Wicked Warrior

Yes active learning sounds like a good idea. I learnt to make sabjia from my mother. Enough for me to eat but not something I'd give to other people, even if I didn't like them. :lol: I always used to get told off for doing something wrong eveytime I tried to do seva, to the point that it's put me off completely. I now just sit back in the main hall after langar and do simran until it's time to go home. I've seen bibian and kids helping to make langar, though it ends up being chips and beans with pasta. Not very nutritious but if it helps the kids participate, I'm not going to complain.

I'm working nights (12-hr shifts) so haven't been able to go anywhere. Really wanted to go Gurdwara but nearest is 40 miles away and I didn't feel safe driving there.

Not too long ago, I had a dream where I got shot in the back, piercing one of my lungs. It deflated, I collapsed and slowly stopped breathing. I woke up right around the time I died (can't remember if it was just before or after). Last night was another wierd dream. I was walking around with some kalee (black girl, same age as me). Anyway some muslims came after us. We ran but in different directions. I ended up running into this house which turned out to be where some Muslim saint used to live but had died now. I ran up to the second floor and there was a little area by the stairs to the third floor where I could hide without being spotted. The muslims were outside and they sent in a Sikh boy of about 7-8 years age who ran up to the first floor, looked around and then went back down again. The muslims got him to go in again and he searched around, went up to the second floor, ran past me, didn't see anything and was headed back out except he spotted me. He gave me away so I had to run away, jump out of a window, bounced off a washing like, landed and ran off, then I woke up. I just couldn't believe I had been ratted out by another "Sikh".

I don't think the coat was made in secret. The emperor at the time said that Guru Sahib could take as many prisoners with him as many as could hold on to his gown. So he sent for a coat to be made with 52 tassels, all of varying length. The varying length all makes it easy for the prisoners to come out one by one in line.

I can't remember the lines from Maharaj but I remember reading about how for a True Gursikh is not afflicted by dreams. I've always taken this to mean that dreams are like a disease. But not all 'dreams' are dreams. Several times, I have had dreams of Mahapurshes of whom I have never seen before.

Was thinking about this. Many times Maharaj Ji will make me look downwards for no reason and I'll spot an ant and step over it rather than on it. Many times Maharaj Ji will make me realise a mistake I've just made. But what happens to they who do not realise they have done a wrong? If a person didn't look down, stepped on an ant and killed it, are they still held accountable? What of someone who has slighted someone else without realising it? What if someone's lower intelligence causes them to act, not realising what they are doing is wrong? Are they still punished? Does it still count as a sin? Yes, it is Maharaj's kirpa to make them realise they have done a wrong/sin., but if they were never aware, does it still count? Is it still seen as a sin? Will they still be punished?

I have seen many Singhs who brush their mucchah to the sides. 1. Join thumb and forefinger of right hand together. 2. Apply this to the centre point of the upper lip. 3. Spread the forefinger and thumb apart thus brushing away any hair from your lips. 4. Repeat ad infinitum until all moustache hair is away from the lips. See them doing it all the time. Nothing wrong with it.

There was a programme called "Michael Jackson: What Really Happened?" about the entire downfall of Michael Jackson. I didn't watch all of it because of constant interruptions but there was one bit where they were talking about one of MJ's bedrooms. Don't know which one it is but outside his bedroom MJ keeps life-sized figures of Sikh soldiers as protection from ghosts. They were very obviously Sikh, with turbans and beards. One was wearing a green uniform (not camoflage). Anyone else see this?

I just figured it was related to the amount of frowning you do

Yes it was Baba ji's Assan (I think that's what it's called), where he stayed whilst in Cov. Very nice place, very peaceful too. I wish I appreciated his presence when I was 5.

As I remember, Guru Nanak only explained the meanings of the alphabet, not create them. For this I think it was Guru Angad Dev Maharaj who put it in it's current form and taught Gurmukhi to others.

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Yeah I was thinking about this. I'm not Amritdhari but to me, my kara is as important as my arm. Taking it off I feel nanga though I do do it for theatres and for patients in side rooms with communicable diseases. Was really thinking about how it would impact on me. I'm not sure what to do. I have head of some Sikhs who scrub up in theatre keeping the kara under their turban for the duration of the operation but that's only for a few hours. This would be all the time. The other thing I have thought about is wearing a big enough kara that it can go past the elbow and stay there, where it avoids the 'below the elbow' rule. Will have to think about this.

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aww I wish I had someone to help me out like that. My medic dad told me to chill and go out....and I listened to him like a good daughter... :lol: I know this sounds funny but even tho i am in third yr I really dunno how to work nd I'm always having failing problems - so far I have been doing that at the end of every yr so I'm kinda just dying to pass first time cos then I can have my first summer holliday since 2003.... Also thanks for the OSCE advice - btw we probably do have communication skills but from what I know they have actors and who pretend to be pts and you do stuff like cranial nerves, thyroid gland examination, abdomen examination at each of the 15 stations... Do you reckon I should use Kumar and Clark or the books you said? Also I start my firm tommorrow and I really dunno how I should approach things... The books I mentioned are for OSCE finals really - they're overkill for anything else. Stick to K&C as your main bible. Like I wrote above, do some work either at the weekend or during the week. At least do something. In third year, you're mainly concerned with the pathophysiology of diseasa and less about the management (which is more important for finals). So at the mo, you should looking at say why do ulcers occur and the difference between arterial and venous ulcers. Make a list of subjects and a list of topics for each subject, starting with the firm you're working on first. If you start on say lower GI firm, then make a list of the possible lower GI topics ranging from HNPCC to appendicitis. I've always found it easier to break things down into headings like Definition, Aetiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Features, Pathophysiology, Investigations, Management. I also tried to make each disease fit on to either 1 or 2 sides of A4 so it made it easier to revise, and aim to do 1-2 diseases per day depending on how big/small they are. Having made your notes earlier makes it easier to revise when it comes to exams.

Yeah that was good advice I gave. Wish someone had told me it when I first started. OSCE-wise depends on when you do it. We had third year OSCEs but they're more about communication. Final year OSCEs - we had so many different things but they all tend to repeat year after year. We had: - breaking bad news (telling pt's wife her husband was gonna die and it was gonna be soon) - post-mortem - gaining permission to do a post-mortem - headache - taking a history and diagnosing either SAH or meningitis (depending on which group you were in) - CXR interpretation (pt had pneumothorax and got asked types and causes) - opthalmology - diabetic/hypertensive eye - post-natal depression - taking a sexual history from a man (who turns out to be homosexual) - thyroid exam - respiratory exam (copd) - resus - alcohol abuse history - paediatric head injury history taking - venesection - writing a drug chart Can't remember the other 2 stations we had. It's all about showing the examiner that you are a safe doctor. Misdiagnosing the meningitis as say migraine is really bad and you will fail. Taking blood from a dummy arm is easy and it doesn't matter if you can't do it. What matters is that you confirm it's the right patient using 3 items of identification. Stuff like that. Books I used were Surgical Finals: Passing the clinical and Medical Finals:passing the clinical. Go through them and make sure you can do a complete exam of the relevant system. The books also have typical scenarios used in OSCEs and what things you need to say/do. Practise the scenarios with three people - 1 person the patient, 1 the student and 1 the examiner who has the book. Practise all the systems on patients in hospital - you need to look like you've done the same examination five times a day, every day for the past five years! Doing it on a real patient with another student writing down what you've missed out helps you improve. The more you practise, the smoother you get, the better it looks. Don't knock it either - I had to do a proper thyroid/neck exam on a patient who thought he could feel his glands swelling up. They were normal and there was nothing to find, but if there was, he would have had to stay in hospital for longer. ECGs - I have to preclerk patients which means take history, do a quick exam and make sure they are fit for surgery. Every patient over 50 has an ECG and they don't have barn-door ECGs either. Can't always tell whether there really is ST-elevation or it just looks like it. Is that atrial fibrillation or just the patient not keeping still during the ECG? That's how it gets, so the more ECGs you see and can interpret, the better. Don't worry about not being able to analyse it in five seconds - I still can't do that yet. Imaging - CT scans I used to have difficulty with but make sure you can interpret all kinds of imaging: X-rays (can be CXR, AXR, bone, skull, KUB etc), CT scans, IVUs - all of them. At the mo, working down in Royal Bournemouth. Nice place, nice friendly staff.

Ditto. Just started working as a junior doctor too.

Erm where do you think Sikhs came from?

I once tried to read the first pauri of Japji Sahib with each sentence as one long word. I swear I felt such an effect that was more than if I had read the whole of Japji Sahib as I do. Quick Q: Is it wrong to sing Bani when it's not a shabad? Sometimes I read Japji sahib or Dukhbhanjan Sahib and I suddenly start singing the Bani in my head instead of reading it.

Yeh but sikhs can eat meat as long its not made via ritual means. Yeah except my mum's veggie too and won't eat anything with egg/fish/meat/animal product in it as much as she can help it. I'm not overly bothered.

Sometimes, we get things like samose and barfi from them because they are pure veggie.

I remember a Baba Ji (can't remember who) would take the two parchia and place them in water. Whichever floated or was the closest was picked up and the answer therein followed.

Dude, if Maharaj did kirpa on me like that, I'd go with Him in a heartbeat. I hate going to bed at night and not able to sleep because I keep thinking about death. I hate walking around all day feeling like the Noose of Death is around my neck and about to be pulled at any minute. I hate not being able to do simran 24/7.

Yeah I was well nervous when I first went to uni. Even after my parents had helped drop my stuff off and unpack and gone home, I was like W_T_F do I do now? But you'll make friends. Everyone's really friendly at first to maximise their nos of friends. Be friendly too. Everyone asks your name, where you from, A-levels and the degree your doing. Eventually you'll settle down after a while and figure out who's who. I was friends with everyone at first but then realised some people were the kind I didn't wanna be around so I didn't speak to them as much or anything. You'll be fine.

If Maharaj declared keeping hair essential for those who take Amrit, then it is essential. As to wearing the turban, I have come to this conclusion: If we have kirpan always at our side, and always wearing kacherai, it looks to me like you need to be ready to fight at a moment's notice. Which means you need your turban/dastaar on too. Enemy comes in the middle of the night, not gonna wait for you to tie your turban just as much as he isn't gonna wait for you to get your kirpan or get dressed. Always stay ready!