The world of JULIANA

Itz Christmas day today! Gosh . . . time has flown past so fast. This would be our 3rd Christmas together since we got married. Fact is, it has been quite a roller coaster of events and happenings over the last couple of weeks. Firstly, it was devastating to discover tht I’d be missing out on almost ALL the fun of Christmas (which usually happpens in the last week counting down towards Christmas), ‘thanks’ to a 2-week compulsory work-related course I had to go to in Lumut.

With mixed feelings, I packed my bags and left to Lumut, and met 36 other doctors (who hailed frm all nooks and corners of Perak) on 12th December. Heavy-hearted as I was, I knew I had to keep myself emotionally strong to go thru’ those two weeks,away frm home, during the festive season. Destiny plays ironic games on us at times, and yet again, it played a funny game on me! A friend whom once I was BEST BEST BEST friends with (but later drifted apart for reasons known best to her and me), was destined to meet me in this trip. In a twist of events, we ended up as room-mates! Suffice to say tht the bond that was once thought of as broken, eventually grew strong and within days, we were completely comfortable with each other and it was just like the good ‘ole days. Oh well. . . life’s too short and you can’t spend most of it keeping grudges against people now, can u? I like to stick to my principle of "to err is human, and hence treat others as how u’d like to be treated". We became best of friends(for a 2nd time . . .hopefully for eternity this time!) and the entire 2-week course became a joy ,thanks to this long-lost new-found (pun intended!) friendship with my dearest Lakshmi. Also met a whole bunch of crazy psycho doctors in this group . People I never knew existed and vice versa. We had so much fun frm the first thing in the day, at 6.30am, doin’ compulsory sports and aerobics exercise, right up to sitting in class all thru’ out the day, tryin’ our level best to pay attention in class . . and thru’ to dinner , which got rather interesting over the last couple of days. We had BBQ, Steam-boat, a host of seafood,etc. There’s so much to talk ’bout the induction course. Nevertheless, I’d probably end up spending 1/2 hr typing out all my ramblings and the last thing I’d wanna do is bore my ‘reader’ (if any! …hehe).

All in all, I realized that even tho’ I had so much of fears and apprehension with regards to this trip to an almost unknown place with unknown people, during de festive season, I’m certainly glad and relieved that things took such a positive turn of events! In fact, whilst I was missing out on the whole excitement of Christmas, a few Christians in the group managed to get 2gether and we put up a li’l carols-singing-event one evening, tht lasted right up to 2am! I shall never forget the man-with-a-God-given-talent-2-sing(Richard), the angel-on-earth(Tracy) , and the ever-enthusiastic-full-of-zest (Lynette), who made de entire carols-singing event such a joy !

I thank God that in the end, even tho’ I missed out on the carolling events of my church members over the last week, I ended up havin’ an amazing 2wks in Lumut in the most unexpected manner.

I suppose, at the end of the day, no matter how much you try to be in control of a situation, there are gonna be times, when you just hafta learn to loosen up and let things take itz own pace and flow and sit back and relax and make the best of what you have.