Wat's wrong with my ear?

Feeling a bit xian recently..think it might be due to my ear problems again..

This is like the 7th or 8th time(minus the many times within 1 incident) that i had to seek medical help for my ear..i seriously dunno wat's the cause or the prevention..

My local doc says it's 'nothing to worry about' and the ear is generally 'self-cleaning' and doesn't need external help(like ear candling - something i've always been tempted to try..but resisted for fear of my ultra-sensitive ears. The few doctors i saw in UK says ear problems are more common among swimmers(i'm not!) and people who use cotton buds - this i''ve cut down drastically ever since i started having ear problems a couple of years ago..so i'm really quite helpless everytime it occurs..

Granted, it's not life-threatening(though hearing might be affected in serious cases)..but it's bloody uncomfortable..besides muffled hearing..i tend to speak softer than usual..cos the sounds will be louder than normal in my head..as most people know, i already have the on-off habit of mumbling..imagine i mumble softly..people are just gonna hear 'shhh..ttbbb...cchh..'

For now, i can only try out the prescribed ear drops and hope for the best..

Something blog-worthy happened at last!

Met ah meng for dinner the other day and she was only 15(not 50!) mins late! And it was cos she went home to put down her stuff before meeting me..if not she'd be on time wor(or so she claimed)

Coming from a person who makes me wait no less than 1 hour everytime i meet her..it's a BIG improvement..no doubt this is due to her new job which requires her to take a ferry out from workplace..she even boasts that after all the training by the ferry timings, these days she can make it for 7pm dinner appts without any problem..we no longer need to save food for her(we used to keep her portions for her cos she'll only arrive when we've moved on to desserts..)

But to be safe..i think i will stick to meeting her after work..ha..

August

Again I'm doing the transfer thing..copying and pasting my posts from my previous blog to this one..realised i was really more 'on' last time..i've had 13 entries last Aug..seems like i average about 4/mth this year..hmm..

Anyway, i came across this particular entry which i posted last aug, which coincidentally was the same thing i told twink just last nite :

5 Birthdays in 10 days
Mama..YS..Ms P..somebody's angel..somebody's sister..
I concluded..Nov/Dec is peak season for mating..tis the season to be jolly..falalalala...

Erm, can someone remind who 'somebody's sister' is..??

Sleep is good and Mushrooms bad for you..

The less sleep you get, the higher your BMI tends to be. The likely explanation is that people who sleep five hours a bight were found to have 15% more ghrelin(a hormone that boosts hunger) in their bodies and 15% less leptin(which suppresses it) than those sleeping eight hours.

In case you think i'm making this up, this is according to a research in Virginia. Anyway this is also backed by OSM who claims all those whom she knows sleep early are skinny people..and perhaps this also explains why i've lost weight recently..

And according to another research(from Fliners University and the University of Toronto), the study squashed the long-held belief that taste is what turns people off food. The strongest component to bring on the 'yuck' reaction is the texture. After presenting people with unfamiliar foods that were labelled with fake name, the researchers asked them what they wouldn't eat and why. In the majority of cases, the reasoning was that they didn't like the way the food 'felt in their mouth'.

And guess what, apparently, mushrooms, tomatoes and onions were the most regularly rejected foods.

I rest my case..

2 Weddings And A New Baby - Part 2

Almost forgot this sequel until i ran thru my blogs today..was cutting & pasting my old blog entries again just now..

Yep..within the time frame of a certain week in July, i attended 2 weddings..this is unheard of in my 28yrs of my existence! Not too much mention a big hole in my pocket(osim - i can fully emphatise with your 1 mth-1 wedding blues now)

The second wedding of cos was tat of J Lo and his Wonderland..where everybody and everybody who's anybody in the sports industry attended the wedding..

At the same time, a fren also broke the news tat she was expecting a baby..not tat i haven't had friends pregnant before..but it's the first time a fren actually filled me in on the whole process of 'getting suspicious' to 'taking the test' to 'confirming the results' (refer to earlier para ; i dun have a lot of married frens). I could actually trace her emotions from being little worried, a little hesistant and a little 'expectant'(pun intended) and being, in her own words 'elated'..

Due date's sometime mid-feb next year..and i helpfully suggested 14th..easy to remember mah..at least for me..haha..

What a happening month July is..weddings..baby..and of cos, birthday of my 0.5 :)

Do U Agree?

Demolition of National Stadium - Losing a slice of history (ST, Fri, 13th Jul)

Flash back to 1973, when the National Stadium was first opened. Then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew declared: "From time to time, we shall throw up the exceptional sportsman or sportswoman. But that is not the aim of our sporting activities. I would rather see this stadium regularly used - morning, afternoon and night - by our students and adults from all over Singapore than to have it filled because of famous world-class teams.

How times have changed. The promotion of sports is no longer for the purpose of building a healthy and robust society; it is not but one of many profitable leisure industries.

One blink of an eye..

and half the year is gone..

Dun worry, i'm not about to launch into one of those philosophical blogs about checking your goals for this year whether you're on track to achieving them..

All i wanna say is..i've finally copied & paste all my 2007 blog entries from my previous blog over to here! Haha..Have a total of 33 blogs so far..averagin 1.26 blogs/week..not too bad..though could be better..heh..

ZXL jia you!