i'm off to perhentian!

Finally got my new laptop working, so decided to put it to use by editing my blog which i've just resurrected. in 2 hours time i'm gonna be off to perhentian!! yippee doo!! even though this is my 3rd time there, but I fell in love wif the place since the 1st time I went. Hopefully the weather's gonna be nice and sunny.

2 days ago had major gastric, its the most gruelling feeling ever...almost thought i wouldn't be able to make this trip, but thankfully its much better now, just have to make sure i take my medication and eat my meals on time. and i'm gonna be off alcohol for a while...long while... think i've had quite enough the last few wks. first it was flu, then fever, asthma, period pain, and now gastric..all in 2 weeks. think its god's way of telling me its time for healthy living. no more ciggies, 2nd hand smoke, alcohol, and all the what-nots. time to detox!!

anyways, gonna pack up and head off for a nice tan!! yiippee doo!!!

my blog is alive again...

its been almost 5 months since i've been back from nepal. writing this blog entry from home is certainly very different from writing a blog entry when i was in nepal.

for one, i dont even know what i should write about as life in the past 5 months havent exactly been the most exciting months of my life. nothing new to write about except whine on about how work has been quite a struggle. well 5 months after nepal, 5 months into brand planning...everything's just whooshed past in the last 5 months working as a "strategic planner" - a glamourous name if you have really all the qualities to be a good one.

am still doubting whether i'm cut out for this 'much-sought-after' position that is only given to the 'selected' ones. sometimes i just wonder why go through all the stresses when you can take the easy option of doing something you really like.

ah well..i guess its not so easy for everyone to just drop off whatever they're doing and embark onto a total different career path. many a times i've been so tempted to just throw in the white towel, but thankfully i've been supported by enough sane people to keep me from doing something irrational again.

have concluded i'll just hang on to this job thats although driving me rather insane - and just learn whatever i can and take whatever comes next. guess when i'm really sick of this, i will throw in the towel no matter what anyone tells me.

la la la.. now i'm sitting at home coz had a rather serious asthma attack which the inhaler didnt work and i had to be on a neubiliser (the last time i used one was when i was 7!!) and this time i had to have double dosage coz i didnt feel that much better after 10mins of inhaling from the machine. actually my attack wasn't really that serious, i could still go for a half day meeting...i think that doctor just isnt that great....grrr.....had to come back coz my hands were starting to shake, and i was getting a bit light-headed from the stuff that i inhaled.

tomorrow's gonna be another long long long day........sighhh........when will these presos and meetings stop.....miss those days in nepal where everyday i just wake up feeling good bout what i'm doing even though my asthma was quite bad then..and also the fact i had to bathe in freezing cold water..=p..but certainly it felt great waking up not having to worry bout meetings and deadlines..sigh...

A new volunteer has arrived

Today's my official last day of volunteering with VSN. and my last day in pepsicola. will be moving to thamel to stay in the hotel with my parents tomorrow. having mixed feelings now... the whole experience feels like its just flew past me.

Spent the whole of this morning just resting in bed coz was starting to feel a bit feverish yesterday and the whole of last nite. Restrained from taking panadol coz Marty convinced me that we should let our body do self-healing instead of relyin on chemically-created medicines. So just flooded myself with bottles of water, and am quite satisfied that I'm feeling much better. Usually at the first signs of sickness, I'd reach for medication, but guess now might try to avoid it as much as I can.

Over dinner last nite, he was talkin about how our everyday diet is creating humans with a lot more deformities than previous generations ago...etc etc.. Very interesting things he brought up. But on the other hand, life is so short enough as it is, if we were to really pick on every single thing we put into our mouth, and put so much stress on ourselves worrying about what the next generation will be like due to our binging habits, what's the joy in living then? contradications...

while I was leaving the house to come to the cybercafe, met a new girl who just arrived. she'll be moving up to my room tomorrow when i'm gone. haven't had the chance to speak to her yet, but she seems quite nice, had a sort of uncertain look on her face, but thats really expected. considering how ur just whisked into a house of a stranger in a foreign land...really can be quite daunting.

everytime i write an entry in my blog, i keep feeling surprised as to how fast time has just gone past. next week will be my last week in nepal. and it's back to civilisation..and routine.. kinda looking forward to goin back to work. this trip has been a great break and really did change a lot on my outlooks on life.

thank you Sue for helping me setup this blog, or I wouldn't have been so consistent in jotting down my experience here and would have regretted that much later.

anyways, gotta head off to the orphanage now... kinda sad that i'm leaving them. will be bringing my parents on saturday to visit them one last time before we head to pokhara on sunday-wednesday.

byebye pepsicola....