Gibello!&lt;/strong&gt; Imagine that!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Brian was there with those Brazillian girls previously mentioned, they were celebrating a birthday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;The evening progressed, I grew tired and started heading for the BU central stop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;When I got there I found that my&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;bicycle had been stolen!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Bummer : (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;On saturday I went to Revere Beach with Amir and Jinwa... I forgot how relaxing a day on the beach is!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/058_58.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/058_58.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Come Saturday evening, Brian calls me and proposes a &lt;strong&gt;night out in Worcester (45 min drive west of Boston). I ended up goin and it was a good time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Today I went swimming at a public &lt;strong&gt;swimming pool located at Cleveland circle..&lt;/strong&gt; It's been a while since I last swam, so this was an experience I welcomed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;In the evening I went for &lt;strong&gt;dinner with a guy doing a PhD in Philosophy at Harvard, and a Musician from Berkley...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Food was great and the company was very interesting.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Guys and girls be sure to check out the links I've added. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Ross your pics are beautiful!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115311067549528236?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115311067549528236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115311067549528236' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115311067549528236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115311067549528236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/sentiments-from-weekend_115311067549528236.html' title='Sentiments from the weekend'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115292441243110452</id><published>2006-07-14T17:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T22:54:18.816-07:00</updated><title type='text'>F.R.I.E.N.D.S</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/fred.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 260px" height="231" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/fred.jpg" width="447" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/011_11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/011_11.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/010_10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/010_10.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/008_8.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/008_8.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/001_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/001_1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/bern%20et%20jac.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Guys and girls, if you send me some pics I'll post 'em up if I like 'em...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Here are two of my good friends &lt;strong&gt;Bern and Jacob livin it up in Sweden:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Sorry it came out so small..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marcin,&lt;/strong&gt; I love your website check it out everyone; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;eatmeat.pl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Ps. also google &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ross hillier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.. check the first site that comes up;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115292441243110452?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115292441243110452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115292441243110452' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115292441243110452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115292441243110452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/friends.html' title='F.R.I.E.N.D.S'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115285369624076665</id><published>2006-07-13T21:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T12:27:39.603-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/024_24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/024_24.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/023_23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/023_23.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;how's everyone doing?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*Dave&lt;/strong&gt; Matthews is playing an hour away from&lt;/em&gt; here.. Tickets are 60USD, should I go? Someone please advise &lt;em&gt;me in this matter (Ross keep in mind &lt;strong&gt;that I'll still have to get a bus ticket... You went, so you'll be able to tell me if it's worth it?).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;My mission to find surf in Gloucester (1hr north of Bost&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;on by train) failed miserably.&lt;br /&gt;I arrived &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;at Gloucester station at about 3pm, and was at the beach by 3:30pm. The sea was flat, and I couldn't buy future fins as the town is seriously lacking in surf stores :-(&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/053_53.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/053_53.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/054_54.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/054_54.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; looking like my surfing will have to be put aside until I reach the shores of cali (4th of August).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chris..&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; would you go to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anthony Hamilton?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;More about today:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;My &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;next door neighbor, James, is seriously funny... I wish you guys could hear him speak. Today I tried to record his opinion on heinous crimes... Sadly he refused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/050_50.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/050_50.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Living on the floor above are 3 other students; two sisters (Jinwa &amp;amp; Olivia) from Korea who I don't see much (but they did give me a present.. Stoked!), and a guy from Saudi (Amir).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/051_51.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/051_51.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;This evening, like most other evenings, James, Amir and I played football and soccer in the street.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;After this I went to Dinner with my Italian friend to the North End. The food and atmosphere in that part of the city are great, I was stoked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;On my way home I met some girls on the T, they were on there way out and said I should come with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I got off at the Kenmore stop with them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;There was a serious crowd due to the conclusion of a Red Sox (Boston's baseball team) game and I ended up losing them and getting lost in the crowd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Eventually I found my way back to the T stop, but the T was no longer running.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I walked along the T track till I reached Harvard Ave. (which is where I had my bike parked).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;I then cycled home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;That's all......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115285369624076665?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115285369624076665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115285369624076665' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115285369624076665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115285369624076665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/today.html' title='Today'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115276669893909252</id><published>2006-07-12T21:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T12:24:41.580-07:00</updated><title type='text'>12th july - Happy Birthday Tato</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/017_17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/017_17.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;43min ago saw the end of my &lt;em&gt;dads birthday&lt;/em&gt;. I felt it necessary to post my best wishes, for a new year of life, and a thank you on this blog.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;He must be hittin the 40's now...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/018_18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/018_18.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Me is privelliged to have a most fortunate upbringing that was made possible by the many professional (eg. goin to RSA), and familial decision my dad and mom have made. For this I am very grateful.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/019_19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/019_19.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;J.K.S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Ps. tomorrow I'm headin an hour north of Boston to an area called Gloucester with the aim of having my first surf in several months... once I complete this mission, I will try update the blog with Photos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115276669893909252?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115276669893909252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115276669893909252' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115276669893909252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115276669893909252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/12th-july-happy-birthday-tato.html' title='12th july - Happy Birthday Tato'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115267827907201586</id><published>2006-07-11T20:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-12T21:45:35.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Donavan Frankfurter sandwich and the G-tube</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;My &lt;strong&gt;lovley people&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Today I witnessed the most &lt;strong&gt;Incredible op&lt;/strong&gt; from an anatomical point of view:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;It was the &lt;strong&gt;insertion of a G-tube into the fundus&lt;/strong&gt; of the stomach, and it allowed for my detailed viewing of the ligamentum teres of the liver (surgeon had to tie off the umbilical vein) the phrenic and the vagus nerves (esophageal region)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;The 18MoF was born with a cleft lip and palate and thus was unable to feed properly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This evening I went to the Donavan Frankfurter Sandwich concert&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and it was awesome... towards the end of the concert I walked my Italian friend to the T, and returned to the venue to find Frankfurter outside..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I got carried away with my cheering for his performance,&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; and eventually I got him to write 'ted you're the sickest surfer' in my RSA ID booklet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;When I got home I called my Dearest friend &lt;strong&gt;Joshua Bassett, with whom I had a long conversation.. What a guy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm aware that the foundations of the personality I present to the people here was given to me by all you special folks in SA, and now&lt;/strong&gt; in Polska.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I miss you all litch and I cant wait till we have a llandadno or K bay session.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Yours truly,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;J.K.S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115267827907201586?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115267827907201586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115267827907201586' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115267827907201586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115267827907201586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/donavan-frankfurter-sandwich-and-g.html' title='Donavan Frankfurter sandwich and the G-tube'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115241606235213283</id><published>2006-07-08T20:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T12:35:33.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The OR</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/068_68.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;What an &lt;strong&gt;experience&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I went into the OR on Friday, and I've been &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thinking about it ever since&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/064_64.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/064_64.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Harvard football stadium&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Very different feelings are evoked when seeing body parts on cadavers, and when seeing them on &lt;strong&gt;real people for the first time...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;significance of anatomy in surgery&lt;/strong&gt; is very great, for example I observed the surgeon bypass the posterior auricular nerve while excising an enlarged occipital lymph node. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Apart from the op mentioned above, I saw 5 others... Two &lt;strong&gt;Hernia repairs&lt;/strong&gt; (a kid with bilateral inguinal hernia's, and another kid with an incisional hernia), A&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; gall bladder resection&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in a child with a mithochondrial disorder (Because of this disease the muscular walls of the gall bladder had no contractile ability, thus the bile was not being expelled from it), An &lt;strong&gt;anoscopy and fistulotomy&lt;/strong&gt; in a kid with crohn's disease, and lastly a resection of the medial half of a teenagers big toe!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/061_61.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/061_61.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Harvard business school at night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I also met a guy, &lt;strong&gt;PEter, who's a 2nd year student at TUFTS&lt;/strong&gt;. Last night I went &lt;strong&gt;out &lt;/strong&gt;with him and some of his buddies, and I was pretty Impressed with the Night life here in the U.S.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Today I was walking home from his place and I met an Italian student with whom I'm going to watch the game tomorrow... Should be interesting as we're going to The North end (Italian side of the city).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/063_63.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/063_63.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Charles river&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115241606235213283?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115241606235213283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115241606235213283' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115241606235213283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115241606235213283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/or.html' title='The OR'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115222796327993944</id><published>2006-07-06T15:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T14:26:59.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'>First day of internship</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;WOW... I have no idea where to begin?!&lt;br /&gt;Let me start from the beginning of this very eventful day:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arrived at the Massachusetts floating hospital for children (part of the new England medical center) at 9am. Prof Gilchrist set me up with two resident doctors and a student from the 4th year.&lt;br /&gt;You can imagine that in this crowd I was slightly in over my head... Especially when things like pharmacology (4th year subj.) came up.&lt;br /&gt;After the drug talks subsided, the first patients started to arrive and this was very humbling to say the least.&lt;br /&gt;Today didn't entail any OR (operating room) time. It was a clinical day where patients either came for a normal check up, or for a post op check up. The majority of the cases were post op check ups.&lt;br /&gt;Before I go on about some of the more interesting cases, I would like to share my first 2 impressions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Ridiculous numbers of children are born into the most unfortunate circumstances, and most of these children will not get to experience the necessary medical treatment to lead a normal life... Myself and most of the people I know have been extremely fortunate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) In paediatrics the things considered interesting are generally quite sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One child, 5YOM (5year old male), came in and started crying at the site of white coats. This is a result of being operated on 17times since birth, of which 10 times have been in the past year! that is an insane amount of operations. Count yours and you may see what I mean!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A mother, 19Yo, brought her little baby for a post op check up. The 17mnth old baby had cerebral palsy as the mother was taking hallucinogenic drugs during her pregnancy. Due to this the baby is unable to feed itself properly... the procedure it had undergone a week earlier was the insertion of a G-tube (gastric tube) into the fundus of the stomach, through which various food stuffs can now be passed into the GI tract.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there were so many cases but I cant muster the strength to accurately write about them... I'll just describe my involvement in the days activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the resident Dr's put me on the spot when he asked me to conduct an interview with a previously admitted 8YoF... When I finished (boy was I hella shaking from nerves), he actually said I did an ok job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other hands on thing I got to do was cleanse a wound from an incisional hernia with some H2O2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Thats all folks.............&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115222796327993944?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115222796327993944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115222796327993944' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115222796327993944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115222796327993944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/first-day-of-internship.html' title='First day of internship'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115212437079369342</id><published>2006-07-05T11:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T12:44:15.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The 4th of July, the Boston pops and Aerosmith</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/041_41.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/041_41.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Yesterday I went to watch the Boston pops (an orchestra), fireworks and Aerosmith on the banks of the Charles river.&lt;br /&gt;This was a performance to celebrate &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;American independence day&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;and it was quite a jol I must say...&lt;br /&gt;I especially enjoyed the fact that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Phil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was the man who introduced &lt;strong&gt;Steve Tyler&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/042_42.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/042_42.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Aerosmiths' vocalist) &lt;/strong&gt;on to the stage. Yes Ted, I saw the man live!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On my way to the concert venue from the tram (T) stop, I bumped into some fellow Europeans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;One guy from Wales (Chris), and another from South London (Mark).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark who was from Wimbeldon especially enjoyed the story of how David and I carried a Bunk bed from the Wimbeldon Ikea to Chelsea... Thought you'd like to know that David;)&lt;br /&gt;These guys were hillarious, I spent the evening with them and some Brazilian girls we met.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/033_33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/033_33.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The evening was getting increasingly comical with Chris and Mark around, and it reached a &lt;strong&gt;climax when the two started singing 'God save the Queen' over the American national anthem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/047_47.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/047_47.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;At the end of the evening I strolled around Boston common with the aim of fighting off my persisting jet lag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Oh damn! I almost neglected to mention that I also bumped into Brian Gibello... what a winner.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/028_28.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/028_28.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115212437079369342?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115212437079369342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115212437079369342' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115212437079369342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115212437079369342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/4th-of-july-boston-pops-and-aerosmith.html' title='The 4th of July, the Boston pops and Aerosmith'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115194776799594727</id><published>2006-07-03T09:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-11T11:50:15.330-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Touchin' down in the U.S of A...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;After &lt;em&gt;landing at JFK&lt;/em&gt; international airport in &lt;strong&gt;NY at approximately 4:00Pm, &lt;/strong&gt;I caught the airtrain to the outskirts of &lt;strong&gt;Manhattan&lt;/strong&gt; with a fellow Polak going by the name of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Przemek Gruszka&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. His English wasn't all that great but he knew enough to get by (I hope). Once we got to Manhattan we caught the &lt;strong&gt;tube to 53rd and 5th&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;this took a while as we didn't get out at the right stop the first time; a result of being awake for 26hrs!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from where we set &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;out to find the bus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; terminal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We walked down a street of which I don't remember the name/number asking people for directions to a bus terminal. The directions we received brought us to &lt;em&gt;42nd street&lt;/em&gt; which we walked along until we arrived at grand central.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It turned out that&lt;strong&gt; grand central was solely a train station.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;The new info we received was that buses leave from the &lt;strong&gt;port of authority&lt;/strong&gt; on the opposite end of 42nd. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Disappointed we turned back and endured the crowds for another 2miles till we reached the port of authority.&lt;br /&gt;The exhausted and annoyed Przemek decide to get some &lt;strong&gt;info from two NYPD&lt;/strong&gt; officers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;He began approaching them from the back. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Big mistake. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;When he was about a meter away he said 'excuse me?' in a manner which startled one of the officers... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;the officer turned around and started to reprimand young Mr. Gruszka as to how he should conduct himself in the presence of the NYPD. Poor Przemek not understanding much was now even more annoyed and began tossing curses like 'kurwa!' and 'ja pierdole'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I eventually made my way to the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Greyhound offices&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and bought myself a ticket to&lt;strong&gt; Boston.&lt;/strong&gt; My bus was leaving at &lt;strong&gt;9pm&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;This left me a little over &lt;strong&gt;an hour to walk around time square&lt;/strong&gt;, and I must say, it made a pretty big impression on me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later on my bus ride I couldn't help but smile as I overheard the other passengers conversing in there thick American accents. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I sat next to a girl from NY, her name was Lexy and she was full of shit... it was most amusing being next to her for the first hour, but as I grew increasingly tired she got increasingly irritating. I eventually got her to shut up by letting her listen to my ipod, silence fell and i passed out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I woke up again when the bus was 20min outside of Boston. I claimed my pod from the now sleeping Lexy and listened to a couple of tunes for these last few minutes.&lt;br /&gt;On arrival at the bus terminal I called my friendly host Susan. She was awake waiting for me to arrive, and she gave me the go-ahead to catch a cab to her place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;I arrived at 30 Royal Street, Allstone at about 1:20pm and soon after being shown into my room, I passed out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waking up on the 2nd was a real challenge, and after I finally managed it and took a shower, Susan prepared some dumplings for my breakfast (odd).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon after breakfast Su ran through some of the household rules I must follow and after this I got introduced to the neighbor, James, who almost immediately hooked me up with a bicycle.&lt;br /&gt;Later that afternoon I rode alongside the Charles river for about six miles, this gave me a pretty good impression on life in this city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later that evening James and myself took a walk to Harvard sq. Via the Harvard business school grounds. Once we reached the square we sat down and had dinner, it was great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Night time came and I fell asleep instantly after getting back home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This morning Susan departed for Beijing and I have the whole house to myself for the month... Sweet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At noon contact with Prof. B. F. Gilchrist shoyuld hopefuly be established, and I shall hopefully commence with my practical internship at New England Medical center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More writing will come once the practical course is underway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115194776799594727?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115194776799594727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115194776799594727' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115194776799594727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115194776799594727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/07/touchin-down-in-us-of.html' title='Touchin&apos; down in the U.S of A...'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115157125119367422</id><published>2006-06-29T01:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-08T21:12:34.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Music</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Hello,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;I have decided to add a song to this list whenever I find one thats appealing. Hopefully this will be quite some playlist by the end of the holidays;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Fake plastic trees - Radiohead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Hold tight London - Chemical Brothers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Bridges - Dispatch; Hatch Shell (Live)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Check out Phish: Ladies and Gents, these guys are awesome!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115157125119367422?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115157125119367422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115157125119367422' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115157125119367422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115157125119367422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/06/music.html' title='Music'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115134506372122102</id><published>2006-06-26T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T11:36:36.716-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Last days</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20019%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20010%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20010%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;It's been reallyt beutiful in Warsaw over the last 2 weeks.&lt;br /&gt;The sun has been out, and with the exams successfuly completed the pressure of city life has definately decreased. No more walking at 100kph! &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last few days have involved soccer in the park, strolls on the territory of the castle in Wilanow, barbeques in the delightful suburb of Konstancin and tranquil evenings in the company of friends at the cafe's which line Nowy Swiat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am really glad at not having left Warsaw immedeatly... being able to relax has given me an awesome perspective on this place. Das icht fantastisch!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20017%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20017%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Taking a walk around, I photographed some familiar structure&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20018%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20018%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;s eg. Library, uni etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Being able to reflect on WINter makes being here in SUMMER so good... the air&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20019%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt; which had no frgrance is now sweet, and a world of grey is now in color!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115134506372122102?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115134506372122102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115134506372122102' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115134506372122102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115134506372122102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/06/last-days.html' title='Last days'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115133533314623436</id><published>2006-06-26T08:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T08:22:13.166-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Arts and Crafts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20006%20(Small).0.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20005%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20005%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;1. Place your thumb into the Naartjie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Peel away the midline&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20006%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20006%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20007%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20007%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;3. Peel away the sides&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Peel away completely and you have your very own penis peel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20008%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115133533314623436?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115133533314623436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115133533314623436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115133533314623436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115133533314623436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/06/arts-and-crafts.html' title='Arts and Crafts'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115045858718504356</id><published>2006-06-16T04:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T04:55:11.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Leaving the MetroPolish</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20009%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20004%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/Warsaw%20summer%20004%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;The&lt;em&gt; end of the year&lt;/em&gt; and the long awaited &lt;strong&gt;summer&lt;/strong&gt; are finally here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;This is a good time to reflect on the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;academic year that has passed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (well almost passed since there is still a histology final) and the many new experiences that it made possible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;I remember the beginning, it was nothing like now... Everyone had come from somewhere else, everyone was foreign.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;I am certain that like myself, many of the 1st year students had to make many life style changes to take on a very challenging year of work in a new environment.&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/1600/Warsaw%20summer%20009%20(Small).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/200/Warsaw%20summer%20009%20%28Small%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;We survived, but please note how &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm blending into the white wall behind me!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friendships&lt;/strong&gt; were made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;There were &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;new experiences&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and old experiences (drinking) in new places to enjoy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;It was fun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Norwegians&lt;/strong&gt;+&lt;em&gt;Swedes&lt;/em&gt;+&lt;strong&gt;Canadians&lt;/strong&gt;+&lt;em&gt;Americans&lt;/em&gt;= &lt;strong&gt;Party&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5942/3149/320/freaks%20014%20%28Medium%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Till 2nd year, farewell fellow students of AMWAW. Enjoy being wherever it is that you may be this summer, and thank you all for a shwinging year:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115045858718504356?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115045858718504356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115045858718504356' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115045858718504356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115045858718504356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/06/leaving-metropolish.html' title='Leaving the MetroPolish'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115006249715188904</id><published>2006-06-11T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T12:58:24.433-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/&lt;a%20href="&gt;&lt;img alt="image hosting" src="http://images.bigoo.ws/content/flag_day/gif/gif_flagd_2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115006249715188904?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-115006191482784868</id><published>2006-06-11T14:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T11:03:10.826-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Itinerary</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Warsaw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Zurich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Boston&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Mexico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Costa Rica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Zurich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Lisbon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Biarritz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warsaw&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-115006191482784868?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/115006191482784868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=115006191482784868' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115006191482784868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/115006191482784868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/06/itinerary.html' title='Itinerary'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29541608.post-114999780074350569</id><published>2006-06-10T20:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-11T08:58:49.876-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Introduction</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Dear &lt;strong&gt;friends&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the next few months I will be doing some extensive&lt;strong&gt; travelling&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;More than anything, I would have loved to &lt;strong&gt;take you&lt;/strong&gt; all along.&lt;br /&gt;Since this is impossible, I have decided to post my &lt;strong&gt;experiences &lt;/strong&gt;and make them available to&lt;strong&gt; you &lt;/strong&gt;via this here blog&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enjoy&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29541608-114999780074350569?l=bite-the-apple.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/feeds/114999780074350569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29541608&amp;postID=114999780074350569' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/114999780074350569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29541608/posts/default/114999780074350569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bite-the-apple.blogspot.com/2006/06/introduction.html' title='Introduction'/><author><name>George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05927125983371701441</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-279.vo.llnwd.net/00704/97/27/704567279_m.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
