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I miss being able to just go out and do things whenever I wanted. I miss JB! I miss Danga Bay, where we spent late nights walking, talking, laughing our asses off, eating, studying (believe it or not) for exams. I miss the little coffee place I used to frequent. They had the best chocolate danish. I miss having Subway just 5 minutes away! I miss being able to record my audio without having ambulance sirens in the background. I miss my little tin can that consumed so little petrol compared to my lady in black now who sucks up a third of my allowance, sometimes more, every month. I miss the malls! And the cinemas oh my goodness. I could just book a ticket online and be at the cinema half an hour later with my popcorn or pint of ice-cream. Yes pint. I miss taking long drives at night into town, around town. I miss having the energy to be out the whole night and still be wide awake in class the next day without any sleep. Everything has changed :( Now if I don...

Was talking to a friend of mine who was asking me about personal statements. That made me backtrack, and so I went through all my documents, all my folders, only to find that some important documents and pictures were deleted from my hard disc on my old DELL when it got infected by a virus. So I went through my old e-mails hoping to have saved something in my UCAS application e-mails but no dice. And then one by one I found all those application e-mails. To the University of Edinburgh. To the University of Nottingham. To the University of Liverpool. How close I was all those years ago. If only we had the money and if only someone had told me a year earlier to sit for my BMAT. I'd probably be in my 4th year of medical school now. Halfway through perhaps. Studying with international students from all over the world. Traveling. Experiencing all the things I've ever wanted. Re-visiting all the places, all the countries I went to as a child. Seeing all those old e-mails ...

We're finishing our O&G posting this week. Surgery next. It was quite an experience being able to watch all those normal deliveries and Caesarian section deliveries. How something so tiny and fragile can grow up to be someone kind and gentle or mean and destructive. Still looking forward to our Paeds posting, though.  From Obstetrician & Gynaecologist to Paediatrician to General Surgeon, now I'd very much like to be a neonatologist. Fingers crossed on that one. Won't be going home for some time. Mom and dad will be coming over next month. Really looking forward to that. Bought a couple of neon tetras some weeks back. They're doing fine so far. The guppies I got in the beginning didn't make it, unfortunately. I think it was the heat. Poor things. Been cooking lately. So tired of eating out. Things have become so expensive. Petrol alone takes up about 1/3 of my allowance every month. Made chicken varuval last night for dinner. Turned out pretty...