It’s due time.

I apologize for the lack of updates.

If anyone has been disappointed that is.

3 more days of preperation to my first paper. I had a glimpse at IMU's Foundation II (2nd Semester) MOFA. It struck me, the amount of details they went into, compared to my current syllabus. True enough I am still in the first semester (again). However, it really is downright demoralizing; am I learning as much as my Malaysian counterparts? How would this lead to my clinical performance? I know, of course that being a doctor isn't exactly a textbook-based occupation, plenty of misnomers and ill defined borders, but what is it to know about borders where you don't know where the borders lie?

Ah, the musing. It is a relief to say that the lectuerers here are better in terms of person contact, emails would be replied in a jiffy. However, I do miss the speediness of two hour lectures that makes time for revision and of course rest. Most importantly, I really do miss the cheap food back home. A plate of plain rice with two dishes here cost like at least 9 AUD, roughly 9 times more expensive than home. There is a perk though, we medical students get staff price for food in the hospital cafeteria whereby the food is, well, not any better than two-day-old soggy cornflakes. It'll be good to be back. But I chose this path, is it the correct path? I choose not the see the "what-if" I am back home. I rather don't. Things would be different.

I wouldn't learn to do a lot of stuff that I did here; lifelong skills that I have learnt is indeed, priceless. It's not easy not having people to consult like straightaway for something. I learnt how to decide for myself, making choices would be a part of my job afterall. To say the very least, at least in this place, ethics plays a role.