Think wise or pay the price...

Whoosh.. as the time flies

It is but of no surprise

that we hardly realize

the truth behind our friends' lies.

The day it hits you as sharp as ice

that is the day you hear good-byes.

You din wanna hear this your heart cries

and you'd thought friendship never dies

All i can say to you guys

is friendship's not a game of cats & mice

It has its low points and high fives

It's upto you to enjoy every slice..

THIS WAS A GRAFITTI OF ME MADE BY A FRIEND!!

The never ending wait.......

My day starts of with waiting for the alarm to ring. I'm not exactly a lazy person. Its just that inspite of being an early riser the Bangalore weather does not permit me to get out of bed all that soon. And it also does not sound cool to be called an early riser. In turn i end up waitin until 6.30 am to jump out of bed.

Once i'm ready to leave i wait for the apartment lift to arrive at my floor. It so happens that exactly at the time i take the lift, somebody in the 13th floor( that's 6 levels above mine) takes it. And i end up staring at the closed doors of the lift for the next ten mins.

And then comes the best part- the wait for the buses. All the empty buses are heading to other destinations and the one I have to take is the most crowded one. There is no place to even set foot on, so forget sitting. And on the one odd day i get to sit, even while i'm rejoicing at my luck there's an old lady who gets into the bus and everyone in the bus including driver and conductor pounce on me to get up, with all due respects to the old woman i 'sacrifice' my seat.

Nevertheless one thing that's synonymous to Bangalore's name is its traffic. One particular stretch of road that i use takes half an hour to clear. Every other lane joining the road or even the parallel ones appear traffic-less. There starts my wait for the traffic to clear.

And once i reach, the college lift is an entirely new story. There are 4 lifts out of which only one or a maximum of two is functioning at any given time. The result is that at any given time there are 20 people waiting for a lift that accomodates 8. Consider days when patient inflow is particularly good and the lift has a field day;)

Over to canteen, where the wait for the food to arrive is directly proportional to your hunger. And it so happens that on lucky days it does arrive early only for you to realise that that there are no spoons. Read in reverse order and you get my evening schedule. This is the reason why i'm so happy to be back home at the end of the day. I just can't wait to watch tv or read the paper. I shall end it here and not make you wait any longer!

Sleeping patients!

For most people a visit to the dentist is a nightmare. Coz as Ogden Nash put it "some tortures are physical while some are mental but the one that is both is dental." But have you ever wondered what a dentist's worst nightmare could be? A sleeping patient! Yes.

I happened to come come across a lot of them when I was posted in dept. of periodontics where patients come for cleaning. But most of the time it is more likely that they were just forced to get it done before a filling or an extraction. Hence they are least likely to be eager about it. And we being students happen to do mechanical cleaning inspite of great advancements like ultrasonic, etc. Now this is a time consuming procdure and can tire the patient to the max. In addition is the fact that our posting is in the afternoon and the patient most probably is waiting since morning for his turn probably without having lunch.

So it happens that the moment he sits on the chair he gets drowsy, and in no time he is asleep and sometimes even snoring! This puts me in a spot. I'm forced to wake them up because of fear of hurting them with sharp instruments. They wake up with a start out of guilt of dozin off assumin they are the only ones to have done it. But only we know that its an everyday happening! And after some time they are not even guilty, they are comfortably asleep. It was initially shocking and irritating but i gradually learnt what i had to learn- patient psychology.

This was one of my enjoyable experiences in college as i learnt more about psychology than about dentistry!!