The Day I Met Mandy ..

I remember the events leading up to me meeting Mandy ...

I was sitting in a clinic with my wife .. it was somewhere in Shah Alam, if memory serves .. and I remember clearly the nurse walking by, then turning to look at us .. giving us a smile and nodding in affirmation .. and I remember turning to my wife and looking into her eyes to see the most excited and happiest smile ..

Fast forward several months .. and I was in Assunta Hospital .. 18 hours had already passed since the first contractions .. junior apparently liked it so much in her mummy that an emergency C-section had to be performed ..

And I remember first seeing her .. the amazing blackness of her thick curly hair .. her soft pink chubby cheeks .. how she would squint at the glare of the bright flourescent lights .. and the way she felt in my arms .. I understood then how you felt at the moment is beyond the understanding of non-fathers - it's difficult to put into words .. it was like meeting a witness to my life and what it was worth.

I felt fiercely protective of her .. like somehow I wanted to keep her in my arms and never let her go ....

Fast forward again 18 years .... Mandy is now a adolescent teen .. rebellious and with a mind of her own .. and im left wondering .. what has happened to my princess? what the hell did I do wrong?

Didn't I spend enough time with her?
Or was I being overly protective?
Have I neglected her in any way?

I just hope that somehow in some way .. when she finally grows outta being an adolescent .. I can have my princess back ... but somehow I doubt it ...

Say that Again ?

So apparently I didn't get better the following day ... the headaches and the fever abated for like a few hours ... but came back with a vengeance that same evening ....

Unfortunately I couldn't take time off to recover cos I've just started a new job ( yes, I'm working now - been working since March ) ... so I just basically had to suck it up and bear with it ... I was kinda guessing that it would be some viral thingy and that it would run it's course in about a week ......

And guess what?

I was right ...I woke up this morning feeling much better .. a good thing too, cos it's Friday and a weekend .. I didn't wanna spend my weekend in bed trying to silence all that pounding in my head ...

So I was in Puchong just now after work - decided to have my dinner .. and I saw this :

Shouldn't that read as TIDBITS ? I wonder what would happen if someone went up to the guy and asked for a TIT ... hehehe ..

Mondays ..

I thought feeling lousy and lethargic and a general sense of 'feeling sick' comes with the usual blues of a Monday.

Turns out I'm running a temperature of 102 degrees .. I just checked .. no wonder I didn't have the appetite to eat anything at all today .. guess I'll just pop a couple of Panadols and go to bed.

I just hope I'll be ok tomorrow - cos being sick really SUCKS.

Wow ...

So after dropping off my daughter at school ( why do they have classes on a Saturday? ) this morning, I made my way to the mamak stall near my house - ordered a glass of hot tea and proceeded to just chill .... when I noticed this huge shadow pass over me ..

It was only then that I realised an eagle had flown right over me ( or rather us as I was sitting with the mamak stall owner ) less than 10 feet above my head !!

Living next to a secondary forest does have it benefits and the occasional visitor .. just never expected an eagle ..

Nice to know that in heavily polluted KL .. there are still sights to remind you that not everything is lost .....

You Know Who You Are ....

How many POLITE ways are there to show that you are NOT interested?

If I don't pick up your call .. and I don't reply your smses .. despite you calling over and over again .. as well as not responding to any of your smses OR your SKYPE messages ..

Doesn't that give you an indication that i'm NOT interested?
Or do I have to tell you to your face to FUCK OFF ??



Jeeez .. some people really tak malu .....

Still Around ...

Just a short note to say that im still here .. just been really busy lately, what with the festive season and all the other stuff that i've gotta deal with .. updates soon !!

The Angiogram

So I decided to go to the hospital after all ...

Admitted myself into the Daycare Unit this morning at 0800am ( actually was supposed to be admitted yesterday .. but it seems that the hospital ran out of bed space !! So the pre-op team asked me to come back this morning ) .. and basically just waited.

At about 1100am .. the pre-ops team wheeled me ( or more precisely I walked ) into the procedure theater and the Doc gave me a local anesthesia .. apparently Doc decided that insertion of the catheter would be done from my wrist .. I felt a numbing coldness in my forearms and my hands as the anesthesia took effect .. And before I knew it .. Doc was saying 'End of Procedure' ...

Apparently he had done whatever he needed to do so quickly ( inject the dye into my heart from the wrist and take the required shots on cam ) I didn't even know he was done ! And he gave me the news on the spot : No blockages .. your weak heart is not caused by blockages.

I then walked back out into the post-ops room ( actually it was a conference room .. maybe they needed the beds? ) and waited for the required 3 hours for the incision to seal shut and I was back home by 3:30pm !!

I guess I was happy that I didn't have any further bad news ( re: blockages ) but on the other hand .. who can actually tell me what's causing me to have a weak heart? My next appointment with the cardiologist is next week .. so guess I'll know then ....