PDA: PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION

All those medical & engineering nerds who are claiming PDA to be the acronym for Patent Ductus Arteriosus or Personal Digital Assistant, please don't give a frowning expression for this full from of PDA. Brain says I am going to generate numerous emotional enemies by writing about this version of PDA but heart whispers me to ignore the brain !

Richard Gere did it with Shilpa Shetty in New Delhi ! Christiano Ronaldo did it with Bipasha Basu, Former Vice president of USA, Al Gore set off a media storm when he kissed his wife after accepting his party's nomination of president in 2000 & it was quoted as a 'Can't-wait-to-get-back-to-the-hotel' type of kiss by the Time.com. Many people argue that Ronaldo, Gere & Gore have been groomed in western culture so it is unfair to drag them into controversy but undoubtedly these are some of the classic examples of PDA. Though the on-stage PDA is not very common & not very intentional in our society, the online version of PDA is a sky-rocketing phenomenon. Believe me or not, the most common & the cheapest platform for PDA is Facebook. In the pre-facebook era, Photography was a very limited activity but in this era of Facebook (& digital cameras) photos are becoming a significant catalyst for the PDA. The frequency & intensity with which newly married  people are posting their marriage pictures makes me feel as if marriage is a highly audacious & challenging job. I have personally seen people getting married within a month after a break up with the ex-boy/girl friend & posting updates like 'Finally married to Ms/Mr X, really a DREAM come true' !! There are others who give so many pre-marital romantic updates in Facebook that their marriage seems bigger than the news of Rahul Gandhi defeating Magnus Carlsen in Chess. Since last 2-3 years, there is a growing trend for hiring struggling photographers to freeze some of the artificial romantic moments in the camera. Those photographers seem to have a great symbiosis with the PDA aspirants as both have something for display i.e Talent & affection respectively. 

I know that many of the recently married couples have already started giving nasty looks towards this article. OK hold on, let's discuss about honey moon !! During school days I came to know about this sweet & hot word only from the movies; now I can feel it from the Pictures posted by newly wed couples. Honeymoon pictures in hill stations/lonely beaches along with hyper-romantic updates in Facebook must be giving an orgasm to Mark Zuckerberg ! Small faced girls with over-sized goggles & Sindhur of 0.05 mm diameter look funky in the Honeymoon pictures with their husbands wearing shorts & sleepers !! It is great to share happiness but I have seen few people sharing this kind of happiness even if they are in the borderline of infidelity. Honeymoon over !, Let's celebrate the birthdays/Anniversaries now! The nascent couple, candle light, cakes on the cheeks; what else do you want ?? LIKEs, oh yes we like it, but again too much of anything is good for nothing ! Ok, Whats next?? Frankly speaking, after marriage these ultra-romantic pictures usually appear in Facebook till 1st birthday/anniversary. What happens to them is only known to them. Facebook gradually turns into an abandoned planet. I am afraid, I have gathered many online emotional enemies !

[The above article is typed just for fun with a free spirit without targeting anyone. I apologize from the core of my heart if this has hurt anyone's sentiment, ; even I am going to post same pictures so you are free to take the revenge in future ;) ]

LOVE BREAKUPS ZINDAGI; what I have learned !!

  First of all I apologize my favorite Dia Mirza as it took me nearly 2 months to watch LBZ... :( :(  This is just like eating girlfriend's birthday cake a month after her birthday !!! After all she is the only Bollywood actress who has replied me in twitter !!! :)  luckily I got time to watch this movie... I got love, i got breakups, I got zindagi !!.... Well how can I waste 2.5 hours without learning? Here are the things I watched & leaned from my darling's movie....


1) It doesn't matter whether you are single or committed... whenever you are visiting a new place to meet plenty of new people, always confidently say that ''I AM SINGLE''..

2) Most of the time the ex-boy friends of the lead actresses are investment bankers !!

3) If you are desperately searching for a partner to get married soon, then attend the marriage ceremony of any of your Punjabi friends.

4) Whenever the girl you love shows her interest for puppies, you have to SHOW that you too are crazy for the puppies [even if you are allergic to them]

5) Never consider the door to be closed when the girl/boy you love says that he/she is already in relationships...because nobody ever mentions whether the relationship is in a good or bad state ;)

6) Most of the successful Bollywood love stories end either in the airport or on the way to airport.

7) It is always wise to stop a bad ongoing relationship as soon as possible. life in PAUSE is better than life in PUS !!

8) Sometimes movies are good even in the presence of Zayed Khan.

9) All the MIRZAs look marvelous.... ;) ;)

MAUSAM; what I have learned?

Things I have learned from the movie MAUSAM:
1) In India, you can drive a car having the driver's seat in the left side..but u have 2 be in a village of Punjab.

2) Anyone in love should have an e-mail id so that, the change of address won't affect future communications.

3) Never trust a person who had loved you unilaterally.. he/she may burn some of your important letters/documents.

4) It is possible to recover from a brachial plexus injury, provided you save someone's life from a great height.

5) When you see a lady with a baby in train, it doesn't necessarily signify that the lady is the mother of the baby.

6) It is possible to watch the consequences of 92 Mumbai blast, Kargil war, WTC blast, Gujurat hindu-muslim riot in a single movie.

7) Even though you are having holidays, you should avoid watching movies like MAUSAM. 140 minutes are too much..

NEGATIVES OF BEING A MEDICAL STUDENT

Final MBBS professional exam was just knocking at the door. It is just like YAMRAJ forcefully taking someone to hell who wants live more. On the other hand it is one of those exams in which the more you read, the more you'll feel unprepared. The Sachins & Laras of my medical college were so depressed because of the exam that it is better not to ask about the mental status of one of the Jadejas of my college( myself). I was mentally sick & physically weak. So to avoid unnecessary distractions I decided to change my phone number & ultimately gave it to only my parents & close friends.

from my new no to my mom: ''Hi mom, I have changed my no & this is the new one. Please don't give this to anyone. I seriously want no distractions as the pressure to perform is killing me''

Mom: OK, why should I give?? You study as intensely as you can. Take care bye.

After 2 HOURS after that conversation:

Mom: Hey Gem, Alok uncle was asking for your number. actually he has some joint problems & he wants to consult a Rheumatologist of your college. So I have given your new number. 

Me: Whattttttttt...? mom, it is exam time. how can you do that?? 

Mom: please help him, service to mankind is service to god !! He needs you badly. He has been very nice to us. He loves you so much. Isn't it unfair not to give him your contact number??

                   After 30 minutes, I got a call from Alok uncle & the very next day I had to sacrifice nearly 2.5 hours for his consultation, lab investigations etc. Each minute wasted in that day was making me feel as if a vampire is sucking each ml of my blood ( of course HIV negative). & the worst part was, I had never seen Alok uncle before.Though according to my mom, he loves me very much, for me he was just a patient from Pluto. This is one of the biggest worries for a medico. you have to sacrifice your much needed time for some of the relatives from other planets. Thousands of patients come to hospital without having any of their relatives enrolled to the same medical college. But I don't understand why the super distant relatives desperately seek the useless privilege from us.They usually seek consultation from super duper specialists like a dentist extracting the premolar teeth of right side only or a doctor who treats only the arthritis of middle finger of right hand. Ironically, the Pluto relatives expect us to know more medical facts than the reputed doctors. If we don't help, we'll be tagged as arrogant/irresponsible... if we help, we will end up in losing precious times. I am not saying that we shouldn't help but to that during exams is just like asking a Spanish matador to kill his bull. So one should always try to enter a medical college out of own state or at least own city.

                              How do you feel when >99% of your friends earn 4-5 lakhs per annum from the Infosys/Wipro/TCS etc & you still unwillingly have romance with books having 4 to 5 thousand pages in the library?? No one can admit that he/she has an orgasmic feeling for the above reason. Friends working at mentally cool atmospheres, enjoying weekends at the McDonalds/KFC & posting get together pictures in Facebook really evokes a little bit of jealousy. It doesn't matter how often you say 'Doctors are second only to God', 'No profession is better than the medical profession'', you are bound to feel the heat once your non-medico friends establish themselves before you do so.  On weekend we tend to study hard & at the same time you can well imagine the other extreme of enjoyment by settled friends. So seriously it is a mental drawback for medicos. The enjoyment, the freedom, quick money from 21st year of life onwards of a non-medico always disturbs a medico's fragile mind.

                 Here comes the biggest drawback. I have seen few of my friends suffering from this one. But to be a victim of this trouble, you need to seriously in love with someone. If you are in the final year of MBBS, your approximate age must be 23+ & must of Indian girls get married at an average age of 25 years. From my research, it is evident that most of the medicos fall in love with their batch mates irrespective of their courses. To be very frank, if you are in love with your batchmate and you are in final year, you have to face the pressure of getting married early. You can well imagine the other sweet activities after marriage that can have an ill effect on studies. I have seen few of my seniors who have surrendered to this pressure. Ironically, if you haven't completed a PG, then nobody'll prefer you as a doctor. So those true lovers always get sandwiched between pressure of marriage & pressure of PG. But to my knowledge such things are rare in a non medico's life. Nobody will point a finger even if they have only one thing called B.tech. They enter college & feel like being a part of a Rajnikanth movie but medicos enter the college & feel like being a part of a Tushar Kapoor/Uday Chopra movie.

           Even with the aforementioned drawbacks, it is still a highly prestigious profession. Just blogging 3-4 drawbacks will never reduce the charm of the subject. I hope pure fans of medical science won't mind this blog. If we do well, every profession offers us the lift to the zenith.

RELATIONSHIP versus CAREER

           ''Falling in love with you is the best thing happened in my life''

           ''Spending the life with the person you love most is the biggest achievement''

           ''Love makes life beautiful''

                           All the above quotes are imprinted on the epithelium of the tongue of a person flying in love. The moment one falls in love, he/she becomes so ecstatic that everything appears to be easy & soft !! Nothing looks impossible for the freshers of lovology. A guy who wished to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) is now ready to take admission in Mahaveer Institute of Technology(MIT) just because her girl friend is in the later MIT. Believe me, I have seen few of these lovogenic psychos in last 4-5 years. They always claim that, 'we are made for each other.....we are mad for each other ....bla bla bla...'   The word 'Career' undergoes apoptosis in the dictionary of these couples. They say that staying in touch with each other propels their life/love boat in a streamline manner. 

                               

                          Frankly speaking, I don't have much idea regarding the preferences of these guys for relationship over a good career. May be it is the so called 'power of  love' which consolidates their inclination towards each other. I am not sure, whether I've under-estimated this power or they have over-estimated it.

Sometimes I feel that 'Happiness' is a subjective thing. different people have different goals in life that sprinkles  happiness on them. Some find it in the beautiful arms/eyes of their partners, some in the super deluxe rooms of The Grand Hyatt & some in the classrooms of the Harvard/AIIMS. 

                          But the biggest thing is that while watching the tug of war between the relationship & career most of us never book a ticket for our parents. Very few guys allow their parents to observe this encounter between life and wife. Believe me, less than 0.0000000001% of the parents will prefer their son/daughters love life over their bright career. I don't say that one should never fall in love, rather the relationship shouldn't be that serious to choke the career. The bitter truth is that no body is immune to love, so it is better to get vaccinated....BUT what really matters is the DOSE OF THE VACCINE(love).. The dose shouldn't be lethal for the career...

                      [There are people who have excelled in both relationships & careers, but all are not Rajnikanth...so think million times before you take any step]

                      

                       

                     

AN OPEN LETTER TO ARJUN SINGH

                                                                                                                                 18/8/10

                                                                                                                              Great India

                                                                                                                             

                          Hey Mr Arjun,

You must be wondering about the fact that why this boy hasn’t used ‘RESPECTED SIR’ in the beginning…Frankly speaking, not a single neuron in my brain (relatively less corrupted) is in a mood to display respect. Whenever any news about you strikes my auditory nerves, I feel as if someone is sucking all my blood through the anus!! Don’t take the help of the word ‘generation gap’ to defend yourself. Two things inspire me to write i.e PEN & PAIN & you are responsible for the second one. If you can identify 100 people who love you other than your party/family members, I’ll stop blogging. Million years ago, Goddess Parvati reproduced lord Ganesha from the dirt of her body parts & today a general well educated student can produce ARJUN SINGH by using all the elements of disheartenment.

I hope your grey mater is thick enough to understand why we hate you. You were the proposer of 22.5% reservation for OBCs in central universities; you are the one who let Warren Anderson to fly away from India after Bhopal gas tragedy. On one hand you are reserving seats at top medical institutes like AIIMS, PGI for backward classes & on the other hand your party is ensuring the fact that, doctors for the treatment of MPs should be from the general category. Just tell me honestly, when did u last consult a doctor from SC/ST/OBC category?? Would you have preferred reservation system if you weren’t a politician? Would you have preferred these if your children were preparing for exams of AIIMS/PGI/IITs?

And what about that bloody Warren Anderson? You were a chief minister during the Bhopal gas tragedy but your action after that disaster was not better than sania mirza’s performance. I am sure that Warren must have filled your belly with millions of dollars. If vigilance department performs a lab test called as ‘SERUM DOLLAR TEST’, I am sure that you’ll have a positive report with extreme values. You should at least admit the fact that you had some mistakes during that period, so that you’ll face less torture by the YAMRAJ in the hell.

What else should I write against you?? Thank god you are not in front of me; otherwise I’d have tattooed this letter on your back. You are staying in the recycle bin folder of my brain along with Rakhi sawant. Anyways, take care in the bathroom (femur fracture is very common in old days)…..



With hate

Dr A.lenka

(hey arjun, if ever read this letter, then please don’t send any rented sharp-shooter to my address)