These cute pictures are from Hemanth. They are so sweet :) thanks hemanth!

Shubh Diwali

Happy Diwali to everyone!

I will be in Uni. on Diwali! So no celebrations for me :( No fireworks or nothing. So sad, I know! I was home for this weekend, well since thursday evening. And leaving to Soton today and Diwali is tomorrow. Couldn't miss this monday for diwali as I have my GP (clinics) session, which is compulsory to attend. But I haven't had a diwali celebration for years and years since there is no National holiday for Diwali in Britain and I never dared to miss school. I can't remember when I had last celebrated diwali in my life. Hmmmm.
They are holding a diwali special at the local mandir in So'ton tomorrow but I am not sure if I will be able to make it as it depends on how early I will be heading back to uni from the great Basingstoke, where the GP Surgery is located. Last time it was almost 7pm.
However, I am looking forward to attend the Diwali Ball conducted at our Uni. on 4th Nov. Have never been to one yet so I guess it will be very exciting to me.

Anyhow, as this beautiful festival of lights is here filled with love and mirth, here's wishing that may this one be the harbinger of peace that fills every corner of this planet; and bring sparkles of joy that illuminate all your days ahead with goodwill :)

Have a wonderful and bright Diwali :)

Couldn't think of anything to write on but thought to leave some words as it has been a week since I last posted. I wish, as many others that I had more than 24 hrs a day. This weekend was a blink. Didn't do much other than trying out some cooking, which I am majorly not into. Usually. And nope, I can't cook. Well, things like sandwich and boiling rice in the rice cooker are exceptional here ;) I didn't even know how to make tea when I came to Uni. and until my friend taught me how to. Yesterday passed by with shopping and cooking with friends. Mum wouldn't believe that we cooked. When I occasionally say that I am gonna try and cook something when I am at Uni. house, she ignores me as if I am talking impossible and carries on with whatever she is doing. Or otherwise just smiles. But after the cooking experience this weekend, I really don't think cooking is a hard job. It's just about mixing and boiling of things in right amounts. I believe.

So tomorrow is Monday. Grr! Waking up early, 9-5 lectures.... still gotta prepare for my hosp. session tomorrow and a lot of work to finish up. Studies are becoming very arduous and I have already given myself enough time thinking on how to manage my time well. But still haven't got a clear plan, like, eat times, sleeping and waking times, study time and all. Luv to wake up early like 5am and I tried to do that a few times. But then that the window opens after a couple of days and I am back to my usual. Hehe. Anyway, am signing off now....
Take care!!

Moving on...

Today was the first day of my GP (General Practitioner) session. The only fact that I am not happy about it is that the distance I have to travel to the surgery in Basingstoke, which is almost an hour drive. On motorway. They were supposed to pick us up at 1pm from the Uni. according to the printed info in the handbook, and we were waiting and waiting until one of us had to ring the office to find out what was happening. And then only we came to know that the pick up time is infact 1.40pm.

The session went okay. It took some time to recall the stuff we did last year. Well, it did for me. My GP teacher and the group are nice, verrryy enthusiastic ....but again, why did they have to send us to Basingstoke!! The first day actually made me go grrr! On the way back, there was a long long traffic jam caused by an accident. So we had to wait still for about half an hour and as the traffic finally reached the junction where we had to take the lane to Southampton, the traffic police stood there diverting.....and yea, that was where the accident happened. And there was an option for us to take the exit just before the blocked lane but we weren't allowed to reverse back so had no choice other than going around the opposite way to come back to the same lane. But as you can imagine on the motorways, it takes ages to get back to a missed lane and adding to that delay was the same traffic again! It was almost 7pm when I got back to Uni. from GP practice. Gosh...tiring. I returned from home to Soton last night and was damn tired so I couldn't really make myself comfortable or enthusiastic to take part in the discussion. Noticing this, the GP was keep picking on me.....and I was blank!!

Last year's GP surgery was just down the road where I lived last year. About 5 mins walk. But this time in B-a-s-i-n-g-s-t-o-k-e!?!! My god! Hmmm....
While our group was talking on the way back, though I didn't talk much, we asked each other qs like where else did you apply for, where is your home etc. I guess these kinda qs never die because I think even after going in to my final year, I will not know the every single of 240 students in my year. I will recognise the faces seen in the lecture theatres but would not be able to know by names. And ye, so each of us shared where we would have gone into if not medicine....and most of them replied of careers like midwifery, nursing, actor, etc and I said Engineering. Didn't think this was going to be a shock for them. When I said that everyone was like 'wwwaaahhhaat... and whyyyyy'.
I like Maths!
Huhhh....my gosh...get out of here...!/Didn't expect this!
These were what I heard. Hehehe. All of them were maths-phobics. Well, Engineering was the second choice in my list of only two after Medicine since my childhood. And there used to be a continuous a drift of choice between Med and Eng until I came to A/Levels when I decided to take over Med. I knew that once I stepped into Medical School there would be so little maths in my life therefore, to make the most use of the time I had, I did Accounting as a part time course in the evenings when I was in Year 12. But my first preference was to Science than Maths so I ended up in doing Medicine. And I do not regret not pursuing any other career paths.
And why did I like science and medical career -while pondering on this since my preparation for med school Interview, I realised its not a simple task to answer this. And still seems a tough qs. I might write a post on this at some point for those who are with very short attention spans.
As of now, its going pretty well. I guess. But very hectic. Stressful. Time consuming. Still enjoying it.
Every doctor goes through a hard time, dedicating themselves to reach their goal, and its definitely not a job for someone who is only money orientated according to what it is like here, in this country. It needs sincere dedication and determination. And not many understand that fact.
I wish and pray that the love I have with my career should only grow and grow each day and not begin to dwindle at any point.
Wish you all a good week ahead!

Dandiya night

Had been to the Navratri evening last night at the local Mandhir in Soton and we, the Uni Students had been invited to the Garba.
To those of you who don't know, Garbha is a Gujarati traditional way of dancing around the deity in a circle. The Dandiya dance. The event started around 6.30pm but I could not get there on time as I was stuck in traffic on the way back to Soton from home. I reached soton at only 8pm, dressed up quickly and managed to get to the Mandhir at 9. I had to go to Wembly in the morning with family and got back home very late, again due to the traffic jam. It was a day of travelling. As soon as I got home, grabbed my stuff which I had already packed before leaving to wembly and made my way straight back to Soton. And trust me, all I had that day was a cup of tea. Mum was not happy about it. Yet, I left and rushed to Soton to be on time for the festival. But no luck, I was late.
The garbha was too great. I had a fabulous time. It was funny too. Some of us had no idea of how to dance as we were dragged to join them in the circle. I was just running, clapping this and that way for the first few mins but managed to get into the flow soon to clap rhythmically. However, later for the dandiya, it took me some time to learn the style to dance with the sticks. There was a lady who was nice to teach us how to dance for dandiya. The steps were a little complicated in a way that you have to whirl, with your feet and arms moving in tune and each movement ends in a clap or clattering the sticks with the person opposite you.

It was full of fun and enjoyed so much. I loved their way of celebrating the Navratri evening. Think I should try exploring different cultures and take part in. It will be exciting to join the celebrations and learn different things. Hmmm..
At the end the uni students were asked to take part in Arathi, so each of us got the chance get our hands on it. It was almost 1am when all came to an end and we made our way out.
This was the first hand experience for me to be at such a mesmerizing event and I am glad I didn't miss it. A good day to remember!

Yet another year

and another birthday in my life Today. But this can be counted as one of those special fascinating number birthday. A key bday.. and one that hopefully leaves some good memories. Well, I feel no difference and to be honest I kinda have the feeling of having a usual day. Since the end of school days birthdays became less exciting especially if its on a week day and then it has to be that weekend when we can have the celebrations. Like last year, this is a travelling day. I am missing my lectures and going home. To go to temple, be with my family and stuff like that. And most surprisingly, I am very glad that this day happens to be the Saraswathi Pooja of Navaratri.

Just started my Yr 2 this week. And the first day back to uni, yesterday, was unbelievably tiring. Had only 30 mins lunch time after the lectures, before the hospital session. And I ate only a bar of chocolate for the whole day and walking around the wards all the time was much tiring than exciting.

Okay, I don't want to keep on cribbing about things now.

Thinking back on the goods and bads of the year that has been just passed by, it was more or less an unflavoured one. I mean, there were almost as equal goods as the bads which counterbalanced it to an okay one overall. And what I wanna do and change this year,...one could be not letting things to the last minute. And I wanna learn a lot of different things but time has become a pinch. There are some courses/skills that I started, finished Level 1 and then had not been able to continue cos of the time I had to dedicate to my med studies. So I let the dust to settle a bit. The path seems to be narrowing down as days and years pass by. I think its the same with everyone.

Also, I had a surprising cake cutting at 12 midnight from my friends. It was kind of a kick off event for the day to bring some birthday mood forgetting the tiredness and stress. Thanks to my friends who were very sweet to arrange such thing.

NB: My apologies to you guys for not replying your comments on some of my latest posts. I thought I'd rather try and make use of that time to read yours and leave comments. I know I am a bit behind in that as well. Sorry pps..I will do soon :)

Take care lots!

Saranya needs

...this is another tag. Thanks Priya.
I have to type in "my name needs" in Google and bring here what comes up there.

The first page from google had given me only one result with the 'saranya needs' phrase. And I don't know how many I had to put here so I had to explore some a lot more pages..and could find only a few!

1. Saranya needs to learn to act freely
   No comments.. :)
   
   
2. ..and Saranya need a special mention. They have lived the role of struggling parents who pour unconditional ...
   This made me laugh... about some movie stars..
   
   
3. Saranya needs some redressing in the second half. ...
   huh? whatcha sayin..!
   
   
4. Sharanya needs a service provider that gives free unlimited messages!
   Hehe, no thanks. I am already wasting most of the text allowance I've got.
   
   
5. Saranya need more inf regarding difference in oracle and ...
   and...?

I initially thought this was going to be an easy peasy tag, but it isn't :) It depends on how common the name is. I guess. I am not gonna tag anyone for this one...Hearing some silent thanks'? :)