The ugly duckling

For selectives, i had to enrole into a class, the story behind fairytales. Today the story i had to do was the ugly duckling. A story i think most people would know.

In the beginning, the ugly duckling was shunned by his mum, siblings and friends. No one accepted him and its true, during our childhood, we would have no concept of our self. Who we are, are what our parents and friends tell us. "wow you're a smart kid" or "hey you're a naughty boy!" We wouldnt be able to think "are we really so bad? or naughty? or just a boy who reads and does nothing else?"

Then the ugly duckling had enough, he left and went in search for a place he belonged. If we truly want a change in ourselves, or know who we truly are, we need to take a step towards the path of discovering oneself. We need to make a move forward.

During the journey, a woman caught him and forced him to lay eggs, he was shunned by other animals. Even though people might label us or try to give us identities, it wont work because its not us. Only we could tell who we truly are.

The ugly duckling then hid in a creek and stayed there alone. During our journey to discovering ourselves, sometimes we need to take a step back from other people and muse ourselves. Without anyone to tell us, we need to be alone and think and ponder about life and how we have and would live it.

During the winter, he was freezing and a farmer found him and took pity and took care of him. Even though its a journey of searching for oneself, sometimes or rather some people would say, we, perhaps would have no meaning unless it is spent and used interacting with one other. We would need help on our way to discovering ourselves.

Finally he came out after the winter, noticing he's different and found out he's a swan with other swans asking him where has he been all this while. When we achieve finding who we truly are, truly finding out the truth, we would be without doubt i believe. :D Hopefully, everyone could achieve this.. "self actualization" and be happy. :)

Seth

Hazelnut

Well in the spirit of narcissism and what not, I realized this blog's other contributor did not put a pretty picture of herself! so here...



Seth

Ending of my second year medical school.

(image from http://questgarden.com/81/75/5/090504074616/process.htm)

That was how i felt like during my first two years of medical school. Little kids playing with stethoscopes.
 (no kidding)
The human body is so complicated. Even though there's only a limited amount of organs in your body but they are all connected and its just so amazing..

(how i passed my medical school exams)

Medical school seriously involves a lot of reading, I've always put reading as my hobby in questionnaires and what not but i truly didn't learn the meaning of reading until i entered medical school. Books, notes, websites, or anything with words related to medicine. In each system that you learn, there's a life lesson in it too.. sort of...

In renal system ( your kidneys) - u learn that you would always need a backup system, and definitely clear away whatever thats bringing you down. Never let it stay with you long and hold on to it if its spoiling you. Throw it away. 

In respiratory system ( your lungs and breathing ) - take everyday day by day, there's no point rushing and its definitely bad procrastinating. Like how its always good to breath nice and easy, not breathing too fast and hyperventilating or breathing slowly and then deprived yourself of oxygen, enjoy every breath, enjoy everyday of your life. But enjoy it every day. Dont tell yourself you would enjoy today tomorrow. LOL

Those are just something i could think of right now. The correlation is really small and its like im making this up, which i am, but what the hell. I write what i wan here. :P

Seth

An Introduction

It's funny, I think blogging is a seriously narcissistic activity. You write about the happenings in your life, believing it's so important, so interesting, that everyone must want to know all about it. Yet here I am, writing my first post on a group blog.


Blogger reminds me that this is not the first time I've done this. First there was "Endless Ruminations" which I deleted a few years ago, fearing I had poured out too much of myself on the internet. Then came "Rojaklah" which was meant to be a way for old friends to keep in touch but died a few months into its existence. (Sounds sad but we still talk sometimes even without the blog so it's okay.) "Hazel's Quatsch Cafe" appeared September 2011, was given the honour of one single blog post, and then promptly forgotten. 


So why GnD now?? 


About a week ago the blogging mood hit me again so I texted Nick asking him to invite me back to RojakLah. I intended to revive it. He said he would, so I settled down and waited for the invitation. Then coincidentally the subject of a group blog came up yesterday in a group chat on Whatsapp. Tsung Wai was thinking of starting one and wondering who to do it with. 


So tada! Birth of GnD. 


I think it's going to have a good life. Tsung Wai (Seth?) mentioned below he'll be contributing about med school and other interesting stuff. From me probably music uni (only if anyone is interested) plus happenings, hopefully more pictures than words, maybe some uninteresting things I want to say but no one wants to hear, maybe a few odd questions that sometimes swirl around in my head like in Dumbledore's Pensieve. Nothing too serious, nothing fancy, nothing too personal, to save it from suffering the same fate as "Endless Ruminations". 


Daumen drücken!!


Photos of the authors below, all taken off Facebook.

Leng zai on prom day. 

And another one! So you can see another side of him.

Last one to show his face.

And this is me.

Hope he doesn't kill me. 

Tata!

The very beginning. :D

Well this is the start of this blog. Haha. I think its better to start explaining some stuffs.. Like whats with the narcissitic blog domain. Truthfully... we couldnt come up with another. there were so many names that we came up with that at the end.. we just went wth.. and chosed this one inside. Its good right? Easy to remember ma. :D

Both of us have been authors in blogs that died off and its just sad.. so hopefully this blog wont die. and it would "live on". Not sure about Hazel, but Im gonna be posting stuff about my med school.. and other fun stuff worth mentioning. Hehe.

So if u see this.. memorize this address! and continue reading i guess.. Hahaha :P

Seth