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Am installed in my new room in KE hall with a slowly increasing amount of stuff... It was fun to check in knowing exactly what to do without being nervous at all the KEWOCs milling around like last year =D Knowing how to get to the room as well as how to unlock the door using the transponder which was such an enigmatic piece of equipment at first sight.

F206 is a great improvement over its cousin F106. For one thing, the view is better. I can actually see PGP and the trees behind G block! And everything which didn't work in 106 works here. The door locks smoothly (instead of me having to pull the door against the frame so that the lock could fit into its slot), the towel rack, clothes rack and clothes hooks are all firmly attached to the walls and door respectively. Cool.

Oh and did I mention the wireless internet connection's equally good here as downstairs! I can finally use firefox on my laptop again!

So have shifted in my recreational books, some clothes and toiletries plus bed linen, enough to sustain life for a few days heh.

Its day 2 in a series of 3 days of games with the OG. Badminton yesterday and tomorrow, plus basketball today. Tiring but fun!

When I see the M1s and as I get them to know them better, I'm reminded so much of my own development as a officer cadet out from the army into a medical student / KEVIIan, looking at friendships initiated in medicamp grow to the degree it is now. As all of us share how our interviews went while pouring starchy sawdust over paper mache mannequins, it just reminds me how fortunate and blessed I am to be where I am now, how a shot in the dark (for that's what applying for medicine seemed to me to be like) materialized to be real in that magical night after patrol field camp.

Also, how everything fell into place in medicine. Think I am one of the blessed few who have 3 unique circles of friends in my batch: OG, Hall and Anat Group which get along well in their own right, making for pleasant times whether in lecture, at meals or in lessons.

One moment we were M1, struggling to finish our pros, next moment we are M2, having experienced the lectures, anat lessons, even overseas holidays, and are bursting with stuff to pass down to our year 1s ("Chope seats early! Get a Co-op card! Be OGLs next year! Don't buy papa Moore!"). Such a miraculous year

Yea just some thoughts which were running through my head at the very moment I was leading the OG down from the Arts canteen before going home for my driving lesson, and they to their matric fair: Yet another step for them to developing their own stories about life as a medical student which they will pass down in turn to their M1s.

I'm especially reminded of this when people ask me after me n my sister and they say "both of you are from VJ and you BOTH got into medicine!?" No, it didn't matter where we came from. We just trusted that God would bring us to where he wanted us to go and so now I trust I will graduate as good a doctor that I am intended to be (of course, with a lot of hard work put in too on my part).