Being a Doctor is a noble profession as we consider them God avatars. Therefore, the relationship between a doctor and patient should be seen as professional and sacred. But what would one do if the doctor is a young and beautiful lady with a honey voice. After all we are humans, and on top of it, I am still single and not committed. I always try to restrain my feeling in such cases but sometimes the heart overpowers logic and objectivity. I am a writer and enjoy writing experiences. I could not stop myself writing about it.
On the advice of one of my beloved friend about the best hospitals in Delhi I decided to go to Fortis for my dental treatment. No doubt as I had heard, the hospital was spotlessly clean. But it was not the cleanliness that attracted me but the handpicked selection of staff which drew my attention.
The interesting journey started from the reception desk. Three beautiful and charming ladies in perfect shape, draped in bright red saris fixed my appointment with the doctor. I proceeded to the hallway after the appointment and saw a long row of doors lined up to my right. The room numbers were powered with dim blue light and were placed repeatedly till the end of the hallway. I stopped at the toilet to figure out the hygiene they maintained and I would say that it was definitely impressive. Finally I found the dentist room. I went inside to found a female doctor of around thirty years of age with a stern face. She asked me the purpose of visit and finally asked me to lie on the dental chair. She examined my teeth and finally asked another doctor to take the job.
This visit of mine to the dentist was almost after the gap of 8-9 years. Fortunately I never had any toothache or decay. However after this long gap, when I visited the dentist I figured out that how different this profession was from others. This profession required physical intimacy between the dentist and the patient as the dentist work close to the patient’s face and body for long hours. Normal doctors examine their patients for a minute closely and step back or if they are close to the body you are probably on anesthesia or feeling severe pain.
When I was waiting on the chair for the new doctor, the new doctor came as a surprise and bliss. A very beautiful girl in her late 20s, flaunting her short hair arrived and asked for my problem. She appeared calm and concerned unlike the other doctors. Girls in short hair have always been my weakness.
She started the procedure and the need of the profession brought her face close to mine. She was looking like an angel to me. An angel helping me out by solving my problems and this is what angels do. Her face effused milky aura and my pores of skin could feel the angelic warmth of her body. I had no other option but to either look at her face or close my eyes. I elected for the former one. While she was busy doing the treatment I surrendered my eyes to the captivating and comforting aura of her face and forgot all my pain and agony. My ear heard her engaging patterns of breath creating soothing symphonies that made my heart dance eternally.
I was completely drowned in her mystical mesmerizing eyes, blinded by the lucid luminescence of her scented skin, and completely lost in the carbon blackness of her curly black hair which was falling on her face time and again. I was totally indulged in her beauty with no pain, no sounds, and no feelings. Her beauty had defied the gravity and my body was levitating in the infinite vastness of the universe beyond the dentist’s chair, beyond the doctor’s room, beyond the hospital, and beyond everything perceptible.
At times I would see her lips moving and murmuring gracefully and her eyes making cushy contact with mine trying to communicate with me in my hypnotic stage. I would then force myself to come out of the trance of her beauty to listen to the still lingering odiferous words of hers. And I would find her face just six inches away from mine, looking directly into my eyes and waiting patiently for my replies.
Finally the treatment was over but the splendid memories stayed alive and engrossing. Never visit a beautiful dentist.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Friday, April 20, 2007
Blog 2.0
Of late, people have started using technical terms in their personal lives. The impact of such an exercise could be irreversible and fatal to the language. But like everything else there are two schools of thoughts. One school wholeheartedly welcomes new words to the existing vocabulary of the language. The other type despises and prevents any new words to enter the language. I am not here to advocate either of them but to provide an insight about the consequences that could occur if the penetration is not stopped.
One such word is Web 2.0. It was first coined by Tim O'Reilly and has become so successful that everyone has started using it. Services 2.0, SaaS 2.0, RSS 2.0, HTML 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, etc. The list is endless but the pattern is easily identifiable with 2.0 as the repetitive unit.
Diffusion of these words in our everyday language would make a lot of difference. 2.0 would make it simple for us to give explanations to others. Whatever you cannot explain is 2.0.
Executive 2.0 and Worker 2.0 for office 2.0 doing Work 2.0. Appraisals 2.0, Resignation 2.0
Mother 2.0 and Father 2.0 living with Kid 2.0. Mother in law 2.0, Father in law 2.0
Imagine Ram naming his new born baby as Ram 2.0 and Sheetal as Sheetal 2.0.
Imagine a guy saying, “I Love 2.0 you” instead of simple I love you.
Imagine writing Gita 2.0 and Ramayana 2.0
Begging 2.0, Teaching 2.0, Corruption 2.0, Media 2.0, etc.
Opportunities are many but we need to think creatively to use the term carefully and intelligently. Otherwise we would end up contaminating the language and there is no comeback after that.
One such word is Web 2.0. It was first coined by Tim O'Reilly and has become so successful that everyone has started using it. Services 2.0, SaaS 2.0, RSS 2.0, HTML 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, etc. The list is endless but the pattern is easily identifiable with 2.0 as the repetitive unit.
Diffusion of these words in our everyday language would make a lot of difference. 2.0 would make it simple for us to give explanations to others. Whatever you cannot explain is 2.0.
Executive 2.0 and Worker 2.0 for office 2.0 doing Work 2.0. Appraisals 2.0, Resignation 2.0
Mother 2.0 and Father 2.0 living with Kid 2.0. Mother in law 2.0, Father in law 2.0
Imagine Ram naming his new born baby as Ram 2.0 and Sheetal as Sheetal 2.0.
Imagine a guy saying, “I Love 2.0 you” instead of simple I love you.
Imagine writing Gita 2.0 and Ramayana 2.0
Begging 2.0, Teaching 2.0, Corruption 2.0, Media 2.0, etc.
Opportunities are many but we need to think creatively to use the term carefully and intelligently. Otherwise we would end up contaminating the language and there is no comeback after that.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Eight easy steps to become a successful designer
Designers are a different breed and many of us aspire to be one of them. I would like to take the opportunity to explain you the different steps to be a successful designer. You would not take much time to identify this breed. They can be easily found in malls, coffee-shops, pubs and discs. Some of the identifiable traits and characteristics are their hair, earrings, tattoos, clothes, big-ego, and criticizing nature. Let’s pick each one by one.
High on Hair
If you are a male you are surely going to have long hair. Length can vary according to the quality of hair. It might vary from shoulder to hip’s length. From pony tail to a full grown long braided hair - long enough to advertise for the largest shampoo manufacturer if you would be a girl. Not all males are blessed with long hair but no worries; you can boast weird and eerie design of moustaches and beards. Having said that, I must assert the fact that it does require high level of creativity to devise interesting patterns and styles in hair grooming.
On the other hand if you are a female you need to go in opposite direction. You start decreasing the length of hair from hips to almost nothing. I have seen my female designer friends in short hair, very short hair, very very short hair, scalp kissing hair length, and bald.
These days you have to have strands of red, green, and blue to highlight the design. Match color with your dress and lipstick.
Breathe through Skin
Try choking a designer to death. You cannot because they can literally breathe through their skin. Skin piercing saves their lives in case of such an emergency.
Male designers have increasingly started picking earrings to be in vogue. They started from one ear, then both ears, later more than two earrings for the ears. I have seen people with seven piercing in just one ear. Some have gone beyond ears, and have reached till eyebrows, chins, etc. Let’s not discuss piercing beyond the face in this forum. You decide how much pain you can bear and plan accordingly.
Female designers are least interested in ear piercing. They don’t like anything in their ears. If they get something pierced it is most likely be their noses, lips, eyebrows, etc. If you wear anything in your ears please throw it right away before the attractive male in the next cubicle glance at you.
Paint your Body
No designer can live without tattoo. It can present virtually anywhere on the body but what’s the fun if the world is not seeing it. Most of the junta therefore go for shoulders and back where they can reveal their designs to the world. This tattoo design disclosure has been very progressive as the length of the clothes is diminishing day by day. This has left me confused and bewildered as to whether to concentrate on the design or somewhere else. Please decide the design and placement of tattoo on your comfort level of revealing your protected zones.
Dress to Kill
If you wear what everybody wears than certainly you are going to be kicked out of the community. You have to customize your clothes yourself. You should learn selecting the right fabric after watching the in vogue designs on FTV by European designers. Then you go to a boutique and ask the tailor to sew your design. If you are not good at designing clothes you can ask your fashion design friends to help you out. You can repay their debt when they go for interior design or to buy new furniture. The next step is to wear the design and explain your friends the whole story - from pattern of the clothes to selection of design. Also learn to insult your other friends who buy labeled clothes. The art of insulting is must to learn as it requires high degree of precision. An insult by a designer should be glib, smooth and sophisticated yet sarcastic and piercing.
Only Me, Myself, and I
You are the best person ever born on this planet. Nobody before you and nobody after you would be of the stature which you are at now. You are always right and everybody else is wrong. Your dress selection, furniture selection, mobile selection, etc are the best choices that anyone could make. People don’t dare to give you advice on these topics. Whatever you design is the best and it cannot be perfected anymore. There is no phrase like “taking suggestive inputs” in your dictionary. You always believe in giving them.
Be a good Critique
You are not a designer if you don’t have this quality. Please leave the design fraternity if you are down to earth kind of person. You must learn how to mock people on their behavior, dressing, interiors, selection of furniture, etc. You must start criticizing everything around you. If you go out to eat, the moment you enter in a restaurant, start criticizing the selection of furniture, then move on to curtains and drapery, then move on to cutlery selection, and you continue on and on and on. You exercise the same thing at your friends and relative’s houses.
Indulge in Life
Live life to the fullest is the mantra. Don’t care about tomorrow. There is no concept of saving money for the future. Live in present. Start lot of socializing. Start visiting local pubs and bars. Start trying new things if bars can’t quench your thirst and if you are looking for “high”. If you still think that grass is what cows eat than it is high time to increase your design vocabulary.
Break Norms
Start with short relationships. The more you had girlfriends and boyfriends in the past the better designer you are. If you are in a living-in relationship that is super cool. Being a gay or a lesbian increases your change manifolds for being selected as celebrity of the month or for a cover page interview in one of the leading fashion magazines. Suddenly you start getting name and fame.
I know that it is easier said than done but only persistently hard working person tastes the success. Go ahead and be a designer. Happy designing…
High on Hair
If you are a male you are surely going to have long hair. Length can vary according to the quality of hair. It might vary from shoulder to hip’s length. From pony tail to a full grown long braided hair - long enough to advertise for the largest shampoo manufacturer if you would be a girl. Not all males are blessed with long hair but no worries; you can boast weird and eerie design of moustaches and beards. Having said that, I must assert the fact that it does require high level of creativity to devise interesting patterns and styles in hair grooming.
On the other hand if you are a female you need to go in opposite direction. You start decreasing the length of hair from hips to almost nothing. I have seen my female designer friends in short hair, very short hair, very very short hair, scalp kissing hair length, and bald.
These days you have to have strands of red, green, and blue to highlight the design. Match color with your dress and lipstick.
Breathe through Skin
Try choking a designer to death. You cannot because they can literally breathe through their skin. Skin piercing saves their lives in case of such an emergency.
Male designers have increasingly started picking earrings to be in vogue. They started from one ear, then both ears, later more than two earrings for the ears. I have seen people with seven piercing in just one ear. Some have gone beyond ears, and have reached till eyebrows, chins, etc. Let’s not discuss piercing beyond the face in this forum. You decide how much pain you can bear and plan accordingly.
Female designers are least interested in ear piercing. They don’t like anything in their ears. If they get something pierced it is most likely be their noses, lips, eyebrows, etc. If you wear anything in your ears please throw it right away before the attractive male in the next cubicle glance at you.
Paint your Body
No designer can live without tattoo. It can present virtually anywhere on the body but what’s the fun if the world is not seeing it. Most of the junta therefore go for shoulders and back where they can reveal their designs to the world. This tattoo design disclosure has been very progressive as the length of the clothes is diminishing day by day. This has left me confused and bewildered as to whether to concentrate on the design or somewhere else. Please decide the design and placement of tattoo on your comfort level of revealing your protected zones.
Dress to Kill
If you wear what everybody wears than certainly you are going to be kicked out of the community. You have to customize your clothes yourself. You should learn selecting the right fabric after watching the in vogue designs on FTV by European designers. Then you go to a boutique and ask the tailor to sew your design. If you are not good at designing clothes you can ask your fashion design friends to help you out. You can repay their debt when they go for interior design or to buy new furniture. The next step is to wear the design and explain your friends the whole story - from pattern of the clothes to selection of design. Also learn to insult your other friends who buy labeled clothes. The art of insulting is must to learn as it requires high degree of precision. An insult by a designer should be glib, smooth and sophisticated yet sarcastic and piercing.
Only Me, Myself, and I
You are the best person ever born on this planet. Nobody before you and nobody after you would be of the stature which you are at now. You are always right and everybody else is wrong. Your dress selection, furniture selection, mobile selection, etc are the best choices that anyone could make. People don’t dare to give you advice on these topics. Whatever you design is the best and it cannot be perfected anymore. There is no phrase like “taking suggestive inputs” in your dictionary. You always believe in giving them.
Be a good Critique
You are not a designer if you don’t have this quality. Please leave the design fraternity if you are down to earth kind of person. You must learn how to mock people on their behavior, dressing, interiors, selection of furniture, etc. You must start criticizing everything around you. If you go out to eat, the moment you enter in a restaurant, start criticizing the selection of furniture, then move on to curtains and drapery, then move on to cutlery selection, and you continue on and on and on. You exercise the same thing at your friends and relative’s houses.
Indulge in Life
Live life to the fullest is the mantra. Don’t care about tomorrow. There is no concept of saving money for the future. Live in present. Start lot of socializing. Start visiting local pubs and bars. Start trying new things if bars can’t quench your thirst and if you are looking for “high”. If you still think that grass is what cows eat than it is high time to increase your design vocabulary.
Break Norms
Start with short relationships. The more you had girlfriends and boyfriends in the past the better designer you are. If you are in a living-in relationship that is super cool. Being a gay or a lesbian increases your change manifolds for being selected as celebrity of the month or for a cover page interview in one of the leading fashion magazines. Suddenly you start getting name and fame.
I know that it is easier said than done but only persistently hard working person tastes the success. Go ahead and be a designer. Happy designing…
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