I'm Josh, a fourth year medical student from Australia!
On this blog, I write about my various interests, such as linguistics and medicine, and opinion pieces, just to get stuff out of my head. Outside of co-curricular academic endeavours, I work at a Pharmacy and enjoy youth leading at my church. Read in further detail the topics I write about by clicking here
I also write on chiller stuff like non-academic things like films or books I've enjoyed, and reminisce on growing up in Australia!
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Featured Posts from Recent Life
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Paediatrics Rotation in Fourth Year Medicine
I am now well and truly almost 2/3rds of the way through medicine. In my fourth year of medicine this year, I had the pleasure of experiencing the rotation of Paediatrics for my first 9 week block. We had one week of orientation lectures, followed by 4 weeks at the Angliss Hospital and 4 weeks at Maroondah Hospital.
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Tricks and Tips to parking at the Alfred
Updated 27/10/2023
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Investing
This entry is a personal account of my forays into investing and is not intended to be professional advice in any measure. This year has been a year of many firsts. One thing that I tried out is investing in shares and ETFs. I honestly had no idea where to begin, so I had to do my own research. I am still very much a novice, but over the year I have gained an (elementary) understanding of the ins and outs of starting off. So here is an explanation that I wish my past self had known before starting out.
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Comparison of pools in Melbourne
This is a table of comparison of the current (January 2023) prices of a number of pools in Melbourne.
- Price refers to full-time university student concession NOT government concession card (which is significantly cheaper in some instances). *Refers to pools with no student discount
- Multi-pass price refers to the unit price for each individual visit
- In general, swim memberships refer to the adult price, but concession prices are also available.
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French and its effect on my language learning journey
French was the second foreign language I learnt. I had always wanted to learn French, and at high school I had the opportunity to do so. I excelled in it, maybe because of natural ability. French taught me not only an entirely new way of thinking of languages, including English and its own morphology and syntax, nor expanded my bilingual vocabulary (I will expand upon this later) immensely, but also taught me the importance and benefits of understanding syntax.
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Cycling in Melbourne
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A Critique of BeReal
Way back in the first year of covid, an app called ‘Bereal’ was released to the world. It would only be in the early months of 2022 where it would begin to spready virally, disrupting the mundane activities of mostly young people once a day, every day.
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My Covid Journey
It’s been 2.5 years into the pandemic. One eighth of my life has been spent worrying about this virus which first made its appearance in Wuhan back in January 2020 and has caused fear, tears, lockdowns. Politics and public health policies have been forever changed by the pandemic. But I finally got the virus. This is my first time getting sick in a very, very long time. I ended up missing Medball because of it as well.
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All the laugh points in Top Gun - plus observations and a review
This isn’t a traditional review - I don’t have much to say about the film that was bad. Instead, this review are the notes I took during my second viewing of the film, including all the points where the audience laughed.
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Memories from primary school
Primary school was a crazy time. Here are some of my best memories from primary school, a local government primary school.
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Year 12 during the COVID-19 pandemic - a tale of two lockdowns
The post was written on June 28, 2022, using the mental record of my feelings, the archives I store away in my emails and Drive, and news media, including articles and news reports from Australian media outlets. Mid-January 2020: Hearing about the virus for the first time
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Voting for the first time
I voted for the first time today, at Box Hill Town Hall, through early voting. I had gone the night before at around 6:45pm. Upon arriving that night, I was immediately asked which suburb I lived in, then given a ‘Labor for Menzies’ and ‘Liberal for Menzies’ flyer from two lobbyers. But then I saw the queue and was like I’ll come back another day, and one of them responded yeah it’s pretty chill during day time. So I came back the next morning at exactly 8am on my way to university.
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Interactive Guitar Chord Selector and Note Trainer
I've been learning the guitar recently - so here's a project I devised and am working on with HTML / JS to train myself with less effort. The first version was released in April, this one is complete with chords and guitar note crammer. Check it out! I appreciate any and all feedback :))
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A guide to the entire Latin course - my notes from an hour of tutoring
A student asked me go through complete Latin grammar in one lesson - so here are my notes from the lesson :))
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Ode to the Toilet // The best toilets at Monash Clayton
Ode to the Toilet
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And Then There Were Forgotten Parodies
It’s amazing how you have traces of a memory lingering in your brain. I don’t know if I’m ever going to resolve this memory of mine. Yknow when you’ve had a problem, some misunderstanding, some misconception about the world, for many years, and then finally you work it out, by some experience you have of growing older?