en route; 
incidents of the days after recovery:
THURRRSDAY.
#1 work! overlapped a sick kid on my first day back to work after 2 days of MC. whoopee.
#2 clinic! my supervisor probably thought i was sick or unprepared because i've been sick, so she told me to let my senior do most of the work &only work if requested or if necessary. (either that, or she didnt really trust me in front of the consultant hahahaha)
#3 WORK ENDED AT 5PM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY WORKING LIFE. HOORAYYY
#4 dinner! with zhen, yx &jeremy at Yoshimaru Ramen Bar <3
#5 FROLICK. MY FIRST SWEET TREAT AFTER FOUR WEEKS OF SUFFERING. mental note: i am definitely addicted to yoghurt. sogurt, frolick &sour sally please.
#6 slumming at the holland v pepsi coffeeshop, while the boys had beer &i had teh-o bing &yx's awesome ipad. angry birds always works best on the big screen, except angry birds RIO is annoying, because the monkeys don't seem to die, and can fall from great heights but still live to tell the tale &laugh in your face. sluts. on a crazier note, yx also showed us a video on grannies yesterday, and i almost died. i quote from zhen, "WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN." (btw, if anyone wants to know, go youtube 'Satisfaction Granny'. I HOLD ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS)
FRYDAYYY.
#1 training day! new staff training + all staff training.
#2 VANILLA LATTE FTW. my first coffee after FOUR WEEKS OF SUFFERING. muahahaha. thanks to jinghow for driving us out to guthrie house. now, if only there was someway that Starbucks could replace Coffee Bean at Guthrie. life would be more complete that way.
#3 WORK ENDED AT 5PM FOR THE SECOND TIME IN MY WORKING LIFE. HOORAYYY FOR THE SECOND TIME
#4 played wii while waiting for everyone else to finish their discussions. it's official: I CANNOT PLAY WII SPORTS RESORT. anyone who wants a self-esteem/confidence boost can call me, because somehow, I CAN NEVER WIN. zzzz
#5 company bbq! (: a nice get together with my new colleagues at my mentor's place, and SHE HAS THE MOST ADORABLE 5 MONTH OLD BABY EVER. thank goodness i also brought a change of shorts, or i would have died of a heatstroke in front of the grill.
3rd month of work starting soon! life's not going to be this good for long,
and i foresee it starting on monday, thanks to a clinic for one of my new kids. zzzz.
okay sleep beckons.
guuuuudnaight world. tired &sad.
i'm just going to focus on tmr's clinic.
---- last day on MC,
and thankfully, i'm feeling a lot better! hopefully i'd be able to sleep tonight, so going into work tomorrow would be less taxing or something. okay maybe not. i have another clinic tmr, which is quite stressful zzzzz
on a lighter note,
i got a new cover to make me feel EVEN better :P
whoohoo. gmarket is awesome :P
plus, the very awesome sab &sean came by last night with tau huey &soya bean drinks to make me happier (: thank God for such good friends. haha.
off to watch more running man!
laughter is truly one of the best medicine (shopping included) :P so. tired.
why. do. i. let. things. like. this. happen.
and i'm talking like a true blue asthmatic. greeeat. grrr.
in a freaking bad mood now, and i need to whine my ass off.
it's coming on to the 4th week that i'm sick,
and i'm not getting any better. no amount of medicine, herbal tea or other crazy ass methods are working,
and no matter how early i head to bed, i can't fall asleep until 3-4am in the morning, thanks to coughing.
it feels like there's a freaking swordfish wedged in my throat, and i can't cough the damn thing up.
omg.
f'k this. home, and on MC again.
i couldnt sleep till 2plus in the morning, thanks to my coughing, and this really sucked, because my room faces the main road, &my windows were open, &somehow, there were a million cars going past at 2am in the morning. how does that work?! zzzz thank goodness there wasnt a soccer match going on at the same time, or i really wouldnt have been able to sleep. roars. so anyway, i ended up shutting the windows &switching on the aircon all over again.
(P.S. when i managed to fall asleep last night, i dreamt that i was trying to find POKEMON KEYCHAINS at IKEA HAHAHAHA sorry i know it's very random, but i managed to find them LOLOL)
anyway, since i've been sick, i've been googling &surfing around the net, and my curious mind has found some things:
#1 i read this article on Mind Your Body (or was it Mind &Body..?) yesterday, which said something like sneezing could kill you, because you can burst a brain vessel or something, and i started thinking if coughing could do the same, which scared the shit out of me, because i've already coughed till i've thrown up twice and twice more yesterday, so what happens next?!!?!
BUT NO. i've checked, and it can't happen, so i'm quite safe. HAHA. (YES LA VERY PARANOID I'M SORRY)
#2 i found this very awesome list on How to Stock a Home Bar and now i really want to stock my own Home Bar, even though i'm dying at home. alternatively, i could always just ask zhen to please open up his home to me hehehehehehehehehehehe.
okay maybe not.
#3 sab mentioned to me earlier that she drank Jagermeister when she was not feeling well, and that she felt better after that, and google tells me that JAGERMEISTER ORIGINATED FROM GERMANY AS A COUGH SYRUP. hahahaha. omg so awesome.
but NO, i dont think i'm going to take the risk &try taking it to cure my cough. clinic week is next week, &if it doesn't work, i might end up writing notes on a whiteboard &flashing it to the clinicians instead :S
on a not to happy note,
even though i'm on MC, i still need to head into work for a short while to pass my colleagues my hard drive.
not complaining much though. they're nice enough to take on a craaaazy amount of duties while i'm sick, and because some of them are seniors &going through their second clinic. i don't know if they'd ever see this, but THANK YOUUUUU AWESOME TEAMMATES (i.e. jesselyn, renee, aveline). you guys are really awesome.
okay. lunch calls <3 everyday i'm sufferin';
third week that i'm sick,
and i really feel like dying. i can't stop coughing, &it sucks, cos i can't really sleep either.
two nights ago, i tried to sleep, and went into my room at 11pm. i ended up coughing until i miraculously fell asleep at 1.45am. and i had to wake at 6.45am for work. yay me. on an even sadder note, i threw up twice during work. my kid was the happiest though. he got access to the ENTIRE BOX of his snacks, though i usually only give him half of the box. thank goodness for awesome colleagues though. clinic's next week, but i have fellow colleagues on the same kid who are asking me to take MC to get better (: thank goodness for such awesome colleagues (:
anyway, i went for Macbeth yesterday, which was pretty awesome (:
yay.
the wonderful michelle lim also went to the trouble to go early to get good seats for us, bought snacks, and bought sushi for dinner! (: if not for her, sab &i would've starved &would've been sitting WAAAAAYYY at the back. hahaha. and bright was really good too, even though sab &i had to wiki the plot of Macbeth :P hahaha.
owells. time for dinner!
*COUUUGGHS* 
so i spent my monday at home resting,
and managed to watch some House, the ending of Burlesque (because didi didnt catch it), Bring it On (Fight to the Finish), The A-Team, and Running Man, which was hilarious.
i also went to see the doc, who gave me my MC, along with four other types of medication, which really sucks cos i hate taking medication. and it doesn't seem to be working cos i'm feeling so crazily bad. alternatively, it could be working so well that it's forcing me to cough out everything asap, which is why i'm feeling so shitty now. on a lighter note, if laughter really is the best medicine, perhaps watching a lot of Running Man would help me laugh till my voice comes back. and btw, laughing when you have a sore throat doesn't really help much, because you keep needing to laugh, but instead of the natural high-pitched laughter that usually escapes (for girls, anyway), mine was raspy &hollow. i felt like i was bellowing 'HA_HA" instead of 'HAHAHA', the blank representing the empty space which escapes from my throat when i try to laugh. UGH THIS SUCKS. being sick sucks.
p.s. being sick &needing to go for driving sucks as well. especially when you cant do U-Turns, and your instructor chooses the day you're feeling unwell to make you do loops around an area &u-turns at areas that seem hard to exit from.
on a lighter note,
today's a public holiday (HAPPY VESAK EVERYONE), so i get to stay home to rest again. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME BE WELL BY TMR OR WEDNESDAY MORNING, if not i wont know how i'm gonna head into work, and i seriously do NOT wish to go take another MC. it's tiring to even travel down to the docs, and i hate taking meds. zzzz.
on a not-so-light note,
i really need to find out what other things to do with my life.
i dont have time for my cameras, i hardly have time to bake (and even if i did, i cant bake, cos everyone who eats my stuff would fall ill &die thanks to this horrible seemingly never-ending flu/cough), and i no longer play sports. GREEEAAAT. i either need to start managing my time properly, or finding a new hobby that supposedly fits, because i will NOT let my life revolve around work. BLARRGHH.
okay.
rasputin needs to sleep now. it's 2am. timeline.
6am: wakes up. voice check one. voice check two. throat feels okay. HOORAY! goes back to sleep.
7am: wakes up with alarm. voice check one. voice check two. all seems good. shower time!
7.15am: brushes teeth. gargles with Pearlie-White Chlor-Rinse. voice check one. coughs like crazy. voice check two. seems okay.
7.20am: cough seems to be back. almost pukes from coughing too hard. voice check one. voice check two. voice seems raspy. goes out and tries to pick work clothes.
7.25am: my name is now RASPUTIN. voice check one. voice check two. voice is now the same as yesterday's husky, raspy not-so-goodness.
7.27am: RASPUTIN calls into work &goes on MC. RASPUTIN also msges supervisors and parents.
7.35am: sits in front of computer &stares at bed behind. RASPUTIN IS TOO AWAKE TO GO BACK TO SLEEP KNSFML
8.01am: time check. voice check one. voice check two. gets reply from understanding supervisors &parents and feels happy. decides to stop voice checking as it seems to be making things worse. decides to go to the kitchen to get some breakfast.
RASPUTIN OUT. friday the 13th!
came &went quickly. i got slapped by one of my kids 3 times, and scratched twice (by the same kid), but i had an awesome mentor/mentee dinner after work (: and i managed to meet my girls at TGIF for awhile. hoho. it was quite apt to be there, especially since it was friday :P wahaha.
saturday the 14th!
happy birthday didi! (:
my lovely cousin turned 19 years old <3 hoho.
spent saturday with zhen, shopping for didi's present :D got him a super awesome pacman laptop case (i waaaaant one for myself omg), a card which says "your farts hospitalize small children", &a stack of voodoo memopads for fun :P hahaha. went to la villa for his birthday dinner, after which i headed to zhen's place to the beer gathering! it was so fun to see all the different beers there, but i couldnt drink any cos i truly sounded like darth vader :( super sad.
sunday the 15th!
stayed home to rest, &started sounding less like darth vader (thank goodness) :P haha.
i need to recover by tomorrow :( mom gave me some watermelon powder &it's disgusting, but it makes my throat better, so yay.
owells. wish me luck feeling better by tmr!
if not i wont be able to go for sessions zzzzz damn sian WHY AM I STILL SICK ZZZZZ
goodnight world. zzzz.
I AM STILL SICK CAN YOU BELIEVE IT.
the germs are definitely still bouncing around the freaking room.
flu, followed by cough, then partial recovery, which made me as happy as a bird, then all of a sudden, the stupid flu bug's back. kill me now. this is what happens when all sorts of sicknesses hit your workplace. zzzzz
on a not so sad note,
i spent the best 99 cents of my life: i bought angry birds. muahahahaha.
okay. shower time.
i wish i couuuuld sleep in everyday :( heh.
took leave on thursday, cos i really felt like dying.
woke up at 7am &sneezed AT LEAST 7 times &coughed till i thought i would either die or my lungs would come up/out through my throat, so i went on MC. haha. it was a really good rest day though! i got sufficient sleep, got my meds &treated myself to burlesque on the new media box my family recently got. muahaha.
went back to work on friday, &myboy cooked me jiaozhis for dinner, and he decorated a cupcake for me! :D
A for adeline &the rabbit for the lop-eared rabbit that we saw at a pet shop a few days back :P
saturday! voting at henry park primary in the morning,
then town with myboy :D finally getting a chance to see him slightly more often cos he has finally finished exams! yay :D
we went for far east chicken rice, mother's day shopping &Thor. hoho. the new Lido cinema is suuuuper upgraded and new and what not, but the whole place has lost it's rustic feel. and they seem to butter their popcorn before caramelizing them or salting them, so it tastes abit funny. but that's just me. plus. peperoni's for dinner with the family, followed by camping at home by the TV for the sgelection results! hoho. ended up sleeping at 2am &needing to wake up at about 5.30am. WIN.
sunday!
church, which was relatively emptier thanks to the elections, mother's day lunch at Raffles Town Club, then home sweet home! (: didi was lazy, so we stayed home to watch the social network. haha. everyone fell asleep after that, so i spent the time watching House MD, once again on the very awesome new media box at home. HOHO. THE MEDIA BOX IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND.
on a not so light note,
i'm still sick,
and my heart was racing suuuuper fast just now for no reason, leading me to believe that i could really be potentially schizophrenic. HAHA. nah just kidding.
PLUS. HOW COME ALL THOSE STUDENTS &KIDS HAVE OFF IN LIEU THANKS TO ELECTIONS ON SATURDAY,
BUT I STILL HAVE TO GO TO WORK?! ZZZZZZZ
life is not fair. s.i.c.k.
been sick since saturday, but it doesnt seem to be getting better.
in fact, i wake up coughing until i feel like puking, and the feeling really sucks. zzzz. it's really hard to get well when you're working in a clinic &the kids get sick. i'm sick, &my kids are sick, so all our germs are just bouncing off each other -.- considering not heading to work tmr, though i really think i need the practice :S
on another note, I HAVE CONFORMED TO SOCIETAL NORMS &HAVE JOINED THE RANKS OF BEING AN IPHONE USER MUAHAHAHA.
the only funny thing is my blackberry has this awesome alarm function, so even though the phone was switched off (because i'm no longer using the phone), my blackberry alarm rang at 6.45 this morning. well done. zzzz
okay.
work calls.
HOW COME SO MUCH PAPERWORK OMGGGG 
