here comes the rain again.....

from scratch to the verge of Operation...huuf

I never knew this could one of the scariest things happening to me. About 4-5 weeks back , I saw suddenly some foul smelling stuff coming out of the belly button area.....very little....i wondered if the umbilical cord stiches have opened and its unwinding.....scary...slowly lose all stomach stuff :)..well just ignored it...then slowly the discharge became larger and now combined with blood...huum...strange stuff....never really knew about any such injury.....to add to the problem.....it was not visible as to what was wrong in the region....but the blood and fluid kept coming out...not a flow but i guess 3-4 drops a day.....and strangely there was no pain either....over a period the discharge was increasing now....huum no more under ignorance limit so checked out a doctor....ah some bacterial infection causing formation of a small lump he said... due to scratching around the belly button area.... damn... scratching proved a costly affair..... doctor gave some antibiotics and antibactrial stuff to try out for 4 days....and then report back if there is any progress...huuf...no change when I went to see doctor after 4 days...ahh and so he said operation necessary to prevent the lump from growing big.....huum got no choice....so fixed up an appoitment with other doctor at operation clinic at NUH....date just next after last exam on 28th......waah thankfully by the time appointment date 29th came ....it looked like condition was improving ....just wanted to be doubly sure so went to meet doctor of the operation clinic in NUH ...and relieved to find out that the lump had gone........... gained additional knowledge of the region of infection being called belly button area :).......

Bday and drink PANNA.....

......huum one more year older..........decided to spend the afternoon sleeping......and in the evening went to Raj with Prajit, Balu where Dips and Surabhi joined us.Dips got the cake (...unexpectedly... :)..) with all candle stuff so celebrated cake cutting and blowing off the candles in the restaurant itself.

But the limelight of the evening was the drink PANNA. Balu and Prajit had ordered the drink earlier after lot of discussion of what to drink. Somehow the drink never arrived first along with starters ....., nevertheless gungho about tasting this new thing under Juice menu they again ordered Panna...and this time Dips and Surabhi also happily gaves a thumbs up to same drink. Nobody checked with the waitress first as exactly what it was. The assumption was the drink was panah--a drink made out of raw mangoes and considered to keep the body cool....famous in northern India . I didnt feel like taking any and was contended with plain water. Finally after a wait the drink arrived and every one was curious as didnt look as per expectation...... ..everyone looked at each others face , studied more the contents on the packaged bottle, tasted it.........it turned out to be mineral water from the Hills of Tuscany in Italy..... :)) ....all bursted out with laughter after realizing the mistake.....looking again at the Juices Menu revealed that even Mineral Water was also mentioned in the same...just beneath PANNA......though it didnt caught anyones attention while ordering.... Nevertheless.....all dranked Panna with relishment and juice style :))))).....

Joked and laughed around for some time after dinner......with Balu finishing with PANNA as desert item....kept it till the last :))

3rd season of Singapore

Haze season currently since past 2 weeks because of forest fires in the sumatra region of Indonesia. More info here.

Transformation.......

Gillette Presto- 0.5 SGD
Dettol Shaving Cream- 0.66 SGD

Gillette Mach3 Turbo- 16 SGD
Gillette Mach3 Nitrogel- 9.50 SGD

Being Cool.....

Something to ponder on, How to deal with difficult people ?.....some always tend to behave like that and some having a roller coaster ride sometimes.....what to do in such scenario? .....I tend to remain calm and let the other person speak till he/she has oogled out whatever is bothering him/her or try my very best that he/she does that. Sometimes this can be really stressful but I try to be cool as nothing will be achieved if I also get defensive and replicate the same behaviour. This approach lets the other person cool off rapidly also :) and here I found proof of my belief --aaah cool.
(......ahh but I am not perfect as well and sometimes land up in argument but usually retrieve back to coolness pretty soon)

Vikram & Betal

Looking out for something light and fast to read after all those case readings which always leaves one perplexed...thought of Vikram & Betal triggered in...so just googled across to read some stories of one of my most liked telelvision series of short stories-- Vikram Aur Baital (Vikram and the Vampire) ....those good old days :).....anxiously waiting for the program on television with an uncertainity of whether electricity would be there or not.

Google did not gave any link to full list of stories so turned to Project Gutenberg which helped...justed keyed in Vikram in title word search and bingo.

Here is a very brief introduction to the book: King Vikram is entrusted with the task of fetching a vampire that hangs from a tamarind tree. Having brought down the vampire and slung it onto his back, Vikram is on his way, when the treacherous creature begins to speak. He tells Vikram a story (25 stories in all, eleven of which appear in Burton's book) and asks him a question at the end of each. The conditions are that if the king opens his mouth to answer either from vanity, or conceit, or from the vampire's treachery or from a moral duty, the vampire would leave him and go back to hang upside down from his tree. Only if the king remained silent out of humility or ignorance would the vampire accompany him to his destination. And so the tales begin. Time after time, Vikramaditya cannot help but answer the vampire's mischieviously designed queries. Time after time, the vampire, in an explosion of triumphant laughter, gives him the slip. Time after time, Vikramaditya pulls him down again and sets off on another journey, on another story. More here.

Origins of V&B :
Brihat-katha, written in the 5th cent BC in the Paishachi dialect.

full version of 11 stories in pdf.

I always love knowledge imparted in the form of a story telling......though MBA also does that in form of case studies but the complexities are much higher and without the solution part....only the problem part stated mostly....solution can vary as there are always many possibilities of next action and thats where you got to apply whatever you have learned in that particular MBA module. Sometimes interesting but sometimes huuf damm confusing....