the reason why harry potter is this famous is simply because it is the embodiment of the teenage life- fantasy, magic, love, chivalry and yes, frivolity

i miss my frivolous life.

FINALLY AN UPDATE! (i'm sick too)

you must probably be thinking, finally! darren posts something new on his blog. Finally! well, yea. i realised i haven't been writing in here since may partially because of the busy and hectic schedules and demands of work.

june has been one crazy month of activities in Speedlight. there was the leaders retreat cum camp leaders retreat that we organised the week immediately before the camp itself. that in all, was a huge killer to the mental state. you can possibly say it was then that i started to be sleep-deprived. oh well, then recently we just concluded the Light The Way project which was yet another mega project undertaken by the department. i had to help out, i just had to. couldn't just sit around, or worse leave before this project was concluded cause there are only like 5 full-time staff in the department? so yea, that took up some time too.

and guess what? i'm sick.

yea. sick. terrible feeling. i haven't fell sick since God knows when, so when this bout of viral infection (or as i was told by the doctor) came around, i kinda forgot how it was like to be sick. coughing around, feeling dizzy, loss of appetite, yadayadayada that sorta thing. BUT it was terrible on the first day (i'm somehow making this sound as if i'm having my first cramps or something eh?)

i could literally feel myself getting warmer and warmer and then i was hot all over in the morning just before i woke up. i thought it was just the air-con cause the day before that i started to develop a sore throat. i didn't think much of it then, cause i thought i just overworked my voice during sunday services. and i didn't think much of the "hotness", bathed and did the usual and then went to work. uh-uh, wrong move darren. back in the office i was so cold even though the air con above me was turned off and the one behind me was set at 25 degrees. who in the world gets cold at 25 degrees? and it was kinda strange too. my right hand was freezing icy cold but my left hand was warm, cause it was around my neck. ha. a quick check of my temperature revealed i had a slight fever. so just not to infect anyone else, i put on that facial bra. aih, it's not very comfortable really especially if you're wearing spectacles cause the hot air will rise and fog up your lenses.

oh well, i decided to take half day to go back see a doc and go home and sleep. doc said it was a viral infection, but the thing that made me happy was the speed at which the whole process took: 1 hour! ha, normally i would never see the doc in less than 2hours. so this was a good surprise, gave me a good idea too. heh. so on the way home, as i was climbing the overhead bridge, i was so dizzy i thought i had bit too much of a drink. terrible feeling. the moment i got back, i slept on the couch and didn't wake up till the night. i couldn't even eat properly. aih. but that was then.

i'm recovering now, so i've got that to Thank God for. but there's still this chunk of phlegm in my chest that i'm still trying to expel. have got some medicine for it, but i don't remember whether the drugs' supposed to dissolve it or to help me expel it.

hmmm, i'm still clueless about all this. if i'm not well by tomorrow, the phlegm too, i'm not going for hss camp. besides i'm still feeling random bouts of dizziness. scary eh. heck la.