It's Easter. The most important date in the Christian calendar. I suppose it should be spent in celebration. Celebrating new life. And it's not a coincident that I'm starting my blog again. It has a new look. It still needs a lot of work but I am quite happy with it's look now. I've abandoned blogger and now using movable type, which I think has a better interface. Something that I understand!

What have I done on my Easter holiday so far? 

• Ikea shopping
• Spring cleaning
  

I plan to go to a church service today, for a change. Not that I am becoming religious again. I just want to experience the culture of Easter. It's a shame that I don't know any choirs doing any of Bach's passions. Actually I do. Somewhere in Sunderland, a choir is performin St. John's Passion.

For an update, here is a list of what's happening in my life:

1.  I'm now doing a higher training post in forensic psychiatry. Albeit, I still don't have a job for August. I went for an interview in Scotland 2 a week ago, and from the website, I learned today that I was ranked #5 out of 16 applicants. A bit depressing, but I should have done better in the interview. There were a lot of Scotland specific questions that I failed to give very good answers to.
2. I'll be a permanent UK resident in May (pending Home Office approval). It costs a fortune though. I have to pay £950 for the visa! I also have to take this stupid Life in the UK test. But at least I would be able to apply for a British passport soon. So I wouldn't have to apply for a Schengen visa anymore! I'm looking forward to that time.

Just to remind myself, I need to practise lifelong learning at work.

I have realised that I haven't been very good at doing it. Case report for my portfolio? Never done that. Even reflective jotting of things - pretty much like blogging, isn't it. So I suppose, I would be writing about my reflections about work in this blog. I have forgotten about wanting to continue developing. I blame it all to MMC and MTAS, which still winds me up big time. I suppose my previous consultant's impression about me was pretty spot on. I need to read, read, read. And read some more. Which in the past was my wont. To be honest, I haven't really read much for the past several months. And I need to do a lot of reading. And writing. And expressing myself.

Keypoints (as reminder):

• Lifelong learning is a process of continuously scrutinising and building on your practice to be the best doctor you can be
• Always have three questions in your mind: where am I going? how am I getting on? where to next?
• Use electronic tools that provide filtered information at the point of care because you cannot hope to stay up to date on everything
• Keep a learning portfolio so that you can see how you have already developed and how you can develop in the future
• Keep your learning efforts alive by discussin them with your peers and supervisors
  

So happy resurrection then!