About me..

     Hello, my name is Gurinder Singh Sidhu and I was born on August 20th 1978 at 4:15am in Isleworth, England.  I have one brother Baljinder Singh Sidhu who is 25. I lived in Hounslow, England attending William Byrd Primary School until I was 10, when my family and I moved to the United States. It was hard moving from England, even at 10 I had left all my friends and the only life I knew behind.  London is a lot different than America as I would soon learn.  We moved to Fresno, California where I attended Vinland Elementary School. We had essentially moved from big city life to country life where you had to take the car anywhere you wanted to go and people laughed at the idea of public transportation.  Another major change that took place in our lives at this time was we became more religious, when we lived in England my father, my brother and I did not keep our hair as is required in Sikhism.  The move to America seemed the perfect time to become more religious and start keeping our hair and wearing turbans.  We then later moved to a small town called Hanford where I attended Pioneer Elementary and Middle School. It was hard living in Hanford since we were pretty much the only Indians living in that town.  We also had turbans and many students at the school did not know how to perceive me or my brother and we were made fun of a lot. The Principal of the school was very supportive and called in my mum who talked to the class about our religion.  After that everything life in school became much easier and I ended my 8th grade year making some very good friends.

The Later Years

     I attended Hanford High School for a few weeks and then we later moved to Selma where I finished my high school career at Selma High School. I finished getting my Associates Degree in Biological Sciences at Reedley College (formerly known as Kings River College) in May of 1999. I was enrolled in the honors program while I was there. I then transferred to UCLA where I majored in Psychology/Sociology.  My goal was to become a physician, but little did I know that I would soon be taken on another path before coming back to where I started. Some of the jobs I have had while going to school have included a photo-lab tech. at Wal-Mart, working at Blockbuster video, CSO or Community Service Officer on campus. During the summer of 2002 I worked as a bookseller at Barnes and Nobles. For two years I worked at Singh Neurology Medical Group of Beverly Hills as the office manager.  As you can tell I have had a wide spectrum of jobs throughout my life. I also participated in an internship program at the Santa Monica- UCLA medical center in the Care Extender Program program where I volunteered in different departments. In the end of March of 2001 I worked as an extra on the new Spiderman movie so look for me in the festival scenes. I was also an extra in the Steven Spielberg film, The Terminal but I was cut out :( but you can see my brother and a few of my friends in it.  It has always been a long-term dream of mine to become a film maker and I plan to take a few classes when I get some free time.  I finished my B.A degree in Sociology in March of 2002.  During my last semester at UCLA I wanted to do a few things that would broaden my perspectives and one of those things was volunteering at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.  I worked on their Titanic exhibit since the Titanic is one of my interests. I also interned with the American Lung Association, teaching grade school kids about asthma.  At the tail end of 2003 I began to work at Best Buy in Fresno while completing some pre-pharmacy courses. After I finished UCLA I had decided that maybe medicine was not what I wanted to do, my brother had gone to med school and I constantly saw the stress he went through and decided I should choose another career path. I began taking extra classes while in Fresno fishing for a new plan I entertained the idea of going to pharmacy school and applied and was accepted to about nine, while I was applying my father told me to apply to a few medical schools as well in case I changed my mind and I was also accepted to medical school.  I didn't know what to do so in the summer of 2004 I took a trip to England to decide what I wanted to do and ultimately chose medical school. In the fall of 2004 I began attending medical school in Maine. I am currently at the tail end of my 2nd year and I definitively made the right choice.

Some Pics. of me

Me at 6 Months.

My Brother and Me in England.               My Brother & Me about 20 years later.