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Friday, July 21, 2006
it's amazing how, for almost more than a year, i've managed to forego altogether the need to blog -- not that i didn't want to but because i just didn't find enough time nor patience to just sit in one corner and recollect in words the things that have happened to me thus far.
what can i say?
after college, my life has been so unpredictable i wonder sometimes if i'm the same person who wrote all these blog entries that i see before me as i scroll down this blog. i feel like such a different person already -- more calloused, more inadequate.
i never expected med school to be this way. i never expected i'd grope this much. i guess it's true what the Greek philospher Georgias said "the more you know, the less you know".
i used to think i was fairly intelligent. but i realize now that intelligence merely gets you to med school, but what makes you stay is diligence, hard work and the capacity to allow yourself to suffer the most inhumane of tortures (so that, ironically, you may one day, alleviate the suffering of others).
i am the first to admit that i am not the most diligent person i know. i really am not. proof of this would show that, while everyone else was busy studying for an exam, i was busy watching the 'desperate housewives' marathon on star world. and while everyone else was keeping the sandman at bay, i was busy snoring all my troubles away.
i realize now that the reason i got high grades in high school and college was not because i studied too much but because i studied too little, but got lucky too much.
oh, i don't know.
anyway, this blog entry is my way of saying "hello again" to this weblog and to all those unfortunate soul/s who still find the inexplicable need (yes, inexplicable! hehe!) to check this blog out every once in a while.
stay safe, guys.
and, by the way, i'm not really sure if indeed it was Georgias who said those words i just quoted above. i just included his name to give me the illusion of being well-read, since i can apparently (!) name Greek philosophers off the top of my head. hehe.