Taking a sick day off today

I am taking a sick day off today to rest at home. Feeling better now.

It always take something like a flu to force me to do all the right things like eating more fruit, drinking more water and get enough sleeping. But heck, at least I give in to the force of nature instead of taking tons of medicines and continue going to work.

Sleeping is the best treatment

After a night and a whole of sleeping, sleeping, messing with PC and then sleeping, I was feeling better now. With Strepsils drops, Vitamin C pills, 北京銀翹解毒片 and a lot of water, my flu seems to be in control. But I still have to stay to home all day today (Sunday). I will miss tonight's dance class :-I .

Woke up from a strange nightmare

I am sick today with some sort of flu I think. And when I get sick I have strange dreams. I fell into sleep this morning after I took some medicine and then I had a strange dream:

I woke up in a big hotel room which was supposed to be my new room, but instead of having a room by myself like what I have now, I was told that I would share my room with some new stranger. That made me very mad. And then my mom walked by and accused me something that I promised but didn't do. Again, it tickled my nerve. I continued walking around, being challenged by my dance teacher Mr. Chow, and then by my father, and even my sister. Just when my bustard's rose through the top of my head, I woke up.

Could be that I had too much pressure these days? I don't know.

Oh, my sore throat seems to be slightly better now. But far from completely cured.

Need shirts and pants ...

I brought several shirts in size medium (M-15 3/4) and pants (30 for waist, 40 for length) from Balano no because I particular like their product, but because I was running out of shirts and pants.

I left part of my brain at home today

I just realized, when I was about to arrive office, that I left my removable harddisk at home. That's mean I will have live a day without my harddisk. Halfday passed, and I was still doing OK. Thanks to the Internet and the OSX running on my desktop. Sweet.

That's how I spent my birthday

I love the fact that my portable MP3 player contains thousands of various styles of song in it, allowing me to select the right kind of music to match whatever mood I am at anytime, anywhere. Right now my mood is slightly blue and sorrow, and I picked some George Winston piano music. It matched my feeling pretty well, and slightly eased my pain.

I started my day this morning by wearing too much clothing as I found the temperature sort of on the breezing side. It turned out that I was being tricked by mother nature. So I ended up had to carry a bunch of clothes around, from church to Institution of education, and then to the dance studio at Wan Chi. Not only it was inconvenient, it also hurt my shoulder, which partially contributed to the bad thing happened later today.

The drumset I played this morning for the three Sunday services was kind of a mess up. Somehow the grove was not that, I could heard the mistake I made loud and clear from my the recording I made with my portable mp3 player (which comes with recording function). So much as I wanted to convince myself that I shouldn't care, it was indeed started my day with a down note.

And then I was practicing my solo dance this afternoon. Not too good in progress it was. I knew I was slow at learning steps, but somehow I was getting like VERY slow today. I kept watching the same segment of video, mimicked the steps, and then again and again. After about 2 hours, I still haven't got the first two minute completely nailed down. It said that it was fustrating to me a complete downplay of what I actually felt.

The close my miserable day, my brain was kind of dead during the night dance class. I had to be completely honest to myself that the suddenly tendon pain on my shoulder I had starting from the beginning of the second hour of the class was NOT really the reason that performed badly today. I was just suck as the whole dance thing. Period. And I took a LOT of my concentration to dance everything right. Clearly I was in my top condition of concentration today. So I filled the class with mistake after mistake and mistake. And then, my dear friend shoulder tendon pain came to visit me. It happened last Sunday, and also on last Wednesday's class. It attacked me once again today. This time I tried my best to swallow the pain. I kept trying to ease and relax my shoulder. "Use my stomach muscle, use my stomach muscle" I kept reminded myself, and surprisingly, I was able to shake it off a bit even thought I still felt the pain, and slightly distracted my concentration.

But it was at the last ten minutes that my left arm was rendered to dysfunctional. I couldn't raise my arm. I was very fustrated, and a lot of thinking flew by my head, maybe it's my body telling me that it's time to call a quit on this dancing thing. It was like my body was talking to me:

"A weak pencil neck like you shouldn't think about dancing. Go play your Adobe Illustrator, mess with your Visual Studio .Net, and get crazy with dance loop with your digital music. But no, not this dancing thing you little day dreaming punk. Me as your body was sick of you torturing me for all these year, and I am giving you this tendon pain to hold you hostage. That's right. Fight me, and you will continue suffer. Come test my limit, punk!"

So I wasted my last 10 minutes of the class doing something that even I couldn't remember. Either my memory was really lousy, or the internal struggle and pain was so great that the memory of my brain shuted down to prevent me from killing myself.


That's pretty much my day. And, oh yeah, today is my birthday.

春茗

離開了春茗的場地（中環），我在皇后像廣場和匯豐大樓的附近乘968號巴士到元朗弟弟的髮廊理髮。乘著等待弟弟有空檔的時間，我看看背裏裡從春茗拿到的東西。記得春茗時同檯有人說今年的開工利是少得多，送的禮物又少，令人失望。我卻由於從來沒有在香港赴過春茗的宴會，倒覺得十分興奮和新鮮，所以整個過程都十方高調，叫叫嚷嚷的，就當是娛人娛己吧！我是個簡單的人，有和小電筒，有件少掛飾物，已經覺得不過不失。總好過像往年般甚麼也沒有。冷不防在宴會的中後斷，拿了個＄888元的抽獎獎金。看來請同事們吃飯或吃下午茶該是少不了免了。

想起來，我好像很少寫中文的，也難怪，我的中文輸入一直沒有多大進步過，該找些時間好好的練習。