Thoughtful Thursdays

The affair with tea :Thankful Thursdays week 23

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on April 6, 2017 18

During my PG exam days in Delhi, I and hubby used to study together.

I used to get up in the morning and order breakfast.It was the awesome Safdarjung co-ed hostel where you could live with your husband and not cook.
Life was good. Tea, coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner.Just order.

The downside it wasn’t that healthy nor really tasty.But it was quick and pain-free.
During exams, it was a blessing.Those were the days when I used to have my morning cup of ginger tea and start studying.
My hubby sat at the study table and I used to sit on the bed.Strategically.
When my hubby was deep in his studies, I used to put the book over my face (it shuts out the light) and take quick naps.
The main problem I used to get caught.But the tea helped a lot.It kept me awake to study enough and survive.In Delhi, I fell in love, with the milky gingery chai.My hubby called it a biriyani chai.The time it took and the blend of spices I used. It was a love affair and my hubby felt threatened.

I loved the creamy taste of milk and tea leaves packed with care by our favorite wholesale tea company, boiled with spices.I have written in detail about GERD
One of the first things I tell my patients is , don’t have more than 2 /3 cups everyday.

For busy people, these drinks give the kind of pick -me- up that few other things can.But everything needs moderation.

But when you are struggling with post-baby weight, several cups of sugary-milky-chai is not your best friend. So in 2016, I had to say goodbye to this delightful habit.At least it’s not there 26 days of the month. So what do I have now?

A wonderful gingery green tea.

It’s the most refreshing cup to wake you up and make you feel refreshed. Green tea has a lot of goodness especially when made just right.
I still have the occasional cup of milky chai, on weekends. But my morning starts healthy.For those days when I am upset, the perfect cup of milky tea tickles my memory.

How do I make my cup of gingery green tea?

I shred ginger finely and put it in the teapot . As the water warms up, I stop it just before it boils and gives the perfectly measured amount of my favourite green tea leaves.Wait for 2 minutes till the leaves unfurl and strain.The perfect cup is ready for drinking.I don’t like having biscuits anymore, but I don’t say no to cookies with tea.A few weeks back in Goa as I sipped my cup of green tea with dainty cucumber sandwiches and tea cake , I watched the sun setting over the ocean.I realised two things.

Life is too short not to do what we love.

Its too long to do what we don’t like for a lifetime.

5 Joys I am Thankful for :#ThankfulThursdays

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on March 23, 2017 6

When you say “thank you “the universe does give you more of the same .Life gives us all chances and choices ,what we do,with these chances and what we choose makes a lot of difference.

My joys have been a result of difficult choices.

Independence

Deciding to study in Delhi was difficult. I had never lived away from home.But that experience helped me learn what I was capable of .Including midnight madness.Coping with peer pressure and homesickness can be potent.

That choice helped me realize my strengths. The joy of being independent and learning how to choose friends wisely .

Being married

I love being married .The joys of married life make a lot of troubles disappear.My hubby is my best friend and my favourite sounding board for my 2pm ideas.It helps that he has oodles of patience and the kindest person I know.He once told me

“If you can’t say something nice it’s always better to keep quiet.”

So simple to avoid trouble and unpleasantness. So difficult to learn.

Being a mommy

My daughter is a darling .She makes me enjoy all things creative with her .Revisiting childhood with her makes life better.Motherhood is a joy and source of all my creativity.

Love of nature

I love gardening and the joy of staring at a bud or a freshly bloomed rose is ummatched. I just love spending time surrounded by nature.The medical college and hospital where we work had few trees and plants. But the authorities are taking care to give the grounds a green cover.It’s a pleasure seeing the saplings everywhere. Studies prove that hospital rooms with green views have patients recover more quickly .Mental health plays a large role in physical recovery.

I rarely vacation any place without nature around. At least the resort should have green cover .Concrete jungles make me bored after a few hours.I am thankful that God takes care of my love for nature at home and when I travel.

Once you take care to travel healthy ,your adventures will always leave you happy and rested. .

For the joy of finding pleasure in words.

Reading and writing :

What can I say, I survived med school ,because I used to promise myself limitless library visits, after exams were over.Kolkata has an Eloor Library close to Ballygunge station.We are still members and I love visiting this place to pick up old favourites and find new loves.

Love for writing & Blog love.

I feel writing has been on my friend list, but lost in kumbh mela, reunited again magically .After class twelve ,medical school had enough going on for me to have no time for any recreational writing.

I started writing when I realized that information can help create awareness. It helps me spead preventive health care at zero cost to the people I want to help, without tearing my hair over it.Repeating the same thing over and over again made me want to have a place to store all this information. Someday hopefully , someone will be helped.

My happy time includes family books ,nature ,access to my blog and opportunity to travel.

Dream in life: Financial freedom to do all this for life.

Aim in life :To help women who travel with me find this road .

What are your small joys ?

Comment below to let me know.

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Thankful Thursdays (week 21):Small joys and big happiness

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on March 23, 2017 4

While I am writing the post I am lounging at the poolside in Goa .Yes I am travelling .The wifi here has an interesting charge of 100 rupees per hour .So I am thankful to Vodafone 3G.It’s not doing too badly and saving me money I can’t give to this hotel!

This week has been impossible. My biggest help at the hospital had to take leave suddenly because of a family emergency. Last year’s batch of interns had their convocation yesterday,which unfortunately I missed and the next batch is starting today.We missed both the events because we desperately needed a break.Rai’s new session starts next week and I get crabby and my feet tingles every 2 months.I like doing little or nothing on holidays .The sheer bliss of no worries can be the biggest therapy.

Summers at the hospital are beyond crazy .Queues stretch wherever you look.The poor people who throng the hospital ,have a tough time and so do the doctors .Writing on the prescription pad ,medicine slip ,investigation slips get progressively challenging as the mercury rises .When there are 77 doctors per lakh patients in India how can doctors maintain any uniformity in the service they offer.

A doctor in Mumbai had referred a patient to a different hospital for a neurosurgery consultation .He was so badly beaten up that he lost an eye.I have faced threats of bodily harm by people claiming to be family members ,because they believed only males can be surgeons.I still have nightmares .

Do I lament the ignorance of these people or pray for my own self ?

Can anyone honestly be above human error? While I am going to write my thankfulness post with a worried heart, I wonder how far things will get worse before things can get better

Prompt this week

5 small joys that you are Thankful for

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Thankful Thursdays winner Manisha :Congratulations

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5 Womanly Quirks that make me Thankful

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on March 9, 2017 37

The prompt I thought was going to be difficult. But in fact it’s the easiest thing to write .I listed all the mad things I love doing and and post was ready .

So what are my secret quirks ,which no one knows?Ladies promise not to judge me .I am a doctor by profession, but a woman after all.I am allowed to be a little off the radar sometimes,right ? It may be the extra X or our hormones ,but being a woman is fun !

Here goes the list my 5 Womanly Quirks

I buy lipstick even when I don’t need it.

No sorry, I buy lipstick because it’s not right to use the same one for more than 6 months .So it’s an investment in healthy lips .That’s not so bad then !

I adore SRK ,George Clooney, Bruce Willis , Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ranveer Singh .I think my hubby is the perfect balance .Okay this is taking it very far .He will kill me for writing this .But excuse my delusions.

I believe we can change the world Each of us ,if we try hard enough .But intentions are important. Until you want to succeed, no amount of pep talk will make you believe that.Our life on earth has a purpose.Until you find the purpose and do your part how will you become immortal?

Luckily as a blogger you are now digitally immortal .Just need to work on the other kind!

I go into the deep end about things I do support and believe in.Faith in yourself and God is deep and personal.Justike it’s important to voice concern for the voiceless, it need not be done at the cost of degrading something other people believe in.

All religion can exist in peace & harmony as long as they are compassionate towards men and women .We are all God’s children so discrimination cannot be a way of life.

If standing up for what I believe in makes life difficult maybe I will need to get tougher .

My hubby says

if there’s trouble brewing somewhere and you know it’s inevitable ,Amrita please don’t go there ….you will only make trouble come sooner!

That makes me a catalyst right ?

I believe women are blessed with this amazing power of bringing change ,of being flag bearers, of being catalysts .

Our quirks makes us special.

If God thought men were perfect ,there would be no woman.If men and women didn’t complete each other ,then the world would be a very boring place .We need each other .The world needs saving .

Together we will bash up the bad guys (by words and deeds),find our loves with our heels on and lipstick intact!

Writing this for #Thankful Thursdays

Thankful Thursdays week 19 #Womens March special

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on March 9, 2017 0

All this month we are celebrating women .Everything women that makes us thankful .One post at a time .That’s the best part of hosting #Thankful Thursdays.We get to do more than blog.Its a way of making something bigger.

Happiness shared is doubled and thankfulness shared is multiplied ,million times over.

Every week when we plan a prompt our focus is you.You should write. You should feel what you write and enjoy it.Your voice should create an echo .It shouldn’t be noise but music.

People have a way of tuning out clutter and chaos and listening to music ,even if it’s angry music.

That’s the plan with #Thankful Thursdays we make music out of the chaos that surrounds us .

Women all over the world have their voices stopped .We are blessed to have a voice .We need to use it.We need to support women,men and children whose stories need telling .

Within a woman lies great power.If Goddess Saraswati and Laxmi helps you with wisdom and wealth you also have Maa Durga and Maa Kali inside us.Know how to tap into your inner strengths through words and deeds.

Let’s celebrate women and their quirks

The prompt this week

5 Womanly Quirks that make you thankful

Thankful Thursdays prompt #Womens day special

Our #ThankfulThursdays team has #Womanpower

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Congratulations Akshat:You are our featured Thankful Thursdays winner — Congratulations Akshata:You are our featured Thankful Thursdays winner

Akshata Ram is a Chartered Accountant working with an investment bank. A mother to a 2 year old bubbly toddler who keeps her on her toes . A bibliophile and avid blogger, she writes about parenting, women at work, relationships, short stories and micro fiction of late. She is passionate about her career and aspire to reach heights.Read her winning post here.



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Thankful Thursdays: My vices

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 16, 2017 30

Do I have vices?

I am human right?Must be having some vices.I asked my hubby to mention 5 vices I had.

The man answered ,

all is great ,you don’t have vices!

This can only come with great foresight.Imagine what would happen,if he actually gave me a list.That’s something even I don’t believe.So I go searching in the depths of my soul, to find those vices which are disguised as virtues.

Tell me do you think these are vices?

I have a very low boredom threshold.I can go to any extreme to avoid boring conversation and boring people.As a teenager I aced my class tests(not bragging) by pretending to study so much ,that I actually ended up studying.All because I wanted to avoid visiting places and people who irritated me or bored me. I was that bad!I also pretended to be helpful and suggested taking my little sister along.Things came to such a pass ,my sister when she was 13 declared I had no right to volunteer her ,when I was sneaking away!

Sisters!They know how to put you right 🙂

That’s why I always challenge myself to learn new things ,to stop this vice creeping up.

Reading too much

I read anywhere ,everywhere all the time.Everything I am doing ,will do,have done is because I adore words,I was born on a Saraswati Puja day and I believe the Goddess, loves me more because of this.There have been times I have burned rice (in a microwave),charred the boiling milk,left the eggs cooking too long,all because I have read with too much attention.This one is a problem,but one I cant imagine not doing.Its like asking me to stop being me!

Believing in good energy and bad

This may ,make me sound a little off but I am really a believer in the energy emitted by people.If I don’t like the vibes I get from you,then we will not really be growing close.Optimism,sincerity,thankfulness,faith and love are qualities I believe in.Probably that’s why ‘the people who are in my life have those same qualities.My friends from medical college , are still a phone call away.We haven’t met physically in 5 years ,but our minds travel through space and time .Yes I need a checkup.Its a serious vice!

Red lipstick to change lives

Red is the color of love.Its the color of your blood and a passion .Its a bold color which says “look at me”.If I ever feel sad and lonely ,I just put on red lipstick,even at home while cooking lunch. That’s one way of battling the blues.Just put on the RED!That’s why I end up buying red lipstick all the time.

Deeply madly believing in love ,magic

This is impossible to explain.But the only way to get magic and love in your life is to believe in it.I read Mills and Boon as sincerely as I did my school books .Believing one day someone will make everything better.Love is magical .Its Gods way of telling us we are not alone.Two people,however different can feel each others sorrows and joys as deeply as their own.I am a shameless romantic .But the best things in my life has come from believing.If believing in magic is a vice ,its one of my favourite ! Do you believe?

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The affair with tea :Thankful Thursdays week 23

How do I make my cup of gingery green tea?

5 Joys I am Thankful for :#ThankfulThursdays

When you say “thank you “the universe does give you more of the same .Life gives us all chances and choices ,what we do,with these chances and what we choose makes a lot of difference.

Independence

Being married

Being a mommy

Love of nature

Reading and writing :

Thankful Thursdays (week 21):Small joys and big happiness

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5 Womanly Quirks that make me Thankful

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When you say “thank you “the universe does give you more of the same .Life gives us all chances and choices ,what we do,with these chances and what we choose makes a lot of difference.

Independence

Being married

Being a mommy

Love of nature

Reading and writing :

Sharing is good Karma!

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