My First Ever Blog Post

This is my first ever blog post. I think I should start by introducing myself.

My name is Kai Seng and I live a wonderful life of two different personalities; very much like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (well, not even close actually). One decent side of me: I am a medical student under PETRONAS scholarship currently studying my final year in one of the most awesome medical college in Malaysia. Honestly, life has been wonderful being a medical student, quite hectic and at times, stressful; but definitely an enjoyable one. On the other side, I am a gamer, not just a normal gamer as many medical students play games themselves; I have been to the World Cyber Games and won the First-Runner-Up prize once. My life as a serious computer gamer has been a really joyride as well, getting to know loads of virtual friends and enjoying a different kind of life, a complete 180 degree turnaround of life every time I launch the game from my desktop.

I used to be 50/50 - 50% a medical student, 50% a professional gamer. But now I realized that, I have got to emphasize one side of my life, I cannot stay in the middle forever as it would jeopardize both worlds, I need to choose which of the life that I really want to succeed in; and therefore, I have long time ago, made up my mind to reduce the time that I spend on my games. It was painfully hard at first because you tend to see loads of your virtual friends improving while you got stuck at the same level all the time - the envy of the limelight they get upon achieving new scores, the agony when you see your record broken by those who used to lose to you, and of course, with lesser time you spend on your games, the time you spend chatting with those who used to be close to you tend to go down as well - in the end, losing the warmness of a friendship. Nevertheless, I knew it was the right decision (and I am a final year medical student now), and I know what is more important in my life.

I come from a small town, have a wonderful family, excellent friends and life has been awesome to date. I spend a lot of my time reading blogs of other wonderful people - admiring their life, sharing their joy, and most of all, it feels good as you get to know the person better even though you have never talked to him/her.

So why do I blog?

Honestly, I used to despise the idea of blogging, due to my personality - I preferred to keep everything to myself, or my closed friends/relatives than to share them out on the net. But somehow, along the way of becoming a medical student, I have realized that I have changed a lot over the years. I used to dress to impress as I was always very particular about how the public would judge me, be it in shopping malls or just a short visit to the mamak stall for supper. I used to be a very cold person, being cool in public and frowned more at people instead of smiling. But right now, I am a more jovial person - I can smile at a total stranger, greet any doctors I meet in the hospital. Maybe it is the aging process, maybe it is just how I am being nurtured as a medical student at my college, maybe it is God's way of preparing me into becoming a better doctor - I don't know but people do change when they age, and I hope I change for the better.

So I was bored and was kinda sad that Malaysia Badminton Men's Doubles just lost in the semi-final of The London 2012 that I started browsing the net for something to kill time while waiting for dinner to be ready (remember, I do not play games often now). As usual, Google presented itself spectacularly as I launched my Chrome (Google has always been my Homepage and my best friend), and this time, the words that I keyed in at the search bar was my college name and blogspot. The search loaded quite a lot of my fellow college mates' blogs, some of them my seniors but most are my juniors. However, one junior's blog caught my attention and I spent the next hour reading a lot of her blog posts. They are all beautiful stories of her life and at that instant, I told myself that I need to set up my own blog at once, Not for others to read, but for myself. It would be wonderful to read this post twenty years from now, don't you agree with me? It would be so nostalgic, like a rewind of all the old tapes if you were to read all your old blog posts again from the very beginning. I want that feeling and so I am setting up this blog today (I hope it is not too late), and share my experience along the way till I'm old. I will be so happy if I am able to inspire other people along the way, that's a bonus.

Even as I am typing this, I felt like I can go on and on as I have so many things to say and share right now, but I have to control myself ad-mist all these excitements of writing my very first blog post. I guess, it is the same excitement that almost all of the bloggers had on their very first post. It is the same excitement when you embark into something new in your life - remember the very first time you rode a bicycle, got on the airplane, kissed somebody, bought an iPhone - it is the same kind of feeling that is causing the adrenaline rush inside me at the moment. Oh, I am definitely looking forward to my next blog post and more to come.

So, I am penning off here at the moment as it is time for dinner. Pardon me for my not-so-perfect-English and a very good day to all of you who happened to be reading this in the future. Adios!