THE FUTURE

The future is a long time away.
Then again it is not.
The sad disadvantage of being a TCT is that you often set your mind on going to a certain place for university, when you might have to go back to your own instead. It is not a rare occurrence for people staying in their own country to want to go to other places as well, but for TCTs, its harder.

The US is where I want to study medicine. If not, Singapore, UK and India is fine but my heart is set on medicine. Unfortunately, medicine takes about 8+ years to study unpaid but after those first years, you do residency and you get paid. Medicine is expensive, no joke. 40,000 is the average PER YEAR. The number makes me shrivel up and die a little inside. My parents also have my sister to take care of, and she is showing interest in medicine as well.

I like planning. It amuses me.
xx
Megs

An Afternoon in Annapolis

With my iPod Nano blasting "Time is running out" (by Muse)  in my ears, we set off in the 40ºC heat to Annapolis Docks. Annapolis is a a city in Maryland, right next to Washington DC, which made it convenient to visit. During the course of the 40 minute ride, I fell asleep numerous times due to the heat, only to be jolted awake by my younger sister. I couldn't sleep, though it was very tempting; I had to look at the scenery. After we arrived, we walked around a bit, got greeted by tired, panting dogs and got some ICE CREAM :D

Two scoop ice cream cones here are gigantic, double the size of the Baskin Robbins scoops in Malaysia. Chocolate chip cookie dough was simply DELISH. They even had these small lumps of grey stuff, that was sweet and delicious. The only problem was that we went outside of the ice cream shop as soon as we got them, and after a minute of being outside in the sun, they looked like someone had blasted it with a heat ray. An ice cream that is melting needs a strategic method of licking. I knew what to do and successfully managed to finish the gigantic cone. My sister however, did not eat it at all. She would give it a few light licks then watch as it dripped around her wrists, down her arm, off her elbow and onto her converse. It was quite a sticky situation, everyone who passed stared at her and a few even laughed. I'm not sorry to say that I was giggling too.

After the ice-cream, we rushed to the washroom and then we were back in the car on our way back.

'Twas a pretty good trip according to me.