Unlike many friends of mine, I don't have the "gift of the gab". Or rather, I have never liked expressing myself. Verbally, that is...and to a certain extent, on print. ><" Maybe that's the reason why I've been putting this off for a long time now. This entry, on the people I've met after Trinity College: aquaintances and friends I've made in IMU, fellow seniors, colleagues and junior buddies at HKL.

Many might not know this, but I was disappointed when (I found out) I couldn't secure a place in medicine at the University of Melbourne. The news came on Christmas Eve, 2003 - 18 days after I returned from Melbourne, 16 days after I went to IMU for the interview. I was given the Bachelor of Biomedical Science program instead, and was placed on the waiting list (for Medicine). I had always been good enough to get what I wanted. Hence, I became egoistic. Arrogant. A brat, to sum up. So when I did not get my first choice, I was shocked. Disappointed.

Disappointment turned to despair. Despair turned to bitterness. Bitterness, to anger. I was angry, very angry indeed....I loathed - myself, for not faring as well as I hoped back in Trinity, and God, for not giving me the chance to continue medicine in Melbourne....

Then an offer came from IMU. Not wanting to wait any longer, I accepted. So there I was for the next 2 1/2 years (excluding the 6-month waiting period ><")....hoping, praying, that I could return.

But things change as time goes by. People change, to be exact. Everything I have seen, heard, experienced and endured in the last three years have made me who I am today. The course at IMU. The professors and doctors I met and come to respect. Family members who supported me through thick and thin. And last but not least, friends I met along the way whom I have grown to love and cherish: SOS members, CG people, PBL and KKB mates, the M104s, and most recently, UPM medics and would-be IMU/PMC students.

Thank you all. For all the times we shared together - the work, books and clinical tips/advice, the board games and anime, those (incredibly) lame jokes and crazy antics , the car rides, coffee-breaks and luncheon spent in IMU....laughter, and (not forgetting) all the blood, sweat and tears in between! It has been a GREAT HONOUR knowing you. XD


In one of the earlier cell group (CG) meetings, Tim Chew once said that God never (really) abandon us. He merely closes the door(s) in front of us, and opens another for us to take. I believed that was what He did to me - instead of a direct pathway to Melbourne Uni, I was led to IMU first. A detour more or less, considering I'm returning to the University of Melbourne this year! XD I really don't know what you guys might think of the above statement(s). Perhaps it was nothing but a figment of my imagination, and that everything happened by chance alone. Perhaps it was just meant to be, that fate played a part too. Perhaps this was a form of "punishment" for being a conceited brat in the first 18 years of my life. Or perhaps that was what He wanted all along - making me go on a "detour" so I could learn something (out of it) and still enjoy the ride.

How would it be like if I got Medicine (at Melbourne Uni) in the first place? Things might have been so different now....

But you know what? I am eternally grateful that God closed that door and opened another for me.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

I shall miss you all....