Crow's Nest...

Ramadhan Mubarak to everyone. This ramadhan is unique in the sense that i have nothing to read in terms of medicine course. I am done with most of my exams and am currently applying for Residency in the US. I have sent around 20 applications and some of them have been retrieved by the programmes. Let us see what happens next. It is still time before our complete applications are made available to the programmes. Once that is done the real thing will begin.    I am working in the District Headquarter Hospital these days with a very nice doctor and head of the department. Through this attachment i am getting first hand experience of the working environments in a typical hospital in Pakistan. The patient spectrum is very diverse and interesting. There are a lot of commmon day to day procedures as well. I will try and put up pictures of the place if i get hold of a camera soon.

There is some problem with blogger these days. My wBloggar is not working right. There is some error while posting and communicating with blogger. earlier i thought that it was something to do with Pakistani blog ban but now i think it has something to do with blogger itself. If blogger wants me to give up wBloggar and use its offline blogging tool instead i would say it can f**k off! I have been busy in doing nothing and it is such a broke back routine that one hardly finds time to blog. But i am back now and wil be posting more regulalry.

The ERAS post office will open tomorrow. Programmes participating in this year's match will be able to access applications and review them for placing interview calls. My application will be ready by mid September inshaAllah and I will be able to apply for the programmes then inshaAllah. The time scale is very tough and the competition is tougher. But again we are all born to compete in this world and there is no way out of it. I think one should not seek a way out of it either. It is this activity which defines life and is good to keep us going through to the end. The problem however is that there is no boundary between required activity and the activity that makes us psychopaths. But again it is rightly so. We are free to set our own limits. We are free to decide where we should call it a day and go no further. Allah has given us the wisdom to grasp the limits of our body and soul. We are made to make full use of them. All of us try to do that but in the end some suc...

DrPak will be taking his USMLE Step 1 in around 9 hours from now. I hope that his exam goes beyond expectations and that he is able to apply himself thoroughly. He has stduied very very hard for the exam and i pray that his efforts are rewarded to the fullest. Most of all i hope he gets a sound sleep tonight and then tomorrow night. Goodluck dude!

At times it so happens that words loose their meaning. It so happens that you are reading a case history and it is making no sense at all. The words are trying to tell you that the patient has been sick for a while and has nausea and vomiting and tarry stools and jaundice and purpura but nothing adds up in your mind. This is the time of the mind block. I am going through one of those times when the mind is effectively under a block. One tends to read through cases and try solve the questions but nothing adds up. The worst thing is that one doesn't even remember anything new. All the reading is lost and there is nothing but chaos. Total chaos. Trying to concentrate is hard these days. It is one pleasure that I am not able to enjoy in its full force. The condition has been such that I have not been able to enjoy for quite sometime. But come what may I have faith. I have faith that things will change for the better. Infact I am being a little unthankful when I say that I ...

In the past hour or so i have read quite some views on the cricket controversy that arose in the test match yesterday. And all that reading has just made my resolve to back my team stronger. It is a shame the way Hair acted in the match. It is more of a shame that the match referee failed to play his part. It is much more shameful the way the chairman of the PCB tried to display the picture on the ground through his useless interview. The interview that he gave will prove to be the battering rod that will be used by the world to batter Inzi and his team and subsequently Pakistani nation. I think two things are obvious. First that the flwaed management of the Pakistnai team is clear to everyone. There was no one in the leadership role and when inzimam tried to take a stand he was budged by the diplomatic bull shit of PCB board members. Second thing that is crystal clear is the failure of ICC. ICC system failed to respond to the situation and the match referee did nothing. Ther...

Miss bijlee has been eloping with her favourite star Mr. Wapda the whole day today. There was a scheduled shut down from 8 in the morning to 12 in the noon. But then there was this unexpected break down in the humid hours of the afternoon. No electricity for 3 hours in the afternoon really cooks up a lot of things in the sun. This lead to me spending very little time on my step 2 prep today. I hope i am able to make up for the loss tomorrow inshaAllah. My modem is broke and i have asked for a new one from lahore. I hope that i get it by tomorrow (actually it should be today now). Without a mdem there is no life. One can't put the computer to any use unless there is connectivity. I asked for GPRS activation on my mobile and i have been obliged by the vendor. Its an expensive proposition for the customers of mobilink. They charge almost seven rupees per MMS whereas Warid charges much less. Similarly the charges for surfing the net are also much higher than all other vendor...