Happy Monsoons!

The monsoon is finally here! The most refreshing season of them all :)
Enjoy getting wet and sipping chai, with that beautiful sound of raindrops as background music!
This pic is rain drops dancing on the parapet outside my room

Do you know where your towel is?

For all die hard douglas adams fans, happy towel day!

For the rest,

"Any man who can
hitch the length and breadth of the
galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against
terrible odds, win through, and still
knows where his towel is, is clearly a man
to be reckoned with". - Douglas Adams

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For those who missed it all, read hitchiker's guide to the galaxy! ;)

Its a hard rain's a-gonna fall

I Finished with my M.S. Theory exams today. The date for the practicals has not been finalized as yet, so i took a day off and made a long due visit to my hair dresser. Looking at my hair, which had obviously grown rather long, he said, "exams chal rahe honge aapke"! He surprised me for a second, but then i realized that he was talking from experience, and made these spot diagnoses as a matter of routine! There are few reasons why you won't get a haircut done in a month, and having exams is the most common one.
Exams make you postpone many things and my phone shows "24 to-do notes not done" on the home screen! The list will increase till the practicals, and it will take a few days to tick them all off and get back to pre-exam status.
One of the things in that to-do list i did manage to do today was getting myself new earphones. Listening to bob dylan as i write this post, i would leave you with a song recommendation.
"its a hard rain" by dylan. Some songs have a deep meaning to each line, and this is one of those. It was first presented by dylan at a live show in the early 1960s, and is even more relevant in the 2000s!

Exams!

My room looks like this these days (this is the place where i sleep! i'm not even talking about the study area as yet! hehe).... Well, I'm having exams after 3 years!

...3 eventful years, i must add. Residency has been a dynamic time.

With a wonderful surgeon like Dr. DP Singh as my teacher and guide, I had a really nice time working as a junior resident.

As of now, we have been freed from OPD and ward duties, and its time to hit the books. I'm almost nostalgic, as the last time i studied like this was during my PG entrance days!

Dangerously underprepared, as i am, I am reminded of Douglas Adams' "DON'T PANIC" written in large friendly letters on the cover of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Perhaps the most useful two words ever written for an exam going resident ;)

I have a long list of "TO-DOs" after my exams, from going to a gym 10 minutes walk from my place, to visiting the Pangong lake in Ladakh. Exams are always a nice time to find out what you long for, deep inside your heart :)

Tilll then, its over to Schwartz' Principles of Surgery. And yes, did i mention "DON'T PANIC"? :)

Oh take me back to the start!

Visit to Yamunotri, the source of the holy river Yamuna last year was a breathtaking experience for me. The untouched beauty of the place and the purity of the environs made it justify its name.... the "dev bhoomi" (the land of the gods)

Yamunotri is on the west side of the banderpoonch glacier range, the eastern side of which is the source of the holy river Ganga (Ganges). The two rivers flow through the Garhwal Himalaya landscape making it one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Here is a pic of the sparkingly clear and pure water of the river which eventually flows through Delhi! Come to think of it, what have we done to our holy rivers?