Down with flu

It’s 1150 am in the late morning now. I am at home. Yup, supposed to be at NUH serving out my last 2nd day of attachment today, but I was feeling so ‘under the weather’ last night after I returned from work. Woke up with some muscle aches in my body truck as well. I was so pissed off with some radiographers at work yesterday that I actually cried! Whoosh….can’t believe it man! Damn. In all my 40weeks of attachment, I’ve NEVER behaved like this before and what’s more, at NUH which is one of my fave hospitals to go for attachment. But these 2 staff were new and what I say… They just went overboard. And maybe it’s due to my flu too. And maybe a bit of PMS. RAAAAAAA…

Called up my lecturer who demanded us to call her when we are on MC. I was actually on MC on Monday earlier already. Yeah, I did not mention that I got a bad sore throat and flu after the biathlon. On the day of the biath itself, I woke up to find my throat betraying me. and after the event, I was suffering from sore throat. Down with flu on Sunday, and decided to take MC on Monday whereby I went to the polyclinic. My sore throat was already almost gone but the flu persisted. The polyclinic don’t give antibiotics, but it was good in a way too as I did not want to rely on antibiotics which I always did in the past. It’s always better for my body to heal naturally. Albeit with a bitsa help from the flu tablets.

My decision to not go for attachment was actually made this morning. I was sooo tired last night. Right afer dinner last night, I was already feeling sleepy on the sofa at 8+ pm! I fell in and out of slumber several times between 8-1030pm as I was struggling to watch TV and read the newspaper. Don’t even remember how many times. Groggy from the medicine and the day’s work. Exposing myself to so many other sick patients in an air-conditioned environment where germs and bacteria thrive certainly ain’t going to help me recover faster!!! What’s more, not being appreciated for providing free labour! NAH! I’m not going there to aggravate my illness!

And I’m so not going to the doctor to get another MC. Wanted to do that in the morning cuz my flu tabs are finished! But thought I could drink more water, take more vitamin c and rest well which would all aid in recovering my body fast! Though the lecturer is going to nag me for not taking an MC for today, I don’t care. Feeling so defiant nowadays. Very sick of NYP now. The stupid system and the bloody bureaucracy in the School of Health Sciences, Department of Diagnostic Radiography SUCKS! Let her just mark me for 1 day’s absence in my entire 16weeks of attachment in Year 3. There’s 15% to spare anyway.

I know my body best. It’s on the road to recovery now and all I need is just ample rest in a serene place(like my home!) and not go to the bug-infested place to exacerbate my condition!

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Cleared out some old stuff earlier before typing this. Felt great! Can’t wait to clear out more of those useless worksheets and send them to the garang-guni man after graduation.

Am going to finish collating my project slides and the FYP report later in the afternoon. Perhaps read a book, catch up on my diary, and go for a walk later in the afternoon. Nature would be therapeutic.

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The photos for the Navy Biathlon are out! They’re taken by a company specializing in sports events photography who will have them up for sale on their website after the event. I received an email from them and there are a total of 8 shots of me! Haha… 2 when I was getting out of the water and 6 while running. Saved them into my folder. :p They’re free this way.

Also checked out the overall timings for the Women’s Open. The results are posted on the Safra website and I get to see everyone’s timings. I was placed in the 36th place out of 132 participants in my category! Very happy to see that! Could have done better for the swim leg though. There are quite a number of others who actually completed the swim earlier than me or around my time but the run slowed them down. The fastest girl finished her race in 1hr 10min 1sec. I looked at the race results for the ‘Men’s Open’ too. Hehe… Quite a morale-booster when u see so many others who took a longer time to finish than you! :p


The weather is cloudy at the moment. Rain seemed imminent. Great day to chill and rest at home. Lunch!