hello people!
im currently at the national library of singaporee :) reason why i travel the distance is because my reward is dangling in front of me, shopping at bugis right after this. (yay) after spending almost the whole day at the library, im happy to say that i've completed almost the whole, but not yet cos theres still pharmaco, of respi system today :) is that considered some sort of motivation for you guys?

just some bits of the national library, the whole building is very tall, i think theres slightly more than 11storeys. this morning, just half an hour past the opening time, i headed towards to the study lounge and was shocked to find that ALL SEATS, every single one of them are taken. all i could see was heads and laptops. but luckily enough i could find seats at the central library. anyway, my point is not to tell you guys that its hard to find seats in the library, but the fact that, everyone out there, not only us pathetic medical students, who's minds are set only on EOS, are spending time, putting in efforts, be it studying or working. sometimes we tend to think we are caught in a far worse situation than the rest. we complain, we rant about how we have to squueze 9 systems into our pea-sized brain (at least i do), but how are we so sure, the others are having a whale of their time out there? my older sister, for instance, has to squeeze 5 years of medicine for her final exams before we can even call her a doctor. the person sitting beside me (me being a professional stalker, thinks he's doing business) has 3 thick books on human resource, compensation blablablah while i, only have a photocopied MedEssentials book. hahaha

edit: and so, michael jackson's song number would fit in here aptly - you are not alone. think you are the only one suffering out there? think only your brain is pea-sized and cant seem to remember what you've supposedly just learnt that few hours ago? think your life is miserable, having to study day and night and a day without studying is guilty? you're not alone, my friends :)

ohhh one more thing, theres this courtyard outside the student lounge at level5. its like an open air mini garden in the middle of the building. theres trees, plants, benches, wooden planks. and when i stepped out there to get some fresh air, the place was again, filled with people. whether they are sitting on the benches or on the wooden planks, whether they are in groups or couple or single, all studying (my assumption). the feeling i get is like, as though these people (i was like that too when i was studying in spore, anywhere, so long as there's a place for me to sit, i will study there), as long as theres a place, they can make do with it and study. no idea how to go about describing the kind of motivation i got when i see these people studying, my point probably couldn't get past to you all, but yea, just something i saw today that made me feel we should all just work harder.

oh then it got me thinking, wouldn't it be good if we were to have some sort of open air balcony in imu, perhaps in the library. that way, we can choose to step out there to destress, to chill around or simply get out of the freezing place for a moment, maybe add some flower pots too, hahah.

alright, im done here.
happy holidays still, people!
and happy mugging! :)