East Coast Extravaganza: Quickie to Philly

I had never been to Philly before this past year of traveling, and I never really even consciously thought about it as an actual place to visualize in my mind. Being in New Jersey I took a little side trip to the cheesesteak home for a school meeting and also for a Michael Buble concert.  Driving to Philly from Jersey is an easy drive if you have at least $20 bucks in cash to ride the Jersey turnpike. Unfortunately being a west coast girl where it is free to drive on the freeways, I was a virgin to this toll road concept.  Just for your information, if ever you happen to run out of cash on the toll road they will not take credit or debit cards, nor will they accept any other forms of bribes to get you past. Instead they might just make you pull over on the side of the road to wait for a police escort to the nearest ATM.

I have some mundane photos of Philly. I'm sure any other Asian with a camera could do better.  Man I need to work on my photography skills. Anyways, here's what I have:

Liberty Bell

Independence Hall

Here's my pictures from the concert.  I really think he's just so talented. The Frank Sinatra of my generation.  And handsome and cute.  I'm such a hopeless romantic softie at heart.

By the way, in case you were wondering I reminded myself to take a trip to the ATM before attempting to drive back.  Why do they call it a turnpike anyways? What the hell is a turnpike?

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Hello World from Philadelphia

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I'm back from being off the radar for a solid 3 years.  What can I say?  Med school displaces your entire life like that.  I've been locked up in a dark room with my nose in the books and I have emerged as somewhat a social outcast.  And sadly, my passport is expired.  I haven't been able to leave the country for the whole past year.  But not to worry, that situation is going to be remedied very soon!  I am in the last year of Med School officially starting July 1st.  As a senior, there are going to be so many trips this year, I'm going to feed the travel bugs that have taken a long slumber inside me.  I have a busy year with 4 audition rotations planned, meaning that I will go to 4 different hospitals of which I am interested in doing residency and work for 1 month at each.  Also, I will have interviews all over the place for residency positions.  The best thing of all about this upcoming year is that I will have 1 month vacation as well as 6 weeks between graduation and starting residency to do whatever I want.  Yup, its time to get excited!

Current situation is this:  I'm in a Starbucks in downtown Philadelphia.  Its early afternoon.  I took a red eye flight from Las Vegas last night and am adequately sleep deprived.  The sole purpose of this trip is to take my COMLEX PE exam.  This is the only place in the country you can take the exam. Thus, it seems this is the D.O. physicians pilgrimage to be taken at some point in their very early career.  It also seems that I should be studying right now.

This is the best place ever! Homemade artisan foods some made by our Amish friends, and just a great atmosphere. 

Dutch apple dumplings at the Reading Terminal Market. Omg deliciousness!

You can't go to Philly without gettin a chez steak! #KingofSteaks

And of course a freshly filled cannoli for dessert in the neighboring Italian neighborhood. 

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