 Welcome to the MD journey where here we help you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. My name is Lakshman, internal medicine resident, and today I just wanted to make a fun video to share a few things that I just don't share on the YouTube channel that most people don't know about me. It hopefully gives you a little bit inside of the person behind the camera. A lot of this has been inspired by some questions that you guys have sent me through YouTube, through Instagram, so make sure you keep letting those come forward. So before we get into the interesting ones, I'll share some basic demographic things. So my name is Laksh, I am an internal medicine resident. This is my second year as a making of this video. I am married, I live in Texas, I am six foot tall. So those are the basic things. Now let's get into some things that maybe you didn't know about. So the first thing that most people don't know is that I was actually not born in the United States. I was actually born in India and came here with my mom and dad when I was four years old. So I had enough experiences where I still remember a lot of my family and my experiences when I was a kid. Obviously enough time here in the United States to do a lot of my educational training and definitely get rid of the accidents, although my wife will tell you that it ever so often still comes up in conversations. By now a lot of my viewers are mainly from the United States, but definitely there's a good proportion of people who are from international countries like India, from Asia, from Europe, and so people just assume that I'm either born in the United States or I was an international graduate, but I was neither of those things. So fun fact number two is that my name is Laksh, so I'll spell it down here. People always have a hard time saying it, but it's a good luck with the SH. But in Hindi, Laksh itself means like your life goal, your life aim, your target. And it was not the first thing my parents were going to pick. I'm not going to say what it was, but I'm definitely glad that they picked Laksh. But Laksh is not the easiest name to say, and I've had very funny iterations of my name over my lifetime. But I find that over the years of all people have made very fun iterations and I will let you do your own of how my name is spelled and how it's said, that the meaning, the actual name behind it is something that's definitely deep to my heart and definitely resonates with a lot of things that I believe. So fun fact number three is I absolutely love to sing. I'm definitely a shower singer, a car singer, but also an apartment singer. My wife will tell you that I definitely sing the same songs over and over again. So sorry if that bothers you. My dad was definitely somebody in the household who just randomly break into song, and so I think I just picked up for him. And over the time, I've picked up small instruments like this one. This thing is definitely a beast. So let me see if I can put it out. So this right here is a harmonium or basically kind of like a classical Indian piano. It's like a combination of a wind instrument plus the actual keys. I'll open this up and I'll show you guys opens up like a briefcase, which is pretty cool. But this actually used to be my uncle's who was really into classical music. And he's kind of kind of brought it down to me, but it's like a piano in the box, which is pretty cool. And as you can see, let me see if I can just turn that camera. It's kind of a little like a nice little by no means am I an expert at this or good at this? I've only been playing this for the last year, but I've kind of been playing piano in and out throughout the later parts of my life. That I've just kind of self taught myself through ear. And so now I've kind of carried those piano skills into that. So let me see if I can play you guys something. Yeah, perfect. Not great, but it sounds amazing. Like I mentioned, I love to sing. So people like John Legend, Alicia Keys, Michael Buble, Sam Smith, people who just have gorgeous voices are really who songs that I'm constantly singing. There's a little sneak peek. Again, I'm not by any means the best singer, but this is just kind of me putting myself out there. So if you guys enjoy music, hopefully one of my favorite songs, specifically by John Legend, is all of me and so a little bit sneak peek. But again, warning, by no means am I the best singer, but I still love to do it. Girl, I'm in love with you. This ain't the honeymoon. You pass the defatuation phase right in the thick of love. Times we get sick of love. It gets more confusing every day. Because all of me loves all of you, love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections. Because I give you all of me and you give me all of you. So hopefully you guys enjoy kind of learning a little bit about the musical background. I'm still getting better at the harmonium, still getting better at piano. And I'd love to learn other instruments like the guitar at the Abla, which is like Indian classical drums. And as I get better, maybe I'll introduce them into the channel. But a few other things that you guys didn't know about me. I am a first generation college grad and med school grad. And my parents basically brought me to the United States. And then when my brother was born, they had the goal for both of us to really just kind of have the education that they didn't. So their number one goal was for me to graduate high school. So when I was graduating high school, after that, I was kind of like, what do I do now? But then the goals became a little bit bigger. It became not only graduate college, but get into medical school. Graduate college in three years to save yourself some money, save the family, some money on tuition and then obviously get into med schools, get into good residency. So now at every phase of my journey, I'm kind of a trailblazer, a little bit of a pioneer for a different phase that maybe my parents, my grandparents had an experience. Another fun fact, in case you haven't seen on my videos, I actually do have a tattoo. I hope you guys can see it. But basically this translates into Gujarati or a Hindi dialect. And my wife and I actually have the same tattoo. And I'll show a picture here. But it means aunti mishwasu, which in English will translate to until my last breath. So my wife and I both have this on our arms. I actually shortly got this before we got married. She had it a little bit longer than I did. And so most people kind of don't notice it. Sometimes I honestly don't. It feels weird having a tattoo, but it's also something that's very meaningful to both of us. And it's actually interesting enough engraved in the inside of my ring, which there's no way that shows up on camera. But I promise you it's that. And the tattoo and speaking of my wife can actually bring us to the nice ending of this video. And the last fun fact is that I've actually known my wife, who we've been married for a year plus now as the making of this video for a long time. And I'll let you guess in the comments section down below what you think that is. But we've actually known each other since we were in middle school. We both grew up in the same cities. Our families kind of knew each other when we were kind of young teenagers. And we kind of knew of each other because there wasn't that many brown people where we lived initially. And then as we went through friendship and having classes together, obviously a relationship grew and now we've been happily married for a year plus. I really wanted to make this video because you guys have really put a lot of trust into me, whether it's in the comments section, putting yourself out there, putting your barriers, your obstacles, your mental kind of mindsets, as well as just questions about how to do well in medical school. I appreciate the trust and I really want to return the favor by just putting myself out there and sharing things like how I love singing and my tattoo, which I don't talk about very much. So hopefully you guys have enjoyed this kind of inside the scene behind between behind the scenes of kind of what my life is outside of the MD chair. But if you enjoyed this video, make sure you let me know by first hitting any questions that you have down below in the comment section. Maybe we can make a future part two video and I can have my wife kind of talk about things that maybe I didn't know that I didn't tell you, but she knows she can be in future videos too. 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