Been Rotting For The Past 1 Week

Have been on leave for 1 week already. That's how long I've been rotting at home. Sleeping away most of my time, I think I'm really in need for some activities. Becoz of that, I haven't got any updates about myself. But I've got some pictures of Ton Ton.

Sat hunched over

Where are your eyes boy?

Cocked his head

:P

Heh heh heh

Some Cute (& Disgusting) Pictures

Jeff & I went to Isabelle's push cart yesterday at North Point. Here are some of our purchases, excluding a brown piggy collar we got for him.

Ton Ton playing with the hanger

Ton Ton in his "Kit Kat" t-shirt!

Ton Ton in this Hawaiian look alike shirt

Wasps that I killed during my night shift with insecticide (Yucks!)

A closer look (Double yucks!!)

Sleepless

It's coming to 5 am in the morning & is my last night for the week. Although I can sleep during the night provided nobody came to the clinic, I haven't been sleeping well. On my 1st night on Sunday, a student rang the doorbell at 12.30 am to take his own medicine. (It's a policy that they can't bring the medicine back to the boarding house & they have to come to the clinic to take the medicine.) I had just fallen asleep after tossing & turning since 11 pm. After that, I couldn't fall back asleep. Just as I was feeling drowsy & on the verge of falling asleep, the doorbell rang again at 3 am. 3 students begged me to let them watch the world cup coz the TV in the boarding house is spoilt. They left at 5 am & finally I could sleep.

The same thing happened for the next 2 nights but on different timings. Tonight, I had 2 students resting in the clinic. 1 of them is having fever. Temperature taking is 4 hourly. The last reading for the day is 12mn. Though it's not required that I take in the middle of the night, his temperature is 38.4C at 12mn. I always recheck between 3 to 4 am becoz who knows what will happen if I wait till 7 am? They would have thrown a febrile seizure if left unchecked. True enough, his temperature at 3.30 am was 39.0C. I gave him another 2 panadol, last taken just before 9 pm.

These students seem to have developed a resistance to panadol. It just doesn't work anymore. I remember just 1 or 2 mths back, a student had a similar illness - flu, cough, etc. But his temperature remained high even with 2 tabs of panadol taken 6 hourly. He went to his own GP & was given voltaren which is considered quite a strong drug. It effectively kept his temperature down. Now this new boy's temperature has never gone below 38.0C the whole day despite taking his panadol strictly. I wonder what's making them so sick.

I reached the clinic at 7 pm. & becoz lately there've been lots of dead wasps in the morning by the time I open up at 7 am, I have this habit of looking up at the ceiling. The pest busters had just removed a nest from the ceiling right outside the clinic 2 weeks ago. But there wasn't anything. 9.30 pm, a teacher came in & told me that there were lots of wasps outside the clinic. I went to look. True enough! After he left, I took the insecticide & began spraying. I managed to kill most of them. They took a long time to die, buzzing around on the floor. The bbbzzzz bbbzzzz sound the wings made made my hair stand on end. Literally! I had goosebumps on my arms & I quickly retreated back into the clinic & locked the door.

I slept from 1 to 3 am just now. But after checking on the boy, I find myself unable to sleep. Partly becoz I'm so hungry... I guess it's also becoz I took a nap of 6 hours in the day time. I just couldn't help myself. I fell asleep at 10 am & I briefly recalled someone trying to wake me up but I just couldn't open my eyes. Finally I managed to drag myself out of bed at 4 pm & that's only becoz I have to cook for Ton Ton & I need to leave my house by 6 pm to come to work. My mom told me that the whole time I was sleeping, Ton Ton laid down right outside my room against the door & refused to budge.

I'll be going on leave for the whole of summer holidays starting from next Monday to mid Aug. I suspect that I'll be bored to death at home. So I'm planning to head down to the CC & see if they have any courses that I can join. I'm thinking of cycling down since it's so near but the tires are flat from lack of use & I really hate pumping tires... I'm gonna go lie down for a while till it's time to open up the clinic. Hopefully I'm able to sleep this time round.

I'M SO FURIOUS!!!

I should start with the day before (Friday). I was woken up in the wee hours by stomach ache. I had diarrhea. But I can't afford not to go to work. So I turned up at work, took some medicine & continue through the day. Though I had no more bouts of diarrhea, I had to battle with nausea throughout the day. Jeff went to Orchard at that Rolex building which laid the path for today's outcome, which of course, I didn't know at that time. By the time 7.30 pm came around, I was really tired & had body aches. I was supposed to meet some SPC members in Lot 1 but I didn't go. Got home around 8+ pm & slept by 9 pm.

I felt much better when I woke up at 11 am this morning. It was the 10th of June, just 1 month short of our 3rd year anniversary. We went to Marina Sq & walked around before coming to work. Jeff went to play LAN game with his friends. I was in such good mood having enjoyed my day. I told him to go home early as he had to work morning shift tomorrow.

12.30 am the doorbell rang, waking me from sleep. Student wanted to take medicine. After he left, I realised that Jeff's not home yet. So I called him & he said he's talking to a friend & will call me back. 12.50 am he finally called. & he told me the truth.

The 'talk' he went to in Orchard on Friday evening was actually a scam. It was supposed to be from 6.45 pm to 7.45 pm. I was wondering how come he was still there at 9.30 pm when I called him. So he told me that it was actually a "Multi Level Marketing" (MLM) talk. I told him on the spot NOT to join. The situation was like this. On Wed, he received a call saying that he won a 8D 7N trip to Bangkok but he had to go down on Friday. That day itself I already told him that it couldn't be true. Coz if you never enter into any lucky draw, how can you win anything? I told him not to go but he said no harm listening to what they have to say.

Friday evening 9.30 pm, he sounded really excited saying that it's a scheme that you can get hotel rooms all over the world at low rates. You earn commision by getting friends/relatives to book the hotel rooms, charge them the normal rate while you get the room for them at the discounted rate. I should have been more careful & more suspicious. I told him right away that they are NOT to be trusted. They already broke the most important rule to me. HONESTY! They lied that he won a holiday trip to get him to go there when in reality, they're trying to get him to sign up. The membership is $500 straight off & have to pay a certain amount per month to maintain the membership. I told him in NO way is he to join. We hang up shortly.

12.50 am just now. After chatting with his friend, he finally called me back & told me the truth. He paid a deposit with the people in the Rolex building. He was discussing this with a friend who had joined a MLM company before. The friend never did earn money coz he never had the time to commit into selling the products. I've never been so pissed off in my life. No matter what hardcore selling tactics they use, if you refused to give them the money, what can they do? Are they holding you at gunpoint?

Just earlier today Jeff was telling me that he's broke for this month. To think I felt sorry for him & told him that if there's anything he wants to get for the GSS, I'll get it for him. Can't he understand simple English? I told him NO, NO, NO! He decided to cancel after listening to his friend side of the story. His friend said that it'll work but only if you have time to invest in it. What now? Am I a feeble minded woman whose words & advice are nothing but bullshit? He told me that he's going to cancel & they will refund the money. Well, good luck to him getting the money back then! He didn't exactly lie but he did hid the truth from me. I'm so furious! I'm so upset! I'm so hurt! STUPID JEFFREY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ton Ton's Post

Finally! My own post! Today mommy is not working so she said she will cook for me as I've finished eating the last serving of Natural Pooch yesterday evening. I was so happy! I waited patiently while mommy prepare the ingredients & prepare the steamer.

1st dish to go into the steamer is the egg with meat. Then she steamed fish with tomato & parsley but she said it's for herself. :( Lastly, she steamed the minced pork for dinner tonight. I could hardly wait when I saw mommy scooping the egg with meat into my bowl. Just as she was about to give it to me, she realised she forgot something. She forgot to cook the rice! I want my lunch! Where's my lunch?!! Absent minded mommy!

So no choice but to wait again. The brown rice took 45 mins to be cooked. Finally it was ready! Yum yum! I ate until the rice was all over the place. Can't be helped lah. The rice keeps sticking to my beard mah. Then when I lift up my head sure drop everywhere.

Now I must go disturb granny in the kitchen liao. Till next time!

A Kind Of Restlessness Surrounds

I've been feeling a bit out of sort for the whole day today. Nothing is wrong. It's like any other day. I showered Ton Ton in the late morning, watched a bit of my VCDs & dozed off before waking up to come to work. I wouldn't say monotony is no good. There must be many others out there wishing for a bit of routine in their hectic life. Perhaps I just lack a bit of purpose in my life.

I guess it's also becoz of the recent fall out with Jeff's mom. Although I wasn't actively involved in their family tiff, I was the reason that triggered it off. Honestly speaking, I can't imagine being family with such a difficult person. Jeff's stuck in the middle & hence I've adopted the policy of not going over to his house anymore anytime soon. It greatly restricts chances of us meeting coz I work long hours & by the time I get home, either he's going off to work, or already at work & we never have off days together. It makes me have doubts about our upcoming ROM. I don't like her & the way she does things & I'm sure it goes both ways. For Jeff's sake I've been putting in so much effort for the past 3 years but how much more can I do? Jeff agrees that this time the fault isn't with me. But it doesn't change anything.

I really should find something to keep myself occupied other than sleeping the day away. I feel like I'm rotting amidst working & at home. Hopefully the upcoming school holidays which is in 2 weeks will give me the reprieve I need whereby I work only 4 hours a day.

A Way Overdued Meet Up

The last time I met Gen was during her ROM in Nov last year. The last time I meet Fen was even longer, almost 2 years ago before she left for Australia for her degree. She has been back since end of Nov but we always have problems getting the same off days. We finally managed to meet up yesterday night for steamboat at Gen's new house. It was nice to meet & catch up. We updated each other on who has gotten married in our tutorial group, ran into who in the streets, who's no longer in nursing, etc. I'm the only 1 who has not met anyone from nursing for the past few years. It's for the best I guess. If I run into Benny in the streets I'll probably die from embarassment.

By the time I got home it was almost 2 am. Ton Ton was excited to see me & I let him out of the playpen. He hopped along with me while I remove the panel of playpen. He followed me back to my room but then turn & went back into the kitchen. I followed behind & saw him peeing on the tray. He must have known that I was bringing him into my room to sleep & went to pee 1st! So no more accidents this morning. :D

Aww Shucks!

I slept eariler than usual last night. I usually sleep around 12mn or so. But I was tired yesterday & I went to bed at 10 pm, bringing Ton Ton into my room with me. I woke up at 5.05 am to the sound of water splashing! I jumped up & out of bed. True enough, Ton Ton was peeing right in front of my bedroom door. & a huge puddle it was! Immediately I opened my room & he went out to where the urine tray is & peed the rest out.

I left him in the living room while I went back to sleep coz he didn't want to go back in. 6 am, my alarm went off. I brought out the panel of playpen that I use to section my room (coz there's a jigsaw puzzle on the floor) like I always do. Before I leave for work, I'll always put him back into the playpen as I don't want him chewing on forbidden items while my mom is still sleeping. This morning, as I brought out the playpen, Ton Ton followed me into the kitchen. He guai guai went into the playpen & sat down while I attach the panel to the other 3 panels. He has never done that before. He dislikes going into the playpen & we always have to chase after him. Maybe he felt that he did something wrong. Haha. But it's my fault & I should have brought him out in the middle of the night.

Maybe he produced more urine in the air con room like humans do! When I'm doing night shift, he sleeps in the playpen as my parents don't want him to climb onto their bed which is low down on the floor. He's put in by 11 pm & he doesn't pee until after breakfast at 8 am. Oh well, I just got to be more careful next time when turning in early.