Amusingly enough?
This week is a massive near week long holiday for Navaratri. Traditionally in Hindu culture, any endeavour started on these days is destined for success. So children begin the new school year out here on this day. My nephew is starting his first playschool next week, my cousin has purchased a new car and I am pretty much moving my blog out here.
I am Avicenna (named after the islamic golden age Doctor) and I am terrifyingly weird and am a giant nerd. I am a british indian medical student doing my clinical rotations in India. I basically qualify in a year and a bit and then I plan to continue to work for charity here before I go back home and have a career. However to keep sane I started blogging. And it kind of got out of hand…
I am (naturally) an Atheist (otherwise me joining here would probably win the “biggest misunderstanding” award) but Hinduism is the religion I don’t believe in. All my old gods are crazy as fuck. Good for stories or inspiration for metal bands but not so good for normal life.
So yes, an auspicious start for the inauspicious man.
And yes, I own a sonic device and have a blue box. It doesn’t open doors but it can make blind people see.
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Anonymous
October 22, 2012 at 5:06 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
ttch
October 22, 2012 at 12:10 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome!
Avicenna
October 22, 2012 at 1:53 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Thanks! Always good to get a hello…
Lofty
October 22, 2012 at 2:17 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Greetings! I hope you have some interesting insights to share.
Badland, delurking for a bit
October 22, 2012 at 3:28 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I’ve seen and enjoyed your comments on other blogs here. Welcome!
Lou Doench
October 22, 2012 at 5:22 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome!
billygutter01
October 22, 2012 at 6:33 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome aboard!
Avicenna
October 23, 2012 at 10:00 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Thanks for all the welcomes!
Hopefully the old posts will go up on here, but I should start on stuff I already have in a bit…
A
StevoR
October 23, 2012 at 6:05 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
G’day Avicenna.
Guess you already know that the original Avicenna (Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā – Latinisation into Avicenna being a wise move for brevity’s sake I reckon) was much more than just a doctor – also an astronomer and polymath.
Did you know you’ve already got your own crater too :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna_(crater)
Although it is on the Far (not dark) side of the Moon so a bit hard to show folks from here.
Anyhow, welcome aboard, keen to read what you have to say.
StevoR
October 23, 2012 at 6:23 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Question, why choose “Avicenna’ avicenna given its not a hindu or indian name? Can you elaborate a bit please?
(No offence intended – good name – curious that’s all.)
Rawnaeris, FREEZE PEACHES
October 23, 2012 at 6:23 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome, I can already tell I’m going to enjoy your writing!
StevoR
October 23, 2012 at 6:25 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Capitalisation fails on my part there, sorry.
Stephanie Zvan
October 23, 2012 at 6:59 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Well, hello. How did you get here?
Welcome!
kevinkirkpatrick
October 23, 2012 at 7:06 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Well…. you might have a little competition there…
Anyway, welcome aboard, I look forward to seeing the world through yet another new perspective!
Stevarious, Public Health Problem
October 23, 2012 at 10:23 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome!
Stevarious, Public Health Problem
October 23, 2012 at 10:35 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hmm, interesting, newest comment first.
Is that a deliberate choice or a default that you have not changed yet?
Crommunist
October 23, 2012 at 10:51 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Want to extend my personal ‘welcome’. I was really excited when your name came up and am glad to see you here! Looking forward to having you as a neighbour!
Emrysmyrddin
October 23, 2012 at 10:51 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome to FtB, from one Brit to another!
Emrysmyrddin
October 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Eeep. Comments ordered newest-first, and nested – this is going to be a bit of a headache following along :O Any chance of a comment format reconsideration?
irisvanderpluym
October 24, 2012 at 12:31 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hi Avicenna! Long time. Great to see you here. : )
peicurmudgeon
October 24, 2012 at 12:38 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Glad to see you at FtB.
I remember meeting you over at Negotiation is Over about a year ago. I’vpoppd into your previous blog a few times since then.
Avicenna
October 24, 2012 at 7:56 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Same way brown people get everywhere…
By being a (nearly) doctor… (Or an engineer or running a shop or takeaway)
Avicenna
October 24, 2012 at 7:59 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I was born in an Ibn Sina hospital and I worked in one too. So I figure the name is lucky.
Also? He is so badass that he is one of the few muslims to have statues of himself.
maxdwolf
October 24, 2012 at 11:26 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome!
I came over as soon as I heard to check things out. From what I have seen so far, I enjoy your writing very much. My only complaint might be that there is so much of it (I read really slow and have limited time).
Aditya
October 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
In which hospital are you doing your clinical rotation presently?
Avicenna
October 24, 2012 at 1:29 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Tis a secret! Remember people may not take too kindly to my blogging, so I am keeping it pseudonymous till I work in the UK.
Hence the lack of personal stuff on here.
Ms Anne Thrope
October 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Hi!
I’ve somehow never managed to read any of your stuff before, but as a fellow British-colony (South Africa) ex-hindu indian working in science in a foreign country (France)- I’m really looking forward to reading your stuff!
Tony–Queer Duck Overlord of The Bronze–
October 24, 2012 at 3:57 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome to FtB Avicenna!
Glad to have a new voice.
lordshipmayhem
October 24, 2012 at 6:42 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome aboard! I’m enjoying your sense of humour. It reminds me of my own … and now I don’t know whether to be happy or scared.
Stephanie Zvan
October 24, 2012 at 9:56 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Yeah, having you around is going to be good.
Corvus illustris
October 25, 2012 at 3:32 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
“… Hinduism is the religion I don’t believe in … “
The corresponding one for me is pre-Vatican II (really, pre-Tridentine) Romanism, which is responsible for my meeting your illustrious successor Averroës (though I don’t believe in the unitas intellectus either). You two suffer from tone-deaf Latinization, I from an inadequate calque.
This will be fun. A (US) MD relative-by-marriage is already enjoying comparison of medical slang(s).
Jafafa Hots
October 25, 2012 at 6:10 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I think I might learn some stuff here.
Alethea H. "Crocoduck" Dundee
October 25, 2012 at 12:19 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Welcome. I wasn’t acquainted with your work before, but you look very interesting. (Oh no! More time wasting for me!)
Christoph Burschka
October 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I think I have a new favorite FtBer.
StevoR
October 25, 2012 at 5:15 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Okay. Cheers for that.
Bjarni
October 26, 2012 at 9:11 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Bwahahaha! Great intro, already making me grin.
I look forward to reading more of your stuff, welcome!
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