Crow's Nest...

Much has changed in the US over the course of 5 years. The gas prices have gone up by more than a dollar and other utilities have become more expensive. It is no longer a free ride with security over here. Items of daily use have become expensive too and one has to think before buying anything off the shelf. Companies have been clever so far. They have reduced the quantity just a tad bit to keep the prices stable or hiked the price and given a dissimilar increase in quantity of the product that they sell. The burden of war is showing on the American economy. But even with all this most Americans would not agree when we tell them that the war is costing them more than they are earning out of it. I would not stick to the moral stigmata attached with being a conqueror but there are economic downfalls as well. The question is who is profiting from all this. It is not the average American who is getting any job security or more pays or tax cuts. Rather it is the big corporations th...

Talking over phones is not my thing. I always try and avoid phone conversations. But sometimes one can't make do. These are the times when my hands are perspiring and I have no idea what I am talking about. I have to schedule my interviews and that entails talking to secretaries over the phone. This is one heck of a job for me. I try and put off the idea for as long as possible. I try and make use of the internet to make correspondence, instead. But in the end I have to go and dial the number and do one of the most annoying things in my life. And that is to talk to someone over the phone. I am just uncomfortable with pauses that arise during a phone conversation. More often than not I am completely blank and it takes much effort to concentrate. I guess I am truly phone shy.

I was looking at my profile for this blog and i was informed that my last post was made about a month back. But again it is not a good idea to keep tags on posts, is it? Still there is no urge to write and explain and expose. The life, as it is, is going at a steady pace and there is not much to harp about anyway. I have come to the US for my final exam in the USMLE series and my interviews for the match this year inshaAllah. I do need a lot of prayers because without prayers i am nothing. The American way of life is different, that i knew from my previous experience but the Californian style is very different, this i have come to know only now. For one thing here everything is on more grander and larger scale than in the north east of the country. Afterall its home to the hollywood celebriies and they have their own style to go about things.

OK when I said I was back and will be blogging regularly what I meant was I would be posting every once a week. Or atleast that is how it seems to be happening right now. I am applying to new programmes every day and it seems ever so difficult to get into a programme right now. But InshaAllah Allah will help me and so will He help all of you. The internet here is very slow and gives me a lot of pains when I am looking for and reading about programmes. This change in internet speeds has been a more recent phenomenon. I think the reason is that more and more people are using internet in this city and also there are some private players in the game. These private companies bribe the people at Paknet so that the quality of service falls considerably.

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...