RAWR
March 3rd, 2006
greetings from Dimsumland!!!
tis gonna be a short one cos after i post them i’m going to go back to bed and mope. and mope and mope some more. why, you ask?
COS I’M SICK AS A DOG AND HAVE BEEN SINCE THE MOMENT I TOUCHED DOWN IN HK!!!
it started off with sniffles and a very red nose. fine, that i can take, seeing how the weather here is like 11 degrees anyway. so a runny nose should totally be expected. i accept that. i’ve got tissues. no problem.
but then i had to get a fever. a high one.
and then i had to get an eye infection!!!!! which hurts me like crazy everytime i blink. (tze ching, it’s exactly the same problem you had the last time!!! what did you do to cure it?! got 24hr cure or not!?) grr. my right eye is stinging like mad even as i write this now, but i will go on bullying it with the laptop’s flourescent screen because i am one vindictive bitch.
oh wait who said i was done. did i mention the fact that i speak very lousy cantonese with an accent that used to make my grandmother cringe in her sleep?? well yes, the situation has completely worsened (or improved by leaps and bounds, if you’re my grandmamma), cos now i cant speak cantonese at all. I LOST MY FREAKIN’ VOICE!!!!!!
(i absolutely hate losing my voice. i’m now completely disarmed in a world that is too highly dependant on verbal communication. people either think i’m a man or i’ve got the bird flu. and the crowning complaint is that all forms of my favourite comfort food are complete no-no’s. ice cream, chocolate, yuk gorn, deep-fried anything, candy … shit i think i just inflicted the worst of self-torture upon myself.)
*rant rant rant mumble grumble scream argh*
my 2nd day in HK is ending soon and i must say the past 48 hrs have been most unproductive, with almost 3 quarters of it being spent in bed with eye drops, vita C, cough syrup and panadol as bedpartners. am most upset about it. i am inconsolable. dont stop me now.
siiiiigh. not only is losing my voice and having gila headaches a deterrent to Mad Fun In Hong Kong, it’s also a major obstacle in the path of public speaking, or practising for it. so i’m pulling out of that darn competition because there’s no way i can pull myself together (or a 2nd speech out of my ass, for that matter) in time for the 11th of march. bah. English Speaking Union of Malaysia, perhaps next year. this year just aint our year….!
hong kong (or what little i’ve seen of it) so far has been great though. there have been a few major screw-ups in terms of difference in msian/hk rhetorical cantonese, but nothing too drastic.
oh and HK has the cutest guys!!!!! hot dudes on every corner, man.
13 Comments Add your own
1. booha | March 3rd, 2006 at 2:08 am
whoa you poor thing!
get well soon okay!
2. Lalita | March 3rd, 2006 at 2:45 am
Poor you!!! Feel better soon. The whole thing sounds awful. Take good care Su Ann.
3. tze | March 3rd, 2006 at 4:06 am
remember the time you tried to scare me saying it was a stye or something like that?
yours is a stye. *sticks out tongue*
haha i’m sorry but there’s no 24 hour cure. mine went away in approximately 1 day (24 hours you may say) but i had an itch for about 3 or 4 days. but the worst, for me at least, lasted for only 1 day. so don’t worry la k? get well soon! =) *huggies from the vainpot
4. worldangel | March 3rd, 2006 at 7:02 am
oh dear…wat a way to start a vacation >
5. Random Surfer | March 3rd, 2006 at 8:11 am
A few humble pointers (culled from embarassing experience!) from someone who shares your semi-banana quality :
1.Ping=ice
Shuet=snow
Therefore, ‘ice-tea’ = ‘ping-cha’, not ’shuet-cha’
Cheen=money
‘Lui’= farked up m’sian cantonese, etymology unknown.
Therefore, ‘no money’= ‘mo cheen’, not ‘mo-lui’
That’s all I can think of at the mo. Hope it helps, have fun!
Cheers.
6. waifon | March 3rd, 2006 at 10:55 am
Awww…you poor lil thing. I hope you are feeling better now. It’s never too late to have fun! Go get some medication from the local drug store and have ample rest. Just concentrate on getting well and the word fun comes in later aite? Take care and yea..have fun=)
7. -archangel- | March 3rd, 2006 at 11:17 am
poor girl =( rest more la you..heheh
3 days before you’re back !
then i can start conning a bigger picture of you from you =P
take care =)
8. ria | March 3rd, 2006 at 1:22 pm
waah! :(
get well soo su ann! hope you get to have some fun before you fly back home.
9. Pierce Munro | March 3rd, 2006 at 10:20 pm
WELCOME BACK PETSIS!!! hieheiheihie
how was hk!?
got communication breakdown or not? hiehieh jk jkj la
10. Susan | March 4th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Get well soon =).. yes, I’m very attracted to Hongkie guys… xD! Have fun perving on them.
11. pinkpau | March 5th, 2006 at 5:08 am
booha : am better, yay!!
lalita : it got worse for awhile but i’ve bounced back to full health :D whee!
tze : mine went away in 12 hrs of sleep a A LOT of eye drops, haha!
worldangel : it started off worse than that actually, the eye infection, fever etc was in fact a notch of improvement .. :D
random surfer : hey, the ping/shuet thing happened on my 1st day here!!! i was like .. ’shuei tai mm koi ..’ and they were like MAT YEH ARH?! hahaha i thought maybe i pronounced it wrongly?! so i was like umm ICE, ICE! SHUET! then the lady rolled her eyes and said PING, HAI MAI?! hahaha malu douz. and yeah a friend told me about that cheen/lui thing so i was prepared for that during bargain sessions .. hahaha :D
waifon : yup got the medicine from Guardian’s HK twin … Mannings..!!! hahaha
archangel : dont want to give you until you gimme one of you!!
ria : am flying back tomorrow .. managed to pack in some fun but just NOT ENOUGH! :(
pierce : ooh haha i gotta tell you all about the freakin communication screwups man …. wei i couldnt find your movie lah! they all stare one kind at me when i said i want the street fighter movie!! i even tried saying Street Fighter in the hongkie accent .. but they still donno. :(
susan : sooooo hot man .. :D
12. greenie | March 6th, 2006 at 11:37 am
aw, i didn’t know u were sick. hm. hope you’re feeling okay now.
and eh.. how come i don’t see any hot dudes!?
lol. : ) come again soon!
13. pinkpau | March 6th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
greenie : i hope you can eat better now..!!! though from your latest post, i’m guessing not? :( haha yea i’ll come back soon, and when i do i’ll call you :D
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