Whole of last week was frustrating with fever, cold and cough. I usually don't want to be a sick child sleeping at home. I prefer to come to work and distract my mind with other activities and people. Somehow this idea didn't work out fine, bcos coming to office made me more sick. I realized the temperature of the room I was sitting in was unusually lower. I asked fellow colleagues, but they felt it was quite normal. However I still called up the facilities and asked them to increase the temperature. I even gave up my early morning walking for 2 days !

Nothing helped still, the moment I entered office, I felt more sick. Luckily we had reviews for 5+ hours and I realized whenever I was out for reviews, I felt warmer. My team-mate says thats bcos of the heated environment the review discussions created which made me warmer. He even suggested I could attend all_day reviews if that helped me do better health wise.

So for the past couple of days, I had this strange feeling that it has something to do with this room I am put up in. I kept calling the helpdesk again and again asking them to increase the temperature. Today one of the guys personally came with the thermometer and showed me 23.5 degrees which was quite normal. Everybody gave me a look as if I was a retarded child crying for nothing. Today noon again it was bad, I got fever again and asked the guy to personally come and check the temperature once again. This time, he figured out what was happening. The duct on the ceiling was blowing out cold air tangentially, directly onto my head and no wonder I was feeling strangely cold especially with sinusitis and all. He closed the duct and its 2 hours since then and I am getting better.

Sometimes finding the cause is much better and effective than the cure !