Mochi and 'Tang Yuen'

Mochi is a type of rice cake made of glutinous rice, pounded into paste and molded into shape, generally rounded. It's almost similar to the chinese 'Tang Yuen' (Glutinous Rice-Ball) celebrated during Winter Solstice. Both differ in one being the dry-version, and the other one being the soup-version.

Mochi (dry-version) - Taiwan vacation trip's souvenior from NY.

'Tang Yuen' (soup-version) - Chinese dessert during Winter Solstice.

2008 Penang Bridge Run

A week before I was admitted to hospital, I was extremely healthy! I completed the 10km fun run for this year's 2008 Penang Bridge Run and was qualified for the lucky draws. Unfortunately, there was no luck to grab any lucky prizes. Penang Bridge Run this year was initially cancelled in June, but was glad that it was re-organized in November as thousands of people are looking forward to it.

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Starting point at Jetty to Jerejak Island.

Moving up the path to Penang Bridge.

Morning sceneries from the bridge.

Ending point at AEON Jusco Queensbay Mall.

Admitted to Pantai Hospital

My days had been busy, and I'm really very tired physically and mentally since the day I discharged from the hospital. I even missed this year's STARWALK as I wasn't physically fit. It has been nearly 3 weeks now, and I'm glad that I'll be able to go home soon enough to have a good rest due to the year-end plant shutdown, plus a few extra days of leave, which I'm going to apply for. It'll be a perfect 2 weeks for me to have sufficient rest and to be fully recovered.

I have never been admitted to any hospital since the very first day my brain could store permanent memories of myself. So this was my first time in. It wasn't that scary to be alone there at night, but I was definitely suffering from the kidney pain and the severe high fever. I was admitted for 4 days due to Pyelonephritis. 4 days before I was admitted, I consulted Agilent in-house clinic's doctor and he put me on 5-days antibiotic medication, plus panadols for the fever. After 3 days, I went back to the in-house clinic as I wasn't feeling any better. Another on-duty doctor, a she, refused to gave me an GL letter to consult a specialist and told me to finish the medication. Fine! The next day I went to the clinic again, the same she doctor kept asking me is it really that pain? Duh....Can I sue her for that? I demanded for the GL letter that evening and when I got it, I planned to consult the specialist the next day while I waited for my parents to arrive that night, but on the night itself, I was already admitted. Fever ... fever ... fever ... nausea ... fever ... I barely can sleep at night. Doctor put me on constant panadol pills to eliminate fevers. Then, sodium chloride + glucose drips and IV antiobiotic drips as I was too weak to consume the antibiotic pills. It was an 8 suffering nights and days. Luckily, my parents came and had accompanied me throughout the week. WT visited me the day after she drove me to the hospital. ML sent sms to convey a get well soon message. NY called to ask. Thanks all!

Okay, I was too bored early in the morning, so I took some photos. Why? Cause nurses woke me up at 7am everyday to change the bedsheet and I don't have my laptop, the only thing I can play with is my hp.