Monday, July 31, 2006
Eventful July
I'm back. Haven been blogging the last month. Many things happened. Guess it's time to sum up my July. Just came home from yoga. I've so much to tell and to beat the clock before 1 Aug..
My July started dreadfully. My grandfather was diagnosed with colon cancer on the last day of June. My world seemed to have suddenly fallen in. After both my paternal grandparents passed on, I never thot that illness will strike my maternal grandparents. Guess I was too jolly in my world. My grandfather looks so fit. How could he have cancer? Anyway, initially he was supposed to have cataract op in end-July but when NUH did the pre-operation tests, they found that he had super low blood count. So they did all the scopes and further test to find the cause of the low blood count.
Cut the long story short, I found one the world best colorectal surgeon, Doc Francis Seow from my church. My mom and I seeked consultation from him and beyond our expectations, he arranged one of his ex-colleagues from SGH to op on my grandfather. Why not Doc Seow? Cos my grandfather was an ex-civil servant and he had this civil servant card which provides for all his medical bill in any government hospital. So it was that he had the op to remove the right side of his colon the week after and was discharged 5 days after the op. Praise God for the healing. My grandfather recovered really fast. Many of our relatives and even my mom's cg members said that he didn't even look sick as compared to other patients in the ward. =smilez=
What's life after the 2-3 weeks of shuttling to and fro the hospital? Work and tuition and endless tuition. I needed a life.
Caught up with my primary school friends, Belle, Siyin, Jingling and Fongmei cos Siyin came back from Australia. We had dinner at Din Tai Fung then wanted to go somewhere to "la kopi". How common was that? Instead, we headed to Cine to take Neoprints, then we went to "la" chocolate.. Fondue.. Chocolate with marshmellows and strawberries are perfect combinations. Ooi-lala.. We talked about life, love and marriage. Beyond our imagination, we were all so shocked to hear from Siyin that one of our primary school friends was diagnosed with ovary cancer early this year. She is the same age as me!!! Why?? Oh and I happened to see Maxim at Cine. Ha.. Singapore is small..
The exciting thing that happened in church was the new marriage bible study. Got myself into real serious thinking about love and marriage. Marriage ain't any little girl's silly dream. It's God's plan.
I know I have been so busy these days that I've neglected my pals, buds, buddies and darlings. Ha.. Wanna meet me up? Need appointment k. Haha.. Cos Ros just asked me out for sec 4 class reunion. Eh.. Bo eng la.. Among all the busyness, I still managed to catch up with Angeline and Suet.
On 22nd, met Angeline up after service for dinner. Ha.. What a surprise for her to ask me out for dinner? Before we left expo, we caught up with Gustin. He's back in Singapore for holiday. He has changed so much. Ha.. Then we took the train down to Esplanade for dinner. We went to the Makan Sutra Hawker and had so many things. We ate hokkien mee, chicken wings and satays. Just the both of us. Sumptous meal and was a great time of fellowship.
On 23rd, met Suet to watch the musical Cabaret. Before that, we had dinner at this new cafe in Citylink. It's New York, New York. We both pasta craze haha.. ordered pasta!! Suet had the ordinary seafood pasta and I had the Alfredo pasta with roasted chicken. Huge portions.. value for money.. But not the soup and drinks we ordered. The pumpkin soup was too salty and the milkshakes we had were the shrunk- version as compared to those seened in the menu. But we saw others drinking the super large rootbeer float.
Before the show started, there was this man who missed a step in the theatre and hurted his head. Ouch.. So pain.. Overall, Cabaret wasn't not bad la, but still wasn't the best that I've watched. Perhaps cos it's a local production. There's still room for improvement to reach the international standard like Sound of Music, The Phantom of the Opera etc.. and not forgetting the best local production I've watched- The Forbidden City.
Back to Cabaret, Kris Philips (Fei Xiang) and Emma Yong really sang well. Never knew that Emma Yong had such powerful vocal. I especially like the segment of the Pineapple Song. So funny. Cabaret is a story of love beyond races, status and dreams. Love aint word-expressions.
On 25th, we had a JC gathering cos Kaini is leaving for France for 9 years to study medicine. We surprised her at this rooftop bar in Chinatown. It sucks and the service sucks too. Then we walked down to Hong Kong St. Settlers' Cafe. Was a fun night of food and games.
Last wed, went for a trial lesson at True Yoga at Pacific Plaza with Aunt Alice. It was a combat yoga lesson, but it happened to be a kickboxing cum aerobics class. The consultants there kept psychoing us to sign up the package. So expensive lo. After much negotiation with the manager, he offered us a trial yoga therapy class on Sat and also great package deals.
The yoga class on sat was so argh... The yoga master cracked my bones and twisted my body beyond what I thot I could do. Felt so great to be cracked. Haha.... What did I do? I signed up for 1 year's package. Haha... Fine.. I know some might think that I'm nuts and have too much money to waste. No.. I love it. Had 2 yoga classes yesterday and 2 today. Just came home. Going for more this week. Hee..
Well, now yoga is another commitment in my life. My eventful July =smilez=
OH, i'm so in love with victorian at {/11:43 PM}
