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Start of the 2011 winter.

In my tuberculosis cycle I got sick. Not due to a TB infection, but influenza. Our teachers discussed with us and already arranged one method to reduce the number of classes in the cycle. I was an ease to us in this winter period. Now the problem is what to do at home? As usually the weather keeps its character with the dark environment. The sun should be there behind the thick layer of clouds. But the poor sun even can’t send his warm rays to us. 23.5 degree deviation of the earth’s axis really can cause significant effects in the weather. November is the start of the real winter period. People Come to work and run for homes just after their work. In the summer the roads are fully crowded in the evenings. In the winter evenings are so lonely. Once these roads were filled with young children, elderly people, and lovers. But now they are empty.  In the winter the most difficult thing is to stay in a room studying. Outside dark and cold. The environment is so depressing. There are no much interesting things to do. Teachers telling the education are the most important.  I know what education is. I mean the mood of the education. What it has done to me is keeping me in one place which is bounded by tough borders for a long time.

The thing what I found is the many golden moments have passed me.   I’m thinking in my room about the birds which fly in the skies. Watching through a window for the same sight and thinking about a tomorrow seems to be a crazy thing. But for now there is nothing left to do.

In search of a warm place.

I’m having a free time in my tuberculosis cycle. Few days before I and my friend went to see one apartment for his use. End of the November reminds me the cold dark weather which will surround us soon. Kursk is a small town city area becomes empty as soon as the sun goes down. Outside low temperature goes through the body till the bones. We were searching one apartment in this winter period. I began to think about the poor people those who don’t have a proper place to sleep. I thought the struggle of a person to have an own place. For some people it is a long dream. Finally we found one place for rent. My friend paid the price. I remembered the some poor people who were begging near by the road in the summer and autumn. How do they face to this winter? To a country with distinct seasonal changes a roof doesn’t give the meaning of a home. It should be a warm place. I remembered the Story of a little girl who couldn’t find a warm place in a winter. Name of the story is “little match girl”. Finally she dies in the cold winter. Winter pictures a beautiful picture in our mind. But the real winter picture is not only the snow flakes and white sheet like environment.  The next thing which I remembered was the warm feeling of a beloved family. The little match girl didn’t have a warm place and a family. In a snowing winter she found dead in a dark building corner. A hope about a warm place and a family. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Match_Girl

World's largest book.

World’s largest book.

I was surfing the internet without any specific purpose. I was reading details about large libraries around the world. World largest library with the greatest collection of books was the Congress library of USA.  3^rd place goes to Library of Moscow named after Lenin. I didn’t saw check about the 2^nd place, My apologies! Then I saw one article about the world biggest book. It belongs to Myanmar (Burma).

The book is situated in a big temple. The temple is called Kathudov Pagoda. According to the number of pages it’s a medium sized book. But think about the dimensions and the material which used to make the book.  It’s amazing, 730 leaves of the book which turns in to 1460 pages made of granite stones.

Each and every page 3.5 feet wide and 5 feet tall covered with a casket made according to the Sri Lankan Sinhalese tradition of “Sthupa” (Pagoda).  At the top of the each casket a fixed gem. Thank to the British Invasion and colonization now the Stupas doesn’t have gems.

The name of this precious book is Tripitaka. Tripitaka is the spirit of the teachings of Lord Buddha. All scripts are in Pali language. For Theravada Buddhists this temple is a golden place. Actually it’s a golden place. The pages of the book are situated around the Golden Pagoda. The temple is made by a Burmese King Mindon. It was a great work which had done by the good king of Burma to protect and gift the Buddhism to the next generations.

I’m very happy to see such an international historical relic.  I wish to visit this site someday in the future.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_largest_book

20 November 2011, Sunday.

20 November 2011, Sunday.

I’m having a day off with a relaxed mined after the torturing surgery cycle. Tuberculosis cycle starts tomorrow. I hope it won’t be a difficult one. Im going to translate an ancient Buddhist suthtra to English. It’s originally formulated by Lord Buddha. I hope the spirit of this teaching will help everyone. I wish all the success to my readers. The teaching is about the success.

Maha Mangala Suthraya. (මහා මංගල සුත්‍රය)

·         Keep connection with good people and work with them. Don’t keep mutual connections with bad people.

·         Keep connections with educated good people.

·         Pay your respect to the people who really deserve it (To the good people).

·         Live in a good place which has a good surrounding (Environmentally, Socially and culturally). Simply a good country, good area which can keep your mind in a peaceful state.

·         Keep the good sins which you have collected.

·         Keep your mind steady. Don’t let it run here and there as usual. Take the control of your mind.

·         Learn well. Try to attain new knowledge which will be helpful to you.

·         Take the correct and appropriate education and knowledge. Not everything. Just what you need to your life.

·         Discipline.

·         Speak good words. Speak about good things.

·         Look after your parents. Treat them well. Care about them.

·         Look after your children and wife. Treat them well.

·         Good occupation. (No illegal jobs).

·         Donate to things to the poor people. Treat and donate to priests.

·         Collect good sins.

·         Help, treat and care about your cousins.

·          Always be honest to you. Work with a good vision in a well defined manner.

·         Keep away from the bad sins. Don’t involve with them.

·         Keep away from alcoholism, smoking and other harmful drugs.

·         Don’t be late to do good things. Don’t be late to collect good sins.

·         Respect to others. Respect to other opinions.

·         Live a joyful life. Live with the happiness.

·         Never to forget the people who helped to you in the past. Be helpful to them when they need it.

·         Listen, study and pay attention to your religion. It should be done in the right time.

·         Be patient.

·         Obey.

·         Discussion about your religion with the religious people. (Friends, monks). Improve your knowledge about the religion.

·         Live a religious life.

·         Great behavior.

·         See the truth. Try to find the truth.

·         Try to attain the great Nibbana.

·         Try to keep no worries. Be steady in the disaster and triumph.

·         Don’t worry about the past or the future.

·         Don’t keep bad and harmful thoughts in your mind.

·         Don’t be afraid.

These are the golden instructions to live a joyful life.  

Ich bin ein Berliner and Tear down the wall!

After the WW 2 it was the most discussed topic all over the Europe. It was a major iconic symbol of cold war. Dividing of Germany in to two parts without considering post war period depression, social corruptions and economic instability was a major negative point in political view. In addition the country divided in to East and West Germany fully demonstrating the anti communist parties and communist parties in the word (Actually the major communist party or the country was former USSR). The wall built by the soviet government which was governing the eastern Germany. The division which made by the Soviet Union yet to be considered as a big negative point in attaining the trust of smaller European nations to Russia.  Decisions to take the member ship of NATO by the small nations nearby Russia were influenced by this action. 

Related Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner

http://the-history-notes.blogspot.com/2011/08/on-this-day-first-block-in-berlin-wall.html

My psychiatric patient in Kursk Regional Psychiatric hospital, Iskra.

Once I just turned some pages of a Oxford Psychiatric manual. One of my seniors had brought it home for his exam preparations. That time I was a 3 year medical student in the medical faculty. There was a funny saying in the top of the first page of the book. -->Welcome to Iskraß. We usually call the hospital as Iskra. There is no need to describe what kind of a hospital is it. Every citizen who is living in Kursk city knows about the hospital. Iskara Psychiatric hospital.  We started our second psychiatric cycle in the hospital and we were allowed to visit the patients. At the entrance a foul smell gave a unpleasant feeling. They are having a bath once per week. There are faces are not usual faces. Many of them are chain smokers. We saw classic smoker’s signs in these patients. Nicotine stained fingers. Dirty clothes.

My patient has several psychiatric disorders and syndromes. If I name them mental depression and Delusional syndrome with hallucinations. He was a resident patient for 5 years in Iskra. According to his description he was a military equipment developer for military airplanes. That time he had many connections with Russian KGB. His grandfather was a secret agent who had connections with foreign secret services. His uncle was a psychiatric doctor. He directly told to our teacher “I will communicate with them, no problem, my grandfather was a psychiatric doctor too”. We went deep in to the discussion. But some of the words which he was using not clear. It’s a symptom Neologism. His words were so fast some parts of the conversation were unclear because our Russian knowledge wasn’t enough to understand him. When I asked about the location of the work place he strongly suggested me not to ask about military secrets. He advised even to my teacher to save the military secrets.  Then we checked his memory status. According to the tests his memory was normal. No Amnesia. We asked about the current president and the previous presidents of the Russian federation. He gave the correct answers. When we asked about the American presidents he gave the correct answers.  He told according to his knowledge of secret services former KGB’s are rude people including the former prime minister of Russian federation.  The breath taking part was about his abilities to cure people by human natural energy. This energy he named as “Bio pole”. To give such a power his brain spheres are becoming a one body. He has met several people who had the same abilities. According to him his father had the same power and it have inherited the power from his father. He had seen once his father was treating his mother.  According to his words most probably termination of his life will be due to chronic effects of smoking, drugs like Haloperidol or barbiturates. 

It is forbidden to go outside from the hospital. So patients stay in the wards. According to our teacher’s words there are very dangerous patients with severe maniac and mental disorders in Iskra. Some of them are resident patients for 20-25 years. There are some people who search the same happiness which we are searching for long time. But they are isolated and limited to dark corridors of isolated hospital facilities. There is a big necessity of good psychiatric doctors at the present.