Aaaaaaagggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!

First of all, belated EID mubarak!

Our Eid goat 'Dora' n Abeer... You can tell Abeer named it :P 

And Yes. Aaaaaaagggghhhhhhhhh!!!!! it is. We have two weeks till our finals.

 

The last few days, I can’t help wondering again n again:

 

1. WHY our med books are sooooo b.o.r.i.n.g.
2. WHY can’t my brain just effortlessly rote learn like every-single-body-else in my rote learning class that rote learns (every sentence in the book!) like anything- to rote liking teachers
3. WHY can’t I enjoy studying-again like every-single-body-else of my year (They preferred physio GIT prep to our annual KAPS function. Now, that just says it all!) 
4. WHY can’t Pakistani cricket ever have stable batting (we have a test match going on hence :P)
5. No. 1 again

Yep my books are boring. Actually boring is an under statement. They could snore you to death! Totally non vocational n unimaginative. Purple’s a non sense-headings galore… just leaves me fuzzy headed while year2 b.d. anatomy’s fertile with these icky squishy complex details that you HAVE to remember even though you know that they’re all going to head south after your exam. Sigh.

 

Oh, n our batsmen get batting tips from W.Y. who’s a bowler. Hello.

View since med school started...

 

I guess I should stop thinking no. 2. I said I wasn’t going to compare myself to anyone around. So.I.shouldn’t. I did measure up to my year 1 finals. And it was this same old, bhaija of mine that went through those same old boring pre clinical books. And it didn’t do bad. In all those vivas n practicals n writtens. Plus it squeezed through all my year2 tests :D

 

So, ending on a high that my gray matter pal can do it again...

 

Best of luck old bud, my med-ed muddled brain

 

May the force, be with you! :P

Discovering Iqbal

To taste death is nobler than

Bread that clogs the upward flight 

                                                   -Allama Iqbal

TV programs this Iqbal day have been a wakeup call for me.
I know nothing about Iqbal!
His ideals, his philosophy, his political leaning, the in-depth meaning of his poetry, the concept of self and it’s huge application in today’s world and today’s Pakistan. Nothing.

Iqbal was a genius; the concepts that he laid out in his poetry and the feelings that he tried to motivate through them will perpetually remain pertinent. His words are powerful, strong and extremely motivating. Not just for Muslims as a whole, or us as a nation, but for each of us on an individual level. Decisions that we make in our everyday life, if carried out with his concept of self, would be radically different. And wouldn’t that make one a radically changed person in turning producing a completely changed nation and an utterly changed Ummah. And for the better. All changed for the better.

Personally I’m a faithful when it comes to believing that individuals by their own resilience can make a difference. That if in a room of a hundred, if a person dares to stand up, the fate of those hundred can be changed. That following the crowd isn’t always the way to do something. I’ve come to learn (especially in med school)that comparing your abilities with others is just a way of offending yourself. That when you’ve got you’re heart and mind set on a thing, impossible becomes I.am.possible.! (okay the last one was corny :P) And going from being an almost-mute to applauded as an orator, it goes to show that yes, it’s just the strength of your cerebral neurones and cardiac fibres that you really need. I believe that reading Iqbal can revitalise this faith of mine.

So I’ve made a vow to study Iqbal, in whatever possible way I can. Granted Urdu is a serious weak point for me. But it’s like someone explained the other day on Express 24/7 that Iqbal urges us to be ‘creative’, with creative meaning bringing two antagonist things together to produce something that hasn’t been envisioned before. So taking ‘understanding Urdu poetry’ and ‘myself’ as two completely opposite things and putting them together as a hitherto undone thing, I‘ll be doing what Iqbal meant. Well in a weird way I guess. Cool,no :D

Send Ups

Ok my send ups are UP.

Let's not talk about anatomy :P But the day I came back, got some good news on my cell that my friends n I'd cleared the not so great whack. See below if you don't geddit ;D So really needed that after the anatomy stint. Plus we WON our match against SA superbly (again see below). So yesterday turned out to be a really really really enjoyable day.

AAAAAAWWWEEEEEESSSSSOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Awesome!! AweSOmE!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Wahab Riaz showed nerve, muscle n brain when needed.
Yo! we've got a human on the team!!!

Today’s match was amaaazing! My FAV player made Man of the match!!!!

Ok highlights… highlightssss!!
A good start: Amla out quick, Kallis too

Smith being the rude slab-of-fat that he is: knocks Wahab sharply n yells later for him to getoutta the way (humph!)

Shoaib Akhtar in his character: Points to his head at Smith who winks back

Wahab Riaz shows some true Pakistani-fast bowler-essence: on a hatrick!!!

Superb Pakistani crowd: Not the English green Willie Wonkas we see, but satisfactorily just as noisy :D

Professor’s joy: M. Hafeez jumps with his always-whitened face

Runs leaked at the end by us…

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Damaad jee: (thankfully) out quick

Younus Khan goes big: Laalaa plays slow but steady… loyal fans are happy :)))

Hey Nice shots!: by Hafeez, the new guy Asad wasn‘t bad either

S.A. start fielding like us: woohooo :DDDD we must be infective ;D

Fawad Alam: Cheecho Meecho caught out today :P

Boom Boom: Showed up with some brain today… some

Bang Bang: Abdul Razzak… naa wasn’t his day

Death time: Wahab Riaz showing some much needed muscle. He’s making all the difference in this series, really. Doesn’t get nervy and doesn’t look emaciated like most of our recent payers do. Gets dropped by Smith (ahhh bliss :D couldn’t have wished for someone else) Gets run out though! (You just know by this time that our team our going to take it to the LAST ball with the LAST player) Zulkarnain ( Thank GOD! No Grouper-Akmal! Credit to a timely inflaming of his appendix!) silences his critics by showing sense and sensibility till the very end. Knew he had the shots, he just needed some confidence.

Captain’s clamour: Busy biting his shirt though thankfully not nails this time. Seemed alive contrary to his usual coma state at the death overs. Who knows, he might be a crickinfo follower.

Ahh a sajda, a scream and some comic punches by Zulkarnain Haider… Grrreeeaaaaat way to end it all!!!

Us at home: clapping, screaming at the start, mid n end of every ball. After the Razzak match, our neighbours must be used to it by now :DD

So Pakistan Cricket is finally alive! No revolting fixers, no annoying groupers means yes I’m watching matches now. Wahab Riaz has officially entered my fav player list as of today. A comeback by Younus Khan's solidified our batting a bit. With all that we’ve done to this world cup winning champ of ours, I can’t think of anyone else deserving a man-of-the-match award. I’ve noticed though, there’s still some coldness between him and the other players. Lets hope it evaporates soon.  

It just goes to show that it’s loyalty and not talent that really matters. We didn’t have the Akmals, we didn’t have Amir. On the basis of talent, we shouldn’t have won. We couldn’t have won. But it was loyalty- loyalty of the lesser talented like M. Hafeez, Zulkarnain H, Asad S. that won us this match. Afridi should realize that. He often talks about match winners makin all the difference. But it’s not so. We don’t need talented groupers. We need loyalists. LoYaliSts.

So here’s to our team loyalists.

May they get all the breaks that they need (so we won’t have to see another grouper’s face ever again), May they earn us wins (so Salman Butt can zip it), And may they always always remain appendicitis free!

A GREAT WHACK... and a not so great one..:P

Not much time to write a lot...

Soooo had my physio send up (ahem let's just call it the not so great whack! and leave that topic be).

But the very night before, amused medic n family enjoyed THE MOST AWESOME MATCH IN THE HISTORY OF AWESOME MATCHES' AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!

Abdul Razzak whacked, cracked, shot, bolted that ball for a ton of 6s and a rush of 4s. It was Mr. Cricket-Pakistani style!! :D Sheesh it'd been a gazillion years since we'd seen suuuuuch a brilliant performance! It was exhilarating, exciting, nail bitingly tense... I was shaking at the end!

The word awesome just falls sort here.

It was something that the presently-in-a-coma cricket fans of Pakistan really really needed. Awesome. Awesome. AWESOME.

Got to dash for some sleep now- we were stuck in a traffic jam for 3hours today... :(... so some rest is what I need.