Dermatology
Here i am after a period of inactivity as far as my blog is concerned. And once i narrate my tale no one will be able to complain anymore. Have been quite busy in my Dermatology rotation. Although dermatology looks like a field with nothing much to it yet clinics for students are busy especially when you have vey critical doctor consultant ready to punce upon mistakes and give you the treatment you don't deserve. Had to make a presentation on "Sexually transmitted diseases". This looked loke quite simple a task but as it turnes out nothing is very simple in this complicated world.
acha g so it happens that i finish my presentation at 1pm in the night and the night happens to be that of first ramadan. I decide to go to sleep there and then and wake up in the morning and write my presentation to a CD for that i get up at 8:30 and write the first CD of my presentation. It dsoesn't work, i write another one but it doesnt work either (somr mass defect in CD manufacture rgis is what happens when you buy CD's from uni) i just call it a stroke of bad luck and go on to making the third CD and thankfully it works. I had this additional responsibility of arranging for the laptop and projector for our presentations (as four of us were supposed to present different presentations). So i go to the library and bring both to my room. As i had little time i decide to have a look at the laptop if its working properly and all that, guess what, all to my amazement the laptop rgat i got from the library people didn't have a CD rom drive rather only floppy drive. There and then i decide to jack that laptop and borrow one from my friend. so i go to his room and wake him up. Half asleep he hands over the computer to me. I come back to my room and replace the new laptop with the old one and leave for the ward, which by the way, is some half a Km away from my room. There in the ward i was all calm thinking that now everything will go as planned. But no this was not ordained by fate. While i was setting the multi-media my collegue turns up and hands me over her presentation____on floppies.ahhhhh excalimed i and tried to look for a floppy drive in my friends laptop no oh! no it is not ro be found.arghhhh! came the cry from my mouth. When i inform her she tells me that she was wise enough to email the presentation to herself and she can download the presentation if we find an internet connection(i had been wise enough to keep the net cable with me just for such situations) and that is, if__ still remains 'if' coz we were not able to find one although we ran to various confernece rooms and the one we found had a different ip settings so refused to connect to my laptop. so she now pleads that i write her presentation to a CD too and for that we run back to the hostel. but the floppies would refuse to conceal what was within them and waste another 20 minutes of precious time. As a last resort i pick the old laptop i had initially left in the room as it had a floppy drive. came running to the ward again all prespiring from head to toe yet satisfied that worst was over and it is smooth sailing from now on. but fate had more in store for me. so i for my reassurance put in my CD to see if its running and projecting properly. as soon as i put in my CD a window opens and the contents of the CD are displayed in it. and to my utmost irritation it showed all the files without any file program associations. and this means that the program needed to run my presentation (microsoft powerpoint) was not installesd on the computer. ah god what is wrong with today. whay all of this in one single go. ahhhhhhhhh and there my temper which was till now boiling overflowed. simply i couldnt take it anymore. so many twists to just one single stupid presentation. Now i go running back to hostel yet again hoping that the doctor wouldn't turn up in the meanwhille. go looking for a cd which had microsoft office. looked with many and found one in my room all scratched. i prayed to god that this may work, run back to the ward. Insert the CD and run installation, praying all the while, urging the lifeless CD ands computer to hurry up and speed up the installation, as if it were actually having an effect. The installation progress goes on 50% 90% 99% 100% done. I click "ok" and knock knock on the door. the doctor pokes in saying" shall we start" and i am like " oh yes certainly we should as we are already behind time". Posing as if she was actually late and we have been waiting for her all the while. and the rest can be figured out. but in the end presentaions went pretty good. so i would say all is well that ends well. And guess what i did once the presentation was over--yap i selpt the whole day long!
Here i am after a period of inactivity as far as my blog is concerned. And once i narrate my tale no one will be able to complain anymore. Have been quite busy in my Dermatology rotation. Although dermatology looks like a field with nothing much to it yet clinics for students are busy especially when you have vey critical doctor consultant ready to punce upon mistakes and give you the treatment you don't deserve. Had to make a presentation on "Sexually transmitted diseases". This looked loke quite simple a task but as it turnes out nothing is very simple in this complicated world.
acha g so it happens that i finish my presentation at 1pm in the night and the night happens to be that of first ramadan. I decide to go to sleep there and then and wake up in the morning and write my presentation to a CD for that i get up at 8:30 and write the first CD of my presentation. It dsoesn't work, i write another one but it doesnt work either (somr mass defect in CD manufacture rgis is what happens when you buy CD's from uni) i just call it a stroke of bad luck and go on to making the third CD and thankfully it works. I had this additional responsibility of arranging for the laptop and projector for our presentations (as four of us were supposed to present different presentations). So i go to the library and bring both to my room. As i had little time i decide to have a look at the laptop if its working properly and all that, guess what, all to my amazement the laptop rgat i got from the library people didn't have a CD rom drive rather only floppy drive. There and then i decide to jack that laptop and borrow one from my friend. so i go to his room and wake him up. Half asleep he hands over the computer to me. I come back to my room and replace the new laptop with the old one and leave for the ward, which by the way, is some half a Km away from my room. There in the ward i was all calm thinking that now everything will go as planned. But no this was not ordained by fate. While i was setting the multi-media my collegue turns up and hands me over her presentation____on floppies.ahhhhh excalimed i and tried to look for a floppy drive in my friends laptop no oh! no it is not ro be found.arghhhh! came the cry from my mouth. When i inform her she tells me that she was wise enough to email the presentation to herself and she can download the presentation if we find an internet connection(i had been wise enough to keep the net cable with me just for such situations) and that is, if__ still remains 'if' coz we were not able to find one although we ran to various confernece rooms and the one we found had a different ip settings so refused to connect to my laptop. so she now pleads that i write her presentation to a CD too and for that we run back to the hostel. but the floppies would refuse to conceal what was within them and waste another 20 minutes of precious time. As a last resort i pick the old laptop i had initially left in the room as it had a floppy drive. came running to the ward again all prespiring from head to toe yet satisfied that worst was over and it is smooth sailing from now on. but fate had more in store for me. so i for my reassurance put in my CD to see if its running and projecting properly. as soon as i put in my CD a window opens and the contents of the CD are displayed in it. and to my utmost irritation it showed all the files without any file program associations. and this means that the program needed to run my presentation (microsoft powerpoint) was not installesd on the computer. ah god what is wrong with today. whay all of this in one single go. ahhhhhhhhh and there my temper which was till now boiling overflowed. simply i couldnt take it anymore. so many twists to just one single stupid presentation. Now i go running back to hostel yet again hoping that the doctor wouldn't turn up in the meanwhille. go looking for a cd which had microsoft office. looked with many and found one in my room all scratched. i prayed to god that this may work, run back to the ward. Insert the CD and run installation, praying all the while, urging the lifeless CD ands computer to hurry up and speed up the installation, as if it were actually having an effect. The installation progress goes on 50% 90% 99% 100% done. I click "ok" and knock knock on the door. the doctor pokes in saying" shall we start" and i am like " oh yes certainly we should as we are already behind time". Posing as if she was actually late and we have been waiting for her all the while. and the rest can be figured out. but in the end presentaions went pretty good. so i would say all is well that ends well. And guess what i did once the presentation was over--yap i selpt the whole day long!
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