Believe it or not, I'm going home today. Yeah. Though I'm a little upset about something, I think I'm looking forward to going home. Nevermind about that.. Let me just backtrack the past days... ___________________________________________________________________
14 Dec
Reached Auckland safe and sound. But, geez, it was almost midnight. Only Mic was there to fetch me. Looking at the time, I was kind of grateful that my aunt and uncle didn't take pains to come down to the airport.
Oh ya. The cool thing about Mic is that he has 3 names. One English, one Malay and one Chinese. CooL! Michael, Mikhail and ZhaoFeng. He only allowed me to call him Michael. Pfft. Big deal. ____________________________________________________________________
15 Dec
Okay. I wasn't feeling so good. Probably it is the jet lag. Justin said erm it could be horrible... as in vomitting and headache. Mine was just a slight fever and a super throbbing headache killer. Haha.
Went to check in at Auckland City Hosp. Had a check up, got admitted and whoola! I'm in. Fever went down after some I-don't-know-what, anti-biotics maybe? Shrugs. The op began around 4pm if I'm not wrong. ______________________________________________________________________
18 Dec
Glad to say that I'm still alive after 'zoning out' for 2days [according to mic]. Haha. Aunt Maria and Uncle Richard came by after work and left after visting hours. Mic came by later. I guess it didn't feel like my bedtime yet so I didn't feel like sleeping. Mic let me use his lappy while he was happily snoring away. Haha.
Fiq and Gabriel happened to be online then. Fiq was erm complaining and updating me with stuff. She's the spoilsport. After all the complaining, she went offline. ZZZ. Chat with G until Mic had to leave for his classes.
It was nice to talk to familiar people when I feel quite lost somehow.
P.S The stars are simply breath-taking. ____________________________________________________________________
19 Dec
Nothing much. Stare at the ceiling all day. Mic brought his fiance along. Her name's Sarah/Sara. I have no idea if there's a 'H' behind. Lol.
Finally I can wheel myself around in the wheelchair. Haha. Not that I mind the nurse helping me out, but I'd rather learn how to do it myself. I do get stuck in the toilet a lot of times. Haha. And I do take a loooooooong time in the bathroom too. Other than that, I use my time to wheel myself to the nursery and see all the babies or I go to the 25th floor to look at the stars.
Somehow, I get the warm fuzzy feeling when I see them. _______________________________________________________________________
21 Dec
Discharged! Along with that wheelchair of mine. I have to come back for a few sessions of therapy though.
Unpack several stuff. I think I'm getting pretty good with the wheelchair. I heard Sarah/Sara 's family was coming over for Christmas dinner. Yeah, finally I get to see and talk to ang mohs up close eh? Haha.
Everyone was already in the Christmas mood. Went shopping [them, not me]. Mic said he wanted to cheer me up so we went to the saloon and got our hair permed. AHHH! It was super funny. I kept on laughing and laughing non-stop. Aunt Maria and Uncle Rich were also laughing their heads off when they saw us. LOL. ________________________________________________________________
22 Dec
Nothing much. Went for therapy. Aunt Maria brought me to the park in the evening before dinner. It has a nice ambience; unlike Spore's parks. Haha.
I noticed everytime after dinner, the whole family would sit down together to have some fruits and talk about their day. I read about this before; it's to erm 'tighten' family bond. Yeah well, of course they would do this sort of thing since Aunt Maria is a counsellor.
Anyway, ever since I was discharged, she kept on asking me of my opinions and feelings about kids. There was one... 'How did you feel when you saw those babies in the nursery?' I went just like ..'How did you know I went to the nursery?' Very 'co-operative' eh?
Oh well. I know it was for my own good but some things I'd rather not share. If I hadn't known better, I'd probably think that she's rubbing salt into my wound =/ ___________________________________________________________________________
23 Dec
After therapy, I went to the park. I just sat there for a few hours looking and seeing everything around me. At night, I would go out to the backyard and look at the stars. Haha. Somehow, it offers me solitude. ___________________________________________________________________________
24 Dec
Went shopping for Christmas after therapy. I couldn't find the penguin that I wanted. All of the penguins there were kind of hard. So I just thought maybe I could shop for it when I get back to Spore. I bought myself a pair of shoes. I prefer the Puma shoes but it was not within my budget.
After all the shopping, me, mic and sarah/sara went to Wendy's to eat. The food there was superb! Haha. I like it there. Mic was happily taking a picture when his camera dropped into the chilli crab soup. EEEEE. Yeah, very good. My pictures inside that camera was all destroyed. WAHAHA!
He was quite upset about it that Sarah/Sara bought him a new camera ON THE SPOT. Woah. ___________________________________________________________________________
25 Dec
Merry Christmas!
Haha. I have no idea how many times I heard that. In the morning, only aunt maria and uncle rich went to church. Lazy mic said he don't go to church since he don't believe that God exists and whatnots. Oh well. I didn't go as well since no one woke me up. Lol. It would be another eye-opener though if I went. Shrugs.
Around mid day, all of us went to central to see the Christmas parade. WHOA. My first time watching a parade live. Lol.
uncle rich was singing christmas carols all day. I wonder if he gets tired of singing it xP i wanted to help aunt maria in the kitchen but my leg wasn't cooperating very well so.. whatever. BUT! I helped her cut up the turkey [or was it a goose?] into pieces after it was roasted. She was like, 'Do you know how to cut it up? the parts near the bones are very tough. Can you handle it?' OF COURSE CAN! Haha. I watched how Jamie Oliver cut it up before. So I learn it all on teevee =D
Chat with Audrey for a while before dinner. Ahh` When was it since I last talk to someone back home? Shrugs. Anyway, we talked about a lot of stuff and there were STILL quite a lot of things we have in common.
Exchanging of gifts were fun. Mine was mainly chocolates. I bet they thought that chocolates can cheer girls [me included, apparently] up. That is so stereotype, imo. In any way, I do appreciate their kind thoughts. Come on, it's the thoughts that counts :D ___________________________________________________________________________
26 Dec
Went ice skating with mic and sarah. Haha. I feel like a noobie, falling numerous times even when mic and sarah were holding my hands. After 2hours of skating, I could balance a little. A little only. They said that I should at least know how to rollerblade. Pft. I remember that I wanted to go rollerblading with Audrey but erm it was a rainy season =/
My butt, hands, knees and legs are sore. ___________________________________________________________________________
27 Dec
Nothing much. Spend almost my whole day+night at the backyard looking at the sky and think. ___________________________________________________________________________
28 Dec
Nothing much again. Did the same thing as yesterday, just that aunt maria talked to me about this and that. ____________________________________________________________________________
29 Dec
Quite upset about something. The list of cheer up-s was helpful (: _____________________________________________________________________________
30 Dec
Sat at the backyard again. This time, I brought along some papers and pen to write some stuff. Collecting thoughts in the head can be a bit too heavy sometimes.
By the end of the day, I shred those papers and dispose of them in the bin. ______________________________________________________________________________
31 Dec
Chat with Justin while I was packing up my stuff.
Oh yea, I like wearing those flair skirts here. Haha. It's nice. But I don't know if I might continue to like wearing them back in Spore. xP _______________________________________________________________________________
P.S Pics later.
FATIN! posted it up.
Thursday, December 13, 2007 ;10:24 PM
A little more packing to do after packing the whole day. Tomorrow's a long day, I bet. So, I guess this is goodbye for now. =]
It's the latest addition to my playlist; When I'm Gone by Click Five. Haha. I happen to chance upon it while I was searching for some other songs. The lyrics is not bad. Thinking of dedicating it to some friends. Hope they'll enjoy it. Well... if they miss it on air, they can just listen it here =]
Nothing interesting today. Just laze around, listening to music and do more reading. Haha. What a 'healthy' lifestyle.
Fever went down already. Wooh! So happy. Haha. But MrDoc said it might just go up again since my immune system is conked up. Ha Ha. My eyes are getting tired very easily, no idea why though. It's like when I'm reading suddenly my eyes feel very painful and hot. It starts to get all watery and it keep flowing down, making me look as if I'm crying. Closing my eyes for a moment or so helps. At times only. =]
HOHOHO! Woke up today with a one bloody red eye and one prefectly normal eye; sore eyes. Thus, I purposely wore my red specs to work to camouflage the sore eye. LoL! Fever is still fluctuating so I still have hope =]
After work, went for mom's birthday dinner. The dishes were super delicious. But again... I couldn't finish the food on my plate. Pfft.
Oh yeah, since I'm leaving on Friday, I told Ms Yong that it would be better if I quit. But she said she would not hear of it. Woah! She'll regard it as a long term leave. So good! Haha. I'm feeling a little happy because I read HanYang a book for the last time upon his request despite the pile of worksheets continuing to stack up, waiting for me to mark (:
I guess I was feeling under the weather but I still went out to shop for mom's birthday present and watch Enchanted. Haha.. I have to admit that movie has its charm and humour. It was worth it with all that laughter. Mom's present was a decorated 'concrete' of some sort with the words carved on it: If all mothers are flowers, I'd pick you. Haha. I just hope she likes it.
By the time I returned, well.... I had a boiling temperature. Not literally though. Haha. Thank god the throat wasn't being a pain in the ass. It still hurts but not as much. Probably I'd have to thank G for praying for me (:
But the hard truth was that... I couldn't make it to the class chalet. Sad. Sad. Sad.
Whatever. MrDoc said if the fever doesn't subside by the time I leave, trip will be postpone. Yadayadayada... That bird flu thing and whatnots. No use complaining ad rambling on about it so I'll get better, no matter what it takes. x)
