Hello hello! I’m back! So much has happened since I last wrote about what’s going on in my inner world. Quotes and updates about stuff that’s going on are really just cover-ups to pretend that all is well. Not that things aren’t going on well, but there are events that were encountered that left a bilious taste in the mouth, and I’m reminded yet again that sometimes no matter how hard you try things just won’t go the way you want it, and you have to learn to pick yourself up and move on. Towards the end of the year,…
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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time. – Jack Kerouac
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Time freakin’ flies. 2012 swooshed past so quickly I didn’t even realize it’s the beginning of my favorite month tomorrow. How many new year resolutions have you accomplished as of now?How many times have you told yourself you’re going to do certain things but never got to it until you eventually forgot about it?How many times have you been touched by other people’s kindness?How many times have you touched others by a small act of kindness?How have you lived your year (life) so far? A little too early for year-end reflection, but November is a good time to think about…
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…is because I feel like her on most days- Source of photo: here. That’s right. That’s how tired I am after class every day. Now who can blame me for not updating this blog, right? ;P Ok bye now, have to go back to studying! Who can tell me what’s Wolff-Chaikoff effect?
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1. Before Facebook’s existence, I had more time to contemplate, to ruminate on stuff, to blog about thoughts and random ideas; ever since FB became (almost) everybody’s addiction, I too became one of those social media end users who consume all these social bytes- reading other people’s “shares”, “likes”, looking at their photos – lately the theme among my friends are wedding and baby photos, and knowing where they go what they eat what time they sleep whatever else they’ve been doing. Now I’ve never been one of those people who are against social media, but I do blame it…
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The sky was a perfect shade of blue, until it started raining. October is a wet, wet month- Makes me don’t feel like blogging. Okay fine, that’s an excuse. I was just being lazy. And since I’m still lazy to write, I’ll just post some pictures to fill the void. 😛 Our yoga sessions in class. See the matching mats with our shirts? So well-coordinated! 🙂 Mooncake festival at school. Never too old for lanterns. *a-hem* Nezar and Rinugah’s birthday celebration. Rinugah’s busy cutting cake haha. Neuroscience professors and a thank-you cake from Dr. Nicole. That’s a brain, if you’re wondering.…
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The perks of being the ‘first’ – be it first child in the family, first in class, first batch of a new burgeoning med school etc. – is that you get special attention and care; you get to try everything firsthand; you get to explore, discover, and set benchmarks. The downside of it is that you probably have a certain invisible expectation to live up to. On 21st of September, 2012, we held our white coat ceremony, a ritual that many medical schools in the US (perhaps also some dental, pharmacy, physical therapy schools etc.) keep, to mark the student’s…
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Third week into neurology block and we’re beginning to worry about the exam that we all have to take in June next year. Seems like a long time from now, but in truth it’s everything but. Pretty soon we’ll all be panicking about it… if we don’t start preparing right now. I don’t know about the others, but I sure feel that sense of urgency, and I really have to start working on it. No more excuses and no more blog posts about doing everything but the thing that I should be doing i.e. studying. The general feeling towards the…
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Problem = (what the situation should be – what the situation is) x concern Therefore, if concern = 0, there is no problem! 😀 Having a ball of a time during occupational and environmental medicine intersession, especially when Prof R is talking. Personally I think public health / occupational medicine might be a very interesting area to go into in the future.
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Last day of my summer break. Tomorrow marks the start of my second year as a medical student. There’s a concoction of emotions in me- excitement about new stuff I’m going to learn (particularly neurosciences, my favorite); anxiety about all the previous materials that I need to review; enthusiasm/gung-ho-ness that comes with the beginning of any start of the year, be it academic or Gregorian calendar year; the jitters about the big fat exam in less than a year that will determine our future destiny; and of course, the delight of seeing my classmates whom I haven’t seen in 7…
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We were all so excited, talking about what we’d do when we get up there, how we’re going to conquer all odds and get up there no matter what, making sure we have enough snacks to fuel us the entire hike, wondering if any of us would get altitude sickness, and making sure if we needed the meds one of us would have it. The highlight of the trip was supposed to be the Mount Kinabalu climb. We were going to get up there, watch the sunrise, be surrounded by nature’s awesomeness, and take lots of photos. Alas, the weather…
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It’s been quite a while since I last blogged, I don’t know what or how to blog anymore. And now I’m sitting here thinking why I’m even writing this. The thing is, I can’t remember why I keep a blog anymore. Maybe I should delete this whole blog, or remove it from public’s view. Maybe I should just stop blogging altogether. Leaving for KK in a few hours. Am excited, and nervous at the same time- nervous about the climb, that is. This is the one highlight of my summer, I hope it doesn’t disappoint. Signing off! Will write more…