Lets begin my Infinite & Indefinite work in progress...

When I decided to make this blog I was in many different places at many different times...

I never really understood what a blog was until recent. Obviously I’ve heard of them but just blew them off and didn’t want to fall into the cliché. But for the past few weeks I’ve thought about it and figured I wouldn’t stop thinking about it until I did it.

I had a LiveJournal once but that was when I was really young and even I got bored of posting about my life. I jumped from loving Friendster to hating it because I loved Facebook more. Then I joined Twitter and I'm currently trying not to love it more than Facebook. But I read a blog post by a friend once about how in this age we are leaving a trail of our life for our ‘future family’ to read and keep as they build their ancestry. In a curiosity to see what happens when I ‘Google’ myself I realized that my presence was there and at the top of the search list…this shocked me. In an age where you may be applying for something, it can make or break you. Most times it’s about how the person reading perceives it and decides to treat it. I ended up changing my twitter and other searchable accounts and realize I am a person of the WWW. I was able to be more open when I felt like I was more anonymous.

So on Twitter I realized I have a lot to say and I wanted people to listen. I met some people that I could discuss events with but I feel like Twitter is too vast a network to build your own following. Most people are busy coming up with their own 140 character ‘catch lines’ to read your own. My interests include politics, technology, health and medicine to name a few. The introvert side of me tends to think at 100 miles per hour and slowing down is not an option because I want to be up to date on what’s happening in life. But to be a part of society we have to contribute. If that means writing it down so people will read it…then let’s begin.

My biodata in 298 words or less:

I'm currently 29 years old. Born and raised in Michigan by two loving 1^st generation immigrant parents from India. So yes, being Indian-American is important for me. But I do not let it define me nor do I fit the typical stereotype…most of the time. I moved around a lot in Michigan up until the age of 11 when Ann Arbor Michigan became a permanent fixture for us. Ann Arbor is and always will be my origin in life. High school was interesting and if I could do it over I would only do it over if I knew what I knew now. Being a nerd that wanted to be cool was hard. Somehow I changed my senior year when I stopped caring about what people thought of me, but I'm still figuring out what that ‘somehow’ was and why. I’d say that’s when my extrovert nature started. College was amazing! I only applied to the University of Michigan and loved every second of it. I majored in Biopsychology and Cognitive Sciences while pursuing pre-med life but that’ll be another story for another blog entry. I then stayed in Ann Arbor after I graduated in 2002 and took some graduate level courses. I finally started medical school in the fall of 2004 and it was a dream come true. I graduated medical school in 2009 and am currently planning a year off and my residency which is my current personal dilemma in life. Nonetheless, I love medicine and helping people. In a nutshell this is the path I’ve taken with many details left out so not to bore you. But I was taught in life to help people and treat them as you would like to be treated. I thank my parents for those kinds of life lessons.

So I don’t want to create a blog all about me and my personal life. Diaries are meant to be private. But there is a bigger world out there and the news media decides what are the big topics and their point of view. But perhaps the Blog nation developed because that isn’t good enough. I'm sure my point of view will be just like others or perhaps I'm alone and paranoid as sometimes my ideas are too farfetched. I just hope my humor and sarcasm can be taken as a fun read. Yes, I love sarcasm so please read carefully and don’t take what I say too serious. In the end I hope I can meet some like minded and not so like minded thinkers that will communicate back and forth with me.