It’s that time of the year again. The time for the dreaded physical exam which we have to endure every year that we want to stay in the country.

Well, granted: things have gotten a lot better compared to the first time we had to get them – being herded in crowds along corridors through which you had to carry your urine samples up to the next floor etc. Yep. You may get the point why we all cringe at the first sign of the next physicals approaching.

So, finding this email in my inbox the other day did not quite cause me to flip with excitement at the prospect of yet another opportunity to be poked and stripped and all those other dreadful things. But as always with such things: better to get it over with, sooner rather than later!