RELAPSE!!

Just when I thought that I was feeling better… a little traveling brought on a relapse with a vengeance. After an unpleasant trip to the hospital, and a million more antibiotics later, I’ve totally lost my appetite and I have weird and very vivid thoughts of dying. But other than that, at least I can sit up enough to type this out.

It really didn’t help that the only reading material I carried with me was Tuesdays with Morrie. A book about a dying professor and his conversations with a student. While the book itself is alright, the colourful descriptions of the illness is something that I would seriously NOT recommend to people who are ill and thinking of dying themselves.

About the book, I didn’t like it too much. I don’t know what the big deal is. The book is a bit awkward and not that philosophical. The deepest thing you get from that book is that you’re going to die some day and you better get used to the idea! Deep? Although my judgment of the book has been seriously marred by my illness; I doubt I’d ever like a book that’s more about a person than the lesson.

Recovery...

I'm finally back! After almost a week of sickness - my system is back on track! However, I'm in that weird limbo between ill health and normalcy. Right now my body is so full of paracetomol, amoxycillin and god-knows-what-else that if I died today, I wouldn't biodegrade till 2010. But that's ok, anything's better than the bugs right?

Anyway, watched a TV special called Secrets of the Street Magician Revealed - or some such. And boy, do these things make you feel STUPID! I challenge you to sit through one of these telecasts and not go, "now why didn't I think of that?"

Speaking of magic, have you ever seen the advertisements on TV that sell stuff like a weird heating belt that'll make you lose weight? Boy, that's some magic there! What I cannot understand is, if it were really that simple to look like Halle Berry, wouldn't we all look like her all the time? Who would EVER go to the gym? Why would we EVER diet? Would health food have ever been invented and inflicted upon us mere mortals?

As you can see, I've been glued to the TV due to my illness and I think I've seriously become dumber. I think the meds have killed some neurons and the TV has zapped a few more. No wonder I feel light headed…

Let’s begin with this…

Reasons that have pushed me to blog…

1. V – constant inspiration to me. Has been pushing me to do this since FOREVER! Mmmwah!
2. S – my writer friend whose blog is a constant source of laughter to me! A great writer and a fantastic funny man – you know who you are.
3. A – this guy’s blog is not only well drafted, but well crafted as well (lotsa pretty pics up there)
4. A few people who shall remain nameless (and initial-less) whose blogs are SOOOOOOOOO bad. Sooooooooo full of typos and spellos and grammatical goofs and impossible punctuation permutations that I seriously feel like blogging them into oblivion.

I guess you can tell that #4 is the REAL reason… and I’m DEAD SERIOUS about it. So there.

P.S. Sh if you're reading this, I KNOW you are smiling.

And so it begins...

Aha!

I've FINALLY created my own blog. Having been a writer by profession for a little over 2 years before I began my MBA a few months ago, the inevitable question would always be... "So do you blog?" Well, I can finally say Yes! even though I'm not a writer (a professional one anyway) any more...

It is obvious by the title that I still am in love with the subject that I own a Master's Degree in - Biology. The idea of constant change (mutation) is appealing to me... and so the name...

Now apart from the fact that complete strangers will have access to some of my thoughts and feelings - I really don't know what I hope to accomplish by blogging. But, as I said, I'm all for change, and after resisting for over 2 years now - I'm going to give it a try. I have a feeling that I'm going to enjoy doing this very much... don't you?