It’s been two days since the attack of The Flu. I’m still croaking away like a toad in heat. I have completely lost my voice and sounding as sexy as an out of tune trombone. The only consolation is that the fever is gone, but I’m still riding out the remnants of the cold. That means I’m feeling all light-headed, woozy and experiencing a huge loss of appetite. I’m hungry all right, but food tasted so bland it hurts to look at food I can’t quite stomach. I’m only having the after-taste of yellowy-soon-to–turn-green phlegm every time I stuff food in my mouth. It’s not fun to be sick. This time, I really got it good.
February 11, 2009
Flu Bug
Category: Random
We were in Singapore last week to visit as well as attend my bro’s, OnePerang engagement. It was a short visit, but apparently not short enough to catch the flu bug. It all started with innocent little coughs …
Silver Bullet somehow caught a nasty cold on the day of OnePerang’s engagement. He started feeling the giddies in the early afternoon, but felt much worse in the early evening. All hell broke loose with fever and puking in tow. He looked so miserable as he was building up furnace-like temperature almost the entire night. I wasn’t worried when I tended to him thinking that since I have been having an on-off cold in the past two months, I would be less susceptible to getting another cold this time round. While Silver Bullet improved the next day, the initial symptoms of a cold were making its mark on me. We got back to Bangkok sneezing our heads off and coughing our lungs out. It seems we had caught a very nasty flu bug this time. I was rendered immobile as soon as we got home with fever soaring like there’s no tomorrow. My head felt like it was about to explode as my eyes seemed like they were ready to pop right out of their sockets and my entire body ached like I’ve been hit by shrapnel of needles. With such a nasty cold, both Silver Bullet and I had never looked so pathetic together. It was a sorry sight as we both sat miserably paralyzed on the couch, just being really sick out our sorry ass, and me, drifting in and out of sleep the entire day. Granted, Silver Bullet had a head start on this and had slightly recovered faster than me. Mom said that my bro also felt ill the night we left. We wonder how many other people caught the flu bug.
Dozing off looking like worse than crap while Fudge is happy to just snuggle away
February 5, 2009
Discretion, Discretion
Category: Random
While social networking sites are highly addictive and engaging, it pays to exercise some discretion. One famous site which shall not be named here, has more than 150 million active users. No doubt that it is an interesting way to keep up with friends and admittedly, I am guilty of being an active member. But, practise some caution when posting stuff up, lest you unwittingly offend other people. Worse, get fired or killed . There has already been instances where privacy and security were compromised before. So, just a word of caution here: be careful what you post up there. Not everything is for the world to know – less is more.
Of course, it has to be said that social networking sites seems to be the in-thing, especially for the kaypos* out there. You can snoop and get away with it.
* Busybody or a nosey parker