The Lady - never a more fitting title

Just watched the film of Aung San Suu Kyi 's life and am just blown away by the story. Briefly knew the outline of the hardships she had faced in her lifetime but to see Michelle Yeoh's excellent film portrayal was incredible. The scene where here husband, Michael, dies on his 53rd birthday from prostate cancer without being allowed to see Aung since his diagnosis is devastating to see because it's a true story. Thoroughly worth watching, a wonderful tribute to a living legend!

New year, new chapter (life hopefully becoming what it should always have been)

So last year's sobbing aspiration to blog more didn't exactly come true, I haven't blogged daily but hey, I'm checking in more regularly (like now) and so it's progress.

Anyway, felt like renewing that "blogging more" fervor today because I feel that it's definitely the time to make some serious resolutions for this amazing and infamous upcoming year - 2012. So much is about to happen this year (the olympics, the end of my foundation training, my gap year) and of course, it's 2012 so I mustn't forget to mention the impending "rapture of the heathens / infidels" ;-)

Apart from the significance of the year itself, just feel like having this time off at the beginning of the year has allowed me to reassess what I hope will be the trajectory of my life (rather than just coasting along allowing it to pass me by, being a passenger and drifting into the mediocrity and cynicism (and physical changes of age) in normal twenty-something adult life. As usual, the first few days of the vacation were wasted just sleeping, being hungover and catching up on TV but having this extra time at the dawn of a new year has allowed a switch to finally click.

Combined with this extra time is without doubt, the single most important discovery in my life (on a par and in collaboration with the advent of the iPhone): Wunderlist - a multiplatform cloud-based (free BTW) app which allows you to manage lists. The number of years I have been writing on random post-its and storing them in boxes / folders which soon became the hoarding of random lists/ideas in iOS's notes programme. Finally, I have a means by which I can at least TRY to achieve my full potential by chronologically (and realisticly) listing the hopes/dreams I have (without bottling them up and becoming disheartened as another year goes by without achieving basics).

I feel it's so significant that these random circumstances have come together at the beginning of this wonderful year, regardless of what it holds, it has allowed me to look at life with more aspiration (like the spirit I used to be before being attenuated/jaded by medical school, adult life and all the lost spirits living the rat race). Who knows, perhaps I'm even on the Edge Of Glory ... whatever the year brings, I'm looking forward to it!