Few Good Things…

This week in EMS was better than the last.
1. I managed to put an intravenous cannula in almost all patients in one prick. Even in a person who was convulsing.

2. I almost put a central line. Of course I needed help.

3. I managed to avoid needle stick injuries. That reminds me – I’m yet to take my booster for hepatitis B. Shit.

4. I’m lucky I have good co-interns. We divided the work and so that each one of us could sleep for at least an hour every night in the side room of EMS.

5. There was a huge raada in the casualty one night. The next day, there was a fight amongst the interns posted in paediatrics and EPR. Its fun to watch people fight.

6. I learnt (read: memorised) few sentences in Marathi. “Arre gap bas. Ek sui lavaychi aahe.”

7. We agreed to teach a police security guard how to collect blood. In return, he promised to save us in case an angry relative decides to wring our necks. However, the deal didn’t materialise.

8. We learnt how to use the police walkie-talkie. It’s a fun thing.

9. I’ve had at least a kilo of ice-cream this week. EMS is cool!

10. A friend of mine agreed to pole dance on my funeral, whenever it happens. According to her, that will attract at least some people to attend the ritual.

50 Questions

(More meaningful posts after 6th April – this is just to keep the blog alive)
1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?
I don’t have any

2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
Nothing. I like it clean

3. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?
Yes. 8.15 am. Breakfast time!

4. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?
Direction

5. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION(S)?
Family

6. HOW TALL ARE YOU?
179 cm

7. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC?
Nope

8. THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU CRY?
My dad

9. WHAT'S YOUR WORST FEAR?
Being there all alone

10. WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Black eyes.
Black hair.

11. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINK?
Umm… Coffee

12. FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING?
Can’t decide…

13. IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Strawberry with cream

14. FAVORITE COLOR OF ALL TIME?
Red

15. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A GOLDFISH?
Never. Yuck.

16. WHAT WAS THE FIRST MEANINGFUL GIFT YOU'VE EVER RECEIVED?
When I was a newborn. My sisters chose a very tiny and a-traumatic rakhi.

17. DO YOU HAVE A CRUSH?
Yes

18. FAVORITE CLOTHING BRAND?
Express

19. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING?
Yes

20. SAY A NUMBER FROM ONE TO A HUNDRED:
4

21. WHAT’S YOUR WEAKNESS?
A smile

22. MET ANYONE FAMOUS?
My grandmom

23. FIRST JOB?
I’ve been forever jobless

24. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL?
Yes... long time back

25. DO YOU THINK EVERYONE OUT THERE HAS A SOULMATE?
Of course

26. HAVE YOU EVER HAD A SURGERY?
Yes, once. It was many years back.

27. WHAT IS THE BIGGEST TURN OFF OF THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Superficiality

28. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU LIKED ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL?
We had a kind of food fest called Anand Bazar. Annual day used to be great fun too. Pai sir’s lectures were amazing. Wow. I can go on and on.

29. ANY BAD HABITS?
I think too much

30. DO LOOKS MATTER?
Yup

31. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?
By going into a shell

32. WHAT'S YOUR MAIN GOAL IN LIFE?
To live for people close to my heart

33. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
Cars. I loved to drag them around.

34. HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE?
More than 300

35. WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
Gentleness, humility, looks and above all, enough grey matter

36. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
I love all, without nuts

37. DO YOU HAVE A COMPUTER IN YOUR ROOM?
Yes

38. PLANS FOR TONIGHT?
I can’t enter so much data in my brain

39. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX
Panache

40. FAVORITE THING TO HATE?
People who push others with their elbows

41. WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME?
I waste it doing nothing

42. FAVORITE SEASON OF THE YEAR
Rains

43. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES?
Ani

44. FAVORITE SUPER POWER?
Umm… does Dexter count as one?

45. HAVE YOU EVER REALLY AND TRULY HAD A BEST FRIEND?
Yes, I do

46. WHAT IS YOUR HAIR COLOR?
Dark Brown

47. EYE COLOR?
Jet Black

48. WHO WERE YOUR GOOD FRIENDS IN HIGH SCHOOL?
Aaron, Adrian, Leo, Talwinder, Dino, Ankush, Glen, Tejas, Anjali, Mayur... the list isn’t complete.

49. KISSES OR HUGS?
Both :)

50. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE NIGHT STANDS?
Relationships

25 Random Things about Me

This blog post is inspired by Yash; I hope this facebook cycle continues so that we get to read more random stuff about people we know.

Coming straight to the point:
1. I’m too complicated. It’s something to do with my unusual neural circuitry.

2. I hate cockroaches and dirty insects. I hate people who can hold them with their antennae. They make me vomit. Ack. Puke.

3. I usually hang out with only a few selected people. I’m choosy and don’t talk to many people around me. Most people in a crowd stink. Skunks.

4. I can get emotionally attached to anyone close enough. I fear losing people.

5. I’m a tennis freak and can watch it for hours together. You’re going to have a bad time if you bother me while I’m glued to a match.

6. I just love ice creams. Especially the ones without nuts as toppings. I’ve had entire family packs at a time. More on ice creams and experiences with the female selling it at Chicago in some other post.

7. I’m a perfectionist.

8. Politics is not meant for me. I can never tackle bureaucracy. I like straightforward people who don’t pretend about stuff.

9. I keep saying ‘oh fish!’ and ‘hai na?’ every now and then.

10. If given an option, I would choose to be a sea sponge. That way, I would get to laze around all my life with my bum attached to the floor. I don’t know who made me a human.

11. I like to stay low-profile. I think life’s more comfortable that way. You needn’t get noticed for any damn reason. No wonder sea sponges are so cool.

12. I can never reach any place on time. Punctuality is a huge struggle. On an average, I’m at least an hour late everywhere. I’ve been threatened, warned and rebuked but to no avail.

13. I’m religious and spiritual. But I don’t go overboard. I don’t agree with atheists.

14. I like to paint. If only I could get some time. And money to buy canvas.

15. I think most people are buffoons. If you look closely enough, you’ll realise.

16. I’m a perfect Leo; the kind described in books – word-to-word. There’s not a slight variation from the typical description. Lions rule, you know.

17. If I hadn’t taken up medicine, I would be doing zoology, molecular chemistry or finance.

18. I love India. I hate Indians who hate India. Jai hind.

19. I want to do an internship under a professional photographer, especially someone who holds interest in bird photography and landscape photography. Sounds cool.

20. I’m a vegetarian. I live on plants and leaves. If Brontosaurus could manage on them, even I can.

21. Rains are cool. Especially when you are outdoors with just the right company, without a windcheater and the sky is glutted with clouds. Winds, storms and lightning are even better.

22. I don’t mind living the rest of my life on a desolate island surrounded by sea with only fruits and berries to fill that darn muscular bag. I mean stomach. But of course.

23. I love to think that I’m the biggest fan of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. For some reason, I think Fulliautomatix rocks.

24. I can waste hours together doing nothing. My palm says that I have a long life. Shit.

25. I think one day I’ll spend all the money I have. Too bad they don’t teach you good economics in school.

Now, I’m waiting to read about you guys.

Whatever It Means

Travelling to college is annoying especially with the construction of Metro Rail adding to the existing traffic congestion. You just can’t help but sit in a rick and stare at the world outside.

This is exactly what I was doing today morning, wasting nearly an hour stranded at one spot. The rickshaw wouldn’t budge an inch. There was nothing much to stare at either; except a little girl who probably had wandered from a nearby beggars’ hutment.

She wasn’t accompanied by anyone else but was unperturbed nonetheless. Hopping about, she discovered a rope that was tied to a low hanging branch of a tree. The rope was tied at both ends to the branch in order to make it an ingenious swing. The ten centimetres thick rope was reinforced by knots in certain weaker areas. But that didn’t dampen her spirits. She promptly sat, made herself comfortable and began swinging on the rope. She wore an ordinary black dress; it wasn’t tattered, neither was it new. It looked castoff but that didn’t bother her.

Her hands held the rope firmly enough so that she didn’t slip and gently enough so that the jute fibres didn’t poke her palms. Her smile widened as her speed increased – in direct proportion – as a mathematician would put it. She was alone, with no one around, her eyes weren’t looking for anyone either. She was totally on her own but made most of those moments. At least that’s what I could make out. I wish I could photograph and capture that moment so as to prove this to you.

I wanted to ask her name. But then, I just assumed it to be Life.

Whereto?

I know nothing, nothing at all. At times, I’m not even receptive to that same old question. Maybe it happens when you don’t know anything.

I’ve never been so confused. I’m lost. I don’t know what helps getting out of this. It’s suffocating; there is no time. I don’t mind if someone else lives this moment for me. At least I won’t blame myself at the end of it.

Maybe it happens when you don’t know anything.