The Most Hilarious Conversation ever!

This post had been there earlier on the blog, but had to be deleted, re-edited and re-posted *some technical glitch*

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This is my chat with a person who was there with me in school. We hadn't had any conversation in last 5 years, and very typical of girls: this is all we could talk about!


XYZ: heyy ritu nice pic yaar *referring to my recent photograph on orkut*
Me: thnx
XYZ: lookin soooooooooooo cuteeeeeeeee
Me: how have u been? ha ha
XYZ: nahi sachi mein veerrrrrrryyyyyyy cute....
Me: okay.. thnx :)
XYZ: u finished with ur internship..????
Me: nope... will finish it in march. what abt u?
XYZ: *something*
Me: okay.. gl
abhi kaha hai?
XYZ: college mein
Me: okay.. it must be cool there
XYZ: uske baad wat plans u have...??
Me: i m taking usmle. wht r ur plans?
XYZ: any special reasons of going for usmle..???
Me: aise hi :)
XYZ: he he... any oder reasons...??? :D
Me: none... what do u wanna ask btw??? :->
XYZ: i think u got it... whatever i wanna ask..
Me: okay i m not commited yet... but someone's status has changed i see
Me: no comments on tht???
XYZ: he he
Me: oh c'mon
XYZ: yeah am seeing someone
Me: okay!! someone from ur coll?
XYZ: yeah.... not exactly... he’s done his medicine frm *a good college here*
Me: okay cool... ab thodi to details bata de
XYZ: he is done his MD in *some good branch*
Me: wow....
XYZ: nd nw u tell me more....
Me: oh... i have nothing to tell na... remember!!
XYZ: mujhse to sab kuch nikalwa liya..
Me: abe to mere paas to kuch hai hi nahi
XYZ: ab bata.......
Me: aur tune kaunsa sab bata diya...
XYZ: oh come on... am waiting..
Me: name u didnt tell.. how did u meet - u didnt tell
XYZ: name - ABC
XYZ: we met in college only.....
Me: ur coll?
XYZ: yup... he came for *something something*... he is working for *blah blah*
Me: oh cool
XYZ: nd now u tell...
Me: omg! is it necessary to have 1... i dont have a story
XYZ: u have one... tell me now
Me: i can create a fictitious fantasy if u want me too
XYZ: nooooooooooooooo...... u gonna tell me the truth!
Me: now this is the worst situation to be in... i have no story.. sorry to disappoint u.. but believe me.. i m equally disappointed
XYZ: now cmon tell me tell me
Me: :|
XYZ: chalo chuck it...
Me: thnk u so much...
XYZ: if u dnt wanna tell me....
Me: OMG! U STILL DONT BELIEVE ME!!!
XYZ: i dnt believe ki itni cute ladki ka kaise koi bf nahi hai....


*Yeah right! Gimme a break*

Me: ha ha ha
XYZ: koi to hai......
Me: are baba jab hoga tab sabse pehle tujhe hi bataungi...khush?
XYZ: khush..... thank u... aur jaldi kar
Me: zaroor.. lemme do my step2 first... then we'll see into all these things
XYZ: US le jaane ke liye use bhi ready kar....
Me: us ka hi dhoondege yaar... le jane ki tension hi nahi
XYZ: sahi hai.... keep going...
Me: chal yaar... ab i gtg... any plans for the future
XYZ: byee.. bad mein bataungi :D
Me: sure.. gl... bye



At the very same time, I was chatting with SFO [Had to change the name again coz’ some business-y (this word too was coined while chatting with SFO) reasons I don’t understand!]

SFO: ritu ... u a doc na? can u give me some advice?
me: bolo

*and then the whole conversation full of medicines and stuff, nothing of which will interest you. *
*the only thing that was funny in the whole conversation was when I was explaining her how 1 analgesic is better than the other one for a specific thing and they don’t have any other side-effects, when she was adamant on how ‘Crocin’ is the best for everything!*

me: it is like having a blog on wordpress instead of blogger!
SFO: hahah ... lolz .. loved that !!....
me: thts the best way i cud have convinced u :D
SFO: :D it did ..


*And then I was telling her to paste the entire conversation and mail it to her friend so that she could decide on what options she wanna adopt.*

SFO: haha .. yeah, al do that ..! ... thanks :D :)
me: u r welcome! guess what... u rem XYZ?
SFO: no.. who?
me: XYZ.... jo ....


*And then I describe her*

SFO: no .. i remember the name now .. n i think i recall something .. was this someone frm *her school* initially?
me: yep.. and then she was in my school in 11th-12th
SFO: okie! kya hua?
me: now she is seeing someone.. and she told me his details... and now she is asking me abt my bf! forcing me to tell it to her.. coz i asked her abt her bf
now what do i do!!!!
SFO: haha ... well, do u have one already? (in which case u just gotta give honest details) OR we'll create one impromptu.. this sounds like fun!
u can describe ME ( ... u like me fairly well, and am very close to a guy friend ... more than aany of ur female friends)
me: ha ha... lol
SFO: and i also have a male name already - Shruta Singh
me: lmao!!!
SFO: go ahead..tell her! haha ..
me: singh!! i won’t date a singh!

*Now I am no racist here. It was just that I wasn’t convinced of the idea yet, which you will see, changes in due course of time*

SFO: serious..:O haww...u prejudiced thing.. why wudnt u date a singh!!
me: and y r u a shruta singh?
SFO: two of my bhabhis are singhs ..and they are absolutely adorable!!
I am not A shruta Singh
I am THE shruta singh
me: lol yeah... my bad!
SFO: and singh is king remember!
haha ..
me: wohi to... i dont have prob with ladki singh
it is just the ladka singhs :D
SFO: well, i dunno ...one of my uncles named me that once ( coz of my habits etc .. and singh has a connotation to the rajathani rajput culture ..since they keep taking digs at my
rajasthani affiliation)
and now many of my friends call me that
er,, but i dont think XYZ will like u dating a ladki singh. :D
come on .. tell her na .. u shud be proud of me ... shruta Singh jaisa partner chirag lekar dhoondo tab bhi nai milta
age - 23
works in a delhi based conglomerate in HR ..
me: wow wow
i m loving it
SFO: what else ( i cant think of any impressive details.. i am not evn like a green card holder or something )
did u tell her? or are u hiding abt me from her?
me: i want a gc a gc!! yeah
SFO: why ritu! whyyy..does shruta singh embarrass u?
ohkayy ... i do have a passport tho ( if that's a consolation)
me: ha ha
oh it is absolutely
now we can atleast go till Mauritius for a holiday
SFO: :D :D yeah .. so .. i am this extremely goodlooking, caring, sensitive, yet very MASCULINE macho kinda guy ..
me: absolutely correct...
SFO: lol .. no .. we can only go to Nepal/ Bhutan etc .. shruta singh has other singh friends there
me: with a big mooch?
SFO: girl, are u telling XYZ all this?
No no .. no mooch ( seriously?!)
a french beard ..
me: oh no.. only to nepal.. waise we can meet XYZ then.. she is in nepal
SFO: wow! ...
oh no..then we cant go to nepal ..she might fiure out that she's been conned somewhere..we'll go to bhutan
or sri lanka ..
or bangladesh .. u name it, shruta singh will take u anywhere u wish!
me: then i can also throw u in a khai and get all ur daulat! :D
SFO: Shruta Singh is that rich kya?
me: i want a rich fantasy at least
SFO: Oh yeah!! ... who else wud be able to propose to u .. by doing that "will u marry me" thing in the sky..on a jet ..
hey shruta singh is a pilot too!
me: and can u be a amriki citizen too?
SFO: tho not professionally ..he only flies his private jet when he feels like ..
told u na .. no green card ...
ritu! i seriously doubt if u want shruta singh for him or for all his wealth!
me: ohkay... if he is so rich.. he'll buy me a gc... i dont care :D
SFO: so .. u tell her abt shruta's air proposal will ya?
me: is he planning or has he already proposed?
SFO: and of course .. how u first met shruta is another story ! (Reminiscing fondly)
me: how how...
SFO: of course he has!! .. he won’t plan it and tell u silly!
who else wud be able to propose to u .. by doing that "will u marry me " thing in the sky..on a jet ..
me: will stevie wonder play at our wedding when i do the saat phere?
i won’t walk down the aisle u see

*That is Rachel’s fantasy from FRIENDS*

SFO: haha . yeah, and the ringh shruta singh gives u will "be the size of ur fist"
me: and the wedding will be on shruta singh's island
shruta SINGH gives me a RINGH!
oh i looooove it
SFO: :D :D ...
u better tell XYZ the name of the island too
me: ab yaar wo to tu bata
SFO: Shrut-Island!!
me: wah wah
SFO: d'oh! :D
me: i like the sound of the name of the island
SFO: thank u!
me: i adore it absolutely
SFO: of course u do .. that's why u cudnt say no to the proposal..
me: of course!
SFO: and u are getting married to him in 2020...
me: 2020.. nahi yaar wo to bahut door hain!
SFO: coz Shruta Singh has certain obligations towards his country ...
me: 2011 feb?
SFO: shru-island ..
me: ohkay... see i totally understand his commitments
SFO: no no.. that's the whole point.. it can be a date in the distant future .. and by the time u actually decide to get married to a real person,we can kill shruta singh in one of his island wars.. where in he died protecting his people ..
me: but thoda to uske apni gf ke baare mein bhi sochna chahiye
ohkayyyyy.. thts cool
SFO: yayie! :D
wonder if Mr. XYZ matches up to our great shruta singh?
me: i m so sorry for shruta...i was actually liking him
SFO: She will probably go back to him, all mad with envy and tell him.. mujhe aaj ke aaj hi ek island kharid ke do!!
yeah ..everybody loves shruta ..
me: Mr. XYZ is A Mr. ABC who has done *WHATEVER*
SFO: but shruta loves only you!
me: so so sweet...
SFO: yeah baby .. but he does not have an island does he?
me: i also love shruta
no way.... he just has a beach near his former college
tht is like.... small and petty
SFO: uh ... he does have a beach?
okie .. *gulp*
me: he does not own it yaar
there exists a beach near his coll.. thts it
SFO: okie ... lol .. tho wudnt XYZ believe u if u told her that u're not seeing anyone right now?
me: eh whAT?
SFO: as in .. are u seeing anyone right now?
as in .. if u're not .. cudnt u simply tell her that u're not?
me: i told her!
she didnt believe me!!!!!! :((
SFO: wahi toh main keh rahi hoon..why didn't she believe u
she thot u were ''hiding' it ..lol
me: yo... she thot i didn't wannatell her
and wanted to EXTRACT ALL her secrets out of her
SFO: lolz
whoa whoa ..
why did she spill those out in the first place ..
me: but.... i found the perfect bf i can ever ask for in the midst of telling her... haina?
SFO: haha ..
me: maybe coz she wanted to tell tht!
SFO: yeah u did !!
aw.. i am so happy for u ..
me: me too!!! :D
SFO: pity shruta has to die this way tho .. nice bloke
me: na na... he'll live
SFO: in our hearts u mean?
me: i dont wannna go cheap here
but yes thts what i meant! :)
SFO: haha ... well, u did :D
me: you are equally cheap.. i loooove u!
SFO: hey chal, i gotto go now .. got my alumni meet at 4 ...
me: chalo good..
SFO: haha .. yeah..am cheaper than the cheapest trinklet they sell at the roadside :D
me: and plz convey my LOOOOOOVE to shruta
SFO: will do :)
me: cool then
SFO: and love from him too ( watch out for that writing in the air)
me: bye.. and get dressed like a girl and go
yup sure!
SFO: uff .. that was another problem.. i didnt realise itwas a semi-formal occasion ...business- ish kinds ..until people asked me what saree i was wearing! i ws just takingit as another of those parties .. and of course i am not wearing any saree ... and i dont have decent formal wear here now ..all stuff moved to loni
me: wear a suit.. u wore it for the wedding *her sister’s wedding*
SFO: so after much due deliberation i will be wearing something casual (decent) ... and a brown fur cot on top to give it a formalish look
me: okayyyy
SFO: those suits willbe too jhatak for the meet ..
me: ha ha... something less jhatak?
SFO: the funny part is ..i didnt want these ppl to rag me "why are u dressed so informally" ... so i got approval from one of my friends
me: *cough* typical *cough*
SFO: to mk sure shegets what i am going to end uplooking like, i sent her a image of our discussion .. ruk al fwd it to u ..
me: ok
SFO: and evn tho it looks verry informal right now... i guess the brown long coat will take care of it.. plus the friend under consideration thinks a levi's ka decent top is okay for such occasions. oh and black formal shoes.. those i have here and are pretty okay..
SFO: how do i look?

*Now just when I was expecting a photo of herself dressed up in formals, what I get is this:*

me: where did u keep ur head??? :O
SFO: that's assumed.. :D or maybe i'm taking a headbath right now ..
me: ha ha lol
SFO: :D or maybe al be going dressed as Nearly Headless SFO :)
me: wah wah... lemme keep the head then... the rest of headless SFO can go to the party
SFO: ah.. if only it were a fancy dress party ...pooohey .. i hope it does not end up like one of those kissing behind one's ear .. affairs .. glasses clinking, business networking .. so .. what is ur company into these days ,.,.oooh, ur hr head moved to xyz ..
i wont be able to stand exchanging cards and all that ...
me: ohkay.... see i never have been to any of the alumni meet..
SFO: it really kills all the fun ..
me: poor backward ppl - us
SFO: i have been on the other side of it only..as in when our seniors ... or all other alumni wud come ..
me: who havent had the oppurtunity to be an alumnus of any of the instituition
SFO: arre pass out karegi toh alumni banegi na! .. mera bhi toh first hai ri ... kyun re st anne's ko institution nai maanti tu ...traitor : P :)
me: we still will be poor backward ppl anyhow
with no alumni association whatsoever
no meet there either
:(
SFO: yaar ... b-schools mein yeh bahut zyaada isiliye hota hai ..coz these networks are essential for running a good b-school, industry contacts.. for placing ur future batches ... etc etc ..
me: yeah yeah.. i get tht
SFO: as in ur alumni go on to occupy imp. Positions in the industry,..and then u use them to build and maintain ur college brand .. evn my grad college is not very HIGH on alumni association.. Renuions do take place tho.. they cud do a better job ..
chal will take ur leave now .. and will catch up soon..
do tell arps abt my new jiju Shruta Singh .. :D
me: okay.. sure.. i was actually thinking of pasting it on the blog
my most interesting conversation in yrs
SFO: lolz .. yeah that'll be fun!
me: and btw... when u send this conversation to
remove my love story from it
i dont wanna make it public... shruta's fans all over the world might not like it!
SFO: i will :)
:D :D
me: chalo enjoy
have fun
bye
SFO: bye bye :)
me: and ur dress was good.. as far as i think
SFO: thank u! ... i will kill the rest if they all land up in sarees ..
chal gtg now ..bbye! :)





So now I have a new boyfriend, Shruta Singh. Courtsey: SFO!
*I have worked real hard on formatting it and deleting the things that can help you identify ABC and XYZ. XYZ, in case you are reading this: just enjoy the bit by SFO – I had no intention of making fun of you, which I think, I haven’t!*

Swine Flu and I

This post is entirely my interpretation and I, in no way, intend to criticize the government policies. I assume that the authorities did this in the best interests of the people of Jodhpur, and also their vote-bank.

For background information: Two weeks back, the authorities, all of a sudden, decided to start a 'Swine Flu Surveillance Program'. It is supposed to be a door-to-door survey covering all the houses of the city. There are a number of teams, each team consists of an Intern (eh, that's me)/ Doctor, a M.P.W. (Multipurpose Health Worker) and an A.N.M. (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife). What the teams are expected to do: ask for khansi, jukhaam, bukhaar (cough, runny nose and fever) in every house. And as a result of the emergency situation *rolls eyes* , all the intern duties have been scraped off and we have been put to the enormous task of the surveillance program.

I started my work on the 21st of November, 2009 with two nice health workers, thankfully! Here are a few conclusions/ inferences / pointers, I had to jot down:

Conclusions about the disease:

1. Most of the infected people are kids, but adults have a higher tendency to get sick and have more serious symptoms.
2. I did not find any case that was serious enough to be hospitalized.
3. Except for a handful of cases, almost everybody had consulted a doctor.
4. The small number of people who haven't been to a doctor, will never ever access any healthcare facilities!
5. A few of the above-mentioned people might just benefit from this door to door survey - that, I believe, is the population at which the program should be actually targeted.

Conclusions about the tendency/ approach of people:

1. Even though people have cough and are down with fever by evening; every morning they have to go to work, attend schools and do all the household chores!
2. Anybody you ask for the usual sardi, khaanshi, bukhaar has to ask each and every member of the family before deciding on whether his family members are OK or not.
3. If the people know that we might give out some medicines, they will go to any lengths to fake symptoms. However, if it is only a survey asking for information, they decide that nobody in the household has ever sneezed even once in the season. ("Docsaab, humare yaha to koi cheenka bhi nahi hai. Bhagwan ki kripa hai. Bhagwan bachaye...")
4. If you tell them that they'll be re-evaluated and given the medications on the next day, they try hard to convince you on how they have some very important tasks to be completed on the very next day - they have to go to the village, send the kid to the school and even have to go shop - and therefore, the treatment should be given on the very same day!
5. If the doctor (so-called-doctor) is just outside their house, they expect and demand the treatment of every possible health-related problem in the world, ranging from joint pain to leg ulcers.
6. A few well-educated people do ask for more information about the disease, the ways to prevent its spread and how they can be protected from getting exposed to the virus - I like them and try my best to provide them all the info I have.

Here are a few pictures:

I completely agree that this door-to-door survey is increasing awareness among the aam junta about the disease. However, I do often wonder that other than convincing people that something is being done to contain the pandemic, is the program serving any purpose? The one thing I know for sure that it has screwed my peaceful life - now that I am caught in this political gimmick!

The only advantage to me: some more exposure to the real world!

*Might add a few updates when the program is over.

Hospitals!

I am not a huge fan of reading blogs, but recently I have come across a few of them where the non-medical bloggers have aptly described their experience as a visitor to a hospital. They never had anything against the doctors as such, but their perspective towards the whole setting there has left me wondering about a lot of things. This has also been the topic of discussion at innumerable times.

The behavior of many people, which includes not only the patients and the visitors but also the healthcare workers, is something I have often been uncomfortable with.

• The doctor is talking to the patient. Just when you are explaining them the course of the disease or the treatment options, the mobile phone rings (of the patient, of course). The patient leaves you waiting and she merrily chats about her kid, her sister's kid, her sister's neighbor's kid and the all the kids in the world. You shoot stern glances at the patient and, at that very moment, she realizes that you are waiting for her. "Oh! Chalo abhi main rakhti hu, hospital main hu. Arey nahi, kuch nahi hua. Baad mein baat karti hu." And then the formal goodbyes before hanging up the phone! Can the doctor ever say back anything?

The sign that says to switch off the mobile phones in the consultation room is safely ignored.

• You are rushing to the labor room to get the progress report, for the doctor, about the high-risk patient who had bled on her way to the hospital and was stabilized once in. A man with all his force, spits on the wall, just next to the dustbin! Thanks to your reflexes, you just managed to stop right in time! Me, being the kind of person I am, chose to say a word or two to the man instead of ignoring the incident altogether.

These are just a few examples. However, the good part is that this constitutes only a minority of people, who are from far-off villages and have had no experience to be in a treatment-center bigger than a 12 x 12 feet area, where there are patients other than them.

On the other hand, there also has been an incident where a young girl, maybe just out of high school, very politely offered to help me in the huge amount of very mechanical paper-work I had, while all the other people were standing in line (a line is an under-statement, maybe I should say - a crowd jumping on my table) to get their papers done quickly.

The situation is changing and changing for the good!

PS: the good and bad about the healthcare workers in the next section.

Post Exam Era

The exam has long been over and the result is out. I know a considerable amount of time has passed since then, but when did I ever post in time, or for that matter, when do I ever post anything!

I passed with an excellent score of 99 on a two-point scale and a pretty average score of 242 on three-point scale. I know, although, they both are the same, only the people who are seriously into this business (read: IMGs who are struggling to get into residencies) can understand the huge difference between the two. I can continue to rant on how difficult it is these days to get an interview and then MATCH, for a visa-requiring person, but I'll leave that aside for the time being.

(For the uninitiated, here is a link to the scoring pattern of USMLE)

But for now, it is time to get ahead and study hard for USMLE Step 2 CK. However, I am tired of studying. It has been a lil' more than 8 years for me, and that is all I am doing (or to be true: worrying about) and I have no idea as to when this will end. You can't blame me for sure!

On a happy note: Clinical subjects are much better to study then the Biochemistry and the Physiology! And on some level, I like Medicine!

Oh! I am free now!

I have been looking forward to these few blissful days for ages, when I'll be done with my USMLE Step 1 and I'll be free, technically. But now I realize, that these days are not exactly 'blissful' and 'happy' as I had imagined them to be. Thinking about how will I fare in Step 1 (that is the tough part, believe me!), how to start preparing for USMLE Step 2 CK, how to plan for my 'future plans' and what not. Please do remember that I particularly excel at planning things, but as I now see it, my ability is at its best when I have a exam ahead. Or maybe, I am so used to taking exams, that I don't know what life is on the other side. My non-medical friends, as you may call them, are earning handsomely and laugh out loud at me, still studying and preparing for the never-ending exams!

I hope to be done with it people, soon!

But for now or maybe in a week, I have to start reading for yet another exam I intend to take soon. Winding it all up in a two to two-and-a-half month time seems a little impractical to me at present, but as usual, do I have a choice?

So the bottom-line is: You don't like when you are studying as you have so much to study and the course never seems to end. You don't like when you don't have to study because at least you had something to do previously! (which you are so much used to) However, you tend to like the time when you have nothing to do and when you wish that it would have been better if you had something, except studying obviously!

PS: Short post which shows that I actually have nothing to do now, and which also shows that I am 'not-much-of-a-blogger'.

A - Z of Medical School

Hey! I wrote this article ages ago for the college magazine. Now the whole plan has been fizzled out, I thought to put it up here.

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"A" is for anatomy. How can I forget the spine chilling moment when I was given the opportunity to find all the tiny branches of the Ulnar nerve? It still pains when I tickle my ‘funny bone’.

"B" is for bike. Don’t know, if ever in life, the speedometer will touch that high speed or we’ll spend hours on ‘Activas’ and ‘Pulsars’ just roaming around in the streets for nothing.

"C" is for coffee. My consumption of this beverage has rocketed in the previous two & half years. I am convinced my serum caffeine levels are well above the normal reference range.

"D" is for doxycycline. That’s the favorite drug name of my colleague. We are even thinking of gifting her a lil’ pup & naming it ‘Doxy’.

"E" is for ECG. Still blaming my long-left physics that I can’t understand how the cardiologists decipher a whole lot of arrhythmias & MIs from this strip of paper, which is no more than a scribble by a toddler for me.

"F" is for fanta-fanti aur setting, the hottest topic of our college.

"G" is for Goat. I always feel like one, the day before my exams, ready to be sl-slau-slaughtered!

"H" is for histories. I remember being told in the first week of my ward-postings that a detailed history is the key to a successful diagnosis. A colleague of mine took it a bit too far. He impeccably presented the history of a patient with emphysema together with the names of the patient's eight children and their history of dog bites!

"I" is for insults. We all know of at least one consultant in each department that looks on medical students as lesser forms of life; and who can forget the horrifying experience in joint classes of postings where your juniors know it all and the professor expects you to answer.

"J" is for the jukebox. The innumerable songs we listen on full volume, dance to them ‘on the roof, in the rain,’ on the bikes.

"K" is for K****I. You know what I mean! (Are we allowed to put in slang here? After all, we use it in every second sentence!)

"L" is for library. I have spent an unhealthy amount of time daydreaming in this establishment and when I was not there, cursing the people who were not-so-much daydreaming there.
P.S. Will everyone please turn off their mobile phones.

"M" is for Medicine & Harrison. I am always advised by my seniors to read through half of it in my 6th semester. Do you seriously feel I can ever do that even in the entire period of my under-graduation?

"N" is for Nicotine. I know I hate it, but a large number of medicos are addicted. God help them!

"O" is for OHT. Argh! The Over Head Transmission of the lectures is quite common in the morning lectures and those in the noon and in the posting lectures. Wait a minute, are there any more of them?

"P" is for Picture-Hall, associated with a whole lot of good and bad experiences.

"Q" is for Questions that the teachers fire on us during classes and examinations. Wish I knew what to do with them.

"R" is for Revision. We, medicos are supposed to it again & again, isn’t it?

"S" is for stethoscopes. The day you buy your own stethoscope is a milestone in any medical student's career. But I still can’t figure out why I was never able to use it? I mean, c’mon, have you ever ‘appreciated’ a murmur?

"T" is for treat. Treat for a new bike, treat for topping the class, treat for your birthday, your mom's birthday or your second cousin’s anniversary or for the new dog your neighbour just got.... Do you seriously require a reason for each treat?

"U" is for ultrasound. Let's be honest, doesn't it all look the same to you?

"V" is for Viva. No comment! It hurts!

"W" is for ward-postings. I still feel lost there!

"X" is for X-ray. Opaque is bones, no! Transparent is bones, no! Opaque is bones… Still can’t figure out. Somebody please help me!

"Y" is for the colour “Yellow” – the most horrifying colour. Yellow-coloured nerves in anatomy, yellow-precipitate in biochemistry, yellow-coloured book-Guyton in physiology, yellow-coloured pages of KDT in pharmacology, yellow-fever in microbiology, yellow-atrophy of liver in pathology… You surely don’t want more, do you?

"Z" is for zzzzzzzzzzz - sleep. Sleep is some- thing I have always taken for granted. I obtain a brief glimpse of the effects of sleep deprivation almost everyday as I battle into the early hours into the lectures.

Following the trend...

So, here I go... just following the trend set by Arpita & Shruti. Imagining that I have been an ardent fan of their blogs, they'll at least read mine; and may be if God is kind enough, or instead I am good enough (which I know I am not), a handful of others would also show some mercy for my hard work (if you call it so)!

Now, I even don't know why I am doing this? By the way, I said I was being a copycat, didn't I? So let us imagine this to be the only reason. But one thing that is true that through this entire torture of the exams coming up and the long list of things-to-do in future, I hope that this will be my helpmate.

As for the name, this is a direct lift from a book mentioned in "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", but it does make a lot of sense at this stage.
That is all, I can put up here right now, I hope I'll be spending some more quality time here real soon.


P.S. If not my original work, surely some things copied from Shruti's blog. (referring to the 'memories of Brills' she has promised to pen down)