The remedy called "Sun"

Having come from a hot and dry place like sivakasi , chandigarh is a real nightmare..
My first winter in north india..(Thats wat all my colleagues and consultants thought)..The truth is this is my first winter in 24 years...
I had seen only three types of weather..Hot...Hotter...N hottest...
Winter (The first) is way too horrible...
Sun..save me...

Being Stanlean

It's been quite some time since i blogged..But i was forced to write this blog after reading a very controversial post.
Wat is it to be a stanlean?
How are stanleans being projected?
And how do Stanleans want to project themselves?
Is it only enjoyment, tat a stanlean has to do and is expected to do?
And is reading the domain of other college students?
N will Stanlean spirit change if students start reading?

My uncle who was both UG and PG from stanley, told that atleast 25 students from his batch are in UK..
Is that the stanley we are seeing today?
Or is that going to happen in near future?

A humble request to all the Old stanleans
U r here to lead the path, provided u lead in the right direction..
If u r not intereseted, keep witnessing the achievements stanley and stanleans are going to make.

Better dont lead budding stanleans in the exactly wrong path..

PGI-The first impression..

PGI.. The only word anyone in chandigarh 'll understand when a tamilian utters..
Majestic, awesome, titanic are some of the words that can be used bout PGI comparing with our state colleges..
Textbook photocols being followed..all necessary investigations being done.. Beautiful maintenance.. The thing which impressed me most was the way of the exams..
The entrance exams gets over by 10.30 a.m. And the results are out by 10 p.m.. In a matter of 12 hours.. I remember getting my pre-final results after 3 months.. All india results after a month..of course they need all that time for all sorts of manipulation, forgery etc etc. Tamil university takes 3 months to evaluate papers while PGI conducts, counsells and selects candidates in 3 day maximum.. No place for forgery..

Mblog

It's real fun to blog from my mobile.. Weather now in chandigarh is better..quite sunny..cool evenings..i wish my work is cool too.. The tariff plans for mobile phones seem too high..I'm living with gprs..using my mobile only for browsing..'ll keep everything updated..

A test post from my mobile

Hi..just trying to blog from my mobile..

Sentiments@MBBS.com

Show me one guy (in MBBS) who says "Sentiments?..No chance"..
Very tough..
Every one has a sentiment..esp.during the exams..
I had my own set of sentiments..
First..the shirt..
I had a shirt..which i considered "lucky"..and i wore that for almost all the exams..(From 2nd year to final year)..Yes yes..I wash it everyday..though i felt many a times that washing fades the luck..
And the next thing was the steps in front of our library..
I do my exams well only if i sit there in the bench for atleast a minute...
N the one thing that irritates me the most is to see our batch girls sitting as a group there..Not only does it spoils my mood..but also makes me scary..(bout the exams of course)..
Many have the "Shirt sentiment"..A few even postpone their bath..
My junior is very particular that nobody sits in his chair..(which is not his own)
And another never lets anyone sit in one particular corner of the reading room..
Many try to occupy the rooms of succesful seniors..
Sentiments are so very common among MBBS students before and during exams..
They would seem too silly now..But they were like 'rules' that ought to be followed..

Favourites from Wiki

Stanley..Wat have we done for it?

Every guy who gets into MBBS naturally wants to get into MMC..That feeling is quite obvious..
But after becoming stanleans, wat have we done for Stanley to get to the top spot..
Did we participate in quiz competitions and get the first place?
Did v get university first and make our teachers proud?
Did v ever get into any healthy competition?
Did v attend our postings and classes regularly?
The answer is quite simple..and an undeniable "NO"
Forget what Stanley has done for us..Lets think bout wat we have done for our Alma mater..
We never really attended the postings..except in final year..
Never were any healthy competitions..All the competition were about who takes the students council and which gang is bigger..
Exams were as corrupt as u can ever imagine..Students taking "Bits" is a usual occurrence..
But only in Stanley, u can find professor distributing the bits to make sure his students pass..
Only in Stanley can u find atleast half a dozen students who use only their cell phones and not their grey matter for passing the exams..
Giving money to get a pass in final year has now become a trend..
And worse, they go unpunished..
Worst, Professor helping the students during exams..
I can bet that u can't see such things anywhere in this world..
It is pride or is it...?
Start thinking Stanleans..

Humbleness--The Non-Existent

Wat would you do when your colleagues go on a flash strike and you go short of hands?
And more.. how would it be like when all your customers yell at you rather than understand that you are infact helping them?
Such was the position during my return journey from delhi..
The air india employees called a flash strike..
There were only three crew for 146 passengers..
The flight was already 6 hrs late..
The last thing the crew wud have expected was angry and hostile and perhaps and idiotic (rich) passengers who want to show off their might wherever they go..
I was witnessing everything that happened..
There was one particular (? gentle) man who demanded the air hostess to bring him tea immediately..(He waiting for the flight for 6 hrs and he could have spent rs 10 to get a tea @ Airport)..He probably wanted to show off..unfortunately his attitude only irritated all other passengers..
A humble request..Kindly use your common sense before intelligence..Try to be practical than smart..
Better Return to Innocence

The Empower 07

Went to Empower 07 inter medical college quiz competition today.
Really nice experience..
I wanted to write more bout the hardwork behind organizing this rather than the participation..
Organizing a quiz is a real big task..considering the amount of perfection expected out of the event..
It requires about a months time..and more getting all the work done..real headache..
I must praise all those who were the part of the team who made empower happen again..
And regarding a few who didn't participate and the reasons they gave..were really funny...
I pity them..One who is not ready to take up a challenge must not even dream of victory..

A shock @ Airport

Hii guys..
I happened to meet a Srilankan tamil @ Delhi airport..
And here's wat he told me..Very shocking indeed..
Everyday the srilankan army literally abducts around 5 to 10 tamil males aged 20 to 30 from the city of colombo..
They are taken to a far away place and killed..mutilated..burnt..to make the bodies unidentifiable..
And the news never comes out in any channels..
And the family doesnt have a hint of wat happened to their children..
If this is true, just imagine how cruel it is..
Tamils are being alienated, tortured and more..killed in Srilanka..
Atrocity..What can else we say bout this?

Nuclear medicine..Wow..Wat a feeling?

Yes..And i made it this time..
MD Nuclear medicine..For many it sounds crazy..But that was my passion..my dream..
And finally it has come true..
Thanks to all the 23 guys in front of me who didn't take (my) seat..
I'd never forget that moment..the expression from PGI's director, when i opted the branch..
He was clearly amazed..and more..he was very happy..
But none could have been happier than myself...

The PGI results

Wat can i say bout the PGI results?
They were as hot as Chandigarh's weather..
I made it into the list yet again...
And i have a list of people to thank..Cos they were the one who actually forced me to write the exam..
Dr.Preet AIIMS rank 15..
Dr.Nambi..My Co-PG @ GRH
Dr.Mouli..one of my best pal
Dr.Vasanth-My medicine PG
Dr.Anuj..One person who always wishes good luck for me..
Without them, i would have never gone for the PGI exam itself..
Thank you guys..I'll never forget you all..

The PGI exam

I'm blogging from a net cafe @ delhi, near my hotel..
I would never forget this trip to Chandigarh..
Both for the beauty of chandigarh and PGI exam but also for the extreme weather which almost caused an ARF..
Going for PGI exam was a decision i took while i was still in the train..
They said it's going to take just 3 hrs from delhi..Luckily i dont remember which fool told that..else he wud have got thrashed..
It took almost 6 hrs..and worse..the weather..it would have easily been 44 or 45..(I'm not exaggerating)..
Ice cold water turned into hot water in a matter of 20 mins..
And worse, accomodation was full everywhere..Hotel rooms were (Just) 1500 and above..
I got an accomodation in a guest house..But that was far far away from my centre..
The return journey was better..except for d fact that we couldnt get anything to eat..
I dont know how people survive in this heat.
Man, its really hot..

Medicine.. Is it intelligence or hardwork?

Medicine is not bout intelligence..And if u think u shud choose medicine becos u got the district first..U r bitterly wrong..
Medicine is a field where hard work pays..more than intelligence..(In fact intelligence has very little to do with medicine)
Common sense is much more important than intelligence..
Unfortunately, intelligent people get caught in medicine and feel it's a dumb field..
There are fields in medicine where intelligence is necessary..like in molecular genetics, pathology, pharmacology, drug designing..
But people rarely ever choose those fields..(Cos there aren't many who can teach them and these subjects are available in very few centres)
It's a little weird to see toppers going for Ortho..(Which i consider has nothing to do with intelligence..it's only pure skill)..N they choose those fields only because of the money they are going to earn..
Ultimately, it's survival thats importance..Isnt it?

The (Terrifying) MBBS exams

Right from my schooldays, i never really bothered about exams..never feared it..
But MBBS exams were real terror..
The volume of subject to be read..The efforts to be put in..And at last, the totally different questions that we see in the question paper.. I bet, no one 'll ever forget the Exam mood..
My worst experiences were with the following exams
Anatomy paper-2..Anatomy is a subject in which 50% students fail..I desperately wanted to be in the other 50%..And luckily, i was..
FM clinicals..
And Surgery clinicals..The worst experience..I'd never forget the previous night of the exam..
I couldnt do anything but worrying bout wat is gonna happen the next day..
But i was a lucky person..I got through all d exams in my first attempt..Not just university exams..But also my PG exams..Very lucky though..
And it'll be a totally different story when our break batch writes the exams..
We see people reading for 18 hrs a day..Not moving from their chairs..(No bath, of course)..
I feel doctors are not getting enough for the amount of work that they put in..

Impersonate The Lotus

Everything we see conveys some message..So does Lotus..
Lotus grows in both the purest and the dirtiest of waters..
It manages to grow in the dirtiest waters without ever getting dirty..
The flower or the leaf are immune to impurity..
Such should be the human existence..
Stay with all the impurities without ever getting impure..
I think i tried such a strategy in Stanley and i believe i too was successful..to some extent..
Curse me with the immunity..Immunity from cruelty...

College friends

I had a really tough time findings friends in Stanley..I should accept that Stanleans had an even tougher time coping with me.. I'm the sort of guy who expects too much and too choosy bout friends..
For me, just talking to a person is different from actually feeling close to them.. Till my internship, my friends list would have been blank..(Though i would have considered Ravi shankar n Mouleeswaran as close ones)..
CRRI quarters changed everything.. Got to get very close to my roommates..Enjoyed wat is called the typical hostel life..
Vijay kumar and Vinod were exactly the way i liked..I guess i was also the way they wanted..Sorry if i was not..
We browsed..roamed..chatted (Not much bout girls, but bout who is the most "Kevalamanavan and most accused"
My internship period wouldnt have been better..Lots of fun and work in ward..Chat @ quarters.. Man, I miss my CRRI period..
Our Casualty medical officer, Dr.Selvaraj is one of a kind..He would share as much time as possible with us in our room..We would be watching Movies, going out for snacks..We considered him one among us..
I would still boast (In Royapettah to my PGs) as i got the best roommates and i enjoyed my CRRI period to the core.. I think i should put up a seperate post for all the mischief that we did at CRRI quarters

My N6630 ?First love
6630..Wat a phone it was.?
Best phone of its class..
Extremely advanced when it was introduced..
But the end was catastrophic..
It fell down and it was gone..
I never really thought of getting a new one until it fell down..
"Gundu phone" is its nickname..
And it's so special cos..i bought it on preethi's birthday..

The (Grand) Entry..into stanley, of course..

My entry into MBBS was a totally unexpected event..
But after the entry, there was no looking back..

Though i wanted to get into MMC (as any MBBS aspirant would), i could only get into Stanley..
I know my friends would beat me up for the last line..

Stanley was a totally different environment for me...for anyone for that matter..
Situated in the north madras and well known for rowdism and the ruf N tuf behaviour, stanley was fascinating me in every aspect..

I got to know bout the stanlean spirit the very first day of college..Stanlean spirit is something that every product of stanley would boast of..It's really hard to explain wat it is..To know it u must have it..Others simply wont understand..

Everyone would be poisoned and consumed by the stanlean spirit..I know one senior who took the hostel soil to his house and guards it even now..Such is the attitude of stanleans..

Stanley had me..and without any resistance..

Friends @ School

School life was memorable in every aspect..
I had a limited but dependable group of friends at school..

Dinesh, CT Sreenath, Kamil, Karthikeyan were my group of best friends..and that hasn't changed one bit even today..
We all came to chennai for higher studies and we never really felt separated form each other..

CT Sreenath is a rather studious, serious Dentist..

Dinesh( Dinu) is a rather cool, fun loving easy going chemistry student..But i guess he does nothing related to chemistry nowadays..

Kamil is well known for his rather large scale dreams and more for his lies..Computer wizard..He was the one who hacks into our school system, gets the Internet Id and password and gives to me..Unfortunately, he was the favourite student of our computer sir..But u can count on him at times of need..

Karthikeyan (Known as Karthi sir) graduated from loyola (As dinu).. He's a hard core businessman now..Lovely guy to be with..

Apart from them i'd mention Saravana kumar(Kutti thambi) as one of my favourites..

My School life

I had a pretty tough time during schooling..
Has to shuffle between schools everytime my dad gets a transfer..
I did my schooling from 6th to 12th in YRTV Matric Hr sec school, Sivakasi.

Life @ YRTV was heaven..
A wonderful school..
Great place..Cool friends..
Lotsa fun..
Had a good academic record...
My school was 7 km away from my house..and that was a good reason to ask for a two wheeler..

We enjoyed the classes..Little bit of listening and most of the time passing comments and peeping outside..
My favourite teachers were Mrs.Grace kamala and Mrs.Rathinamala..
I wouldnt forget my Maths sir..He is well known for his English and his voice..But u cant find a speck of mistake in his subject..
Physics sir was a jolly man who would enjoy Kavitha(My classmate) doing his job(Taking class)
His orals was terrifying initially but we understood its only a comedy story..
Biology class is for sleeping and fighting(With zoology Madam Vigneshwari of course)

Our Principal was typical of any principal..Having his own priciples.. But he was a gem of a man..

English mam would take 12th portions in 3 months and more..correct the entire class's answer sheets in half day..We understood how..She reads the name and gives the marks..Correction was only a formality...
Chemistry mam appreciates hard working students..And more she wsa Dinesh's chithi..

I wont ever forget our computer sir..Well known for his comments and not much for his singing capablities..
I would never forget the faculty of YRTV for they were the one's who shaped me..and luckily into this shape..

The smell of desire

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