Felt kind of enlightened today. With the usual monotony and stuff, stumbled into a conversation with people at my work place today. Was the first time I could so far, remember that I actually got the opportunity to speak to the head casually. I mean, usually, it has always been work related stuff. Yah, totally work. But today was kind of different....
Somehow the conversation drifted from the Sydney Twin Murders to his stint at Timor-Leste, to his trip in Nepal, to the riots he saw in Nepal and then to the protests in Hongkong during July 1st this year. And I don't know what happened someone blurted out, "Oh he is going to apply Med in HK." The conversation continues....
H: Why?
Me: It is still in the thinking stage.
H: But why not here?
Me: *paused* I think I can discover more diseases and learn more about them first hand there?
H: Yes....from the so many Wild Animals around there?
H: Have you visited and observed the hospitals there yet?
Me: I have been to one.
H: What do you think?
Me: Is quite good. But, those hospitals here are newly built!
H: Precisely! So Don't take those here as a norm!
Me......realised that I have always been taking the hospitals here as the norm that I would see there. Somehow, all of a sudden, I realised that i was hallucinating.......
H: You might even get a culture shock!
H: How about your family members? You better think carefully.
C: Yah! You all very lucky! Born here, very safe, secure and stable.
Me: But I was not born here.
C: But don't you think that you are equally fortunate?
I was stunned again. I never thought of the idea of a possible culture shock at all. Somehow, the idea of being here for 12 years did not cross my mind. I have always thought that adjusting back there with be a breeze, but somehow, I felt that it was not going to be..........
Hmm....about being equally fortunate, that was even more shocking. Always felt that I was never the equal with those born and bred here. However, giving a deeper thought today, what inequality was there? I guess, I have been masked? But masked by what?
