go with the flow.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Bowel Movements Back to Normal

So the bloody diarrhoea problem hung around for three really long days. And I am finally (shitting) well now! Glad that my bowel movements have gone back to normal and I can finally resume eating without wasting food! Its been quite a painful experience having to endure acute pains in the tummy area so very very often, and also not having the appetite to appreciate food at all.

Food, glorious food. I've been eating so much, way more than I should these few days. This indulgence in all things edible is really gonna make me put on some weight during the holidays. Not that I don't need the extra weight lah, but I feel unhealthy. How?

Ah no, the deadly sin of Gluttony. And I am falling into its diabolic vices, succumbing to its irresistable temptations. Sushi. Sashimi. Conveyor belts. Eat-all-you-can-until-you-wanna-die.
More about that another time, lah.

So Monday was Chinese Exams. Ah, the Chinese Exams man. I was suffering from a minor cold, an unstable churning-at-nothing stomach, and severe lack of sleep. To think that I went for the Exams under these unsound conditions makes me wanna flip. And cry too, at the same time.

It was kinda like a freakish nightmare actually. The Sunday night before the day of the Exams, I went to bed at 1am, thinking that I'd be so damn tired I'd definitely be knocked out in no time. But hell, was I wrong. I lay in bed from 1am till 5am. Four freaking hours!!! I just lay there, rolling about under the sheets, every now and then fidgeting away with whatever not, and then wiping my cold sweat from my forehead, and then reaching for a new tissue to blow out my leaky nose due to the cold, and then running to the toilet at 3 plus am 'cos my stomach suddenly decided to play a trick on me, and then repeating the entire sequence above again.

And whatever tactic I tried to lure myself into slumber proved futile. I counted sheep. I tried to drift my mind into some sweet memory. I tried to focus on the darkness when I closed my eyes. I buried my head under the sheets. I tried to talk to myself, convinced that convincing myself would help. But they all didn't work. Gah, sleepless nights suck!

So then finally at 5am I took my pillow and my bolster and I made my way to the hall and plonked myself on the sofa. And within 5 minutes, I was sleeping already. Bloody shit, must be some funny joke thats trying to fool me or something. Then I had to wake at 7am to prepare to go to school. And that was only 2 hours of sleep. 2 hours of sleep in preparation for my Chinese Exams. What the hell man, I was so pissed with myself and was feeling to grouchy 'bout the entire shit I had to go through before a really important day.

Sigh. What to do? I still went on and tried my best in the Exams. I'm hoping I'd pull through in the end. It'd really be remarkable!

Oh and after school I had Burger King with Karen, Priscilla, Jasmin and Taariq. Crazy people lah.. we laughed so hard at everything and anything. I was laughing so hard I wanted to shit. Well, that was because I was still having my bad stomachaches.

Then after that Karen and I watched Over the Hedge. We went in slightly late, and the bloody cinema theatre was so dark we couldn't even find out seats properly. Then we decided to not care 'bout whatever seats we had and just sat on some other seat available, by ourselves. Well, we found out later on during the show that those seats belonged to somebody else. And also that our seats had been taken by some other people! No wonder we couldn't find our damn seats!

Century's theatre just kinda screwed up lah. But the movie was such a hoot man. I must say its the corniest cartoon movie I've ever seen. Waaaaay better than the likes of Ice Age. And don't forget that its really cute too! Those little furballs walking around. Karen and I were laughing like some crazy asses, especially towards the end of the show. We were just laughing like nobody's business man, and if you were there, you'd want to smack us. Left, right, centre.

But thats because we actually understood the movie's crappy lingo. All the little kids in the cinema wouldn't laugh 'cos they clearly don't understand. They only giggle and guffaw at the lame moments and the more practical stuff. And the adults who bring the kids are either trying not to be embaressed or they totally catch no ball at all. C'mon, would you expect a 30-something man/woman to fully comprehend the good stuff? No.

So, that was why, I am telling you, and I am really sure, Karen and I were the only ones who were erupting in raucous laughter. And we enjoyed ourselves so much, the worries of a bad stomach were erased from my mind.

If you haven't caught Over the Hedge, go for it soon! Its definitely worth it if you're as corny as I am!