First Encounter with Fish Doctors

Have you ever tried fish spa before? I tried it for the first time recently. Previously, I've always find that fish spa seems quite gross. Everyone's legs in the same pool of water..dunno if they change the water... same fishes... eugh... But well, Kenko at Orchard Central just opened and it's a spanking new outlet! Me and fren went in for a shoulder massage and they were having a promo of free fish spa with every 30mins massage. So, being typical Sporeans... free one just try lah!

The staff there told us that the fishes are known as African fish doctors and they will not hurt us as they will only nibble off the dead skin. Wow! The feeling when I first dip in my legs cannot be described!! It almost felt electrifying! abit like uSqueeze or something as well. I had to use my hand to cover my mouth to keep me from screaming and giggling out loud (it is a spa place mah...). It's so tense that my feet was arched down most of the time.... My legs must be full of dead skin cells as they were swamped with fishes... haha!

When we were done with that pool, the staff came in and asked us to try their other pools. Cos each pool contain fishes of different sizes. Apparently the one we went in to straight away had the BIGGEST fishes! Wow... no wonder the feeling was so intense :P trying the other pools with smaller fishes felt like "no-kick" after that.... hahahahah...

Work.. work.. work..

Work has been crazy these days, with projects to implement week after week. My Friday nights are mostly burnt and so are most of my weekends. And everything is such a rush with the Sales folks that we all have to scramble to put things right.

Luckily this week we have a break from projects implementation. I finally have my weekends to myself! Also get to clear some time-off for today and tomorrow. Yippee!

Lotsa things to do during this break.. go for yoga lessons (I've wasted 6mths of payment without attending any lessons, laziness!!!), visit Ion Orchard (mainly for the food :P), go Daiso to satisfy my shopping crave ($2 per pc shdn't do much damage..), catch Harry Potter movie! Hehe...

@#$%# Cabbie!

I had such a frustrating night yesterday. It all started with having to work late last night as there was a last minute request job to be done. Since I was informed late, I decided that I'd still go home for dinner after the job as Mum have already cooked my share. We could only start work at around 9pm as the users could only allow us to work on it after their operation hours. Initially thought it could be done quickly (like a half an hour's job) as it was a simply request, but ended up only leaving the place at 10:30pm!

 

Then there's the frustration with waiting for cab. There was a taxi stand there near Far East Square but the queue was a little long. But seeing that there's a constant stream of cabs coming in, I decided to just join the queue. However, most of the cabs were either on call or hired. Tired, hungry and frustrated, I called to book a cab. I gave the taxi call centre lady the "location no." of the taxi stand and waited while still in the queue. I was 2nd in line when I saw my cab zoomed passed by taxi stand!! I was like.. shit*! He missed me...

 

I contemplated cancelling the booking and take the next cab that comes to the queue.. since i'm so close to being the next person.. but thinking that it's quite bad for me to do that then the taxi driver has already arrived (sorta). So I got out of the queue and called the call centre again and told her that "your driver just passed me by, can you locate him and ask him to come back here?". The lady later told me that the driver is at another taxi stand near PWC building and asked if I can walk over there since it's quite near and the taxi would have to go one big round if he detour back to my stand. I was like... I BOOKED a cab, why would i wanna walk there? But i didn't say that lah. I told her that I'm not familiar with the place (which is true) and was thinking of cancelling the booking but when i wanted to rejoin the queue, a group of girls came and joined the queue.. so I told the lady to get the driver to come back.

 

Couple of minutes later, the driver himself called me.

 

Cabbie: Miss ah, I'm at the PWC taxi stand. It's very near your side. Can you walk over to my side coz I need to make one big round if I go back to you.

Me: Huh?!! You want me to walk down the road to your side?? But why aren't you here in the first place???

Cabbie: Erm.. (totally avoided my question), can you walk over? It's very near only. I guide you where to walk.You walk down the road and turn left, then it's on the right side at PWC building.

All I could see was lotsa construction and hoardings, I walked down a little and came to a junction and still couldn't figure out where he wants me to go.

Cabbie: You should see a bus stop at the opposite side...

Me: I don't see any bus stop...

Cabbie: There's just one bus stop there! How about the HDB flats...

Me: I don't see any HDB!! There's alot of construction here and I dunno where you want me to go!

Cabbie: I'll guide you, it's very near only!

Me: (Super irritated!!!) NEVERMIND!! I'll just cancel the booking!!

Cabbie: Ok lah.. you cancel cancel lah.

 

Wah Lao! Cannot take it! I walked back to the original taxi stand and it's still filled with people! Sianz.. Called another taxi company this time and booked another cab. So scared the next cabbie would miss this stand again.. luckily he didn't and came in a jiffy. Very polite cabbie... though he had to request to stop at a petrol station mid-way to change small change cos all his money are in big notes. Oh well.. just not my day i guess...

 

Only reached home at 11pm and ate dinner then. Totally missed the last episodes of 2 drama serials that i was following. Sigh...  :-(

 

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1-Year Older Day..

Birthday came and went over the weekend in such a jiffy that I barely remember what I did on that day, beside the nice dinner that frens prepared for me at night, in celebration for my "B" day :) We had homely cabbage soup with abalone!!! Yum yum! & Fried spicy prawns with onions… Both are nicely done and very tasty too!

Later on, it was coffee at The Playground at Big Splash. We had it at OldTown White Coffee Café. We ordered the signature OldTown White Coffee but was told that their hot coffee is sold out and changed ours to cold ones. Isn’t that a bit strange? I thought usually they make cold coffees by add ice to hot coffee that they would make first? Why would they have cold ones but not hot ones here? Eughh… maybe they make the cold coffee in advance and store them somewhere…. Ahem, but I can't really taste anything bad from the coffee though. It tasted like mocha coffee to me :) The buo luo bun I ordered was so-so only. The crust on top was abit too powdery for my taste. Crystal Jade's ones tasted better.

I guess when one gets older, Birthdays are less of a big deal so there's no need to go all out to party and celebrate it in a big way. For me, this birthday had been a great day spent with nice food and good company!

Happy Belated Birthday to Me! ;-)

It's the Flu Season

Sigh... I caught the flu bug again. this is the 3rd time in a month that I'm down with the common cold. This time, i was having rather high fever after I left work on New Year's Eve at around 4pm. Yes, my company only released us at 4pm while others had half day. Darn! 38.o degrees was the temperature shown by the time i reached home. I popped 2 Panadol Flu Max and went to sleep with my throat feeling very painful. I broke out into a sweat while sleeping as I din't turn on the fan and covered myself with my blanket (i had felt very cold when i went into bed).

I din't sleep well at night and had to place a cold towel to my forehead to try and bring down my fever. My fever persisted to the next day, New Year's Day and even risen to 38.8 degrees at some point. I kept taking the Panadol pills since there were no clinics in the vicinity that opens on public holiday and my mum made me drink Ling-Yang and Yang-sen drinks. Now I'm constantly feeling hot and kept sweating though the ceiling fan was turned on. I kept drifting into sleep too while sitting at my sofa. What a way to spend my New Year! Luckily my fever subsided in the late afternoon else i would worry if I've caught the dengue fever. However, throat still hurts like mad...

Today, I went to the doctor to get proper medication since i've developed a cough and my throat still hurts. Luckily my fever didn't come back. I told her that this is the 3rd time i'm sick with flu in a month and she says that it's ok as long as each time it doesn't last too long. She says that it's the flu season now and the viruses are always changing. Even she, who is stronger and more accustomed to viruses, was down with flu recently as well. Ok, I guess there is no cause for worry, but it's annoying to keep being sick and taking medicine so often. I must try and build up my immunity. Must rest more... still feeling very tired with the bodyache and all....