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Scary Tanks

Memory 4:- When I was a kid studying in Seoul Academy International School, Korea, I remember going to a militrary museum.There were many things to see: Tanks, guns, airplanes,etc.
There they allowed us into some tanks and airplanes. So my friends and I had loads of fun sitting inside tanks and seeing how it feels like to be in one.Also, it was the first time, I saw a cockpit of a real plane. However, we were a bit naughty and saw one tank open which was off permission to civillians. We climbed in. After a while, someone came and closed the top of the tank. Perhaps, he didn't see us. We freaked out and started yelling and screaming. I hope Sang Jin and Wisha, my friends, remember this. It was very dark and hot inside. We were kids back then, I think I was in third grade. After a while, it became difficult to breathe and we started crying. Fortunately, someone heard our screams and informed the authorities. And the authorities promptly took us out. We were so releived on seeing fresh air. The whole ordeal took around 10-15 minutes. So, Mariam, I think you can find a very good moreal to this story.Lolz.

Have You?

Here's a list of things passed on from many bloggers. Copy it and put the things you've done in bold and add another thing at the end.
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said 'I love you' and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sunrise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby's diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight (food be much delicious and powerful commodity to waste)
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
31. Asked out a stranger (ok, an acquaintance, but for all intents and purposes, a stranger)
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath/shower
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Bench-pressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theatre
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to know about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Sword fought for the honor of a woman.
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Lied
97. (the real 97) Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas.
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night-stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Moulin Rouge
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congressperson
133. Packed up and moved to another city to just start over
134. ...more than once?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion, or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived140. Wrote articles for a large publication
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone's heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of 100mph or faster?
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
.159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: take, landing, during
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for his or her actions
175. Gone back to school (ok, yeah if visiting counts...)
176. Parasailed1
77. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one "important" author whom you missed in school, and read him/ her
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch (tried to anyway)
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you.
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196. Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ
198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199: Written your own role playing game
200: Lost your Best Friend for reasons of death
201: Fallen in love over the internet
202: Sung in a Barbers' Shop Quartet
203: Eaten a live animal
204: Been able to communicate in a language you barely learnt barely three days earlier. (twaday kinnay bacchay hain? :D :D) (ok, not been able to communicate well, but communicate nonetheless!)
205: Memorized words from all Disney movies like Aladdin, Lionking etc; furthmore, dialogues from Friends, Smallville and Star Trek (main bohat faarigh hoon)
206: Be able to relate to every song that you ever listen.
207. Had someone close to you hurt you so bad, SO bad... that it just stopped hurting after a while and literally gave way to numbness in the true sense of it's meaning.
208. Left smoking, only because someone you love said so.
209. Rode a boat

Jabl-e-Musa, Sinai

Memory 3:- One of the best time I ever had was when our family went on a trip to Jabl-e-MUsa in Sinai Valley!! They say it's the same mountain that Hazrat Musa( Peace be upon him) received the 10 Commandments.
We set off from Cairo on a weekend with another Pakistani family. We drove through many places on the way. The best perhaps was when we passed through a tunnel beneath Suez River. I'm not going into the history of each of these monuments and places. You guys look it up yourself. Afterall, I'm no historian!! And typing the details of each place would take way too long. Maybe someother day I will enlighten you.Lolz.
The drive to Sinai took apporx. 5-6 hours, or was it more. Frankly, I don't rememeber. Ever since I've started studying medicine, I seem to forget alot of stuff. It's like my brain is saturated with medical details and the trivial stuff is just thrown out to make room for more medical jargon!!! Anyways, it was great fun. The driver drove at the maximum speed legally allowed, in fact sometimes he even broke the speed limit. The car would then shake violently as if we were breaking the sound barrier or something.
On reaching Jabl-e-Musa we checked into a hotel in a nearby village. We spent the day resting and checking out the small village.Around about midnight we set off on our epic journey.Lolz. My mom didn't want to come , but we forced her to. We said, " It won't take long. And if you get tired, you can always come back". Ahem Ahem.
First we thought we might even ride camels like the rest of the tourists, but when we saw the path and the size of the camels we all passed on the offer. We were about to start climbing when this herd(??) of camels stampeded us!! A camel here , a camel there, and us in between trying not to get hurt. The owners came running and got them under control after a while. So now, we totally freaked out and wanted to do nothing with these desert wonders.
It was a cool dark night. We had flashlights with us. There were many tourists and we started climbing. After an hour of hiking we saw a few tourists coming down huffing and puffing. They told us not to take shortcuts, otherwise we would be be in deep trouble.
Now the problem!! It was a mountain or what? The more we climbed, the more we still seemed to have left. My mom was already tired and would stop for a rest every five minutes.She would say that she doesn't want to climb anymore. But the brilliant son(ahem ahem) of her'z would say," Only a little more to go. Look you can see the top now" Ha ha. And when we would reach the place we thought was the top, we'd find there was another place looking like the peak!!
The best thing about this hiking trip was that we got to see people from all over the world. Hazrat Moosa(Peace Be Upon Him) is sacred to all three major religions, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Also, climbing at night using flashlights is great fun. First of all, when you would look down, the sight was awesome. Looked like fireflies slowly treking up!! And secondly, we couldn't tell if a camel was coming in front of us or a big tall man. Reason being that the tourists had flashlights on their helmets and camels also had flashlights on their heads. So from a distance, you'd find yourself guessing whether a beast or a human being was approaching. Sometimes, we would say, it's a camel, only to find ourselves embarrased by a man huffing and puffing. At oter instances, we would get real close and find oursleves face to face with a camel. Now, this would be a tricky situation because the path was real narrow,so you couldn't avoid the camel.All you could do was pray that the camel didn't step on you, which it did quite a few times. Also, many times you would find the camels stepping on a rock that would slip and fall down into the valley. That was freaky!! Ands, guys take it from me, don't ever shine a flashlight directly at a camel. figure this out yourself!!
After three hours of climbing we found that we reached a place where even the camel couldn't go.Here there were big big rocks. My mother now was in no man's land. She couldn't turn back and going further was also hard. Somehow, she managed to muster up enough courage and climb slowly. In fact, it was me who almost slipped.Thank God there was this tourist lady that caught me before I fell. Sigh. Lolz.
Anyways, we reached the summit by sunrise. It was the best scene ever. Seeing the sun rise BELOW you. Tourists were clapping , ooing and taking pcitures. This is when you realize how beautiful the world is. SubhanAllah (All praise be to Allah Almighty).
The second cool thing about the peak was that there was a old church there, Saint Katherine. Like, I said, check out the history for yourself. The church truly was in an amazing location. I wondered how they got stuff up there. Found out they used donkeys. Yes, the donkey, this animal is amazing. It could get to the top in as little as two to three hours.
Also amazing was the fact, that all the mountains around seemed to have resemblance to faces of people and animals. Some even looked like Pharoahs Sort of like Mount Rushmore.
On top, I was thinking, " Aftab, you reached the top. How the hell will you get back down?" Lolz. My sister was getting sick. So we had to stay at the top in a hut for a few hours till she got better. Then, we started our journey back down.Now this was actually more difficult , beacause you had to watch your footing or else you'd be falling into the valley. In fact one of my father's colleague's son( hehe...see the use of English....I've destroyed english grammer in my blog....wonder what the English people are thinking :P) slipped and fell quite a way down. Luckily, my father was ahead and he grabbed him before he seriously injured himself. Anyways, it took us about three and half hours to get to base camp. By that time our feet were killing us. On our way down, we found a museum dedicated to Hazrat Musa( Peace Be Upon Him). We went in and took a look. The main attraction was a shrub like tree that is said to have been planted by the Prophet himself. It is still growing and thriving. People were taking back a few leaves for good luck.
Overall, one of the best moments I had in my life. Now, Mariam, can you find a moral in this story?Lolz.

Drinks Plz!!

MEMORY NUMBER 2:- After giving an exam, few of us friends decided to watch a movie in a cinema. So we all went to Ali's house.There we grabbed something to eat and in the evening headed Downtown, Cairo. Most of the cinemas had Arabic movies running,so it took us time before we found something in English. The cinema was more expensive than usual. Anyways, we all decided to watch the movie since we came so far.
We had the whole cinema to ourselves. Only a few other people besides us were there. So, we grabbed the best seats and started watching the movie. About half an hour later, a guy came and handed us drinks. Half of us took the drinks thinking that maybe they were part of the package(afterall they took double the normal ticket fare). After a while, the dude came back and demanded 30 Egyptian Pounds for drinks and service. We looked at him in suprise. The drink outside cost about half a pound and multiply that by 3, the total should have been one and half pound.Ok, the guy could have some commission but that much profit was insane!! We started arguing in broken Arabic. None of us knew proper Arabic except Zoheb but it was of no use. Zoheb, you suck dude!!! Since most of us came direct from school, we didn't have enough dough on us. All of us took money out of our pockets and somehow managed to pay the guy.
After the movie, all of us got together and assesed how much money we had. Turned out the six of us together had 1 pound. Lolz!! So we were foreigners in downtown Egypt late into the night with no money. Crazy!!Anyways, we started looking for a plan that was feasible and would get us home.
The subway turned out to be our best option. A ticket to my house in Dokki cost half a pound. So we bought two tickets. Ali and me went through the proper channel while the rest somehow managed to evade the security system. Once in the subway( or metro as the Egyptians call it), we were thinking about how we could elude the security the second time around.Fajr spoke up, " Don't worry! If we get caught, we'll tell them we're from the Embassy Of Pakistan and I'm the ambassador's son" "And the police would believe that the ambassdor's son can't even buy a half pound ticekt, huh??" I replied.
Amazing as it is, they again managed to dodge the security and we were safe outside. My house was nearby, so we all gathered there. My mom lent them money and everyboy reached home safe and sound!!! So, Mariam, what's the moral of this story!! Lolz!

Flying cockpit!!

Well, since the blog is titled "Walk Down Memory Lane", It's only fair that I write few of the best memories I have of my life so far.

1-Standing in the cockpit of a flying plane:- Well you've got to admit, you envy me now,lolz!! Well, when I was on a PIA(Pakistan International Airlines) flight from Islamabad to Jeddah I got a seat next to a guy my own age. We started talking and funny as it is I don't remember his name. Anyways, midway through the flight three girls come up really excited and say something to him. He gets up face all smiling. Just when they start to leave, one of the girl says," Why don't you bring your friend along?" So the guy asks me to come along. I get up baffled and start walking behind them not knowing where the hell I was headed. When we get near the front of the plane, we see that there was this area with all seats empty except two. There a steward and a stewardess were sitting real close probably talking like some lovebirds. As soon as they see us, the stewardess flares up and says, " Where are you going?" The girls casually answer, " To the cockpit" The stewardess gets all red & starts screaming who gave you the authority.The next thing I know, all of a sudden the cockpit door flies open and the pilot says let them in!! Now, I am in total shock over what the hell was going on. The next thing I know, I'm in the cockpit of a plane and we were flying over Dubai!!!!!!!! The scene was awesome. You could see the sea kissing the edge of Dubai and tall skyscrapers standing out!! And you could see neat layout of roads and cars rolling along in such a disciplined fashion.The best was the sight of the white clouds below and the orange sun ahead. Simply, awesome. There were 8 people in the small cockpit, now. One pilot, one co-pilot, one flight attendant and 5 of us!!! The cockpit was full of knobs and lights and I don't know what. The plane was on autopilot and it was turning slightly itself. You could see the handle move clockwise and counter-clockwise after a while. The co-pilot had a map and I swear, I've never seen a more accurate and jumbo map. Every single topographic detail. Everything we were seeing outside, it was ditto on the map. So who were the girls?? Found out that one was a sister of the guy and the other two were his cousins!! And they somehow convinced the pilot to let them in the cockpit. They remembered their brother and came to get him. And I was sitting with the guy whose name I forgot. Lolz. What are the chances...lolz!!! Anyways, the pilots were real nice and gave us a briefing of the gadgets and talked about everyday stuff. They even got the stewardess to get us goodies. Ha ha...poor stewardess!! She was already boiling mad at us for ruining her date and now she to add salt to her wounds she had to serve us!! We stayed in the cockpit for quite a while. In fact stayed there till we got near Jeddah. Then, the pilots asked us to leave. We wanted to stay for the landing. But of course, that would be risky and besides there was no room in the cockpit.Anyways, it was one hell of an experience.

2- I'm tired of typing now. I guess, I'll write the rest later.

Keep it up!!

Two and a half weeks since the earthquake. Sad that a tragerdy was needed to get us Pakistanis to stop bickering amongst ourselves. But at least we did get together for one instance. Just want everybody to hang in there and keep up the good work. Loads more aid is needed. We can't stop now. This hardwork has to go on not for a few weeks, but for years. We have to help our brothers in need, so when we are in trouble tomorrow, they will be there for us. May Allah help us learn our lessons. Lessons of unity, faith and brotherhood. I'm also proud of the international nations that are helping us as much as possible. I would espcially like to mention Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Thanks, you have been very generous. May Allah keep us united.Ameen.

Guilty

Weird as it is, even though I am in Medical College, I feel I don't want to really adopt this profession. I have this passion to join foreign service. I love the thrill of going to so many countries, visting exotic places, and knowing people from so many nations. So far, I've been to Yeman, South Korea, Egypt, Saudia Arabia and UAE. And it's been a blast. I love my dad's job and would love to emulate him.
Some people ask aren't you wasting a seat then. Some deserving kid would have gotten into med school and might have actually done something useful. To answer that I say, number one if he was that good, he should have gotten more marks than me. It's simple, in Pakistan, the only way you earn respect academically is when you're either a doctor or an engineer becasue that's where all the bright kids go(as harsh and stupid as it is). And I believe that I am amongst the best. I never ever want to feel that I can't get into an institution because I am not good enough.That's why I've given SAT's and all sort of exams. Just to prove that I"m good enough to do anything.Afterall I was good enough to be invited by GYLC for a two week Young Leader Conference in Washington D.C and New York.
Ok, and another reason is that it was my mom's passion I goto med school ,so I could live my grandfather's dream. He couldn't get in, not because he wasn't good enough, but because he didn't have enough money.Harsh as it is. And thirdly, at least I have a backup plan if I don't get selected for foreign service. That's as honest as I can get.

Medical College Ragging!!

Funny how time passes. Three years ago I entered Medical College and now my sister is at the same milestone. I remember how scared I was. My family all abroad in Egypt and me on my own for the first time in my life.Then, the horrible stories associated with Pakistani Medical Colleges. And yeah most of them came out to be true. Ragging or "Fooling" as they call it here is one hell of an experience to go through. Now looking back upon it, I laugh. Not at that time though.
In most of the other institutions in Pakistan ragging goes on for a day or two. Not in RMC(Rawalpindi Medical College). Here, it goes on until you reach second year.In other words, a full year!!! Here are few of the incidents that can be shared. The rest ofcourse are highly humiliating and censored.

1- An old final year senior caught me in the college corridor. A teacher saw him. She came running and asked why he was terrorizing an innocent guy like me(haha). The senior responded saying he was only getting to know me better. And he turned around, got hold of my hands and started talking as if he was the nicest person on the world. He said, " Why are you turning cold? I only want to get to know you" When the teacher left, he turned back into a warewolf and led me to a girl and ordered that I propose to her and not come back until I had convinced her. I went upto her reluctantly and proposed. She looked at me from top to bottom and then said," Do you see my shoes? I am going to smack you and the guy who sent you until you drop dead." And she stormed off. The senior got really pissed and got hold of my stuff and threw it onto the stairs. And he pulled me by the collar and lead me downstairs. There, two girls were sitting talking to each other. He ordered me to go up to them and better not screw up! I went upto them and prosposed to the cuter looking(haha...innocent guy). The girl thought of having some fun too. So she said, " Look I am in third year and you are in first year. Suppose we do get together, I'll leave after two years and you'll find yourself as a broken hearted Romeo. Why don't you goto a girl in your own class. Maybe someone will fall in your pittrap." But I had orders(haha). So I said, " No way I will marry only you" I started saying convincing dialogues. By that time, there was a scene. Loads of people were having fun at my expense. Anyways, I did get her to agree and she nodded in approval when the senior asked if she would marry me(haha).

2- Then, there was this time when we were having our basketball trials. The then third year seniors got hold of us. They asked us to climb the basketball pole and sit on the hoop. Before they could finish saying that, I was sitting on the top. They looked stunned and gave me a nickname," Tarzaan". Then, a third year senior saw a donkey in our college premises. He turned to me and said" Tarzaan, go get that donkey. Hold it's tail and walk ten steps in a place where we can see you clearly."I was very reluctant. Anyways, I did go and this time I caused roars of laughter. I was running behind the donkey like crazy. The donkey just kept on running and running and made me lap around the whole college.I behind and the donkey ahead. Imagine. It finally stopped at one corner of the college where his owner was working. I requested the owner to give me permission to hold the donkey's tail. He got a kick out of it and agreed without a hitch. In fact he gave me two donkeys(Oh brother). I got hold of it's tail and I could feel it getting tense. I was very scared that I'd get hit where no man wants to get hit by a donkey(yup you guessed it). Anyways, I did manage to walk ten steps without getting seriously injured.

3- Then, my first time on the college bus. As soon as I got onto the bus, a senior grabbed me by the collar and threw me onto a seat. Now that's not a good start. Anyways, the college bus was one hell too. Everyday I had to do something new. Like one day, I had to sing LinkinPark's "IN THE END" in front of all the bus. Another time, I had to perform a play. And loads of other stuff, that I really don't feel like writing.

4- The second day in medical college, and hostellites get hold of me. Now this is the worst case scenario. This is when they take you to their dorms/rooms and then really assualt you mentally and even physically. Sort of like the stuff that happens in faternities. Anyways, needless to say, the rest of the stuff is censored. I was lucky, as they let me go in about 3 hours. My roommate had to got through this assualt for 11 hours straight. It is a rule, that until every senior knows you and you know him, you will go through the torture. Some people went through fooling for as long as 4-5 months because they still didn't know everybody.

5- If you think senior girls don't rag. Think again. One rainy day, a fourth year girl alongwith her gang caught me. After a few music requests, she ordered me to dance with a tree. Yup, that bad.


This is just an insight to what happens in medical college. You really can't ever know, until you've been through this.Now of course, I myself am a senior!!! But I do miss the old days too. It was fun in the sense that there was always this feeling of uncertainty. You never knew what would come your way. Now whether fooling should be allowed, is of serious debate. I personally don't like degrading people. Now, you people tell me, what do you think of ragging and any incident that you recall.

Walk Down Memory Lane

Walk down memory lane,
In search of character,
Lost deep inside,
While the path is tread.

Walk down memory lane,
In search of joy,
Lost deep inside,
While the path is tread.

Walk down memory lane,
In search of success,
Lost deep inside,
While the path is tread.

Walk down memory lane,
In search of love,
Lost deep inside,
While the path is tread.

Walk down memory lane,
In search of truth,
Lost deep inside,
While the path is tread.

Walk down memory lane,
In search of myself,
Lost deep inside,
While the path is tread.

DOCTORS

Doctors Erich Segal...A must read!

" We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls-----not to mention our worldly goods."And yet paradoxically, they are the most vunerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is 8 times the national average.Their percentage of drug addiction is 100 times higher.""They cannot live upto our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called "wounded healers"

Barney Livingston M.D DOCTORS

Writing with all the passion of "Love Story" and the power of "The Class", Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. The stunning novel reveals the making of doctors--what makes them tick,scheme,hurt....and love.From the crucible of med school's merciless training through the demanding hours of interneship and residency to the triumphs-and sometimes tragerdies-beyond.DOCTORS brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire.

Things not to do!!

Ok,here is what not to do!!!Learned in the ER by actually doing what I was not supposed to do.Sigh

1- You don't put silver sulfadiazine ointment on face burns.

2- You don't give full dose Diclo TT to a kid!! Oops. I was later told that the kid would feel pain for a while. Sad.

3- You don't inject a DICLO TT IM rapidly, otherwise the patient would be cursing!! Oops again.

4-You don't give a kid an intragluteal IM while standing up, because the muscles are all tense.

5-You don't hold the syringe while giving a local anesthesia like a pen, Hold it like a flashlight and inject from the inner side (wound side) of the skin flap.

6-You don't give an IV into a canula without applying pressure on the IV line, otherwise the IV substance will go into the drip sac instead.

7-You don't make mistakes, otherwise the nurses will giggle to the extent that you feel there is no place on the earth where you could hide from embarrassment.

Now let's see what mistakes I make from now on!!! Man, med life is crazy!

Life

Life nowadays is weirder than weird. After the earthquake everything has become unpredictable, that includes the college schedeule and the aftershocks. The aftershocks just keep coming and coming. And when they're not coming, you still feel as if the world is shaking. The college postponed our sendups to November and assigned us hospital duties. I got neurosurgery, in DHQ(the trauma center of Rawalpindi). It's sad seeing so many crippled kids. I met this man who had a daughter about 15 years old. He said that she had not got medical attention for three days. When my friends and I went to check her out, we found that she had burst fracture of the L2, L3 vertebrae. In short she had a really bad spinal injury. The girl was crying saying that tell me I can walk again. What's the use of being crippled for life? You can't even goto the bathroom yourself. Even a blind person is better, he can at least walk around. The father looked pleadingly at us and I choked. How could I tell him that his daughter would probably never walk again. All I could say was that keep faith. The man also had two daughters in PIMS with broken bones. He ahd not seen them for three days. This is the story of practically everybody in the neurosurgery ward. Anyways, we got our MO to see her and then cleaned her wounds.
There isn't much we can do there. After suctioning the secretions of few patients, we usually head to the ER. The ER is buzzing always. It is fun there, except for those stupid nurses who won't stop giggling when we make mistakes. Afterall, what do you expect from a third year medical student. The college also freed 2nd year to attend wards.Now there are so many people in the hospital, that it actaully hinders work. The ER is full of students, that also creates a market like scenario. Anyways, most of my friends have went back home, as they say there isn't much we can do. We also have studying to do for sendups. I wish I could help more, but a third year medical student has limited knowledge he can apply. Afterall this is our first clinical year. Besides injections, dressings and stitchings we basically just stand around.Okz, enough for today.Hopefully, we'll find a way to help the earthquake victims in a more meaningful way. To all of you reading this, try to contribute your two cents to help these people in misery. Who knows, we might find ourselves in the same situation!! Afteral, the world revolves around tit for tat.

First Post

Okz, here goes nothing!! This will be the zillionth time I will try to maintain a blog. And most probably, I'll fail miserably, cuz I'm such a lazy ass.