My experience of 1st Anaemia Awareness camp(of 2012) at SVNIT Surat

Hello everyone!

Hope you all have read my previous blog Which Explicitly Expresses My Distrust and Doubts in the Google Adsense Service...Well for that reason I feel blogs are a perfect way of expressing things that one feels and also sharing them with the outside world!

I have another blog on nutrition titled: Healthizens Blog
Many of you might ask WHY? Well the reason I have is because I want an alltogether different target audience for Both! Sounds Justifiable Enough! I hope so :)

Just a brief introduction: I am a Diet & Nutrition Consultant by Profession and was associated with FOGSI (Federation of obstetric & Gynaecologists of India) in their campaign of Anaemia Awareness.
And precisely this was the reason I had been to SVNIT Girls Hostel.. Oh well SVNIT stands for - SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. My sincere Thanks to Dr.Sanjay Shah the Head of the Health Department at SVNIT.

I had almost 125 students for the lecture and a few Staff Members.

I really enjoyed giving the lecture primarily because it was the first time I was conducting a lecture from 9:15pm-10:15pm and secondly because the students Did Ask Questions in the end!

I remember one of our faculty Mr.Jimmy Kapadia (in MBA) who used to say: 'You people don't have any questions? No questions means Either you understood Everything Or you didn't understand ANYTHING, And usually the latter that holds true'

The lecture started with the FOGSI Anthem, my brief introduction ( Yes I had purposely asked them to keep it in just 2 lines)
The lecture as usual to over by before the scheduled time.. I have this habit of finishing my lectures usually  Before Time! This gives me a bit of extra time to interact with students and answer their queries And Yes I can very well detect the relaxed look on the face of the students as soon as they hear : "Okay we are done for the day"

Although the students were not very quiet and disciplined (what else would you expect from a batch of students after a tiring day!) during the entire lecture but they weren't non-manageable either!

After my talk Dr.Sanjay Shah had a talk of 7 minutes and although I was aware of the fact that SVNIT invests a lot of money for Students Health but to this extent I hadn't even imagined! The Health Department was ready to provide girls with
1) Iron- Folic Acid supplements on a regular basis But with the condition that they would not be given to the students to carry instead they will have to take those tabs in the Mess itself.
2) Deworming tablets with the same condition.
3) Complete Blood Count checked at a very Nominal Rate.
4) Make changes in the Mess Food Plan to adjust with these nominal deficiency problems (Obviously they asked me to do that)
         But the whole point here is that the College is so eager to help out the students especially in such an aspect which majority of students face who are staying in hostels.
I have given them a Thumbs up! Lets see when things materialize...

         Overall I thoroughly enjoyed giving the lecture..I had taken Anaemia Awareness camps in 2 schools - Lourdes Convent  & Lancers Army and 1 college- SNDT Commerce College located in Surat in 2009.

And this time it was my initiative to call Institutes and ask them if they were willing to conduct such activity.
Although I knew Dr.Sanjay being super enthusiastic about Health of students would be anxious to conduct it I didnt know it would be within 2 days of calling him!
Thanks a tonn Dr.Sanjay Shah for providing me this opportunity! Really look forward to see other colleges espcially NIT's to follow SVNIT's footsteps.

Here are a few pictures

No dejes de visitar mi blog!

(Do Keep visiting my blog!)

An angel who offered us Lift in his Car

Hey everyone!

Hope you all ave been doing great as always :) M here to share another interesting incident of my life.

This goes back to 2003 in between May-June.
I had given my entrance exams for MHSc Nutrition and was awaiting the results. As expected I had cleared the entrance exam of Nirmala Niketan, which sadly none of my friends did. (We were four of us who had given entrance exams for MHSc - Shikha, Dutta, Manju and Me)

I was obviously bursting with joy since I was very much keen in getting an admission in Mumbai :)
Mumbai rains and their nature are known by everyone..If not by personal experience by other people's  experiences.

As it was raining heavily in Mumbai we felt it was safer if we reached a day earlier, So I left with my Father a day prior to the date of interview and reached Mumbai on evening to join my Chachi who was already staying at Shantidoot Hotel in Dadar East because of her Chemotherapy sessions.

It kept pouring the whole night. The next morning when me and Papa got ready, It Was Still Pouring!

But how much had it poured the previous night dawned on to us only when we stepped out of the hotel. the water was knee deep, obviously we had to fold our clothes above the knee... This was just the beginning...

As we moved ahead we realized that the water levels kept rising, and the highest level I remember is the water was 3 inches above my knee level. Still we managed to somehow drag ourselves and move further. A gentleman walking beside us somehow realised that we were Non-Mumbaikars and advised us

"Zara dhyaan se chalneka.....kuch Manholes ka dhakkan khula reta hai"

I am really Thankful to him till date. After that we started walking even more slowly and carefully and reached a Flyover only to realise (after a discussion with few people out there) that we would not get any TAXIs to Central. We had kept a margin of 3 and half hours... but heavy downpour and not getting a Cab would worsen our woes, still me n Papa kept walking over the bridge and reached the mid of it.

Now What? Where to go? We stopped there for a few minutes and were thinking when an Old Maruti 800 (Green colour) stopped by us and a Gentleman clad in his Formals and wearing Silver rimmed spectacles (must be in his 30's)
opened the window and asked Papa "Sir, Kaha jaana hai aapko"

Papa: "Nirmala Niketan jaana hai, bacchi ka interview hai "
Gentleman: "Sir Main aapko Central tak drop kar sakta hoon, vaha se aapko Cab mil jayegi, yaha se toh aapko door door tak kahi Cab nai Milegi"

Papa: "Okay"

As if we had an option. Without much thinking we accepted his offer. He seemed to be a very humble person, while driving he guided Papa about how to go ahead from where he would drop us and by the time he had explained us the route to reach Nirmala Niketan, we already reached the point where he would drop us. We thanked him although Thanking for Just simply Not Enough for this kind gesture of His...

(He and Papa exchanged their names for Intro..but I donot remember his name)

He wished both of us - All the Best :) and left.

 We took the route and means of transport suggested by him and reached our destination On Time!

Aah! for me he was God sent, He was an angel! If he would not have offered us the Lift, there was no way we could have reached Nirmala Niketan On time!

After this incident my respect for Mumbaikars increased tremendously! And Yes Since then I always make it a point that on my way to a certain place, If I can be of some help to someone in need, I surely do my bit.
And I guess thats what all of us should do :) What say?

Prendre Soin (Take Care)

Orkut v/s Facebook Part 2

Hello... 
ohh wont break the continuity of the reading process..
further reasons...
3) I got in touch with many of my school friends through orkut and it was indeed a refreshing experience to  get back to them after so many years.



Here comes the 4th reason. . .


Raghav (my hubby) contacted me through orkut for the first time :) 
I guess that was the phase when I(rather We) used orkut more than any other website ..photo sharing commenting on snaps etc etc ..


5) When I joined iBranch(Raghav's entrepreneural venture) as an Online evangelist, I added many of the iBranch users in my orkut profile..so that I could be in touch with them to solve their doubts etc..and orkut did help me a lot @ that time.

Now that I am done with my orkut fascination letme start with  Facebook.


Actually its difficult to exactly define the time when I ... actually  switched over to Facebook.


The interet crazy personality in me faded slowly and gradually as I went over for my further studies and surfing rather than being abstract became subject related 
and
when my friends started sending me facebook invites I was skeptical that with such time constraint, Would I be able to handle 2 social networking platforms?

I used to plainly delete those requests..

As and when I started working with iBranch..and started contacting students on FB.. i thought 1 more social network would help me in my work.


Then there was a phase when I shared updates simultaneously both n orkut and facebook.
and then slowly it so happened that everyone was Sharing updates, Liking, Comenting, Sending messages etc on FB, and not orkut..so i guess I gave in to the peer pressure :P

But now that I am writing this blog I am all the more motivated to continue this further as ...Are we really obsessed with our Social Networking personality?

The inspiration is a blog from a friend
5-Reasons-Not-To-Be-On-Facebook.




Fair attendre