It has been tumultous, with a lot of fun, not-so-fun and a little so-not-fun bits. I really look forward to whatever entails in the future. But darn, I am not a very far-sighted person. My plans most likely just involve whatever's outside my bedroom door.
The first year was rough. The second appears to be an uphill hike.
But I doubt anything can top what happened in the 3 months break in between.
Yup, I have done so many things and looking back, WHERE DID MY HOLIDAYS GO? I am still grateful though. In that time period which most people might use to plan new apartment renovations or even a lightning wedding, I guess I grew.
A week away from civilisation, on a world-famous idyllic resort island. YET NOT SPENDING ANY MONEY (except the transportation there and other basics) I also cut a huge chunk off my celly's bill that week. But more importantly, I learned to appreciate Mother Nature more (yaya... very high school essay on "MENCINTAI ALAM SEKITAR" right?)
You didn't really actually bought that right? LOL
I will spare the details... but surviving a speedboat ride in a thunderstorm out in the open South China Sea, with NO SATELLITE PHONE, NO NEAR JETTY IN SIGHT... AND NO TRAVEL INSURANCE!!! Well, it just made me WHOA! Trust me, it was exactly like a stormy scene off any Pirates of the Caribbean flick or any Titanic-ish shows. Minus the fiction+CGI part... Ah yes, a lot of screaming was involved. And bum-banging too!
I WAS REALLY CAUGHT IN A THUNDERSTORM IN THE OPEN SOUTH CHINA SEA IN A TINY SPEEDBOAT! AND I SURVIVED!
GUESS WHAT! I conquered Mt. Kinabalu the NEXT DAY!!!
The place has become so commercialised, anyone can google and learn about the experience, so i refrain from being redundant on the World Wide Web. So I will just describe in single word sentences.
Crazy. Never-ending. Cramp. Raining. Non-stop. Bonding. Cold. Wet. Liberating. Perseverance. Pain. 5-minutes-at-the-Summit. Sunrise. Clouds. Lotsa. Clouds. RM15-NasiGoreng.
Nearly-DIED-ed [cos ma friends decided to take the LONGER, HARDER, MADDER WAY].
And I'd say it's a ONCE IN A LIFETIME thingy cos I am (most likely) NEVER gonna do it ever again! Especially hardly anyone would be so crazy as I was, conquering this peak with an injured KNEE!
FYI, some freak did it in less than 3 hours!
Hmm... What did I do after that? Ah yes, just followed doctors around in a hospital in Penang for a week or so. Literally being their trolls. Lived the life of real doctors, different types of them (work ethics and personality, I mean, not specialty) Loved it.
The life that awaits.
I love the bonding and friendship that exists between an internist and his/her patients... yet I love the excitement of the craft of surgery. [Most of the time, I just stood in the Operation Theatre while banging my head to the Funk music blasting from the surgeon's iPod. Yes, periodically nodding and "Umm, Yes" when he tells me about some ligament/joint/muscle/anatomical structure which I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NEVER HEARD OF!!!]
Like WTF is the supraglenoid tubercle of the scapula?????
Well, I later proceeded to help Malaysia win some award at a medical conference (my contribution was borderline minimal =P) Eh, that makes me a 'everyday hero' of sorts, right? Er, maybe not.
Shh, let you in on something... HONGKIE MED STUDENTS ARE EFFING SCORCHING HOT STUFFS (both genders, I must stress!) [But Indon ones SO CANNOT MAKE IT LAH. Never seen so much ugliness congregate and mis-represent their nation] There must be like an unwritten rule that one has to be HOT HOT HOT to be admitted to med school in HK.
Evil.
"It's amazing how one learns on the job" I quote a friend. Hospital postings with gullible patients, ever ready to expose themselves to be examined by semi-qualified med students, walao... people treating me like I actually know stuff. The me who totally SUCKED crappily in clinical skills practice sessions, totally ROCKED in the real setting! *phew*
AHEM... time for the [shitty] POO POO parts.
The times were trying for me lovelife. Sank down in the deepest well of misery. But I got up.
Things don't always go the way you want it to.
How often does one get crushed by the burdens of faith anyway??? I handled it much better than I had expected. Gotta fight for something we believe in right? Right.
I have lots of things to cherish. Simply stick to status quo and see where that leads. Worry not bout issues out of our control innit?
So yeah, more or less that's my recent life recollections... in a nutshell.
Life. Mine to live.
I just cannot stand still
'Cause the world keeps spinning round and round
And my heart's keeping time to the speed of sound.
'Cause the world keeps spinning round and round
And my heart's keeping time to the speed of sound.
And yeah I grew. Horizontally, even more. =(
3 comments:
U seems to enjoy ur medical studies a lot.. btw growing horizontally? duhz no more steps already mer?
Why... you're back! :D
OMG. MY cousin was a med school student in HK!
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