Ironic Man: The Curious Case of The Reader With The Hang Over (or simply, Me in Manila)

After more than 2 months of intense hibernation, the grizzly bear slowly awakes and attacks. the smell of a new season gently seeps into his cave, giving him thoughts of food and pleasures for his taking. The hunger is getting stronger, the need more imminent. He is ready to pounce on anything that fancies his discerning eye. He is ready.

And then he caught a rather nasty case of flu so went back to bed and sleep for another winter.

Life.

Just when I am about to go for a rather long holiday, i got this rather weird flu: My nbose (yeah you read it as you see it) is combgesteb with the wonderful air from Manila, my body is aching from my toes to the tips of my hair, my eyes look like Dopey after a pipe of Hash with Snow White. Heck, imagine all the seven dwarfs in one guy!

So just when I have the inspiration to tread the paved stinking streets of Manila, armed with an umbrella (it's raining intermittently), a pack of condoms (hey, who knows, I might be lucky), flip flops (it is flooding around Ermita --- yuck, imagine all the goos flushed having an interpersonal relationship with my feet!) and a determination to spend at least a thousand bucks a day --- I got this flu!

(Isn't it ironic, don't you think? It's like rain on your wedding day.....it's a free ride....)

Thank you Alanis Morrissette for putting into undying words and music what I feel. I think I should put you up there with my favorite artists along with Pirot (remember Pronvincial Jail?), Snoop Dogg and Judy Ann Santos singing a lullaby.

Great.

Might as well torture me with watching pinoy teleserye.

Vilefying the Vagrant Virus

I am sick today. Really.

I have been feeling a bit low for the past days. You know, just having the virus hang in my system for sometime, but not necessarily attacking me. Yesterday, Mr. V got victorious. Halfway through the shopping expidition at Sarojini Nagar Market in Delhi, I felt dizzy and feverish. Of course, even when one is not sick, he/she'd feel dizzy in Sarojini, but for me, it was unusual. Me, getting dizzy during shopping? Me dizzy, when I just bought a new mobile phone (Samsung SGH F480 Touch)???

So I decided to wake up late, hoping that the bug will go away. I starve the MF'ing bug, but it did not go away. Here I am now, suffering with a painful and parched throat, a runny nose (I looked like Rudolph), a fever, headache and a really bad back pain. In fact, as I type down my thoughts, I probably look like a fish out of water -- open mouth and flared nares.

I don't want to write about this, but I figured I have to share with you all my laurels, my crisis and definitely my illnesses. Friends need to know what friends feel, right? And oh, yeah. I got this from friends. Mr. V was just running around the expatriates trying to victimize everyone.

Anyways, I have been hooking up on the net trying to find a quick remedy for this thing. I have read something about honey, lemon and tea (which incidently is what I am drinking now), and just taking a good soothing rest. How can, in Barok's name can someone rest with a headache and backpains? Aber? How can I fall asleep in the middle of the day when there are a hundred men outside (working on a construction), banging and talking in an endless cacophony of nonesense?

So, here I am now, red-eyed, facing the computer waiting for the evening to come. At least I could have the house dimmed and take a much needed rest. (I am all alone in the house, by the way.... hmmm)

But for now, I give up.

Maybe I'll fight this virus with Old Monk (rum) and coke. That'll teach him to infect me.

Any suggestions on the dosage?