frustration...

thesis topic selection,getting jacked in rounds daily [by HOD],irritating/illiterate patients behind your back always,language problem,boring/tasteless mess food......all these make me sometimes pull my hairs out of frustration....

time factor...

when a case comes to casualty...

time taken

for history taking-15mins [with my full blown butler tamil]

for xray -30 min...yeah thats how our emergency works here....everyone here [except the docs] work at their own pace whether the patient convulses,faints or dies

for me to see that x-ray and come to a diagnosis-another 15mins....

means just for a simple cough case i spend a useless 1hr [of my life] and end up prescribing some lame tonic or tablet [cant prescribe genuine ones available outside since the patients cant afford.....they come to casualty with a 5rs/10rs note in their pocket!]

p.s-

1-another night duty yesterday-not much cases but still no decent sleep..coz i had to attend a call at 3am for a simple asthma case....

2-happy ganesha chathurthi :)

rambling....

Today....

DUTY...and till now no calls [not a good sign]....may be people r too busy celebrating the festivals or CMO here is least bothered to call for a single case and is piling up the cases for me to attend in the night.

Day 2 of SPANDAN...yearly fest organised here....lots of good people around in campus today:P...todays event is a dance show and am planning to attend it....

Miss my home and the food amma prepares for the festivals.....

will be a rich man as am getting my stipend:D

p.s=

scared actually these days of Tb...being posted in OPD now..am supposed to look after these tb cases admitted under our care in a nearby govn hospital....daily rounds and these people shamelessly coughing at ur face is so disgusting...pretty sure that am already infected...hope i dont get the disease....

BMF

too many bed bugs in my hostel...they are everywhere.....on beds,warranda,toilet etc.....and have been called BMF-black mother fuckers.

i was wrong...

FB cant replace blogging...

award.....

am just back to writing and already have an award by my cousin sis arpitha...

Thank you -)

the tagg is about abt 7 facts which am supposed to pen down here....

here i go-

1-i like dance shows/videos....just love them..think have seen almost all which have been put up in youtube[good ones]

2-i prefer cute girls rather than hot/sexy ones......definitely not those size '0' ones!!....SIZE matters u know:D

3-frankly i still feel i haven't grown up yet...

4-am a fountain pen freako...already have 5 Parker pens [one of these costs abt 1k] with 3 hero pens....

5-i love chocs....mentos,bubble gum,5star ...anything will do

6-i like watching movie trailers...i just enjoy the editing work they do to attract the viewers...[read cheat the audience:D]

7-am a cap freak..arsenal, adidas, RCB[my current fav], nike, reebok ,ferrari.....still havent got tht nike cricket team[india] cap in my collection.

time to upgrade...

finally bought a camera for myself...SONY cybershot DSC-W520...its cheap and quite handy...and i can carry it to OPD for xrays...moreover now i can put some quality snapsin my personal picture blog!!.....

time to relax

no more seminars until atleast next week with next duty coming up only on saturday....

hate it...

MOOCHUVANGADU-breathless in tamil....

really hate this word....

holiday....

today we have a holiday and i clearly don't know why[ compensation for some holiday which was cancelled few months back]..

OPDs are closed today and many patients [those who were previosly admitted in wards and come for routine check up] clever enough bypass it and come to ward directly and expect us to see them and prescribe some medications[any thing will do for them....they just want something to swallow]....

Actually i really pity these people for relying on our health system...lack of proper guidance/counselling regarding basic health,lack of planned facilities,the way this govn setup works[takes months for a simple CT scan]...and in a way i feel we are not even providing the basic proper care we are supposed to provide for them being a part of govn health setup......

p.s

[INDIA's population and poverty is not helping either....]

1am

I hate such loosers who after an alcohol binge land up in casualty with just minor complaints and u end up loosing up sleep attending these people.

Pondicherry being a UT and alcohol available at cheaper rates makes people here quite vulnerable to addiction

p.s-

-UT-union territory

-for me my sleep is more important rather than the health of these addicted loosers..

sunday evening

nothing like a tea[with biscuit] after a sunday after noon sleep.......hmm...i miss my home now.....
:(

pen maniac

i just love fountain pens....just bought for myself few days a parker one [for 1k]

p.s-

makes my 5th parker pen in 14months...

routine

7.25am-wake up...[6.45 alarm snoozed several times]

740-tea with biscuits [gooday]

by 8 be in wards..

this has been my routine since last few days [after i shifted out of my hostel]....not having food in the morning makes me land up with severe acidity at around 11[morning] and which ends in myself gobbling some junk food in canteen and finally end up skip lunch food [2 samosas,puff with tea and badam milk really kills ur appetite!].

things i miss....

blogging...

going out with my friends [for a 20rs treat]....

sleeping till the noon serials on tv wake u up...

arguing senselessly with bro.....[my twin]....

my city girls/anyone who looks 'decent'...

street dogs whom i love feeding biscuits.....

and of course my home town language....

p.s-

guess i am back here to stay for a long time....

more posts to come....

back to blogging?

shd i restart writing?...are people still interested enough to sit and read them?

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech

One of the few movies u come across which truly deserves its Oscar nominations[12!!!]...compelling storyline with good cast and a great story to finish with..thoroughly enjoyed watching it...

will surely be rooting for Colin Firth this time for the Oscar...

Wishes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk02qPlnS2E&feature=player_embedded

Happy republic day:)

good music...

Yanni live at acropolis...

p.s-

watch out for the 2 violinists in the end...

True Grit...

You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God

-Mattie Ross [True Grit movie]

No love...

what happens when 2 good rappers get inspired from a 90s mega hit song [one of my all time favs]?.....

Eminem-No Love ft lil Wayne

disaster...

Pune visit [unlike Chandigarh] was a total disaster [except for the exam part]...poor food,sick hotel hospitality [municipality restrooms seemed better] and on our return trip to banglore we had to suffer from food poisoning [saureus or bacillus?] and the trains cleanliness didn't help either..Indian railways need to seriously think about this[improving sanitation]..our train's hygiene and rest rooms suck and the contamination we get exposed is nothing short of a

Only nice thing about our visit was the afmc campus and the way they conducted the exam...absolutely methodical!!...and the AFMC campus is nothing short of a mini fortress [each department has its own independent building with museum] and i think campus itself is a big motivation for us to get into institutions like this.

p.s-

on a full course antibiotic now...oflox-tz

off to pune...academic cum leisure trip...[afmc pg entrance]....:D

updates

aipgmee 2011 over...

still afmc,kcet2011,jipmer and nimhans to go...!!...

p.s-

now now a movie watching spree...i seriously need a break...

happy new yr...

New Year's Day is every man's birthday-
Charles lamb...

happy new yr to one and all.....

p.s-

as usual no resolutions this yr too...

3 years...

16th dec happens to my 3th blog anniversary day...

update

27 more days for the exam....[my 7th till now and 6 more to go]

diminishing financial status with ever growing expenses[for forms etc]...

unemployment crisis...

weight gain..

this cold stress and added laziness in the morning due to that...

daily bombardment of pure nonsensical friends updates in fb....

Wishes...

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody-

myself..

belated dasara and advance diwali wishes to all....

Closing this blog forever...

Changing priorities in life...

Loads of crap people...

Hypocrites...

less passion...

fb...

exams...

picture blogging

few of the reasons for me to close this blog permanently....and this time am pretty sure that am not coming back here again...When i initially started writing it was just me and this space but gradually i started changing and started writing for others.It was just wasnt me here.Frankly i think many here just read my blog coz i manage to read theirs like u scratch mine and me yours[like Raksha says] thing.And with fb this year i slowly started loosing interest in posting frequently and my posts response have been dropped accordingly.

Other main reason is that i was never truly passionate about what i write and always felt that am more interested in humor/medicine blogs and some few personal ones rather than reviews,stories and poetry.For these things i have net,newspapers and why would i be spending my time in reading such things here[sorry no offence to anyone].

After much thinking i have finally decided to put an end to this.This space will be always be special to me for many reasons-improved my language/some great cool friends.

Some day will surely come back with real me and would definitely inform you guys then...til then bye guys!! :)

p.s-

already nostalgic:(

would continue to read the blogs i have liked..so people plz keep writing...

memory stunts...

'there is nothing like good and bad memory but only trained and untrained one'

-Harry lorayne

many say success in any field is 99% effort + 1%luck but i think in medical field its 99% memory and just 1% luck...coz medical science is more of fact based and the little bit of clinics u do is no where near the amount of theory u need to know.Many of our seniors[read profs] say key is to understand the things and do them practically but i think most the things u read/hear cant be seen and its impractical to expect to learn everything just by clinical knowledge.And this problem of retaining things is more so when u r preparing for competitive exams like pg,upsce etc where more than what to remember its more of how to remember.

Just think for a sec..how in gods name are u going to remember the mc se of Carbamazepine drug or the drugs causing SLE by just understanding the subject or agonist of any particular receptor..?? Either u have to study it byheart like we did during high school [even mathematical problems weren't spared then] or just use some memory techniques like acronyms,mnemonics and apply them accordingly.

Making a mnemonic or any acronym is like creating a music..its depends on your personality[like an art] and time and interest u invest in doing it....if u really want to remember anything u just have to invest accordingly and frankly there is no other short cut.

Throught my UG like [and even now] i was quite famous for this among my friends and in fact some of my mnemonics which i had made then are helping me even now for my exams..Some of them are-

rIght-right side heart murmurs Increase on inspiration..

among LAs anything with 2i is an amide...

WTF* pelcan-wimburger,tremmerfeld,franklin line and pelcan spur...scurvy radiological signs

cArbamazepine-Ataxia[mc]>Anemia[most serious]

Sulfonylureas[oral hypoglycemic] patients must be Small-so given in thin patients and metformin in obese...

Imagine a tree @ ur sacred place....Trazadone causes priaprism[painful erection]

Lamotrigine causes a line in your skin-cause Steven Johnson syndrome

Clip on your hair-doc for Hairy CL is Cladribine

key is just to use the techniques accordingly and among these the most powerful one is visual ones[like trazadone] coz what ever u hear/see is visualized inside your brain and in this way why not use it constructively and remember few things!!

p.s-

*wtf-wow thats funny

1-it may be worlds fastest rubic cube solver or some UPSCE topper..its just pure memory which helps them do things they do more efficiently...

2-talking like an expert here doesn't make me one...its just my opinion and little bit of knowledge i have gained during my medical life....