CRASH / I'm Home!!!
CRASH
26 August 2006
No, no, don’t worry, I didn’t get into an accident…. But I have fallen sick though, yes, again…. Well, I don’t think it really went away, whatever I had when I was still in Bangladesh, because I never really took any time off to rest and fully recover, due to the heavy workload…. Now that I’m on leave, its really come out in full force…..
I woke up this morning, with a temperature of 37.1oC, coupled with a slight sore throat…. No cough or running nose, so I could still handle it…. By lunch time, I was struggling to cope with the fever, as it had risen to 38.2oC….. By late evening, my body was a burning 38.9oC, and I could hardly keep my eyes open, watching football on the telly later that night didn’t lift my spirits, I couldn’t even watch Man Utd play Watford till the end…. To make things worse, the diarrhoea also made its return…. So an early night it was for me…..
I was so dehydrated, the fever was punishing, as was the headache that accompanied it, which pounded at my head relentlessly…. The panadol and other drugs that I took didn’t seem to have any effect…..
I suppose its all due to the fact I pushed myself too hard over the previous 7 weeks in Bangladesh, and my body is simply telling me that its payback time for all the neglect, in the name of work…. So my weekend has been wrecked, with me being bedridden and spending most my time resting….. instead of playing badminton and football….. instead of salsa-ing with my friends….
Well, I do hope to make a quick recovery, as I don’t want to waste next week, when I’ll be on leave…..
I’m Home!!!
24 August 2006
The flight home was uneventful, as usual, being the lousy traveller that I am, I hardly slept on the flight….. we took off at around 1.30am local time (3.30am Malaysian time) and arrived on Malaysian soil 4 hours later….
It feels great to be home again…. My colleagues and I are already planning what to do when we get back home…. What we are going to eat first when we get back….
One of the first few things I noticed, was the eerie silence when we were making our way home from the airport…. In Bangladesh, blaring horns are the norm, so much so its part of the background…. But here in KL, its just silence…. And I don’t notice vehicles swerving crazily in between lanes here…. Well, not on a regular basis anyway…..
And it isn’t as hot here either…. Which is a good thing….. though the heat had become tolerable when we left Bangladesh…. But it was really hot when we first arrived nearly 2 months ago…. How hot you may ask….. well, in the middle of the shower, you already feel the heat when your shoulder is no longer under the shower….. and you get all hot and sticky within 10 minutes of stepping out of the bathroom after your shower….. and no, I don’t have an air-conditioner when I was out at the villages, where it seemed as if Bangladesh was at its hottest…..
Its also nice that I don’t have to eat the same food day in day out…. Why that happened at the villages, was simply because the ‘chef’ was only able to cook those 3 same dishes, and nothing else, hence the absence of variety in the villages…. It’s a good thing I don’t have the same problem back home :)
26 August 2006
No, no, don’t worry, I didn’t get into an accident…. But I have fallen sick though, yes, again…. Well, I don’t think it really went away, whatever I had when I was still in Bangladesh, because I never really took any time off to rest and fully recover, due to the heavy workload…. Now that I’m on leave, its really come out in full force…..
I woke up this morning, with a temperature of 37.1oC, coupled with a slight sore throat…. No cough or running nose, so I could still handle it…. By lunch time, I was struggling to cope with the fever, as it had risen to 38.2oC….. By late evening, my body was a burning 38.9oC, and I could hardly keep my eyes open, watching football on the telly later that night didn’t lift my spirits, I couldn’t even watch Man Utd play Watford till the end…. To make things worse, the diarrhoea also made its return…. So an early night it was for me…..
I was so dehydrated, the fever was punishing, as was the headache that accompanied it, which pounded at my head relentlessly…. The panadol and other drugs that I took didn’t seem to have any effect…..
I suppose its all due to the fact I pushed myself too hard over the previous 7 weeks in Bangladesh, and my body is simply telling me that its payback time for all the neglect, in the name of work…. So my weekend has been wrecked, with me being bedridden and spending most my time resting….. instead of playing badminton and football….. instead of salsa-ing with my friends….
Well, I do hope to make a quick recovery, as I don’t want to waste next week, when I’ll be on leave…..
I’m Home!!!
24 August 2006
The flight home was uneventful, as usual, being the lousy traveller that I am, I hardly slept on the flight….. we took off at around 1.30am local time (3.30am Malaysian time) and arrived on Malaysian soil 4 hours later….
It feels great to be home again…. My colleagues and I are already planning what to do when we get back home…. What we are going to eat first when we get back….
One of the first few things I noticed, was the eerie silence when we were making our way home from the airport…. In Bangladesh, blaring horns are the norm, so much so its part of the background…. But here in KL, its just silence…. And I don’t notice vehicles swerving crazily in between lanes here…. Well, not on a regular basis anyway…..
And it isn’t as hot here either…. Which is a good thing….. though the heat had become tolerable when we left Bangladesh…. But it was really hot when we first arrived nearly 2 months ago…. How hot you may ask….. well, in the middle of the shower, you already feel the heat when your shoulder is no longer under the shower….. and you get all hot and sticky within 10 minutes of stepping out of the bathroom after your shower….. and no, I don’t have an air-conditioner when I was out at the villages, where it seemed as if Bangladesh was at its hottest…..
Its also nice that I don’t have to eat the same food day in day out…. Why that happened at the villages, was simply because the ‘chef’ was only able to cook those 3 same dishes, and nothing else, hence the absence of variety in the villages…. It’s a good thing I don’t have the same problem back home :)
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