It is an absolute coincidence that I am writing a post titled wittily as a mathematical equation on the day before my mathematics pre-board. It’s clever, but irrelevant. Till I can acquire an equal level of mastery over differential equations (which I’m a bit doubtful about at the moment), I might be in, as I put it, trouble.
One of the reasons I’m writing this particular post is because it’s been a while since I last blogged.
Blog = Weblog = Web + Log
See what I did there? I did it again. (Ref. Jeff Dunham’s Achmed the Dead Terrorist – 5:44 ) No, what I mean is that it’s been a while since I posted a personal entry. Have been doing a lot of public service / samaaj seva (one and the same thing) posts for a while now, and kind of forgot why I started this all in the first place.
Getting back to the title, let’s break it down into somewhat manageable sections. Let’s begin with House M.D. (Yes, it’s on the FOX network and no, it doesn’t publicly and intentionally humiliate the network in its episodes unlike a certain other 22-seasons-and-still-running-show.) It’s probably the most addictive medical-drama-cum-black-comedy show ever conceived. Starring Hugh Laurie as the narcissistic, Vicodin (it’s just a painkiller) addicted, ace infectious disease diagnostician, Dr. House, with his team of lackeys/minions/factotums. But to be honest, he really is the USP of the show. I honestly cannot imagine any other actor playing the character. Just check out his audition tape:
(Oh, and just in case you didn’t know, he’s British – which means he has to pull off the American accent each and every time he shoots for the show) Anyway, the general pattern of the shows is rather predictable. House gets an interesting case, for which he has to perform a differential diagnosis, which means that for about 30 minutes of the show, he’s playing hit and miss with cool 3D animations of the body’s various organs and systems to illustrate the point to non medical persons. Sprinkle in the drama about his right limp and the general bad-ass attitude and you’ve got a seller (which is precisely what it is). I’ll probably be getting more episodes. But not now.
<insert ominous drumroll>
I have now realized that I should probably wind up this post and get back to those mock tests I planned for today. Hopefully 2-3 of them should help me get my pace right, and help me pin-point any particular deficiencies I need to work on. Anyway, the following table is just there to demonstrate just how much trouble is yet to befall me.
| 14 Jan / Fri | 15 Jan / Sat | 16 Jan / Sun | 17 Jan / Mon | 18 Jan / Tue |
| Mathematics | English | Lots of feverish revision | Chemistry | Physics |
<gulp>
The reason why I better do well in these pre-boards is because these marks will inevitable influence my admissions to some degree. (Certainly something more than my now-near-useless-Board marks can possibly ever do.) No one really has any clue, apart from the adcoms, of course how much weightage it is likely to carry, but I’m pretty sure I want to demonstrate the upward trend, I’ve been preaching about to others about. 