Date : Friday, January 1, 2016
Time : 10:34 PM
Title : 1/365

2015 have been rather eventful as I compare it to the past few years, where my life revolved around nursing ever since polytechnic. 3 years in polytechnic, followed by 2 years working as a full-fledged staff nurse at KK Hospital in the department I've always wanted to work in - paediatrics. 2015 also marked the completion of my 2 years bond with the hospital, where I typed my first formal resignation letter to pursue degree on a full-time basis.

Resigning from KK Hospital and joining SIT-UOM has gotta be one of the biggest change in 2015. After leaving school for 2 years and being so accustomed to and comfortable in the working environment I was in, it was both an easy and difficult decision. Joining SIT have always been the next career step I wanted to take, however that also meant I need to bring myself out of my comfort zone - my workplace. No doubt I miss work terribly. I miss working with the awesome ladies in W85, I miss working with the lil ones. But I definitely have no regrets thus far, as it's been something that I wanted to do, so if not now, when? But I certainly look forward to joining KK Hospital again upon graduation. Being an undergraduate student is definitely not going to be easy, neither am I hoping for it to be an easy journey. All I hope to gain out of this degree is not just to become a better nurse, but to become a better person as a whole. For my patients, for my loved ones, and for myself.

The beginning of 2015, I resolved to step out of my comfort zone in order to widen my horizon. It was also the year where I felt a need to adjust and change a lot of my mindsets, in order to be happier and less temperamental. As I embark on this adjustment process, I got to realise a lot of things about myself, became more open-hearted, but at the same time, I realised feelings were hurt along the way and I'm terribly sorry for that. This year, 2016, I promise to do better.

Thank you 2015, for being so kind to me. Thankful for the new friends I've made in school, thankful for my subgroup members from 'Tangled' for being such fantastic project mates to work along with, and especially thankful for the old friends who sticked around for yet another year with me despite me not being to meet-up with them as frequent as we used to now that I've gone back to school.

I don't usually make such statement, but 2015 has gotta be one of the best year. May 2016 brings greater goodness to everyone!