Women at Work

Warning: If words like women's period makes you squirm, you might want to skip this post!

Of all the things that get discussed about women at work, why have I never seen discussion on what we have to go through to work through our periods? 

Most women I know cant work atleast for few hours of their period time.

My own body took a long long time to get used to chums. Atleast thats what it looked like to me. There was a lot of puking at the onset of my chums for many years well into even my grad school days. My room mates then thought I was going to die. After the saga (of puking of course), I have to have some food and sleep. Imagine being at work at the onset.

I was interning those days and this one time I had taken all the care to go to a bathroom in 'unoccupied' first floor and puked my guts out. Moment I returned  to my cube in the second floor, one look at my face  my colleague(male  - that place was 95% male!) asked if I should be taken to the hospital -  I looked that sick.

 Those days, I had some vague notions of hiding the fact I had my chums  and act all normal. I dont believe that anymore  - I mean 3.5 billion people suffer through this monthly for a major portion of the life  - so why hide it? It is another matter but I still hide it or use the brahmastram of stomach ache.

Sometimes a bit of dysentry, stomach ache, utter discomfort and physical weakness and so on. Atleast in my case it has gotten better with age. Myraid problems, Varying from woman to woman. I  know of some women who are lucky enough not to go through major discomfort.

But the general talk with other women at work during these times reveal most of them do feel physically horrible - Sufferings strong enough to disrupt work. And this happens on a monthly basis. 

How come we have never seen any discussion on this?

Ps: it wasnt easy writing this post!

I love how the 'city' has this cute little throw away fabulous  places.  Last week I stumbled at 4.00am with D, her friend and her friends in tow onto coit tower.

Like all roads leading to golden gate, in SF all the special places lead to a view of golden gate.

Death by exhaustion!

Goals for november

This is an SK'ish post.  I have often seen her do it in her blog with considerable success but never took it up because of fear of Jinx. Also writing a task list doesnt work for me. Once I write down any task for some weird reason, my brain things it is done. I never have to do list(except at work). FACT. May be I should write WORLD PEACE and make my brain believe it is done :)

But... it isnt like I have achieved anything without these lists lists either. So as well make a list. Here it goes.

1. Home cooked meals for atleast 5 days  a week.
I did do this last december and it was great for my weight. I have always wanted to make it a habit.

2.  Excerise 

if not anything else atleast the most popular sport practised by Indians -'walk' .

Walk the 'walk'. I used to do it quite regularly and not sure when I stopped it. Then, there is yoga, kickboxing and my beloved elliptical.  Exercise  is suppose to be increase 'endowhatisit' - which is suppose to give you happiness. Pppls.. Happiness apparently is just  chemical substance. So here is to more of that. 

3, Books 

  Finish a book I am reading for career and 'Norwegian wood'

4. Shop 

I know! Shopping in their goals list. I will give you a half second to take your time and judge me.

But I have skipped it for past few months and now my wardrobe has nothing new. The dressing standard at my work place is relatively high for a place filled with Indians. On most days, I end up going to work as if I woke up from my sleep(let us not comment on how close to truth that is). I need all therapy I can get in my life right now so why leave out retail therapy.

Work is as usual well work. I dont  give a damn about it but we have a deadline end of this year so November is very much under the gun. And I have another thing undergoing related to career right now. 

So, it should be interesting check at the end of november :)

Another 'Selvaraghavan' film

One cant blame the guy that he doesnt warn you - he clearly shows what his movie is going to be about in  the trailer. Yet another loser/pyscho guy who desires a good looking girl who is confused about wanting him.

There might be just one arc for the girl that she will be interested in sex as any other human being. Beyond that single arc, as the 'disgusting'(can never drop the prefix) hero goes pining for the object girl he so desired the said girl has to stand like a jadam.



The trailer could have as well ended with "Selvaraghava Jagirithai!".

Success doesnt make a Person Perfect

I just finished 7 chapters of Steve Job's biography which released this Monday ( Kindle is dangerous to the pockets, I tell you). Off the seven, one of them is about his family - Voyeurism/  human angle interest - name it what you want but I guess I skipped to the part of my foremost interest.

Unsurprisingly, it talks about how he continued the sometimes hot - sometimes cold tones even with his kids.

And then I thought about the eulogizing blog post one of his neighbour wrote about what a wonderful father he was. Literally this neighbor had bumped( saw him) into steve jobs 3/4 times in her life and she made a post of it which got forwarded by the twitter crowd. 

The funda is, Steve gave us MAC, IPOD, IPHONE and an IPAD - THAT PERSON based on these achievements alone is great enough to celebrate. 

But why do people feel the need to slather THAT PERSON with qualities he was not - friendly, good natured. 

This happens to all the celebrities - Rajnikanth could be a drinking womanizer( just a random might be situation), Shahrukh khan can be a crazy nut case but rarely would we be able to read about it.  We(people, media and even his colleagues) had turn Rajni into this simple living, spiritual person.

Why not just celebrate that person for what made them famous - what we liked them for. Regarding the rest, either you go high up in evolution scale to take the bad along with good or if you cant take grey just ignore those other details that anyway wouldnt matter to you?

Grand canyon in Madras

Marina Beach. Except where I expect sand in the faraway distance from my view, I see water. Water has moved on to beach road. Earth quake. And I see a canyon as grand as Grand Canyon, right next to the beach road.  As  people are floating and struggling with water, K - a college friend who lives in Singapore and  who I havent met after college and I are walking along.

I wonder what would we call it though - a canyon? Can we still call it a beach? Deep in the recess of the canyon I could still see Sea Water. But South India isnt suppose to get an earthquake - we are old plate, I wonder. Seismologist say we are all overreacting - south india wont face earthquakes - this is just one off case.

Some dream!