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Mood: vulnerable Fact of the day: Eddy's Fat-free ice-cream is indeed fat free and cholesterol free. Even the chocolate flavoured one. Happiness of the day: Eating some nice noodles that my mom used to cook for me. And since I'm the one cooking for myself, I put in all my favourite ingredients! Yummy... Event of the week: Chinese New Year! Today is the 2nd day of the Chinese New Year. Happy New Year to one and all! I had a great start to the New Year. With a sore throat and a headache.
On Tuesday, which was New Year's eve, I had a hectic and busy schedule. After class, my friends and I were running errands, like doing groceries, checking out the restaurant for this saturday's cny dinner, buying things for the event.....before I had to rush home to get ready for my dance class at 5pm. After my dance class, I supervised a rehearsal for one of the items for the dinner this saturday. A few of the girls there were sick, which made me feel quite bad, for putting them through the stress, criticising their dance as they rehearsed. They knew that I was trying to help though, so there wasn't any hard feelings.
I left the rehearsal halfway, as my own group of friends were going to have dinner at our favourite chinese restaurant, to have our own chinese new year reunion dinner. That morning, I had called my dad's handphone, while my family was in malaysia, and the connection was pretty bad, so I couldn't say much to my parents. But I could still hear the commotion in the background. The usual stuff like my dad playing mahjong, my aunts talking, kids squealing and such. I felt horrible then, and the dinner with my friends made me feel a lot better. Here, they're my family, I guess.
And then things just went downhill from then on. Sore throat, coughing, cold, muscle aches....no question about it, I caught the flu bug, and bham, I'm down just like that. Sigh. Yesterday was horrible, struggling to get up to go to class, and finally not going to any class at all, so I can go to the school clinic. The queue was long, and I guess me and my flu wasn't as big a deal as say, the girl with clutches, or the guy who seemed to have too much mucus to even speak properly. I didn't even get to see the doctor till just less than 2 hours after I got to the clinic.
Anyway, I decided to not go to work and also skip my class today, to just sit at home and rest. Maybe I sound like a lazy bum, but I think I really need this - it's probably my body's way of telling me I need to rest. Usually I don't fall sick so damn easily. Not this sick anyway. I couldn't even sleep last night, because I couldn't breathe. It was either I breathe through my disgusting blocked nose and hence suffocate in my sleep, or I breathe through my mouth which eventually irritated my throated further and caused more pain. I woke up so many times, just to drink water, and to clear my nose. Horrible horrible night. I will have to go back to classes tomorrow, so I really hope I don't have to suffer tonight again. In the mean time, think I'm gonna try and take a nap now. I still have a dance class today, but I don't think I'm going after all. My instructor wouldn't appreciate me infecting the rest of the class I'm sure.
At least I can still type, so I can email all my friends and whine. And wish them happy new year too.
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