Drama Reviews - My Ahjussi (2018)

My Ahjussi is about JiAn (IU), a temp worker at DongHoon's (Lee Sun Kyun) company. She has a questionable past and a lot of baggage, while he has a seemingly decent life with a comfortable position at work and a successful lawyer wife, but feels hollow inside. As she somehow finds herself listening in on every part of DongHoon's life, initially to ruin his life, but then realising the kind of person is, she slowly finds her way to comfort and healing, while she herself helps him overcome the stagnation in his life.

Drama Reviews - Mr Sunshine (2018)

 

Mr Sunshine is about Aeshin, a noblewoman who lost both parents in a resistance effort, then learns to wield a gun to join the Righteous Army and fight for her country's sovereignty, with some help from Eugene Choi, an American-Joseon soldier, Dongmae, a Japanese-Joseon swordsman and her fiancee, Heesung, a 'handsome Joseon man', as well as owner of Glory Hotel, Kudo Hina.

January 2019 - Okinawa

This was my trip after I completed the MBBS exams in January. I was a little tired of long haul travels and Europe after that mega 1 month "holiday" to UK so I decided on a tiny island I've always dreamed of visiting - Okinawa! I had planned to go there 3 years ago, but at that time there weren't direct flights yet so we put it off. Jetstar now has direct flights from Sg to Okinawa, making the journey much shorter (around 4h) AND cheaper. I think our tickets were only about $300+ each.
It was not quite the beach holiday I was expecting, but it was an amazing break and escape from everything.

August/September 2018 - London + Scotland (Part 3)

Final part of this mega trip includes my elective (and tourist) experience at Orkney followed by my journey back, stopping at Aberdeen and London (again).

August/September 2018 - London + Scotland (Part 2)

Part 2 of 3 of my little 5 week UK experience. This part covers my Scotland adventures before I flew up to Orkney for my 3 week medical elective. I went to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Isle of Skye and Inverness in a week!

August/September 2018 - London + Scotland (Part 1)

Continuing on my strange medical elective choices, my second destination was Orkney, a group of islands north of Scotland's mainland. I had about 1.5 weeks before the elective started so I visited London, Edinburgh (with a day trip to Glasgow), Isle of Skye and Inverness. And on the way back, I went through Aberdeen before going through London then finally back to Singapore. 
Part 1 will be about London, Part 2 about Scotland, Part 3 about Orkney and Aberdeen. 

August 2018 - Micronesia

So, somehow, I ended up in Pohnpei, one of the 4 states of Micronesia, for 3 weeks in August. In the last year of medical school, my school gave us 12 weeks to plan our local and overseas electives. I wanted to do a posting in a rural, developing island for the scenic views and to experience a very different healthcare system. Originally, I wanted to go to the Cook Islands, but they were full for the period I requested, so my friend and I emailed many many other hospitals in similar places and the doctor from Pohnpei responded so that's how we ended up here, in a place most would not even have heard of before.

Our route there was long and complicated. We took Qantas to Brisbane, then Air Niugini to Papua New Guinea for a stopover of 6h then Air Niugini to Pohnpei via Chuuk. 3 flights over 24h. There is a shorter route to PNG from Singapore directly but the timings meant that we'd have to spend a night in PNG, which I didn't want to.