One of those medical abnormalities

I had my blood pressure checked on Saturday, and the nurse who was taking the reading got restless and called her colleague over to double check the machine.
“There is something wrong, her reading is too low.” The nurse muttered in Mandarin.
“She just has low blood pressure.” The other nurse replied.
All this happened right in front [...]

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Planning the Wedding

It has been absolute mayhem since I got back, not least of all, it’s been due to the fact that it is earnings season once again.
So while I am committed to help out in a friend’s wedding, as one of those annoying people who bar the groom from entering the bride’s house, until he coughs [...]

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Surreal Saigon

Travelling to a different city always yields tales that seem otherworldly from the transient.
So while I could tell you that I ate frogs’ legs, shot from guns, almost got lost in a maze of underground tunnels, sat in a sampan for hours and almost drowned in the Mekong while dozing off, got carsick for the [...]

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Leaving on a jet plane

I will be leaving the day after tomorrow, and I still have not packed. My travel companion is just as bad if not worse.
I am working late tomorrow and have this itch to nip to MOS before heading home, but I shall try to resist the urge. I have to mentally steer myself clear of [...]

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Protected: Woe is me

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Losing my mobile phone

I lost my mobile phone on Saturday night. It was partly my fault, having left it behind, which I readily concede that I was in part to blame.
But having discovered that I had lost it not more than five minutes earlier, I went straight away to call my phone, only to have the person who [...]

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Friday was a barrel of laughs

Having waited, planned and plotted for this day to go on without a hitch for ages, I even took the precaution of telling my boss that I had to leave early, just so we could all watch Russell Peters in peace.
It was all worth it. The exorbitant ticket price. My discomfort from the sniffles. The [...]

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Sickie Woes

I have been having the most prolonged bout of illness the past week. All these symptoms of cold, fever, sniffles, sore throat and achy muscles, came and went at some point, and I was barely aware most of the time, having been doused with high dosages of sleep-inducing medication.
I suspect much of it was induced [...]

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The Smog that swallowed the city

I was taking the lift up to my apartment, when the old man who was with me in the lift, said, ‘You have to come up and take a look, it is so bad, you can’t see anything.’
He was addressing the lady next to me, who lived on a much lower floor than him and [...]

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