Heart Attack Symptoms

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor to certify all the things that i write here in this post. This is a collection of things i have heard from people i met in the past few months. Wanted to write this post since long, hoping that some soul out there might read it and be knowledgable when he/she encounters some person with these symptoms. If you are a doctor and are reading this, and find these things to be right or wrong, please leave a comment.

Heart attacks do not announce their arrival.

In no particular order, here are some symptoms you can see in a person who is suffering from a possible heart attack. As you read below, you will realise that these are quite common things. Seeing these symptoms in a person does not necessarily mean that he has an heart attack. You can only be confirmed about a heart attack only after taking an ECG from a reputed doctor. If you see these symptoms more frequently, then it just means that the person needs to meet a doctor for an ECG

1. Not able to walk briskly for long distances and complaining of lack of breathe while doing so. They might usually stop walking to take a breather more often.

2. Cannot lift heavy objects, again because breathing becomes a problem.

3. Cannot climb stairs easily, or climb over an obstacle like walls, etc., again because breathing becomes a problem.

4. Limbs becoming weak. This might happen in spurts. Not continuously. 

5. Pain in knees and/or heels. [ Usually the bone above the heel, not sure what its called ]

6. Frequent tiredness followed with sweating.

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Johnny

Thanks to Ajay, I watched a very thrilling and refreshing movie, Johnny Gaddar .

I had earlier heard from others that it was a nice movie, but after reading the review on Ajay's Blog there was no way i was gonna miss it. I bought the DVD and watched it yesterday itself. After watching this fresh movie, I was surprised how less Ajay has written about this movie !!!

The movie and the main protagonist in it, are kind of inspired from the old Amitabh movie, Parwana. But, its the number of twists that are added over this inspiration that makes the audience sit on the edge of their seats. The story picks up slowly, but increases in tempo as time progresses.

More than the story and the actors, its the dialogues that make the movie more absorbing. The way Seshadri identifies the main culprit is so subtle. You can catch the mistake Vikram makes if you are alert. You might feel that you are thinking ahead of the story writer, but you get zapped with the circumstances that bring in twists after twists to the tale. Vikram always finds himself very lucky in all the situations. He falters with mistakes but luck is always on his side.

Each character is given his dew credit and importance with the dialogues given to them. Like, the one that shows how high Seshadri thinks of himself when he says, "Its not the age, its the mileage that counts" Or, the way Prakash is shown to have less brain power, when he does not understand what Vikram means while saying, "It was an accident" The most intriguing dialogue which shows the depth to which the writer has thought about the characters is displayed when Shardul, who thinks of himself as a very smart person, [ atleast more smarter than Prakash ] asks Vikram on how Seshadri and Prakash came to know about the culprit even before Shardul could figure it out !!! This was a master stroke.

As Ajay puts it, the characterisation is awesome and each actor has played his role to perfection. The misunderstandings, the double interpretation of words, everything is very clearly shown.

Ofcourse, as all movies, this one also has a moral. The moral of the movie is, "Always wear your own jacket when it rains outside" :D

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No matter how much you plan, its as good as your execution... think BIG, START small ... even in this catch phrase, the key word for getting things done is obviously "START"

Apne

Yeah its a very emotional and a typical "deol" movie with all the illogical things happening and all the proper hindi masala including the unnecessary, not so very interesting hindi songs sprinkled all over the 3 hours of the movie, with the ever so frequent reminder of the movie name ... apne tooohhh .. apne hoten hai ... Unfortunately, at the end of the movie, the audience ends up remembering this reminder and nothing else !!!

The real reason for writing this post are all the things that surrounded the event of watching this movie. About a couple of months back, all of us at home travelled out to a lovely town for attending one of our friend's wedding. I had spent a lot of my school years in this town, so it wasnt such a new place to me and my parents. The wedding itself was a beautiful fusion of Maharashtrian and South Kanara culture. The highlight of the wedding was the garlanding event, where the bride and the bridegroom are made to stand on either side of a white curtain waiting for the exact auspicious moment to garland eachother. And just when the moment arrived and the curtain falls down, the cousin and uncle of the bride lifted her up and the groom had to jump and jump and jump more to be able to garland her before she could garland him. Well, quite obviously, the bride won the battle and garlanded the groom first. All said and done, this was undoubtedly the happiest and beautiful moment of the wedding.

After enjoying the delicious luncheon served with 17 various food items, following the wedding, we reached back to our hotel room for some rest. The late noon showers spilled water on our further travelling plans and we settled for watching the newly released hindi movie, Apne. It had been quite sometime since our whole family had been to a hindi movie in recent times and i thought that this should be a "family" movie, which it thankfully was :-) I stood there in the ticket counter after years and it brought back all the memories of those gold old movie watching days. One funny incident happened while I was in the queue. A guy standing in front of me in the queue, who I came to know later on was very poor in maths, asked the ticket vendor how much it would cost him for 15 tickets. After hearing the cost, he hesitated for sometime, and produced 250 rupees and said, give me as many tickets I can fetch in this money. You must have guessed by know for whom he was buying those tickets ;-) That brings me to the lack of this practise in the modern multiplexes. Ofcourse, its illegal business, but then you could atleast be assured of getting a ticket even after reaching the theatre just when the movie is about to start !!! But then, with the costs for watching a movie in the multiplexes zooming further and further up, watching a movie has lost all its charm. I bought 4 tickets, a pop corn and a couple of pepsis costing me less than the cost of a single multiplex ticket !!! And, before you start thinking, the theatre was air conditioned and in great shape. It really gets tough to reason out the amount of money metro people shell on these multiplex movies.

Back inside the theatre, we had to wait for the previous show to get over and then rush in as soon as the doors were opened. We did not want to miss any of those "Paragon chappal" ads :D After the strangely enjoyable advertisements, the movie opened up to huge number of whistles and claps for Dharmendra. The only other person for whom the audience gave such a welcome on the screen was for the now world famous in London and India actress, Shilpa Shetty and the London girl [ ? ], Katrina. Apart from all its flaws and stereo-typical moments, the movie completely belongs to the one and only Dharmendra. This was the first Dharmendra movie that I watched on the big screen. In his golden days he was known for his handsome looks and power fights apart from his true to the heart, typical Punjab da puttar type dialogues. I havent seen many of his movies, but he was said to be the most romantic hero of his era. And is undoubtedly very well known for his acting skills as well. I went to the theatre for this movie without any baggage of expectations and was left amazed by the acting prowess of this fine actor. He was the central character for this story and his expressions and timing were just awesome. He portayed the character of a lost sportsman trying to revive his own dignity through his son, battling through the circumstantial delimma of reacting as a father and the hurt sportsman causing his heart to be emotionally ripped open, with great elan.

Recently, he was awarded the lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Indian cinema. The award was presented to him by the great Amitabh Bachchan, who portrayed the role of his long time crime partner in the epic Sholay. Amitabh announced to the audience that it was his friend, Dharmendra, who had recommended Amitabh's name to Ramesh Sippy, the director of Sholay, for his role in the movie. And what a great pair it ended up being !!! These friends portrayed their roles so beautifully that they ended up immortalizing the characters forever :-) On recieving this award, Dharmendra got emotional and gave a very long and touching speech. That speech just showed what a lovely human being he is. He has very straight forward thoughts and open heart. He openly proclaimed that Amitabh and himself though staying so nearby almost like neighbours still have to travel all the way to London to attend this award ceremony to meet up and get a hug :)

How strange, that sometimes, people staying far away get the time to catch up more often than those who stay so near ...

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2020

Nah, I am not gonna talk about the Twenty20 WorldCup here. Thats for some other day. And before you start thinking, no, it isnt any review of Kalam Sir's India 2020.

While watching the recently concluded Twenty20 WorldCup, I was so very much reminded of the "street cricket" we used to play while at school. This form of cricket, usually played in streets or small grounds, or backyards could be played with teams of any number of players. Me, actually played a lot of matches with a one man team.

You dont need any great pitch for these matches. Any small strip of almost plain ground or even a cement track or footpath in your backyard can very well serve as a pitch. Some small cracks here and there on the pitch can add that extra spin to the balls being balled. Its the unexpected spin and swing that adds more fun to such games.

You dont even need a huge open space. Infact, the less open the space, the more fun. You can have a wall as your boundary. You can hit it first bounce for a six, but if you hit over the wall you are out :D.

On streets, you can have plenty of stand-by fielders. For instance, the cars and carts parked on the road. They come in handy as the batsmen cannot sneak an easy run.

In your backyards, you can have the trees and flower pots as your strong fielders. Ofcourse, if you play matches where the only runs you can score are that of 4s and 6s, then these trees are a great help to the fielding team.

There are many ways in which you can get out. Its not just by being bowled, or run-out [ always the most controversial way to get out ], or by getting caught, but also by getting caught after the ball bounces once. With trees and cars acting as your fielders, its even more fun, since the ball can bounce on them and you can still be caught out !!! Hitting outside the ground premises is usually declared as out and not a sixer.

Having proper stumps is a luxury !! Any wooden plank or wall with stumps drawn in the most artistic ways can be your stumps for the game. To avoid any controversies, people even go for full colored rectangle box drawn on the walls, so that they can confirm being bowled out by verifying the color on the ball :-)

Why stumps, sometimes, even having a proper ball is a luxury. You can play with your home made cork ball, or a rubber ball, or even a good hard plastic ball, especially in closed surroundings. Any deformities or cracks in the ball add more fun and spice with both the bowler and the batsman unaware of how the ball is gonna bounce :D If you can figure out a way to make the ball fool the batsman by making it pitch on a particular place, or in a particular angle, you can reap great benefits from it.

At times, these matches can also be played under lights, not exactly flood lights, but even street lights, or a room with some bulbs in it will also do. Teams usually go for such extreme conditions just because of bad climatic conditions, with heavy winds or rain making it difficult to decide the winner for that match.

Tournaments are usually played on a daily basis, with each match lasting only for a limited overs of 3 to 4 overs a side. With only 2 teams playing in the tournament, its usually the team that wins the most number of matches among all the matches played on that given day, thats declared as the winner. When both the teams have more time to play, the winning team usually proposes to extend the tournament by 1 or 3 more matches, thus giving the losing team equal chance to bounce back.

Apart from rekindling my interest in cricket, this Twenty20 tournament brought back all those good old days of cricket we played. So bad, those days feel like centuries away ...