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Just helping out a friend of mine to advertise his wife’s eBay page, selling many kinds of earrings at the moment. If I recalled correctly, his wife had to quit her normal job in Feb 2007 due to poor health and has not worked since then. Now, despite not being able to go for a normal day job, she’s trying to earn some income for the family by going into eBay.

http://search.ebay.com.sg/_W0QQsassZgardenerdindin
So, check them out, and if you saw anything you like and the price is right, go for it, will ya?

Thanks.

PS: I won’t get a single cent from referring you all, so no worries Just helping a friend out.
PS2: I’m still sick too, can’t believe I still can’t recover from a cough after five days !!!
PS3: Anyone want to buy for me? :p

On Sunday, I thoroughly felt much better. My temperature is down to 37°C, less headache, and overall I was quite okay. I stayed at home that whole day, until about 4PM to go to church. I reached back home close to 9PM. That night, suddenly I felt worse, I coughed badly, pain in the chest whenever I cough, headache followed. Had quite a bad night. Apology to my roommate, whom I think didn’t sleep well last night too.

Left with no choice, I took my MC on Monday (today), and went to see the doctor. To my surprise, the queue was at least three times as long as it was on Saturday. The girl behind the counter recognized me when she saw me again, asked “Haven’t recovered?“. I replied “Felt worse really. *cough* *cough*” Went through the standard administration procedures, and she told my queue number was 37. I asked how many people were in the queue, she replied silently, but I read her lips “A lot !!!” And so it turns out to be about 15 queue numbers were before me, mainly families. I went around the HDB block, thinking if I could get some breakfast for myself. I saw one hawker centre just next to the clinic. To my horror, they only sell, spicy malay food, curry indian food, deep fried western food, and ice cold desserts, none of which are really that gentle to my throat and cough. Disappointed, I went back to the clinic. Luckily, there were many magazines to entertain me. I finished reading Wine & Dine, The Executive, Business Times, and few other thinner magazines before my number was called. The whole session with the doctor lasted probably less than five minutes, checked my temperature was already down to 36.6°C (which I presume is already normal), and gave me more of the same cough medicines, now added with one for phlegm.

So now, I have 101 (read that in binary) kinds of medicines for fever, pain (headache), cough, phlegm, and running nose that I have to take 1-2 tabs each 3-4 times a day. Man !!!! Talking about getting sick is worse than ……. errrrrr……. not getting sick? I had the wonderful stock of orange juices, green tea, and other stuffs in the fridge, but for now, I should only be drinking plain ol’ hot water with honey and lemon …

And the worst part? My mom and grandma called me last night in my worst condition. I was only on my first sentence on the phone, and my grandma could have already guessed that I’m having a cold. A couple of sentences later, she would have known that I had a bad cough too. Can’t really run away from parents and grandparents, can I? hehe…. They just somehow have that sixth, seventh, and eighth sense to call you when you are sick, and within the first five seconds of talking, could have known that I’m sick. Wonderful really!!!
I tried talking them not to worry too much about me. I’ll let them know again when I’ve recovered fully

This morning I woke up about 8AM, and I felt much worse than last night. I hardly willing to wake up, whole body felt very weak, cough, headache, and obvious fever. I had to cancel my morning’s appointment to the dentist. Instead, I dragged myself out at 10AM to the clinic nearby, two bus stops away. I queued, saw the very-friendly doctor, and came home about 11.45AM. My body temperature was measured at 38°C just now, no wonder I had bad headache whenever I cough. I had just a piece of bread for lunch, ate my medicines, and slept away for the whole day. I woke up again about 6.30PM, had my dinner, and medicines again. I’ll have to try to sleep early again today, so I can recover tomorrow. I’ll hate to skip church tomorrow if I’m still sick.

Well, everyone, take care of your own health, it’s bad enough to get sick, but to get sick over the weekend is much worse, really.

Was it the rain drops? Was it the late dinner? Was it my anti-body? Was it the weather? Was it the cold air-con in office? Was it everything that caused me to fall sick today? Whatever it was, this morning I felt that I was not feeling well in the morning. Shortly before lunch time, I had wanted to go back home, but I was thinking probably I’ll stay until my afternoon video conference, and I did. After lunch, I felt much better, and so I didn’t go back home. Only after my video conference, I felt worse, a bit feverish, and I left office about 6.10pm. I reached home about 7.15pm, and before I gathered all my strength to have my dinner, I zonked out on my bed and slept. I only woke up again 8pm to have my dinner. Very hungry hehe….

Hopefully, I’ll sleep early today and tomorrow I’ll be fine, else I have to cancel my appointment tomorrow morning.

On Friday, I just realized that SBS (or LTA?) has installed display panels along bus stops in Orchard Road to display the bus service and their respective ETA, much like MRT, and that’s a great step forward for buses services in Singapore.

After office, I went to City Hall for dinner with church’s friends. There were eleven of us, then we went to Marina Bay area to watch fireworks. Great stuff as usual that lasted about 15 minutes. Not willing to go back home yet, we continue our night out to play pool in Marina Square. We finished about 11.15 PM, and the “fun” began for me. I was waiting for bus 502 at Esplanade bus stop to get back home. By right, bus number 502 will arrive at 11.30 PM and last bus at midnight. As I was walking out from Marina Square, I checked iris, and it said next bus was 6 mins, and subsequent bus 30 mins. Great I thought. And so I waited. 10 minutes later, no 502 came. I checked iris and it said, next bus 22 mins, subsequent bus not operating. I was like “huh?” Where was that 11.30 PM bus? Fine, I’ll wait for the next one. 12.10 AM, I checked iris again, it said 502 is not operating now. ??????!!!!!! I stood at the bus stop for 50 minutes, and none of the planned 502 came. iris at fault? It’s okay, but where’s the 502 that was scheduled to arrive? With countless people still queuing for taxi, it was not really an option.

12.20 AM, NR8 to Bukit Batok came, I asked the bus driver if that bus passed by Jurong East. Here’s the bus driver’s reply: “Oh, you should take NR5, but it’ll probably take another hour. We don’t have enough drivers.” My heart sank, clueless on how to get back home. 502 never came, taxi was not an option, NR5 for another hour? What a luck. Anyway, fortunately NR5 duly arrived about 12.40 AM, so I took it, reached home about 01.30 AM, having paid flat $3 for NR5 bus. Grateful I’ve reached home finally, but questions remain. Where was 502? I slept about 2.30 AM.

The next morning, I woke up at 9 AM, planning to go to dentist. I called for an appointment, but the dentist’s schedule was full. Unable to sleep again, I continued finishing up my family’s videos. Afternoon, I went to young adults fellowship. So grateful for so many new students who came. At night, I wanted to call my parents, so I turned on Skype, and called them. Strangely, Skype couldn’t connect to the service, I was unable to sign in. Puzzled, I downloaded the latest version of Skype, installed, and tried again, but encountered the same problem. Later that night I found out that Skype had a rare world wide major outage that caused their users not being able to sign in. Ah, just when I need it.

And Sunday evening was a frustrating night watching Manchester United again stuttering, totally dominated a game for 90 minutes but unable to win for the third time in a row.

The chance if you are using one of the following models, do go to your nearest Nokia service centre and have them replaced, before anyone gets hurt or anything gets burned. After all, this is your chance to get a free new battery to replace your current battery that can’t last more than two days, right?

Here are the list:
Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60.

Anyone using any of the Nokia phones above?

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