So to begin...I'm back (after millions of hours of plane ride)! The trip was okay, like how I told everyone. I can't absolutely say I loved it, cause I have to admit I did hated it at certain points in time. But seriously, overall, it was great. There's really no where else you can do so many things related to Medicine. It might not be an experience I'll try again, but it certainly isn't an experience that I would like to miss. So yes juniors, go for it if you can next year. (:

Hmm let's see. The first few days of the trip was really hard to get by, to be honest. And I'm not the only one who feels that day apparently. Yes, there's the Singaporeans who felt discriminated cause no one understood them or cause they can't talk, but I'm mainly fine with those cause I'm understood and I'm fine with not talking. But even the Americans felt it was hard to get by. I don't know why. I guess it's just the adapting phase. We went late on the first day, cause of the long dreary plane ride (and I've decided that I officially have planenophobia now) so in the end, I didn't even know who who was and what was going on in my group, so that's mainly why I decided not to talk, coupled with the fact that I'm usually already very quiet in big groups. So for the first few days of the trip, I really really survived on awaiting smses. So thank you, you, whom I've thanked so many thousand times it's getting repetitive if I do it again.

Actually, one thing I learnt (the hard way probably) is that Americans are really different from Singaporeans. For one, they talk a lot more. They are much more vocal than Singaporeans, just that...amazingly, I don't have the SHUT UP feeling, cause I think they are much more organised and respectful and they take turns to talk. Well, there's obviously an issue with the f words and all, but ah wells, I get over it. Glen was absolutely having so much joy in spamming f words -.- Ah wells. Another thing about Americans is...they click really fast. Unlike us, they are all the only ones from their schools, but really, they get along really fast, and they just talk and talk about anything. It's a really different culture I think. And then, there's the dance. Which is.....I don't know what to say. But really, Glen and Joel're damn perv and Alvin's totally different. LOL. I think Kevin was still the most decent, though Celeste is probably right then Kevin thinks about them, he just doesn't do it, but still...he's decent. Ah wells.

Now for the medical part. That's the real cool part, at least I think so. Yesterday while I was unpacking, I looked at my Med Journal and thought...this's the most precious. Really, I learnt a lot there. For one, I can still remember this quote from Dr Christian Heywood: "The best thing about being a doctor is that you've the opportunity to meet someone at the worst day of their lives, and make it better". That really made me reconsider my choice in Medicine. Cause prior to that I was still hesitant. And the live surgery is just a turn off. I watched a few live surgeries by the way, and I was like...I absolutely can't imagine holding a knife and all, but I can suture quite well I think. Still...I'm NOT going to be a surgeon. I've to go find out if I can finish Med School without ever entering the surgical room. I mean...I can take watching the surgery. But I just can't imagine myself doing it. And we learnt a lot more, like how to do the Cranial Nerve Examination and a lot about different diseases. I think those were the coolest parts. Then there was the public health simulation where I was part of the Federal Government. Then I realised, why the government likes to say "we would not like to comment on that" LOL. Everything everything really has to be kept secret due to ramifications and all. I would really not like that kind of job. Ah wells.

What else. There's really so much in my head I can't put them down in words. Oh, how can I miss the cruise! We had a dinner dance on the cruise for the last night. VJC should really do that and I would go for SDD. It was perfect fun. By then, I was okay with my group. So I kind of shuffled myself between my group and the group of Singaporeans. Just that I mainly stuck with the Singaporeans when the dance started cause I didn't want to dance. But the cruise was really nice and we took lots of photo. And before I end, I should just thank my group for really really trying to integrate me in. It was fun with you guys. I was just introverted. (: I didn't cry though. On the last day. It isn't that I don't care. But I'm really too hard for these. Even Glen said so. He asked me whether I was sad, and before I said anything he just went "Oh ya, you went through it too many times". Oh wells. It's just like that. Come to think about it, I'm really feeling it right now. I miss my group. Ah wells. I should really end it here cause I don't feel like blogging anymore. But I guess NYLF was fun. And thank you to the Singaporeans as well(: Love everyone! (:

So to begin...I'm back (after millions of hours of plane ride)! The trip was okay, like how I told everyone. I can't absolutely say I loved it, cause I have to admit I did hated it at certain points in time. But seriously, overall, it was great. There's really no where else you can do so many things related to Medicine. It might not be an experience I'll try again, but it certainly isn't an experience that I would like to miss. So yes juniors, go for it if you can next year. (:

Hmm let's see. The first few days of the trip was really hard to get by, to be honest. And I'm not the only one who feels that day apparently. Yes, there's the Singaporeans who felt discriminated cause no one understood them or cause they can't talk, but I'm mainly fine with those cause I'm understood and I'm fine with not talking. But even the Americans felt it was hard to get by. I don't know why. I guess it's just the adapting phase. We went late on the first day, cause of the long dreary plane ride (and I've decided that I officially have planenophobia now) so in the end, I didn't even know who who was and what was going on in my group, so that's mainly why I decided not to talk, coupled with the fact that I'm usually already very quiet in big groups. So for the first few days of the trip, I really really survived on awaiting smses. So thank you, you, whom I've thanked so many thousand times it's getting repetitive if I do it again.

Actually, one thing I learnt (the hard way probably) is that Americans are really different from Singaporeans. For one, they talk a lot more. They are much more vocal than Singaporeans, just that...amazingly, I don't have the SHUT UP feeling, cause I think they are much more organised and respectful and they take turns to talk. Well, there's obviously an issue with the f words and all, but ah wells, I get over it. Glen was absolutely having so much joy in spamming f words -.- Ah wells. Another thing about Americans is...they click really fast. Unlike us, they are all the only ones from their schools, but really, they get along really fast, and they just talk and talk about anything. It's a really different culture I think. And then, there's the dance. Which is.....I don't know what to say. But really, Glen and Joel're damn perv and Alvin's totally different. LOL. I think Kevin was still the most decent, though Celeste is probably right then Kevin thinks about them, he just doesn't do it, but still...he's decent. Ah wells.

Now for the medical part. That's the real cool part, at least I think so. Yesterday while I was unpacking, I looked at my Med Journal and thought...this's the most precious. Really, I learnt a lot there. For one, I can still remember this quote from Dr Christian Heywood: "The best thing about being a doctor is that you've the opportunity to meet someone at the worst day of their lives, and make it better". That really made me reconsider my choice in Medicine. Cause prior to that I was still hesitant. And the live surgery is just a turn off. I watched a few live surgeries by the way, and I was like...I absolutely can't imagine holding a knife and all, but I can suture quite well I think. Still...I'm NOT going to be a surgeon. I've to go find out if I can finish Med School without ever entering the surgical room. I mean...I can take watching the surgery. But I just can't imagine myself doing it. And we learnt a lot more, like how to do the Cranial Nerve Examination and a lot about different diseases. I think those were the coolest parts. Then there was the public health simulation where I was part of the Federal Government. Then I realised, why the government likes to say "we would not like to comment on that" LOL. Everything everything really has to be kept secret due to ramifications and all. I would really not like that kind of job. Ah wells.

What else. There's really so much in my head I can't put them down in words. Oh, how can I miss the cruise! We had a dinner dance on the cruise for the last night. VJC should really do that and I would go for SDD. It was perfect fun. By then, I was okay with my group. So I kind of shuffled myself between my group and the group of Singaporeans. Just that I mainly stuck with the Singaporeans when the dance started cause I didn't want to dance. But the cruise was really nice and we took lots of photo. And before I end, I should just thank my group for really really trying to integrate me in. It was fun with you guys. I was just introverted. (: I didn't cry though. On the last day. It isn't that I don't care. But I'm really too hard for these. Even Glen said so. He asked me whether I was sad, and before I said anything he just went "Oh ya, you went through it too many times". Oh wells. It's just like that. Come to think about it, I'm really feeling it right now. I miss my group. Ah wells. I should really end it here cause I don't feel like blogging anymore. But I guess NYLF was fun. And thank you to the Singaporeans as well(: Love everyone! (: