February 19, 2009 | Awake & Dreaming

awake movie download Cold drink of water and a face wash later, I’m back in my seat.

Since there were no buses playing their trade in the city, the company had arranged cabs for us employees. However there were just two of us, me & my friend from HR Kiran, who were leaving at that time. Then we were requested to take care of a lady employee, from among the call center agents, who was ill and had to be taken to the hospital. This young girl had an allergic reaction to some medicine she had taken for a cold & headache. So Kiran and I offered to taken her to a nearby hospital and then drop her home in the cab before we were taken to our respective homes.

We had just set out when we were called back to the office – another lady was ill and this time they suspected measles. A case of German Measles had been working it’s way across the employees and this was victim number 11. So we went back, picked this girl up and drove to the hospital. There we waited, along with a few football players from CUSAT (Cochin University of Science & Technology) whose team mate was injured from a fall he took on the field, until the on call doctor could diagnose the two girls. It was as suspected – allergic reaction to taking the wrong medicine for the first girl & measles for the latter. Not German by the way; it was your garden variety good ole ordinary Indian measles :D.

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Then we dropped off the measles ridden girls at her home as the other one would be taken care of by some other colleague. It was a long, long drive from Kalamassery to the end of Vypeen. Once we had her safe in her house, the cab driver drove us to Vytilla so we could drop of Kiran and finally at 10:15 pm, 3 hours after I had left the office, I reached home. What a day!

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Wow, that heading is a mouthfull! Anyways that’s what my day was all about. It started out with the realization that there were no buses in the city today due to the announcement of a 2 day work strike. The reason was the lowered rates as declared recently due to the lowering of fuel prices. So that was waiting for us.

By the time I got the office, started discussig upcoming work with a couple of my team members & got to my seat, I had a major headache throbing away to full glory. I have heard this term called skull cramp – that’s exactly what it felt like. I still soldiered on and continued with my work. A meeting with video conferencing was called at 1pm and by my luck, I was sitting right in the front, staring at the screen from close range. My headache went to 4.5 on the richter scale.

I had a late lunch and came back to my seat when another smaller meeting was called. I dragged my self to attend that one for 30 minutes and then went to talk to my team mates for some other stuff. My head began to feel like there was a war going on inside it. By 5.45 I had had it and went to the cafeteria for fresh air and a snack along with tea. At 10 minutes past 6 pm, I felt much better. The throbbing had died down. I sent all my reports, mails and managed to have a small joking session for about 10 minutes with some colleagues. 7:15 pm and it was time to go.

I’ll be back in a bit….my head is throbbing right now.