Before I start the book review proper, just some context on how I stumbled upon this book haha 😅 M3 was a really tiring year and as I have outlined in a previous blog post, although a career in medicine is no doubt fulfilling, it is also undeniably demanding and stressful. Whilst in the wards, …
Hello everyone, welcome to a new series on my blog! 🥳 As you can probably tell from the title, in this series I will be doing short summaries on the books I have read thus far and extracting the key lessons I have learnt from them 👍🏽. This way, in addition to helping me archive …
Book Review: How to win friends and infleunce people Read More »
I am finally back! After so many months of inactivity, I finally have some time for a life update on what has gone on so far as a second year medical student in LKC. Head’s up, this post is unscripted and I am just typing as thoughts come to mind so things may be a …
Unscripted post, just writing about my life in the since school started in August Time flies, sometimes I still can’t believe that I’m already in my second year of medical studies let alone being halfway done with the first semester and completing the first 2 blocks of M2 – gastrointestinal system (GI) and blood and …
My summer holidays started on 8th June 2021 and since then, I have done absolutely nothing that I can add to my CV to make it look better . As a non-disruptee in medical school, my peers from JC are all also in university, either in their first or third year (for guys and girls …
What I’ve been up to in the longest holiday I’ll get in the next 10 years Read More »
According to the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) is “a programme that caters for the needs of intellectually gifted students 🧠”. Moreover, “the GEP curriculum is an enriched curriculum 🤩 designed to meet the needs of GEP students. The enriched curriculum covers the same content areas as those in the mainstream, …
The toxic tuition culture in Singapore: GEP Tuition?! Read More »
My final M1 exams are less than a month away 😨 and this will probably be my last post until I am done with that. Nevertheless, as medical school application results have just been released, I would like to take the opportunity to share my story of rejection in hopes of uplifting those who are …
My rejection from Medicine: How I dealt with it and bounced back stronger Read More »
Hi guys, really sorry for the inactivity in the past few weeks, I’ve been really caught up with school work (exams are coming) 😪. Honestly can’t wait to be done with M1 so that I can update my blog more frequently. I have a whole slew of blog posts planned but I just don’t have …
Medicine. Law. Dentistry. My uncensored views on applying for all 3. Read More »
Before I begin, let me confess that I own both a laptop and an iPad (2 in fact – although one was given to me by my school). Having the privilege of owning both devices and using it for school over the past 8 months, I would like to share my experience using them and …
A tuition side hustle is honestly one of the best ways to earn some additional income as student. I think I speak for the vast majority of university students when I say we are ‘broke’ 💸. Excluding those who are on a scholarship and those who come from wealthy families (parents’ scholarship 🤑), money is …
My tuition side hustle: My experience tutoring and how you can get started too! Read More »