This is how I woke up today: my throat felt like a cat threw up in it, my right ear ached so much from that stupid pimple just before my ear canal, I was almost deaf in the right ear and I felt completely miserable!
On waking up, I start to try to swallow but it felt like the back of my throat was covered in cat vomit that won't budge. My ear starts to hurt so I think to myself "omg is this an ear infection? did that stupid pimple progress to become an abscess? Is this going to progress to form a brain abscess? Am I going to be brain damaged and deaf?" - once you see cases of such things happening you start to be so paranoid! So I start to stick my finger in my ear to see what the hell's going on in there and I thought I felt a large abscess going into my ear canal and just thought, "fuck". Anyway, I then go over to Dan's room (because I knew Fay was up), and asked her to look into my ear with my otoscope. And she just saw a miserable little pimple, which somewhat reassured me.
Anyway, turns out I was deaf in that ear because my stupid Eustachian tube was blocked with goo (which cleared up)
As I'm typing now, my nose is dripping away like there's no tomorrow.
Here's how I've been in the past MONTH: ILL. I've had a bitch of a cough, and intermittent fever, sneezing, runny nose. And guess what? It was clearing up. It was almost completely gone. But at the last minute, a new bug comes in!!
So it feels like my immune system's being taken out on a test drive by these pesky little morons (viruses). Grrr looks like I'm going to be sick for another few weeks. Thank you pesky bugs!
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Sunday, 4 January 2009
The Best Holiday
I'm back in cold, gloomy London from the most perfect holiday in Malaysia. I'm trying to get back into the whole routine so I'm cleaning up and doing some laundry (with the most annoying washing machine on the planet)
The holiday was just perfect with an almost complete reunion of all the Krishnans (except for uncle Vejayan's family in Michigan and Kumar in London). Sugu was back in Malaysia for the first time after 18 long years! And her family were in Malaysia for the first time.
It was just great to have everyone back again, all the cousins, reunited. Sugu, Sharmini, Kaanchana, Suman, Johan and me. This holiday taught me a lot about my family. Untold stories and secrets were unleashed. Old photos taken out of their dusty boxes (and I mean OLD).
We spent almost everyday talking till at least 3am, catching up, gossiping etc.
The endless disasters were hilarious! To name one, we were playing pool in a bar and Sugu decides to break. Having not played pool in ages, she tipped the cue down at the very last minute while putting all her strength in the shot and sent the ball flying into a porcelain fountain with a loud crash and plop!!! The worker standing by the fountain looked so confused, and when he finally realised what happened, he had to bend into the fountain to get the ball out and wipe it! Omg we were all wetting ourselves by this point!
Another one: Sugu goes saree shopping and knocks over a huge reel of material. Seeing this, Kaanchana tries to save the day and tips it over to the other side, when it then fell on all the other giant reels of material and sent them all crashing in the shop! The shopkeepers could only watch in complete horror and helplessness with open mouths... LOL. On the very same day in a similar place, Sugu and Kaanch were buying bangles for Asha. Kaanch insisted to pay for them despite Sugu's protests. After a lengthy debate, Kaanch decides to just turn to the counter and pay before Sugu gets a chance. While doing her very swift turn, Kaanchana knocks this little chinese woman over into reels of material!
Another disaster! After I left for England, all the cousins decided to go to the waterpark in Tambun. Now, this waterpark was designed with Malaysian sizes and weights in mind i.e. not for a big black man (Sugu's husband, Garrick, and children!!)
Anyway, due to them weighing at least twice the average Malaysian, they were zooming SO fast down the waterslides to the point where it was terrifying and crazy. Suman and Big Garrick were sat on a float together zooming down one of the giant slides at a speed that was uncontrollably fast. The slide had a sudden bend in the tunnel and they overturned!! So Suman lands on his head at a high speed in this slide and uncontrollably splashed in to the pool at the end! Poor Suman, luckily it was nothing serious (as confirmed by Brachial plexus testing by Dr Johan!) but he wont be turning his head in a while...
Celebrating the New Year at KLCC was just perfect! We saw the grandest fireworks ever by the beautiful twin towers, and later on had drinks and hung out till 6.30am!!
However, we still had an unfortunate event. My grandfather (tata) got a heart attack (Non ST-elevation MI). The good news is that he's very stable at the moment at the National Heart Institute. He will be undergoing a bypass on Thursday by the best surgeons in the country and we're all praying that everything will go well. I'm very nervous but am keeping my fingers crossed.
The holiday was just perfect with an almost complete reunion of all the Krishnans (except for uncle Vejayan's family in Michigan and Kumar in London). Sugu was back in Malaysia for the first time after 18 long years! And her family were in Malaysia for the first time.
It was just great to have everyone back again, all the cousins, reunited. Sugu, Sharmini, Kaanchana, Suman, Johan and me. This holiday taught me a lot about my family. Untold stories and secrets were unleashed. Old photos taken out of their dusty boxes (and I mean OLD).
We spent almost everyday talking till at least 3am, catching up, gossiping etc.
The endless disasters were hilarious! To name one, we were playing pool in a bar and Sugu decides to break. Having not played pool in ages, she tipped the cue down at the very last minute while putting all her strength in the shot and sent the ball flying into a porcelain fountain with a loud crash and plop!!! The worker standing by the fountain looked so confused, and when he finally realised what happened, he had to bend into the fountain to get the ball out and wipe it! Omg we were all wetting ourselves by this point!
Another one: Sugu goes saree shopping and knocks over a huge reel of material. Seeing this, Kaanchana tries to save the day and tips it over to the other side, when it then fell on all the other giant reels of material and sent them all crashing in the shop! The shopkeepers could only watch in complete horror and helplessness with open mouths... LOL. On the very same day in a similar place, Sugu and Kaanch were buying bangles for Asha. Kaanch insisted to pay for them despite Sugu's protests. After a lengthy debate, Kaanch decides to just turn to the counter and pay before Sugu gets a chance. While doing her very swift turn, Kaanchana knocks this little chinese woman over into reels of material!
Another disaster! After I left for England, all the cousins decided to go to the waterpark in Tambun. Now, this waterpark was designed with Malaysian sizes and weights in mind i.e. not for a big black man (Sugu's husband, Garrick, and children!!)
Anyway, due to them weighing at least twice the average Malaysian, they were zooming SO fast down the waterslides to the point where it was terrifying and crazy. Suman and Big Garrick were sat on a float together zooming down one of the giant slides at a speed that was uncontrollably fast. The slide had a sudden bend in the tunnel and they overturned!! So Suman lands on his head at a high speed in this slide and uncontrollably splashed in to the pool at the end! Poor Suman, luckily it was nothing serious (as confirmed by Brachial plexus testing by Dr Johan!) but he wont be turning his head in a while...
Celebrating the New Year at KLCC was just perfect! We saw the grandest fireworks ever by the beautiful twin towers, and later on had drinks and hung out till 6.30am!!
However, we still had an unfortunate event. My grandfather (tata) got a heart attack (Non ST-elevation MI). The good news is that he's very stable at the moment at the National Heart Institute. He will be undergoing a bypass on Thursday by the best surgeons in the country and we're all praying that everything will go well. I'm very nervous but am keeping my fingers crossed.
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