Happy birthday, dear my-favorite-med-school-on-earth!

Again, thanks for having been the start of many beautiful, long-lasting, world-wide personal and (inter)professional connections I can always count my survival on, whenever and wherever I stay or go. Thanks for those friends both inside and (especially) outside the faculty whom I could share some serious talk, laugh, and misery with. This is a super treasure no amount of money in the world can buy, and it’s been damn great to have it.

Thanks for letting me grow and thrive in an environment of strict-yet-reasonable ethical conduct that has put me into the tendency of being collaborative instead of being segmented, being global instead of being selfishly ‘isolated’, being sustainable instead of being some impulsive one-time-shots, being responsive to changes and taking chances from it instead of exerting every control possible to stay the same, and being creative instead of being blindly following the tradition.

the oath i took in April 2011

Thanks for providing me with many role models of dedicated lecturers and fellow students who live to continuously learn, and who actually have fun doing it without having to demean anybody else. Thanks for letting me understand that nerds who learn are actually so much fun to hang out with because they’re mostly curious and open-minded, and thanks for giving me the chance to learn to be one >.<

It has also been fun to have my intermittent grandiose days colored by the thought like, “I’m an alumnus of a med school of the best university in the country; I should’ve done something for the country, not just for myself” (when I’m being good) or something like, “Hey you don’t mess with me, I’m an alumnus of a med school of the best university in the country. I have the coolest people on earth to back me up if you screw with me” (when I’m irritable). Haha 

Of course it has never been perfect and there are still so many rooms for improvement, but hey! I’m super grateful that I was given the chance to be in the right place to start with. It’s just awesome :’)