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Passport blues

Wasted yet another day at the passport office. These official people are really dumb and technology has utterly and miserably failed to bring any change whatsoever into their attitudes. If anything computer screens and printers around them have served to inflate their egos a little more. Now every click on the screen in front of them sounds as if they are making considerable headway in one of NASA's elitest projects. Unthankful evil villians. I had to sit and wait for three long hours in that miserable passport office just to be told that my passport had not arrived today and will be available for pickup on Monday. They have so many ingenious ways of making our life miserable that it is beyond comprehension. May Allah grant them wisdom and this nation some contentment. Ameen!
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Update

A decent approach towards keeping a blog like this one would be that whenever I go on a hiatus I should update my worthy readers. Since I lack the decency of doing this I would keep on going like that. DrPak wants to know as to how my USMLE is coming along. I regret to inform that the anticipation of the upcoming convocation and much more than that the prospect of seeing all my dear friends is keeping me from any substantial progress on this front. I am stuck on Behavioral Sciences. Its an interesting subject nonetheless. I used to think that Physiology is interesting but Behavioral Sciences is taking up that position now. Didn't pay much attention towards it in my medical school and passed its exam like any other run of the mill exam in professional school. I was going through some of my notes from the school earlier on the subject and they have provided some interesting reading material. I hope to finish it before I move out to Karachi for a week or so. I will try and p...
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Cricket 2

The boundaries between a test match and a one day match seemed to blur when Shahid Khan Afridi was batting on the pitch yesterday afternoon and in the morning today. Magnificent piece of batting and stroke playing demonstrated by this untamed batsman. If cricket is all about entertainment then this man sure does his work brilliantly.    But I have heard that he has been found guilty of pitch tempering during the last session of the match. That is not a wise thing to do for a professional player. No doubt England team has displayed the worst kind of sportsmanship in the two days of the match but we should act civil. I just hope that he has not done any such thing and survives a ban.
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Teenage Americans

Adolescent sexual behaviour Nearly 70% of all unmarried females are nonvirgins by age 19 (80% of males). 25% of females have had sex by age 15 ; almost all these encounters were forced or coerced . Average age of first sexual experience is 16 years. Adolescents in the aggregate still drift into sexual activity rather than decide to have sex. Most adolescent sexual activity will take place in the context of one primary relationship. Most adolescents are not promiscuous, but "serially monogamous." Recent survey tells us that 57% of adolescents claim to have used a male barrier method during their last act. Research suggests that this might be an over statement . Most do not do what they say. More than 50% of sexually active adolescents do not use birth control regularly. This is what KAPLAN tells me! The point is that we should not let these problems creep into our society. We happen to be following every vice of the western world without hesitation thinking, or pretendi...
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