Author: Verrel W

6 Things I Learned After 6 years of Medical School
Medical school has been one hell of a ride! From anatomy classes and spinning in a Bárány chair to auscultating heart murmurs and helping deliver babies, it really has been a special 6 years. If I were to do it all over again, there’s honestly very little I would change, if anything. With that, here…

You Don’t Always Need To Have Everything Figured Out
As I approach my 24th year of living in this enigmatic terradome, the question of “what am I going to do next?” has once again crept its way into my thoughts. I would put this largely down to the fact that every time I think I’ve settled on a direction, I become interested in something…

Visiting ‘Home’
Hey guys! Now that I am in KL for at least two weeks, I have been wanting to lay down my thoughts about the differences between KL, the city where I grew up, and Jakarta, where I now live, since I always get asked which one I like more. What better way than to write…

What Young Indonesians Should Care About When it Comes to Politics
Hey guys! As always, it has been a while 😅. I have found myself back in KL again (doing a little 2-week cardiology observership!). This city seems to always find a way to motivate me to write something on here 😆, so here goes nothing.. Hope you enjoy this very vague piece on Indonesian politics!…

Mental energy and building mental endurance
Hey guys! It’s wonderful to be back after a lengthy hiatus. Admittedly we almost lost this site thanks to pure negligence on my end. I’m somewhat thrilled that this unfortunate event has inspired a bit of a renaissance, in both website design (thanks to my amazing girlfriend!) and our motivation to produce content again! For…

British Council IELTS Prize – Experiences from a winner
Hi guys, I hope you are having a wonderful week! Not so long ago, I was very fortunate to be awarded first place for the British Council IELTS Prize 2023 in Indonesia. It provided funds towards my Master of Research degree that I am currently undertaking in the UK, which I am immensely grateful for.…

Stop comparing yourself with others and do this instead
Ah yes, the classic habit we just can’t kick. Most people try not to do it, but why? After all, the underlying motive is not that bad: we ultimately want to better ourselves. Any wise person knows, however, that there is never just one way to achieve something, and that some ways can be better than others. Comparing yourself…

How To Be Confident In Anything
Hey guys, I thought I’d do a little writing to take some stress off my mind, so here goes nothing. I was requested to write this (very short) post by a friend, which I was quite surprised by – ‘confident’ isn’t a word I would straight away use to describe myself. That said, there is…

Are You Wasting Your 20s?
With my 21st birthday right around the corner, my mind has most recently been occupied by planning out the near future. To help with this, I asked for some advice from oldies who lived their 20s way back in the dinosaur era. To my surprise, I quickly ran into a dilemma. I think that if…









