World Blood Donation day

( Every year June 14th is celebrated as World Blood donation Day . In this regard , I want to share few things )

It happened in 2001, as I was returning home from my college, I couldn't barely walk and every small step forward required me to breathe-in a huge amount of air through my nose as well as through my mouth. This reached to a point where, my lungs were desperately pumping -in for oxygen , but it wasn’t effectively. I became very weak and my family immediately took me to our family doctor , who recommended me few blood tests. The outcome of the test reports shocked me as well as my family.  It declared that I was suffering from Anemia.

Anemia is a condition in which the body does not have enough healthy red blood cells which provide oxygen to body tissues. And this condition is reflected by element in the blood i.e., haemoglobin whose percentage in an average healthy individual will be in the range of 12-14 units, while mine was found to be  very close to 5 units only and still less units would have caused severe damage to my main body organs. But I was lucky enough that the root problem was found out a bit earlier itself, which avoided unnecessary complications in the future. 

I was immediately hospitalized and doctors decided that I was to be administered with THREE units of blood immediately. My dad offered to give his blood, but doctors rejected it. Finally , the hospital agency was able to locate my blood group i.e, B+ in a blood bank donated by some unknown persons and all the necessarily arrangements were made to bring the blood to our hospital. Finally, after one agonizing day spent in the hospital, i was administered with THREE units of blood continuously, which in total comes very close to 1000 ml. ( Each blood unit of consists of 330 ml of blood).

Few weeks later, after full recovery when I was told about these numbers, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that out of FIVE litres of blood that a normal human body houses in it, ONE litre of blood in me is donated by some unknown strangers.  I was deeply moved by it and don't know what to do at that time. And I never got the opportunity to thank those strangers too ,which atleast I need to do now.

My dear blood donors , I just want to thank you from my bottom of my heart

and will always pray for you and your family  well-being.

I hope God is always by your side to take care of your needs.

I owe you my life .Your compassion is a great source of inspiration for me.

I’ll never forget you,

Thank you and God Bless you

Dear friends, I‘m living example of how someone’s compassion can save a life and change him completely. So ,be compassionate to a fellow human being and do whatever you can within your power to bring a smile to a fellow human being near-by you. 

As a healthy human being , you can donate for every six months. Blood cannot be manufactured artificially but it needs to be donated to needy. Your blood can save many lives. Think about it. I’ll end the post with the golden words by Narayanan krishnan, founder of Akshaya Trust that  inspires  me a lot.

                                    
                                          “Start Giving and see the Joy of Giving” 

Stay Happy and Keep Smiling :)

Vamsi 

A brief history about my Bowling ;)

My story with bowling started in a strange way, and I’m glad it did happen , because of where I’m today, it gives a sense of satisfaction and scope for further improvement in this challenging game. It all started when we trio i.e., myself, my engineering classmates Karthik and Naren got bored of our routine weekend plan of watching a movie way back in January 2013.  Just for a change, we visited the near by City Centre Mall which is famous for Bowling game owned by SVM company.

Our first game gave the required kick for me to take this game seriously . I happen to score 160/300. To give fair idea about this game . Just watch the picture below. All you have to do is to strike down the 10 pins placed orderly on a wooden frame with a ball and that too in two chances per round and you will be accordingly given points based on how many pins you will strike.

 

I really got addicted to the game, and to fuel further my friend karthik got addicted to this game too. Since then we did not look back, it has become our favourite pass-time for every weekend. More importantly, with each game played , my performance was improving a lot. I slowly was grasping the required techniques and was developing my own, based on the experience which further improved my performance.

Our duo was very well noted at SVM bowling centres for the tricks and skills we display  especially SVM at kothapet , where I happen to score my career highest score so far  i.e., 218/ 300 which was very well appreciated by SVM Company on their facebook page. This score is still the highest in the SVM kothapet Centre. 

Our duo even participated in a bowling tournament conducted by SVM in which I stood 9th position in the finals competing with professional players who happen to represent India in commonwealth games  . It did gave me a lot of exposure to various techniques and also how to cope up with pressure during the game.

In short , this game is added to my list of hobbies and brought out a new skill out of me and gave  boosting to my confidence to a new level :) .I hope in all this ONE YEAR of playing this game , I can pretty much rate myself as a Intermediate player with more requirement of dedication and training to become a professional. I hope to achieve this one day soon :)

To end this post , here is a video of me spinning the ball to knock down a pin. Watch it and Enjoy :)

Stay Happy and Keep Smiling :)

Vamsi