CHARACTERS

first, a note about the mangalore rains.
DAMMIT! %&#*%#)*$%
well, i'd prefer to use aliases for the characters i refer to in my notes:

in the note: year one, the guy is someone called Ivan.
the guy who got the israelites out of canaan: Jacob.

and this guy, whom i thought i'd speak bout, is someone called Rajiv. year 4.
an Obg class, 3-4pm. people have rested their bones, having driven bikes from kapri or trekked the distance from nandagiri to college. the first class was important, but then, our attention span being like, 5 minutes. no one seemed interested.
and then walks in this teacher. scarf over head.a curt, mean look on her face... and walks up to the last bench and sits down. we've seminars as you all know that goes on and on, and this teacher has this annoying habit of asking the students to stand up and answer questions from the topic that has been presented.
and whats more, she comes up with this concept of, "boys Vs girls"! i mean, wtf?!!
it so happened that we were being taught twin gestation (by our batchmates of course) we were sitting bored. twiddling thumbs. some trying hard to balance their head over their pivot joints, as it kept falling in all directions. thumbing text messages. etiology, c/f, bla bla bla. and its the stuff that you can pick up and understand better reading from the text book, than some fool trying hard to sound like an ndtv news reader..
then, the first presenter finishes, and our friend is sitting behind. chatting up with his friends about how useless the system of education is, when the prof spots him.
ma'am: "you, stand up. what are the causes of twin gestation?"
now the answers could be, super-fecundation, occurs more in the african negroid population, or as a result of in-vitro fertilization.
rajiv : (without batting and eyelid) "multiple coitus ma'am!!"
and the class burst out laughing..
rajiv: "what? i'm right no? whats wrong?!" he gives questioning looks to everyone around him.
ma'am: (smiles) "yes, then what else?"
well, he managed to answer the rest of the questions, cos it seemed fairly easy. but it was quite apparent where his mind was during the class! lol!

flashback to year 1.
we've the dissection tables. and this is when we've moved to the latter part of the first session of the year. i'm sure you all know how much of a challenge osteology was. i mean, you've this mis-shapen pieces of bone, that its quite tough to describe what areas of it are and what the essential features of it are. well, if you probably had a cube or a pyramid, you could call each surface, by name or an alphabet and describe its features.
and every organ has to be identified whether it belongs to the right side or the left side of the body.
so there was this time, when we'd kind of finished with the upper arm, and were now dealing with the thorax.
i was sitting on my table. uninterested as usual. and happened to look at the table next to mine. i saw azeb, ajith and i think senthil, and someone else called mary.
there was the cadaver, and a heart kept over the chest.
mary is this 5'5 tall girl, who's spent her school days abroad. and so she speaks with an accent. and she's indian.
she walks up to the cadaver, and before picking up the heart, she lifts her hands shoulder level and says:
"awrite! awrite! is this the rite heaRRT, or the left one?"
i saw senthil look at her incredulousy. ajith smiled back, smugly. azeb , almost stifled his laughter as her ran a few steps away from the cadaver and giggled to himself.
there are a few other experiences from the dissection hall. that's probably one place which none of you'd forget...

PS: names have been changed to prevent brain damage.