My blog has been idle since the earlier part of this year. Between then and now, many things have transpired, and somewhere in between, I lost my\u00a0inspiration and motivation (and above all, TIME!) to blog.<\/p>\n
This is going to be a short blogpost of what I’ve been up to thus far, which is definitely\u00a0anything but\u00a0profound! (and I’m referring to both the blogpost\u00a0and\u00a0the things\u00a0I’ve been up to…)<\/p>\n
From April until June, I\u00a0completed my General Medical & Surgical Junior Clerkships at Southend University Hospital. The hospital was great, but the sand and sea were better! \ud83d\ude00\u00a0<\/p>\n
During one of the Bank holiday long weekends, I escaped from my hospital work and travelled up north to Scotland to visit the IMU gang in Edinburgh. Glen was there too. Visited loads of tourist attractions in the Lothian city, did lots of touristy stuff etc. etc.<\/p>\n
Right after the\u00a0clerkships, I returned to London for my end of year examination. Kudos to the Dawson\u00a0Hall transfer crew for for our effort in practicing for the OSCE exam! It was good fun. Really.<\/p>\n
I returned to\u00a0Muuuuther<\/em>land on 17th\u00a0August. The gym junkie in me ensured that the first thing I did when I arrived back home was to\u00a0join the local gym.\u00a0In between burning off calories, I was piling on the carbs, and to this end, Malaysian food pretty\u00a0much hit home.<\/p>\n I originally had quite a lot of things lined up for the summer, but somehow, ‘administrative work’ and a lot of unexpected turns in my life seemed to get the better of my time. The things I had to miss out: white water rafting in Gopeng with Amanda et al. (sorry\u00a0Amanda!), and trip to Bentong and Genting Highlands with David and Nicholas (sorry guys!!)\u00a0<\/p>\n The things I did do:<\/p>\n 1) Annual ‘pilgrimage’ to Penang (a.k.a. late nights out, sleepovers, and generally,\u00a0bugging the hell out of Yew Ewe and co. at Penang Medical College). This year’s Penang trip\u00a0proved to be much\u00a0more eventful and fun\u00a0compared to previous years. (*nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*). It felt really refreshing to reconnect with people from my past.<\/p>\n 2) 2nd UKEC Malaysian Students Leaders Summit (MSLS)2008 in KL. I had my (not-so) little sister joining me for this event. Some of the talks\/forums were compellingly engaging, while some were just downright bo-ring.\u00a0I sometimes felt a bit out of place, due to the fact that an overwhelming majority of\u00a0the participants\u00a0were either\u00a0undergraduates or pre-university students(OK la.. I’m NOT that old…). But the post-MSLS BBQ in PJ\u00a0was good fun, and gave me the chance to get to know more people. Thanks to Chen Chow for letting me in on this!<\/p>\n (Productive) Things that I’ve trying to do:<\/p>\n 1)Read up my pre-course\u00a0notes on animal surgery and anaesthesia for my upcoming UK Home Office Animal\u00a0License\u00a0training course in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n 2) New developments in\u00a0the area of my research project\u00a0that have taken place in the last three months.\u00a0I’ve\u00a0been trying to learn\u00a03D mathematical modelling in order to understand the work of a rival group from Oxford working on a similiar topic. Not fun. It amazes\u00a0me what\u00a0four years of medical school\u00a0can do to\u00a0deteriorate one’s mathematical acumen. I swear I knew more when I was studying for A-level math, whereas now, I can’t even do simple trigonometric differentials\u00a0to save my life! (There’s always the scientific calculator, no? :D)<\/p>\n 3) Deutsche Sprache\u00a0learnen.<\/em> On my own. No classes. Just from books. And have I ever told you that German grammar is insane? No? Well, it sure\u00a0is. Thus far, I cannot yet\u00a0string a\u00a0proper sentence beyond four words. \ud83d\ude1b So much for DIY language-learning.<\/p>\n ********<\/p>\n (Not-so) Little Sister is coming back from KL today. I’m looking forward to see her again! Yay~<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My blog has been idle since the earlier part of this year. Between then and now, many things have transpired, and somewhere in between, I lost my\u00a0inspiration and motivation (and above all, TIME!) to blog. This is going to be a short blogpost of what I’ve been up to thus far, which is definitely\u00a0anything but\u00a0profound! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}