The world of JULIANA

The year 2007 is barely a day away . . and here I am, sick as ever. All thru’out the year I was fine. Ermmm, let me rephrase tht . . apart frm that nasty ankle fracture tht landed me at home for 2mths, i was completely fine! Then, frm nowhere, the flu bug hit me and here I am, sneezing away, coughing away . . . and I’ve lost my voice,too!! All thru’out my life, I’ve NEVER lost my voice! Honestly!!! I used to find it rather amusing tht people lost their voices during a bad bad URTI. Errrrrrrrrrrrrr, i mean, amusing as in . . . . odd . . . . errrrrrr . . . weird. Until it happened to me! Now, the people around me are havin’ a darn good laughter, hearing me croak away! Damn . . .what goes around certainly comes back around . .

Whilst everyone is out there partying away, I’m stuck at home with a croaky voice. Argggggggghhhhhhhhhh. . . how very frustrating. Then again, I know I shld be counting my blessings ‘coz there are less fortunate people out there who are bedridden in hospital and aren’t even able to spend de first few moments of New Year with their loved ones.

The last couple of days have been events-filled, to say the least. Last nite, our church had its Annual Dinner at Shah Alam Club.  This Annual Dinner is particularly significant to Robz and me ‘coz six years ago, we met each other at this Annual Dinner(at Shah Alam Club) too!!!  It was certainly very nostalgic to walk into the familiar grounds of Shah Alam club. Again, Robz and I had fun hosting a couple of games during the dinner. Thanks to my croaky voice, I ended up takin’ care of the music selection for de evening, whilst Robz wuz the MC and games-host.

Apart frm tht, been tryin’ to do as much as possible during my leave days. Nevertheless, itz rather difficult to be doin’ lotsa stuff whilst being SICK! *sigh. On Friday, out of a fit of anger and rage, I told myself tht I’m gonna go out and act like a ‘healthy normal gal’ and ended up obsessively collecting nine watches of mine that had run out of batteries and drove up to Amcorp Mall and got all watches’ batteries replaced! Yes yes . . I just HAD to prove to myself tht I felt well enough to drive across Federal Highway alone and go change those batteries! Oh, and I had to change a gift tht we got for Dad ‘coz it was broken. Of course Mom thought it was completely ridiculous of me to be out there in the hot sun, drivin’ across to PJ whilst being so sick, to go change de gift. Then again, Mommies are always super-duper-protective, aren’t they?

I told myself I’d make this blog entry a short one ‘coz even now, as I’m tryin’ so darn hard to type this out, my eyes are watery and burning! Arggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh . . i hate being sick!!!

Anyway, enough of digressing frm de main point. To those who read this entry, HAPPY NEW YEAR, folks!!

Itz Christmas day today! Gosh . . . time has flown past so fast. This would be our 3rd Christmas together since we got married. Fact is, it has been quite a roller coaster of events and happenings over the last couple of weeks. Firstly, it was devastating to discover tht I’d be missing out on almost ALL the fun of Christmas (which usually happpens in the last week counting down towards Christmas), ‘thanks’ to a 2-week compulsory work-related course I had to go to in Lumut.

With mixed feelings, I packed my bags and left to Lumut, and met 36 other doctors (who hailed frm all nooks and corners of Perak) on 12th December. Heavy-hearted as I was, I knew I had to keep myself emotionally strong to go thru’ those two weeks,away frm home, during the festive season. Destiny plays ironic games on us at times, and yet again, it played a funny game on me! A friend whom once I was BEST BEST BEST friends with (but later drifted apart for reasons known best to her and me), was destined to meet me in this trip. In a twist of events, we ended up as room-mates! Suffice to say tht the bond that was once thought of as broken, eventually grew strong and within days, we were completely comfortable with each other and it was just like the good ‘ole days. Oh well. . . life’s too short and you can’t spend most of it keeping grudges against people now, can u? I like to stick to my principle of "to err is human, and hence treat others as how u’d like to be treated". We became best of friends(for a 2nd time . . .hopefully for eternity this time!) and the entire 2-week course became a joy ,thanks to this long-lost new-found (pun intended!) friendship with my dearest Lakshmi. Also met a whole bunch of crazy psycho doctors in this group . People I never knew existed and vice versa. We had so much fun frm the first thing in the day, at 6.30am, doin’ compulsory sports and aerobics exercise, right up to sitting in class all thru’ out the day, tryin’ our level best to pay attention in class . . and thru’ to dinner , which got rather interesting over the last couple of days. We had BBQ, Steam-boat, a host of seafood,etc. There’s so much to talk ’bout the induction course. Nevertheless, I’d probably end up spending 1/2 hr typing out all my ramblings and the last thing I’d wanna do is bore my ‘reader’ (if any! …hehe).

All in all, I realized that even tho’ I had so much of fears and apprehension with regards to this trip to an almost unknown place with unknown people, during de festive season, I’m certainly glad and relieved that things took such a positive turn of events! In fact, whilst I was missing out on the whole excitement of Christmas, a few Christians in the group managed to get 2gether and we put up a li’l carols-singing-event one evening, tht lasted right up to 2am! I shall never forget the man-with-a-God-given-talent-2-sing(Richard), the angel-on-earth(Tracy) , and the ever-enthusiastic-full-of-zest (Lynette), who made de entire carols-singing event such a joy !

I thank God that in the end, even tho’ I missed out on the carolling events of my church members over the last week, I ended up havin’ an amazing 2wks in Lumut in the most unexpected manner.

I suppose, at the end of the day, no matter how much you try to be in control of a situation, there are gonna be times, when you just hafta learn to loosen up and let things take itz own pace and flow and sit back and relax and make the best of what you have.