I didn't want to believe it when my counsellor warned me that MicroB is 10 times worse than Immuno. Can't live in denial anymore though. It's been 2 weeks and there're at least 50 weird names to remember (as weird as orientia tsutsuganmushi, that will stick), plus morphology, plus clinical manifestations, plus treatments. CA's in a month and I feel like I'm short of time already ):
School's, still school. Our ex Physics teacher Mr Tan's father is lecturing us on the pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs. Other than the fact that he breezes through the lecture as fast as Prof Justin Wong did, he's very clear. And he inserts random slides with jokes in between each topic presumably to allow us to take a break. It's quite amusing.
The MicroB lecturer is super funny too ("I wake up every morning and thank the bacteria for my mitochondria"). However disengaging MicroB may be, I've managed to stay awake in all his lectures so far haha.

A few days ago there was news about how this medical student from Cambridge was unfortunately killed in a car accident. It really shows how vulnerable and fragile life is. It's a gift to live each day and we shouldn't spend the likes of it complaining and lamenting about how things didn't work out the way we wanted it to. Today during MCF sharing someone pointed out that we shouldn't expect God to move all the hurdles we face out of our way, but instead we should pray for the strength to cross those hurdles. Because it's how we learn how to rely on Him more. I thought it was a refreshing reminder (:

On Monday I had a meaningful encounter with one uncle during a visit to an elderly home. He was alone in Singapore because his children were overseas, and he shared about how he has always wanted to migrate to Hong Kong to be with his children also because he liked the way of life there better. Despite his age, he was mentally alert and telling me stories of how he was a seaman in the past, his past visits to hospital, and what Hong Kong was like when he lived there for a while. As I chatted with him and shared about my own experiences in university, he suddenly paused and said: "I think you made the right choice. Doctors, good lah, they save lives."
And I wonder why I've always forgotten, this is the very reason why I chose to enter Medicine.