Sick Leave

So its a regular work day.. chop chop chop, satay satay satay... Oops thats not me.. Thats Monica.. (from friends).. So ya.. its a regular work day.. spec spec spec.. check check check.. and my business partner comes in and he's like, "you got a cold.. and ur coughing.. you know if you have such days when ur not well.. you can just let me know, that ur not coming in.. ill take care of stuff... " .. Im thinking.. thats nice on his part.. and.. get back to work..

A bit later i get up to get some coffee and Im thinking.. and I realize that Iv never taken a sick leave since Iv been here in the UK.. Then I look back and think.. Iv never taken a sick leave back in New York (at IBM) either.. Then I think further behind and I realize that ISU, my university or back in Bombay, here in London.. Iv never taken a single day sick leave while Iv been working !

I was quite happy about that, more like proud.. but then felt like a fool too.. because you know, I could take the sick days off and go have fun, instead.. so I tell my mom this story.. and shes like.. serves you right... I'm like.. huh !??! ... Shes like.. while you were in school, you used to fake falling ill all the time... and she burst out laughing.. And Oh My God.. what memories came back to me.. !

But I was a bit offended, coz I remember have won many certificates n awards in school.. so i look into at my suitcase of honour (ofcourse now its just a folder of scanned jpg files on my computer) and I realize that I had several Honorous Causa Certificates.. These were given to students who had a distinction in the avergae of the entire year and have had perfect attendance records.. So I have these certificates all the way from 4th grade (3rd grade I was down with jaundice for a bit).. until I graduate school and in between, in the 7th or 8th grade I have none.. So I call my mom again and ask her..

She tells me that a year before the 9th & 10 grades (when I got my black belt in Taekwondo, was a member of the student council, became troop leader of the school's scouts, etc).. I went through a phase of what my mom called, "mischief madness". Turns out, I did a lot of things to a lot of teachers, and got out of several important things with the best of the excuses in the world.. Mom said.. according to her thats when my mind started "running like the wind.."

Little does she know that I think almost around the clock and that I probably dont have a stop switch.. I have to get tired and fall asleep.. I cant remember now, but Im sure.. I was planning everything I did from the 8th through the 10th grades, while I was in the 7th! LoL!