My Evening Routine In The Medical Posting | Housemanship Diaries
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On most days in the Medical Posting, at least in the hospital that I’m practicing in, we are allocated to work the “Short Day” or “SD” shifts.
“Short Days” last till 6pm. Occasionally, we would have to work the “Long Day” shift or “LD” which lasts till 10pm or “on-night” which is the night shift.
On days where I’m allocated to work the short day shift, I try to leave work by 6pm. Most of the time, it is feasible while on some days, it is not so.
However, my evening routine is pretty much the same upon returning home irregardless of the time I leave work.
1. Preparing My Dinner
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Pexels.com I love to cook. However, considering I live alone, the meals that I prepare are usually many for one person. Thus, I would keep the extra, rendering me an extra meal prepped for a day or two.
Depending on my mood as well, should I be working the morning shift the following morning and I’m just too exhausted after work and there is no food, I would go for my regular comfort food, instant noodles.
My version of instant noodles involves sautéing chopped onions, curry leaves, mushrooms and diced chilli before adding the water and mixing the instant sachet powders into the broth. I usually add additional curry powder as I like the broth of my instant noodles to be extra soupy and not dry. Once it has come to a boil, I would crack two eggs into the gravy and boil it for a minute or two before adding “half” of the instant noodles and finally topping with some leafy vegetables.
Yes, that’s right, I only consume half. My instant noodles are extra soupy and has less noodles.
Partly because I love adding rolled oats into my broth, thus the whole meal would be too heavy for me if I were to eat all the noodles.
What do I do with the other half of the uncooked noodles?
I keep it and usually comes in handy if I were to cook stir fried noodles.
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Pexels.com Then, there are evenings where I’m filled with energy and the following day happened to be an allocated off day or my night shift, allowing me to cook something different.
Nevertheless, irregardless of my dish of choice for the evening, I would always prepare a set of chopped tofu and mushrooms which I would marinade with some oil, salt, crushed black peppers, diced chilli, slides garlic, curry leaves and some curry powder or chilli powder prior to air frying it.
Thus, by the end of 10 minutes, my dinner would usually be ready.
2. Resetting My Room
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Pexels.com I don’t go through a major spring cleaning in the evenings, just simple tiny actions to reset my room back to an “acceptable” state.
This includes folding my clothes and keeping them back in my cupboard and their designated places, taking out the trash and vacuuming.
Considering I wash my hair every morning prior going to work, there would be strands of hairs on the floor after drying my hair and dusts and tiny debris begins to gather. Thus, I would vacuum almost every evening.
Since I live in a studio apartment, this action is merely a 5 minute job.
3. Preparation For The Next Day
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Pexels.com “Your morning begins the night before.”
I’ve forgotten where I’ve heard this but it’s what I’ve been practicing since I was a kid. Usually the night before, I would know of the set of clothes that I would be wearing the following day.
Next, I would prepare my jars of cold coffee. I usually save up spaghetti glass bottles or jam bottles to keep my tea or coffees or sometimes to be even used as drinking glasses.
I usually carry two 1.5L of flasks to work, one of it contains green tea and the other, my special prepped coffee.
After all of that is done, next would be…
4. Unwinding for the Day
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Pexels.com This begins with me pampering myself with a hot long bath to wash myself of the stench and tiredness of the day, followed by donning myself in a soft, flowy night dress and going about my self-care nighttime routine.
Only after that would I have dinner as I usually fall into a state of food coma after eating.
This is then followed by me clearing the dishes for the last time and finally, heading to bed, which on some days, would be as early as 8pm. However, on average, it is usually around 9-10pm.
This is my evening routine in my Fifth Posting, the Department of Medical, as a House Officer thus far.
I often get questioned by my fellow colleagues as to why I would even consider cooking considering that there are a lot of steps or effort that goes into the process.
However, I do not find it tiring at all as it is my version of de-stressing.
Nothing calms my mind more than listening to music or putting a good show on Netflix while going about my dinner preparations with my phone in “Do Not Disturb” or “Sleep” mode.
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