Just another post...

I haven't posted for so long man!!
Just been busy I guess....
Anyway, being IWA...it's kinda expected to be this busy :P

Wait a minute...I wasn't all that busy...in fact, I wasn't doing much last week...just sleeping a lot...hehe...

Well...it all started after my last posting...on the 4th...my housemate started to be very sick...actually it was the 3rd nite...but i got home late and never see...just assumed she has slept early that day...
The next day...she msg me to ask whether I'm gg home early the day...would like me to get dinner since she was sick...hmm...that din sound rite...she must be really sick...
Indeed she was...with really high fever...up to 39 degrees!!

The next day same thing...still having a fever...went back to see the doc who refered her to TTSH for a blood test...suspected dengue...uhoh...
Anyway, blood test result was inconclusive...with pretty low platelet...but not at a critical level...so she was sent home...
Apparently she had an interesting episode there...haha...some "kuku" guy (her words) was there...kept requesting for "X-ray! X-ray!"...apparently his slot was for 11 Jan 10.30am...so he was asked to go home...

On Sat...she went back for another test...again...same thing...and the "kuku" guys was also there...haha...
Anyway, I went to donate blood that morning...my hemoglobin was 14.1..very good...last month couldn't donate 'cos Hb was a little low 12.1 :P

Sunday..same thing for Ms Lim...
But Feei and I went Vivocity for her b'day lunch with a few other ASEAN ppl...had to leave the lawyer at home...hehe...but we'll get some non-oily sandwich for her...she hasn't been able to eat well and been puking out most of wat she ate...she figured it's too oily...and she dreamt of salad and sandwich the nigth b4...haha...
How to find non oily sandwich in Vivocity?? In the end never get anything...instead I went out again in the evening and got sushi for her...it's kinda non-oily rite :P

On Mon...still not well...so her dad decided to send her mom and sis over to rescue her...hehe...
That afternoon...I started to feel..not too good...but anyway, I had plans to meet up with Mr Koh and the NUS tennis gals that evening...so I just hanged ard in school till we met up...
It was nice to meet up with ppl like Joanne and Sharon Liu again!! Busy lawyers...luckily we met up in Raffles City...they could drop by after work :D
...I found out Joanne works in Drew n Napier...same same as my Ms Lim...not only her...Grace Lai is also there...and someone else from the guys team...was it Ray? Haha...everybody works there?
Too bad Grace had plans that nite liao...Stacey also just happened to have left the country that morning...forgot abt Mei Ling...oops...but ChenMei said she's in Germany...phew...hehe
Anyway, it was nice meeting with all those that ppl again...haven't seen each other since after graduation man!!
I was pretty much "gone" after dinner...luckily got a lift home from Mr Koh :D

Tue...even though I was still kinda feverish...I had to go back to the lab to stop the overnight reaction I had started the day b4...gotta work it up...extract..then rotavap...wash my glasswares, clean up the bench...blah blah blah...then home I go ;)

Wei Lee's mum and sis was ard...anyway, I just went home and sleep till it's time to meet Vorlacks for dinner...oh ya...Vorlacks just got back on Sat...and will be leaving again on Sat...that's the only day I'm available to meet him...and find out from him abt his interesting posting on the blog!! Angel and Lili were there too...
It was Tue...so waffles were at 50% off...hehe...I left after one waffle...Vorlacks and Lili wanted another one...but the wait was 30 mins...I wanna sleep liao lah :P

Wed...I din go sch...just nua at home...even meals were settled by Wei Lee's mum...hehe...when to see doc and had a blood test there..just in case...platelets were normal...230..and WBC was normal but on the low side...4.6...

Thur...same thing...except I went to work in the evening...hehe
Wei Lee doesn't seem to have dengue...based on serum antibody...so the docs think it's Chikugunya...it's just a different virus...but basically the same as dengue...spread by Aedes, symptoms similar except different rash pattern...

Fri...went to the lab for a while in the morning...got someone to replace me for work that evening since I was gg to Malacca the next morning...needed more sleep :P

Sat and Sun...I was in Malacca for a day and a half for various interesting and exciting talks! So exciting that I developed a slight fever again on Sun nite :P

Mon...din go sch again...haha...tried to prepare that poster for the OLS opening on the 5 and 6 of next month...oh shucks...it's still not done yet...maybe I need to panick liao...since I have another presentation to prepare for next next Wed's group meeting...

Anyway, this week was just busy in the lab...synthesizing some cpds and purifying some other cpds by Combiflash...I love Combiflash...save me the trouble of packing my own column...and it's so much faster!!! of course that makes it more expensive...but who cares :P

Ok that's all for now...time to get off work soon...wahaha :P

Oh ya...Wei Lee has just been added to the statistics for Chikugunya yesterday...hehe...so wat did I have?