bbg - life in Kobe

千九百十四：　Prickles

Been feeling very poorly for the past week.
stomach flu plus normal flu, fever and sore throat.
tummy still hurting on and off.
I think I have to return to the doc's soon because i suspect it might be more than stomach flu given the symptoms. Just checked my life line on my palm and it seems to be still ok long so I shouldn't need to worry?

saw a cat that looked like a rabbit:

Not looking forward to work next week. not feeling very well :(

千九百十三：　Tenacity

a Daddy Long Legs was hanging on to the car mirror for dear life when we drove to the hair salon.

It was amazing, managed to hang on for about 1 km before dropping off somewhere.

Got a hair cut on Saturday, ate thai food for dinner, and realised I had stomach flu when for the 3rd time that week my stomach was hit with sharp pains during dinner and had to run to the loo. Luckily in all instances, the loos were pretty clean and I made it to the loo in time despite the urgency of the situations. (T.T) Woke up super early with bad stomachaches the whole week as well.

I haven't been sleeping well partly due to the weather - 36 degrees celsius on the avg daily. Plus our stupid fan stops every 6 hours automatically. DUH!! it might be to save power, but who wakes up every 6 hours to on the fan in the night! sighz. i guess it's our own fault for buying a fan with this stupid feature, but i realised most fans have this auto off feature. RAWR!!!

千九百十二：　Visitors

Whole family gathered in Japan the past weekend (mom and sis came 2 weeks earlier), and 2nd sister remains here with Calvin this week.

It was half good half bad.

Good - Mom was around to take of us, she cleaned up the whole house and there was meals mom prepared and I didn't have time to cook my own meals as I was trying to finish up AQR and the wedding stuff as well. Had a lot of fun with my sister(s) around, was able to draw great maps for her to move around in. They finally saw for themselves what my life was like - (alone for almost 80% of the time) and luckily they were around, even if just for meals, or playing DDR or guitar hero, cos the previous 2 weeks i would have been alone in the house like the whole time.

Bad - i was too busy with work to really bring the family around the 1st 2 weeks, Mom was unhappy about almost everything - she really isn't a very good traveller since she doesn't eat majority of the meats and JP isnt a vegetarian friendly country, and kept showing mood swings and the horrifically hot and humid weather (37 degrees celsius max) didn't help things much.

But, managed to take take my sisters to watch baseball (luckily there is high sch baseball tournaments ongoing) which we enjoyed immensely since we totally understand the concept of school pride, took lots of paparazzi type pictures of each other and cute guys we saw on the streets, went to some temples before my mom said *another temple again!?* -.-, did stupid stuff like poke at deer, avoid deer shit, watched fireworks, tried ESP with each other (and succeeded) and did some daily stuff together like jogging / supermarket groceries buying and just strolling around the neighbourhood.

Some stuff we saw