my letter to ping

Re: Hey how are you?

dear all,

i'm much better now. ping, sorry you had to worry. no internet in sgh ward lah! is, didn't you say you'd let ping know? did i just sabo you? *grinz*

anyways, my hospital leave ended on 28/10. had to go for outpatient checkup aka take more vials of blood. at the rate i'm going, i can be a regular blood donor!

well, tests were to test my blood platelet count and liver enzymes coz previously results showed platelets too low and liver ones too high. bad part was the doc couldn't find a proper vein since they've all been pretty bruised (i've got some pretty bad blue blacks to show) by my 5 days of blood donation & i do have rather small & inconspicuous veins so taking blood is even harder. therefore, he had to poke me TWICE to get blood. test results: platelets are fine. liver enzymes not normalized aka back to normal level so i've to go donate blood AGAIN one month later.

good part? i didn't get hysterics and faint. tho i did get kinda giddy and pale.

current situation:

think my brain's kinda rusted and rotted. thought processes are really really slow. my mum's trying to feed me everything possible (no seafood, no alcohol, no red meat, no spicy stuff) since i've lost my appetite as well. nothing appeals and it's so strange since i live in food paradise singapore. i get tired really easily now which so sucks. so now i'm going really slow with things like sleeping early and most prob leaving sch before my usual 6pm and not working myself into 12 hr days. thank goodness exams are all over but now i've gotta get their report bks ready and my first day back and i've got a meeting to attend. my mum thinks i'm not ready to face huge crowds for prolonged periods (she's kinda right tho i'm so not admitting it to her plus i don't want her to worry so much since she had a pretty bad scare over me) so guys, i'm really really sorry i couldn't break fast at geylang this year AGAIN! i keep trying but it always doesn't work out. nxt year's goal = break fast at geylang.

well, naz i'll call you once i've settled with sch on mon. i'm trying to get well asap since is asked for such an easy present this yr:) and is, I GOT MY OWN ENTRY!!! thxs. but did you have to use that hungry hungry hippo pix? *sheesh* could have got a more glam one... then again, i don't think i have a glam pix do i?

ping, i'll update you once in a while k. fret not, you won't be left out. promise.

alrightz, system shut down

still surviving, liz:)

my brush with death

My brush with death. Sounds pretty creepy doesn’t it. But honest to goodness, I suppose that’s what happened last week. I was on the brink of life and then I was given life. Again. It’s pretty amazing when you get things you don’t expect to get. I really didn’t expect to get dengue fever. Yah yah… it happened to you, and to you as well? But don’t worry, it’d never ever happen to me. Think again my friend. It happened to me. 5 straight days of fever. The kind that just makes your brains all jellified and you shiver constantly from a raging temperature that refuses to go down. Your limbs are all weak and they feel funny and there’s this constant buzzing in your head. Just like there’s a mosquito in there that’s trying desperately to get out but it can’t so it just buzzes around, over and over again, until it drives you almost completely insane. So that was how it was. Bad. In fact, let’s make it terrible.

I’ve not idea why I want to write about it. No one in their right sense of mind would but I suppose I’m doing this as a form of catharsis. To get it out of my system. Or perhaps I’m just typing out my testimony for everyone out there to read someday somewhere somehow. Strange. I’ve finally turned into a full-fledged exhibitionist and I’m using one of my most terrifying experience to become one. Wonder whether I’m turning psycho or isit when you’ve experienced something strange and wonderful all at the same time, you just want to yell out loud to the people around you? I can’t begin to even fathom the complexity of the human mind or the human psyche. Like I said previously, life is strange. You never expect to get things and then you do get them. Strange but wonderful. Like a bittersweet taste left in your mouth after you savour a piece of authentic dark chocolate. The kind that melts in your mouth and leaves a lingering aftertaste. Even Forrest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’d get.”

a personality test

Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality

A natural leader, one who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones.

They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure.

They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

*bottomline: you're crazy, implusive and a complete klutz*