where does "my inspiration" get all her energy?

it's saturday, 6 October 2007.

like any other saturdays, since mum started working on weekends too, i woke up around 8 and had to decide if i should go running. since BK didn't call and the sun seems to be working harder than usual, and the fact that i had signed up for the year end big run, i reached a wonderful compromise: i shall go running at the gym. in the comfort of aircon and (loud) music i'd clock some distance. how win-win can it get?

while running on the machine, "my inspiration" called and arranged for lunch at 1.30pm. i don't carry my phone at the gym but this day, i knew she was going to call. i spoke to her "normally", as opposed to "panting", while my neighbouring runners eavesdropped.


i arrived at pek kio food centre around 1.40, after diligently following "my inspiration's" clear directions. the other two came even later. all in all, i had one piece of goreng pisang, one goreng sweet potato, prawn mee and fried carrot cake. And of course that cannot be just it for "my inspiration".

we proceeded to square 2, our first time (too!). "my inspiration" said there is this japanese bread shop. i quite like the scone and the banana bread. overall, i think i'd give it 3 stars out of five.

by this time i'm exhausted and yawning away already. after saving 4 bucks, by parking 2 cars at the food centre and going to square 2 in one, BK got us back to our cars. i came home and napped.

"my inspiration", according to her plan, still has to go to town to meet HL to look at LV, then dinner with ji@yi followed by a movie tonite (already bought tickets!). and did i not mention that she had PT this morning from 11 to 12?

if anyone i know (in person) is living life to the fullest, it could just be "my inspiration". cheers!

bottom up

endocopy rm 2, i think. that's where i was pushed into.

(endoscopy means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the human body for medical reasons using an instrument called an endoscope.)

dr Lim was talking to me and injecting tube after tube of something into me (via my wrist!) and the next thing i knew, i was back where it all began. i can vividly remember experiencing some discomfort during the procedure but that was just it. and after it was all done, much gas accumulated inside me that i wished i could fart quicker and faster.

apparently the scope went up my bottom. can't give any more detail because that's just all there is to be said. slept so well i didn't feel a thing.

so what was it all about? in case, just in case, i didn't hv the chance to spell it all out, i thought it might be a clever idea to leave it in writing somewhere. in this case, somewhere being here.

started from don't know when, i began to go to the loo more often than before, sometimes as many as 6 times a day. the nurse who discharged me (and gave me my 2-day sick note, yeah!) showed me the pictures and said that the colon looks ok, maybe more sensitive than usual. The rest she will leave it to the doctor to tell me in November.

(in the anatomy of the digestive system, the colon is another name for the large intestine. the main function of the colon appears to be extraction of water from feces.)

so here you have it, my bottom up experience :-)