Things as usual spiraled out of control and I found myself actually swiping plastic over the net and saying things like "don't worry I'm on the next flight out". Jet Airways, though the best private carrier yada yada, has a couple of glitches. The Boeing 737s that they use have smaller food trays than the A320s. Not a big issue unless you're trying to read a textbook on the tray. Why, you ask? Because here I am and this is me and that's what I do. And since when did they start having more men in the Mile high club than women. And yes I know what that sentence means. Too many stewards, so thankfully I disappeared into the recesses of my book for most of the journey.
The NCR is at it's pleasantest best in terms of weather. And only weather. I've hunted high and low for pleasantness everywhere else in vain. The usual culture shock of an airport the size of an airport as opposed to the corn field we have in our wonderful city, people completely unconcerned about your safety, nice roads, a Metro, a Monorail proposition to be done by 2009, construction of flyovers late into the night, the closing of every shop on MG Road. Now I used to think, after close scrutiny of Pondicherry and Bangalore that almost every town or city had an MG Road named after the father. Turns out that the NCR's MG is Mehrauli Gurgaon road dotted with factory outlets, furniture stores and Rohit Bal exclusives. All of which, thankfully have been shut.
Anyway whatever uncontrollable bit of fate got me here is now all back in place and an Indian Ocean concert happens at the garden of five senses this evening. That promises to be fun. Back to the hometown tomorrow for my results (of some examination that I'm close to forgetting I ever wrote).
On an aside studying medicine and it's allied branches for close to ten years does unforgivable damage to many parts of one's brain. The most significant is to the language centres. On one hand it's 'cool' to use words like palpable in daily language in the form of the phrase 'no palpable benefit'. On the other this is what I had to deal with. And I quote -
Calcium should be infused with caution in patients with hyperphosphatemia - it may precipitate.
And spent the next fifteen minutes wondering, "..precipitate what? A fatal reaction? Anaphylaxis? What?"
No idiot. Calcium, in the presence of Phosphate will simply precipitate...
Precipitate what?
The NCR is at it's pleasantest best in terms of weather. And only weather. I've hunted high and low for pleasantness everywhere else in vain. The usual culture shock of an airport the size of an airport as opposed to the corn field we have in our wonderful city, people completely unconcerned about your safety, nice roads, a Metro, a Monorail proposition to be done by 2009, construction of flyovers late into the night, the closing of every shop on MG Road. Now I used to think, after close scrutiny of Pondicherry and Bangalore that almost every town or city had an MG Road named after the father. Turns out that the NCR's MG is Mehrauli Gurgaon road dotted with factory outlets, furniture stores and Rohit Bal exclusives. All of which, thankfully have been shut.
Anyway whatever uncontrollable bit of fate got me here is now all back in place and an Indian Ocean concert happens at the garden of five senses this evening. That promises to be fun. Back to the hometown tomorrow for my results (of some examination that I'm close to forgetting I ever wrote).
On an aside studying medicine and it's allied branches for close to ten years does unforgivable damage to many parts of one's brain. The most significant is to the language centres. On one hand it's 'cool' to use words like palpable in daily language in the form of the phrase 'no palpable benefit'. On the other this is what I had to deal with. And I quote -
Calcium should be infused with caution in patients with hyperphosphatemia - it may precipitate.
And spent the next fifteen minutes wondering, "..precipitate what? A fatal reaction? Anaphylaxis? What?"
No idiot. Calcium, in the presence of Phosphate will simply precipitate...
Precipitate what?
