Baby Eye's First Step

Day Before Today

Today is a bad day. In fact, everyday was bad since last week. It started with a mild sore throat, advanced to a sore throat and bad cough, finally hitting the summit with a bad throat, bad cough, blocked nose, runny nose and diarrhoea!! Eventually I saw a doctor yesterday afternoon and he wanted to give me MC. I look at my watch - 3p.m. now, only 3 hours left before I go home from work. If I take the MC for 3 hours, my office records will still reflect it as half day. In one year, I can only have xxx days of MC before I have to consume my normal leave if I fall sick. Ultimately, I went back to office to work, albeit without a MC. I "smoked" myself through the last 3 hours before I finally jumped into a taxi back home to rest.

Medicine is supposed to get you better. After a great dinner, I popped the pills and gulped the cough mixture. Then I logged into my EverQuest 2 account to play, expecting to feel much better anytime soon. I felt like shit after an hour or so, then I died in the game because my invisibility broke while I tripped over a stone and got hit for 10 points of damage initially, followed by poundings of couple hundred of damage from a dozen gnolls. Did I feel like shit because of the medication, or did my death made me feel like shit? Either way, I still feel like shit. I went to bed very soon, hoping I would feel better the next day after a solid 14 hours of sleep.


Today - 31st August 2005

Like I always tell my friends, no matter how expensive the food you eat, no matter how tasty it is, or even how fragrant it is, shit comes out in only 3 shades of colours (i.e. black, brown and green). Yellow shit belongs to the brown category by the way. I felt like shit the night before, I still feel like shit after 14 hours of sleep; and I am still sick after taking my menu of medication consisting of anti-biotics, flu tablets, cough mixture, diarrhoea pills and cough mixture. Work beckons, and I have no MC to shield me from it, so I ended up in office like every other day.

The very first email I received on 31st August 2005 was from a certain someone asking why she doesn't have certain figures in the report I sent to her. This is actually very stupid because that certain someone prepared the reporting template, and if there were no fields to fill in for those figures, then the figures will never be in the report she received. I had to expend another 5 emails to her before she finally realised it and requested for the figures to be included in future reports.


Lunch At Pizza Hut Restaurant

By the time I concluded this mini saga, it was time for lunch with my friends a.k.a. guildmates from EverQuest 2. We ordered the promotional set lunch for 4 - 5 at Far East Square's Pizza Hut Restaurant. There was supposed to be 5 people, but we only have 4 soup bowls and 4 glasses. This is stupid, why not just call it a set lunch for 4??? Next comes a mini plate of calamari, onion rings and drumlets. Each of us probably had one of each, but someone had 1 drumlet less. For the pizzas, we had a slice each, and only had 2 leftovers to fight over. All these for a total of $46~ after GST, or about $9 per person. Incidentally, Pizza Hut had a promotional meal for a single person $8.95++ that comes with a personal pan pizza, soup and drinks. We should have probably taken the personal meals instead. After a horrible lunch, we headed for Mr Teh Tarik Pte Ltd, got ourselves either the Tongkat Ali drink or a Teh Tarik (Alia) and went back to office.


After Lunch

The morning email saga continued after lunch. That certain someone prepared 2 tables of numbers and asked me to confirm their validity. I took a quick look at the table and fainted. If A=1 and B=2, it does not necessarily mean that C=3 and D=A+B+C+D. I bluntly replied that I do not understand the table, and sent her a "brand new table", remnants of my morning email to her. She thought it looked good, and the torture finally ended.


First Blog

Work eventually ended, and I reached home feeling exhausted. I browsed Rockson's blog, laughed my butt off his dumb stories and scrowled at the "Singaporean" who thought he was so glamarous and upright.

Then Rockson's abusive humour suddenly struck me - should I do a blog too? Registration was quick, and my first blog was on the way. My friends started a MSN conversation and invited me to join the discussion. I told them I was busy doing my blog. They laughed their pants off.

Silvermist said, "Morte (my warlock's name in EverQuest 2) and blogs don't seem to go together. Its like Silvermist and Lah Sup KTV." Errr, I think Silvermist and Lah Sup KTV goes together; so Morte and blogs should be a fine couple!!

In my sickly and drowsy state, I got inspiration to write about .... my sickly and drowsy state!! Bleh, I am still sick nonetheless, and I still feel like shit. Maybe I should just stay home everyday and rest in the arms of my cuddly wife ... yah I should do just that ..... but then if both of us do not work, where got money buy computer write blog??!!

Till my next article, please allow me to part with my famous phrase: "Shit smells like shit and looks like shit no matter what you eat!"