I passed !!! All the hard work , endless nights of insomnia , daily episodes of palpitations , upon-awakening-guilt is all worth it ! I don’t know my grades yet . But , passing is more important ! I have a week’s holiday . There’s so much I want to do . Example : train for the upcoming Brooke’s Marathon , read the bible , run , go shopping , run some more , learn to cook soup , read blogs , read novels … One week ? Not enough time ! Semester 8 starts in a week . I’ll be in a different group with different members again .
You know , most of my friends would try to swap groups to be in the same groups as their housemates or good friends who they are used to . In semester 7 , I didn’t swap groups throughout semester 6 and semester 7 . Just stuck to the allocated group . In semester 7 , my group members were totally the people who I didn’t normally mix with throughout the whole 3 years in medical school . I hardly knew any of them besides their name . Also , in semester 7 , I was in the group which nobody wanted to be in . You see , we had 4 postings in Semester 7 . Our group started with psychiatry , then continued with orthopedics , pediatrics and obstetrics . Nobody wanted to be in this group because we were ending with obstetric , also known as the busiest and most hectic posting . And , everyone wanted their last posting to be one that provided them some free time for revision . No way in obstetric posting would you have free time for revision . It was possible , just extremely exhausting.
I did feel like swapping groups but then i realize it didn’t really matter . So , I decided to just stay in the group and see how things go . To tell you the truth , obstetric posting turned out to be really very exhausting . With all the deadlines for research project , CFCS at the end of the Semester , and adding case summaries and reports and also covering wards each night , I tell you , obstetric posting turned out HELL-ish to the members of our group . There was a point where we were all so stressed out that we argued among subgroups. It was really terrible . It should never happen again .
Despite all that , I realize , I found friends , my subgroup members . These friends are sincere and real . These friends , they do not have an alternate motive , they do not keep to themselves . And through them , each of them , I learnt something new . I hardly knew them , hardly talked to them . Slowly , we got to know each other . Slowly , we got used to each other . And by the end of a few postings , we were quite a close knit .
The picture was stolen from Maywan’s Facebook page . Hehe .
Semester 7 was suppose to be “DASYAT ” . But , thanks to them , Semester 7 was so much more enjoyable than semester 6 . Seriously . I remember during pediatrics posting , I was basically laughing throughout the whole posting ( in the wards , in class and after class ) because of them . Those were good times !
Today , we got our results! And i am superbly happy because we got through the exam together. We passed the exams together and Zheng Sheng made us proud by being one of the distinction students ! ( sorry , promote one last time here )
I think … God placed me in this group for a reason .
Now , when I look back on Semester 7 , I realize , the reason is them .
Angels and blessings come in all shapes and sizes . =)
Cheers ! God bless all of you .
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