Monday, September 26, 2005

Ever since my general paper exam, I stopped reading the newspapers(not that I had been reading alot before the exam) . I just realised that there are so many new dengue fever cases every day.Like 100 odd each day. I am so suaku. I came to notice the hype about dengue fever only after my aunt gotten it.

She haven eaten for 5 days already. Poor thing. There's red stretch marks on her arms and legs, said to be symptoms. I think she nearly died, because the normal platelet count is 150, hers dropped till 10. She even vomited blood. Now then I realised how lethal it could get.

That day I was having a buffet with my cousins in Marina Bay. My cousin wanted somewhere airy, so the waiter got us a place very airy, but FULL of mosquitoes when night came. There were so many mosquitoes that some were flying in our face and we had to shoo them away. As many as the flies I saw in the Thailand orphanage kitchen. I was very annoyed. I did not think of dengue. I just thought that they were making me itch on the legs such that I could not peel my fresh prawns in peace. I killed about 6 before I continued my 'rampage' on the prawns.

I realised how lucky I was. Even though I had more than 20 mosquito bites, I did not get dengue. My auntie had never gotten a mosquito bite in years, but suay suay she got that single fateful bite from the mosquito. Thank you Dua Bei Gong for blessing me.

On the other hand, albeit the vomiting of blood and having aches all over the body, I kinda wished I got dengue. My auntie(quite a big size woman) slim down sooo much.

Although I am really trying my best at eradicating my flabs, I regret to inform that all my workout is being minused out by the shameless action of gorging myself with mooncakes. But I am still working at my triceps, whatever u call it, my infamous flabby arms. My triceps are so painful that day after I did so many push ups and dumb bells that I couldn't lift my arm to take off my sports bra that day. I was just like stuck in an awful position, well, you girls know, the position when you just about the lift up the bra but stuck cos the bra's lycra is opposing to your muscles. I was stuck in that position for at least a minute before I took a deep breath to bear the aching pain and took it off, followed with self pitying groans.

If I gotten dengue, all my fats will scoot off automatically. But then hor, normally people sick dun have much appeitite, for me, I can eat twice as much, so actually maybe it could be worse.

Oh by the way, did I mention that I once swim well? Cannot tell right, wahahaha. According to my coach, I could have been a competitor swimmer if I did not quit swimming when I was in primary 4. He always commented that my body was good for swimming. I think I have a streamline of some sort that makes me have an edge over people. Thinking back, I wished I did not give up then. Swimming lessons was hard. Imagine having to swim 20 rounds for warm up and then 50 rounds for the real thing and 10 rounds to cool down. I got tired of the training. If I did not quit, I guessed my life could have been different, at the very least, I wouldn't be flabby.

Resuming training now will never work. I have never trained for like 9 years. The last time I had hard core training was when we were in sec 1. Nowadays I swim one lap of freestyle I think I will die of asthma. I seriously feel like making a resolution, to swim better. Yes, I shall do that! I will get my new sei sei swimsuit tmr, and start swimming at least 20 laps a day when I have only one lesson.

Tata guys. I got to scoot off to bed if I want to swim tmr.

P.S : I will not mind if you guys can declare loudly your love for me by tagging 'Wenyan the Great is the greatest of all' to boost my tiny ego and to make my day :)