Friday, February 22, 2008

huat ah!!! happy new year . happy yuan xiao. happy tang yuan festival.
ydae marked the end of the cny celebrations in china and tt also meant.
tmd. we haven finished our firecrackers and we dont have a chance to lit them off ler.
rawr.
been a week since i last updated.
was busy fighting some monsters arnd.
the feverzilla.laosaiminator and the eyeofvomittingron.
will die one lah.
damn bad feeling to fall sick in some foreign land.
u'll get that.
独在异乡kinda feeling and it aint good ler.
u suddenly miss everything back home.
even that gp opposite my house whom i complained so much about the waiting time.
or tt spastic YIH dr victor loh, who everytime asks if im a mixed and from dragonboat without fail.

falling ill makes u miss home.
darn.
u noe tt kinda.
you are ill and you still have family around to take care of you.
mum cooks porridge and nags u to sleep instead of studying for tomorrow's test.
even if the gp medicine doesnt work. there is still a hospital or specialist clinic to fall back on, you just have to pay more.
friends will pop surprised at ur doorstep in hall, asking how u are.even offering to cook and dabao dinner so that u dont have to go down.
buddies who wud so willingly skip lectures just to take the bus down yih with you.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

but down in a foreign land,
u get.
no gp clinics.
its either.
a) dispensary where u try to act doctor urself and self-prescribe some medicine for u.
b) expat hospital that costs averagely 800rmb per visit.
c) traditional chinese hospitals that gives u a potty to poopoo whenever you tell them you're having diarrhoea. they then inspect ur poopoo and give u medicine according to your poopoos.
d) associate hospitals linked to universities where u get student-medical students tending to you or maybe graduates if you're heng.
ahhhhhhhhh.
thats china healthcare for you.

thank god mum doesnt really understand english and would most probably misunderstand a blog as a block of flats or block of wood or maybe she might just go "simi block! wa di block sar li buey leh!". phewww. knowing im sick in a foreign land would most likely throw her in a state of paranoia and might even start ringing up professors or my friends to keep me in check. yes . i suppose that's a motherly instinct. : ).

allright allright.
adventures of zyy.

tueday night after gym and dinner with weihan, zyy started feeling bad around 11+ while working.decided to call it a day. popped 2 panadols and slept. thinking its just . too heaty and im fevering arnd.
latenight, he started feeling more weird. and yes. uncontrollably puked at 3am 5am 7am.the 3 am puke made zyy move his stuffs out to the living room and sleep on the sofa. zyy was pretty scared of puking all over ckm. den its really huat ah! for him le.

wed morning. woke up feeling just as bad. but decided to go to work as i had a presentation to rush. huat ah. dont like to skip work ler. later office colleagues think i chao geng how. grabbed two sandwiches for bfast and lunch as i didnt want to eat out. comeon. u can hardly find un-oily food here.i think my mum will jianfei here coz everything's cooked with gallons of oil and she'll most likely freak out seeing how fatty meat is here. muahahha. anyway. didnt really had the appetite to eat bfast. and lunchtime came.i swear this is the worst part of the two days. huat ah!.feeling feverish all over and totally dont feel like eating. kao.but still. to fill my stomach and prevent some gastric juices from corroding zyy. stuffed a sandwich down and rested. colleagues came back seeing how jialat ive gotten and they well. forced me into taking leave. saying they dont want to see me. wah lau eh. they even forced packed everything for me. and threw me into a cab. telling the cabbie the nearby hospital to send me to.i was . stunned. lol. maybe tts what happens when ur boss is in singapore and aint arnd. muahaha.

reached the hospital queued up. yada yada here . yada yada there. waited almost 40 places to my turn. saw the doctor and ooo. have i mentioned. they still use the old thermometer here! u noe those mercury-glass ones that u put under ur tongue (without any sieves)!! ahaha. yes. they use that here. and just as i was wondering what they use to sterilise the thermometer. i was pretty sure they simply dipped it in water and wiped it clean. howwwww wonderful. :). allright.saw the doctor.fever 40 deg.continual laosai + vomit.and the doctor cudnt tell me whether its a fever-induced-laosai or laosai-induced-fever. so gave me some medicine and told me to come back if im not well after 3 days. huat ah. what a doctor. i think rodney can do a better job lor. wah lau eh.

okayy. done with the hospital. and dragged myself back home. huat ah!.zyy dies at home ,ignoring all the calls he received from ckm.stwh and weiwei. huat ah.sleep more important so i didnt really care. muahahah.yuppp.

night came. wanted to cook some porridge and weiwei actually offered to cook maggie porridge.woahhhhhhhh.i swear that felt like mum appearing in front of me. muaahahah.i am seriously in need of some 母爱 here man.muahahah. well. got better the next day tummy felt just as bad. so decided to rest at home. or rather. work from home ler.
huat ah!. yesss.one day passed and zyy's as fit as a dick now. woohooo. tummy still feels weird from ydae's chaofan. but at least i aint vomitting into the bailey jug anymore. muahahah : )

here's just a checklist of what to do when ur overseas friend is sick
1.warm water over the tummy helped.

2.phone calls from housemates helped alot.
(ernest!! i waive the juejiaoness for u hor! 3 months validity! for being the first to call me. muahahaha)

3.phonecalls and smses from singapore helped alot when u consider those dudes have to pay so much extra for a simple sms/ phonecall. gan dong. :)

4.motherly or rather fake motherly love helped. (i still think u behave quite like a mum. lol)

5. a gay friend like stwh who calls every now and then because his company line is free is pretty helpful.

6. someone to talk u to sleep coz u have been sleeping all day and cant possibly sleep at night.

7. dont need to wash dishes! muahaha. life's so easy when u have gaylord housemates like stwh who banned me from washing the dishes after the porridge.

muahaha. still got quite a few lah. but i lazy to type down. so ill just pass.

sorry! not much pictures here as i havent been going out lately! this entry is getting long so i suppose ill bitch about my disgusting hair some other day :)).

and stwh. u simply had to do this right. kao.

u bitch. thats worth 2 tokens for one week.
posted by deschutz. on 2/22/2008 10:37:00 AM