Many overseas foreign workers tend to lament that despite that they are earning more than what they were earning before in their home countries, it seems that they would go back to their countries after finishing their contracts with no savings and a mountain of debts. I learned a long time ago from my mother the saying, "It is not in the amount of money you earn that is important, it is in the amount you save.". I wanted to take that nugget of wisdom here as we are starting our new life here … [Read more...]
WHY I RETURNED TO MEDICINE AFTER GIVING UP ON IT 2 YEARS AGO
Credit : Freepik As long as I can remember, I always say that I will be a doctor when I grew up. Coming from an Asian family, profession with titles are revered and encouraged. When I was in kindergarten, the idea was planted in my mind that the best profession is to be a doctor, a pediatrician to be exact because a clinic with stuff toys & colorful walls seems more appealing. So when any grown-ups asked what I wanted to be when I grow up, my response is always, “I want to be a doctor, a … [Read more...]
5 WAYS SINGAPORE HAS CHANGED MY TASTEBUDS
When I was just a week in living in Singapore, I was temporarily staying at my friend's unit in Ang Mo Kio. We were ravenous by dinnertime and there was a hawker center nearby the unit. We headed down to check out the food. For the lack of imagination and bravery, I ordered a takeaway of lemon chicken with rice in a styrofoam container. I ate that dry dish in my friend's place with sadness and concluded right then and there that I will never enjoy any food in Singapore and I will be stick-thin … [Read more...]
GOODBYE 2018, HELLO 2019
I am so glad 2018 is finally over. I am looking forward for 2019. I guess I can say that 2018 has been a trying year for me. I decided to take the challenges, tears, sweat, anxieties and heartbreaks of 2018 as lessons for the future. They say all experiences even the bad are opportunities for learning. Goodbye 2018 Source My start of my year bled me dry. Have you ever felt like every part of your body experienced thousand of papercuts, slicing you unexpectedly over and over again? I guess that … [Read more...]
HOW TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR PHONE
You are outside. In an MRT perhaps. Look at your front. Look at your right and left. Count the many people who are looking down on their phone. I guarantee there is a bigger percentage of people on their phone than the people who are not. These days, people has been so attached with their phone that it is almost pathologically. Me included. Our phones became extension of our hands and never allowing it to leave our sight. Our intimacy with our phone is deeper than our relationship with our … [Read more...]
10 TIPS ON HOW TO MANAGE STRESS AT THE OFFICE
In case you haven't known, I have trade off my hectic stethoscope-wearing job to an administrative work at a healthcare sector. Many may assume that working in the office would be less hectic or stressful than working as a doctor but an office job can have its own challenges & stresses too. One thing I noted working in abroad which I view as an advantage is that unique circumstances sometimes propel you in a direction you never thought you would be given a chance to try. So in end of 2016, I … [Read more...]
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