From the desk of the Amazing ‘Ainur…

Assalamualaikum w.b.t and kia ora….

Hello…the long-awaited winter break is finally here…I smell freedom…still have one more assignment to submit, though…next week…then I’m home free…the end of yet another trimester…that certainly makes for a good cause of celebration…I foresee hours of ‘HOUSE m.d.’ marathon and playing scrabble alone…yep…that’s my new obsession…playing scrabble alone…it’s fun…you should try it…that, and trying to set the record for personal best…it could be anything…how much mocha I drink in a day, how long I could go without talking (my personal best, minus sleeping time, is 8 hours), how many episodes of ‘HOUSE m.d.’ I could watch in one sitting, how much chocolate I could inhale in one sitting, etc…I like the idea of pushing limits…I try to do that whenever I can…you’d be surprised to discover just what you are capable of doing if you really give something, anything a go…

My personal best for how many episodes of ‘HOUSE m.d’ I could watch in one sitting is 15…I stopped only because I was sleepy…I was impressed with my own tenacity…I was very proud of my own “achievement”…God knows that that doesn’t happen often…. seriously, I’m hooked on the series…it’s really clever…you know what attracts me to the series in the first place?…i mean, aside from the obvious fact that it’s clever?…Dr. Gregory House, Head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital…it’s not often that you get a main character who’s all screwed-up…that’s what or who House is…he’s a deeply-flawed character….he’s the kind of person you’d love to hate…but instead of hating him, you find yourself liking him…you like him for all the wrong reasons…I mean, he’s arrogant, narcissistic, abrasive, condescending, manipulative, sardonic (I’m running out of adjectives, here)…his behaviour borders on antisocial…he’s a doctor with no bedside manners…if that’s not enough, he also happens to be a drug addict…there’s a reason why his colleagues and patients call him a selfish jerk, a manipulative bastard and an ass…he has little to recommend him…but I like him anyway…he is the very definition of an anti-hero…but he is my hero…

I like him because he’s tenacious…he’s willing to do anything to save his patients… sure, he breaks laws, violates all ethical and moral codes known to mankind, manipulates people around him, doesn’t take “no” for an answer, browbeats people (he all but shoves his ideas down people’s throat)…but he gets things done…he does those things to save people…and he doesn’t do it to be thanked…he doesn’t do it to get approval…he does it because it’s his job…he does it because it’s right…he is also intelligent…and he knows it…and he lets other people know it too…this is a guy who knows that he’s good…and that other people think he’s good…self-doubt is not an issue for this guy…he doesn’t believe in humility, either…he won’t admit that he’s wrong (most of the time, anyway)…even when a treatment is not working, he will not say that he’s wrong…he’ll just say that he hasn’t found the right answer yet…but he will, eventually…clever…he doesn’t think that he’s capable of screwing up…I admire people like House…I also like the way he keeps pushing people’s limits…if one of his staff screws up, he torments them…he reminds them every chance he gets of their screw-ups…and his words sting…he makes their lives a living hell, basically…but he doesn’t do that to crush them…he doesn’t let things go because he wants them to face up to what they did…he wants them to feel bad because in their line of work, one tiny mistake could cost someone their life…he wants them to feel guilty because guilt keeps them on their toes… it keeps them from making the same mistake again…he pushes his team because he wants them to work hard to keep their job…he knows they’re good, that’s why he’s always pushing them to step up their game…he’s shrewd, that guy…he also doesn’t believe in grey areas and middle grounds…things are either black or white…there’s only ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, no ‘in-betweens’…it’s what you do and what you don’t do…if something is not right, then it’s wrong…did I mention that he’s brilliant?

House also happens to have an outrageous sense of humour…he’s hilarious…you cannot believe the things that come out of that guy’s mouth…he makes fun of absolutely everything and everyone…no one’s safe from him…not even Wilson, his bestest buddy…he says funny things, he does funny stuff…he’s funny…he’s a doctor and he avoids seeing patients like the plague…he usually eats lunch and watches tv in a coma patient’s room…he induces migraine headache in that coma patient so he could prove that the drug that could supposedly prevent migraine does not work…he covers his steak with lots of salad so that the cashier can’t see the steak (and can’t charge him for it)…he orders an MRI for the entire maternity ward just because he feels like it…he walks around in a wheelchair for a week just to get his parking space back…and how many doctors go around saying things like “Do I have to spell it out for you? Pheochromocytoma. Actually, I’m not sure how you spell it” or  “I was curious. Since I’m not a cat, that’s not dangerous” or “You know how they say, "you can’t live without love"? Well, oxygen is even more important” or "On average, drug addicts are stupid…. I believe drug addicts get sick. Actually, for some reason they tend to get sick more often than non-drug addicts”…I’m a sucker for people with a great, albeit warped, sense of humour…and then there’s the eyes…he’s got the most beautiful pair of eyes I’ve ever seen on any living man or woman…they’re blue!…did I mention that his eyes are beautiful?…

You know what? I actually don’t know what made me write this…an entire entry dedicated to this one man…a fictional man, to boot…wow…I actually wrote an entire entry about a man who doesn’t even exist…this is a personal best…actually, this proves what I’ve always known: I’m pathetic and I need to get a life in the worst way…I’d just hit ‘10’ on my freak-o-meter…I should probably take up a hobby (or multiple hobbies) or something…any suggestion? I really should stop…if I write some more, people would start questioning my mental health…I’m fine, really…just bored…and uninspired…and just a little homesick (even doctors can’t cure this one)…and infatuated with this really great guy, Gregory House…buhbye, now…

‘ainur rahmah ellias

-i miss my parents and brothers and sisters-

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