Levels:
Happiness - 6/10 (Supressed a bit, cos of my URTI)
Spiritual - 8/10 (dunno why. Bit high lately)
Physical - 4/10
?Mental 20/10 (Yeah baby! Off the charts! Ding dong! Hello!)
Somehow difficult to find enthusiasm to be excited about Raya this year. Possibly because i'm leaking from my nose and sneezing at the slightest provocation. I had a super-duper dinner last night cos my friends came over to Buka Puasa at my house. Nasi kerabu, nasi dagang, nasi tomato, ayam percik, otak2, kuih tepung pelita, etc. It was REALLY yummy! At least, that's what everyone said... I take their word for it. The only thing i really tasted (mixed with my post-nasal drip) was the nasi dagang. Good stuff...
I realised one thing though... Taste has a lot to do with satiety... Even though i consciously realised that i'd eaten a lot, and my girth was expanding, somehow i didn't feel very full. Felt like i could eat some more... Interesting. They should do a study on fat people with BMI> 27 or something. Maybe their taste buds have reduced sensation, so end up eating more.
Really difficult to wake up this morning! What to do.. It was either pop those Piritons or be sleepless the whole night from a stuffed up nose. I don't like antibiotics, no, wait. I ABHOR antibiotics, so none of that poison for me (I prescribe it, doesn't mean i have to TAKE it! Haha!). The last time i took antibiotics was in 2006, and even then i defaulted... I was doing an EOD as a medical HO with a super-jonah MO(hells bells...). By night i was having a serious bad sore throat. I thot, hey, Augmentin lying around everywhere.. I'll just start a course! Bad idea. I was having gastritis by 3am and diarrhoea by 6am. Not that it mattered, cos i didn't have time to SLEEP anyway.. I'm so glad i'm an MO now. HOship was like a pre-purgatorial state...
On the bright side, I succeeded in doing a nasal intubation! Hurrah mel! I notice whenever i do a GA case in OT, i tend to get REALLY sleepy post-op. I wonder if my machine is leaking Sevo quietly... I checked with my friend and she says she feels that too. Maybe it's not in yer 'ead Mr Tweedeh!
BEC meeting tonight. We are celebrating two birthdays today for two great women.. Aunty Thecla (Clare's momma) and the greatest of all women, The Blessed Virgin Mary (Everyone's Momma!) So to celebrate, we ordered a special chocholate walnut fudge cake from Merry Cake House, our neighbourhood, less-sugar cakehouse! Tonight i shall broach the subject of Lourdes 2011! After much deliberation and thought, i think we'll spend ALL 5 or 6 days in Lourdes.. The daily Eucharistic and Marian Procession, bathes, prayer at the Grotto is eternally cool of course. But it being a Mel tour, it's going to be interspersed with fun activities too! Doesn't make it any less holy right? Right? (I have a feeling Father may beg to differ! :p) A picnic at Lourdes Lake, a visit to the Betharram Caves, mountain biking down from the Pic du Jer station.. All important ways to connect with God's Creation i believe. And lots and lots of Lourdes water! The nice thing about being in Lourdes is that you don't need to buy bottled water... Just get it free from the Grotto! It's like God's Love... No extra charges.. No 5% tax.. Where can get free stuff nowadays?! :p
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Dear God,
Please shower your eternal blessings on Mary, Your special Lady, and Aunty Thecla, who has done a fair bit to offer up her children for vocations. May we follow the example of Mother Mary and always trust in Your ways and learn to say "Yes" to Your will, although we may not know what the future holds for us. And Mother Mary, please pray for us and watch over us as you watched over baby Jesus.
Amen.
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