Rain and shine

I originally posted this on January 20, 2008.

The past week has been anything but boring. I'll recap the good parts for you.
After getting a referral to a neurologist I finally got to see one on Wednesday; an older guy who apparently is used to treating Asians - or more specifically, Indonesians.
He asked me several questions to get some insight.
More about the symptoms: headaches and dizziness. The thing is I really don't know what is up with that. I suddenly started back in Oct. 06 - I never had headaches nor dizzy spells before, but suddenly I did and I was sick literally (throwing up and walking into walls and door posts) for a couple of days. Then I decided to not be such a baby and popped a few pills that are comparable to a combo/mix of ibuprofen and Tylenol or Panadol and went back to work.
After that I occasionally get headaches (imagine someone slowly pushing an ice pick through the back of your skull, and equally slowly extracting it). There are no signs to what causes them (it could be anything from working out to reading a book, or walking through a hallway - and I even checked with foods). The same goes for the dizziness. I just don't want to be driving down a highway and get a dizzy spell, only to find myself "parked" against a metal railing on the other side of the road. After getting back from my Hong Kong trip in March last year I went to see my doctor who was convinced I just needed a nice warm Summer. 
I had a nice Summer in Vancouver and Halifax, Canada, but despite wonderful weather the symptoms came and went randomly. All I could do was hope I wouldn't stagger down the streets like some drunk. 
Anyhoo, I got a nasty flu in December last year, that reminded me how bad the headaches and dizziness got (24 hours a day for several days straight). So I decided to wait out the flu, then go back to see the doctor and demand a referral to a neurologist. I got one - without having punch my little fist onto the doc's desk. Heh.
So, I went to see the neurologist Wednesday. Had to do some test; some with my eyes open, some with my eyes closed, he checked my sense of balance, my reflexes and my hearing (he found out I have excellent hearing *LOL*) but that didn't disclose anything. He told me the headaches are probably "classic" (regular) headaches  but he couldn't find the reason for my dizziness, so he referred me to a radiologist for a brain scan *sigh*
Cross your fingers around noon this Friday!
On Thursday I met up with Tweety (and her boyfriend Johan - who I then met for the first time); we were going to book our NYC trip :)
I had been urging to meet up and book ASAP since some time last year but somewhere something in our communication went wrong, so we lost a lot of precious time. And money. Don't get me wrong, Tweety's a good friend and usually very timely. But with about three months to go till the start of our (planned) trip and the TriBeCa film festival running  it was mighty high time to book.
The girl from the travel agent's was a good help and managed, despite the fact that all the cheaper hotels (the Gershin and Thirty-Thirty were our first choices) were solidly booked, to get Tweety and I a fairly good deal at the Radisson!
Even though we were both glad to have arranged the whole trip, we were both shocked at the amount of money it was costing us as well (Tweety even more so than I was). We could've saved about €500,-/€600,- (about a month's rent) by booking last year, but I reminded Tweety it was a temporary set back: US$ is cheap, and there are plenty of places where food is good and cheap. And shopping on the North American continent is cheaper, too.
I hope I'll be able to meet up with my friends Doug and "nuke" (and his family).