Busy September 2011

Time flies. It is the end of September. I have been busy in this month. I have not accessed blogs for a month.

I helped a family to take care of their boys while the parents went travelling. I woke up early around 5.30am to get ready for the boys to go to school. I sent them to school every morning and fetched them home in the afternoon. I prepared simple lunch and dinner for them as well. It was their school examination period and I helped them to do revision. I also took care of the pets and plants for the parents while they were away. Well, it was tiring but a good experience.

After that, it was my turn to go travelling. Although it was just less than a week, I walked most of the time for almost ten hours a day! After I am back from the trip, I am so tired but still worth it.

Proper Bookstore is Nowhere

In the past, I was staying in town and city which have bookstores.

I love reading and I can go to a bookstore spending my leisure time before I buy any books.

This has become my history.

I have shifted to a small town for a simpler life.

I have nowhere to go when I feel I want to flip through hardcopy of new books and do some books shopping!

Well, I think I should catch up with the technology and do books shopping from the e-bookstores.

However, the feel is totally different. Should a simple life equivalent to no books shopping at traditional bookstores? I wonder.

Hand Foot Mouth Disease

After reading "zakkaArt: Simple Happiness: a good news and a bad one" about the blogger's child having Hand Foot Mouth disease, it recalls my experience.

It was an afternoon that I started feeling cold in office. I guessed it was due to cooling weather as it was drizzling outside. Later on, I felt colder and sick. I could not concentrate at work. Hence I left the office 2.5 hour earlier. It was around 4pm and I was heading to a panel clinic near my house. I waited for a bus and went to a train station. From the train station, I must transit at a crowded train interchange before I could reach the clinic. On the train, there was no vacant seat available as I believed it was the time just after schooling. It was such a long journey for me to stand all the way for more than 1 hour. Finally I reached the clinic before 5.30pm. There were about 6 patients before my turn. I was sitting there and waited for long.

The doctor measured my temperature few times and told me that I have high fever. She was so kind that advised me to take a taxi home as it was raining outside.

I rested at home the next day as per doctor advice. Fever had gone but the base of my feet started feeling pain when I walked. On the third day, I went to the clinic again before going to office. It was another doctor on duty. I showed him the red dots under my feet. I told him I suspect it is HFMD. He shook his head and told me that I was allergic to the Panadol that I had taken 2 days ago. Hence after the one day rest, I went to office and walked slowly for the whole day.

After all, 4 of my family members started sick and their doctors confirmed that they have Hand Foot Mouth Disease. One of the doctors even advised them to stay at home for 2 weeks.

(picture shows my recovering foot)
I believed I was sick due to this same disease. When the blisters appeared under my feet, I confirmed that it was Hand Foot Mouth Disease. I was the one who spread the disease to them. I was so curious that why the doctor unable to diagnose it when I showed him my bare feet?

就是爱书

我在一个小地方长大。那里至今还没有一间像样的书局。所以从小除了学校用的书本外，没有什么机会接触课外书。顶多是在学校假期到图书馆借一些书而已，不过印象中那里的选择也不多。我也不知道为何在这样缺乏书的环境里也会培养到喜欢书的兴趣。最近才听友人说，根据他读的命理书，我是适合多接触和多收藏书以便带来更好的运气。哦！原来如此。

随着年龄增长，环境变化而会对不同类型的书有所喜好。对于能引起共鸣感的，令人恍然大悟的书，我都会视它们为值得一读的书。我也喜欢告诉朋友有关读过有趣的书本，与他们分享精彩的部份或简介。若他们对那本书开始有兴趣，就会去找来读。否则，也让他们知道那本书不适合他们的口味。不然，他们总说没时间找到喜欢的书来看。我也知道看了内容空洞的书，感觉就是浪费时间。所以大家交换读后感也不错。

现今社会有一股趋势，把兴趣变职业。曾经和友人聊天，她是见到书海就会心花怒放的人。爱书和分享书内容的兴趣适合转成什么职业？答案竟然是教书。真的是这样吗？

My first blog

Blogging has been common for many years.
I manage to create my first blog today, finally!