Sunday, June 28, 2009
Ah. There's just so much to talk about right now, and by some strange twist of luck (pun intended), I managed to sprain my ankle and ended up being sent home. Positively thrilled actually.
It's been a whole week of angst for the 16 of us who had to go to ... You-Know-Where. Objectively, this period benefits none of us as we had already done more than 80% of what is to be done. Yes, a repetition. We have been immersed amongst a group of young boys, who have yet to see the world. We soon realised that the few of us are in fact very, very good - not where running or jumping is concerned, but rather in terms of brains and street-smartness. 姜还是老的辣 indeed! We're trying our best to herd them and keep them out of trouble, and it's now come to the state where the few of us are horrendously overworked (no one else wants to step up to take responsibility and leadership!). I'm glad we came up with a nightly meeting for all of us, where we would feast on some symbolic foods (kit kat, in particular), bitch about people and things, and do a ceremonial crossing out of the days. Dumb as this may seem, it is oddly therapeutic. A good chance to let out some steam instead of venting it on the young ones. There's been quite a lot of unhappy politics in the first 3-4 days - not among the 16 of us, but rather between us and You-Know-Where - but hopefully it'll all be sorted out. Anyway, what happened was that on Saturday morning, I was on my way to getting some ice in a bucket for safety stores, as they were going to have a run and the ice was meant for heat exhaustion / sprains (how ironic). It was pitch black, and I missed a step. Being docs, the other guys quickly gave me first aid but the next day my ankle was badly bruised, with blood tracking down to the heel area and the others advised me to get an xray to exclude a fracture at least. I was sent to NUH for the zap, and subsequently given 3 days of rest at home. How nice! Yx has been bandaging me foot twice a day, the bruising is better but the foot is still swollen like a salami. At least now I can walk around a little.
It's kind of nice that life still goes on despite this whole period of shit. The architect has submitted the blueprint for approval, and we've now received the structural prints. We've also received the quotation for the tiling and surfacing. Maybe the house might be ready for next year after all!
Also, Yx and I chanced upon this lovely product - freeze-dried maggots! Those of you at the ROM would know about the story of how Yx tried farming maggots to feed my plants. Those days are over! Going to try them to see if the plants like the maggots. Other stuff this weekend - I performed an amputation surgery for one of the scorpions. It got stuck while moulting, but things look pretty bad, and I'm not sure if the intervention had been timely enough. =( Maybe the substrate was just too dry for effective moulting to take place.
Wenky
9:38 PM
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