HAPPY ME!

Fun after a boring conference!

I'm what I'm; not so much because I like it but because thats the only way I know how to be!

Tripping: Looking for my voice

I lost my voice to a bad case of viral infection and have been looking for it since sunday. It started with a bad headache on Thursday. By nightfall, I had high fever. I couldn't sleep the whole night. Next morning and afternoon were the same. My weekend sucked badly. Thank god, saturday was off for me this week or i did have to take my day off.

My new found voice( or lack thereof) has given me lot of names. Ivan the Terrible calls me Golum (LOTR) now, but I prefer to call myself Don Corleone. Hager the Horrible, on the otherhand, is very happy, cause I cannot argue with him now about the sales tracker and sales forecast. Truth is I'm supposed to make my team members achieve their targets, whereas I myself has been unable to achieve it- which is-I've been after him these past one week for the sales forecast figures without any success, whatsoever!

Coming back to my current situation- I'm taking steroids that I'm allowed to take. There is no fever and I feel very strong but am still looking for my voice. I pray that there are no important meeting with clients this week.

Tripping: The Anthem

Aurora's anthem:

Smoke Baby by Hawksley Workman

Smoke baby, smoke baby
More alcohol baby
Cocaine in Montreal
And black out on the plane baby
An early flight will leave
And on it will be me, yeah
I'll be half asleep
And you'll get up at three

And I've never felt
Quite this close to hell
All this rock n roll, baby
Ony time will tell
But we're young now, having fun now
On the town now, get around now
It's fine for now
But someday we'll settle down
But not now baby
Smoke baby....

Tripping: Two guys, a girl and a revolving restaurant (under construction)

Date: 3/02/09, Place: Fortune Tower, Jumeirah Lakes
On camera: Ivan The Terrible & Hagar The Horrible
With camera: Ms. Lenticulars

On their quest for the daily dose of LSD, the day Trippers stumbled upon this unknown place- a revolving restaurant on the 33rd floor. The restaurant is under construction; only the basic framework has been laid (wheels can be seen in the photo). The view is magnificent from the top- almost all the landmarks of Dubai are visible.

It was a great find- there were no one at the site. It was a fantastic place for day tripping!

Tripping: The Chronicles of Bangalore: Margarita, Maamaji, Marlboro & Dhenukasur

Date: 8th Dec'08 - 12th Jan'09

GM Palya, M.G Road, Brigade Road, Chikpet

Silk Saree, Creape Saree, Bridal Saree, Puneri Saree

Maamaji, Dhenukasur, Balika badhu, Loser Ross,

Marlboro Lights, Wills Filter, Marlboro Lights, Marlboro Lights

Margarita, Margarita, Margarita, Margarita

KFC, Mainland China, Barista, 13th Floor

Athena, RNBDJ, White-shirt Black face, Formal Wears

Mundu Lao, Methi Paratha, Beans Aalo, Tomato Maggi

Mackeral, Prawns, Rohu, Mackeral

Udaya 2, You Tube, Desi Torrents, Dr. Raj Kumar

Biriyani, Zinger Chicken, Kebabs, Dosa

Birthday Party, Engagement Party, New Year Party, "Don't care for the world" Party

Vodka, Bitching, Vodka, Bitching (in between mad-angles)

CMH, Manipal Hospital, Manipal Hospital, Manipal Hospital

ENT, ENT, Optha, ENT

Pharmacy, Steroids, "Pillan Pouder", Hot Doc

Eating, Throwing Up, Chatting, Throwing Up

Last but the most

TRIPPING, TRIPPING, TRIPPING, TRIPPING......

MISS "US" BIG TIME!

SEA- I can SEE u now!

The climate of Dubai is so wonderful today. Actually it has been a lovely winter since it started to rain from the first week of december. It has rained regulary these two months..maybe just a couple of dry days and the rest wet, foggy, cosy and beautiful.

Today, visibility was about 50mts around my office area which is like next to the sea.

I still remember the day my "friends" at B-School, laughed at me when I had told them that I have never been to a sea beach before. I always longed to see the sea, smell it and touch it. Wonder of wonders, my first job posting after MBA was in Mumbai, India.I got a load of "sea dose". But, there was more to come.

I'm in Dubai now. I live near a sea beach and work at a office situated by the sea. I get to enjoy the sea everyday. Oh , the view from my cabin- the yachts, the towers, the beach, the sea and the sea-gulls! I love the "MARINA"

Steroids and I

I'm experiencing the steroids withdrawl symptoms since last three days. My steroid doses have been reduced and it doesnot look good. I 'm having headache, feeling weak and there is a persistent feeling of nausea. My eyes look good though. The doctor says these symptoms will go away soon.But, the problem will remain. Last two weeks were terrible.Steroid pills, steroid ointment and steroid liquid drops!

In layman's language I have what is called Chronic Neurological Disorder. Well I'm not "Mad" if thats what you thought. This disorder in me is such that whenever my body is very weak or there is any problem/sub-system down in my body, my eye nerves get affected the most- it either swells up,reddens, forms layer so the vision gets blurred and ofcourse the nagging pain. Actually, this problem started when I was about 15; only then, I was in a small town n the docs thought I just had eye problems. Every year i would had some eye complaints or the other and we would treat only the eyes. But the real diagnosis happened last year.Sometime during summer last year, I took a Brufen for my fever and within 5 mins both my eyes were like two big tomatos.I could not open my eyes for 5 days. It took 7 days of steroids dosage to completely open my eyes and another 5 days of stupid medicines for the swelling to go away fully!.It was not an eye problem per se, I had very high fever and it trigerred my eye nerves. Now, i'm off brufen too( i was already off meds that are high on sulphur ...I'm sulphur-sensitive)I also avoid sea-foods as much as possible.

The origin of my recent problem is that I have been working non-stop since mid July. I lost about 5.5 lbs in 4 weeks and i was not eating properly, so my BP dropped and my haemoglobin count dropped too to ard 6.5. So, you see anyone could have thought it was eye problem. Only it wasn't so. It was an internal body problem.

I 'm posting this blog, cause I want people to be careful when they have "just eye problem". They should take it more seriously and do a thorough check-up, so that they can undergo treatment for the actual problem. Also I want to know from others who have used steroids as a form of medicine what all side effects(if any) they faced, when using the steroids and also after using the steroids?

I will continue this blog sometime later. I'm having a really bad headache now.