Serendipity

I’m a hot babe, literally. Had a viral attack, and my body temperature shot up to 40 degrees yesterday [highest record]. Felt absolutely groggy, and had dizzy spells so bad, it felt like the tremors of an earthquake.

So my mum sort of saved my life, when she checked on me last night, and found that my body was very warm, and we rushed to the nearest 24-hour clinic [West Point Hospital, 235 Corporation Drive] at around 10.30pm.

When I was there, the doctor attended to me in a matter of minutes. A check of my body temperature led the doctor to say, "WOW… 40 degrees celcius."

I raised my eyebrows, and he went on to say that the brain starts to fry at 40 degrees, and some talk about some enzymes, which I can’t remember.

Then he asked, "How good are you with needles?" I raised my eyebrows again, and said, "errr, shouldn’t be a problem." He said that accordingly to medical practice, they have to resort to a more drastic measure to bring the temperature down, else my brain would be burnt or something.

"The nurses outside would help you to jab, don’t worry, they are more gentle than me."

-.-"

I’m not afraid of needles, but the nurse asked me to look away when I had my jab. The doctor initially gave me one day off, after asking whether my boss can do without me for one day.

Later he gave me two days’ off. Felt very groggy for the entire day. Haha. Can’t really get to sleep though I am very tired and sleepy.

Later I realised that 4 people [out of 11] who attended the KTV session, all fell sick, with fever and sore-throat.

Buddy [Meifang] got 2 days’ MC for her fever and sore throat as well. And Cindy told me that she’s also sick [but this girl ain't seeing the doctor yet. -.-"] and Dave’s also sick. O_O

KTV Virus? Hmm. My dear colleague said I’m selfish, cos never come back to work to spread the virus so that she can take MC as well. WTF! -.-"

I think I’m still OK, and still have another day to rest! Hehe, I hate headaches the most. But luckily I’m not having that as yet.

Oh yah, hope I recover by Friday, else I’d have to go back to the clinic to do a blood test, to check for dengue fever. O_O

Why is everyone sick??!

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I’m on US One Dollar! Want your own currency?

Paid $147 [inclusive of $2 SISTIC surcharge] for the Broadway show, Phantom of the Opera. It was the most expensive tickets I’ve paid, for any show at all, I’m surprised I would spend so much money on some visual experience, but it was worth every cent of it.

Got to sit at the first row at the Esplanade Theatre [went with my CPF ex-colleague, Hwee Peng], the row which many people would come forward to, during the interval, to take a look at the musicians right below our feet. :p

It was quite a cool thing, that the conductor was the only linkage between the musicians and the performers.

Photography wasn’t allowed in the theatre because of Intellectual Property Copyright, but still, I took this photo of the theatre before everything began. The cloth was covering the giant chandelier, which was supposed to be lifted up [right above our heads!] to the top of the theatre hall.

The photo above is the chandelier, after being pulled up to the top of the ceiling.

I’m still thinking of whether to buy that musical box at $28, which plays Angel of Music [I think] or Music of the Night. But it’s not the wound-up type of musical box, it is those type where you would need to manually ‘wind’ it continuously for the sounds to be played.

The main reason of why I went for the show, was because I loved the songs we sang in Choir almost a decade ago [OMFG, I didn't know I graduated so long ago!]. When the songs were being sung, it felt so nice, so warmth, it was as though I was transported back to my Choir days. Missed them so much. :/

Love the lake scene, where Christine was being brought to the dungeons of the Phantom. It was kind of sad, in a way, to know that Phantom liked Christine so much, and when the latter kissed the former, he was so stunned, and in the end he let her and Raoul go. P/S: The guy playing Raoul is so cute!! :p

People, you have till 20th May to catch this show in Singapore.