Monthly Archives: January 2007

Whole day at the computer

Yesterday, on a day when, I was supposed to be doing my emergency, I was asked to simply do research and sit on the computer to make a powerpoint presentation for my professor. I am not denying that I find it fun to make presentation. But still, to leave everything else (including skipping out of our ER duty), is not fair.

My professor finally came to the hospital at 12.30 AM (yes!). From then on, I and he worked on the presentation till 6 AM. I was impressed with his concentration and his concepts etc. He was warm and nice to me as well.

But every impression that I had changed (I am ashamed to admit it) after one silent, smelly fart that he emitted. Oh, I felt puking when I smelt it.

He had to catch a plane at 7.50 AM and at 6 AM we found out that the PowerPoint Presentation that we had made was not running properly in Office XP. I got the scare of my life.

The rest of the morning was spent in finding a way out. It was so draining. Finally, by 12.30 PM I managed to send another presentation altogether.

Then in the evening, I hung out with S. We ended up walking and talking a lot. We ate a lot of dhaba food at a very pretty circle in South Mumbai.

I was so tired after I came back that I slept off immediately.

And Shade becomes history

Today, after about a month of hope, Shade has finally disbanded. Like any other day we had met for a jam session. Xander was on a drinking spreee. Despite that, the jam session went on very very well. But then, we tried developing one of our songs. A new argument ensued. Another disagreement. Ego clashes.

Finally Xander said that he wouldn’t write lyrics for anybody else’s songs. I tried my best to talk him out of the stupid things he was saying. But then at the end of it all, he led me and S. out of the apartment and said ‘This is it. We are no longer part of the band. Don’t ever step into my life again’.

I am very sad. S. says he was expecting this. Now Xander wants me to take my stuff away from the apartment that we share. He wants me to get off this life.

I think I’ll get my stuff out by this weekend.

I’m very sad!

Another mess

Today was a bad day. A day which began so well wouldn’t usually end up so bad in my life at least. After yesterday’s jam session, I got up early enough to reach the OT early. I did everything I was supposed to do and still I managed to get enough time to read up about a case which I was going to operate in the afternoon.

The first surgery, in which I got to just assist instead of operating, went on smoothly. No issues. The second case was a case of fracture surgical neck of humerus which I had never done or assisted doing. It was another case where the patient was Hepatitis B positive.

This meant that my seniors didn’t even have the courtesy to come in the OT to guide me. And it was a struggle. It was a difficult case and in between, my colleague had to wash out because he got a prick.

Although I managed to pull off the plating, it was not satisfying. I was very irritated with the inadquate assistance that I’m getting from the sisters and my juniors. There was no good image intensification (fluroscopy ) as well.

Anyway, that added up to my ‘blues’. I wanted to jam badly to relieve me from my worries. I called Xander and fixed up an appointment.

But then, my junior fucked things up by screwing my evening round. He hadn’t completed most of the work that was suppsoed to do. And he had stupid explanations for all that he hasn’t done.

After all that, I got a call from my uncle back home about the condition of the sick Aunt admitted in a hospital with appendicitis. Apart from that, he had news about my Mom and Dad not listening to him about the stupidity that they are about to commmit (buying a new home).

Everything was so gloomy. I got late for our jam session. But then, we talked about my problems life. We also talked about Xander’s problems and S.’ problems. And after all that, we jammed.

Then we had Mallu food. Wow, what fish curry!

Now, I’m sitting on the computer without reading my text book (which I’m supposed to read) or completing the computer work for my professor!

My roomie is sleeping peacefully!

Back to haydays of jamming

This week saw the return of Shade, the band. Yes, we are jamming better than ever. And the best part is that we are having more fun than ever before. We are having food and watching movies together. I don’t know what pulled the trigger for the change.

One particular thing was that I and Xander, the two unstable guys were in a good mood all throughout the week. This, despite the fact that Xander had a few of his friends visit which, as usual, led to chaos.

And besides, GS was on tour and was not at the apartment. I now understand the fact that we can also jam nice and tight if we are behaving better due to our circumstances.

Anatomy Department

I found this amazingly stupid message board hanging in front of the Anatomy Dissection hall. This has got to be the worst ever caption ever made to grab the attention of teenager joining med school. I mean, look at it.

 

For those who don’t understand – ‘atmi’ is supposed to be the ‘soul’ in Hindi. Worser than that, ‘atmi’ could be a spin-off of ‘admi’ meaning ‘person’ in hindi. The prefix ‘an’ in Hindi means ‘the opposite of’. Now take a look at it again!

Don’t you feel like puking?

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

After yesterday’s late night jamming session I wanted to come and enjoy some C2C action with my latest craze Jack from the US. But he wasn’t online and I was so tired that people on my personal website (watching me on cam) asked me to go and sleep.

I broke of hibernation when Parry rang me up for some personal medical problem for his girlfriend. By the way, I don’t think I ever mentioned her on this blog yet. I’ll refer to her as Cotton. I’ve met Cotton just twice and spoke to her a cuople of time over the phone. But I have heard about her a lot about how cheerful and sporty she is. I think she is really one fun-loving person.

She already knows that I’m gay and she also knows that I have had a mini-crush on Parry at least once. In fact she knows that we guys (Xander, me, S and Parry) always pull my leg by saying that I’m hitting on Parry. She accepted that in a sporty way! Way to go lady!

Back to my life; my sleep. I slept till late afternoon after which I had some food. I watched the rest of the Toy Story 2. I really, think that it doesn’t live upto the expectations of the Toy Story. The best part for me was the three martian dolls at the fag end of the movie saying ‘You save our lives. We are eternally grateful.’

Then, believe it or not, I started watching another movie called ‘Primal Fear’. I hadn’t even heard of such a movie and because of my eternal grogginess during weekends these days, I slept watching the beginning of the movie itself.

Thankfully, I came around at around 5.30 pm and ordered for a coffee and started reading the Sunday Times. I wandered off to the glitzy movie page and I jumped off the bed when I saw that ‘Blood Diamond’ was running in a cheap, classy movie theatre at South Mumbai at 7.30 pm. I rang up S. immediately as we had discussed yesterday about watching this movie.

He was ready but Xander, who was working over the weekend, and Parry had plans to go to the Musician’s Mall and jam like we had done two weekends back. But I couldn’t resist the offer of watching an awesome movie on a Sunday evening. So, I finished my hospital rounds for the day in a flash and picked S. on the way to the movie.

What a crowd it was. And oh, there were so many ho-o-ot looking older men there. I could just drool and drool. We got the ‘3rd Row from the Screen’ seats. That too, wide apart. Yet, it was tremendous fun. Truly, Leonardo DiCaprio justifies every bit of the faith that S. has on his acting. Like Departed, he just acts his way to glory. The supporting cast, I felt, was not as good as that in the Departed. And the story, even though more alarming, was not as gripping.

But who cares. Just a great movie! Wow, we have three awesome movies as contenders for this years’ Oscars (Departed, Babel and Blood Diamond).

Then we went back to the apartment and jammed. We jammed songs like ‘Pardon Me’ and ‘Vicarious’ – which I never imagined we would end up jamming 4 weeks back when we had almost split. Xander was in a great mood. But there were three friends of Xander who were really pissing us off with the racket they were making.

I took leave at around 3 AM after an amazing movie day!

Narcoleptic surgeon

What would happen if a narcoleptic surgeon were to operate on a patient? I don’t think you would need think of more than a couple of secons for a bloody ending! Like those black comedys!

Imagine what kind of emotions run through me every day when I’m being a colleague to this narcoleptic surgeon? Yes, he is my stupid houseman. I have to somehow bite through the rest of this post to see the last of him.

Today we were operating on a very high-risk (for the surgeons; Seropositive HIV +ve and HBsAg +ve) case of Spinal Tuberculosis. Let me assure you guys, there can’t be a riskier case than this for a surgeon. One drop of blood could just ruin our lives as surgeons at least.

Yet, my houseman, who we know by now as having a pathological problem, slept almost through out the surgery. I and my professor woke him up around 80 times. My professor, a straight-forward, honest, hard-working surgeon, was so pissed that he had vowed to write a letter to the Dean of the medical college/hospital complaining about the fact that my junior is unfit for the surgical profession.

After all that ‘dark comedy’, I found time in the evening to jam with my erstwhile band. Not before I had the most sumptuous dinner at my local Mallu Restaurant.

Having taking a dig at the band, today’s jam session was really lovely. Xander was indisposed with a splitting headache. But we three jammed older songs by the Oasis etc. Whoa, it was so much fun!

I love reading in the library

Yesterday night as well, I had slept off like lazy monster. I slept at around 8.30 pm without having had dinner and woke up around 4 AM. I had cybersex and wrote a couple of blog posts and slept to get up at around 8 AM.

I had a busy day at the Operation Theatre. But after that, I had a nice day reminiscing of my days at college. After another nap (oh my god, I think the sleep disorder of my houseman is rubbing off on me), I took a bath. All fresh and smelling nice, I go to library and read some complicated Paediatric Orthopaedics in the library grooving to mp3s on my Creative Zen Micro!

LOVELY! In one word, that is. The great news is that I still throughly enjoy learning.