Melben seafood dinner & Poker on PY’s bday + PotaTOHs’ positive for Covid-19 + “일타 스캔들” + “MH370: The Plane that disappeared” + “The Glory” + “Outlast” + Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals course
23/3/23 Thurs: Came home to Potato’s homecooked Nikujaga for the first time! I never had this in Japan before but it’s basically meat, potato, long bean and onion stewed in soy sauce and mirin. We had pork belly with those, and he added in king oyster mushroom and carrot as well~ oh the sauce/soup was sweet and savoury at the same time… went very well with the short grain rice!
Finished watching “일타 스캔들” (Crash Course
in Romance) with Potato.
Rating:
3.5/5
24/3/23 Fri: Qigong class
started 15 minutes late due to technical issue and teacher was rushing through
the warm-ups, but it was nice learning new moves every lesson. Also did a bit
of the abs, butt and thighs Zoom class before lunch.
Potato started to feel cold
and feverish while teaching this morning and he tested positive for Covid-19
when he came home. The farmily has to change venue for PY’s birthday dinner and
we decided to go over to James’ instead. James, Ian, Cherlyn, Ava and I started
to eat dinner before Ning, PY and Fran came. I thought that tinge of red chilli
in their butter crab sauce was odd… I’d rather they not add that haha. Otherwise,
I do enjoy their black pepper crab, tofu, hor fun, prawn roll and spinach.
25/3/23 Sat: Potato took
Panadol yesterday but it looked like it didn’t work for him because he was
still feeling ache in the lower back and arms, feverish and having a bad
headache this morning, so I told him to try the Chinese medicine that James
gave him. *Glad his fever went down a bit at night.*
26/3/23 Sun: I felt feverish
and cold with weird body ache today as I was eating oats. There’s also a weird
feeling in my throat. After lunch, I took my temperature and it was 38.7
degrees Celcius but I don’t exactly feel sick yet, and the ART test for Covid-19
came out negative.
29/3/23 Weds: I slept
well at night but still woke up this morning with a sore throat. I ate apple
slices and藿香正气丸in the
morning but the stomach just felt weird. I was lethargic in general and slept
for more than an hour after lunch. *Sweated a lot so I never go toilet much.*
There was more frequent coughing and also I realised a red itchy patch on the right
inner arm, just like how I got “Covid arm” when I did my second jab.
30/3/23 Thurs: I still
had a bit of sore throat and coughs, and I kept feeling hot and perspired
really easily. *There’s also this weird numbness in my arms now and then.*
I also felt giddy easily.
31/3/23 Fri: I still have blocked nose, lots of phlegm and coughing. Tried to cook ramen in hot soba soup but I put too much of the soba sauce, so it turned out very salty. *My sense of smell was badly affected… can’t taste much sweetness in Coke when I drank it at night.*
1/4/23 Sat: My sore throat almost recovered but the whole nasal system still felt blocked and unwell, and I’m still positive as I WFH the whole day.
Rating:
3.75/5
Simply shiok seeing the female lead seek revenge over her high school bullies, albeit things she did might not be morally right either. Yet, whatever those bullies did to her was overboard. This drama also taught audience something: the past can come back to haunt you, so don't try evil at all.
Rating:
5/5
3/4/23 Mon: *My blocked
nose, numbness in arms and feeling giddy once in a while kept lingering until
Thursday or so. I was “unwell” for almost two weeks since last Sunday… oh I
hate that feeling.*
Learned about masking and layering on the first day, and I finished my exercise at 4+pm. *The random numbness in my arms and the blocked nose affected my concentration in class for sure.*
Finished watching “Outlast”.
Rating:
3/5
6/4/23 Thurs: My blocked nose was much better today, and I had Tom Yam Goong tau foo ($5.60) for lunch, which was better than yesterday's. Mr Jeffery Xu went further into creating shapes and texts today and I too completed my second exercise by 4+pm. I reckon it's even more subjective when it comes to aesthetic, but I don't have the same kind of patience in editing images than proofreading texts! *Producing that "flawless photo" is so hard imo... probably because I'm lazier when it comes to these aspects.*
7/4/23 Fri: I won't say I "feel 100%" now compared to before I had Covid-19 because there's still quite a bit of phlegm, some coughing and blockage of the nose now and then. *It even caused me sinus for a few days and my head hurt a bit because of that.* Nonetheless, I'm glad my sense of smell and taste has returned to normal mostly, minus the occasional giddiness and lack of vigour in me. Covid-19 made me so sick in a very long time, and it has definitely broke the momentum I used to have and forced me to take a short pause in life (not the good kind that allows us to sit back and reflect etc because I was too tired to do that!). Now, I can't wait to get back into rhythm and get things up and running again. *Praying hard that there's no long-term negative effect from Covid-19 in us.*
Had cravings for dry mee hoon kuey this afternoon and I scraped through tuition with Amelia because I still felt tired now and then. Also spent some time in the afternoon to look at classes I intend to take up under the new three-month unlimited class package I'd signed up with Evolution Fitness studio as I'm ready to resume my weekly exercise routine. Enjoyed the seared salmon with rosti that Potato whipped up for dinner tonight~
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