WAIT!! THAT'S A.... ... ...

  

Over the last weekend I was out running an errand when this peculiar piece of weird-looking blob on the pavement caught my eye.

Curious piqued, I stepped nearer for a closer look. And gasp!! THIS PIECE OF BLOB IS ACTUALLY THE CORPSE OF AN ILL-FATED FROG!!!

I was truly disgusted, but yet at the same time, amazed. It is impressive how the outline of the corpse still remarkably resembles a frog. It is beautiful too, the intricate details which can be so easily overlooked without purposeful observation - the gagging eye, the telling triangular shape of a head, the folds of the limbs, the webbed feet. Oh my, it is so awesomely intriguing (albeit a tad morbidly) that I find myself gagging in amazed wonder.

Poor frog. It must have died a painful death. My bet is that it got ran over by a vehicle. Geez! I can't imagine! SPLAT! Just like that. Ouch.

EVENTFUL DAY

Title says it all.


Saturday was an eventfully packed day. 


Went out with the parents at 9am to 'fetch' Grandma's new maid home (Grandma had a bone fraction repair operation a couple of years back, and has difficulty walking till today. In addition, taking into consideration her old age [she's more than 85], the doctors had decided against another operation to remove the metal rods. Hence, the rods are still currently residing inside Grandma's body and a fall would be disastrous).


At 12pm, there was a massage appointment in line. I had a good 60 minutes body massage, followed by 15 minutes of hot treatment. Man, the massage feels sooo good (though it did hurt a little, but it's what makes it good!). The hot treatment was heavenly soothing and indescribably relaxing! Oooooohh! The masseur was amiable too. We had a good chat about massages and agreed unanimously on how alternative medicine / therapies is a 一门学问 - something utterly pitiable if it's lost with the passage of time and generations. She was mildly surprised to learn that I'm trained in Swedish massage, and that I have an interest in TCM and 推拿 and the likes. We had a pretty good chat; so much so that she even threw in a facial massage for free (it was not part of the package)!


At 2pm, I was at the nearby mall recontracting my phone. Finally, my mobile line is eligible for recontract! YAY!


And finally, at 6.30pm, there was a house-warming function to attend. The food was sumptuous, the hosts were gracious, and the company was awesome! 




Reached home at around 11pm, and that concludes Saturday. Busy, but totally worth it!

CONTRAST

 

BACKDATE ENTRY :

A couple of months ago, the younger brother, the family dog, and I headed down to the nearby convenient store. The primary objective was to make some grocery purchases and the second was to, well, walk the dog. THE. BIG. FAT. DOG.

On our way back, taunting dark clouds - which seemed to have manifested out of nowhere - loomed threateningly overhead. Wanting to get home fast lest we get caught in the untimely thunderstorm (no umbrella!), we made a not-so-wise choice - opting to cut across a bare open field. Not the wisest of choice, I admit, and heavens forbid if we were to do this kind of thing again!

And so, we ran and ran, with me occasionally squealing girlishly in fright at the mere display of divine temper from the skies. At the first bolt of lightning streaking across the sky and the subsequent thunder, the lot of us paused and stood momentarily still; senses heightened for approaching danger, ready to assume the 'lightning crouch position'. The younger brother was freaked out by the devious weather too, and kept urging me (and the dog) to run faster in seek of shelter.

It was then, I looked up at the seemingly-mocking sky, and realised the hidden, unspoken beauty behind the fiery wrath of Mother Nature. The dark clouds; emanated glowingly by gentle rays of empowering light. Calming sunniness and volatility. Dim and bright. Dark and light. Beauty and wrath. Oh, the contrast! It blows me away. Totally.

Anyway, yeah, the three of us survived to tell the tale!

HOOKED

Okay, I admit : I'm (kinda) hooked.

Killing and victories. It's all just too satisfying!


And advancing slowly from a noob of level 1; it's all just too gratifying!




Teng is so spot-on. I'm a closet, not-so-hardcore gamer at heart. But, still, a gamer.

END

Today is the last official day of Term 1. YAY!!!

Life. It's moving. And all these feel so uber-duber exciting because, well, life goes on - unraveling as it should!

As so is depicted aptly in one of my favourite quotes, by Max Erhman :


"You are a child of the universe
no less than the tree and the stars;
you have a right to be here,
and whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
- Max Erhmann
 


Geez. Life sucks sometimes; but it is exciting at moments when it's not. 


Happiness : it is not just what you feel, but what you make out of.

LOVE

This favourite song of mine has a totally new meaning to it now.

NO, I WASN'T ADDICTED!

Have been falling sick (read : flu. sneezing, coughing) quite frequently in these recent few months. It seems like a recurring old friend.  I would find myself down with sore throat and a stuffy nose one morning which would persist and deteriorate, resulting in a trip to the doctor's to get a medical certificate as well medication, struggle to conduct lessons with a bad respiratory system and spates of coughing and sore throat while waiting for the virus to get boot out by my immune system, and, finally, regaining relatively good health after a week's of battling with the offending virus, and, TA-DAH!!! Omgosh, I'm sneezing and coughing again!


Arrrrghhh!




Anyway, I've just recovered from a recent spate of, yes, flu again. Doctor prescribed the usual medication of Chlorphenamine, Loratadine (for my allergy), lozenges, as well as a cough syrup. The chlorphenamine pills and cough syrup are drowsy, and hate though to admit it, I got a little addicted to the sedative property of said medication. A tiny-weeny part of me feels sad over the discontinued use of medication. I ACTUALLY FELT A LITTLE SAD THAT I HAVE RECOVERED!




And, needless to say, I'm not liking this fact one bit. This is just something I don't agree with; messing with nature. I think, the only way to strengthen health and immune system is to let it fight by itself, and not bombarding it with man-made aids such as antibiotics, bacteriocides, and the likes; unless the situation really calls for it (of course, vaccine is a totally different ball game).  




This is akin to how I'm against the notion of loading up on caffeine to burn the midnight oil. Because 1) people ought to treasure their health and, 2) people ought to treasure and value sleep more and give it more credit that it deserves!


And, oh, on a totally different track, it's THURSDAY tomorrow?!!!! Time flies so fast! Where has all the time gone???

RUN AWAY

Norway. Finland. Sweden. Venice. New Zealand. Czech Republic. Santorini. Bora Bora. Rome. Belgium. Brisbane. Auckland. Poland.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 

2012, BYE!

Two nights ago, I was at a CNY-cum-old-classmates-gathering at a friend's house. There is just something about old schoolmates as friends; we grow up together.

The other day, an intern gave me her email address (for me to send some teaching resource over to); on which states her year of birth : 1993. I cringed inwardly. WHAT?! Is she, like, a baby or something? Is she even LEGAL? I did a quick mental calculation in my head. GASP! That lass is 19? GASP GASP!! I can't breathe!!!

For the first time ever, I FEEL OLD.

It seems like only yesterday, prancing around in the pearl-white laboratory coat, happily studying immunology, pharmacology, hematology, clinical pathology, drug development and clinical trial, and the likes, and counting red blood cells under microscopic slides and cutting up chick embryos and cultivating their cells (cruel, I know).

It seems like only yesterday, prancing around in the pearl-white laboratory coat again, but this time studying grossly nonsensical stuffs such as organic chemistry, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and the likes, and dealing with boring chemicals in the laboratories which make totally no sense.

It seems likes only yesterday that I was studying for the post-graduate. Running around and exploring the far far west but ironically, never venturing into the grounds of NTU because of grounds infamiliarity. Tutorials. Field trips. 10-weeks practicum. All these seem like only YESTERDAY.

And it suddenly dawned to me : this is already the 3rd year since graduation! But it seems like only yesterday when I was still a student!

I can't wait for year 2012 to come to an end. I can't wait for the bond to end; to break out of this fixed mould of work. It feels so dead, routine. There are still things I've yet to try. Working in a non-government sector. Traveling. Exploring. Flying. Playing. Experiencing. Living life. 

2012, end quickly!