okay so here's a song by Shiraz Uppal, one of my favourite singers, even though he proves in this music video that he clearly is'nt a good actor.At times the scenes just seem more funny than romantic.But overall its a very good song to listen too.Light and pleasant to the ears with nice lyrics.Enjoy !

Reflections

We just got to know that our vacations have been extended for two more weeks ! So yeah I'm more than happy at the feeling of having a lot of time to spend on everything I've been craving to do.Currently I'm doing an elective in the neurology department at the Civil Hospital Karachi.A public sector hospital. All I have to do there is be with the doctors as they examine the patients and take their history.
Its all very basic at this stage as we're still in the very early stages of learning but the doctors there are very cooperative,they make sure they involve the students in every step of the diagnostic procedure.Its a great experience, I am learning a lot.Its a two weeks long elective and I'm thinking of applying at some other ward for the upcoming two weeks , its better than sitting at home doing nothing !.My best friend Uzma is doing her elective at the cardiac surgery department, she's very much into cardiology and I guess is enjoying the elective more than anyone in her department..I just hope she turns into a cardiac surgeon one day and proves her mettel ! All the best for that Uzma :)

Other than that Eid ul Azha is just around the corner (Saturday)..I'll be posting the details on it in my upcoming posts Inshallah ( God willing).Till then.. Chao !

Papa- Master of disaster !

The broken cookie jar !

Being around Papa (Dad) is never safe .He has this extreme innate tendency to cause destruction around him. 99% of the broken crockery at our home has been a direct result of Papa doing nothing.Yeah I typed that right, nothing !. He is just a little careless with his movements.One simple hand motion and there goes the glass on the floor, shattered into a million pieces of nothing but insignificant remains of a perfect piece of crockery that fell victim to papa's carelessness :)..Just yesterday he came home from his clinic and extended his hand to hang the keys when he somehow struck the cookie jar ! It was a pretty jar with clown faces on it !.My mom was particularly very upset because it was rather new and very handy..But thats just the usual routine, something breaks, my mom gets upset, papa gives a sheepish a smile, I just laugh, mom tries to complain and laugh at the same time, her dissappointment cum laughing look makes us laugh even more, and then we make papa leave the destruction scene to clean up before he wrecks something else :)

Aah the ghosts are gonna get me !!!

Well first of all I'm in the happiest of moods this season.My practical exams are over too and so this marks the end of two years of studying basic medical sciences.Plus we have a months vacation before we start our third year !!!

Anyways there's this interesting incident I've been wanting to share for the past week.A few days ago while I was in my room studying for my physiology test I heard my mom call me from her room across the lounge in a somewhat panicky voice.She was looking out of the window, calling for me and saying something about someone being ill.But before I could reach her she rushed towards me and said that the security guard of the property in front of ours had fallen of his chairs and was having some kind of tremors.She was cleaning the windows when she suddenly saw him fall off .He was on duty with just one other guard who just stood beside him with no idea what to do, he was obviously too startled by what had just happened.Then mom looked at me and said "I think you should go tell the guard to get him to the hospital and see if you can do something to help him in the meantime,you're a medical student they listen to you !". Okay, I know I'm a med student and people expect a lot from me but truly speaking I haven't even passed my second year yet and have no past experience in dealing with emergency situations on a practical level.Reading about emergency management is one thing but doing it is another.But nevertheless I rushed out of the house towards him across the road while making up the multiple possible diagnosis and first aids in mind.By the time I reached the spot there were many people gathered around him and he had almost normalised by then, he did seem a little dazed but the tremors had gone.I asked him how he was and he just looked at me.The other guard told me "Isko mirgi hai bajji' (he has epilepsy)

After that there was nothing much I could do but I asked him again if he needed something but before he could respond I heard someone calling my name from a distance, when I turned I saw a few housemaids from the adjacent homes all gathered togethor on the other side of the road at the corner,the one who had called me had once worked at our home and hence knew my name.I thought she was calling me because my mom had asked her to from the window or something I gestured her to wait. I turned to the guard again but before I could ask him or hear his interrupted response one of the men among the people gathered around him (the house maid's husband) looked towards me and went " go child go,you should go" he did n't seem to like my standing there and wanted me to leave asap.I just said "I hope you're better to the man" and rushed back to the maid to listen what all the rush was about.What I heard from her was the most shocking and annoying thing I could hear in that situation.

" You should n't have gone there, young girls dont go near people who're having seizures, who knows he might just have spirits on him, what if they got you ?"

These housemaid's usually come from rural areas to live in the city and make a living.They have minimal education and can barely read and write.Ofcourse with illiteracy comes a lack of awareness a whole lot of taboos,superstitions and false made up stories about logical things which they fail to understand.It took me a few seconds to register what she had just said, but thank god I was quick enough to say " those are all stories ! , he has epilepsy and besides ghosts and witches dont exist"(in a stern voice) ..I must say it took me a lot of self control to hide my annoyance.I mean there's a man who was seizing and needed help and here across the street were standing four ladies making up ghost stories !!!!

Even though my initial response was shock it soon turned to pity for those woman, may god help them and the other women with her to differentiate fact from superstitions !

The bitter sweet lollipop !

Wow it feels so good to be writing a post after such a long time.Its been ages since I last posted anything , well not exactly ages but the past two weeks did seem like an eternity to me.My life went all stagnant and boring,every thing was at a stand still, I just couldn't have written anything even if I would have tried to publish anything on my blog.The main reason for this was none other than my fourth semester exams.

As might have been evident from my previous posts, I just hate exams, I hate the feeling of being examined and I just hate the whole idea of having my entire semester's worth of hardwork judged and graded within a painful fraction of two hours. Its just the state of mind you are in within those two hours that determines your GPA for the entire semester.How unfair!.But anyways thats the way life is and I'm happy that I'm over with the theoretical part of exams.Our OSPES (Objective structured practical exams) start next week. Two of the three thoretical exams I took went really well but I cant say about the third one, Human anatomy i.e. But I'm hoping and praying that I get a good GPA.I worked really hard this semester.There were times in these two weeks when I spent 13 hours of the day studying !!.Glued to my chair with a pile of books in front of me and an endless list of tasks to be completed the only thought that made me go on was 'hard work bears fruit'.

I know I'll have to go through a lot in life to achieve my dreams and make my mark in the field of medicine,being a doctor is just one of the dreams I had.I joke with my mom that I'm licking a lollipop thats really bitter but has a candy filling deep down inside, all I 've gotta do is lick away the bitterness :)

Heres's what I have pasted in front of my desk, it surely gives me the inspiration I need in life

"For some sky is the limit but for some its just the very beggining"

Salli !

A forgotten post - Eid !!

God ! I totally missed to post a blog on Eid.Its amazing how forgetfull I can be to have drafted a post on something as major as Eid and then forget to post it ! Anyways here it goes.Its what I wrote on Eid day...

Its Eid! its eid ! its eid ! and I'm more than excited ,I mean why should n't I be ? After all its time again to celebrate, meet up all the possible relatives and friends you can think of, be invited at Eid dinners and ofcourse time again to collect Eidi !
The moon was sighted last night for the month of Shawal ( lunar calender) and that marked the start of Eid ! I had loads to do last night.I baked a german chocolate cake and cup cakes for the guests that would be coming in the next few days while my mom made a lot of other traditional dishes along with a coconut cake while my grand ma made Sheer Qhurma.Its a traditional vermicelli especially made for Eid.It has vermicelli cooked in milk with dry fruits and sugar. And of course after that there was a lot of cleaning and dusting to do.A lot of girls go shopping for bangles to match their dresses that night or to have henna applied on their hands but I avoid outings that night, the markets are always too crowded right before Eid.
Henna for Eid
Today after dad comes home from the congregational eid prayers our neighbours will be coming over to meet us and then we'll go to meet our relatives especially those who are elder to us, its a sign of respect to meet them at the start of Eid or as early possible.So we'll go to meet my dad's uncles and cousins.And then tomorrow, we're expecting guests till the evening after which we'll go to meet dad's friends.Thats all the plan for today and tomorrow.The third day of Eid is still unplanned but I'm sure it'll be busy too.
Its sad that my first cousins don't live here otherwise it would be all the more fun.But they do send me Eid cards and their pics of Eid day.Because thats what Eid is about, happiness, sharing and loving everyone around you !
So Happy Eid everyone !!!

My cousins, all ready and dressed up for Eid