Somebody Should Leave

I have been packing up to leave, and been getting more and more morose by the minute. Not exactly morose, but more of a dragging, heavy sense of weightiness, that says “this is done, and the next is here again”. And even as much as I have hated and ranted about this place, it has [...]

Today Is Mine

Over the past one year since I began this blog, to me it has been many things. Most of all a way to vent, and instead of trying to wear my shoes thin running to clear my head, this has been a much more fruitful and, lets face it, more energy conserving than the miles [...]

…And From Sudden Death..

I was driving back to hospital campus when the accident happened.
The small road into campus opens at a 90 degree angle to the main road, and we can almost never see if any vehicle is coming into the road from the hospital courtyard. I rely on a generous use of the horn and creeping along [...]

A time for everything under heaven, or, He ain’t the leaving kind

There have been occasions in life when things become clear all at once to me, when I realise my own foolishness and just how blind I am. It is as if then everything becomes clearer, and the way behind me which has cost me a great deal of heartache and headaches suddenly begins to make [...]

In Search Of Intelligent Conversation

Oh what wouldn’t I do to just have an intelligent conversation with someone. Any one!
Why is that sometimes too much to ask for?
This, my dear, is what happens when the guy you vaguely think you can have intelligent conversations with ( and with whom you do have intelligent conversations with, just that it is all [...]

Sempre In Excreta, Solo Profundum Variat.

Today is one of those days when I remember exactly why I named this blog Wasted Years and added the bit about the bonded slavery too.
Today’s been one of those days when despite having nearly 40 odd days in aggregated leave, I got told I could take 3 days off for Christmas, instead of a [...]

Love Letter Time

Right now :
I’m listening to Celine Dion singing Surprise, Surprise. Nice new album, by the way, Taking Chances.
I’m also trying to compose a half good love letter. No, dear readers, this is not for any significant other in my life. Rather, a local mag is running a love letter contest, and with my distinct lack [...]

Do Not Do This To Your Doctor

I have had a bizarre couple of weeks.
First the guy who was supposed to alternate night duties with me upped and left.
So have been doing an inhumanly long series of duties.
During which I have had patients for whose explicit use the best selling guide : Do Not Do This To Your Doctor 101 was written. [...]

Up !

Life is.. weird.
I spent the last weekend at home – kind of a long weekend – 4 days, ‘cos it is Onam in Kerala right now, and everyone and everything goes shopping and home during onam. So I did too. This is the longest I’ve spent at home since coming to Kerala.
And coming [...]

Cow Under My Window

As for the rest of my life post my I-escape-by reading-and-all-I-do-is-read lifestyle, I have finally come up to a decent livable BMI.
From being 17 in Final year, I have now, in the 4 months that I have spent in this place, gained 4 kgs in weight, and that in my standards is a thing to [...]