September 19th, 2009
3:31 pm
General
I admit, I’ve been thoroughly lazy lately. Ever since I fell sick, everything too a back burner and the most important thing was for me to get well again. While I was on the mend I was back at work but still taking things a bit easy as I was still coughing like crazy.
So here’s the 411 on my situation (always wanted to say that, teehee :)):
I was diagnosed with asthmatic bronchitis on 090909 by another doctor. He also said that my nose was caused by the Sudafed the other doctor prescribed. Also, he put me on 2 more course of antibiotics and added another antibiotic to my regime. He told me the other doctor shouldn’t have prescribed me with the Symbicort puffer as it contains steroid but should have put me on Ventolin instead as I was wheezing quite badly. I have residual wheezing but have stopped the inhaler as steroids scare the crap out of me. Which reminds me, the antibiotics messed up my digestive system (normal side effect) so as a result I have 2 ulcers in my mouth and my eating habits are somewhat varied.
Its been a month to the day since I got sick and I have been so out of whack that I have not gone back to my workaholic habits. It feels so strange to sit and read a book for hours at night just so I don’t have to strain myself thinking and worrying about things.
I’ve picked up the pace today: cleaned my room and sorted out some documents that had to be filed and put away, cleared my clothes as it was in a pile on the floor, done some notes for work and eaten lunch.
I’ve gotta modify my skirt for my GM at work since its a 50s themed night. Yes, my company is funky like that 
So I’ve bought a skirt for $9.25 at my local Good Sammy’s, some black cloth for the poodle design and a dish cloth like thing for the scarf. For obvious reasons I won’t post pictures of my outfit up just yet as the meeting is on Thursday. Wanna get the full effect of the outfit 
Well I guess that’s all I have for the time being as I’m arming myself with some safety pins and needles to fix the skirt. Its a size 18 but I have to modify it to fit me (size 10/12). So I sure hope I don’t poke an eye out while doing this
Went to the doctor again this week for the 3rd time in 2 weeks. She prescribed me an inhaler, Senega Ammonia (the vilest form of medicine known to man, but also the cheapest and most effective) and more Sudafed as I was coughing. What I didn’t know was the fact that I was also wheezing which made breathing a whole lot harder as I was coughing while I was trying to get oxygen into my lungs. As soon as I hit cold pockets of air, my coughing fits begin and I need to go to warmer areas so that I don’t wheeze.
She also told me the cough will last for about a month or so. I just needed to get all the phlegm out so that I’m not chesty anymore.
She also said, “I think you had the swine flu” -.-
Thanks for letting me know a week after I had got it. I think I could have also diagnosed myself from the symptoms I was displaying: fever, cough, runny nose, body aches and nausea. Good thing is, now I’m immune to it. Let’s just hope the virus doesn’t mutate and I’m all good
September 1st, 2009
9:37 pm
General
Well hello all. I’m typing now after being in bed for a week with a very bad case of the flu. Well that and hives and ear infection as well. If I didn’t tell you, you wouldn’t believe me.
It started with a very mild sore throat and cough on Saturday, which developed a bit more on Sunday. I didn’t think too much of it, since it was a very mild case and I had dosed up on echinacea and fish oil and multivitamins on Saturday and Sunday. They usually work well to curb anything that comes on. But it didn’t this time.
I woke up on Monday morning with a slight case of the chills and the cough and sore throat was a bit worse. I felt quite rotten and didn’t want to go into work but knew at 6 am, there wouldn’t be anybody awake that I could call to get them to see a client of mine at 7.15am. I sent out an e-mail and sorted out that I’d still go in for about 2 hours or so and go home after that.
Went home at about 11am and slept. And slept.
Woke up about 6pm and realised I have a bad case of hives. As in BAD case. My whole stomach area plus the back was raised with lumps. It spread so much that it just became one huge lump. So I decided to take a shower. Cold shower in an effort to try and cool down. It helps a bit, but it was itching like crazy and I just had to sleep it off and not wrap myself in a blanket, lest I over heat again.
So back to bed I went and woke up the next morning with a fever and a cold. Went to the doctor, who gave me 3 days off work and told me to take cold and flu tablets. Take them I did.
Then came Wednesday. Then came the day where I blew my nose and that was when thee whole build up of pressure in the nose happens during the cold. You know, the one where you blow your nose and then your ear feels blocked? That’s the one I had. That night came the slight fever again and the nausea. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt like I was about to puke. Nearly ran to the toilet a couple of times, but thankfully I didn’t need to puke.
Thursday was pretty much the same, though I had the nausea a few times throughout the day. By today, my butt was starting to hurt from sitting in bed nearly the whole day. I was developing bed sores out of all things as well. Gah.
So Friday came and then I trooped off to the doctor yet again as I needed another MC. Clearly I wasn’t going to go into work with my condition like that. That was when she discovered that I’ve got an ear infection on top of it. So clearly fluid my my lungs/sinus went into my ear. Don’t ask me how, I wouldn’t know the mechanics of it but yes fluid got into my ear and got infection. So she put me on antibiotics. Bloody hell, it cost $20.95 for 5 days worth of antibiotics. Talk about expensive drugs. The doctor also stopped the cold and flu tablets and asked me to take Sudafed.
Saturday and Sunday were a blur as I went out to the pharmacist to get some cough medication and went to Kongs to get Pei Pa Kao. Haha…I’ve stuck with Pei Pa Kao just cause it tasted nicer 
Monday came and I still had the runny nose and cough. Same today, though the cold has started to taper off, the cough is pretty much still very present.
So I’m going to troop off to the doctor again tomorrow to ask for more antibiotics or at least something to get rid of this stupid cough. Its really draining coughing and trying to talk at the same time. Oh, and I still can’t hear properly out of my right ear. So I’m going to try and get down to that as well, cause I do intend to hear properly again. I rely too much on my hearing to have anything happen.
Anyway, I’m going to go to bed now. Have to get to work at 7.15am tomorrow and then nip back to the doctors. I’m so sick of being sick. I can’t wait to get back to full health and getting back into routine. At the moment I don’t quite have a routine as I’m either working or sleeping after that. Good night for now!
I bet that caught your attention quick didn’t it? Everybody loves free stuff, what more turning free money into more free money.
The good folks at Nuffnang in conjunction with Coles Group & Myer have decided to reward Nuffnangers with free money. Yes you heard it. Free money. A $10 gift voucher to be exact.
And the are giving its members a chance to turn the $10 gift voucher into $100. I bet you are wondering how do you get to participate in this generous contest. Simple.
Nuffnang relaunched its Australian site lately and can be accessed here. They are trying to expand its members and if you sign up now, you get a welcome pack filled with goodies like this. Easy huh? Bet you didn’t anticipate getting free stuff for joining and by putting ads on your blog, you even get paid. What is there to lose?
Anyway, back to the free money bit. So Nuffnang has issued the 2 challenges.
Challenge 1:
Be the Nuffie that spends $10 in the most creative, interesting or fun way. It is totally up to you what you choose to do with it, you just have to impress the Nuffnang team here with your shopping skills.
Challenge 2:
Most frugal Nuffie award. How far can you stretch $10 and what can you make it do?
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Just making a note here so that I actually do write these posts, cause I have found stuff to blog about (finally!) but don’t quite have the time as of yet.
1. Camry vs Aurion
I’ve driven both cars and going to write a post comparing the driveability of both cars.
2. Vlog/Entry for Nuffnang Australia
This one is quite urgent, they’re running a contest now and I’m going to try my luck at this comp. Actually its 2 posts. One will be a vlog and the other will be just an entry
Well, so far these are the next posts coming. I’ve been pretty bogged down with everything lately, I literally work, come home, have dinner, shower, read a book to sleep and then sleep. Repeat all week. I’ve literally lost all my social contact with people apart form cell group and church on the weekends. So I’m not exactly the most social person right now. In fact, I think I’ve kind of grown to like being anti-social. I’m a bit cynical just cause being alone helps sometimes. Talking to clients and interacting with colleagues all day sometimes just leaves me so drained that I just don’t want to talk to anyone. I’ve just used up my social quota for the day.
Its has been a pretty emotional and trying week, but I’m glad I pulled through it all. I’m not exactly feeling my best and haven’t wanted to post in a while. I do keep private entries so I do get my thoughts out sometimes, cause it ain’t fun to have the whole wide world to be reading your inner most thoughts. So if sometimes it seems like I haven’t posted anything here, it just means that I’m either too busy or have been writing private entries.
Well, nearly time to sleep for the day. I’m catching up on sleep during the weekends so there really isn’t much time at all to do much. So nights!
Yes, I do know my blogging is sporadic but that’s the way it’d have to be till end of this month. I think I’ve bitten of more than I can chew so I’m paying the consequences as of now.
Work-wise things are going great. Just dealt with the major paper work that had a deadline to it and then have to now keep up my client visits and make sure I don’t fall behind in notes. I am already a bit behind, but I’ve kept careful notes so it’ll have to wait till next week or so when I’m in the office more. I’ll be busy with a client for the next 5 and a bit weeks so I’ll be kept on my toes quite a bit.
Its Toh Truck’s last week this week before she returns to Singapore. I missed out on the farewell drinks at Minq last Friday cause I was zombified after starting work at 6.45am that day. I didn’t trust myself to drive there and back safely and that I would stay awake and be sociable for the entire duration. So I went home and slept for a good 12 hours.
So, I’ve another early start tomorrow morning and Thursday morning for the Support Meeting. 7am starts. As you can probably already guess, I don’t function too well in the mornings. Hence why I am going to bed now
In case you are wondering if it really has been Kristine Moment #2824, its not. That was just a random number I typed in. If I were superstitious, I’d be wondering what the hell my fingers were doing. But I am not.
Anyways, its been too long since I’ve last blogged. Just been so busy with everything and just recovered from starting work at 6.45am yesterday. I’m not exactly feeling my greatest seeing that I had a massive day yesterday but not to fret, I’m on the mend and getting back into my groove.
Just a couple of weeks ago I was at work on a Friday morning and I got myself the coveted car park underneath the building. I won’t lie to you, but the 6 lots at work are my favourite spots to park my car as I don’t have to walk a million miles in the rain or hail.
So I got to work nice and early and got a spot there, since it was Friday and half the staff weren’t there due to them having their days off. So I did my reverse park and up to the office i went.
About an hour or so after that, I went out to see a client of mine and then came back in again. See, I didn’t think I’d get a spot at my favourite car park but hey, there was a spot. So I happily went parked and went upstairs to get some more paperwork done.
Then at about 11am I had to leave again to bring my OT Student to meet a client of mine. I was in a rush as I had quite a few things on my mind and it was Friday, I was keen for the week to end so that my weekend could begin. I was rummaging in my bag for my sunnnies when I beeped my car open and looked ahead of me and saw a dent in the left front bumper.
Many thoughts ran through my head: “When did I do that? Was it was I was reversing the car cause I forward parked at my client’s work place? Maybe I scrapped it turning out? Oh no! Oh no! How now? Trish isn’t in, die, what am I going to say?”
Mostly it was a lot of “Oh no’s!” running through my head. Then I heard a beep, which meant my car was locking itself cause I didn’t get into it in time. All this while, I was staring at the car and panicking and worrying out loud, my OT Student must think I’m a bit of a ditz.
What I hadn’t realised was I didn’t notice lights blinking when my car beeped. Feeling rather stupid, I clicked my car open again and it was only then did I pay attention to where the sound was coming from.
I was looking at the car to my left, the spot where I had parked in the morning. When I came back from seeing my client, I had parked in another spot to my right. So I checked the number plate on the car that was dented and obviously it wasn’t mine. Not only that, I managed to complete miss the colour of the car. Mine is silver and the car with the dent was goldish silver (I’m sticking by this, there is such a thing as goldish silver).
So it was then I admitted my stupidity to my OT Student and we both had a laugh at the situation. Sometimes I wonder how in the world I’m still employed with my blondeness at times.
Now its no secret that tonight’s lotto is the biggest in Australian history, with $90 million up for grabs.
Well, unfortunately I didn’t win. Otherwise I’d be on the phone straight away and organising plane tickets. I got 3 numbers but still lacked the supp number, which proves that my theory is right. By picking numbers in a single game, you have a bigger chance of winning. My other Slikpik ticket came up with 1 number so that is proof. Twice in a row, impossible to doubt.
Now the question is how to pick the right numbers.
To be honest, I don’t know. I randomly stabbed numbers as well as picked some of my favourite and lucky numbers. I picked some numbers for last year’s Christmas party and I won 3rd prize in the raffle, so I tried my luck again.
If you zoom in, you can actually see the numbers I played. And checked online.
That’s how good my new camera is. Which brings me to say, I now am the proud owner of the Panasonic Lumix FS-15. I’ll do a post reviewing the specs, but I can’t stop raving about it! Its awesome because with its 12.1 megapixels and 5x optical zoom and fantabulous macro function, I can now take pictures like this:
and this
Taken from my room window on the 2nd floor, with max optical zoom to the ground floor. In the original resolution and zooming in, you can actually read the subheadings and almost make out the normal print. How about that from about 10 plus metres away.
Anyway, enough raving about the camera I digress. Perth has been hit with wild weather and driving home from Murdoch area yesterday was a nightmare. Driving on the Kwinana Freeway, I could feel my car swaying from side to side while I was doing something like 70 km/h. I did 100 km/h for a short stretch and traffic was too bad to sustain that kind of speeds and the weather too wild. That day was mad. I walked from the car park to work and the wind was blowing so strongly I swear (politely) that my umbrella nearly broke and I nearly got blown off in the wind. Mind you, my umbrella is the bg kind, not those pocket sized ones. It then poured and I ended up with half the front of my skirt wet and my coat was wet in front.
Stupid rain poured down not vertically but nearly horizontally. I was holding my umbrella to the side to avoid getting blown away and avoid getting drenched in the storm. Suffice to say, I don’t quite like winter and the rain. The upside to all of this is that the dams are getting full, so I’m not complaining.
Enough complaining now. From today on, I’m going to blog almost every day and include at least a picture everyday seeing that I have such an awesome camera. Now I just need to get Photoshop or use Picnik to edit my photos. I just need to do something other than play Sims 3 all night Which reminds me, I’m supposed to be doing some research for a gig. That will be tomorrow then, I’m too tired out right now. Haha. So much for proactiveness!
I woke up yesterday to quite a rough day at work, having a 7am meeting and all the dramas happening at work. I came home yesterday and all I wanted to do was sleep cause I was exhausted from doing long days at work.
Then I woke up to the Twitter news that Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett having passed away. All I knew about Farrah Fawcett was that she starred in the original TV series version of Charlie’s Angels.
Michael Jackson on the other hand was one of the musicians I grew up with. I remember when he came to perform in Malaysia, I was mesmerised and watched him on TV for hours. I still have multiple videos of Michael Jackson that I taped straight off the TV. I remember being so bummed when I didn’t get to go for this concert.
I watched the TV specials of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett this morning and somehow I don’t feel so much as the fans on TV feel. I guess knowing the fact that everybody has to die someday and that its not like their my personal friends. This is not to say that I don’t feel sorry for their family members, I just don’t feel like I need to cry and sob and mourn all day long.
I’m probably going to cop it from people saying that I’m insensitive, but to each their own.
That being said, I’m off to shower. My head is starting to hurt and its freezing cold.
I’m fuming mad at the moment. Just came back from dropping Sam off at the airport.
Stupid incident happened with the security guard there. I’ve included below what I actually wrote to the Perth Airport Management.
This is what I wrote in the complaint:
Hi, I’m writing in to inform you of the incident I encountered this evening while dropping some friends to Perth Airport.
I must say, in all my years with dropping and picking people up from the airport today has left me with a sour note. So far this year, I’ve gone to the airport about 20 times to pick and drop people off and
I understand that the airport is undergoing some upgrades and therefore traffic to and the airport is affected. I was trying to pull up to drop my friends off at 11pm on the 23rd June and there weren’t any available spots to pull up, which was fine. I was going to make another round and try again.
I pulled to a stop in front of the departure gates as I had noticed a car in front of me signalling to pull out. There was a security guard who was telling me to move on. I pointed to him to show him the car was pulling out and was blocking my path so I could not move forward. This security guard yelled at me that I could not stop here.
I knew that but at that point, I obviously could not move forward due to the car being in front of me. I find this security guard extremely rude and not even bothering to look ahead to see why I wasn’t moving.
I hope you will take this feedback on board and improve your service as this is a poor reflection of your personnel.
Thank you.
Stupid idiot must have thought, “Oh, this is a young Asian girl driving this big ass car. Must be some rich kid who doesn’t know how to drive and doesn’t know she can’t stop in the middle of the road”.
Bastard. When he was yelling at me, I was pointing to the car in front of me, which was already halfway out and if I moved I would have hit it. I know la its 11pm but hell I think you don’t have to yell at me. I was so pissed I yelled back at him (through the window of course). He was so bloody loud that I could hear him through my window with the radio on.
And do you know what the best part was? I had to drop Sam at the rental car place cause there was no place to pull up man. What a day for an airport run. Now I’m too worked up about it to sleep.
