With the country's biggest birthday bash looming, the urgency to leave its borders feels all the more pressing. Even with just rehearsals and practices, people's lives have been affected. In the days leading to THE big day, traffic restrictions and other immigration controls have been heightened. For example, from 16 Sept 09 to 18 Sept 09, some roads are cordoned off for the whole day or a certain period of time during the day, subways do not stop at certain stations, etc. Commoners, like myself and my colleagues, are inevitably affected by these measures. Some companies are releasing employees earlier, shops are cutting short opening hours, and customers, predictably, will stay at home and amuse themselves with home cooking and lousy TV probably.
But getting out during this period of time proves to be an expensive affair. We were, unfortunately, too late (and too lazy) to book our tickets using mileage in advance.
"Any seats left to Tokyo?" I asked
"No," came the reply from the customer service officer.
"Fukuoka?"
"No."
"Osaka?"
"No."
"Bali?"
"No."
......
This conversation was probably the most"rejecting" I have had in my life. So what do we do now?
1. Spend the money and get our arses on a flight out
2. Be good, stay in Beijing, and try to enjoy the celebrations here
Can we take a vote from the masses, please?
2009-09-18
2009-09-04
Who is the person on earth you trust most, next to your wife? The doctor, I suppose. Eye doctor, family doctor, sleep disorder doctor, and many ... many other doctors.
Olof had the experience of trusting his precious eyes to a lasic surgeon to return him his perfect eyesight. Doctor, certainly not McDreamy, said after the surgery that it was a success and he should regain perfect eyesight within a few days. Then things started to go wrong. Olof began to experience "unusual" (only because we found out later that the discomfort he experienced was not supposed to be usual) discomfort in his left eye. His right eye, as it should be, began to clear up and could see perfectly well without any effort. His left one, on the other hand, not only did not clear up but continued to be very blur. Be them short or long distance objects, his eye simply couldn't focus. A couple of days later when he could finally open his eyes without irritating them too much, a closer look at his left eye revealed what seemed to be a gap in his cornea. We called the doctor and asked if this is something to be worried about. He said no, and told us to come back at the stipulated time for a follow-up check up. We obediently (now I would say stupidly) listened to him, only to find out at the check-up that the surgery indeed went wrong. The cornea was not replaced properly, resulting in a fold and hence the blurred vision. Remedy? Stretch the cornea to cover the gap.
"Don't worry," he said. "Cornea is very elastic and can be stretched a million times with no problems."
Very comforting. No apologies whatsoever was given.
After the make-up surgery, Olof's left eyesight never became perfect. But it was never that worse to warrant another surgery either. So essentially, it was left half-fxxx.
Why rake up the history, you might ask? That's because I went to a gynecologist today to do a blood pregnancy test. I have tested like what 5 times of home pregnancy tests at home and all came back negative. YET, I am experiencing some pregnancy symptoms. The gynea called me in the afternoon and told me the blood test returns negative and added I should be put on medication to induce menstruation.
People who know me know that I don't always take "no" for an answer. I trust myself more than the most sophisticated medical equipment in the world. I did my homework too, of course. Researching on the vast internet for probable cases like myself, I found so many women out there who were in the same boat as me - as in all tests return negative but were pregnant actually. Their (incompetent) doctors, too, told them to medicate and hope for the best next month.
So... time and patience will tell it all. I'll wait until Aunt Flo comes before I rule out that I am pregnant.
Olof had the experience of trusting his precious eyes to a lasic surgeon to return him his perfect eyesight. Doctor, certainly not McDreamy, said after the surgery that it was a success and he should regain perfect eyesight within a few days. Then things started to go wrong. Olof began to experience "unusual" (only because we found out later that the discomfort he experienced was not supposed to be usual) discomfort in his left eye. His right eye, as it should be, began to clear up and could see perfectly well without any effort. His left one, on the other hand, not only did not clear up but continued to be very blur. Be them short or long distance objects, his eye simply couldn't focus. A couple of days later when he could finally open his eyes without irritating them too much, a closer look at his left eye revealed what seemed to be a gap in his cornea. We called the doctor and asked if this is something to be worried about. He said no, and told us to come back at the stipulated time for a follow-up check up. We obediently (now I would say stupidly) listened to him, only to find out at the check-up that the surgery indeed went wrong. The cornea was not replaced properly, resulting in a fold and hence the blurred vision. Remedy? Stretch the cornea to cover the gap.
"Don't worry," he said. "Cornea is very elastic and can be stretched a million times with no problems."
Very comforting. No apologies whatsoever was given.
After the make-up surgery, Olof's left eyesight never became perfect. But it was never that worse to warrant another surgery either. So essentially, it was left half-fxxx.
Why rake up the history, you might ask? That's because I went to a gynecologist today to do a blood pregnancy test. I have tested like what 5 times of home pregnancy tests at home and all came back negative. YET, I am experiencing some pregnancy symptoms. The gynea called me in the afternoon and told me the blood test returns negative and added I should be put on medication to induce menstruation.
People who know me know that I don't always take "no" for an answer. I trust myself more than the most sophisticated medical equipment in the world. I did my homework too, of course. Researching on the vast internet for probable cases like myself, I found so many women out there who were in the same boat as me - as in all tests return negative but were pregnant actually. Their (incompetent) doctors, too, told them to medicate and hope for the best next month.
So... time and patience will tell it all. I'll wait until Aunt Flo comes before I rule out that I am pregnant.
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