9th day staying at home tmr
So. It indeed is not a normal fever. When i showed my blood test results to a third doctor (cause i finished two rounds of prescription already), he asked if i’d been KISSING. in front of my parents. for like 2 or 3 times. after i swore i never never for like a million times then he told me i have this thing called Infectious Mononucleosis, or Glandular Fever. He even wrote it down on paper for me to take home and look it up, haha. Anyway, he said it normally lasts for a week or two. Some people three weeks to a month (!). i will die la. i’ve been so freakin bored at home i’d rather sit in lecture and listen to ip talk. i’ve been pretty okay today, but i’ve learned not to go back immediately the next day. anyway, i have mc. i just hate to miss cms ): SHIT LA I MISS ALL THE CHANCES TO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HOW HOW HOW. anyway, the past week has been quite a rollercoaster. puked a lot a lot and recovered a few times but gged again a few hours later it’s just a big big cycle of headaches and abdominal pain and nausea and lying in bed staring at my wardrobe. been having a lot a lot of vivid weird dreams, and also thought a lot about everything. the times i’m well, i play tetris on facebook. haha too bad my fifa cd’s not with me now. anyway tmr i plan to write letters if i’m still as okay as now.
From wikipedia!
Infectious mononucleosis, also known as the kissing disease, or Pfeiffer’s disease, in North America as mono and more commonly known as glandular fever in other English-speaking countries, is seen most commonly in adolescents and young adults, characterized in teenagers by fever, sore throat, muscle soreness, and fatigue. Around 90% of Americans (and 95% of those who reach age 40) will acquire the virus even if they exhibit no symptoms. Most of the time subjects show symptoms. Infectious Mononucleosis typically produces a very mild illness in small children, but is typically asymptomatic. Mononucleosis is usually caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which infects B cells (B-lymphocytes), producing a reactive lymphocytosis and atypical T cells (T-lymphocytes) known as Downey bodies.
Transmission
Mononucleosis is typically transmitted from asymptomatic individuals through saliva, earning it the name “the kissing disease”, or by sharing a drink, or sharing eating utensils. It may also be transmitted through blood. Individuals in close living arrangements nearly always pass the infection onto each other, although symptoms may not present for months or even years. As with many viral infections, such as chicken pox, antibodies are developed by individuals who become infected with the disease and recover. In most individuals, these antibodies remain in their system, creating immunity to further infections caused by outside sources, although not necessarily from internal relapses.
So ppl, don’t ever kope food from me again 
I think i lost 3 kg this period. if i’m not wrong i think i’m like 45 now. woah.
i miss seeing and talking to people in school a lot, sigh.
OK byebye!
dramafeste 08
Hmm after 9857981 years i’m finally able to have the mood to post. Have been wanting to post quite a few times, but was too tired and sick and whatever to be coherent in my thoughts. so now i’ve forgotten all the little details the past week or so thus i shall only touch on the beeeeeeeg important ones.
Much as i am tempted to rant and curse the ah beng security guard who has a very cool name– michael, i shall not lower myself to that level. argh thinking about it already sets me on fire. aldkfajkl.
Anyway, about Dramafeste ‘08. What more can i say? It is really deja vu and 07 all over again, watching the whole LT break down and curse the judges and apollo. Spent the last couple of weeks popping in occasionally to help the actors, inexperienced and unsure about myself as i was. actually most of the time i think i just sat there and watched, haha. but it was really heartwarming to see the entire, entire cast and crew improve by leaps and bounds in the final week. i remember the first time i saw them, i thought to myself, this is bad. but i was wrong. last night’s performance especially was the best, best show i’ve seen them put up. everyone says ares was the most entertaining by far, so it was a wonder we didn’t win anything more than best supporting actor and best actress (congrats joseph and jingwei btw GREAT JOB). i was laughing like shit both nights when minjian started crying and his retarded expressions haha. and fabian’s utterly smothering hot rob act. jessie and ruiyi and their tremendous improvement. among the rest of the fantabulous play. Anyway, like last year, apollo won best play, only this time they got more awards. shall not comment about fairness, because i’ve heard lots of praise for it (surprise surprise, mostly from apollo ppl). Anyway, i echo everyone that to Ares, you guys are really the best the best the best. evelyn & nat, you all have put in your 948759117 % and everyone knows that, so cheer up 
Dramafeste 08 also made me recall and reminisce a lot of our own journey last year. how we started earliest, were favourites to win and eventually lost to apollo whose play served as sleeping pills for the LT. how i tried for max but got persuaded to be gay michael but persisted and got max. how i twisted my ankle one week before dramafeste. how i kept laughing during the scene with yuxuan’s face millimeters from mine and got scolded like shit. how i had 101 ways to fall off a chair -.- and how everyone cried like crazy after judging. it’s true that only these memories matter at the end of the day, that you carry with you forever. not the results. sigh.
Anyway, i’m sick again, zzz. Woke up with a headache on thursday but since it was dramafeste day i didn’t wanna miss school cos we’re not supposed to appear in sch again if we take mc, or else we’ll face suspension from council apparently lol. so i slept on the council room couch the entire day and didn’t go for a single lesson. took panadols around noon and felt better for the next couple of hours. anyway, that afternoon i earned myself icecream from mr ngoh for getting closest to beating him (1-1 draw!) ahaha. so all the years of carrom at home have not gone to waste anyway, i digress. at night felt like shit bookshop was closed so i couldn’t get panadols but i couldn’t let my entire day in school go to waste so went for dramafeste. unfortunately the sequence was such that ares performed third so had to watch half of athena and artemis. anyway, decided to rest at home on friday and see a doc. i have an inflammation in my lymph node! i can even feel a swell on my neck. so cool right. haha. anyway, went for dramafeste around evening. reached sch around 7 to pass qs and yy their tix but felt like shit cos i stood the entire bus ride. went to buy flowers at coro and got back to school and rested in the council room for some time before going to watch. anyway, woke up today with an even worse headache and puked a bit but by afternoon it got much better so yeah. hopefully and probably i’ll be fully okay by tmr.
I also realised that being sick makes one delirious, totally. on thursday when i woke up i had the impression i was part of 3 ppl who cannot put up a show unless all 3 were present so i didn’t have to wake up yet. or something along that line i know i’m not making sense but it didn’t make sense to me either. and i was quite sure i was pretty awake when my alarm clock rang that time already. hmm. and on thursday when i was sleeping in the council room halfway i dreamed that quack came in and asked if i was feeling better and started chitchatting with me. and when he left i suddenly had a laptop and he kept msning me. and smsing me. and was like imba friendly and all. it was seriously damn real given that it left off where i last drifted off to dreamland. and i had a few more impressionable dreams. one where i went back to badminton training -.- and i remarked to someone in the dream that ‘wow it’s been ages since i last touched a racket’. anyway it lasted quite long.
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i hate pride. i need to learn how to bow down for once rarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh.
Valentine’s!
haha today was an okay day i guess, had its ups and downs, the latter harder to define and talk about i guess. a few things sum up my day:
1) talking to these lovely people! yuxuan at macs yesterday it was really nice i realise i haven’t talked properly to him in ages- since dramafeste last year in fact- even though he’s around me 24/7. calvin for the smses. junjie and kheexuan and hazel and jijo for talking my whole afternoon and evening away at least it was mostly constructive and intellectual talk, very reflective
2) thanks for the gifts ppl haha last year i rmb there were more but i think this year some girls stopped giving to everyone cause the guys mostly don’t / didn’t reciprocate. haha. but thanks for everything la. especially 34kg angel and mortal and class girls hahahaahhahah I LOVE YOU NICK
3) nothing haha i forgot what i wanted to write anyway will update soon i feel kinda sleepy.
happy valentine’s!
Happy CNY Day 2!
SO today rocked.
Met kheexuan around 2 pm at cck and met junshyang after that and we went to westmall to watch kungfu dunk which i personally thought, without (much) bias, was very good. the plot was quite lame but i think overall it was pretty entertaining and acting wise i think he’s getting better as usual. okay whatever you people will say. junshyang was being annoyingly anti-jaychou and pissed me off a fair bit in the cinema but i didn’t murder him surprisingly. anywayzzzz we went to arcade after that and we played the air hockey thingy and i am the ultimate loser don’t talk about it hahaha but it was freaking funny i laughed until i died. wasted like 7 bucks in total there but the fun was priceless haha. then after that we went to makan at burger king. so after our meal we were at a loss where to go what to do. and kheexuan suggested KRANJI war memorial. at first i was a bit wtf and zzz but being so nice and agreeable i complied. but fortunately we didn’t make the wrong choice, even though it was a bit weird to visit a cemetery during a new year period. there wasn’t anyone there and it was totally just serene and peaceful and quiet and windy. sat there for 2+ hours and bitched talked till like 9.
after that met my family downstairs to go lot 1 to watch CJ07. even my ahma went! it is extremely overrated like wth. probably it’s meant to be some sentimental yet comical thing but don’t know, it didn’t really leave an impact on me. i don’t like the UFO part. not being biased again, but i think kungfu dunk owns 984751897589194 times more hahhaha. okay subject to disapproval but don’t tell me cause i won’t listen
i don’t usually blog about day-to-day happenings so this is kinda unusual it feels strangely lacking in content / thoughts. but enjoyable days ought to be preserved.
yay for holidays and friends
HAPPY CNY :D
yay yesterday was pretty much a success even though i got only an hour of sleep and felt more tired than i’d ever been during the clearing up. i was practically dying, dragging myself and benches and tables and decorations everywhere. but then i saw people like weiting and claire, running about on zero sleep so i felt ashamed and forced myself on.
speaking of weiting, good job! in my very humble opinion you’re the best comm chair thus far, and that’s not just in relative terms. even though you’re very demanding sometimes but i think it brought about a great deal of results in the end la so it’s good. and i’m glad you trust the me and wk
wk: the most reliable working partner ever. tanked a lot of things the first few weeks and this is one of the only few times i’ve ever managed to complete a more or less longterm project without straining relations with partners in the course. guess i’m not very easy to work with, hahaha. but thanks, i remember the first time we sat in council room brainstorming for creative ideas for publicity, the many laughs at our proposals of ridiculous stunts and gimmicks and bitching and bullshitting amidst our work. three cheers for maximum productivity, hahahaha.
pubcomm: claire, jared, ben and linghuan, you people make up a weird mix cause it wasn’t for us to choose our comm, but in the end i’m glad it worked out. claire and jared especially, you 2 are the powerhouse workers and tanked a lot a lot of saigang and gave a lot of constructive feedback. pub definitely owes you. linghuan you’re the life of the group haha. the atmosphere will be totally different with you around so THANKS barbiedoll! and ben, even though you’re the bloody slacker of the group thanks for doing a lot a lot of things in the end and those short bursts of power-working and productivity haha. don’t whole day emo la
it was really such a relief when the whole thing ended without any major screwup. but i guess the best feeling was when weiting asked whether publicity for cny was good this year, and the answer was a resounding yes from the 34th. it was really plain ecstasy that everyone acknowledged all that Pubcomm has done the past 3 weeks, which i think was really a lot no matter what anyone says. our job scope ranged from actual publicity, to decor, to citygate, to centrepiece and so on. i can’t believe publicity had few-hour-long informals even until the day before cny, and that everyone worked more or less efficiently. or maybe it was just claire’s aura in any case, everyone in pub really worked very hard and i’m so proud that our ideas all fell into place.
i’ve also learned something new, and that’s trusting my own instincts and sentiments. after we’ve spent like at least 4 hours on the jerry scaffold, mr rem came to tell us that it didn’t fit into the general decorations, and that it wasn’t as safe as we thought bla bla. widjaja said so too and that basically, it sucked. mr rem said that the teachers strongly thought that it should be taken down, but he’d leave the choice to us. also it wasn’t pub’s show now, it was decor’s turn to shine. after like 979851789 years of work on it obviously wk and i were left devastated. but he left us saying that it was our decision. wk and i both thought that it fitted well, but his words really made us doubt our judgment. luckily for us, jared kept saying that we should just trust ourselves and go ahead with it if we wanted. cause he said that during maf, mr rem told him that lightings weren’t the main focus of the decoration, it wasn’t the centrepiece, so he shouldn’t try too hard. but looking at how the entire thing turned out in the end, it was really fortunate that he went ahead with it. so we really gritted our teeth and redoubled our efforts securing jerry the scaffold. and the next day we saw many many people taking pictures with it
the jerry scaffold also made me freaking proud that i’m a maf citygater, because it took a lot of scaffold expertise to set up jerry. i think no one has tried constructing on the breadth of a scaffold before, so it was a slight challenge. for efficiency we daoed safety and went without helmets or harnesses and stepped on weird points like placing both feet parallel to the orange bar and both hands carrying stuff and holding myself in place by looping my elbow around a bar. it made me recall the last time we scaffolded during maf preparations, where i hung more than half my body outside the scaffold on the top level (with one feet on the crossbar and both hands holding the drill, cable ties, paintbrushes or tape) to touch up the boards, or set up the waterfall thingy. makes me feel like superman recounting it but wow, citygate lets one grasp climbing skillzzz in a hurry but credit to the cny citygaters as well, they accomplished what we did with 3 times of climbing (whereas we had like 10++) ??? which is WOW although they took like 6 times longer than us to get everything set up hahahahahahahaha.
celebrations itself was a blast. the street market especially rocked. reminds me of selling teahouse food last year during maf. i think i am a good seller hehehe. and the only things i bought were from the junior class, from my angel also saw 07mortal and took a picture hahahaha we do this every year, since last year. the programme was okay, didn’t expect much anyway and saw the usual familiar faces performing in chinese dance and choir and wushu etc. kheexuan and jiali were damn good with the pre-programme emceeing i thought. shiwei just looked freakin comical in his green packet suit.
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this post is damn long because 1) i have damn a lot to say. 2) i am freaking bored, and have been for the entire afternoon. i’m at my grandma’s house now and save this computer and the few toddlers here, there is absolutely nothing to entertain me. i’ve slept an hour until my 1++ year old cousin prodded my leg and woke me up. and i couldn’t get back to sleep again. i’ve even forced myself to start on post mortem. should have anticipated this and brought herland to read or something. this always happens every year zzz. actually no, last year and the year before i was sick on cny, especially last year when the cny period and after that was the sickest i felt in the entire year. i remember it was right after dramafeste and Vday, hmm. haha i just checked the archives myself to make sure i’m not mistaken. such an honest boy, me.
anyway, speaking of herland, i’m finishing it soon at chapter 10 already it’s getting more and more boring although there’s more and more to think about. i guess it’s an overkill of content. but it’s still an easier read than beloved. which is thick and boring. or house of usher the book which i have read a really really small fraction of because it’s language takes quite long to dismantle and it isn’t as action-filled as i’d imagined. the poetry that we’re covering in auggie’s class is not bad though. full of meaning hahahahahahahahah.
okay enough escapism maybe i’ll go type out my next angel-mortal letters now.
SIGH BORRRRRRRRRRRRING. and happy new year people
Tired
very very very ^487617851 tired.
slept away like 4 out of 6 lessons today.
otherwise it was just nodding off like every 2 minutes.
even sitting at the front row didn’t help.
been rushing cny stuff since forever.
tmr still must work overnight in school.
and not screw up my 2.4
the last time i ran was more than 4 months ago.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz screw tests.
will talk about CNY and other stuff when it’s over.
hopefully it’ll rock.
very very tired.
the days are passing.
spent one whole day (actually 6 hours) on auggie’s essay today. despite liking him for his imba teaching and the occasional joke, i think he’s too strict on deadlines. he half-chided me for asking for extension on behalf of the class. i mean he’s right, but sigh this is very very stressful. but in any case, i finished the essay so yay (: am studying for quek’s test tmr now. am not gonna take too long, because i think i should sleep early tonight.
which brings me to my next point: we’re getting like (maximum?) 2 hours of sleep the night before cny eve! staying (working) over in school which is zzz but kinda exciting too. but huiping was saying on the bus that we’ll all fall asleep when we’re having our reunion dinner, in front of everybody. which is actually quite funny. haha i don’t usually talk much to her on the bus but that night quite funny la she. most of the time i got fate with bryanbuan only hahaha.
cny pub is getting along pretty well. we’re left with just one more thing to do. i hope the whole school appreciates the angbaos we took almost one entire day to pack. and poured my heart and soul into writing hahaha. anyway i like the pubes they’re quite nice to work with
helped citygate yesterday evening while making hazel wait for me. i absolutely adored the moments i got to climb on the scaffold again, even though the people surrounding me were different. but it felt damn damn good navigating around the bars, holding the boards and feeling the kinky and tight harnesses tug at my crotch again. hahahahahaha i was quite surprised the cny citygaters didn’t get to climb a quarter as much as the maf citygaters did. so officially we’re like super experienced and all. but confession: i still don’t know how to wear a harness. for the 9487518945717th time on yesterday i asked a few people to help me wear haha. but whatever, climbing rocks so i love kheexuan for putting me in scaffolding for eleco camp but ANYWAY i digress.
recently a lot of people have been saying things like i don’t dare to provoke simchun, he’ll flame/scold/whatever me on his blog. lol like WTH. since when have i explicitly screwed people here!!! i only rant a bit about council(ors) occasionally. nothing more to it.
i think this post is freaking boring. wanted to post this morning about something about my family, but now it seems trivial and stupid so whatever. anyway i am not doing maths but i had the intention to do it today so i think that’s an improvement. okay byebye i’ll post more when i have more to say.
