The one with the massage

I’m getting busy and busier. My department is doing some renovation starting next week. Temporarily, we have to move to our partners’ office in Plaza Damas for about a month or two. At this time, my colleagues and I are busy packing up our stuff to bring to the new office. I have to pack files and other personal things for my other two colleagues who are on maternity leave and not to forget thousands of marketing collaterals. Urrghh tired.

Yesterday, I managed to packed few stuff and dump it to the server room. I was relieved when I realized how few things left need to be packed but at the same time, I realized that my back hurts badly. I guess it’s due to the lifting of those heavy boxes. I’m a superwoman kan! I was too proud to ask for help kot. Well to be honest, whenever I tried to ask men to help me carry all those heavy boxes and then they gave me a look. The “she’s so weak” look! Sometimes it will be the “Hey I’m busy” look. I hate that. At the end, it will be my lovely self who carrying the boxes. But most of the time, they will help me.

With my back aching badly (damn I feel old), I desperately need a massage. After work I went straight to the massage parlor nearby my office and chose a Thai Massage for the treatment. The Thai masseuse hardly speaks English. The only words she knows are “lie down”, “oil massage”, “Thai massage”, “tea” “pain” and “thank you”. But it doesn’t matter, she was good. It was painfully good. A bit painful but overall, my body felt lighter after the session. The only annoying thing was the next door customer, a man, who kept burping and farting through out his session. He was so loud. Gross.

Whatever it was, I think I need another one. But RM60 per hour is a bit expensive for me, even though it was good. I think I’ll go for the early bird package which is RM78 for 2 hours. Maybe next month!

The One with the Blacked-Out

Didn’t I tell you that I passed out at home last month? It was horrible. I was so-called “blind” for a moment. I sat at the toilet for hours and moaning in pain.

It’s all started with the pricking pain inside my tummy. I thought I need to go to the toilet and so I did. As I sat on the toilet bowl, the pricking pain traveled fast to my head making me giddy and a bit nauseous. I thought it was because of the rush of blood to my head, but the grogginess was painful and continuously. All of a sudden I couldn’t see a thing. All my surroundings turned green. I was panicked. The pricking pain in my tummy was still there and my head spinning crazily. I felt like throwing up but it did not come out somehow.

The headache became worse by seconds. I tried to lean myself against the wall to stop the pain in my body. I struggled to put my head in between my legs but the piercing pain, the headaches, nausea and the blindness were still there. I can’t even hear myself crying out loud, but I was.

Somehow I know that I had to do something to stop the pain. I forced myself towards the shower and turned it on to the maximum pressure. I set myself on the bathroom floor, sitting under the shower and groaned in pain.

As the drops of water fell on my head, I was shivering. The water didn’t stop the headache. I was weeping under the shower, hoping the pain will stop. After a few minute, I started to notice the surroundings became much clearer and clearer. The coolness of the water didn’t do much pain anymore, it had eased the lightheaded that I had, but the drowsiness didn’t end there. In my head, I just wanted to go back to bed. So I grabbed my towel and wrapped myself into it.

My body felt very warm as I crawled myself into bed. I sent a text message to my boyfriend and cried myself back to sleep.

I did have a light fever and my body felt very weak and drained afterwards. I didn’t go to the doctor though. My only doctor was the two tablets of “Panadol Actifast”.

That was the second time I passed out in my entire life.

The One with the Tax

27 April 2007

I did my first tax today. I felt so stupid. At this age, doing my first tax payment and it was such a headache too. But with helps from my colleagues, I did complete the form within an hour. I went to LHDN in Kelana Jaya, parked my car at the stadium and went through the busy crowd to submit my form. It was packed with the last-minute tax payers who struggled to complete their submission. Just like myself. And at last I did it! My first tax submission! Am a big girl already! *grin*

The facelift

I am so bored today. My other teammates are on maternity leave. I have no one to gossip with, and the work is piling up. BORING! *yawn*

I was bored with everything. Even my blog was such a bore stiff. Well, I’m giving my blog a facelift anyway. It’s just a minor facelift to give it a fresh look.

I will post new chronicles soon. I had everything jotted down in my laptop. I will publish it online tomorrow. Now let me continue with my surgical procedure.