10 Things I Hate About SIMS! - Hira Shaheen (Batch of '17)

Although I’m a fistula and there are bunch of things about SIMS I still don’t know, I love SIMS. I love my institution in all means and I feel proud being here. Yes, I mean it, I feel proud being here despite the fact that not so many people know SIMS is government institution. Okay, here comes that oldie-goldie famous quotation that nothing is flawless and of course SIMS is not an exception to this. Taking this point, I came up with crazy idea of scribbling things I hate about SIMS. Although I had to think hard to come up with a list, I got ten of them here.

Stairs- Yes, Stairs, stairs and stairs.. No doubt these stairs serve an awesome place for routine photo-shoots for Facebook display pictures but they are hectic and they are just too much in number!

No sign Board- Yes, we have an amazing building right in the center of Lahore but its sign board-less! And that is why we have to bear a creepy gawk with a creepier question from every other person that ‘’SIMS private hai kya?” I mean seriously, it is one of the best medical institutions of Punjab and got theetiest first year with high merit this year! At least a sign board is what our college authorities can afford.

No sitting/common room- We need a sitting room here. Yes, we do. I mean if we ever have a visitor, the only choice is to drag them to our café which has empty and neat food cabins after break. They present brilliant example of neatness, I must say!

No fans- Centrally Air conditioned building, eh? What about those creepy days when we don’t have chillers? They make the best memories, I must say! Yes, we have got a fan-less building. I wonder why the administration went amnesic and forgot that they were building this institution in Pakistan.

No Transport system- Best college with best of everything but no transport system. Being a day scholar, I hate this and that’s all.

Useless Cafe- When we had no cafe  we used to run to McDonalds and grabbing student deals there. Now, we have cafe  we still do this. But the problem is not with us. Yes, I mean honestly, who wants to eat that gourmet crap? This is probably most frustrating thing second to the floor number and timings of cafe of course.

No mirrors in Bathrooms- Does it seem funny to you? Ask a girl and she will tell you! Seriously this is a real torture for girls. We want MIRRORS!! :D

No proper hostels- I want to have look on those imaginary hostels which are under construction for dear simsonians. No proper hostels are available and apart from the sarcasms, this is real problem for hostel-iets who are forced to live in those messy buildings with no water and occasional electricity supply.

Montessori mode- Whatever people have to say about the independence in professional institutes, Simsonians have to bear a constant Montessori mode. Honestly, they still treat us like primary students who need babysitting round the clock.

Study Study and Study- Yes, medical is difficult and you have to study a lot but when you are in SIMS, you are forced to study. Fail a test and give supply, be unfortunate and give an additional chance, miss it again and you go to supra supply and then there may be a repeater as well to serve you if you are still too lazy.

So, that’s my list. No offence meant and it’s just an evidence of the fact that I have nothing to study today :D

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The Roller Coaster of SIMS Olympiad 2013 - Hira Shaheen, Hassan Nawaz (Batch of '17)

Services Institute Of medical Sciences (SIMS) is considered third-best medical institution all over Punjab and in a very short time, it has earned its name not only in academic but also in extra-curricular and co-curricular activities. Under the supervision of brilliant faculty and administration, Simsonians have shown that they are shining stars of academic as well as non-academic world of Pakistan. Every year, many inter-class events are organized in SIMS, including drama festival, movie night, sports week, Arts and Photography competition, debates and quiz contests under the flag of respective societies but this year unrolled something extremely fantastic and it was none other than SIMS Olympiad 2013, the first SIMS Olympiad ever. It was a series of four mega All Pakistan events with never-ending fun, thrilling show of talents from institutions all over the country and lavish cash prizes for the winners.

Starting from All Pakistan Bilingual Declamation and Parliamentary Debating Competition and Filmesta- All Pakistan Short Movie Competition, to ending at Athena-All Pakistan Quiz and Zephyr- All Pakistan Singing, Arts and Photography contest, SIMS Olympiad had a unique level of flamboyance and grandiosity. All the four societies of SIMS consolidated to organize this two days event series and institutions from all over Pakistan showed up to make it a success.

Let’s begin from the short movie competition.

“Lights”, “Camera”…“Backup”..A noticeable movie at SIMS All Pakistan Short movie competition, Filmesta, started with these words but it wasn't the case with the event. It was all “Action”, “Action”, and “Action” there. SIMS Dramatics Society had previously arranged the Inter-class events this year and depicted a nice example of team work but the management of All Pakistan Short Movie Competition proved that SIMS dramatics society holds talents which can give you goose-bumps. Under the supervision of Usman Mushtaq, Mohsin Ali and Verdah Baig, society did a marvelous job and everything from decor to HD resolution movies, was fabulous  The personalities judging the movies were experts in the Show business, and they ensured the fair marking for the title and money prize of Rs.15,000. Jury included some famous names like “Hafeez Tahir” the director of the ‘’Ainak Wala Jin’’ and “Haseeb Khan”, a renowned actor, director and comedy writer.  Moreover, special guest appearance by Mrs. Rukhsana Noor, wife of famous director Syed Noor and writer and co-producer of many Noor movies, increased the thrill of the show by many folds. Talking about the movies, there were all the way from NUST, AMC, AIMC, LUMS, KEMU and many other colleges. Some had electrifying effect on houseful crowd at SIMS Auditorium, because of the peak of their concept, ideas, scripts and camera work! One of the best production of SIMS Dramatics Society, “Husna” was also played as non-competing movie and it served as a treat for the audience along with some musical performances from talented simsonians including Sheikh Eizaz, Faheem Khan and others. All in all, the event was success and owing to the fact that SIMS dramatics society arranged first event of this kind, the whole team deserves a salute!

Now coming towards Athena, it was second time Sims Quiz Society (SQS) conducted All Pakistan competition and it holds the credit of setting trend for such events in SIMS. For this Gauhar Mehmood Azeem and Safwan Muhammad along with their team deserve a big-time appreciation. 

The occasion was highly organized and every member represented SIMS in a unique way. The panda (of course that famous soft toy :p) placed along with the trophies and shields was radiating positive energy without any doubt ( Now Simsonians know the reason why SQS cares so much for that panda, Thanks to Gauhar bhai for telling me this :p).

Entirely different from the traditional quizzes, the competition felt like a game show with many breathtaking moments in it. Refreshment was available for faculty and the participants. Despite the fact that it was a literary event, audience enjoyed it thoroughly. Compares and jury did a great job and ensured fair judging. Moreover, University of Texas made this event international this year and SIMS is definitely proud of it. 

SIMS Debating and Literary society is famous for having most endowed writers and rhetoric speakers. It has earned so many moments of proud for SIMS and another one was All Pakistan Bilingual Debating competition.

An awe-inspiring scenario was seen in Declamation competition when SIMS auditorium echoed with voices of debaters from various institutions. Every participant was ambitious to get his hands on splendid trophy and worked hard for it.

 President SIMS Debates And Literary Society, Hafiz Muhammad Wasif along with his team worked hard to make this event possible first time ever in SIMS and undoubtedly, they succeeded because of their team work and effort. Those trophies and shields were LEVEL!! They were awarded to winner and runner-up teams from both categories, English and Urdu. Moreover, there were shields for three best speakers as well ( Wohoo!! bunch of rewards, thumbs up for this!!)

This event was itself a series of contests including Parliamentary debates and declamation and both were bilingual. It continued for six whole days making it one of the most expensive events of the Olympiad. 130+ participants made their way to this event and accommodating them all was one challenging thing for the society members. However, they did it excellently and participants were satisfied with the judgement and arrangements of the whole event. The reviews on event page made SIMSONIANS proud.  We pray SDLS keeps on flourishing more and more each day!

This roller coaster of SIMS Olympiad ended with another thrilling event of All Pakistan Singing, Art and Photography competition. Until last two years, Zephyr (SIMS Arts and Photography Society) organized only Arts and Photography events but this year, Eizaz Ahmed took an awesome initiative and arranged an inter-class singing competition. It was undoubtedly one of the most ordered events SIMS had ever seen. Now, zephyr holds the honor of arranging rare singing competition in any medical institution. This event contained all the colorful paintings, sweet melodies and expressive photographs from all over the country. Singers from many institutions showed up and entertained the audience with their sweet voices. Sheikh Eizaz Ahmed, president Zephyr, along with his

creative team made this event worth-remembering, and the last performance by the president himself was undoubtedly heart-touching. Special guest appearance by ‘’Haroon Shahid’’ of SYMT band multiplied the charm of the show. Decor added an impressive flamboyance to the occasion and all in all, this event was another feather in Zephyr’s cap. Above all, considering the fact that Zephyr is the youngest society of SIMS which got birth only a few years ago, it has earned a huge name in such a short time. Well done Zephyr team! You gave an amazingly memorable halt to SIMS Olympiad coaster and we love you for this.

Summarizing everything, SIMS Olympiad 2013 was a whole package of fun, creativeness, hard work, dedication and bunch of glorious trophies and shields. We hope SIMS will be arranging it every year, giving an opportunity to other institutions to come and see the gems and treasures hidden in this small but eagle like building of SIMS!

Written by:
Hira Shaheen and Hassan Nawaz
Class of 2017
On behalf of:
SimSpeaks- The Services Institute of Medical Sciences blog (www.simsspeaks.blogspot.com)

Note: This article was written for hospital magazine of FJMC.
PS Thanks to Presidents of all societies for cooperation and of course pictures of the events. Wasif Bhai I stalked your profile to get them, Sorry for that :p

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Meri Kahani - Ayesham Sitara (Batch of '17)

As this is my first article, mje dar lg raha hai ye likhte hue k pta ni kesa likha jaega ....anyhow I am going to start *Meri Kahani* ... In F.Sc I made my mind that I have to get stuck in Medical college by hook or by crook further I’ll be a doctor obviously ... I had enjoyed a lot in my college as in my sister was also with me… so I had spent awesome days in college... Fsc exams were finally so near... I use to haaateee Urdu ..especially URDU syllabus of FSC ... i mean what a lame poetry was that..  … what benefit would give to us in future??... so finally fully frustrated i gave the paper of urdu in first year... and i got 91 in urdu (The day when i had my paper of urdu, was simply magical :D) ... P.S. My result was so superb in FSC due to marks of Urdu paper ... ... And then the turn of MCAT... N once again the books of FSC.. nooo ...anyhow target was medical college ..so mcat prep started....I still remember how awful that day was ... blocked traffic...and for first time me and my sis walked 2 km to the examination center..I felt debilitated..Ah! We dragged ourselves to the BIG HALL !!!

... entering the hall searching for your seat… n doing all this with ur PHOTOCOPY (twin sis) while evryone is gazing. Kind of AWKWARD MOMENT... Anyhow we got the HOT SEAT.. We sat and I started searching for my friends .. >.>  <.< ..everyone was murmuring ...fresh or repeater??.. physics .. synonyms... ''oyee dehan se bubble fill krna” etc...Then I counted the examiners .. OH MY MY.. 11 TEACHERS ...ignoring them all… i wished luck to my sis n started focusing on the paper... 7,8 MCQS were left at the end..and on that colourful sheet some blank circles were not giving a pleasing look, so filled them with ''tukkay''... i was'nt sure how good i performed... but i was like out of hell now... i was feeling so light... i felt that the whole day was a dream... (nightmare most probably which was over now) ... 

  

   Then ''INTEHA HOGAE INTAZAR KI ''….. refreshing the page of UHS again and again.. and finally MCAT key appeared.. elder sis helped us to evaluate that.. we both (me n my sis) were holding the sheets and heart beat was increasing on every next question....N i hurriedly count them n came up with 930 and I was like hmmm not bad. Then i thought about sis. She got lesser marks and at that time i was confused if i should b happy or sad... anyhow we all gave her moral support.

   Now saying everyone that Inshallah i will go to AIMC ... there are chances for going to KE as well otherwise AIMC is confimred ...

WO KEHTY HAINA JO HOTA HAI ACHY K LYE HOTA HAI>>> GHALAT KEHTY HAIN 

Now it was the turn of filling the form. As there was no one to guide how to fill that and what to do with the preference list, i was baffled. Feeling embarrassed while telling this I wrote the names of just 3 colleges K.E ,AIMC , SIMS ... Hey it wasn’t over confidence :S i just thought preference list is like which few colleges you prefer otherwise your name will be automatically given everywhere.. (my bad). Next day UHS called me that you have given names of just 3 colleges right. Only these 3 will be considered ...... and my heart came to my mouth. Ufffff ! I went to UHS n told them i didnt know that before so can I write that now.. they rejected and i wasn’t able to control my self saying that ''tenu phone karan di ki mout pai c je kuch krna ni c'' and then obviously i started crying.

My mom supported me alot saying not to worry everything will be fine and you’ll get admission in any of these 3...after that day each day was full of tension. I was watching tv one random day when my mom's friend called my mom that news channel are telling about the merit lists... And then within micro seconds i switched the channel to the news where lists were shown.... and there was silence every where... ''dhak dhak ..''
And finally my aggregate was according to SIMS list !!! i was relieved that i was safe from the blunder i made on the form :$

.....but where i was saying that I’ll get admission in AIMC i told them i got in SIMS they were like "UCHA SIMS ME HUA... PRIVATE A??" n i was like no no no

....First day in SIMS…sitting quietly in Faisal LT without my sis .. aww missing her .. as first tym in life we got separated. Ragging made me forget everything , made new and awesome friends who fulfilled the place of my sis to some extent. I started loving SIMS... beautiful building, ingenious teachers, cooperative and united class.

Moreover SIMS was so near to my home and the best part  was that my sister's college was so near to mine! REALLY REALLY THANKFUL TO ALLAH THAT I GOT ADMISSION IN SIMS
Seriously I have no regret about not getting admission in K.E or AIMC..
that is an experience that i will call:

-S U P E R F R A G I L I S T I C E X I A L O D O C I O U S-

Means = fantastic :p

OR WO KHTY HAINA JO HOTA A UCHE K LIYE HOTA HAI >>>SAHI KEHTY HAIN ;)

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