short update...

busy...busy...
IRB is due soon.  Working on an exciting case with an interdisciplinary team (public health, business, law, etc) ! For the first time, I feel excited about the prospect of an interdisciplinary project.  It's something that... I'm looking forward to! but of course, there are a lot of works!  But.. it's okie!
Applying to various internships... so please cross your fingers for me! ^_^
Things are not as clear but it's okie.  I have to time clear things up but at least now I can just keep going.
Change of plan for spring break: no longer travel to another country but will visit my sister and home home home ! ^_^
I love traveling but I realize one thing... traveling brings me knowledge, brings me the "freedom" of exploration... it's fun, it's great... but the bottom line: it's not happiness. Don't take me wrong, I love moving from one place to another... East Coast Transplant, West Coast Transplant, Classroom Transplant..I'm even interested in Transplant Pharm (who wouldn't? when your contribution is enormous...when every single pt coming into the room is different and yes because of the drugs they are on?)... I like things to be dynamics.  But there are priorities in life... and you just have to rank them based on what you will make you the happiest. And for now,  I feel I am where I am supposed to be. When chances come, the travel bugs will definitely kick in :)

That's for the update!

nostalgia

school..school..school.. what else can I say?
Almost a month now, homework is there, test is there, and you always try your best to finish it.
Yesterday I called Mom.  She went back home for a visit.  She is doing well.  I got to talk to Sau as well.  It's been a long time I haven't talked to her.  How our lives have become so different and yes...too far apart.. but at the same time, everytime I listened to her voice and heard her stories, and how she is doing...it brought tears to my eyes.  I'm glad she is doing well.  Maybe I will pay a visit sometimes in the next couple of years.  It has been a long time...and who knows how long she is going to be there.
Hearing her describing her days and how much she is making, it tore my heart.  Whether I have become more Americanized and accustomed to my living environment...over here, you don't have everyone around you and you just have to strive on your own.  It is sometimes difficult to imagine oh our life used to be like that.  We used to live in the same house.  Dad used to take me here.  Now...everyone is living in a corner of his/her life.  We are busy doing our things and sometimes forget others....
It makes me miss Dad.  I thought of him recently.  I wondered whether he would be happy seeing our family growing...I wondered whether he would be happy seeing I'm doing fine in school and keeping up with all the things around me.  I wonder...where he is now.  His face instills in my heart...I will always be missing him..
It's raining hard...