Author: akshay

So, Djokovic won, and I finished biochem record in time. Madhura was watching the whole match from 1.45! Physiology was about blood.
blah blah blah. I was so busy for two days that i couldn't post anything the last two days.
Ok. On Tuesday evening we Malayalis met at the rock circle near library. Just introduction. Blah blah blah blah. Went to the reception of Asad's brother in law's marriage. Had more than enough food. Blah blah blah blah…i don't remember anything else…
Wednesday was fun. Protein chemistry tha. And connective tissue and kidney..and pricked the left ring finger to draw blood.. Was bold enough only in the 4th prick.. Went shopping. Bought hangers. Went to cafe coffee day. Very expensive coffee. So had chicken burger with Zigu. Have to come here alone for having the coffee some day.

And the journey back was awesome fun. The bus broke down at the hill bottom at 1 am and a new one came from Calicut at around 3. It went straight, reached Mysore at 8. Luckily there wasn't class at 8. Biochemistry class was about cystoskeleton. Physiology about neuromuscular junction and today it was tripathi's and my turn to not answer and be booked for assignments. Dissection of the back was still just skin deep. No structure had been seen. Bhavika and Bharath were discussing the origin, attachments and even nerve, blood supply of all the back muscles and i was open mouthed. But Asad said it was taught in the previous days, easing my worry but nonetheless discouraging. They had gone for the movie too on Friday afternoon. Rushed to finish the Histology record. Had a smooth end for the day. Should organize the Malayali meet tomorrow. Ah! Forgot to tell everyone. Hmmm. Slept early because of the jet lag. Woke up to Djokovic's triumph over the Spaniard in us open.

Raziq et al stood in the long queue for filling the buckets with water from the municipality. I slept peacefully and filled it later with no queue! 😀

had bread and jam which hari bought at more for breakfast with zigu, raziq, irfan, fahad and arun.

Went college in an auto. Reached there pretty early. Physiology class, about protein synthesis. Pretty old transcription, translation, etc. Anatomy – continuation of connective tissue.

Back to physiology – neuro muscular junction. 3 kids got detention. 2 went for bodyguard.

In dissection we had a final look at the axilla and turned the body around. It was rigid (and dead, yeah rigor mortis)

the evening's class was in a confusion. It was announced y'day in physiology lab that we the first batch'd have the practical we missed last week this evening. But as per the main time table it was histology and so the anatomy department had planned dissection of back for us. I was asked to confirm the confusion from HoDs. But nobody was present. So i left for home leaving the responsibility to aquib. Guess they attended dissection. Zigu's 3rd batch was having on class. So he gladly came with me to the suburban stand and left early in the thalassery Kannur bus that mom took while leaving (although it was 2 hours late today)

wished everyone happy onam, gave the histology record to fahad for completion (he was locked out of his room and waiting for his roommates in my room. Lol)

arya was going kottayam in my bus itself. It was fast. Took of from Mysore at 3. Reached gundelpet at 4 sth. Reached batheri at 6. But took till 9.30 to reach calicut.

This blog'll have to be paused till monday now, because i'm home!

Happy onam.

Gautham told he's having breakfast from hostel canteen while me, zigu, harinath, irfan were ignorantly having it from the shringar hotel. Hari and irfan were there first and ordered 3 vadas and chappathi respectively. Me and zigu then ordered masala dosha. And we got dosha before irfan got chappathi.

Had a banana from the shop opposite. It's rs 3 per banana.

Was sleepy throughout except for the hour when m a shekhar sir (HoD of endocrinology) gave an orientation course called 'first contact'. He started with universal ethics – do good, do no harm, have no bias, stand up for individual freedom. Then talked about how working as a group rocks and how he expects us 150 to work as one or many smaller teams to climb the hill of MBBS. The geese's V flying slides were shown. Then came the 4 personalities – phlegmatic(peaceful), choleric(angry), melancholic(sad), sanguine(happy)

and finally he talked about maintaining at least mentally a personal diary of how we spent the 24 hours in a day, for time management.

In fact, in the evening harshith and i were drawing histology record, eventhough neither of us liked to do it. (team work!)

physiology class was about kidney, and anatomy class by the pg teacher using powerpoint about connective tissue.

Reached physiology lab approx 3 minutes late, and missed the roll call 😛

drew improved neubaur's cell counting plate or something like that

after college, met suni appan to get the bus ticket. Incidentally, my kottayam super fast is the bus in which arya booked too.

Gave him 1500 of 2280 that i had to.

Went shopping an apron with zigu for his mom. Sri medical books din't have theirs. So came back to the hostel buying super glue for Gautham to repair his glasses.

There was selection of cricket team. Zigu, Gautham, fahad, aquib, etc went. I was drawing record.

Took t-shirt size of everyone for the abhivyakth t-shirt.

Slept soon, woke up late..now the sleep cycle's ok.

Woke up early, did some surya namaskara, meditation, etc. And slept again.

Physiology – blood continued.

Anatomy – back muscles

dissection – cleaning the axilla

biochem lab – reactions of glucose..it's easier to do experiments here, because everyone gets the test tubes they need, burner, etc

Got gross anatomy and histology record. Histology had circles and notes printed, super useful.

Went to an interenet cafe and printed the train ticket. 2 rupee per print for small number of prints. Still better than Kannur. Changed the phone numbers associated with facebook, and gmail..forgot to do it for google sms..

Went with harshith for the fashion show practice. They were deciding on the theme. Saraswathi dropped out.

Got physiology record from sri raksha. Wrote it till dinner, and after dinner.

Homesick ever after printing the ticket.

Went college normally (at 9 o'clock) because only the third batch
students had osteology class at 8. Heard that they got in only after a
few minutes of searching.
The biochem class was about cell. Physiology was about muscles – the
structure of them (finally all the myosin, actin confusions are
beginning to clear).
dissected the axilla.
Histology lab was about stratified epithelium.
Fashion show, dance audition at jk ground auditorium at
4.30..devanshu, me, aquib, hithesh, Akshay, went. And there the
seniors wanted us to somehow bring girls from our batch too. Called
whoever i knew. Arya was out, teressa was out with parents, anie was
out shopping and so called anie's roommate sri raksha (risking to be
labeled misuse of phone number) and gave the phone to the seniors.
They coerced enough people to turn up – madhura, sri raksha,
saraswathy and all turned up. Someone called bhavika, and swathy too.
Only aquib got selected from boys. Among girls, sri raksha, saraswathy
and anie were in because of their height.
Walked back the girls to their hostel.
Enrolled for chicken with the new prefects.
There was a small teachers' day celebration and meeting with the
warden. I was given the camera and it went battery dead after the
first few clicks. Managed with mobile cameras after that.

Had breakfast on the way to biochem hall. Wrote down the notes for
biochem practical. Starting with mohlisch's test a whole lot of tests
involving carbohydrates. Finished lipids. An hour free in between,
like last week.
And i did the dissection for the first time! With Akshay Fadnis, on
saturday, looking for axillary artery and brachial plexus from the
lateral end of the pectoralis minor.
And it was not a complete failure, we have spotted the twisted motion
of the nerve chords.
Went out with aquib, asad, harshith and hithesh to have biriyani, from
the same biriyani palace which was closed on the other day. And glad
that we did, because by the time zigu had reached hostel the lunch was
finished and he had to go out too.
He did a 10 rupee recharge for docomo, and got 6 rupee talktime as
well as 300 sms after 1 rupee offer. It also gave 490 KB free night
(11 pm to 7 am) gprs 😛

and the hostel was getting ready for the ganesha procession. Everyone
put colours on their face, kunkum ki chotta, and ganapathi bappa head
band. And ganapathi was kept in the cart pulled by the tractor. An
auto rickshaw went in front with the speakers for the songs, and the
light.
And we were in between, dancing to the tune. A little distance into
the road people started losing their shirts to the crowd. And one was
stuck in the electric line above. sindhu kumar had a quality t-shirt
that couldn't be torn even with the combined effort of 5 of us,
including a senior. I removed my shirt myself to save it, but
nevertheless lost a button. The procession went till the girls hostel,
and returned. And then the juniors stayed back while the seniors went
out again after dinner to float ganesha in the river.
Was so tired dancing that i slept till breakfast on sunday morning.
Continued my telephonic conversations. Sanjay gave me megha's phone
number and i discovered that she's in amritha college at bagodi,
Mysore.
The shibi, shyma twins are home after 2 weeks at yennepoya medical
college, Manglore. sana is there too. aswin quit medical entrance
coaching at thrissur and joined engineering at angamali with Sreerang.
And at hostel, raghavendra prasad quit MBBS totally for repeating cet
to get electronics. All the best to him.
Went shopping with zigu and harinath. Bought an earphone that stays in
my ear, and a bucket to replace the one i lost during vinayaka. Arya
was booking her bus ticket. Dunno if she got it. Other girls are
staying at hostel for onam.
Vinay bought a cycle. Cycle and bike are in fact allowed for juniors
too. Dunno about laptop.
And 3 malayali immediate seniors reached the hostel. Their classes
begin on wednesday.
Did physiotherapy for harinath's broken knee ligament under abhas
sir's advice. Finished histology observation after playing volleyball
in the evening. Sports is always fun.

Forgot to mention about the special dinner yesterday's!
Anyhow, to compensate, there was no breakfast today morning. That is
to say, not before 8.
So, had water before reaching biochem. The seniors had mentioned that
the college would be suspended as soon as we reach there. But it took
till noon for that to happen. And so was sleepy till dissection. Had
humerus for osteology, erythropoiesis, axilla, and finished
carbohydrates.
Asked girls to come to our hostel for lunch. And many did come.
There was musical chair after that, and fahad won it. Gave the airtel
sim to him.
The girls went back to be back in saree or whatever. Me, aquib,
harshith, hithesh, and asad went to the ice cream parlour, it was
aquib's treat.
Went to audition theatre from there. But as karthik sir had told,
there was no one there.
Back at hostel shifted the stage to the mess because of the rain.
And then girls started pouring in till there was no more chairs.
After so many speeches in kannada, there was a song in hindi which
nobody heard due to the low volume. And zigu got the medal for being
the chess champion.
Later the seniors continued their restlessness about bhavika, asking
me to ask her name 😀
and after the special dinner with meetha pan, we shifted back to the
ground for dance items. sanjana of our batch danced to 'alaipayuthey'
and it was so graceful. Then seniors did some spot dancing. When it
started raining the girls as well as the juniors left. I was searching
for the bucket i had given for the guests to wash their hands for
dinner.

Ganesh chathurthi was yesterday. Went out to recharge various sims
back at the hostel the seniors brought our ganapathi idol. And with
the pooja it was installed in the avathar themed stage.
Ate the prasadam.
The same thing repeated in the evening. Only that the prasadam was
different. Practiced vanchi pattu in the evening. The docomo sim
wasn't activated yet. Had to do physiology record work, so slept early
😛
(i'll change the posting schedule slightly, will post everything after
the last post whenever i get time..)

Id.
Woke up late.
Spent time talking to people both through phone and offline. Called
vishnu, Nousha.
Put vinayak chathurthi invitation cards in envelope.
Looking for a song to sing in group, now.
Had the special lunch with that sweet, cake like piece and curd rice.
Played cricket. In actuality, fielded. The game was two players in a
team, 3 overs per team, anyone fields. -4 for losing a wicket. Took
some catches at long.
Suni appan gave me and zigu the docomo sim. Not activated yet.
Didn't have current at times. Logged into fb chat and was very happy.
Messaged anie, arya, surya, vishakha (thankfully banglore is in
karnataka)
slept early. Woke up at 5.