Superiority, Inferiority etc etc...

Yeah, i remember.............it was the ENT Prelims clinical exam.............and i had this little "conversation" (carried at about 160 decibels) with a "lady" (if you could call her that) colleague of mine...........

.........The point she brought up was one of "superiority"............or in my case, inferiority...............to whom?......(to her of course)............in what way? (well, don't know for sure)................... .

.............if i got the drift right, it had something to do with marks and academic performance............(abyssmal on my part :) ).............

.................but then i wondered.............................is it really so???.........

.............only the academics decide who's is "superior" and who is not?.............

i guess it's like that now.................but if that's the case.............is it right?

.........so all you artists, singers, actors, photographers and all other "inferior" people........pack up your paraphernalia ............. get 'em books out..................and start mugging.....................shut down Flickr, facebook, even this Blog..............

and ...nose-dive, quite literally, in the world of "literacy"......................because, true "knowledge"......lies elsewhere......

(sorry for using so many "quotes"...................try and understand).....

Ring-RING-Ringaa......

Ring Ring Ringa.........
that's a song from the "critically acclaimed" Slumdog Millionaire...
but what comes to my mind is the number of cellphones we Indians are using nowadays.....
I remember when I was in school, having a cellphone was one of the status symbols.......heck! even my dad din't have one ever!!....
...but within a couple years, what i see is that practically everyone...yeah EVERYONE is flaunting one...

This thought hit me the hardest at an eye-camp conducted by our Ophthalm. dept.....
that was conducted for patients who couldn't supposedly afford an eye surgery........now as far as i think it's not one of the costly ones......... and SEE (rather hear)......in that little gathering, from every corner.....now and then........a new tone...:).. (we'll talk about "mobile manners" some other time...)
.................so much for "Kar lo duniya mutthi mein"................

A waste of Wonderful weather...

Ever seen a Gulmohur tree just about to shed its leaves ???
every single leaflet is golden yellow.......brittle, just touch and it falls down....

the weather is wonderful.........the rains have given just the right amount of bite to the wind....

Numerous Swifts flit above me, uttering their sharp cries..........a family of Babblers is busy chasing away a garden lizard while two Spotted owlets stare out of their nest hole in the large fig tree outside the lecture hall complex..............

really a weather fit to enjoy nature, .....

...........But here i sit, trying to mug up the treatment regimen for Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Epilepsy and all the big and small diseases..............alright folks, Exams, much awaited, have finally arrived......................................

Exams ahoy.....

Finally exam time has come....................the time for never ending nights (or shall i say an extension of the daily routine)

with barely 20 days to go to the Prelims.............you see the whole junta go about .....very much like the archetypical zombies.........on an ovrdose of coffee and "other stimulants".....

Vth term.........that is 13 days non stop "night outs"................it cracks even the hardest of nuts........

no doubt..............it is feared as hell...............

Of rains and colds.....

Finally........some rains -- actually a LOT of rains............the most in a decade they say......

gave some respite from the heat......but gave me a cold too...................
tried out the "chicken soup" treatment (now i think it really works).......

In the meanwhile...................the whole sleep pattern is going haywire.........slept for 6 hours straight (after classes that is )........... and now sitting wide awake while even the "nightcrawlers" have gone to their burrows.......

Basketball woes....

What has happened to me !!!!!!!
Sucked (yet again, for the umpteenth time in last fortnight....) on the basketball court........crazy passes and all,
just can't figure out why i get psyched out in offence -- think i'm better than before at defence....

Before that, flunked the Surgery O.T. --- the first day itself ;-) ..... let the other people scout and report how's the scene in the unit...

managed to fit in about 2 hrs of study................off to hostel now.......

Saturday 23 Aug 2008....

Saturdays aren't as fun with the exams round the corner.........got past a quick day, with last day of Gynae clinics over fr this term...

Took a day off frm the Basketball court, some net surfing.........had a brainstorm -- why not start a blog...........
Meanwhile, identified the bird I saw a couple of days ago positively as a Tickell's Flower Pecker........ pretty little birdie....


hav a couple of movies to watch tomorrow, and Surgery rotation from Monday........life really "rocks" ....

Here i am..............

The same old tale of a medical student...........is it???????
Here i am, sitting in our Computer Club.......... playing Age of Empires and...........blogging (fr the first time)....................... and exams are near...........

come, let's take a glimpse of life here....