i think, you don't grow up at the arbitrary number of 21 years old. you grow up when you stop being obsessed with yourself and start being accountable to others, start living for others instead of for yourself.

when you become a Christian, you no longer belong to yourself - you belong to God.
when you sign the MOH bond to study medicine, at least ( Read more... )

studying is screwing with my head - is screwing with all our heads. yesterday, at lunch after ifg, we were talking to the m1s about... anatomy. hoho.

and the more i study about cells, i begin to think about them as people. it's quite amusing, actually, because there is no basis for comparison (people are made of cells) but ohwell, my brain goes to ( Read more... )

the last 2 chapters of "boy alone" by Karl Taro Greenfeld... fyi, his only brother, Noah, has severe, low-functioning autism. Noah is also practically non-verbal and institutionalised. by this time, they are both adults.

( Chapters 133-134 )

i realised i love emotionally/socially stunted people.

for example, in my favourite TV series(-es), there's the brilliant Dr. Gregory House in House, the dark and twisty sisters Meredith and Cristina in Grey's Anatomy, genius-but-probably-also-autistic/Asperger's Dr. Sheldon Cooper and his geeky scientist gang in Big Bang Theory and the latest, ( Read more... )

just came back from yet another pathlight sports and fun camp ( Read more... )

50 more hours, and i'll have completed 20% of my degree.

ideally.

jiayou, all 263 of us! let's set the record and be the year where no one has to take supps! give our dear kind profs a holiday for once (:

"They make it hard on purpose... there are lives in our hands" - Meredith Grey (from Grey's Anatomy ( Read more... )

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monday, during my driving lesson at 4, i looked at my rear view mirror before moving off, and saw "PATHLIGHT 2A", the exact same sign as i made last june holidays. missed pathlight alot, so today i hopped down for a visit. a tiring one, haha, cos half the time was spent struggling with kids, but boy have i missed the school, man. ms sharifah is ( Read more... )

we were in the van, coming back from the floating village clinic ( Read more... )