Yes,.... We're having a baby....

no more liquor in the house...

Yesterday was De-Flower Day...

So my Death and Dying Training, in order to be a good physician, has started. I'm learning how to break bad news in a 6-step plan, how to tell someone that he/she is dying, how to help families cope, how to answer children's questions about where mommy is, and even help sick children come to terms with their own death. It hasn't been easy but here's what we learned NOT to say; it surprised me as I hear these phrases, as cliched as they may be, used all the time. But, they are in fact stupid things to say when trying to help a family cope with their loss. Someone I truly admire, Vishal, after opening up a help call center, had by himself called 40 families around Hyderabaad and told them that they had just lost their son/daughter in the 9/11 tragedy. How he managed to attain stamina to help these families come to terms with their child's death is still a mystery to me but I truly admire him and the great inner strength he possesses. Hope ya'll are careful about using theses phrases:

WOW! --Truth to what you learn in medical school...--Migraine prevalence in the life stages of a Woman

Correlation of Men causing Migraines: Migraines start in the teenage years of a woman's life, depending on when she starts dating. It peaks at a crucial turning point of her life; right after she gets married. It eventually declines and stops reoccurring following the death of her husband.

My Birthday...

No surprises...

priority #985674829462807247585403

Birthday come... Birthday go....

what importance am I in this world? To whom does it even make a difference?

No one even called at midnight...

Even the guy who put 4 rings on my finger forgot...!


:-/

Babel

Do you think Paul Haggis and Guillermo Arriaga ate the same cereal in the morning? If you liked "Crash", then you will certainly like "Babel." It has become a common theme to take a peek at events in different people's lives in various locations and show how their stories are all intertwined towards the end, but these two writers do an amazingly superb job with it. What really struck me were the simple, natural, and realistic scenes in the movie. I could really relate to each person just by him focusing on portraying small little everyday tasks that the character's partake in, which makes them more real. Things that most movie directors would not even think of were big touching elements in the movie. Simple scenes like where Brad is helping his wife pee moved me soo much... How does one pee after being shot? or the scene when Rinku takes her dentist's hand and puts it you you know where; it reminded me of the famous scene in Black with Amitabh and Kajol. The innocent elements... :( blah... feeling very sucky-alone, and unspecial rt now...will have to write more when the sun shines...



The title of the movie, "Babel" is so apt...

Babel- an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place.