- Get a real violin and start lessons again.
- Be able to do back skates
- Drive on the highway
- Finish biosensors proposal
- Submit MRSA article
- Learn more about nanomaterials and biosensors
- Be healthier
- Produce a non work-related artwork
- Work on social life!
- Attend a retreat
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Second quarter bucket list
I could tell this week's module assignment is so repulsive that in spite of the deadline creeping in by the hour, I choose to write of things that don't even get to be for any purpose but my own. And so, instead of spewing out critical reviews of managing vulnerable points on supply chain operations, I'm momentarily choosing to start filling up my quarter's bucket list :)
Nine months after.
It's due time. After nine months of not writing anything, my boredom - rather, my lack of zeal to do anything else on my long list of must do's - I am finding myself drawn to take a step back and see where this journey has taken me so far.
I have been blessed to come here and do something I love doing - and even be so generously get paid for it, which is nice, because I could finally get to be on the helping end for which I am glad to be so. More than that, I even get the chance to learn more, hone my skills, and do other things other than arts which I thought I was privileged enough to even just dream about, like be in the field of nanodiagnostics or deal with people from CDC. I never thought there is any place that would allow me to blend the science I am trained for and the arts I love to do, and yet here I am. What's even a bonus is, at the end of this happy road, I get a degree which is supposed to actually mean something!
In the last few months that I've been here, I have so far overhauled the project to their delight, and have completed writing and illustrating three additional modules and helped set direction towards the completion of the rest. I have also learned to do flash and action script, from which I had created an interactive digital comic book on antimicrobial resistance - the first of its kind. I also have written a poster, wrote a paper and co-authored another. I also got to present in an out-of-the-country conference, scored big time in my digital media arts class, and even got a giant check for an essay writing competition. I also survived my first real harsh winter, passed my road test, got my state driver's license, and finally get to drive under authentic road rules!
But then there's more. In the midst of all these, I found good friendships too. That kind which kept me to push my faith forward. Which, over and above the science and arts, is an even more important aspect in my life. I am truly blessed.
There's more to be done. Like figure out the loops in nanomedicine and diagnostics, get the needed grants, gracefully survive the roads (and keep others unharmed!), improve on my ice skating and violin playing, illustrate more, write more, and deliver all that is expected of the tiny me. Including, first and foremost, those of God's. I am excited to do so.
This ongoing segment of the road has been one happy ride, for which I am truly grateful. I know God has a plan, and I will just allow myself to be blown to where this gentle breeze will take me. And each day, I will marvel in this one amazing journey, dancing joyfully on this road towards home.
I have been blessed to come here and do something I love doing - and even be so generously get paid for it, which is nice, because I could finally get to be on the helping end for which I am glad to be so. More than that, I even get the chance to learn more, hone my skills, and do other things other than arts which I thought I was privileged enough to even just dream about, like be in the field of nanodiagnostics or deal with people from CDC. I never thought there is any place that would allow me to blend the science I am trained for and the arts I love to do, and yet here I am. What's even a bonus is, at the end of this happy road, I get a degree which is supposed to actually mean something!
In the last few months that I've been here, I have so far overhauled the project to their delight, and have completed writing and illustrating three additional modules and helped set direction towards the completion of the rest. I have also learned to do flash and action script, from which I had created an interactive digital comic book on antimicrobial resistance - the first of its kind. I also have written a poster, wrote a paper and co-authored another. I also got to present in an out-of-the-country conference, scored big time in my digital media arts class, and even got a giant check for an essay writing competition. I also survived my first real harsh winter, passed my road test, got my state driver's license, and finally get to drive under authentic road rules!
But then there's more. In the midst of all these, I found good friendships too. That kind which kept me to push my faith forward. Which, over and above the science and arts, is an even more important aspect in my life. I am truly blessed.
There's more to be done. Like figure out the loops in nanomedicine and diagnostics, get the needed grants, gracefully survive the roads (and keep others unharmed!), improve on my ice skating and violin playing, illustrate more, write more, and deliver all that is expected of the tiny me. Including, first and foremost, those of God's. I am excited to do so.
This ongoing segment of the road has been one happy ride, for which I am truly grateful. I know God has a plan, and I will just allow myself to be blown to where this gentle breeze will take me. And each day, I will marvel in this one amazing journey, dancing joyfully on this road towards home.
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