... ... outside, right now, at the end of November... ...
It has been raining almost every day since mid-November. There's even yellow thunder storm couple of weeks ago. Yes, in November. It usually rains very suddenly and heavily, at night, and stops quickly too. It always catch me by surprise, as I seldom bring an umbrella.
We already has the hottest October and November, and we are likely to have the most rainy November in record!
I participated in an airport drill organized by the Airport Authority this morning. Kind of disappointed. Good that we seldom have aircraft crash, or I am quite sure the AA can't handle it. Funny things this morning:
1. The scenario was about a plane from Taiwan to Macau, and it got something wrong and had to detour to HK in the middle, and somehow it had problems when it landed. We were the friends and relatives coming from Macau to check out our families or friends. Can you imagine that no staff in the drill could speak Mandarin, when the plane was from Taiwan?
2. Not only Mandarin, the staff didn't speak English either. Not until I complained that we had real Japanese volunteers in the drill who didn't speak Cantonese that the staff started speaking English and Cantonese.
3. Even if they spoke English, they didn't speak clear English. The staff making announcement couldn't differentiate "13" and "30" in English. When she said "13A", I thought it's "38" and there were only 20 banquet tables for the families and friends to gather and wait!!!!!
4. You might think I shouldn't make fun of others' English. But when the only mean you could find your families and friends was listening to their broken English announcement (no signs, no notice broads, etc.), you could imagine how frustrated the real families could be.
5. One volunteer's role was to ask for a priest so she could pray. When she prayed, she asked God for more wisdom to the airport staff!
6. When the staff called the first group of families to the reunion room to find their relatives, she said "wait at the exit THERE", and there're two exits. When she's short and there were plenty of people around, we couldn't even know where's the announcement came from (they liked to make announcement from different places in the ballroom every time!) and of course we couldn't know where's "there".
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Many other things too. There's a nurse in our group and she said the drill done by the Hospital Authority is much more serious and real!
...with the date, the day of the week... I only know what I need to do the following day, and what're left undone...
...very confused...
Busy both at work and at leisure.
Here are a list of things I am working at after office hours:
1. Mandarin -- Mandarin class started again on 11 Nov. Busy busy. Have to pass the national exam by July next year. Busy studying.
2. The Historian -- Finally gets to a point that's exciting and approaching the end. Want to finish it ASAP to start a new book...or devote the time for Mandarin as well...
3. Red Cross -- I joined the psychological first aid team. Just finished the five-session course and have a take home exam within a month. I will participate in the airport drill next Monday. Will tell you more about the volunteer service after the drill.
4. Baby sweater -- Far from finish and Christmas is approaching!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Drama -- A few shows coming during the next few weeks.
Busy busy!!!!!
If you have a habit of visiting my blog regularly, you should have noticed that I haven't post anything during the last week or so. It's because my home computer broke and I took it to the Samsung maintenance immediately. It stayed there for about a week, and only came home tonight.
Welcome back!
I almost finish installing everything back and everything should be back to business from now on.
P.S. Happy belated b-day to Alice and Rose! Couldn't do anything without the computer last week. Hope you have had a great time.
This blog becomes my medical record again.
My allergy not only doesn't get any better, but is getting worse. I think the main reason is because I wore long pants and I kept walking all day from 7am till 3pm or 4pm. My pants scratched with my thighs and the irritation could only become worse.
So, I tried to make a doctor's appointment in the morning...but...my doctor's taking a week's off this whole week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!! She's almost the only doctor I trust in the whole world and she's not with me when I need her so desperately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My goodness!!!!!!!!!!
I tried calling other doctors but not successful (long story). I ended up went to the St. Paul Hospital out-patient as in last time when I got allergy.
The doctor said I didn't have any problem with my heart and lung functions (!), and I didn't seem to be food poisoned either. It also didn't look like eczema (濕疹). He gave me some pills and cream for these couple of days. If it didn't go out, I would need to see a specialist.
Hope I don't need to see the doctor again.
I got some unknown allergy again today on my thighs, the left side is worse than the right and evening seems to be worse than in the morning and afternoon... ...
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This time, I didn't eat anything unusual. So it shouldn't be food poisoning.
After discussing with friends and colleagues, I have two hypothesises:
1. The dry weather -- my friend told me she had similar problem when she's in Edmonton cause the weather is dry. (...I didn't need to use any lotion even in winter during those days...but of course...I was only at my early early 20s... :P
2. Mixed use of baby oil and body lotion -- I used both baby oil and body lotion on my thighs this morning...because I found the skin there very dry, so I doubled up the moisture protection... There's no problem in other parts of my body where I only used either one.
I have a third hypothesis when I am back home:
I had used a new formula of White Flower Embrocation (with nicer smell) yesterday. Actually I have been using it since last Saturday, but I had used more yesterday since I got some mosquito bites when I slept...
... many suspect ...
I will stop using baby oil, may be the White Flower Embrocation too, for now, since my friend said baby oil's no good. I will go see a doctor tomorrow after work if I don't get any better.
OK. Time for ER, and I will sleep after that. I need to be at the Convention Centre tomorrow at 7:30am!!!!!
