Guest guest Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 WHAT'S NEW? Why are we fascinated by anything new? So, though we have the same corrupt officials at the helm, though we suffer from the same maladies that we suffered last year, and though we wished everybody the same dismal and hopeless thing the last year (and the year before last), we can't help but wish everyone a happy new year. Our batch was probably the last batch of MGIMS to get new, unused rooms in the hostel. Along with new rooms, we got new furniture. Thus there was nothing carved on top of the tables. Unfortunately, that deprived us of many literary gems like, " Gray is a grey area! " or " A deranged Body is pathology called Boyd! " Our armchairs did not have cryptic messages carved on their arms, like " FK loves SK " , to which some kind soul adds the enlightening footnote " and SK does not give a S**t " . Surely, when our mind would be whirling with the cruel vicissitudes of fate, while trying to cope up with on's arcane pronunciations, our heart could always take heart in the fact that there was at least one person called FK who was worse off than us. However, these advantages never struck us, and we welcomed all the new chairs with open arms. Therefore, our armchairs had cane bottoms, which were flat like a newborn girl's chest. It was left to us to leave deep impressions on these chairs, so deep that many were replaced by a sturdier wooden bottom. This gradually made the two troughs with a ridge type of chair bottom gradually extinct. In our times, Indian Coffee House opened for the first time between the hostels. Until then Babulal and Madras held sway. However, since ICH was new, all of us rushed to it, even though we were served the same old Dosa and Idli. The only thing new in ICH was a service charge, which we gladly paid just because it was new. Another thing that came up during our time was the road to the college from the hostel. For two years, we used to take a straight line from the hostel to the Anatomy hall. It had its ups and downs, of course, but the moment a curving, longer road was built, we quickly forsook our old favourite, just because we had found a new one. Just the other day, a medical rep came to me extolling the virtues of a new drug. I heard him out carefully and realized that the same actions were already present in an older drug. I asked him, " You say this drug is new, but what is new about it? All the actions are the same as the old drug. " " Ah, Doctor! " he replied, " Did you not observe carefully? Look at the new magenta colour. And it is available in a new strawberry flavour too! " Nowadays, I prescribe that new drug more than the older one, not because I like new drugs, but my patients like new medicines. If I do not give them something new, they will go to a new doctor. So now on New Year's day, when my wife tells me to wear my new shirt, I shall hasten to fulfil her desire, because if shirts will not be changed, husbands can be. Let me wish all of, all the same, a happy new year. And don't say that you knew that I would say it, because I knew that you knew that I new that you new that ….. where was I now? Kishore Shah 1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Dear Kishore, New hostel, new road, new coffee house, new year? GREAT WRITE UP! I always wondered why the road to the college could not go through the girls hostel instead! HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! Ravin '82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Dear Kishore, New hostel, new road, new coffee house, new year? GREAT WRITE UP! I always wondered why the road to the college could not go through the girls hostel instead! HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! Ravin '82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Very True,Kishoreda. " H O P E " ,that's what Mankind lives, for t'rrow,and hoping that the Next Year(read,New),WILL BRING IN the much needed change in one's life,is why we all Wish each other,A Happy New Year,I THINK. During our times,we were the first batch to have a heavy duty electricity connection in our rooms,to be able to use heaters legally,then. Otherwise,we had to boil milk in the common room or some of them had managed to draw a second wire from the tubelight junction and use it to run heaters,resulting many a times,the fuse of the whole block to go off,sparking abuses from all around. Kishoreda,I admire,your memory bank.Despite,20 long yrs,u still remember things like FK loves SK,etc. Great stuff. Congrats,also for having won the first prize. The article was definately worth nothing less than the first slot. Shyam(84) What's new? WHAT'S NEW? Why are we fascinated by anything new? So, though we have the same corrupt officials at the helm, though we suffer from the same maladies that we suffered last year, and though we wished everybody the same dismal and hopeless thing the last year (and the year before last), we can't help but wish everyone a happy new year. Our batch was probably the last batch of MGIMS to get new, unused rooms in the hostel. Along with new rooms, we got new furniture. Thus there was nothing carved on top of the tables. Unfortunately, that deprived us of many literary gems like, " Gray is a grey area! " or " A deranged Body is pathology called Boyd! " Our armchairs did not have cryptic messages carved on their arms, like " FK loves SK " , to which some kind soul adds the enlightening footnote " and SK does not give a S**t " . Surely, when our mind would be whirling with the cruel vicissitudes of fate, while trying to cope up with on's arcane pronunciations, our heart could always take heart in the fact that there was at least one person called FK who was worse off than us. However, these advantages never struck us, and we welcomed all the new chairs with open arms. Therefore, our armchairs had cane bottoms, which were flat like a newborn girl's chest. It was left to us to leave deep impressions on these chairs, so deep that many were replaced by a sturdier wooden bottom. This gradually made the two troughs with a ridge type of chair bottom gradually extinct. In our times, Indian Coffee House opened for the first time between the hostels. Until then Babulal and Madras held sway. However, since ICH was new, all of us rushed to it, even though we were served the same old Dosa and Idli. The only thing new in ICH was a service charge, which we gladly paid just because it was new. Another thing that came up during our time was the road to the college from the hostel. For two years, we used to take a straight line from the hostel to the Anatomy hall. It had its ups and downs, of course, but the moment a curving, longer road was built, we quickly forsook our old favourite, just because we had found a new one. Just the other day, a medical rep came to me extolling the virtues of a new drug. I heard him out carefully and realized that the same actions were already present in an older drug. I asked him, " You say this drug is new, but what is new about it? All the actions are the same as the old drug. " " Ah, Doctor! " he replied, " Did you not observe carefully? Look at the new magenta colour. And it is available in a new strawberry flavour too! " Nowadays, I prescribe that new drug more than the older one, not because I like new drugs, but my patients like new medicines. If I do not give them something new, they will go to a new doctor. So now on New Year's day, when my wife tells me to wear my new shirt, I shall hasten to fulfil her desire, because if shirts will not be changed, husbands can be. Let me wish all of, all the same, a happy new year. And don't say that you knew that I would say it, because I knew that you knew that I new that you new that ... where was I now? Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Very True,Kishoreda. " H O P E " ,that's what Mankind lives, for t'rrow,and hoping that the Next Year(read,New),WILL BRING IN the much needed change in one's life,is why we all Wish each other,A Happy New Year,I THINK. During our times,we were the first batch to have a heavy duty electricity connection in our rooms,to be able to use heaters legally,then. Otherwise,we had to boil milk in the common room or some of them had managed to draw a second wire from the tubelight junction and use it to run heaters,resulting many a times,the fuse of the whole block to go off,sparking abuses from all around. Kishoreda,I admire,your memory bank.Despite,20 long yrs,u still remember things like FK loves SK,etc. Great stuff. Congrats,also for having won the first prize. The article was definately worth nothing less than the first slot. Shyam(84) What's new? WHAT'S NEW? Why are we fascinated by anything new? So, though we have the same corrupt officials at the helm, though we suffer from the same maladies that we suffered last year, and though we wished everybody the same dismal and hopeless thing the last year (and the year before last), we can't help but wish everyone a happy new year. Our batch was probably the last batch of MGIMS to get new, unused rooms in the hostel. Along with new rooms, we got new furniture. Thus there was nothing carved on top of the tables. Unfortunately, that deprived us of many literary gems like, " Gray is a grey area! " or " A deranged Body is pathology called Boyd! " Our armchairs did not have cryptic messages carved on their arms, like " FK loves SK " , to which some kind soul adds the enlightening footnote " and SK does not give a S**t " . Surely, when our mind would be whirling with the cruel vicissitudes of fate, while trying to cope up with on's arcane pronunciations, our heart could always take heart in the fact that there was at least one person called FK who was worse off than us. However, these advantages never struck us, and we welcomed all the new chairs with open arms. Therefore, our armchairs had cane bottoms, which were flat like a newborn girl's chest. It was left to us to leave deep impressions on these chairs, so deep that many were replaced by a sturdier wooden bottom. This gradually made the two troughs with a ridge type of chair bottom gradually extinct. In our times, Indian Coffee House opened for the first time between the hostels. Until then Babulal and Madras held sway. However, since ICH was new, all of us rushed to it, even though we were served the same old Dosa and Idli. The only thing new in ICH was a service charge, which we gladly paid just because it was new. Another thing that came up during our time was the road to the college from the hostel. For two years, we used to take a straight line from the hostel to the Anatomy hall. It had its ups and downs, of course, but the moment a curving, longer road was built, we quickly forsook our old favourite, just because we had found a new one. Just the other day, a medical rep came to me extolling the virtues of a new drug. I heard him out carefully and realized that the same actions were already present in an older drug. I asked him, " You say this drug is new, but what is new about it? All the actions are the same as the old drug. " " Ah, Doctor! " he replied, " Did you not observe carefully? Look at the new magenta colour. And it is available in a new strawberry flavour too! " Nowadays, I prescribe that new drug more than the older one, not because I like new drugs, but my patients like new medicines. If I do not give them something new, they will go to a new doctor. So now on New Year's day, when my wife tells me to wear my new shirt, I shall hasten to fulfil her desire, because if shirts will not be changed, husbands can be. Let me wish all of, all the same, a happy new year. And don't say that you knew that I would say it, because I knew that you knew that I new that you new that ... where was I now? Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Very True,Kishoreda. " H O P E " ,that's what Mankind lives, for t'rrow,and hoping that the Next Year(read,New),WILL BRING IN the much needed change in one's life,is why we all Wish each other,A Happy New Year,I THINK. During our times,we were the first batch to have a heavy duty electricity connection in our rooms,to be able to use heaters legally,then. Otherwise,we had to boil milk in the common room or some of them had managed to draw a second wire from the tubelight junction and use it to run heaters,resulting many a times,the fuse of the whole block to go off,sparking abuses from all around. Kishoreda,I admire,your memory bank.Despite,20 long yrs,u still remember things like FK loves SK,etc. Great stuff. Congrats,also for having won the first prize. The article was definately worth nothing less than the first slot. Shyam(84) What's new? WHAT'S NEW? Why are we fascinated by anything new? So, though we have the same corrupt officials at the helm, though we suffer from the same maladies that we suffered last year, and though we wished everybody the same dismal and hopeless thing the last year (and the year before last), we can't help but wish everyone a happy new year. Our batch was probably the last batch of MGIMS to get new, unused rooms in the hostel. Along with new rooms, we got new furniture. Thus there was nothing carved on top of the tables. Unfortunately, that deprived us of many literary gems like, " Gray is a grey area! " or " A deranged Body is pathology called Boyd! " Our armchairs did not have cryptic messages carved on their arms, like " FK loves SK " , to which some kind soul adds the enlightening footnote " and SK does not give a S**t " . Surely, when our mind would be whirling with the cruel vicissitudes of fate, while trying to cope up with on's arcane pronunciations, our heart could always take heart in the fact that there was at least one person called FK who was worse off than us. However, these advantages never struck us, and we welcomed all the new chairs with open arms. Therefore, our armchairs had cane bottoms, which were flat like a newborn girl's chest. It was left to us to leave deep impressions on these chairs, so deep that many were replaced by a sturdier wooden bottom. This gradually made the two troughs with a ridge type of chair bottom gradually extinct. In our times, Indian Coffee House opened for the first time between the hostels. Until then Babulal and Madras held sway. However, since ICH was new, all of us rushed to it, even though we were served the same old Dosa and Idli. The only thing new in ICH was a service charge, which we gladly paid just because it was new. Another thing that came up during our time was the road to the college from the hostel. For two years, we used to take a straight line from the hostel to the Anatomy hall. It had its ups and downs, of course, but the moment a curving, longer road was built, we quickly forsook our old favourite, just because we had found a new one. Just the other day, a medical rep came to me extolling the virtues of a new drug. I heard him out carefully and realized that the same actions were already present in an older drug. I asked him, " You say this drug is new, but what is new about it? All the actions are the same as the old drug. " " Ah, Doctor! " he replied, " Did you not observe carefully? Look at the new magenta colour. And it is available in a new strawberry flavour too! " Nowadays, I prescribe that new drug more than the older one, not because I like new drugs, but my patients like new medicines. If I do not give them something new, they will go to a new doctor. So now on New Year's day, when my wife tells me to wear my new shirt, I shall hasten to fulfil her desire, because if shirts will not be changed, husbands can be. Let me wish all of, all the same, a happy new year. And don't say that you knew that I would say it, because I knew that you knew that I new that you new that ... where was I now? Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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