Not in my right mind

Called in sick yesterday. URTI (upper respiratory tract infection). It was like my first MC in 4 years. Yeah, I think I'm incredible too.

Slept through most of yesterday. The medicine was making me really drowsy. And I had this adverse reaction from Ventolin too. Why was I taking Ventolin in the first place you might ask. Well, why did the MO give me Ventolin, to begin with? It's for asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). (And preterm labour as well.) I actually skipped Ventolin for the first dose. Second dose was in the middle of the night. Mom woke me up and asked me to take the med. I actually realised that the Ventolin pill was there, but I was just too lazy to explain to mom that there wasn't a need for it at all, so I just swallowed it. When I woke up in the morning, I found that I had this mild tremor of my hands and slightly racing heart. And I thought, it must be the Ventolin. Which was weird actually. See, if you were to ask me what the side effects of Ventolin are, I could never tell you any. (I can now) It's that kind of thing that tutors tried to hammer into my head but failed. But I guess it sort of registered itself somewhere really deep down in my brain, and found its way up when needed to.

I'm feeling much better today, because I'm taking antibiotics. Yeah, you are reading right. Antibiotics. You have no idea how much I despise myself now for giving in to it. I just really need to get well fast because I have work that I need to get back to, and I can't be coughing and sniffing over an open abdomen can I? Anyway, those cough and cold medicine can really blunt my senses and makes my LOC (level of consciousness) plummet. (Forgot to ask for Clarinase) That's why I'm not taking them during day time, much as I need to.

And, the weather's been crazy.

Like,

seriously whatever happens to planning?

Went to Sunway Pyramid yesterday with my mind set on shopping for new year dresses, ended up home with tomatoes, grapes, bananas, bread, Chipsmore, lettuce, carrot, and persimmons. No, those aren't dresses. Well, there was a reason for that. The crowd was simply crazy. It made me wonder where had all those people been hiding, waiting for the moment when I needed to do my shopping to ambush me. Yeah I'm that paranoid.

Today, I went over to Mid Valley, like seriously wanted to do some no kidding dead serious shopping. (That's the third 'serious' thus far in this post. I'm That Serious.) And shop I did. Three books, and nothing else. Book store wasn't even on my list, for once! After my lunch, I was just thinking that, hey, why not just stop by Borders and check out the new books? And that's what I did, initially. Then one thing led to another, before the ramen was even acquainted with my stomach, I bought myself three Mitch Albom's books in value pack from MPH: Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and For One More Day. Been wanting to buy them for ages anyway. So what tempted me? Well, it's a who actually. My colleague. The day when I was butchering Mr Time setting my new year resolution till the time for home, so was my colleague. Waiting I mean. (He thinks new year resolution is a joke.) So we got talking. This colleague of mine reads Harry Potter too!!! (Pardon me I just HAVE to put in the two extra exclamation marks.) You know the quote by C.S. Lewis -- Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? Thought I was the only one.'? I believe so too. Anyway he recommended Mitch Albom. And you know what? It's year 2011! It means that I have made it to another year alive! It means that there is a reason to celebrate! It means that the promise that I made myself not to buy another book till the end of the year is officially accomplished! I'm a free soul again! Finally, fate (and money) has brought us together, books of Mitch Albom. Josephine recommended his books to me like four or five years back. Well, back then, this type of books just did not appeal to me. (I was just a teenager waiting for the never-coming letter from Hogwarts then.) Now that I'm (Eh, supposed to be) more grown up, it's time to open myself up to various categories of books.

Anyway, they are still having the winter season clothes on display. I'm waiting for spring. When is spring coming though?

First Post for Year 2011

Such a great morning! I slept through the transition of 2010 into 2011 last night. Fireworks or not, my sweet dreams definitely beat them all. =)

So, I was writing down my schedule for today yesterday (No I don't do that a lot.) in the tearoom during my one-hour gap between cases, when my colleague walked pass me and saw my plan. She took an interest to it and suggested that I should pray for a great year ahead before I go jogging. And that's what I did this morning. Woke up ten minutes before seven, brushed my teeth and washed my face, listened to Good Life by One Republic, watched The Secret To You video, and prayed for a great and fantastic 2011. Yeah it's gonna be totally terrific!

Saw an Indian lady walking her golden retriever just now, and her letting the dog pooped in the middle of the road without bothering to clean up, too. Well, not such a good way to start off a new year, lady. Anyway, according to my schedule, I'm supposed to be practising my guitar right now. It's just that sis is still sleeping, so here am I updating my blog.

Back to yesterday, it was quite a great day with not many cases. I was on evening shift from 1200 to 2030 Hours. 4 minor cases in total for my theatre, and the last case finished before 6 o' clock. Took my sweet time preparing the sets needed on Monday, and dang, an hour and a half to go. So I found myself a seat in the tearoom, took out a pen and a piece of paper, and started working on my new year resolutions. Yeah I know it's a bit late, but nothing is ever too late. (I'm just saying that to make it sound good. I don't really know whether there is a thing that's just too late. I suppose there's plenty. Yeah you know the Chinese saying 树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不在？Basically it means that the parents are gone when the child wants to take care of them in return. Gosh what a sad example to give on the start of a new year.) Anyways, I'm still working on my new year resolutions. But I can share some that I've already written down with you guys.

• Exercise three times a week
• Be a total vegan
• Read a book a week
• Spare half an hour on every workday on work related learning
• 49KG!!!
• Update my blog twice a week

That's all for now. Have a great day! =)