just came back from bangkok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sawasdee ka!!!!!!

pretty turbulent, the days before leaving for this fanstastically familiar foreign place. a flurry of discharge SOPs, trying to locate the very elusive paeds dr, getting used to not having the sedative effects of pethidine to aid me in sleeping at night... getting queer twinges of half-itch-half-pain-half burning sensations at 4am in the morning. 4 days of unbearable insomnia! staring at the shadow marred ceiling swirl and whorl obsidiously across the dimmed nightscape, quelling my fears of the dark by getting to know sleepless nights as a friend... pretty interesting lot of hours spent during that period, learning to readjust back to life at home, life as a normal person, life with 4 holes in my tummy. my mum used to laugh at me (with a crying heart) about the smiley face on my tummy - now there's 2 more new cuts above the umbilicus (in addition to 2 more deeper holes higher and lower respectively), making it a very surprised :O face :D haha. i'm pretty amused - my parents're just disgusted :D i love the looks on their faces when they pretend to hide their faces, yet peek for curiosity's sake and then contort/grimace in horror. actually it isn't that bad - when the catheter drain was still inside things looked much worse... now only 1 bleeds. the rest've more or less cleared up :D thank God for the speedy healing despite my adamant refusal to eat only vegetables or weird funky healthfood crap. i even sneaked some squid into my greedy little tummy. haha! i LUUUURRRRRRVVVEEE grilled squid. anyone who's been to bangkok but not tried it - you're a deep fried chicken wing! :P just kidding. it's seriously good with the special chili. come to think of it, thailand has a mind boggling array of chili sauces to go with virtually any dish you'd care to mention. pad thai has one, khao has one, gai has one, squid (now, i honestly have no idea what squid is in thai) has its own, too. and if you'd care to ask me, SQUID CHILI is the best! it's got this tangy overtone that doesn't try to muscle the authority out of the spicy chili, so what you get is a smooth kick that's surprisingly refreshing and appetizing. ah man, talking of food... i gained 4kg!!!!! in 6 days!!!!!!!! how on earth is that possible!!!! (actually, the answer to that question is pretty self-evident - i'm just in denial) oh well. there's 2 more weeks to school reopening, so i shall try to go swim a bit more to kill, kiIL, KILL off those extra pounds and fit into the pretty tops and bottoms i've bought in the trip!
and serena my darling wife, thank you for that call!! i really really love how u rmb me :D and i think our love is so strong it blew out the circuits! haha :D till now we still can't figure out WHICH appliance tripped the fuse... must have been you. yOU. tsktsk ^_^