Reality Checks

Our Second Occupation – Doctor

Why is it that every Indian (esp North Indian), is a born doctor at heart. Why they are always capable of bringing out some unique obscure way of healing irrespective of whether they have never heard the disease ever. Is it something in our genes or acquire owing to peer pressure (Yes, peer pressure as no one wants to be the last one to visit the patient and not land themselves offer the already offered remedy). It made me to think as whether we are very compassionate at heart and want to stopover at the patient or not to be left a chance in offering free-fund ka advice, I think the latter.

I just got a taste of this recently when I met with an accident and got disc dislocation (L4, L5 discs to be precise, :D, not to be left a chance of genuine advise if some doctor visits this page) which helps in lower body movement.
So, I got to meet/chat/talk a lot of people who offered me different types of cure than ever thought of all the medical fraternity of India. The bigger pain is when everyone has the same questions to ask with and random advice to part with. The 4 exactly same questions I answered numerously during my 1 month if bed rest were
1) Arre Sam, kya hua… u not well, u never told me dude ? (As if the first thing you should ever do after meeting with the accident is not rush to doctor but send a sms to all the people u know about your latest misadventure)
2) Accha, how did is happened? Kiski galti thi? (May be its important to make them as part of my testimony when even i’ll file for insurance)
3) How is the pain now (It wud have been better had u r not the 100th person asking the same question)
4) What does doctor say? Tum kab acche ho jaoge?

Now as much painstakingly possible, they expect you to tell them and before you properly answer the last question, they will jump in the fray and start recollecting all those people who they think had this problem. Its like

Sam to Arora aunty: According to doctor, I will get better in …(Cutting it short)
Arora Aunty to Sam: Arre, yeh sab doctor log to pagal hote hain. My cousin’s daughter’s friend’s son has also experience the same. I advised him to go to that person for massage and eat these things. He got better in few days.

I mean does it like these people have have certification in curing all kind of ailments by their ‘home-made/dreadful looking/more dreadful tasting stuff’. The best part is you will get to know
a) New relatives/acquaintances who were never part of your world (Mummy ki chachi ki cousin ki friend Bhavna ki friend ka phone aaya hai)
b) New places which never existed on earth (Arre, shilpa aunty was telling ki there is a baba who lives in God-so-forsaken village near never-heard-before town has instant cure for this. Surprisingly why don’t our Govt. approaches these ppl for eradicating bigger nemesis like Polio, AIDS etc)
c) Never heard/seen before stuff which you have to just gulp.

So, God forbid if you ever get unwell don’t tell anyone. Even if its get leaked out, tell them you are fine now and joining office within next few hours. Else …..

# posted by Sam @ 4:32 PM 1 Comments

Hollywood ka Mithun - Steven Seagal

I just saw one more Steven "Seagull" movie – 'Out of Reach'. It was one more classic in his already no story-useless action-God knows why i watched it-list. Dont know why I am describing the story when there ain’t. The story line revolves around how one man fights against the entire human trafficking industry. In the movie, he protects a small girl, his pen friend (not explained how he knew her) from getting into human trafficking. The girl gets kidnapped and he follows the bad man to get her out. The little girl keeps on leaving some clues in some code language (which she learn in letters only sent by our hero). But director never understood the magnanimity of Steven, I mean he is Steven duh!, why the hell he will be needing clues to find out the bad people. He just has to guide a taxi to reach them, be it Turkish Embassy or secret vestibule of that scoundrel. So, as expected Steven never used any of the clues left to find them. Instead the audience was uniquely witnessed to his fine computer hacking skills (irrespective of him being in the jungles since ages), charm (such a rugged head expressions) and fine martial art (even when just movement of such a flabby body seems tricky). In between, he also tangles across a probable love interest (who I think got disinterested after knowing our hero’s age), who helps her in 3 minutes of shoot out. Now again director thought giving guns to our hero will help him kill the enemies, but alas, out hero just need hands to kill all of them. Ain’t it a powerful clench, much stronger than our Dharam Ji or his son Sunny Ji. So our hero ji find the leads of world’s largest drug trafficking network (but just one click of computer), finds the involved company in 10 secs( from the address book of some 1000 ppl), finds the lead conspirator (by just following one random car) and kills all of them by bare hands (you still have any doubt !).

So, the more I watched the movie, the more believed that Steven is just blindly following our Mithun Da. I mean no story, no screen play (one fighting scene followed by another only), heroines half the age or less only, the same style of slaughtering the conspirators by himself, knowing all the bad people before entering the crime scene, busting all the hide outs without opening the map and killing all the villains without using a bullet.
But one thing he lacked which our Mithun Da has:- the killing dialogues, delightful cast( Ibu Hathela, Lambu Atta, Chutiya Pathan), the same protecting the humanity nature, the all so revered song-dance-fight routine (though lately song and dance have gone more minuscule (Mithun Da started acting his age in late 50s). Long Live Mithun Da and shame on Steven for copying him!

# posted by Sam @ 5:30 PM 0 Comments

Reflections !!

For some time I am feeling sad. For some time I am feeling lost. Is it pain of not getting something or is pain of getting something unwanted. What I am looking at which is not there in front of my eyes. I went inside my mind but still couldn’t find anything. Is it a frequent activity or something I am experiencing the first time.

What to do, where to go, who to seek help from. I am getting lost in my own world. Am I tensed or uptight. Is it anger launched at myself or anger launched at you. What are these invisible barriers which are keeping me from being myself. What are these sinking feeling deep down. Is it fair that I am feeling low while the world is at sky high or is it that me only who is keeping myself meeting with the world at large.

Sometimes I have difficulty in understanding myself. Where is that Vibrant Me! Where is that Vivacious Me! Have I ceased to be a child or the Man in me has taken a lead. I am still confused, I am still bewildered.

What I did not realize was that the Man in me just got lost in this hopeless world lost in darkness and misery. But I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I told myself that everything is going to be fine. And today, I have found him again. And today, I am not gonna let go of him. Never ever.

# posted by Sam @ 9:08 PM 0 Comments

Guantanamo Bay v/s Saas Bahu

What is more difficult to face: - Torture at Guantanamo Bay by US or watching the re runs of Sas-Bahu daily saga on Hindi Channels. I think the latter.

I had to go through this ordeal when I fell ill and was bed ridden for few weeks. To further accentuate my horror stories, a strike by cine artist association was called to increase their daily wage structure. So to cut short no new serials were being made and aired during that period which made all the working/house wives howling and husbands getting panicked coz of that. If you don’t know the strike and its effects than bravo my friend, either you just hate TV or you are not living with your parents.

So imagine, since you are bed ridden and nothing to do/read/write you are made to watch some of the serials (as TV is my room, and mom is watching all those stuff) and since no new episodes are made so you are being subjected to repeat runs again and again and again.

Imagine you first watched the sas bahu epic Predicting what would happen. Because of channels having no new stuff so they are airing the same again. So now next day you are watching the same stuff Knowing what would happen. Btw this activity was repeated entire week.

Thankfully the strike was called off so I was subjected to lesser of two evils i.e. watching newer episodes of Sas–Bahu epics (Yups epics as “Kyunki Saas ..” is running for over 10 years).

I wonder whether US has tried these serials to crack those terrorist. It may work.

# posted by Sam @ 4:57 PM 2 Comments

Some lines more...

Sometimes i do get my occasional bouts of poetism(don knw whether the word exists or not, doesn't matter though). So here it goes.. Specially for those lovers, who could not meet for some time.

(Warning.. Not recommended for all those ppl who know poetry, main nahin chahta yeh pad kar unka poetry par se vishwaas hi uth jaye)

As the night passed, and moon was going away !
Remembering just you, let my mood not sway !!

You gone so far, for so many days !
To keep me steady, I had to learn new ways !!

Come back soon, as your love await !
Want to relive that perfect first date !!

Labels: love poem, romantic lines

# posted by Sam @ 12:20 PM 1 Comments

Just got back.. finally !!

It seems ages since I got back to scribbling something. Its like two friends have separated for no reason with promise to never talk again. Don’t know who to blame, me/office/demanding boss who never demanded much/laptop with less battery/flights which never took off on time/family to which I never able to give time/girl friend which just entered in my life/lazy weekends which never had good movie to go for/maid who never cleaned my house properly and so on.

But as one famous man said (Don’t remember it was Hollywood or some spiritual guru, though these days both are equally charismatic) “You always have choice”. Though I never made the right one.

So without wasting some more time, I should write something which will acts as an ice breaker between me and the my blog. Sometime back, someone asked me to pen down my thoughts which I visualise when i think abt my better half ( I still don’t know why they call her a ‘better’ half, I mean ab tak mere mein kuch kami thi which I didn’t knew). So here it goes

We are together since half a year !
but seems we have travelled the entire sphere !!

I fell in the love of a girl so right !
I never thot i will find that one in sight !!

I waited and waited for her to appear !
but never felt better when u seated near !!

She is the one, the angel of my life !
That’s how sweet, my lovely wife !!

Hope to keep in touch with my blog on a regular basis.

Labels: love poem, romantic lines

# posted by Sam @ 12:17 PM 1 Comments