hi doc!:)

Dear FutureMe, if you kept your priorities straight, your head intact and your heart in check, you should be a med school graduate by now. congratulations! :) just want to remind you of what you promised yourself 5 years ago. that (1) you're gonna pass all your med subjects, (2) you're gonna graduate on time, (3) you're gonna have some sort of political career in UPCM, (4) you're gonna find a boyfriend you're gonna keep before you graduate. did you make it? did you keep your promises to yourself? i do hope so. this is my future, too! if you're confused right now about where to go, let me clear your head a bit, remind you of what you wanted when you were younger, less cynical, less bored, and when your mind was less clouded by problems of the future. you want to be a neurosurgeon with all your heart. if you're doubting about taking the residency because it's gonna cost you another 7 years of your life, remember that this is what you've always wanted, and when that seven years are over, you'll be happy and fulfilled -- which i don't expect you to be when you take up a residency in pediatrics or ob-gyne. nice too, but definitely not your type. (believe me, i should know. you looooove babies, but you don't want to give birth to them. you want to wait til they're older than tinker with their brains.) but if you really really don't want to be a neuro anymore, your other choices are ORTHO (damn them, prove that orthopedics is not a men's playing field) and PATHO (forensics, huh, blame it on CSI). You are not going to be a cosmetic surgeon and be the next vicki belo. you'll probably rip the skin off the faces of those vain bitches who don't know what it means to age gracefully (aging gracefully is not achieved with botox, hun) simply out of spite, be charged with medical malpractice and spend the rest of your life in jail. so unglamorous. you may study abroad and get your residency in ucla or john hopkins, or harvard (dream on darling) or wherever the wind takes you, but remember, you will go back, serve this country, and give the people back what you owe them for spending their taxes on you. no excuses. get married, have kids. if the hubby wants you to stay at home, take care of the kids until the end of their formative years, do it, as long as you know he can support you and your child. don't care about how long you've studied or worked your ass over your practice. it's not forever, and this is what you want. you don't want your kid growing up with a yaya. on the other hand, if your husband wants to postpone getting kids, oh, you know better than marry someone who's so engrossed with his work and himself he doesn't want a child until he's 42. if he doesn't want to have kids at 25 and insists on having it sometime 30, that's ok. give yourself time to be a wife before trying to be a mother. :) luv, alikoy (me 5 years ago. are you still alikoy?)