the world of an engineer

ONE YEAR ON...

2009-11-26T06:44:00.004+05:30

Yes!! It is the first anniversary of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai. In this past one year quite a lot of things have changed in our country and its all for the good.The first in the list being India is no longer resilient. There has not been a single terror strike (of course excluding the attacks by ULFA and the naxals) in this past one year, the intelligence system of our country has improved the Govt. has finally decided to meet the demands of the armed forces' demands on their pay (truly!! they are the most deserving) and a whole lot of other things have also changed and I am proud of it.

Things have changed drastically in the past one year and before 26/11 there have been numerous terror strikes that hit various parts of our country, various serial blasts killing many people across various cities including some of the most developed. Yet these attacks could not be stopped nor was there any single prior information available or if at all information was available, no action was taken based on the data received.

But today things are a whole lot different. If all this change has to be attributed to one single cause, it has to be the changing the Home Minister of our country from Mr. Shivraj Patel, who apparently lost the 2004 general elections and still made the HOME MINISTER of our country to Mr. P. Chidambharam, who has done a pretty good job (rather an excellent job) thus far, I would say "Chidambharam is a better Home Minister than a Finance Minister".

Change is here today, if this change was available a year back, such an incident would never have occurred. But, it all happened and many lost their dear ones. I would like to stand-by those who lost their dear ones and convey my solidarity to them at the first anniversary. I wish all of you people can also join me. May their souls rest in peace.

OH MY GOD!!!

2009-10-12T07:48:00.002+05:30

In the last post that i had written, that i was back and i seemed to have disappeared yet again. It was almost a month back that i had written my previous post and nothing before today... close to 5 posts saved as draft but nothing published. But, why?

Twitter - follow me @csrianth (Don't mind the DP)
Facebook - add me as a friend here
Work - the work on the website, the blog, twitter (follow us @robotixlab) and loads of other stuff that we are doing there (including the robots that we are making).

And now that Vinay has left us to join Oracle Business Solutions, the work that we shared on the internet front would entirely come on my shoulders meaning extra work load. And, I'm like (OMG!!!), Vinay i am so mad at you for this... just kidding man... All the best with your new work.. have fun you have after all borrowed my tie for first day at work, hope that gives you luck...:)

Signing off
Yours
Srinath

GUESS I' M BACK

2009-08-09T14:49:00.002+05:30

Work has indeed been very hectic off late and as days run out, it is only getting more and more hectic. Consequently, i wanted to take a break from blogging and thought i would get back later. But, certainly reduce the frequency of myself writing new blog posts (after all, making a commitment and not keeping up with it is never good!!!). So, i guess I'm finally back. But not sure how long this is going to last, as my company is planning to launch a new product very soon (in less than a month's time) and all of us are gearing up for that.

In the last few posts that i had written, I wrote a lot about google, SEO , Page Ranks etc. but none of these posts seem to have an impact on my page rank. It still continues to be 1 on 10. Guess i have been tricked by a write up i saw on the web that said write more about SEO and google to improve traffic and PR also.

Of course, i have changed the layout of my blog once again. Do leave your comment on the new template.

Hope to catch you all soon.

P.S. : Will update very soon on the new product launch.

GOOGLE CONTINUES TO ROCK!!!

2009-07-26T21:19:00.002+05:30

"It was like wow!!!" when I first happened to realise my blog posts are climbing up the google search results. Now my Feedjit tells me that more and more readers are reaching my blog by searching for their desired results on google and google blog search.

Here goes the list
first - "first salary" quotes
second - "we all live in a darwinian world"
third - "manmohan"

After all this, with some hope I checked my PR,it remains at 1 [:(]

AT THE RIGHT TIME

2009-07-25T06:12:00.002+05:30

Ever since the 50th post was published on my blog, I wanted to take a break from blogging for sometime. The reasons being four fold. First, my job getting the better of me (really hectic I must say) and my time (over the last one week, I have been returning home only post 7 in the evening). Second, not able to find enough time to allocate for my GATE prep. I thought, by reducing the time I spent on blogging, I would be able to find more time for my GATE prep. Next, the last one week or so has been a very low key affair on my blog. The comments that I have received have been very few. Zero, in many posts in fact. This was kind of demoralizing. Finally, I want to write about a few incidents and want to give my best in them. But when I do start writing, words fail me. This could have very well been noticed by the regular readers of my blog, I only wrote fillers repeatedly for a few days on my blog, nothing more.

When all this was going on my mind, I suddenly had a new reader reach out to me through gmail and the contact that I have given and I made a new friend :). Then after sometime, I had a comment on two of my blog posts (almost a week after I had published the posts) and real good ones I must say. Again by a stranger. And many more friends have told me through IMs that my blog is going really good. So, I guess I will carry on for some more time before I actually take a break.

Well, all this happened just at the right moment... so that I will carry on for now...

A MISTAKE OF SORTS?

2009-07-24T06:40:00.003+05:30

The Govt. run at the center by the UPA under the leadership of Dr. Manmohan Singh, has always been under the scrutiny when it comes to foreign policy matters. Right from the time of Mr. Natwar Singh to Mr. Pranab Mukarjee to Mr. S.M. Krishna now. This govt has misserably failed in framing its foriegn policy and repeatedly taking a beating on a day to day basis. During this session of parliment alone the opposition has staged a walkout twice just to show their dissapoinment with the govt for its misserable handling of various foriegn policy issues.

The biggest missery of them all is the Indo - US nuke dela, this still comes by every now and then to haunt the Congress led Govt. Recently at the G8 summit, it was pronounced that India should sign the CTBT and the NPT before the G8 community could actually have a commercial nuke treaty for civilian purposes. Our rights sacrificed? But when the USA secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Clinton made her trip down to India, she said in interview after interview that the USA cannot ask the Indian Govt. to sign the CTBT unless they sign it themselves first (finally they have realised it I guess!!!). Only good out of this episode, the opposition seems to be scoring points.

Next, The Indo-Pak joint statement at Egypt. Reports say, the secretary level talks failed and in a hurry te Prime Ministers of the two coutries were desperate to give a joint statement and the Indians let the word Baluchistan feature in the joint statement leading to hell a lot of trouble for the Govt. The Pakistan media reports now claim that the Pakistan govt. has credible evidance of India directly supporting the Balooch terrorists. Of course immediately dismissed by the MEA, India as mere allegations. But the hard reality, has India been ambushed on the Balooch issue? Only time will answer.

My question is, why was Manmohan Singh so desperate in having S.M. Krishna as the External Affairs Minister? Of course the Prime Minister is also to be equally blamed for the above two incidents. Still, was Manmohan Singh desperate enough in having a failed Chief Minister of Karnataka at such a key portfolio? Or, was it the decision of the Congress supremo? Answering to the question of whether Dr. Manmohan Singh is a WEAK Prime Minister.

FILM REVIEWS

2009-07-23T06:45:00.001+05:30

Very soon, I am going to start reviewing movies on my blog and make sure you keep watching this space for two big reviews coming up very soon

THANKS TO GOOGLE!!

2009-07-22T06:18:00.000+05:30

Its time I thank google for the recognition it has given to this blog. I was just going over the feedjit live traffic for my blog and I found out someone had entered my blog based on their searches on google. I tried to find out where my blog stands on the google search and guess wat for the search on "FIRST SALARY" on google blogs search, this was the result. Can't believe it is it? its true, my blog post on "MY FIRST SALARY", stands first on the search. WOW!!!! Was i not happy?!!!!

Also I found from my feedjit showed that my post on "FACEBOOK GAMES" had a hit by a search on google. For the search query on "quiz engineer facebook" on google blogs search, my post appeared within the top 20 search results. It can be viewed here.

So, once again, THANK YOU GOOGLE!!!! :)

LIFE IS UNFAIR! GOD IS FAIR…

2009-07-21T06:34:00.002+05:30

As said earlier, this happens to be my 50th blog post and the surprise is I have let one of my closest friend from college write a guest post and here it is.....

I love this topic because I believe in it. I have the habit of thanking god every night for that particular day and will feel happy that he guided me throughout the day. But when in bed, will realize that I did not have a satisfying day. I guess that’s what each one of us will feel. So do you think god designed a bad day for you in spite of knowing that you needed a better one?

This is the question that hits me hard whenever I think about it. I would never answer it because I would never want to. From my early age, I was told that god is your light. It was the first lesson my mom taught and I will never forget that. I still remember the night I walked in the dark, from my bedroom to the washroom. The distance might have been less but it was that belief I have in him which is taking me through the darkest days of my life.

There must be an answer to that question if I believed in god la? So how do I answer that? I framed an answer saying “LIFE IS UNFAIR! GOD IS FAIR”

I have had a beautiful life in spite of life changing moments. But I can bet that my sad moments are jus a hand full when compared to the happiness that I derive. If you think there is a secret behind it, then you are wrong. It is jus because that I believe in myself and in god. My god may be belief, but yours can be jus an idol or nature or whatever you think it is.

If god has designed a bad day for you, it means that he has a better one the following day. You may not realize his presence when everything is going on fine but you will feel his absence when something is wrong. The amazing thing is when you realize that he is there all time with you. This would have been the moral of every bed time story. It was long time back na? Yes, we all are too old for these stories but one cannot run without knowing to walk. Basics are basics.. do not ignore them.

Recollecting few moments in my life, I would tell you all, that life is simple and it is in our hands to make it simpler. I have had bad days but there was a mom to hold my hands and say that I was the best, there was a dad to provide wings to my dreams, and there were friends for everything. That’s how life is, beautiful. One can never have a bad day because there is no black without the white in it. See the positive.

Life is yours but you are HIS

Life may be unfair but god is fair…

Thatvamasi..( everything is in you)

I always LOVE to finish dramatically, so, I conclude by saying “ NAAN KADAVUL”

Thanks Srinath. for this being your 50^th blog..

WHAT HAVE I DONE?!!

2009-07-20T07:05:00.002+05:30

Last night, I was watching a program on NDTV. The program was about remembering our soldiers for their sacrifices ten years ago during the Kargil war. As a part of the show, they showed one of the mothers' whose son was at the army during the battle, she read out a letter (the last letter) written to her by her son.

The letter went something like this, "By the time you are reading this letter, I will be up in the skies watching you". The letter goes on to say a few other things as well. Then, the letter goes on to say, "You should probably come over and see the place from where we fought to kep the India of tomorrow safe". These two lines of the letter touched me and made me realise the fact that the men in the Army without any expectations from the country go all the way to the extent of even sacrificing their lives. But, we people living in big cities do not even act responsible enough and we say "what has this country given me, for me to give back something?". In fact the country has only taken the lives of the army men and they willingly give their lives. The letter concldes by saying, "IF AT ALL THERE WAS ANOTHER LIFE, I WOULD WANT TO SERVE THE ARMY OF MY NATION ONCE AGAIN". This gave me goosebumbs.

Now, this just gives me the inspiration to do something for the country (maybe not join the army). Do something, that would make every fellow citizen feel proud of calling me one among them.

AS I PROMISED

2009-07-19T18:33:00.002+05:30

As I had promised , my first short story is out published, you can check it out here. And henceforth, there will be one short story published here. Receiving nice, good and critical feedback for this first story I have published and am looking forward to more. Thanks to all those folks who have chipped in with their feedback regarding my story. And by the way, this post happens to be my 48th post published on this blog. Which means the 50th post is approaching quick and fast and have a surprise for all you readers on my 50th post, for which you may have to wait for another 2 days.

ANOTHER FIRST

2009-07-18T19:12:00.002+05:30

Today, the 18th of July, 2009 marks the completion of one month since I joined Robotix Lab Research Academy. This past one month has been an amazing experience for me. A whole new world that I see. No more a student, a professional now [:P]. In these 30 days, I have learnt a lot, met different people and a whole lot of other things are happening around me which just seems so wonderful. With all this happening, I' m only motivated to work harder by the day and start scaling peaks.

P.S. : Tomorrow is a sunday and do not forget this sunday is going to be the first post on my short story blog. Do tune in and check it out and ensure you leave your comments there as well, it would help me out in my future short stories.

HOW TRUE?!!!

2009-07-17T21:45:00.005+05:30

This was the cartoon put up on cartoonoscope on "THE HINDU", dated July 17th, 2009. This is very true in INDIA and especially this year when the monsoons have failed. A drought hit country has only hopes set high and hopefully the Nature Gods may show some mercy on us. Very well put up, this cartoon, HOW TRUE?!!!

WATCH TV... REALLY?!!

2009-07-16T19:15:00.002+05:30

Recently, the union Healt Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabhi Azad was talking to the press about population control. Its true that India is running ahead in the population race and may soon be the undisputed champion in this league of population explosion. I would certainly agree with Mr. Azad that population has to be controlled and it is sooner the better.

Mr. Azad was also giving some suggestions through the media as to how population can be controlled. His idea was to encourage people watch TV late in the night. He said "people will come back from work, watch TV late in the night almost until 12, feel tired and sleep. Thus, population growth can be controlled".

Really?!! Watching TV late into the night will help??!!!
The simple answer is NO. Why?
Late in the night every TV show would turn people horny. Resulting in a blast of population explosion. Watching TV late in the night would never be an apt solution for checking the population growth in our country.

Nice try Mr. Azad, come up with something else that would really check the population explosion.

KUDOS MR. SREEDHARAN

2009-07-15T22:50:00.001+05:30

Sunday morning after the collapse of the pillar in the construction site of the railway track of the Delhi Metro, the chief heading the organisation of the Delhi Metro Railway Corporation without any hesitation took the onus on himself and stepped down immediately.

Mr. Sreedharan. one of the best engineers the country has ever seen had been involved some of the most successful railway projects in India, including the Kolkata Metro, the Konkan Railway project (which is undoubtedly is best work till date) and now recently the Delhi metro (which is half way through). He has also been asked to asist in the Chennai metro, Banglore metro and the metro rail to built in various other parts of our country.

Once the accident took place, Mr. Sreedharan resigned from his post immediately. This set an unprecedented all time high regards on the gentleman in everyone's hearts. Not just that, his act also set unparalleled work ethics ever seen in this country. After I had written on how important ethics was and how my friend thought otherwise, here is a man who tells the entire world what ethics actually means and not just by words but through his action. Kudos Mr. Sreedharan for your act!!!

Now, the Delhi State Govt. has rejected his resignation and has asked him to continue disposing his duties and rightly so. Even at the age of 77, if Mr. Sreedharan commands such high respect, he throughly deserves every single bit of it. Just goes to show the level of belief the authorities have on Mr. Sreedharan. It would only be possible to complete the Delhi Metro Rail project successfully and within time only if Sreedharan continues.

After whatever has happened, I say this from the bottom of my heart and I mean every word of it, "I WISH I COULD LEAD A LIFE AS MR. SREEDHARAN DID, SIMPLE, HONEST AND WELL RESPECTED. HE WILL BE MY ROLE MODEL HENCEFORT."

ZZZZzzzzz 2!!!!!

2009-07-14T19:54:00.001+05:30

I am in no mood to write a post today. I just do not want to do it. Just to keep up my word of writing a post a day, I am filling up this space with this crap today.

ZZZzzz!!!!

2009-07-13T19:36:00.001+05:30

Just a filler today. Maybe the same even tomorrow. Can't help it folks, see you soon

Godspeak

DISCIPLINE AND DETERMINATION

2009-07-12T13:05:00.002+05:30

When people keep telling you that you need to lead a disciplined life right from your younger days, you just do not feel like listening to them. Things get even worse when you enter your adolescence, now you hate anybody telling you anything at all. You just want to lead your life the way you want to. Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, everybody seem senseless, friends become the world for the adolescents. You choose good friends, your life becomes glorious. Yous choose bad friends, your life becomes miserable. You go around have fun, hang out and do all kinds of stuff. You just would not care about your future, all that you want to do is enjoy and have fun and nothing more.

Finally when time comes, we learn our lesson the hard way. Only "DISCIPLINE AND DETERMINATION" can yield long term success in our career. Now, it is my turn to have learnt the lesson and here I am trying to change my life into a disciplined one filled with determination to achieve BIG TIME.

So, where does discipline come into my life and how? How is discipline related to determination?
I am determined to make it big in life and to make it big, I need to slog today. Only if I can take some kind of a small step today, sometime soon in my life I can take a GIANT LEAP to get closer to where I dream of being (I am not going to talk of my dreams here and get myself ridiculed. But, I am sure one day my dreams will come true). My work or me slogging off, should be well planned and executed. So, I decided to lead a disciplined life starting off with sleeping for not more than six hours a day. Make it a point to write my blog posts regularly. Cut down on the time spent on watching TV. Plan my activities on a day-to-day basis and have a proper self feedback system and keep monitoring the improvement in working towards my short term goals which would eventually lead to my final ambition.

Hope I have not bored you guys too much by writing my personal stuff here.

P.S. : There have been too many things off late on which i want to write about. But, I am just able to find enough time to do so. I wanted to write about Buchanan's new book, The Ayodhya controversy, The Godhra investigations, Swine flu and et. al. Very soon, one after another you would find me write about all these topics that I have mentioned above.

HERE IT GOES

2009-07-11T20:09:00.002+05:30

I have been talking for sometime now about me starting another blog just meant for just short stories and the blog is finally here. I had also spoken about spilling out the reason behind me taking a brave decision to start a short story blog, which i have mentioned here. This blog will be updated once a week (one short story a week) and most likely that is going to be on Sundays.

Do make sure you keep checking my new blog as well for some interesting stories that may really entertain you.

for no me signing out
bye

WHO'S LINE IS IT ANYWAY?

2009-07-11T20:00:00.001+05:30

I had mentioned earlier, that I would very soon write about the Delhi High Court Judgment on GAY SEX. So here it is, the post I was talking about.

Thursday, the Second of July,2009, was a memorable day for quite a lot living in Delhi. The Delhi High Court had come out with a pronouncement that "PRIVATE CONSENSUAL GAY SEX IS LEGAL". This "REMARKABLE JUDGMENT" (as it is called), made the members of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenders) community extremely happy. Also, many NGOs that have been working for the cause of these secluded people of the society, were happy and welcomed the judgment. But, this judgment was not well received with the polity of our country. Even some other people thought, this judgment was against the culture of India and cannot be accepted.

Why agitate?
It is an agreed fact that it would be unknown to the world at large if two people of the same sex have sex in private and under consensus. Nobody on earth will come to know about this as long as the the couple involved wish to disclose whatever had happened. The immediate disadvantage of of restricting this, AIDS. Yes, it is a well known fact that AIDS is a STD and is found more often in homosexuals than others. When we try and suppress the LGBT community they will not come out in the open and ask for help when they are in a very sad position.

In many ways when seen, this judgment has to be welcomed. On the other hand, the court also needs to clearly define the punitive step that has to be taken in the case of absence of a consensus. This could possibly be a point that the politicians can take up rather than talk of culture and other crap. Oh!!! no!!! dont mistake me... I am perfectly straight, its just that i want the others also to be treated as humans. After all, there is not much anybody can do once they have oriented themselves in a particular way.

One more important point that i would like to make here. Earlier the Govt. decided to impose a BAN on movies based on homosexuality. For instance, the movie titled "GIRL FRIEND", a movie about a bisexual female and a lesbian. What will be the course of action of the Govt. in this direction?

P.S. : The Home Minister has finally now agreed that the issue is a constitutional issue and Govt. has to do something about it. Let us see what is at stake...

CHANGED

2009-07-10T08:05:00.005+05:30

As i had mentioned in my previous post that i wanted a change in my blog layout, I have done just that today. My god, holding back my widgets was a serious ache. Anyways, now i have indeed managed to hold back my widgets and change the layout of my blog as well. As always said "ALL THAT'S WELL ENDS WELL".

There are other pages listed in my navigation bar. I would update then asap and make sure people reading my blog find more and more interesting reasons to read my blog. Kindly be cooperative and give me sometime to update all these pages.

Do feel free to leave your comments. Let me know if this layout is nice or if i should be making any other change to this blog layout.

Will catch you people very soon with some interesting posts.

P.S. : Thanks to Shankar and Vinay for helping me in coming out with this change in layout.

TIME FOR CHANGE

2009-07-09T08:00:00.003+05:30

It is high time there is some kind of change induced into my blog. For the very same purpose, I plan to have the layout of my blog changed. I plan to upload a CSS web template, of course after making a few modifications on the template. I guess i will have to learn CSS for doing that (I have no clue what so ever about CSS), at least enough CSS to edit whatever i want from the existing template. I desperately need some help from someone who is already familiar with CSS to help. I have downloaded a few web templates from here.

On an experimental basis i would be uploading a few templates on my blog before i finally zero in on any one of the templates. Please feel free to drop in with your comments on whatever you think of the templates. But, just keep one thing in mind, make your criticism constructive. Do not just leave behind some crapy comments just because you want to comment.

RIP JACKSON

2009-07-08T06:42:00.002+05:30

The final service to the legend of pop music was carried out yesterday (7-7-09). The "king of pop" left us on 25th of June, 2009. The story of Jackson is truly the story of a man who has seen both the ups and downs of his life. The highs, when his albums kept breaking the records and the ultimate lows when his name was involved in certain unnecessary issues. For instance, the child molestation case, Jackson becoming bankrupt and having to sell the Neverland Ranch to Eminem.

It is also said that Michael Jackson had the copyrights for most of the Beatles numbers, unfortunately Jackson had to sell some of them due to his bankrupt situation. Now what will happen to the remaining Beatles numbers' copyrights? Wonder who is going to get hold of them.

All said and done about his controversies and his private life. At the end of the day, he was a true entertainer. Now that he is no more with us, Jackson forever will be missed.

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE

THE HOLY PROFESSION PART - II

2009-07-07T06:38:00.003+05:30

Continued....

In another couple of days, my fever came down and i slowly came back to normal. I did not have typhoid after all (only showing symptoms [:P]). In the meanwhile, I was so excited about the new terminology used on me by the doc. There had been nobody before in my family who have had "DEXTRO - CARDIAC". But, folks back home seemed to underplay the incident and told me it was another money making venture the doctor had stepped into. They told me the doc would have an agreement with the lab people and he would get commission for every patient he sent there.

The Next week, we had a medical examination in our school. The bald man, we hated him for no particular reason. We just hated him. Each of us were waiting for our turn to be examined by the school doc and during the waiting time, we were discussing how we were going to snub this man (we do that every time). I felt, this time around i had the greatest opportunity to snub him. The one who snubbed him the best was considered the hero of the day and I was very much in the race for the "HERO OF THE DAY".

Finally my turn came, one of our teachers was sitting beside the doc so as to assist him. I sat beside the doc and he started his work. Placed his steth on my chest and then my back and finally finished this formality. Now, it was my turn [:P]. I told him that i had consulted a private doctor a week ago and he said my heart was not in my left. The doctor now stunned, started examinig me once again. he placed his steth on the left side of my chest and asked me "WHERE IS YOUR HEART?"
I replied, "Excuse me sir!!!"
He said again, "I DO NOT FIND YOUR HEART"
The teacher beside him started laughing for whatever he said.
(Yeah!!! certainly I'm a new kind of species, superior to the Human Beings and does not need any heart.)

The next day we (myself and my mom) went to the doctor and got the X-Ray and Scan list again (we had thrown it away, not taking his words seriously).

Finally, got the X-Ray and then we went to the scan center. The radiologist was appreciative of my doc and was telling me that he must certainly be an excellent doctor. I asked her why she was telling this and she replied, "Whatever he had been thinking was absolutely correct". She went on to say, "He wanted a scan of your lever, spline, appendix and pancreas apart from your heart of course. It so happens that his suspicion was spot on". She said, "All these organs are found exactly in the opposite place as found in a normal Human Being". She called it "NOT JUST DEXTRO CARDIAC. BUT YOU HAVE SITUS INVERSIS". "Err... wat?", my obvious reaction. She explained to me that one in 100,000 have their organs' positions interchanged. In such cases, chances one or max 2 organs may go missing. But it seems that i was lucky and had all the organs present.

This whole incident leaves me to wonder if all the doctors are responsible enough. I have this perception built in very strongly that doctors are to only make money.

Of course there are a few good men... [:)]

THE HOLY PROFESSION PART - I

2009-07-06T21:51:00.004+05:30

The medical profession is considered to be a holy profession. Doctors are considered to be life saviors. At times, people regard them to have been sent down by the GOD himself to save their near and dear. But, are these "so-called" holy people discharging their duties responsibly enough? Is everyone in this profession the same? Are there a few good men? How many Doctors have you consulted in your life? Do they even diagnose properly? Listen to my personal experience...

I have consulted many Doctors in my life, starting from pediatricians (not just a single one), Doctors when i have fallen sick etc, etc. The number must stand somewhere around 10 to 15 Doctors by the time i was studying in 8th grade. I still remember this day, it was my school annual day, the bi-decinial year and the celebrations were grand. I wanted to be there. But, I could not. I was totally sick, my stomach gave me unusual problems and was running temperature as well. I usually do not prefer going to the doctor and taking the anti-biotics these people prescribe. This time i could not help but go to the doc.

The usual thing happend. The doc, placed his steth on my chest, back and asked me to breathe in and out slowly and then heavily. This went on for sometime and suddenly he came out with a question "have you not been to a doctor before?"

My mother and his wife were pretty good friends and she took the liberty to answer him with ease. She said "many before... but why???"
The doctor asked my mom again "Did they not tell you anything specific about him?"
"No doctor, why??", this time my mom was a bit worried.

Now the doctor made me lie down on the single bed that he had in his clinic and started examining me further as if to ensure he was a 100% correct about what he was going to say before he actually did.

Finally after some ten minutes, he spoke. He wrote down a list of X-Ray tests and Ultra Sonic Scans that had to be taken and handed them over to mother and then gave her another prescription with medicines and said "He is showing symptoms of Typhoid. I have given him medicines. Once the dosage is over, take these tests and get back."

My mother absolutely preplexed,"Is there any problem with my son Doctor?"
The doc replied, "No. Nothing of that sort, his heart is in his right hand side, he has a Dextro-Cardiac."
Needless to say, my mother had no idea of what that had meant or what consequences it would most likely have on me. She just said "Thank you doctor!!"

To Be Continued....