IT's MY LIFE

Relationship Status - Thanks Facebook for making it easy for me to know, if a friend of mine is single, or still in relationship with her ex AGAIN. I m not being sarcastic. Its true, because every time she breaks-up with him or he cheats her, I get SOS texts. Anyways lets come to my status - I m still flirting with spirituality, trying to understand deeper meaning to my life. Really, I am so bloody complex. I don't know how people actually understand me. I gave them lot of credit to deal with me. I really am thankful to people who call me, text me, and want to know how actually I am doing. Physical health is finally better, was suffering from some major issues of Pitta. This is an Ayurvedic dosha, and affects lot of people who have high stressed life. We will talk more about, as I will post an article regarding it. Life is very tricky for me. Every time I think I understood it, it comes back with a new challenge which needs to be overcome. I finally have decided to take my Guru's help, I recite a mantra which helps me deal with it. It helps me taking care of some obstructions in my life (will reveal it soon). And Reader plz....I am not trying to be a preacher. I m just sharing.

Raja Yogas - Part 1

RAJA YOGAS

In a horoscope there are certain planetary combinations that give native of that horoscope a meteoric rise. Now most people come to me, showing me that they have this or that Raja Yoga, because the calculative part of the Raja Yogas work out in their horoscope too. But in reality the planets that make this combinations have to fulfill other requirements like they have to be benefic to the lagna, they should be in strong strength in the horoscope, they shouldn't be aspected by any malefics, the native should have the dasha of the planet between 16-60 years of age. No point having Raja Yoga due to Venus, if its dasha will come after 60 years of age, as the person can't enjoy the benefits given by the planet.

Today I am going to describe you some of the Raja Yogas in the horoscope of the billionaire Bill Gates. He is a business tycoon, owner of the Microsoft.

NATIVE - BILL GATES
DOB - 10/28/1955
CITY - SEATTLE, USA



1. Ascendant lord Mercury is exalted in the 4th house Virgo. Mercury is in its own house and is in Kendra creates a Bhadra Mahapurusha Yoga. {There are other Mahapurusha Yogas due to Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Saturn, names Hamsa, Ruchaka, Malavya and Sasha Mahapurusha Yoga}. Mahapurusha means one of a kind individual, one who is able to go through a lot of suffering and make the best use of its struggle. These people rise in their life, when they go through the dasha of the planet.
It is during the Mercury dasha that when Bill gates ventured into Microsoft. And since then Mercury Dasha proved very beneficial for him.

2. Saturn is the lord of Bhagya Sthana/Lakshmi Sthana/9th house - the most auspicious house of the horoscope. And Saturn is exalted in another Lakshmi Sthana/Trikona/5th house in Libra. Which makes Bill Gates very fortunate and lucky.

3. Venus is the lord of the 5th house and is happily placed in the 5th house with Exalted Saturn and Debiliated Sun. Venus is in Moola-Trikona and is sitting with maximum strength. Placement of Venus and Saturn makes him a string business man. Placement of Sun and Venus together shows that Bill Gates has the ability to use diplomacy with nice and tactful words, which are the pillars of a good business dealing.

Now lets see here carefully that Venus is a benefic to the Gemini lagna, as Mercury and Venus are friends. Venus is sitting with Shad-bala of 150%, Venus is sitting in its own house with a dear friend. And sun which is a enemy to Venus is in debilitation. So overall Venus is a very benefic planet for Mr. Bill gates. And we can see during Venus's Dasha native reached the rise of his career. He became the top ranking billionaire, which makes sense as Venus is the significator of wealth and is placed in Lakshmi Sthana with Exalted Saturn.

I will continue talking more about Bill Gates horoscope in my next post. If you are interested in knowing more about your future, you can contact me via e-mail - kabirastro@gmail.com. I will soon be available through internet chat work like livperson and other websites.

Take care

Peace

A bit on TODAY

Hi guys,

Important day today astrologically, spiritually and anatomically.

Anatomically - As moon has reached its full globe. That means it is a full moon today. It in itself is quite an auspicious day of the month.

Spiritually -This day is important day of the year, as it is a full moon day in the month of ashada, i.e. July-August. This day is observed as Guru Pournima. This day is dedicated and is very sacred to the memory of sage Vyaasa. Rishi Vyaasa edited 4 vedas, 18 puranas, Mahabharata and Srimad Bhagvata. This day is important for all the followers of guru, religions like Sikhism, Buddhist and Hindus who lay their faith in guru to direct them to the path of righteousness, salvation and to the eternal god.

Astrologically - This year Jupiter is transiting through its own house pisces - and stays in that house until November 15th. Today jupiter is transiting through Uttarashada Nakshatra - Nakshatra of another Karmic planet - Saturn. And today Moon is transiting through Sagittarius (House of Jupiter) and moving on to Capricorn (House of Saturn), while it is in Uttarashada Nakshatra (Nakshatra of Sun).

This in itself is quite a rare event. During this day a lot of remedies are performed. Women who are childless, girls who are unmarried and men who are struggling with their business, make their offerings to lord shiva or their deity or guru or god, or whoever they believe is the guiding force in their life.

It is considered very auspicious to observe fast and eat after looking at the full globe of moon, in some cultures. I also recommend to look at the full moon tonight and make a wish .....

Exam Nightmares

It seems like this is the second time I am blogging after an exam. But this time there is more to it. I have another one coming in less than 2 weeks. Some might say, that I am scared of exam. I can improvise on that by saying, forget just being scared, i am committed to fear.

Why shouldn't I be. I am a nerve wreck during the last few weeks of an upcoming exam. Waking up in the middle of the nights, dreaming that I had to turn my car around to my home, few minutes before the exam, just because I was not wearing my left sock. Or sometimes the alarm got cushioned under my pillow, because ironically I want to keep my alarm next to my pillow so I can hear the alarm go off in the morning of the exam. I have also dreamt that I was so late for an exam that I went to the school wearing tighties-whities (which I don't even wear), flip flop in one leg and on other leg is my favorite white shoe, skull bandana on the head and my lucky-for exams-metallica-t shirt.

So much for 120 questions that need to be bubbled in. Funny is that during my exams I am usually thinking of what I am going to do after an exam. Like I could play pool with my friends at a new bar near my house. Or sometimes I am thinking of pick-up lines if I meet a nice girl at the bar, who is all charmed with my rebound-board shots.

You see this is what I have to deal with my own self. Most of the people who know me, are well aware that I am never the one to do pick-up lines, but no my brain has to play a switch on me, and that too during the most important exam of that semester - A FINAL exam. An exam for which I sweated my ass for last 2 months. And because I am not the sharpest knife in any drawer, this exam can make or break my career.

All this what I go through in a post exam state, becomes the reason of worry for my next exam. Because I know myself, I am going to be drooling so much in my sleep for a good score, that I will over-sleep everyday before the exam, and when I wake up I will not have the peace of mind to study due to the stress of scoring my dream score which I dreamt last night.

So much so for scores, that I am not too sure anyone of my clients will worry about. Because at the end of the day I know I have strong passion for my field and the willingness to go few xtra miles for the sake of my clients.

Post-Exam Status

So I finally got done with the mini on Monday. There is definitely a sense of relief that it is finally over. But I have to admit the feeling of rush that I get several hours before the exam, is amazing. It makes me to test myself, and push my limits or otherwise I just do things in my pace.

MONDAY's Events

I slept only 4 hours before the exam, and I know that is not good, but I was fresh and awake enough to know that at 7 in the morning I still had time to freak out. There were ICM questions I hadn't done, pharmacology was still a lose end. I was forgetting everything I had learned for pathology, and Microbiology was vaguely hiding somewhere in my cortex after food and money. Oddly enough I composed myself well for the big day. It could be because I have started meditating again.

Well after the 3 hours of rigorous mental insult that they call a 'Mini', I went home with a relief that for next 2 weeks I can open my schedule for things that I have been holding back. So first on the list was to treat myself with some good food. And luckily enough I got my friend shikha's call, who I promised that we will cook some Indian food after the exams. I went with all my spices, and vegetables to her house, where we talked about my palm reading skills, some spiritual stuff and lets not forget some gossiping. To help us enjoy the food more we had Ashna 'Miss Malapur', Amy 'Da Chinese Chick', and Neema 'group's new edition'.
In the end (around 11pm) we ended up making Rajma-Chawal and Okra. It was fun to see that everybody chipped in to make the food. You should all know that I doubt myself with things, which oddly enough, people think that I am good at. So after all the self doubt and lot of running around, the food was finally ready. And to my surprise it turned out really good. We ended up going home around 3 in the morning.

TUESDAY's events

Yesterday (tuesday) was a national holiday here on the island, and we had plans from monday night that we should cook some Indian food again. So I decided to invite the group to my place for some really nice Kadhaai Paneer, Punjabi chole and Chawal. As expected it was an adventure. Though the whole island was close, I managed to buy, a bit over-priced, bell peppers, onions, tofu and tomatoes from a chinese restaurant owner.
I was thinking while I was watching my friends help me cook, that I will miss these days when I leave the island. It was a good change for me getting together with my friends and doing something different than just going to a bar and getting wasted. Not too proud about it, but I have done that too. It just sometimes I need my peace and I get that by having a good course of meal with my friends.

See medical school can really steal lot of good things from your life. It takes you away from your parents, the friends you used to play pool with or go to late night casinos with, or the drive around the golf course in a cart with your friend, or the McDonald's cheeseburger, or the massage in the jacuzzi and on and on and on. I am not going to sugar-coat in the end by saying that "All this experience is for a higher purpose" or motivate you in any such way that is just a cliche. I have not reached that far to look back at this time and make those remarks. But I will tell you this, that most of the times it sucks. It sucks having constant headaches, just because you didn't eat right, or you didn't had time because you got a paper to turn in, or just because you are tired and you wouldn't dare moving your bones, because it hurts. All I can hope for in the end is that all these efforts of mine will work out for something amazing.

My Freak is ON......

I am freaking out in my own non-subtle punjabi way, coz mini is on monday. For non-medical people, 'mini' is like an exam but not for one subject.....anh anh, no that would be too easy. Instead it has all the subjects that one has studied for that whole semester.

So for a 4th semester student like myself, a mini would have sinisterly daring Pathology, impossible Pharmacology, ridiculously hard Microbiology and gee boring ICM (i talked about it in my last post). These mini's are not just meant to bust our balls and check our knowledge but also to see if we will crack under pressure.

Withstanding the pressure in medical school is the key. Everybody freaks out in med-school. Some hide it really well, and some nervous people, run around like a chicken with its head cut off. Most of us have our own way of hiding our freak. Some do it by overeating, some do it by working-out in the gym all day, some do it by taking excessive long naps, some even do it by not talking at all. Whatever works, the point is you can't let your fears take over you or let your friend know that you are as scared as him. You just have to take your chances in your ill-confidence and hope that you don't screw it up again.

I will talk about it more some other time, probably before the next mini.

Peace

Welcome

I am Gurvinder Singh, also very well known as Kabir, G, Shampy, Golu and panghoode-wala-sant (my father called me that when I was young). I am currently a student of medicine in carribeans. I am going to share my experiences and goofy adventures through this blog.

First day (making the blog) - It seemed like an eternity to find a suitable name for this blog and to come up with a title. As you might not know, English is my 4th language so thinking and finding a name which fits my personality was bit of a hard task. And for people with English as mother tongue if I make a mistake grammatically or constructing a sentence, you are gonna have to forgive me for hurting your feelings. I will try my best to not butcher it.

Anyways, today started as regular day. I had my ICM today. (Integrated Clinical Management - thats what I think it stands for, basically its where u poke around a voluntary patient to practice your clinical skills). We practiced our basic reflexes and I think hitting people with hammer to get a neurological response seemed like fun. And after we had Stan sessions where we were given a stimulated patient (like a robo-patient), which was showing symptoms of a asthmatic attack. And as a group of 9 students we were able to make sure that patient didn't 'crumped' (medical slang for - dying), and survive our unmanaged and very doubtful clinical skills.

I think I am loving practicing clinical skills. I think its the challenge that fires me up.

I will soon post some pictures from my clinical practice for ICM.