Foundation 2

So yeah, we started our Foundation 2 course today. In many ways, I suddenly feel as if I'm already a Semester 2 student, although we aren't officially Semester 2 students yet until after the Chinese New Year break. You see, we are already starting to learn about stuff which usually Semester 2 students learn - such as General Pathology, Microbiology, Parasitology, Immunology and Pharmacology, and last but not least, we are starting Clinical Skills soon. I am most weary about Clinical Skills, but hopefully it wouldn't be so bad because this semester we are only going to be taught some basic stuff like history taking, measuring pulse, blood pressure and temperature. The main reason why we are now learning Sem 2 stuff when we are not really yet Sem 2 students is because students of the previous batches had their big End of Semester exams after Foundation 1, which would be Semester 1 for them, while we are only gonna have our big exams at the end of our Sem 2.
Today, I attended a talk on New Year Resolutions by one of the IMU lecturers. It was organized by the Christian Fellowship. The main reason I report this in my blog is because one message stood out for me - we must always look ahead and press ahead and never harp on our past mistakes or failures. Or else we will never move on.
Philippians Chapter 3 Verse 12-14 says :
'Not that I have already obtained all this or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet ot have taken hold of it. But one thing I do : Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead. I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.'
This is something which I'm really struggling to do. For example, everytime I sit for an exam, I would always try to recall back the paper and the questions asked, and then go home to check for the answers. And moan if I discovered that I've gotten them wrong. Also, the disappointments that I went through earlier on last year and also the 2 years before, I know that I've to learn to let go. I've to learn not to live in my past, but to press ahead towards the future. Only then can I succeed. This would not be as easy as it seems, I know. But I'll make it my 7th new year resolution to add on to the first 6 which I've mentioned in my previous blog.
Yet another new year resolution that I forgot to put down yesterday - to do more regular exercise. I've been really neglecting my exercise- preferring to take a nap in the evenings instead of going jogging or doing other forms of work out. Hopefully, with lectures starting at 10:30 am for the most part this term, ( instead of 8 am previously) I would be able to squeeze in more regular exercise from now on. I don't know how well will I be able to keep to this resolution, being the lazy bum I am :p