Of Pretense and Persuasions

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

To add to the lunacy which I generally like to partake in, I have decided to join the Technical Committee of Engineers without Borders. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do, or what knowledge I'm supposed to share, but they seem to really want me.
Granted, they think I'm a boy and that I'm this hunky wannabe MSF [aka Doctors Without Borders] general surgeon. I'm a little peturbed. I mean, I suppose this is only the first time of many more yet to come when someone will read my resume/job application and simply assume I'm a guy by virtue of the whole surgery thang and the hx of ridiculous math/physics activities. Sigh. I have to start deconstructing the sterotypes now ... and having a boy's name doesn't help.

Monday, May 28, 2007
















I want to be a yoga master but I hate how commercialized Yoga has become in the West. I look suspiciously upon yoga bootcamps where long-haired yuppies gather on some arbitrary beach in Mexico to commune with the spirits of the universe and do yoga. What bothers me is not so much the mixing of cultures, but rather the cost. To me, it seems, that the learning of asanas and meditation should be free. As it costs nothing to practice, it should cost nothing to learn. Okay, maybe a few rupees or a donation to your favourite social cause, but not $4K.

The dude in the picture is someone I knew in college. He learned from a book.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

I'm back into the running/lifting/yoga/meditation thang. It must be the sun. It makes me crazy with joyous energy. I've also been on a spree secretly committing random acts of kindness... more for my own satisfaction and conspiratorial glee than for anything else.

Otherwise, I'm on Pediatrics right now. The kids are cute. And that's about all I have to say about that. Its too... easy ... for me to really enjoy it. I find it rather boring, to be honest.

I can't imagine doing anything but Surgery right now. I love the idea of being trained in General Surgery and working for MSF for 6 months of the year ... and spending the rest of year living a bohemian existance in Colorado teaching yoga and ayurveda.

At the moment, I'm trying to organize a rotation in India at the Sri Ramakrishna Hospital in Tamil Naidu. Either that, or rotate thru Shock Trauma in Baltimore. Personally, I'd much rather avoid the state of Maryland completely and go of to the Orient and beyond.