My corner

This wasn't supposed to be a post post or a boast post but I really wanted to share this.

One thing's for sure: anybody having an impression about me being the intellectual kinds is in for a surprise. Don't say I didn't warn you, I told you I'd read a chick flick/Rom com over fictitious bull anyday.

Not that romcoms aren't fictitious or that I lack imagination. Just that it's easier to imagine a nerd falling for a jock and her for him rather than "magic ",wizardry, robo-fictions, sci-fis... You get the hang.

Not that I'm looking down upon or compelling people to look at them with contempt, I'm just trying to put it out there that Rom com readers are readers as well, so don't judge.

This is my little corner. Every girl visiting me says it's cute :-P . Every guy rolls his eyes. Predictable.
The wall is not pink, inclining more toward a mauve -purplish shade. There are a few toys that I managed to hide from my mum's hands and eyes; she btw was planning to give them away to my cousins or wherever she found kids as she did with all the other toys I used to own once upon a time.

The dog, has no nose giving you a fair idea of how full of fury I was even as a kid, violent though on the surface and to everyone I'm always this peaceful young kid. Back then, this dog was the "thang", you had to have it! The penguin justifying my pingu obsession- a cartoon(clay) on pogo. The bunny, oh come on, it's just toooo adorbs! 
The two barbies whose hair(s) have been through some 3rd degree of torture as I tried sketchpens on them,  shampoos and hairsprays :-/ despicable me!
And cars! Those are my granpas. He was an automobile engineer. Somehow I feel deeply connected to him. Never got to meet him/see him as he died when dad was in his teens. But people say I look like him, so we cool granpoppy!!!
That's the uppermost storey.

The bottommost one has a doctor doctor kit. I guess that's Asian parenting. Will throw your dolls, will keep doctor set/mechanix,  get it?
There is a small wrought iron table chair set, it's so pretty.  As a kid I'd dream of a house with a garden where I would keep such a set. Now seeing the way I keep my room, I think a garden is too much to deal with :-P.
A fairy with discolored dress or rather yellowed white dress. She was given to me by my best friend. This came instead of an apology. We had a fight. As kids whenever we fought, mum would somehow get me to be the bigger person,  to apologize or take the smaller seat or whatever. But when this happened, neither of us spoke. One day she showed up with this.  I guess this was her friendship to me. There was never any apology or even acceptance/acknowledgment of the fact that something was wrong. A gift could set things straight, right? Uhm sadly, not for me, not now atleast.
Moving on to the little wooden man, he had a partner. He fell out I guess (wink) sorry lame. They were both men, no women/female doll. Hence never differentiate.
A shoe pair (canvas) I had just begun painting a year back.
And a major part of my growing up/schooling. Tinkle comics. I had around 200 of them. How wouldn't I? Aunts, cousins and relatives' hand me downs, weekly subscription, random stall buying! I loved them! It helped me with creative thinking .
Very creative (lol).

The middle storey, it started and grew only after 10th grade! My babies- my books! All fictitious love stories. Either they are mainstream rom-coms or fiction ending in a small love story.
Meg Cabot is like half of it. It started with Avalon high, that the same friend of mine gifted. She said the cover is pretty. As I mentioned I used to pretty much hate reading, except for Eva Ibbotson's books (3 only I had read). Then Avalon high changed my read life! :'p!
Avalon high, you didn't ask though, is a book about how this girl discovers everything in her new school resembles king Arthur's life and just when she begins to believe her boyfriend is the reincarnation of king A., she figures she was wrong all along and that she is him. It was cool! Too cool :-P and I know this is fiction but come on, the description of the guy is just so amazing!
Then I began on this unstoppable spree of buying all Meg books except what she is truly known for,  the Princess diaries. I somehow didn't and still don't want to read it, I've surpassed that age. Then came Alyson Noel,  Sarah Dessen, Chetan Bhagat, Anuja Chauhan! I can now proudly say that in the vacations I've had after 10th grade, I've successfully completed 57 novels <3! Lol! Like that's huge! I know there are voracious readers,  but hey, be kind. It's a start, am atleast starting somewhere. And who is competing anyway! Am doing it all for the amazing experience and the world that they take me into! I still am in the hangover of a book named " just listen " . Finished it last night!
Don't count the no. of books on the rack. They could be deceiving. I'm yet to read 5 of those and 10 books of mine my mum has dhapo-fied! :'(

So that's all! My little corner!
Ok bye :-P

  - Appiqué <3

PS: Small note:

Just do me this little favor.
I don't mind you being brutally honest but if you don't or you do like an article I write, write it in the comments section.

You have no idea how happy that'll make me, even if it's weird, even if you think the article sucks, just let me know there. And if there is an article that you really like like, that you think is either well written or share worthy then share it on Facebook.
You don't have to if you don't think it's worth. But if you do, then share it on fb.

Unless ofcourse this blog is repulsive to you :-P

People have been kind enough to read and appreciate but I'd like to see them do that in the comments
1. Because that's the soul purpose of that section
2. I can read and review those at even later in life.

Thanks for reading this stupid note, and putting up with all the stupidity on this blog :-P but hey, crazy is cool :-P

-Appiqué<3

The DOCTOR game, powered by Gooogle :-P

Hello Appickles! What is up?
I got an internship! Yayy! Yes? Yes? No. Just no.
Hospital internships were supposed to be a part of our syllabus but now aren't. So my college group decided to get one and here we are wondering why? Though a lot of wonderful things we have seen, but just having figured how non functional the management is and how sad it is to be a patient in the country has taken away the remnants of the innocence chromosome from our DNA, I swear. Corporate politics, no no no, strict no.
But, but we all have also partly lived our dream of wanting to be a doctor by  observing surgeries standing inside an OT, seeing how multi-crore machines work and breakdown, by roaming about in the ICCU and ICU and departments that have given a call about non functional equipments! I heart heart biology!
So that day we were in the OT watching a neurosurgery and tumor removal and the smell of cautery,  so pungent so in your face, just made us all nauseous. It is so freaking strong. Having a wholesome lunch post that surgery was such a task. I couldn't get it's taste out of my mouth. Happens to you? Please say yes. When you smell something that is soooo strong, strong raised to the power of 100, so strong that you almost believe you can taste it? Like passing by a garbage can... You can taste the banana peels and puke and the bile rises up. .
Three days down and cautery is one constant taste in my mouth, not leaving it like a stubborn relative. It's there no matter how many times I brush, use mouth washes, tongue cleaner, eat something that's extra spicy, extra sweet, no no no!
Also all this running around, trains, metro, rickshaw catching, walking and the innumerable hours of standing while observation rounds are on have taken a toll on my health as well. The Mumbai heat (rains are apparently playing hide and seek with us, their turn to hide seeming long enough to be labelled as infinity) coupled with all the chicken and egg and sea food dishes I've had in the past few days have resulted in many ulcers and boils :'(
So what do you do when an troupe of ulcerinas show up in your mouth suddenly? I googled. And google, as much as I love it and am continually fascinated by it,  sometimes symptom checking could scare the shit out of me.
How normal people google symptoms:
- Type cold and sore throat
- Let's see, priority low... Uhm ok normal flu. I guess I'll just sleep over it and we'll see a doctor if this worsens or persists.
How I google symptoms:
  - ulcers
  - related searches: ulcer outbreak click
  - search results: 150 diseases with ulcer outbreak: ulcers, canker sores, depression, herpes, cancer, death..
  - does my ulcer have a red circle with white interior -yes
  - do I have sore throat: uhm come to think of it, I do feel a little sore.
  - fever: lets see. .. Oh shoot, I feel warm! (starts getting nervous)
  - stomach flu? Oh shit, yes. . Ouch see my stomach hurts
  - numbness: uhm I slept on my left hand yesterday and it did get real numb.
  - do you have anaemia? Yes
  - do you have high wbc count? I might have it
  - do you feel nauseous: YES!
  - do you feel dizzy: letters are blurring out! My head is spinning
  - * breakdown begins*
  - * sobbing begins*
  - Mummmmmmmm * yells* I think I might have cancer!
 
Well yeh, that's pretty much how I google symptoms and results . I enter 2 clauses and come out witha handful of fatal diseases, because hello, what's the guarantee? :'(
My doctor calls me nuts and I don't see a reason why he shouldn't. The last 2 times I visited him, I asked if I had cancer or diabetes or was dying!
Am majorly hypochondriac in some cases and in some health issues, I just go " meh"
But google doctor is dayumn scary! Had the world worked that way we'd all be dead,  popping self prescribed or random stranger prescribed disastrous pills. You know you have those people on yahoo answers giving you names of drugs! Man!!! Taking such advices is living dangerously in the true sense!
Do you do this too? Let me know.
Sorry for not having posted for a long time (as if you care :-P) . I guess exams just sucked all the creativity out of me! I had been topicless for a looong period. I recently just came up with 7-8 topics!
I know I know the writing's awkward. Give it some time, I'll try bouncing back!
Till then happy holidays fellow engineering pals! :-P
  - Appiqué <3