It’s a hard, cold, jungle of a journey.

I keep updating this thing at such sporadic intervals that I don’t think it’s an accurate record of my life at all anymore. There are large gaps that are unaccounted for. Considering that recording my life was the entire point of my starting a blog in the first place, this whole thing is beginning to seem like an exercise in futility.

I’ve decided not to blog about school unless something especially spectacular happens. I’ve read over some of my old posts and realised how redundant and repetitive most of it is.

Basically, I’m trying to make the place a little more reader-friendly.

So I haven’t blogged in three weeks because I moved houses and, most readers would know that it keeps you pretty busy. A lot of throwing out the ‘old’ and spending excessively on the ‘new’, on my mum’s part at least. I’m liking the house though. In fact, there’s only really two things I don’t like about it – a) It’s right along the railway line so we hear trains at all hours of the day and b) I’m no longer within walking distance of my school.

Still, no complaints here. Mum let me order a new 13-inch Macbook yesterday, and I’m expecting it to arrive within the week. I’m excited, excited, excited (and suddenly greatful for mum’s recent bout of retail therapy).

In other news: I had a friend request on Facebook this morning from a girl who was in my class in second grade, back when I still lived in Sri Lanka. Now, I had to dig out my old school photos to recognise her. She, on the other hand, seems to have an excellent memory. She remembered coming to my house to visit me before I left the country, and even remembered me telling her the name of the suburb I used to live in. She moved to Australia two years ago, and I believe now lives somewhere nearby. It appears she now catches the same train that I do.

Small world.

That’s it, really. I mean, I’ve been busy over the last three weeks but I can’t bring myself to fill the gaps anymore, y’know?

Hopefully I’ll be back here soon.

The rest of my life.

Folks, I’ve finally done it. At the age of 15, I’ve managed to work out exactly what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life. As we all know, life always turns out exactly the way people plan, and holds no surprises.

I’m sure there’ll be no harm in my typing out my life-long ‘TO-DO’ list here, since there’s no chance that any of it could possibly go wrong.

4th August, 2009: Type up a blog detailing my life-plan.
15th August, 2009: Make VCE Subject selections for Year 11.
October 2009: Be accepted into all selected classes.
November 2009: Pass all end-of year exams with flying colours.
December 2009: Receive academic honours for semester achievements.
February 2010: Discover that all teachers for the year are really cool and give easy grades.
March 2010: Find that the work load is really easy to cope with.
June 2010: Get fantastic grades for mid-year exams.
Novemeber 2010: Get incredible grades for end of year exams.
December 2010: Receive academic honours for semester achievements.
February 2011: Discover that the work load has decreased for Senior Year.
March 2011: Join various groups and comitees and enjoy flourishing social and academic lives.
October 2011: Sit for my final VCE exams.
October 2011: Find that I received an ENTER score of 99.95, among the top 1% of the entire student population.
November 2011: Be offered various scholarships from universities.
Novemeber 2011: Sit for the UMAT. (Undergraduate Medical Admission Test)
Decemebr 2011: Discover I did brilliantly on the UMAT.
December 2011: Be called in for an interview by the medical department at Monash University.
December 2011: Wow the team at Monash with my brillance.
December 2011: Be offered a position in the medicine course, beating out hundreds of local, interstate and international candidates, approximately 500 of whom had a VCE enter score of greater than 99.

2012 – 2017: Do really well in the medicine course. Handle the work load with minimal stress. Have plenty of time for social interaction and leisure activities. Achieve Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (with Honours).

2018: Become a Junior Doctor and enter the medical work force. Complete 12 month internship.
2019: Spend a year working in the public health system as a Resident. Find an intersting, high paying job with reasonable work hours.
2020: Complete postgraduate training. Receive full medical registration.
2021: Become a registrar at a vocational training program.
2024: Achieve a fellowship in Clinical Neurology.
2025: Receive Medicare provider number.
2026: Open successful private practice and help hundreds and hundreds of people. Daily.

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen. By the year 2026, at the age of 32, I will have successfully completed my education in the medical field, and will have risen in ranks enough to open my own private practice. Business will be booming, and I will live the remainder of my life secure; both financially, and in the konwledge that I’ve made a positive impact to the world by helping people.

Call me an optimist?

Goodnight, potatoes. I’ve got some thinking to do.