II.II.I GOODBYE read on the doe Things were going great. I had finally had my routine down, I was in love and I was about to embark on my third year of studies. This meant finally going around the hospital as we’d start off our clinical rotations and getting to see a little bit of everything. Basically a dream come […]
II.I.VI – Blossoming
II.I.VI BLOSSOMING Over the coming days, Pedro and I started seeing more of each other. The more time we spent together, the closer we seemed to get. It was kinda addicting, not gonna lie. Everything was completely new to me. We’d meet at his place and he’d cook for me. We’d drive off to the beach and gaze at the sunset. […]
II.I.V – Budding
II.I.V BUDDING Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe… Girl, boy, girl, boy. Man, this was getting confusing. There’s a way to talk to girls and a way to talk to guys. And talk, talk, talk I did but I knew that sooner or later I was gonna have to go out with a guy if I wanted to really give this new […]
II.I.IV – F.O.D.
II.I.IV F.O.D. Back home I was busy with my summer job, helping around the house and taking care of my dad. Everything was normal. Only now there was something constantly humming at the back of my mind; “You know… I did stuff… I did stuff with a guy! Am I okay with that? Is this something I wanna be doing […]
II.I.III – Metamorphosis
II.I.III METAMORPHOSIS 2017… What a year. That year I learnt how to live. How to really live. That year, all those comfort zones holding me back went out the window. That year, the ball started rolling at hyper-speed and I kept on riding it like a pro. Lemme backtrack a bit… One of the best things about studying medicine is […]
II.I.II – Entropy
II.I.II ENTROPY Try as I might, change led its way through. It was inevitable. The momentum had been building up and something just had to give. The ball I was standing on had started rolling and before long it felt like I was trying to balance on it while it kept moving ahead at light-speed. Much like what had happened […]
II.I.I – Stasis
II.I.I STASIS I’ve always been somewhat of a living paradox. I’m not saying it in the quasi-pretentious way – you know, like those attention-seekers who always make it a point to highlight their own uniqueness and individuality only cause they’ve got nothing better to do. Or maybe I am – I am the main character of this story after all. […]
I.II.V – SWSD
I.II.V SWSD “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life” goes this one famous saying that pops up on my Facebook feed from time to time. Good stuff. Tear-jerking really. A bit vomit-inducing, perhaps. Scratch that – definitely vomit-inducing. I’m this close to needing a barf bag. Seriously, this close. The […]
I.II.IV – Reality Check
I.II.IV REALITY CHECK It only took a few days in med school for me to swallow my words and realise that I was completely wrong about everything. There I was, surrounded by the crème de la crème of university students, these overachieving brainiacs, struggling to keep afloat after I was thrown right into the deep end. Being the socialite that I am, […]
I.II.III – Starting Line
I.II.III STARTING LINE Picture this. It’s a crisp, sunny September day in 2015 and it also happens to be this fresh-faced idiot’s first day of med school, staring brightly at the battered, dilapidated building that would hold me hostage for the next two years – all full of goals and dreams and aspirations. Aaah – how amazing it all felt! […]