Neocortical Impulses!

could not blog for a week as i was preparing for my internals in medicine clinicals, it went quite well i think. i had got a hemiplegia(paralysis of one side of the body) case for my internals, the diagnosis itself was not a problem as we had seen the case earlier. it is the questions asked that is the tough part in such cases, our unit head himself took my internals. i answered most of his questions.... overall, it was the best and most interesting postings we have had this term(i am a little biased towards medicine you see, it`s the subject i like most). we saw many interesting cases and also most of the cases that can be given in exams, so aquite a fruitful posting! next up, surgery postings. don`t know if we will be posted in victoria hospital itself or to bowring.... right now, i am relaxing, will watch some movie, just enjoy for now!

famous last words from the movie King Kong(2005) . watched it on tv yesterday night, it had been almost 3 years since i saw it in the theaters.... it is a very well directed movie(by peter jackson). the selfish nature of Carl Denham and the possessive nature of Kong, what each of them does to achieve his own objectives has been beutifully portrayed! but the character i liked best in the movie is Kong himself, the very human-like giant ape....the emotions the director has shown through the ape is fantastic. the scenes where the ape gets angry when the leading lady tries to get away from him, how he reacts when she tries to make him happy, those soft,dark, brown human eyes showing emotions by themselves.....every scene is worth watching! towards the climax, where the ape-the KING KONG is chained and shown as an exhibit in a play is touching. the ape looks like it has given up, you can make out from the way it sits on stage.... then the very final scene, the ape receives its final set of

some one-liners from forwards i have received on e-mail, mobile..... credit goes to the original creators of the lines! hard work never killed anyone, but why take the risk? nobody is perfect, i am nobody! finally it has happened,beer is cheaper than petrol, so drink, don`t drive! don`t drink and drive, the beer will spill! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

an ice-cream, from that party i wrote about!

well not exactly, but we did have a little treat. two of my closest friends( one of them ) ,in college, celebrated their birthdays on the 8th and 9th and the treat was on the 9th. another close friend whose birthday was on the 10th joined in the funding(more like he was forced to!). so with 3 people funding a treat for 10, it was a rather sumptuous treat! wish all of them a very happy birthday again! shifting attention to my postings, not many cases seem to be getting admitted to our ward, wonder why! so we are spending most of the time searching for cases in other units and joining their classes.... have been reading CNS(central nervous system) for the past few days and it still fascinates me! i had kind-of skipped neuroanatomy(was more interested in its physiology) in the first year, but now, i find that even the anatomy is fascinating, also, it is very important to know where exactly the lesion lies in the brain....unfortunately, there seems to be a dearth of CNS cases only in our

postings,that is. 3 of our 6 weeks postings in medicine this term have been completed! though i haven`t read even close to half of what i should have read! just the number of books available to study medicine is enough to confuse the most determined person. add to this, the innumerable signs we have to pick up clinically, names of all those signs to remember,specific drugs of choice for each type of a disease(i did not know the drug of choice for legionnaire`s pneumonia), comments from our professors that we are not reading at all.....those only-professors-can-hear murmurs,especially the early and mid diastolic murmurs, can leave you quite frustrated, make you think- aren`t my ears normal? what if i dont hear these murmurs at all??? this is getting tougher and tougher. add to it, the many distractions on tv,the localites like me have to face, what if the ipl is over, euro 2008 has started, the french open finals is today, a tri-series involving India-Pakistan-Bangladesh has begun!.....

and the kingdom of the crystal skull ,watched the movie yesterday(released here only on the 30th) and found out that harrison ford still rocks and i still like adventure movies! i had seen the earlier movies when i was in school(i was not yet born when the first movie was released) and had loved the first movie the most. the latest movie is good, but i still think the first was the best. and the much hyped ipl comes to an end today, the finals at 8 pm. it has lived upto the hype and expectations according to me, had fun watching most of the games, but both the semi finals were too one-sided. hope the finals is better! a short trailer of the movie: