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Growing Up
26 December 2006I’ve been home slightly over a week and will be leaving again in exactly a week’s time (sigh…). This past week, I’ve been meeting up with family and friends. (To anyone who is interested, my books are out of my luggage, and have been sitting on my table for the past week, unopened.)
A cousin commented when we spoke on the phone that although it’s been 3 years since I started med school, she still can’t believe that I am going to become a doctor, that in her mind, I’ll always be a little girl in her mind (the said cousin is the oldest in our generation while I’m among the youngest). I will never understand, and will never see it from her point of view. I’m the youngest in my family, the youngest among the cousins on my dad’s side and one of the younger ones on my mum’s side. Everyone at home sees me as a little girl and treats me like one, I don’t think that will ever change… and seriously, I have given up trying to make a change.
A dear friend I met up with today commented on needing to find information on regulations and requirements for foreign doctors working in Malaysia and Singapore and I’m struck by how things have changed over the past few years. Conversations topics with friends have changed so much over the recent years, I cannot help but think about how much we have grown. No, I don’t mean physical age or increasing wrinkles (thank goodness they aren’t here, and won’t be here for a few years yet…).
We are obviously concerned with different issues. During pre-university and the first few years of uni days, I was only concerned about passing exams and how unbelievable it was that I was going to become a doctor. Conversation topics revolved around which university (or PMS) we were going to, how to pass that particular doctor’s OSCE station or how we were ever going to acquire enough knowledge so that we don’t kill everyone when we start working. These days, it’s more of where we plan to work after graduation, what post-grad training opportunities are available locally and overseas and what we have to do in order to meet the different requirements… sometimes, topics even widen to include where would be the preferable place to raise a family (?!?!) O_o
Apart from looking further into the future, another interesting thing to note is that many of us seem to take passing exams for granted. :P
on December 29th, 2006 at 4:14 am
can’t believe you are blogging about issues so serious when u are back home!! =p
on December 30th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
sigh..i hope those are signs that we are getting wiser and more mature…another half a year and i’ll be 23 d!!23!!!ergh, i hate b’days!!