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I like the heat… Weekly Recap 3/23/2026

I’m the kind of guy that likes getting into a hot car during the summer.

I like hot showers. I like saunas. I like hot tubs.

And I like hot, sunny days at the beach.

So all this weirdness that we’re having right now in Florida—where its hanging out in the 60s or low 70s—that’s not my jam, man.

Hand me my jacket.

Good morning and happy Monday, friends!

Happy Spring Equinox! The “official” equinox happened on Friday at 10:46 AM Eastern, but we’ll be celebrating with the coven later this week.

Speaking of weeks, this will be a significant one for me. I made my first full pass over my manuscript a few days ago, then I sat it down and let it breathe. I haven’t looked at it since then, but I’ll be giving it another read through now… and then… if I don’t make many changes? Submitting!

I also got word that my author copies of Fluid Condensers are shipping from the warehouse. And for all of y’all that have pre-ordered, yours will be shipping in just about a week!

In other news… Selene and I encountered some very tasty tacos.

Freya continued to teach us lessons in being comfy.

I had an unplanned trip to the forge over the weekend.

We started working on a group project. I’m not exactly sure how frequently I’ll be back to do things to it, but at least I did something.

And now my knife-in-progress much more closely resembles an actual knife shape.

Slowly, but surely… it will get there!

And for the most important announcement, I have once again reclaimed my status as a pokemon master.

Okay okay. I know I promised a new episode of M3 soon. I haven’t quite gotten there yet, but it is in my queue and I am actually finishing up some of the final edits now. It should be done later this week.

Oh, and have you guys watched Begonia? It was the most pleasantly surprised I’ve been by a movie in a long time. Go watch it if you like weird stuff involving aliens and crazy people.

That’s all for now, my friends. I’m off to go read an entire book out loud. Stay tuned for more soon!

Schönes Wetter

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A Little Sun, A Little Rain, A Lot of Me

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Pensamiento “Mi clima ideal- Medellin, Colombia”

Sin duda mi clima favorito es Medellín, clima primaveral todo el año, es un clima húmedo pero tiene que ser así porque si no sería posible un paisajes tan verdes y tan bellos, aunque la lluvia aunque es frecuente, normalmente es en forma de chaparrones, la temperatura medía es entre 22 y 24, hace calor pero no excesivo, hay mucha humedad relativa pero no es la humedad excesivamente pegajosa de la costa, pero sin duda un clima que invita a hacer muchas cosas en la calle, a sentir el frescor de la lluvia en los ratos que llueve y sobre todo disfrutar de los hermosos paisajes que resultan de este clima, con un verdor impresionante.

A nivel de España, obviamente las Islas Canarias están en primer lugar, clima agradable todo el año, además en las islas en si hay microclimas, por ejemplo Tenerife el norte es mas húmedo y fresco y el sur es seco y soleado y mas caluroso, La Palma es sin duda la isla que mas se acerca a mi ideal, es mas verde, clima agradable.

Otros lugares con clima ideal: Cuernavaca (México) o Dalat (Vietnam) también tienen un clima la mar de agradable.

The Caramelized Alibi

The new mystery in Speranza: Christmas murders with a tad of Caramel..

The autumn sun in Speranza was the color of aged parchment, casting long, lazy shadows across the village market as the first hint of December’s frost began to bite. In the heart of the village, the grand Christmas tree stood as a towering spire of green, but its festive beauty was eclipsed by a scene of magnificent chaos. Beneath the lowest branches, nestled amidst a dusty pile of forgotten histories and the vibrant silk wrappers of the season, lay the body of the visiting gourmet critic.

A Bittersweet Discovery

The air around the Piazza, usually thick with the scent of Anna’s roasted coffee and Altea’s fine tobacco, was now cloyed with the smell of burnt sugar and sea salt.

The victim was found slumped against the tree’s base, his face serene but his eyes wide and unseeing.

He clutched a “Caramel Gold” bar from Marisa’s Mint Chocolate house, the silver-wrapped treat half-eaten.

A faint, sweet, floral scent—reminiscent of hyacinth but with a sharp, chemical undertone—hung in the frigid air.

Ispettore Salomone arrived looking profoundly weary, his patience already thinner than a poorly brewed Earl Grey.

The Feline Sentinels

Back at La Pagina che Fa le Fusa, my sanctuary of rosemary and old paper, the atmosphere was one of quiet tension. My two furry proprietors, sensing a dissonant note in the village’s harmony, began their own investigation.

Toe, the sleek black Maine Coon, ignored the festive bustle and began an obsessive ritual of batting at a small, ornate silver sachet he had found snagged in the tree’s tinsel.

Ashwaganda, the ginger sage with amber eyes that held the wisdom of ages, sat pointedly in front of a new pot of calendula flowers, letting out a soft, insistent meow.

He stared directly at the “Caramel Gold” wrapper I had brought back, his “gold stare” signaling a truth hidden in the sugar.

The Wisdom of the Blue Book

I turned to my chair of bordeaux velvet and opened the strange book I had bought for a handful of coins: Days of your Dreams. Bound in faded peacock-blue leather and penned in shimmering silver ink, its pages rustled with a soft, dry scent of pressed flowers. I searched for an entry on “Gold” and “Salt,” and the script began to shift into a cryptic prophecy:

“Where the serpent eats its tail, the sweet gold is snared. Look not for what was taken, but for the ‘smoke’ that never burns. The truth is found where the earth is youngest and the fox hides its dye.”

The Shadow on the Threshold

The investigation took a chilling turn when the door to the shop—hidden under an ivy-covered stone arch—creaked open. A man stood there, as smooth and polished as river stones, holding a silver-stamped ledger that mirrored the emblem of a sleeping cat and a key.

“Signorina Hopes,” he boomed, his voice echoing off the vaulted ceiling like a retired opera diva’s. “The caramel was a masterful forgery, a distraction for the real prize hidden within the tree’s heart.”

Moira felt a jolt go through her. This was not just a case of a poisoned critic; it was the violent beginning of a new story, one involving a contested inheritance, a forger’s touch, and the “lullaby of death” hidden in a scent of caramel.

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Day 1 Of My Final Posting – Day 647 Of Housemanship

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My first day of my final posting, The Emergency & Trauma Department, commenced on the 11th of April 2025.

Day 647, finally. Finally! I’ve pulled through and entered the last pit stop of my journey as a House Officer.

In every posting, I have always looked forward to this posting. Prior to joining, I’ve always had mixed feelings and initially wanted to join Anaesthesiology. However, a few weeks prior to entering, the other postings such as Psychiatry, Klinik Kesihatan and Anaesthesiology were removed from our options and everyone had to rotate in the Emergency and Trauma Department.

This is good. This meant more manpower.

However, just as the previous postings, prior to joining any new department, I’ve always had this fear and mixed feelings because it is after a new environment.

My fear was stumbling too badly on my first day. Thus, of course, I did my research and questioned the people I knew who were already in the posting.

My First Day began on a Friday in the “Yellow Respi Zone“.

The Yellow Respi Zone consists of patients who are unable to saturate well under room air, usually less than 90%. Having just completed the Medical Posting, the patients allocated there are primarily Medical patients or in particular, having respiratory issues such as patients developing acute pulmonary oedema or fluid overload secondary to non-compliance to their fluid restriction.

Thankfully, I have just completed Medical. Thus, I am able to apply my knowledge learnt which was still fresh at that time.

I arrived a little before 7am since the tagging shift is from 7am till 10pm, introduced myself to the medical officers and talked to a fellow friend who arrived and would be working in the same zone as well. I went through the triages and casenotes of the patients to see if there were any active cases or cases that were due tracing of bloods or referrals.

The day started off rather quietly and it was manageable. I followed the morning handover rounds at 7:45am and after that attended to any new patients or refer if needed.

Basically, when a patient comes in, especially to this zone where the patients’ chief complaint is “shortness of breath“, the first person who attends would usually auscultate or “listen” to the lungs and check the vital sigs prior to taking blood or doing a “full clerking” such as obtaining their past medical history or history of presenting illness.

The next person that steps in usually helps with the bloods and fills the forms.

Everyone worked together as a team and somehow indirectly we were communicating with one another without actually voicing it out. It seemed almost like a dance, or a workout.

Afternoon came and afternoon handovers started at 2:45pm. I met a lovely medical officer who is a junior herself but one who was extremely upbeat and more than happy to guide me.

I learnt a lot during my first day with her. She even encouraged me to consider joining this department during my floating period.

The evenings became extremely busy to which I did not really realise. Maybe because it was my first day or maybe because I have just completed my Medical Posting (and it was much busier over there), or perhaps because I simply enjoyed working with my superior or team on that day.

The day ended at 10pm and I walked back home. Thankfully, I lived within walking distance thus I saved time and did not have to worry regarding transportation or parking issues.

My first day in my last posting or rotation started off well which is something I’m more than thankful for.

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• Part 2 – Life As A Peri Medical House Officer In Hospital Umum Sarawak | Main Building, Side Building, Infectious Disease Ward
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• Appreciation Towards The Medical Officers (MOs) – Housemanship Diaries
• 1 Year Of Housemanship Update – Housemanship Diaries
• Another Good Advice I Will Remember For The Longest Time – Housemanship Diaries
• Enjoying The Journey – Housemanship Diaries

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40 Days Since I’ve Started Being Vegetarian

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Describe one positive change you have made in your life.

The positive change? Being vegetarian. Well, for 40 days then I’m non-vegetarian again.

Why did I even embark on this journey?

Every year during Lent, I would embark on a vegetarian journey, a lacto-ovo-vegetarian journey to be exact and this year, it was from the 5th of March till the 19th of April 2025.

Thus, I went from consuming meat to consuming tofu almost everyday as well as started consuming vegetables again.

Albeit being vegetarian, I try to reduce my rice consumption. Thus, I mainly mixed rolled oats into my dishes.

I started shopping for groceries even more (which may not be such a good thing) but I was surprised at the number of items I could buy and only spend minimal.

Well, vegetables are cheap, which is good.

Changing my diet in combination with my usual routine at work and ensuring I reach my daily steps of 10,000 steps, I started losing weight.

Not much. However, I’ve been struggling with losing the weight that I have gained during my time off in the Surgical Posting.

Now that I’m non-vegetarian again, obtaining food is easier and I actually miss being vegetarian.

Perhaps soon I will embark on this journey again.

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My Next 6 Months (Post Housemanship)

What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?

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At the time of writing this article, it is the 8th of April 2025, Day 644 of my Housemanship Journey. I have just completed my Fifth Posting in Medical and is currently on leave as well as due to begin my 6th and Final Posting in Emergency Medicine on the 11th of April 2025.

One posting or rotation lasts for a total of 4 months if there is no extension, for House Officers.

Thus, it’s safe to say that for the upcoming 4 months, my focus would be on leaving and enjoying my final posting and the challenges I would most probably face then would be the completion of my logbook, preparing my presentation for CME and preparing for my end of posting assessments.

But how about for the subsequent 2 months after that?

That’s a grey area for me.

First of all, I do not know myself on the department that I would want to serve in as a Medical Officer as I enjoyed every posting that I have ever rotated in.

Next, the state or hospital that I would be interested in practicing in for at least the next few years. Currently, I am practicing in Hospital Umum Sarawak, otherwise known as Sarawak General Hospital or “SGH”, in Kuching, Sarawak.

Personally, I would like to stay back over here and serve here rather than to go back as I absolutely love it here and feel like this is where I am meant to be.

However, things might change in the future considering that I would want to get married and my partner is living in Peninsular Malaysia. That’s one as well as the consideration of my parents, having grown up as an only child.

Thus, a grey area for me, nevertheless. Me, being comfortable with procrastination has pushed this thought to the back of my head and refused to entertain since I have to submit my full MMC application by the 13th of April 2025.

This means, I have to set my mind on a department as well as my choice of state (location) or hospitals of choice.

Oh dear…

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• My First Day In Medical Posting – Tagging Day 1 | Housemanship Diaries
• My Morning Routine Being A House Officer Leader In The Surgical Posting | Housemanship Diaries
• Reflection Of The Surgical Posting | Housemanship Diaries
• My First Night Shift In Surgery | Housemanship Diaries
• Appreciation Towards The Medical Officers (MOs) – Housemanship Diaries
• My Downfall In Surgery Which Led To My Extension – Housemanship Diaries
• 1 Year Of Housemanship Update – Housemanship Diaries
• Another Good Advice I Will Remember For The Longest Time – Housemanship Diaries
• Enjoying The Journey – Housemanship Diaries

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Iced Tea & Cold Brew Coffee

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What is your favorite drink?

As the title entails, it is Iced Tea and Cold Coffee.

1. Iced Tea

I fell in love with tea, green tea, black tea and oolong tea in particular when I was 14 years old.

At that time, I was looking into drinks to aid my weight loss and I came across green tea and oolong tea being suitable drinks in facilitating weight loss when consumed without sugar.

Thus, I brewed my first proper sugarless green tea and fell in love with the taste. Ever since then, I started drinking it on a regular basis and it has pretty much replaced water for me.

Did it aid with weight loss?

Perhaps in the beginning, eventually, I continued drinking it because I enjoyed the taste be it warm or cold.

As I started working, I would usually prepare cold brew green tea in order for me to bring to work the following day.

Why cold?

The environment that I’m working in can get rather warm and considering I am a person who perspires easily, the temperature of the tea eases me and provides immediate rejuvenation.

Even after a long day at work, nothing refreshes me more than a cold brew green tea served in mason jar and a straw.

2. Cold Coffee

I am a HUGE fan of coffee, black sugarless coffee in particular.

My love for coffee began since I was in primary school, which I think is a bad thing since children are not supposed to consume coffee.

Back then, my mother would used to prepare coffee for my father and milo for me prior to my father sending me off to school and heading to work.

Me and my father would then switch drinks after he has drank half of his drink.

Then, when I turned 14 years old, I started pulling an all nighter or getting up at midnight just to study.

Eventually, I developed immunity towards coffee and is able to fall asleep even after consuming it. Thus, I merely consume it out of addiction and routine.

As I started working, as mentioned in my explanation for cold tea, the environment is rather warm for me to be consuming hot coffee. Hence, I would prepare my mason jars of coffee the night prior and transfer it into my flask the following day.

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