Friday, August 31, 2007 9:08 PM
I had a small surgery on Wednesday and will be posting some pics today. I had been busy and going home late for the past few days and there was no time to update. It's been so long since i last went home early.
Day Before Surgery
See the lump that i hace circled? I had to remove that. It has been there for about weeks and had caused me some pain and discomfort. I can;t twist a bottle cap and can't lift heavy stuff without cringing in pain. I decided to go to the doctor after a few advices from my sister and colleagues. The doctor said that it is the swelling of the tandon and too much up and down movement of it. He said that it is due to overuse of the wrist due to typing and writing...anyone reading this find this ridiculous or possible?
Surgery Day
I wished i could have someone who wold take a video of the procedure! It took about only 10 minutes. What the doctor basically did was tok poke a thick needle with a syringe into the lump and he slowly 'suck' out the thing that is causing the lump. It is called a ganglion. After removing the jelly-like substance out of my wrist, he pumped in some medicine to stop it from coming back. All this while, I could feel the pain. So i got quite frustrated when people asked me "Pain or not?"...like duh! You should have asked "How much pain were you in? A lot or a little?" When i told my colleague that the doctor didn't numb me before the procedure, she said "Wah, your threshold for pain is so high huh?" My hand was wrapped in this bandage for about fifteen hours.
Day After Surgery
It's flattened! But the doctor mentioned that there is a 70% chance that i have to do it twice because it might come back. Meanwhile he told me that he hope the medicine that he had pumped in will help.
I miss my lumpy friend.....
Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:38 PM
It still pisses me off when i heard the commentator said "Chelsea is starting their new campaign strong with 7 points in 3 games inclding the controversial 1 point versus Liverpol last week"....oh yeah it still makes me so angry...anyway Liverpool won today against Sunderland. I missed the first half coz Marina came by for dinner. We talked till nearly 9 before i accompanied her to the bus stop.
Anyway Liverpool's second goal was superb! I was screaming "YEAH" when it hit the net....it was Babel to Pennant then to Torres and then Voronin hit it!!!
Score0-2
TeamsheetPepe Reina
Alvaro Arbeloa
Jamie Carragher
Sami Hyypia
Steve Finnan
Ryan Babel
Xabi Alonso
Momo Sissoko
Jermaine Pennant
Fernando Torres
Andriy Voronin
SubsDaniel Agger
Charles Itandje
Dirk Kuyt
Javier Mascherano
John Arne Riise
GoalsSissoko 37, Voronin 87
SubstitutionsAgger (Hyypia 16) Riise (Carragher 76) Kuyt (Babel 88)
Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:21 AM
David called me again....that bugger! He called from Spain last Friday and I thought that he was going to come back to work today...he had given me lots to deal with during his absence and I have warned him about that. So we had quite a conversation.....
"The Real Madrid stadium...it's not that great lah.""Really? I saw it on TV and it looks gorgeous. So did you go to Valencia?""Ya.""Did you go to the museum?""No. We only went there for food.""So you didn't go to the Mestella?""No."
"Did you go to Barcelona?""Yes.""Did you go to Nou Camp?""Yes.""Ooh...you did?So you did go to the Bernabeau?""Yes. Oi! You're only interested about the football.""But I asked about the museum.""Ok lah ok lah. I'll see you tomorrow. Miss me already right?""You better come back tomorrow coz I can't wait to give back all the problems you have laden me with!"That aside...i'm pretty tired at the moment coz it's been three days in a row that i reached home at 1130...classes end at 1030 so i usually need one hour to get back home. Two more night and i can finally rest. My shoulders are aching and so are my arms because of the textbook.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:17 AM
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Can you please hold this for me. I need to rush to the ladies."He took the book. A minute later I walked out the ladies and saw him holding the book, waiting for me quite patiently. We walked to the elevator and was chatting quite merrily. We were about two minutes away from the place where we would part and then the topic came.It had been about six months, we calculated roughly. Her eyes were still closed but he held on to her hand, waiting patiently for her to come back. He changed his job and took a pay cut, all because he wanted to be there for her. They had been together for about four years. He looked stressed and we could see it from his receding hairline."How is she?""Her condition is stable now. Thanks for asking."But she had not woke up for six months. How could that be stable? Is this even possible? You saw the person you love, surrounded by beeping machines and oxygen tanks. Is she really still breathing? Is this even possible? You came down without fail with hope that she would opened her eyes and smile at you. Would she do exactly that...soon? Is it even possible?"Three...four years. This is what you called true love. I think he wanted to propose to her...but."He didn't finish the sentence but I thought I knew what he wanted to say."Yeah I know. He told us about that."Please wake up...he's waiting for you.~ (C) ramia
12:11 AM
Monday, August 20, 2007 12:18 AM
Emotions...it is very hard to control them. You just react...there is no time to think. Some times it is hard to admit and say "I shouldn't have done what I did". Some times you might say "That felt good".Anger...it is sinful. But you have to admit that it feels good to just spat it on their face. Constant naggings and wasteful explanations that you just want to shut out...you want to say "SHUT UP!!!"They are always unfair...feel like a tight grip on their neck would just do it. Why are they always like that? A tight sap on their cheek would be great. Get of your smug face off me! I don't love your guts....eurgh I hate that stupid voice of yours....just shut up will you?Just shut up!~ (C) ramia------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Come on Liverpool....beat that badass, blood-sucking and irritating Chelsea!!!!!
That penalty was so UNCALLED for!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:43 AM
I was scared…every single day. It wasn’t easy doing what I did. It took a lot of patience, skill and I had to be on my toes all the time. The people I met and talked to everyday was the major reason of all these pressures. They could be unreasonable and refuse to understand my explanation or rationality. The pressure to serve them the best way possible could sometimes lead to my doom. Mistakes were not really forgiven nor were they welcomed.
“Do it right the first time…every time.”
I think that was the motto. But it was always difficult to follow. I could not understand how some people could do that every single day. People said that you learned through the mistakes that you made but I always felt the pressure of doing it right the second time and then I just screwed it up all again.
I didn’t get why every time the time comes for a review, there was just some major thing that comes up and will affect me in a great way. Maybe it was the clothes I wore that day. Seems like it because that same set of clothes brought me to face all these problems. Or maybe it was just me. I was too pressured to perform leading to mind games that I did not realize I was playing. Maybe it was me all these while.
I knew I had to pick it up. I should not let it bother me. I knew I had been doing quite well but the unforeseen forces or circumstances led me to act irrationally sometimes. I knew I could do it. Afterall, I had survived for almost a year.
~ (C) ramia
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:15 PM
It's just random, i looked around my room finding for an idea on what to type for my title and came up with this. I saw the book on the table and this was the title.
Anyway i totally like this song at the moment. I stumbled upon a video of Dan and Emma and this song was on so after much search on imeem, i managed to locate what is the title of the song. I know it is from Delta Goodrem but i don't know the title.
It seemed like not so long ago, i just finished my exams and next Monday i'm already sarting my new class, Business Strategy. I'm halfway done for my pre-course assignment and am very happy about that. I'm about 530 words in and i have to answer one more question. There is no guidelines on how many words we should be writing so i am assuming 1000.
Been feeling tired for so mnay days and the lack of sleep is not making things any better...
Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:29 PM
Score1-2
TeamsheetPepe Reina
Alvaro Arbeloa
Daniel Agger
Jamie Carragher
Steve Finnan
John Arne Riise
Xabi Alonso
Steven Gerrard
Jermaine Pennant
Dirk Kuyt
Fernando Torres
SubsRyan Babel
Sami Hyypia
Charles Itandje
Momo Sissoko
Andriy Voronin
GoalsLaursen (og 30) Gerrard (87)
SubstitutionsBabel (Pennant 73) Voronin (Torres 78) Sissoko (Kuyt 89)
Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:16 PM
I am eating a slice of banana chocolate cake from Secret Recipe and i toped it with vanilla ice-cream. I had actualy thought to take a picture of it and show it off to everyone on how i am having such a richfully sinful dessert...it didn't turn out well and I am so embarassed to even have thought of it!
The first thing that fall off as soon as i topped the ice-cream was the first layer of the cake! I should have know better that i was no Jamie Oliver...is that how you spell the name???
Anyway was surfing danradcliffe.com and stubled upon pictures of him that was on some magazine in the US. He looks a tiny bit like Orlando Bloom...if British guys all look like this, then can i have a share??? By the way, his eyes are blue!I purposely blow up the last pic.
1:13 PM
I have not update for quite a nmber of days i see. I was home late on the 8th because the bank treated service staff to Rush hour 3 and i had a luaghing good time. It's really funny. Yeah i know crtics has been saying that is is the same old jokes...same plot and all that but Rush hour 3 made my day!
I think the NDP was definitely different and i guess more mesmerizing. David told me that my answer was politically correct when he asked me what i thought about the parade. He is probably in a plane at the moment on the way to Spain for 12 days. I told him to come down my house last night to pack me in his luggage but he didn't come. I told him to take pics of the Mestalla for me and also if he could, the new gorgeous museum in Valencia. I'm sure he'll be going to Barcelona and Madrid and i am just jealous at the moment because i wanna go to Spain too. When i said that he said i'm just in for the football. I see nothing wrong with that.
Anyway when i was in the train back home after the movie, there was this irritating girl who has quite a high pitch voice and her body posture suggested that we all look at her chest and stare at her wonderfully big boobs on her petite frame. BLEH!!!
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:59 PM
Now that Yanping has finish reading Deathly Hallows and so does Effa, I don't care if anything I say in this entry will make people angry...I mean, it has been like 2 weeks. Fans will be finish and done reading Deathly Hallows.
I AM KINDA DISAPPOINTED THAT HARRY DID NOT DIE....purely because this wasn't what i expected. I kind of had prepare myself for his death. So maybe that is the reason why I was a little disappointed. But i guess it ended fairly. Harry and Ginny got married and had little Potters called James, Albus and Lily.
Will there be a number 8? I doubt so. I hope J K Rowling will ignore all those loonies who wanted a number 8. I think the story ended just fine and delving further into it would just be a spoil.
Sunday, August 05, 2007 9:13 PM
I did actually want to post an entry to share whatever i had learn during my 2-days workshop but because of my delay...i kinda forgot what are the things that really made me pause and think and then say "hey this is so right and i have to share it with other people". But there was one thing that i had written down.
The BIG question is" ARE YOU A GOOD LISTENER?
You are if you answer "Yes" to all these questions:
1. Patient with slow listeners
2. Mentally summarizes
3. Link areas of interests to create relationship
4. Fight distraction from noise, motion and environment
5. Does not interrupt, judge or assume until comprehension of message is completed
6. Works hard to display visual and verbal cues
7. Judge content, skips over delivery error and tolerate bad habits
8. Listen for central ideas, emotions and personal reactions
Anyway...moving to the weekend, i met Yanping yesterday and was so pissed with myself for leaving my handphone at home. How was i supposed to tell Yanping that i have already reach Orchard without my phone???
I tried my best to locate a pay phone but found none. So i made my way to Isetan Scotts and walked aimlessly in search of a phone and i don't know how but i guess it was my lucky stars and i bumped into Yanping who happened to just reach Orchard. I told her about my ordeal and we laughed about it!
It was such a terrible experience walking around in Orchard without my handphone with me....it was just TERRIBLE!!!!
So we had lunch at Taco Bells and then walked around in search of Swatch to help my mum get a watch for my dad. It was for Birthday cum Anniversary...which is in November and December respectively.
We then relazed at Coffee Bean and with my White Chocolate Dream in hand...i was relaxing. We chatted away till six and i rushed off home coz next day my family and i have plans to go Johore.
We did today and i took this billboard picture of Gerrard:
At this moment i have a pre-Mondays Blue because i have to go back to work tomorrow...
Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:12 PM
I just want to post a few pics but before i do that...
It's so funny that August would be the month i will be looking at Bellamy coz this guy is outta Liverpool. They should have put all those "not too sure" players at the front you know...
New office...so cramp!
My name tag...sory it's very blur.
The new $20 note...i know this is like old news but i was too lazy to be bothered to put the picture on my blog. so those out there (friends and people i know) who would like to get your hands on the new note, inform me. Gimme a call and i get it for you alrite???For now i gotta go. I actually am meeting Yanping in a few hours. I wanted to share what i learn from the 2 days workshop i went to but no time at the moment...
