just for the heck of it...

Typing in a post when my class is going on.

All the best folks...

a few words but a big impact...

Well i never thot of returning back to write so soon but smthing happened today which i really really felt to pen down. Sometimes u r so happy for when a wish comes true that you don dance or rejoice u just share it with your friends, keep thinking about it and keep on smiling, no am not in love or something its like what a medical or dental student always expects...aprrecaition from the patients and faculty and today i got both. Lastly i was left wondering wish i had asked for smthing more cos a day before that i was asking oh God i need cake to eat a different kind though and one of my friend went immediately to get one for me a different kind of cake which we cudnt find and next day God gave me not only different kind of cake to eat but to feel also for long time.
Thanks Yassi u know for wht !
All the best folks...

one more of my chronicles

its taking me so long to come back and write which i once did so often, maybe the school is keeping me too busy or maybe smtimes i am in extreme of moods that i don think of penning down my thoughts. School is going fine , nice patients and faculty, am making new friends and learning lot of new things, i guess my way of thinking , talking and understanding life is totally changing by being close to so many different kind of folks. some are so intelligent, so hardworking, so helpful that i totally admire them and think of being like them. I guess one of advantage of studying in IDP programs like this is the life changing experience which am going through right now.
Had some beautiful and some funny quotes to share or just write down
" Strep mutans are like terrorists, a few bacteria in many of others could bring the whole building{tooth} down"- Dr. Featherstone
" am waiting for this stupid amalgam to set on me" - Dr.Huang while carving fast set amalgam for complex amalgam restoration demo

anyhow had my moments of appreciation- cudn forget the day when Dr. Kane stood up to me to appreciate that gfg class 5 cavity prep and restoration on number 31 i think thats my best moment in dental school till now, and then thr were those moments of frustration which i don wanna even mention for i wanna forget them.

Some where in between B'Day came and was really made memorable by my friends, had some unexpected things and effort by my friends to make it some good, i wont forget that perhaps ever.

logging off for now thinking i will surely be more frequent to write, one cant be so busy so as not to be able to pen down few lines !
All the best folks...

10 basic rules of a bachelor boy life in foriegn land...

Smbdy asked me this question the other day and after sm discussion i came with this and its sort of true for a student like me.
1. If food is cooked by someone else, its always delicious and edible no matter what the taste and temperature it is in.
2. Same shirt can be worn for 3 days and same jeans for 3 weeks
3. While lookin in a mirror when u cant see ur ears its time for a haircut.
4. In a long run deodorant costs more than regular shampoo baths.
5. 3 pairs of shoes and 1 watch is all ok don need any more so don waste money there( i know but still cant help it)
6. "chappati" is the most difficult Indian dish to cook correctly.
7. Laptop and cell phone are important than a girlfriend.
8. you are always aware fo current dollar exchange rate.
9. If u keep on living in a same apartment for long time with roommate of same sex people will get second ideas abt u.
10. A stage comes whn every married girl is an alien and every unmarried one is beautiful.


All the best folks...

And again....

Well it took me so long to e back here.....The dental school is keepin me really busy...once in all we think is part 2, WREB and NERB and what and whr we will land up in the end. The nice class i have here....i wish all of you people could join for this is a great school and am more confident in sayin so cos now i have friends in almost all the schools with intrnational dentist program not only in USA but Canada also so i have sm idea wht basically goes ovr.. Its kind of an unexplained feeling being taught by the professors whos books or references and works we have been only reading back home. Sometimes i do feel a lil laid back for being the most unexperienced guy in the class ( My IDP batch is too good and qualified experience and education wise) but then i feel being young gives me an advantage of having time on my side. The first 2 months here at UCSf are very intense , lot of lab wok , i hope i will be regular and finish up the idiot guide work to provide yo complete info after this semester. till then....
All the best folks...

Back again...

Well for those few of my friends who have been keepin a watch on this blog am back....back after joinin my school, shifting my stuff, getting my educational loans approved etc etc. It was a long time full of stress but am glad it went by and am back here. I got lot more questions to put answers to and am getting more and soon i will try and write them down.
As for my self the sense of relief and satisfaction of achievement is too great for me presently. I am lucky that i got a really really nice group here at UCSF, the program is superb absolutely superb. The classmates, the faculty, seniors....omg am getting nostalgic, its so good it reminds me of my dental school back home. don have much time , will be back soon till then...
All the best folks...

idiot's guide to DDS - 3

Ques: ok lemme see how you studied?how much of time margin for each subject shd we keep?
when we start with a subject...like anatomy...first we shd read text,then decks,then question papers??or in any other pattern...?
how to plan a daily routine...
and shd we read kaplan...i heard its vast.shd we read kaplan...or read texts related to particlaur subject.
..is first aid for usmle.is it for medical or for dental??


presently i have mosby and 2006-2007 decks.what shd i go for??kaplan or read each subject text wise??

i have heard abt lippincott for biochem...is it good?
im sorry...have not heard abt rudman...can u pls guide me what is it?
and if u guide me reading texts for the subject...

im actually very newwwwwwww and confused abt what material.i have joined student-doctor forum.some r reading texts like lippincott...some r reading decks,question papers....some read first aid n mosby.....some say kaplan is vast.im so confused what to do.

and the basic thing...how many months of prep for part1...how many hours in a day?

Ans:For Anatomy I feel that’s the subject to be done at last for u tend to forget it just becos its lil vast. Read Kaplan and refer text I think that should be enough to get you a good score. The first aid i read Is for USMLE but I read that only ( relevant stuff ) cos I found it good enuf and helpful in revision.
Lippincot is a good book, but u are not going to read it for NBDE. U don have to go in that detail. . Rudman is set of question papers of all part 1 subjects u can practice on.
The material I have put is what I had and wht was enuf for me 

This is wht I told my other friends if it helps you
Anyhow...what all material i studied is on my page.
Books which if u don read ( like concepts are clear ) is ok, but i read Robbins patho, wheelers for some DA topics and Chaurasia for anatomy head n neck and Inderbeer singh for rest of body cos it is concise and we dont need much of rest of body stuff. Mind it anatomy is full body anat for NBDE. The way i followed my prepration was
First kaplan : go subject wise and that too in like don start biochem after microbio. I am saying this bcos the practice papers and old papers are available as Patho-micro combination and physio-biochem combination.
After finishing a subject i did the decks for that subject followed by question papers. Did my revision twice, though felt like shud have done more :-P
Did all the papers available, had a look at Crack the NBDE - felt it too tough for me and left it.
In the end only those decks which i marked like are tough to remember, first aid and recent question papers and rememberd papers.

Ques: ok i will try and go this way but then i have always been an average student will i be able to do it? i passed my BDS with just an aggregate of 60% i think even my ECE wud come low :-(
Ans:yes oyu will be able to do it just believe in urself i know ppl which teachers used to call failures, personally speaking i was called hopeless case myself so don u doubt urself just work hard and with dedication. Next why do u think ur GPA wud be low? just go with it and let ECE do the work..even if its going to be low u cant do anything abt it na...so don get tense abt it ..prepare hard and get good score. ( for those reading and still in school forget abt NBDE till u start with ur internship go for a good score first for that will make ur GPA and if GPA is good you have far better chances in getting into a school than a screwed up GPA )


All the best folks...