Blissful Life

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  • 3rd internal biochemistry

    Image courtesy: Aquib

    Expected questions!

  • Tough times won't last, but tough people do

    Today, the first Dr S N Arun Kumar Memorial Award for the topper in physiology was awarded to Ms Shivapriya of 2k10.

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    Speaking of topping, the past few days have been extremely productive for me in terms of how much I learned.

    Rain makes people nostalgic, makes them sit down and gives them quality time to read and reflect.

    That is how I discovered that continuing with Harper alone wouldn’t do me any good in first MBBS biochem paper. And so, I’ve added Zigu’s unused vasudeva textbook to my arsenal. So far, it has proved only good. I discovered how phenylalanine becomes my favorite dopamine, in the very first session with the book.

    Says will power, uses blood glucose. Maybe that’s why I feel hungry after minutes with textbook. Lemme try studying with a cup of sugary juice around and see if it’s gonna help

  • Business, as usual

    The 1961 year research grant – ₹10,000 for the best 10 project write-ups, application for it has been invited, last day April 30
    Dermatology quiz.
    The last two months in first year, are going past, silently

  • How to make a good presentation

    First, think who the audience is, what they want, what do they know, what to tell

    Attitude + belief + knowledge = behaviour

    The presentation was probably aimed at the wrong audience, because I lost interest and stopped listening 😛

  • Personality development by Dr M A Shekhar

    Personality is what you do when you are being watched
    Character is what you do whether you are being watched or not

    No one can go back and change a bad beginning, but anyone can start now and create a successful ending

    How to
    1 subconscious programming
    Just before sleeping, just after walking up, childhood conscious mind is active enough to generate the positive traits

    2 reinforced programming
    Autosuggestion and repetition

    3 defensive approach
    Protest or deny the negative traits at it’s very beginning of the entering in the subconscious store

    4 imaginary anchoring
    Anchor great personalities in imagination and let them shape our personality

    5 physical action
    Body language approach
    Consciously practice body language of positive traits

    6 domino effect
    By being with great people great cultured company

    Traits
    Accept responsibility
    Listen
    Smile

  • The beginning!

    The socials is one important event in the first year at MMC.

    The planning began two weeks ago, with the date being fixed on march 17, a week after holi.

    Fixing the budget and location went hand in hand. Ali incorporated was assigned the event organizing job, and for Rs 500 per person, we got Regaalis, photographer, microphones booked. The estimated attendance was 110 students + 5 staff/pg. It actually went up to 128.

    Planning committee meetings saw us talking this and that from the pond every evening.
    The games committee including me decided on anthakshari, catch the grape, balloon bursting, fire in the mountain, hearts, balance the ball and guess who; of which only the last three were played due to am unusually fast running clock on the night.
    As decided, there was no single MC for the night. People took it up segment by segment.

    Whatsapp!
    Immediately after the name “Inizio” was chosen for its Italian meaning “the beginning”, the chat group of the same name was created in whatsapp, which then formed the corpus callosum of conversation between the two hostels.

    The amount was collected by about the 9th of March, and then there was no going back.

    Gifts, prizes, equipments for games were all imported from mannars market. Invitation cards were handmade, and despatched hours before the event; and some, after the event.

    Rose stall was bought for 3k and fetched profit too, in the end.

    Jukebox was being managed by the class representatives.

    About 3 sleepless nights later, everything was ready and the day had come. Saturday. We had two hours of class.

    The eager wait for evening. Then the pasteurization by seniors began at 4 and went on till about 6.30.

    Six guys went to LH to pick up the ladies. And thus, everyone reached the venue at around 7.30 – the original dinner time.

    Since we were running late, we didn’t wait for any time

    time sucking events like introductory speech or so.
    And I directly started the heart game. Making people say yes/no, easy. So, keeping one’s hearts safe – tough.
    Immediately after that, since the original buffet time was 7.30, we had dinner, by about 8.15.
    Dinner was a scramble. All the gentlemen having it before the ladies could even go near. There was soup (forgot to mention, there was a welcome drink like lemon juice), rice, rotti, ice cream all sorts of things prepared by some famous chef whom I don’t know.
    Anilkumar LN sang kal ho na ho.
    Dr Parashuram and Dr Ravi was given the mementos just before they left. And then, as if we were waiting for that, the rose bidding started. 800 was the starting bid for the first red rose. 1800 was what it was sold for.
    Guess who game was hosted by Sri raksha and nivedha.
    And then there was bidding for all kinds of roses – yellow, bunch of 5, two of this two of that, bunch of 10. What it meant was that poor me didn’t have any left to buy in the end. And also, the time was around 10, much behind our schedule.
    And thus, the b the b was started immediately. Harshith, this time doing the MCing part.
    Titles were awarded by Sri raksha and nivedha again. Starting with Mr chivalrous, through Mr flirt to Mr papa
    For the misses, Aquib and priyadarshi announced ms shakira, ms sleeping beauty and so on.
    Ms 2k11 was won by hs vyshnavi and Mr, the author of this blog.
    And then just as we were wondering what to do next, the boys led by shakeeb began dancing, which soon made the darbar hall the dance floor.

    At around 11.30, when the police guy game complaining, we stopped dancing, to go on the party that never ends.

    The beginning.

  • Lungs

    Yesterday we took out both the lungs of the cadaver. And it was indeed balloon like! Too sad I couldn’t take a pic.

    The first year socials is being planned.

    Got physiology answer paper. I’m doing very poor (due to lack of studying). Thus, the end of this post

  • Recent Advances in HIV

    Attending a seminar on HIV, recent advances on it, by Dr. M. A. Balasubramanya, CEO of Swami Vivekananda youth movement.

    The pathology hall, this is my first time here. But it’s awesome – large (enough to school accomodate at least three hundred people easily), with an entrance that directly lead to the back rows, and I almost went back from right at its door thinking there’s nobody present while there actually was about hundred students from all years.

    And it started off with a nice description of the doctor’s first day in MBBS (guessed right, he is an MMC alumni)

    Turning into the purpose of learning medicine. Service?

    Vivekananda used to say all there beautiful inspiring things. Yeah, like it was said in the hostel days before.

    Health, education, socioeconomic empowerment and education something are the four sections in which SVYM works.

    HIV!
    started its journey in 1986 in India.
    1992 NATO established.
    National AIDS Control Program (NACP) phase 1 launched in the same year, extended till ’99

    And preventive health care, making people socially and economically productive is what p&sm deals with.

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a retrovirus (converts RNA into DNA) that is found only in human beings and can survive only in humans.

    AIDS.
    HIV type 1, 2. Subtypes.
    Helper cells, cytotoxic cells
    Lifecycle of the virus
    In CD4 cells.

    Starts off as viral fever. 6-12 weeks, no positive HIV test.

    In 5-10 years, AIDS develops.

    For a kid born to HIV mother,rapid test can confirm AIDS only after 18 months.

    Routes: sex, mother, blood, needles

    Getting to zero: zero new infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths

    Counseling is very important because the doctor or nurse will not always be taking care of the patient.
    And integrated counseling an

    and testing centre should be the entry point of any patient
    Five blood tests on donation: hepatitis b, c, malaria, HIV, syphilis

    Stigma!
    We have not grown, as a society, to accept sex and related topics as a part of life and discuss them.

    And then it continued, about palliative care and so on.

    Compliance and adherence.

    The speaker got a slip to remind him of time? I left.

  • Golden jubilee celebration at UG Men's Hostel

    The great hostel, is celebrating its fiftieth year today. www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=31482

    And warden, Dr. C. Rajan retires tomorrow www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=31481

    Details coming minute by minute

  • Madhyaraatriya Tiganegalu

    <p>The mini vacation mode that lies between theory and practical examination!</p>
    <p>The hostel is getting a complete makeover. New gate, cleaner floors. The invitation cards all printed and being sent. Dunno whether anyone has agreed to participate in cultural programs section. And still no water :P</p>
    <p>By the way, here’s the <a href=”www.facebook.com/events/244317888989029″>facebook event</a>. Do join.</p>
    <p>Went for Jodi breakers (@sterling) a very stupid movie featuring madhavan with bipasha! And in the evening saw a drama whose title I’ve made the heading of this post, at kalamandir. It was a comedy drama, about a man being disturbed from sleep by people who knock at his door. And swathi’s elder sister was acting too. </p>
    <p>Sterling theatre is very good in that there will never be rush, maybe because the sound system stops working at critical dialogues, due to what appears like power failures.</p>
    <p>Had histology revision in the morning. That is the magic one hour where you go from knowing nothing about how esophagus differs from colon, to being able to spot any slide without even the microscope ;-)<br>
    Gotta review cross sections of brain tomorrow.</p>
    <p>Back at the hostel, in the night, there was this critical semifinal hockey match between India and Poland. And that was the first time in my life that I enjoyed the national game of India, sheerly due to the awesome crowd in front of the screen