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Interim part 2 - wedding planning: third year and beyond - since Iain has been on the North American continent...

I started my third year June 30, 2003, after having taken my USMLE Step 1 on June 17, 2003. Iain returned to the States from London August 7, 2003, several days early than he had told me to give me a surprise. We went to visit my parents weekend of September 12 in Radford (see those pictures in the Gardens page, Misc page, and Elsa pages). The following are the rest of the pictures from that weekend not otherwise categorized in other subpages...

the flooding Hague outside my apartment in Norfolk Friday morning as I was leaving to head down to Radford. This was just a little storm before Isabel siz days later...	I picked Iain up at the airport in Roanoke, deja vu from Iain picking me up at the same airport last year when i returned from China. This was the view of the evening skies and the mountains from the waiting room.	two very excited chiahuahua dogs in a car in the parking lot of the airport.
Ming with the boys, Jeff and Jason	Iain and I visited Trina in Troutville before Iain flew back to CT	Trina with her lovely turtle bread
Saturday (9/20/03) after Isabel, I had ran away from Norfolk to stay with Mum in Midlothian, southwest of Richmond. We had been out of electricity since Thursday and so we had our first gas grill cookout at the neighbor's house with lots of candles, teekee torches, and battery powered radio playing jazz. Pictured (l-r) our hostess Margeret Hughes, Ron and Pauline Edwards, Harriet the Yorkie, and Mum.	exquisite sunset over the Hamptom Road Bridge Tunnel in the wake of Isabel, all the aircraft carriers and other battle ships have returned to the navel base.

Third year of medical school is marked by sleepless call nights, endless studying for shelf exams, and anxiety over future career moves. By fall of 2003, i was in the middle of my three-month internal medicine rotation, having finished six-weeks each of family medicine and psychiatry. Halloween 2003. the mingster dressed up as trinity from the matrix trilogies.

trinity with anshu, the perfect pumpkin	trinity with p-funk, phantom of the opera	trinity with her medicine wards partner kristi, who's dorothy from wizard of oz
agent smiths	the asian posse matrix - girl ming and boy ming, agent smith and trinity	trinity was happy to kill at least one agent smith with her machine gun
trinity and neo face off with agent smith	the matrix gang: boy ming (ming maa), girl ming (ming qi), christian smith and paul montero.	agent smith gear up to punch neo as trinity contemplates the meaning of the matrix
neo fighting agent smith	still fighting...	neo and his famous bullet-dodging moves...
trinity, phantom, and pumpkin	trinity and tigger the cat	laine, carty and anshu
phil was neo outside the matrix	my medicine wards attending dr. bahrani and his own infamous halloween party, the sleeping boy is his younger son	trinity and the phantom at the ghent masquarade block party, accompanied by the beautiful fairy felicity (aka, ivan's boyfriend david).

trinity and felicity

trinity with felicity (david) and ivan

weekend of November 15, 2003, it was a free weekend between my two different sites for internal medicine and iain was flying into charlottesville from connecticut to see one of his groomsmen seth delong defend a phD dissertation and also catch up with many of our other friends in the cville area. Iain arrived on wednesday and stayed with one of his other groomsmen muneeb idrees, who's working in cville. when i arrived on friday, we stayed with my friend john chen and his fiance vicky.

iain and i at orbitz	eric wu (systems engineer) and jenny ku (first year UVA med)	our hosts john chen (third year UVA MD/PhD) and vicky carter (graduate student and fiance)
iain with two of his groomsmen, Dr. Seth Delong and Muneeb Idrees	the asian posse	the asian posse, take two
peter working hard in the kitchen	saturday night, iain and i cooked salmon dinner for out hosts john and vicky, and also had my friend peter mugane join us as well, before we met up with eric and jenny to see matric revolutions.	johnnie testing out the new space-age corkscrew iain and i got for him and vicky.

ming and grace at the barnes&noble starbucks on 29...		maria turner was also there:)
then ken joined us, still hung over from a night's wild debauchery...:)	iain and i went to see my fellow jeff scholar nicole o'brien (first year UVA law) in her charming little cabin outside cville.	also called up a family friend denise lew, who's a third year undergrad.

Auuggghhhh....the holiday season...we took pictures, send out photo greeting cards to every corner of the world, planned the wedding, shopped for wedding rings, ate lots of good food, met tons of family and friends to the point of exhaustion, fired bottle rockets to usher in the New Year, held peace talks between a short-haired grey cat and a hyperactive shaggy Yorkshire terrier, watched heroic battles with real and mechanized elephants, then slept some...