Hi, I'm Seetha.
October 2019
I'm checking out of a artsy hipster hostel in Bangkok, on my way to hitchhike to Si Phan Don (Lao: ສີ່ພັນດອນ; meaning '4,000 islands'), a riverine archipelago in the Mekong River in southern Laos. I get a phone call from my former housemate. She tells me that we've all passed our exams, and that I need to get my butt back to Indonesia immediately to graduate. "Does this mean I'm a doctor now?" I wonder.
October 2020
It's been a year since I graduated medical school. Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the only goal I had 2020 was to support myself financially by working as a freelance writer. Mission accomplished. You've proven your point, albeit your worth still hangs in the balance, but staying here longer is not going to get you any closer to answers. Besides, seven years is long enough, and let's not egg the parents on to send a search and rescue party to retrieve me. Time to move on.
April 2021
Six months in Penang, and one minimum wage internship later, I decided that it's time to give this website, and freelance writing another go. Maybe if I write about all of it while it's happening, it'll be less scary. "What about housemanship?", you ask? After the long delay and eventual progress, it eventually happened.
October 2021
Housemanship has (finally) begun, and this space became a halfway house for me to get old-me (free spirited freelance writer) and new-me (full time medical coolie) to get along. I'm not entirely sure how I found the time to write and make videos given the gruelling hours, but I did, and even a massed a microscopic following!
December 2023
Finished Housemanship. "Floated" in A&E while awaiting placement (explanation post on this later on).
May 2024
Placed on a tiny island on the other side of the country. A couple more months in A&E until I bulldozed my way into dream department: O&G. Finally made it!
January 2025
Offered permanent position, and getting placed in Penang. Digital piano and e-scooter stuck on the other side of the country following calamitous move back.
August 2025
On an unassuming Monday morning mid-July, I handed my letter of resignation to my boss, and updated this section of the blog.
Stay tuned, it's about to get real spicy.