Doctors Without Borders recently sent this press release about Novartis (a major pharmaceutical company) legally challenging India on the patents of HIV/AIDS drugs. If they win, hundreds of thousands of HIV/AIDS patients in the developing world (not just limited to India) will no longer have access to affordable medicine to battle the virus.
Here’s [...]
Entries from January 2007
January 30, 2007
unnecessary suffering
January 16, 2007
Oh Romeo, Romeo?
Other than making me look like a complete psycho, and my boyfriend (Mr. Roboto) look like a rockstar, the story of how we met is a nice one…he thinks so anyway.
It all started at Sutra, a nice little bar in the east village. I had recently become single and was on a mission to find [...]
January 8, 2007
This year, I SWEAR…
I will stick to my resolutions…who am I kidding? I’m such a flake. I’m always late, actually the probability of sticking to ANY plan for me has been traditionally low, but I digress.
My Resolutions:
1) This year I will travel more. It’s really alarming that besides visiting my parents OF COURSE (hi mom, hi dad), my [...]
January 7, 2007
Monogamy Musing
Why is it that once you commit, everything changes?
You see, for many many months, my boyfriend and I were just dating (ie: we could date other people) and life was a blast.
He was not “Mr. Roboto, my boyfriend”, he was just “Mr. Roboto, the cute boy who sings to me”.
At the end of a night [...]
January 1, 2007
I too am a blogging blogger now
I had been avoiding writing a blog, only because I think blogging is for show offs, who are too meek to command attention any other way. “Hey look at me, I’m [fill in with your choice of adjectives to appear intelligent], because I’ve unnaturally and painstakingly written this blog.”
So with the New Year, and one [...]
