Woke up better, but a little fuzzy today. After a slow shower and breakfast went to work. Rounds went on OK and I felt stable till 11 AM. Then slowly the fever crept in again and I felt restless. Manish told me to take rest and I slowly came back – feeling depressed.Slept a little in the evening. The rest of the night was bad – I was spiking a fever (103degrees) and the body pain was killing. Manish dropped in again and together we went to the ER to take a few blood tests. The results looked OK – a mildly lowered platelet count; hopefully just a viral infection. If I dont feel better tomorrow I’ll run a few…

Didnt even bother to call up today…. just slept and slept…. and ate a little. Manish made sure I had the right meds and checked on me in the evning. Most of the day was a daze.

I woke up at 3 in the morning feeling sick in my tummy and also still feverish and painful all over. I finally got out of bed at 6 AM….. and puked.Sorry for being so graphic, but I’ve been feeling sick the whole day. I called up Dr. Jana and told hime I wont be coming to work today, then slept most of the day…. or at least tried to. The only bright spot of the day was when Manish dropped in to see how I was doing. My leave would mean more duties for him, but he was cool about it. He made sure I had dinner and also bought some antibiotics and paracetamol.Thank God he dropped in!

It started yesterday. I skipped practice at church as I was feeling a little queasy. It proigressed overnight into fever, body pain and a cold and I spent most of today in bed just tossing and turning and sleeping. Terrible weekend. Couldnt do anything at all…

I took a little time re-skinning the addicted2jesus forum today. I was feeling a little queasy today with a sore throat and some fever and somehow felt motivated to change the foru look. The old forum was slower and took time to load and also had some bugs.After a brief search for phpBB styles and templates I settled impulsively on an orange looking forum style.After a little doodling, uploading, messing around with the settings and then working on the logo everything looks set.Do post you comments and suggestions about the new look. Sadly, there are very few posts in the forum for the last couple of months – hardly any activity!Maybe you can get there and start posting!

I was supposed to try and do the powerpoint slides for Gladwin, but couldnt do it in the night. I sleepily woke up at 5 AM (which is quite unnatural for me) and managed to finish off everything. After a short snooze I ran down to grab a quick breakfast and lugged my laptop to church! We did a little rearrangement with the slides and everything was in place… it seemed…. till we realised that I’d forgotten to put the Special Song (Oh My Soul!) on the slides. With just 2 minuted to go, I got Barney to dictate it to me and did some frenzied typing to get it in place.Worship was great and the projector and laptop behaved…

Gladwin was leading worship tomorrow and we thought we’d drop into church a 5 PM for a practice session. I dozed off a little in the afternoon, but woke up at 4.30 PM and we were ready to go. We noticed that the skies were starting to darken and soon big drops of rain were falling. Ouch!! We waited for 5 minutes and the rain seems to let off. We got on the bike and 30 seconds into the journey, we felt the rain start off again and scooted into a parking lot to escape. Within seconds there was a strong wind and windows were shattering as they banged on the shutters!! We just about escaped it. Five minutes later…

The sequence of events is quite amazing. This month I’ll be doing Senior Call duties in the department. Although it’s scary and a huge responsibilty for me, one advantage is that I get every second weekend off. On thursday I called up Kenny to let him know that I could help out in worship. Kenny said that although he was to lead worship, he was on call and requested me to do it. I agreed. I was on call on Friday, but managed to get exactly one hour when nothing was happening and hence chose a few songs. I had to borrow Deepak’s guitar (A FENDER!). The rest of friday night was busy. I got off work by 2 PM…

After finally finishing all the stuff yesterday, I finally went through the last leg of my thesis submission today. I woke an hour later than I’d planned and so ended up catching a bus to Chennai at 8 Am instead of 7 AM. The bus was not too crowded and I managed to grab some sleep on the three hour drive. I finally got off at Guindy and was welcomed by the wave of humid heat that rips through Chennai in summer. The junction I got off at had some major construction work and it disoriented me – it’s very large and I didnt know which direction I should set off in. After walking up and down for 15 minutes,…

A few days/weeks ago I made ablog entry stating that I had got 15$ in my paypal account and didnt know what to do with it.A few days ago I stumbled upon a site which sold Christian wristbands. I couldnt buy them and then did a search for a place to use paypal to buy a christian wristband for me. Soon I was poring through ebay and found quite a few that I liked. The best deal was an auction for 40 wristbands at less than 5$! I bid and waited – there was 3 days left for the auction to close. Soon I was outbid and after some more bidding and being outbid I let it go. With 8…