Life as I know it

So after putting it off for so long, I have finally come around to writing this post after spending 10 months in Perth. DISCLAIMER:  What I describe here are purely my personal experiences! Having spent 11 years in India, I moved to Perth on June 2019 after making a life altering decision to get married to an Aussie. Like everyone who moves to a new city, I did my fair share of research via Google/Youtube, asking around and my husband did his best to describe to me what I’m in for. But nothing prepares you for the real thing like experiencing it yourself and once I landed here, what hit me the most was the beauty of the place. The beautiful quiet suburbs with perfectly manicured gardens, the bustling city with its walkways, the pristine beaches, the magnificent huge trees so completely native to Australia, that I had never seen them anywhere else I have been. The air was so fresh, the traffic was light and the people I met so polite. To be completely honest, havi...

Well, it's been 5 months since I wrote my first post and well, life has been keeping me quite busy. To name a few significant events in the timeline, I gave my exams and passed my Masters, got married , went on a honeymoon and shifted to Perth. But beyond these conventional significant milestones in my life, the biggest one was the fact that I took a break from studying. Trust me , anyone who has gone through the CBSE vortex, knows that it's a constant struggle till you pass your 10th grade boards, only to enter the Entrance exam rat race. And only when you finally crack it and get into medicine, do u realize there is a bigger meaner giant in the form of PG Entrance exam looming right in front of you. 3 years and perhaps the toughest exam of your life later, you begin to recognize and imbibe the sense of being fed up in every cell of your being and your brain literally shuts down. So I took that break which my brain and my soul was yearning for. Safe to say, since I w...

In India, they say “Make sure you start something new on an auspicious day” and I guess it’s ironic that I’m starting my first ever blog on April Fool’s Day! So this being the pilot episode into my world of self-musings, I think I should get down to introducing myself first. Yours truly, Reshma Peter, hails from the beautiful, busy (and the extremely humid) city of Cochin in South India. Having lived in multiple cities within and outside India, I find it essentially hard to pinpoint a place I call home. I guess home is where the heart is, after all. I am currently doing my Masters in Ophthalmology and will complete my training soon. So one might ask……why a blog??? Well because everyone is doing it!!!!! And that’s not a bad reason at all. But I think the bigger reason would be the realization that I COULD DO THIS. Triggered by doing all those practice IELTS essays, it suddenly dawned on me that maybe all those countless essays I had to write in school and the fact...