Ben comes over for housewarming + PotaTOHs’ @ Wawasg + Potato's car accident & my suspected food poisoning + Thomson Nature Park & Tamako with Jess + 《全明星运动会3》
21/3/22 Mon: Had one lesson of Pilates on the reformer with Hana this morning and as usual, I sweated quite a bit.
22/3/22 Tues: Hit a bit of a bump at the interview with
Donna Logan so I had to change up my story angle a little. Also chatted with
Constance Cheng, the owner from Toast Trusts stable for a while at the barrier
trials. *I hope I can be more confident about interviews in future! I know I
can do it, just that I tend to be stressed about them easily.*
24/2/22 Thurs: Wanted to interview Clements but he’d
already left for the Dubai World Cup meeting, so I talked to White instead.
Also chatted a bit with Crutchley, Beuzelin, Stewart and Le Grange. Lim’s
Lightning came out for his trial with a hood on, but he was somewhat feisty at
first.
Wanted to eat at 566 café with LL but it was full, so LL
treated me to vongole pasta at Whisk and Paddle café instead~ thank you! Rushed
through work in the afternoon and I had no time for the Oxigeno class in the
evening, so took my time to takeaway my go-to Korean chicken spicy soup set
from Yew Tee Kopitiam.
25/2/22 Fri: Drove out to have Chicken Viet Pho ($4) at
Viet Corner for lunch… I enjoy their soup a lot haha. Sweated out in Piloxing
Class in the evening!
He requested for me to cook dinner, so I grilled smoked
duck breast meat with enoki and onion, and stir-fried red spinach with carrot
and mushroom. *Should have cut the stalks shorter and carrots into slices
instead.* We chatted a bit and played “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” on
VR~ only to realise Ben’s a very impatient person lol!
28/3/22 Mon: Used the new studio for our Pilates Reformer
class this morning and Chisa went all out at her first lesson after two weeks!
It was a good sweat-out. Potato picked me up after class and we went to get
popiah and kueh pie tee at My Cosy Corner for my family and us.
Had dinner at my parents and poor dad looked to have an
allergic reaction or something because the left side of his face was all
swollen since morning. The doctor gave him paracetamol, antibiotics and cream
to apply and he took three days of MC. *Could be an insect bite too…
hopefully it subsides soon.*
31/3/22 Thurs: Did my story and moved some of my stuff over
to my new cubicle back in the old office. Had lunch with Mike too as he came
back to take his Media pass. *I keep a recording of interviews just in case
I misquote people. It can back me up too, when needed.*
1/4/22 Fri: I signed up for virtual Piloxing classes that
was supposed to start at 5.15pm this month but I remembered it as 6.15pm like
in the past months alamak~ missed it! So, I randomly replaced it with an
exercise session from Fitbit.
Dad’s swelling did not subside much after three days and I
heard that there were pus around the areas too, so the doctor referred him to
NTFGH. Mum and I thought his toothache could be the root of the cause but I’m
hoping it’s not an infection due to that.
Potato cooked dinner for us and the enoki with bacon wrap
was so good because he added honey on top of each of the bacon!
Took away Korean kimchi chicken soup ($5.20) from the stall
at Happy Hawkers’ at Bukit Batok for dinner. There was not much meat to begin with
and I could not tell if anything’s off with kimchi soup because they tend to be
sourish anyway. Maybe the fact that I sat down for four, five hours straight to
work after dinner made the indigestion worse.
I woke up to acid reflux in the middle of the night, but I
did not pay much attention to it because it was not the first time either.
3/4/22 Sun: My stomach was feeling unwell the whole day and
I had no appetite. Could not finish the fish porridge I bought for myself for
lunch nor MIL’s curry chicken dinner that Potato brought home for me.
Unfortunately for him, he started to run a high fever of 38 degrees Celsius at
night after experiencing a nagging headache since morning. I practically slept
the whole afternoon away half-lying down because I could not fully, otherwise
the reflux would come back. *It’s bad when both of us are unwell at the same
time.*
Potato took one Panadol and had an early night at 930pm or
so. I finished two bottles of po chai pills, and right after finishing the
second bottle, the “Merlion feeling” grew and I had to run for the toilet. I
was not wrong. Yesterday’s dinner came pouring out. I felt much better after
that, and I even caught an episode of “Thirty-Nine” before sleeping. The food
was probably “not clean”, so I am not going to buy from that stall for a long,
long time. *Glad to know that my dad’s face has gotten a bit better today.*
4/4/22 Mon: Cancelled my Pilates Reformer class this
morning while I was still under the weather yesterday afternoon. Decided to
take it slow by replacing that with a short exercise session on Fitbit.
5/4/22 Tues: My stomach was uneasy the whole day, so I’m
glad I called in sick for Aerial tonight. Only had a bread for lunch because I
didn’t feel like eating at all. I even had a slight fever because the office
was too cold. Told mum about it over dinner and she passed me霍元正气丸which worked like a miracle I
reckon~ had one bottle of it after dinner, and my fever came down at night. I
felt much better. *Dad’s swelling went down by a lot, but I hope he can be
more pro-active when it comes to taking care of himself.*
6/4/22 Weds: Emptied the toxins in my stomach early
morning. My appetite is close to normal already. The symptoms were similar to
stomach flu so I reckon either that or food poisoning happened to me since last
Saturday after dinner. *The new rule changes to the Aerial Yoga package is
unfair for people like me who have cancelled one class already. I’m kind of
being short-changed. Hmph.*
7/4/22 Thurs: Rainy day at the trials when I spoke to
Donna. Lisa was there and Sunday would be her last day of work with Stephen
after eight years in Singapore. On my way to the stables, I saw Jerlyn but she
could not recognise me after I cut my hair short! She led me to where Hakim was
at, but as his English was not good yet, Jamil offered to be the translator for
us.
Had the instant chicken porridge I took from mum’s place
for lunch… meh. Took me the whole afternoon to finish Hakim’s story because it
was very long, and then Mike told me to break it up into two, so I stayed in
office till about 6.30pm to rewrite my copies. *The internet, printer and
phone connection over at my new cubicle is still not set up properly! I won’t
move over until things are in place.*
Potato was nice to fetch me at the bus stop, knowing his
wife is tired after work hehe. He also helped ordered the salmon burger from
MacDonald’s because I thought to try. It was not bad for me, but as it’s fried,
I don’t think I’d crave for it again haha. *It’s been long since I had the
feeling of “having something to look forward to” when one is burnt-out at work again
lol.*
Only did half of the virtual Pilates session tonight
because I had a TEAMS meeting with Eunice in the evening. PotaTOHs then drove
out for sashimi dinner at Umi Nami at Holland Village because I found their
dinner promotion set on Chope ($12 for one main and one drink)! My barachirashi
don was not bad, but I think I would have got sick of his smoked tuna slices by
the end though haha.
10/4/22 Sun: Potato drove Jess and I down to Thomson Nature
Park in the late afternoon before he went to meet Melissa and Ian for dinner. It’s
not a big park, so I thought one and a half hours would be more than enough to
finish walking the trails and seeing the ruins, but we got a little lost inside
somehow!
11/4/22 Mon: Now, the reformers are reorganised into one row
facing the mirrors in the new studio, so I was trying to get used to looking
myself in it as I worked out too. However, I do think that’s a good idea
because we tend to go “off form” sometimes and we might not realise it.
Headed down to NTFGH to get the memo from Dr Tiong and I had to wait for about half an hour because they did not know which nurse got the memo!
12/4/22 Tues: Good to see that dad’s swell has gone down,
though the left side of his face was still red. *Apparently, he was referred
to the A&E department on April 1, but he still had to wait the whole
afternoon before he got to see the doctor.* We had to climb up a few times
to drop into the final pose as shown here~ my thighs were still aching from Pilates
yesterday morning!
13/4/22 Weds: *Feels down when you see the number of
views on some stories you’ve done is only “one” but you’d put so much time into
writing them. If the bigger environment does not improve, then should it be time
for me to take things easier?*
Potato cooked dinner for us before he headed down to Timbre
for live music and drinks with Ian, James and their friends! There’s my
favourite tom yam chicken meat with enoki and lettuce, stir-fried napa cabbage,
mushroom and carrot, and taupok, carrot and egg in miso soup, in which the
taupok tasted very good because it soaked up the essence of the soup well~
Finished watching《全明星运动会3》at night.
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