I am hungry!!!

Another "Penny wise pound foolish" news!!!!

In my old company, we were asked to come on weekends. Hmmm!!! I never liked that idea. 5 days, I work my ass off and 2 days are purely for me, me and only me. I just lie down and watch TV. When my manager used to force me to come to the office on weekends, with great reluctance I used to go. However, we were free to get food from any where. Bills were promptly paid.

Now, how about this? I ask you to come on saturdays and sundays (if possible). I will feed you with shit (called subsidized food) on saturday. Sundays, you have a bumper offer. You can call the security and you can get anything you want from a mess. "Whatever you can order" is 1 veg meals, or tiffins (God knows how many tiffins they will allow us to have).

WTF!!!!

Solution: Work from home on saturdays and sundays, till they feed us from good hotels. I am not forcing them to feed me from good hotels. But, they can't force me to come to office on weekends to feed shit. If they ask me to come on weekends even then, the solution is:

Fold your fingers and make it into a fist

Gently, I mean very gently open only the middle finger as shown in the diagram above

How to select a doctor?

When my father had a heart attack on 22nd of October, I had to learn many things about doctors and heart attacks.

Heart attack is the common name for Myocardial infarction. The details could be found in the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial_infarction

Briefly, the following are the risk factors for heart attack:

• Diabetes (with or without insulin resistance) - the single most important risk factor for ischaemic heart disease (IHD)
• Tobacco smoking
• Hypercholesterolemia (more accurately hyperlipoproteinemia, especially high low density lipoprotein and low high density lipoprotein)
• Low HDL
• High Triglycerides
• High blood pressure
• Family history of ischaemic heart disease (IHD)
• Obesity (defined by a body mass index of more than 30 kg/m², or alternatively by waist circumference or waist-hip ratio).
• Age: Men acquire an independent risk factor at age 45, Women acquire an independent risk factor at age 55; in addition individuals acquire another independent risk factor if they have a first-degree male relative (brother, father) who suffered a coronary vascular event at or before age 55. Another independent risk factor is acquired if one has a first-degree female relative (mother, sister) who suffered a coronary vascular event at age 65 or younger.
• Hyperhomocysteinemia (high homocysteine, a toxic blood amino acid that is elevated when intakes of vitamins B₂, B₆, B₁₂ and folic acid are insufficient)
• Stress (occupations with high stress index are known to have susceptibility for atherosclerosis)
• Alcohol Studies show that prolonged exposure to high quantities of alcohol can increase the risk of heart attack
• Males are more at risk than females.

These days doctors are performing Angiogram in the first 3 - 5 hours after the attack. Angiogram is a invasive procedure, where there is a microscopic x-ray camera sent through the groin of the patient to find the possible blocks in the vessels of the heart. These blocks cause heart attack. If the blocks are simple enough (small), then an Angioplasty would be done.

An empty and collapsed balloon on a guide wire, known as a balloon catheter, is passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size using water pressures some 75 to 500 times normal blood pressure (6 to 20 atmospheres). The balloon crushes the fatty deposits, so opening up the blood vessel to improved flow, and the balloon is then collapsed and withdrawn.

If Angioplasty doesn't clear the blocks, then stenting is done in that vessel. A stent is an artificial 'tube' inserted into a natural passage/conduit in the body to prevent, or counteract, a disease-induced, localized flow constriction.

For more information on Angiogram:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogram

For more information on Angioplasty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angioplasty

For more information on Stent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stent

Now, let's talk about doctors (in India). In India, the following are the levels of doctors:

• MBBS -- Basic graduation. Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
• MD/MS -- MD is Doctor of Medicine. MS is Doctor of Surgery. This is a post graduation course. One can opt out for specialization in a field at this level
• DM or DNB/MCh or DNB -- DM is Doctorate of Medicine. MCh is Doctorate of Surgery.

An MD or a DNB (general medicine or paediatrics) is the basic requirement for specialization in Cardiology, Nephrology, Neonatology, Gastro-enterology, Neurology, etc while an MS or a DNB (general surgery, ENT or Orthopaedic surgery) is the basic requirement for Neurosurgery, Urology, Cardio-thoracic & Vascular Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, etc.

Now, if you want to choose a good doctor, always prefer a DM. If you want a good surgeon always prefer a MCh. If possible, also look at the college from which they passed out.

The best colleges according to a survey:

1. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
2. Armed Forces Medical College, (AFMC), Pune
3. Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry
4. Maulana Azad Medical College, (MAMC), Delhi
5. Grant Medical College, Mumbai
6. Madras Medical College, (MMC), Chennai

Khaleja Review

Plot:

It's about a remote village Pali in Andhra Pradesh, where people die with a strange disease very frequently. The villagers believe that there will be God arriving in the village very soon. Meanwhile, Mahesh is in search for a guy to whom he has to hand-over a cheque as an insurance policy. He ends up in Rajasthan for this.

After a series of fights he ends up meeting the guy whom the villagers have sent to search for him. He tries to deny saying that he is not God. But all the proofs point to him that he is indeed God. How he rescues the villagers form the rest of the story.

Analysis:

Mahesh babu has shed lot of weight. The movie is out and out a Mahesh babu entertainer. Unlike his previous movies, he never stops talking. That was good for a change. Anushka put up little weight. But was OK. As usual, Trivikram dialogues had good punch and meaning.

Rating:

4/5

Robo Review

Plot:

It's about a scientist, Dr. Vaseekaran, who creates a Andro-Humanoid Robot. He names it as Chitti. Chitti is all powerful and all knowledgeable. Vasee tries to get this Robot into Army so that there wouldn't be any human loss during wars. Dr. Bora, who is a professor of Vasee rejects the idea of this Robot going into Army as it doesn't have any feelings.

Vasee tries to induce software hormones to make Chitti have human feelings. This takes a drastic turn which Vasee doesn't expect. Chitti falls in love with Sana, who is the fiancé of Vasee. But, still Vasee tries to get Chitti into Army. Chitti starts reciting love poems. Vasee gets disgusted and dismantles Chitti and throws in junk yard.

Chitti re-assembles himself with the help of Bora. Bora introduces a bad behaving chip into Chitti to make him a monster. Chitti makes 100s of replicas of himself and kills Bora and kidnaps Sana. How Chitti was made to become normal forms the climax.

Analysis:

Excellent graphics. Marvellous songs picturization and excellent background music. There are couple of scenes which are touching also. Like, in the scene where Vasee introduces Chitti inthe Artificial Intelligence seminar. One of the guys asks "Is there God?". Chitti asks him back the definition of God. He says God is creator. Then Chitti says "Yes. Then God is there. Vasee is my God"

Rating:

4.5/5. Don't miss it.

New Arrivals at Office!!!

I am writing this on the request of my friend. There are couple of improvements (if you really want to call them improvements) in the office.

1. We got better chairs. Of course, they are used ones. But, getting them itself was a herculian task. They are good. I wouldn't say excellent, but fairly good.
2. We got a coffee machine. Man!!! This is one weird thing. When you hit coffee on that, you expect to get coffee. But, it gives you liquidated milk powder with a spill (which is probably by mistake; if they could avoid it to spill 3 gms per cup, they would have done it) of coffee powder. If you hit cardamom tea, you will get lemomom tea (cardamom + lemon mix). By, the way all of them have tons and tons of sugar in them. God help diabetes patients!!!
3. Today we got a oven. I thought it would have been at least Kenstar. But, I never heard of a company called Pigeon. And that too, this is 100000000 years old one.
4. Rest rooms have mirrors now. Good thing. But we still have to wipe our wet hands on our asses.

Good Morning!!!

September month is always little weird. It being my mother's birthday month doesn't help. She has left to Bangalore now. Many things are happening.

I miss my mother dearly. I have been feeling all alone yesterday and day-before-yesterday. Couple of more people from Cypress have joined this street of VLSI companies.

Blueeyedboy Review

Author: Joanne Harris

Plot:

The weird thoughts of Brendan Brown about his mother, brothers and a girl named Emily. All of them are revealed in Webjournal named badguysrock. There is another girl named Bethan alias Albertine, who also writes her thoughts.

Analysis:

It sucks. It is like Nokia N97. It's not what it promises to be.

Recommendation:

0.5/5. Don't even begin reading it.