familiarity-

the good, the bad and the ugly.

the good: ease, comfort, support, peace.

the bad: over-dependence, lukewarmth, timidity, slight annoyance.

the ugly: extreme annoyance, bordering hatred, hostility.

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people of our age group should really learn to grow up. no more being babied, no more allowing to be babied, no more clinging onto others. stand for our own rights, make our own decisions. have our feet firm on the ground, have our own minds. talk less, whine less, cry less, think more. act maturely, just as we should.

thing is, not everyone can wants to be at your beck and call 24/7. not everyone can wants to treat you like a prince/princess and spoonfeed you. and keep checking on you and making sure you are ok. people have different priorities set and sometimes you should realise that you are probably not that important, if at all. hey, i'm just saying. c'est la vie. ;) people have their own things to do, friends to meet, relationships to handle. in a nutshell, we have our own lives to live. wise advice: go get your own. our worlds are different oysters. :)

to put it simply: get off me.

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my life for the past month has been good. in fact, i'm surprised it has actually been good the whole time. it's true that how our lives are made is how we choose to live them. there are many things which i don't like about this place, but there are also many things which make me happy. and i only choose to embrace the happy things. sure, i get frustrated a lot of times, but i get over and move on.

in the past month, i went to dundee and edinburgh, completed my dermatology ssc (though i think i kinda screwed up my report - but it's ok, i just want a "satisfactory". he'd BETTER give me a satisfactory!), got my progress test results (better than expected, but as always, there's of course a lot of room for improvement), pseudo-celebrated chinese new year with adrian and amrita who came from ireland and glasgow respectively, sat for an OSCE yesterday (i've a feeling i failed 1 or 2 stations huhuhuhu but it's formative anyway so who cares?), and now i'm off for the rest of the week.

i also *finally* satisfied my cravings for korean and japanese food. how not to be happy?

this sunday i am off to blackburn for 4 months, accommodation provided. doing cardio, respi and haemato: the former 2 being my worst systems ever and the latter 1 being the most boring thing in the whole of medicine. i will be deprived of youtube, skype and video-streaming (but msn & facebook still ok - yay!), and away from the comforts of my own room and my double bed. but somehow, for a few very valid reasons, i am looking forward.

i think i am going to really enjoy it.

picture-filled posts coming up, i promise.