Sinaasappel:)

Oranges-my latest relish:)

Advantages of this juicy fruit:

• super tangy taste...aha...slurp...

• vitamin C...no need of those capsules:)

• it did quench my thirst when my water bottle was empty on a sunny afternoon:)

• a facepack for a sparkling bright face:)

• pinch the peels and burn your cranky sibling's eyes[my childhood pass time;)]

And most important of all..

it has taught me to expect the unexpected,
you never know which one is sour! enjoy life slice by slice:) and colour life orangy bright!!!!

"Orange is the Happiest Colour" -Frank Sinatra:)


Raksha

Fan The Embers

The Five and half bright years...

Few days back it seems so...that bumpy ride to Bellary Medical College Swamy!!!...and Rummy Darling in Mysore!!We are already done with 4-5 CET Counselling sessions and this little Chilly calls me up the night before Medical Counselling and says "Hey even am planning to do medicine and will join Ramaiah tomorrow".God gracious,maybe he had something planned for us already.Now i know it;)
In order f rank on the screen we go.The fellow in front of the computer waiting to hear your choice says'"Which College Madam??",before i answer Papa goes "Ramaiah!" ,I give a frown."isn't it better to stay at home and study,instead of going to Hubli.It costs the same!!!sumniru ille oppi"!!!comes the stern reply.
And in the queue to pay fees at the bank counter i hear a voice from the sky "Oh,even u have selected Ramaiah",i look up to see the tallest guy i had ever seen till that day,Our Pammy!!!
6 months of pure joblessness followed by the excitement of starting something which we all always wanted to do,those dissection hall days..from Rakesh Das to Sameera ..Table no.6...how we had divided the corpse's right half to the first half of the batch..and left half for the second half of the batch!!!Hilarious!!!Pulley's brave curiosity to pull the skin on the first day when the rest of us were down with chills!Rohit the HOD..Ravindra the Asst.Professor!!Hebbal Sir's Embryology classes!!!!the difficult subjects of first year...the one of it kind tension before exams...the crazy Anatomy Examiner from Gulbarga.Come second year....COP Kaiwara:))),those poor rats and rabbits half dead due to our torture..those Microbio labs with gram stain,Afb stain,stool examination, those pathology slides and specimens and the lectures.And most interesting of all Forensic ..post mortem,age estimation,poisons,dental examination...and finally Girish Sir's viva:)nothing better to end the exam!!!In third year ENT Pandu!!!Opthal seminars,Com Med practicals...Statistics..Mean,Median n Modes;)!calculating how much bleaching powder to add to the water tanks!!!Staring at mosquitoes,larvae flies under the microscope!!!eeeks!!!Those Introspection days!!!protest rallies!!!polio drops!!!and what not...and final year ..those busy days...clinicals..huge books...studied more than what i had in the last 22yrs:)!
And Internship...[about which i can write a book;)]

ahhh...


All will change in a fortnight...
All the sparrows ready for a flight...


Raksha

A Return to the Present...

Come another month and am done with one major milestone of my life. These five and half years have been the best so far. So many people met, so many things learnt… and the journey continues….

And now am all set to step into a new world; sounds like a soldier on a war frontier or something! Right now the only thing I can think of is studying hard[books, books and more books!!!] and giving it my best, that’s the only way I can do my post graduation out here!!!No regrets for choosing something of this sort because this is what I always wanted to be!

The whole system of medical entrance examinations work in India in a sad manner. Medicine is the art of healing they say and astonishingly the system of healing itself is badly wounded!!!

Yesterday we watched THREE IDIOTS…. ”don’t go behind success, follow excellence... then success will surely follow you” …one in a million thought!!!The movie projects idealistic targets…but unless these kinds of changes are brought about we will have lots of so called educated professionals around but no one to help our nation and people! We already see hundreds of us flying out, studying abroad, working and earning a living out there and no signs of returning back home! Blame them not because that is how we are trained to learn and work, thanks to the schooling and parenting we the children of this country get!

A radical change is all that is needed. May sound cliche and impractical in today’s world because that is how we are programmed! But if each one of us shows the dedication and commitment towards whatever we do and a little gratitude for the country…we all have a long way to go…

We all can make a difference.

[P s: and our dear friends who flew out ...we all need you…for a better nation…come back! :)]

regards

Raksha Bhat