Posting no. 45

Will be starting my holiday this coming Sat and no blogging till next year. But i can't end with 44 posts for the year right? So, here i'm writing the 45th post. haha..just to get rid of no. 44, which is not a good number in the Chinese tradition. :P

Guess where I'm spending my holiday? hehe.. I'm going to Auckland! yeah!! Super excited about the trip. But too anxious thinking of what to pack, and if i've left out anything! Relax, girl... after all, i'm visiting my cousins there. They will probably have the things I need. >___<

Two more days of work and off I fly to NZ! Will update more about the trip when I'm back. Till then, see ya! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

The end of my choir practice

Finally..the performance has ended yesterday. It was an awesome night but tiring, altogether. For both Sat and Sun nights, we had to be at the venue at 6pm and everything ended about 11pm. I was still feeling feverish, but thank God, i was able to forget about my tiredness while waiting for our performance as I was enjoying all the other programs..while chatting with my choir mates.

I didn't take a photo of myself from top to toe. Didn't bring camera as there's no place for me to keep my things when i was on stage. So..i 'steal' a photo from my friend..

The big choir..we didn't arrange our position according to heights. So, we looked a bit untidy on stage. But never the less, our voices are great! :D

Here are some of my alto mates.

Photo from CT Ang Photography

I hope there will be more chance to sing with these girls.. Some of them are from other churches. So chances of meeting are slim. But ipoh is small..so, who knows when and where we might meet! :D

I'm sick..

Ever fall sick after a stressful night?

I was wondering why am I feeling cold on a sunny day and why am I so tired. I know I went to bed late yesterday night, and i thought that was it... but then, i felt heaty and feeling really, really uncomfortable. By 3pm at work, i was almost lying on my desk. I kept myself awake, and walked around the office, disturbing my colleagues. By the time i got home, I got runny nose.

Oh dear..i got myself problem. FLU! My choir performance is on this Sunday and tomorrow is the full-dressed rehearsal, and now I got FLU and fever and sore throat! That's so bad! How am I going to sing! And I practised since August for this big performance! I'm so looking forward to it. Now, i'm worried...

Oh yeah, why was i talking about falling sick after a stressful night. I was thinking and planning about my NZ trip the last 2 weeks of this year. Not really planning the trip, but thinking about which suitcase to use, what to wear...which jacket to bring..i'm just over anxious. Gosh..how long have I not been travelling to colder countries? But it's summer there..why am I getting worried about whether I will be too cold at night, and not enough to wear?

My sis gave me this verse..

Matt 6:25-26 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"

I really should just start packing, and stop worrying.. :D God will heal me for Sunday's performance. Amen!

Wrist pain

I feel the painful sting at my wrist again.. I said again is because i had it since April 2011. It was very painful that time but went away on and off though the vein is still slightly swollen. But i can do things normally, write, use the computer, etc without the sting. It was only painful when i used too much strength to play badminton or play the piano. Now it came back all of a sudden even though i didn't do all that...

It's not really the wrist part, but rather more to my thumb and index finger. I sprained them when i was holding a 2L separating funnel with both of that fingers. Silly me..i know.. I was actually forcing myself to hold it while i was weighing something.

I went to see a few doctors for treatment. The first one gave me diclofenac but it was too strong for me and I got gastric after 2 days. Another gave me Piroxicam (Feldene) but the doctor only prescribed enough medicine for a week as there's side effect for taking too much. All the medicine never really work for me. I went to see a specialist in Pantai Hospital and he told me it's just muscle pain and that I should soak my hand in hot water for 20mins everyday. I didn't really follow and eventually the pain left but the vein is still like that.

Mom suggested me to massage my hands. No good either. I even went for acupuncture treatment. It was extremely painful when the needle was poked into my palm! Gosh...my hand was numb the whole day, i can't even move my fingers after that and for the subsequent week, i have to bandage my hands to avoid from using my hand too much.

I hope the pain will go away soon, before my long holiday. Otherwise, i won't enjoy my holiday 100%. I'm really worried now and hope it will heal on its own.