Blood test @ NTFGH + visit to Clare’s + Jess’s belated 34th bday @ HaveFun KTV & Blue Label Pizza & Wine + blood test results + mum’s early bday zichar dinner
6/2/23 Mon: There were six students in the Pilates reformer class this morning and two of them were already instructors lol~ me and two other classmates thought the overall workout felt more tiring haha!
7/2/23 Tues: A rather busy day in office. Mike treated me
to lunch. We had xo fish meat bee hoon for lunch at香港珍达记and he enjoyed it haha. We talked
about work and also about my possible holiday trip to Mauritius this June. *Wherever
and whatever the future brings me, I only hope for the better.*
Yip took over aerial yoga class tonight and his classes
were more cardio as usual. Did some poses I’ve done before but he doesn’t go as
slowly as Diana.
The two tried to figure out while the needle was still under
my skin, but the Chinese nurse soon decided to change to my left arm instead.
She taught me to hold my arms out straight so it doesn’t squeeze the veins as
they draw the blood. *If I didn’t remember wrongly, most of the nurses would
tell us that before they poke the needle in but that older auntie didn’t remind
me to. Hopefully it’s not because she forgot that patients have to do that!*
I was a bit concerned that it’d be because I was dehydrated or my blood was too
sticky so it came out slowly, but after seeing that the blood flow from my left
arm was normal, I highly suspect the older auntie poked the right capillary
instead of vein... alamak.
9/2/23 Thurs: EQ was a little late for my womb and back
treatment because she was attending to another customer. Did the usual for my
womb massage but for the back, she used the负压仪on the whole back instead of just the
usual neck and upper back. The whole session took 1.5 hours. *Went for
tuition with Natasha but gosh it took more than 20 minutes before the mum
opened the door for me! Need to teach Natasha to be more disciplined and
responsible when it comes to classes.*
Potato and I ate dinner at the coffeeshop downstairs her
place. My chicken bibimbap ($6.80) was okay and he had the fish soup set that
he liked. We shopped a bit around NTUC after that and bought sushi for supper
keke~ *maybe it was both the massage today and the Doms drink I had that
night… I had a hard time falling asleep at night.*
10/2/23 Fri: Met Potato in the evening and we took the new
TEL to Woodlands South station to visit Clare and her 11-month old son, Elijah
at their new place. *He’s a smiley baby but he also has a lot of strength!* Darrell
bought lok lok from Singapore Polytechnic and the fried broccoli was really
quite nice, albeit a bit soggy.
YJ, Potato, Clare and I had a good time chit-chatting, and
I was mostly listening to their stories in the past when they worked as
freelance trainers.
Jess suggested that we had dinner at Blue Label Wine and
Pizza at Mandarin Gallery. It was quite a cosy place. We ordered the half-sized
Blue Label chicken wings ($14) with honey-garlic sriracha which was okay. The
waiter recommended one red-based pizza: the Summer in San Sebastian ($39) that
contained chorizo ragu, Hokkaido octopus, chili and aioli and another
white-based pizza: the Black Magic that had green asparagus, black truffle
cream, jamon iberico and Manchego ($42). Ahna and I preferred the latter while
Jess and LL liked the former.
The funny thing was I actually forgot that I told the
restaurant about Jess’s birthday when I made the booking… and so we were all
surprised when one waiter walked over with a complimentary sorbet haha!
13/2/23 Mon: Only Vanessa and I were in Chisa’s pilates
reformer class this morning and the workouts were quite tough! I think we
worked quite a bit on our core, so much so that my hips felt sore lol.
Stir-fried Chinese spinach, shimeiji mushroom and wolfberry in oyster sauce, and then potato slices and soy beansprout in mirin, light soy sauce, black pepper, sesame oil and paprika powder mix that Potato prepared. He also cooked sunny side-up to go along the rice for our meatless dinner~ not bad overall.
However, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like
I want to vomit. Quickly pressed my合谷穴for some time and it helped, albeit it took me a while to
go back to sleep. *I suspect it’s the “more sour than usual” kimchi that I
ate a bit during dinner that caused the reflux.*
14/2/23 Tues: Did a “drop” in aerial yoga class tonight and
though it was only that 0.5 seconds, my heart still “skipped” a bit every time
haha. Fun!
For the first time in “history”, Dr Yee told me that my
LDL-C level is now 1.8 mmol/L! It’s even defined as “optimal” level lol. I have
normal blood cholesterol levels overall now, and LDL-C alone has fallen by
nearly 70%! *Not much changes to my already okay HDL-C and Tryglyceride
levels.* The creatinine kinase level went up to 202 U/L from the previous
71 U/L, but she said it was not a call for concern. *I will continue to
monitor when I go see her in eight months’ time.* Sounded like everything’s
good but unfortunately, I’d have to continue taking the medicine as my genetics
results are not yet out, so they can’t ascertain that my LDL levels won’t rebound
if I stop taking the statin… should it be due to genetics.
有点如释重负的感觉。I had
Pho Street’s sliced chicken pho ($9) for lunch before heading back to Le
Quest’s 7-11 to buy the Sakura ebi and grilled salmon onigiris ($4). Thoroughly
enjoyed the break in the afternoon and read a bit, but later I found the Sakura
ebi onigiri a bit too salty though.
Had a very good stretch at yin yoga and sound bath lesson
that evening because my left lower back had been aching since the Pilates
reformer class on Monday morning. Also tried new pose in wheel yoga class.
17/2/23 Fri: After virtual Qigong and Piloxing classes
today, I whipped up a simple one-pot cook meal for myself at dinner: scallop,
dumpling, coral green lettuce, cherry tomato, onion and egg with bee hoon in
tom yam soup. *I made a mess of the preparation area and kitchen floor while
trying to separate the bee hoon, but still ended up cooking too much for one!
Think I ate too much and the stomach was feeling unwell that night during
sleep…*
Bought the Valentines’ special pastry box from Wunderfolks ($32) that contained their strawberry choux puff, mixed berries tart, dark chocolate tart and mixed fruits tart for my in-laws after dinner on Sunday night. I personally enjoyed the dark chocolate and mixed fruits tarts as usual, but I liked their strawberry choux puff too, though MIL found that too sweet for her. Both of us didn’t quite like the mixed berries tart though because it was quite sour. *FIL not into sweets, so he did not eat.*
20/2/23 Mon: Only Denise and I attended Chisa’s reformer class this morning and some moves were tough for me haha. Bought the ingredients for our meatless army stew and Potato helped to chop them up. We had tomato, egg, tofu, bok choy, shimeiji shroom, enoki shroom, spring onion, leek and egg dumpling, carrot and maggie mee in the gochujang and chicken-stock based stew~
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