My obsession with K dramas

I forgot to update my blog because I was busy catching up on Empress Ki. It's an on going drama about this korean consort who became the Empress of Yuan dynasty. How cool is that! 

While the drama is, typically, full of plots n bad pple, it makes me really wonder if the life of the real Empress Ki was so dramatic. There's nothing much written about her in history, so I wonder how did she actually become Empress. 

My health has been good recently. No seizures for a few days! But then today, I had 3 minor seizures. Twice in the morning and once in the evening. And last night I didn't sleep too well too.

I'm still thankful that they weren't serious and grateful that I still can praise God. :) I know he is protecting me and he will not forsake me. 

I sense....

that I have finally grown sick of my job. How did I come to that conclusion? And why did it happen? Here's why:

1) It's not an I woke up and didn't wanna go scenario anymore.

The noon before, I already dreaded the thought of going. And even prayed that I would feel a bit sick so I could call in sick. I'm not saying God answered my prayer. I don't think he'll answer such prayers. But I felt a bit sore in my throat when I woke up (obviously, when you don't even drink enough water daily), I called in sick.

Now, I know it's wrong to do it. But really, nothing pleased me more than to stay at home.

2) The thought of traveling there and coming home in a packed train just puts me off.

In the morning, I take an hour by bus. In the evenings, I take 45 mins by train. I don't know, because everyone says I'm so picky over my career choices. I always ask recruiters where's the job location. I avoid town areas, west areas, any business parks, and I'm always amazed that I stayed at Celebrityland so long, because it's so out of the way.

3) I get mildly irritated with ALL of the colleagues. For no reason.

Like if I wanna eat sushi and the rest wanna eat at the hawker, I get mildly irritated. Or if someone says hi to me, when I am eating my breakfast, I get mildly irritated. When pple laugh too loud, I get mildly irritated.

4) I can't be bothered to doll up anymore.

I wake up, see whatever is available to wear, and just wear it. In the past, when I reached office, I'll even touch up my makeup. Now I'm almost barefaced the whole day.

5) I keep looking at job portals.

The thing about me is, I'm really fussy. Too far, no thanks. No retail hours. No shift work. No weekends. And I'm truly sick of telesales and anything to do with sales.

To cut the story short, I don't even know what I want anymore.

God Save Me.

Haze haze, go away.

As if the hot weather and dry spell wasn't bad enough, the haze is back. They say it's at a moderate level of 54? Oh really? Did you pple look out of the window? It's smoking grey! And I wish smokers won't add on to the smoke!

This month, my minor seizures have been very good. I ate carefully, slept as much as I needed, controlled my temper. And this noon, my colleagues wanted to go to a hawker center, which was about 10 mins walk from our office. In the blazing hot sun. I had 2 minor seizures, thank you very much. And 1 more in the evening. Not the serious minor ones, just really mild ones where I suddenly stare into space or drop something, and then wonder what I'm doing for the next few seconds. Ok fine. They sound serious enough. But thank God it wasn't a grand mal.

It's only Tues. Work today wasn't too bad. We had a new list to call. I still get rejected calls but somehow, the list of people I'm calling are way nicer. Thank God for that.

I still am contemplating when do I want to resign. Mom has given me the OK to resign first and find a job after. Cos our thinking is, at least if I tell any recruitment agents that I already tendered, I get a higher chance of scoring interviews.

But I can't bear to do it! My boss is still, rather nice to me! And it's not like I desperately need to go right?

I'm a plague!!!!

Hahaha, ok not really. But, just think. If you could be a plague... n ur job is to infect the world n kill off all humanity... how cool is that!! 

Plague Inc. A game I found in the app store. Not a new game, but got me hooked on the free version to buy the paid version. 

U start off as a virus. How u wanna transmit, evolve, n stop researchers from killing u off, is entirely up to u. There are 3 modes. Casual, normal n brutal. 

U only unlock other stages after completing virus mode in normal stage. Not easy. There's strategy involved. I only crossed it after googling for some help. 

I had no problems clearing casual though Greenland n Russia are hard to infect. So you can imagine my glee when their countries turned red. My friend said I was laughing like an evil witch, muahahaha.... 

This is one game I'm definitely keeping in my phone. 

Oh btw, I'm on medical leave with stomach flu. Guess the virus bit me back. :P 

Why I really dislike MLM.

This past few weeks, I've been approached by not 1, but THREE people, attempting to brainwash my already not-working-very-well brain, to buy the products that they believe in.

First one was Amway. As you can read from a previous entry, I decided to look at their cosmetics, Artistry, because I love cosmetics. They were nice, but I wasn't blown away. So I thought my friend would leave me alone after I told her I might get something once my pay came in.

Then she starts inviting me to their events. Then when she uploaded a pic of me in FB, and I had commented how bad my eye rings were, and I had just made a comment about how the only thing possible to save me was cosmetic surgery, her whole bunch of equally brain-washed friends started commenting I was fine and should use their product. Then she starts showing me pics of her friend who 'had horrendous eye bags', who had used their eye cream. I un-tagged myself. Couldn't stand it.

I'm the kind, when I go shopping, I like to be left alone. I don't like salesgirls hawking me, and everything I pick up, they go: "This is a cleanser. This is a toner." Yes, I know, thank you very much. Just let me shop in peace. Thank God for online stores.

Second one. Ok, I installed this app called Meow Chat, cos a friend of mine sent me an invite, and I thought since it looked cute, why not. I regret it.

I don't usually reply to any Tom, Dick or Harry who goes: "Hi!". No profile pic, out. No details filled up, out. I'm picky. Haha.

So I started chatting with a guy who seemed human enough, and he started telling me he traveled for a living and asked me to guess what was he working as. Cabin crew? No. Then what? Pilot? No. He then recites.... "Do you want to make a difference? Within 4 months you can earn so much?" I immediately replied: "Oh. You're from World Ventures."

Now, I came to learn about World Ventures from a very successful blogger, after someone annoyed her as well. She blogs at www.workingwithgrace.wordpress.com. This guy was way irritating! He kept asking me to look at his pics in Nice, USA, god-knows-where-else... so irritating! And when I rejected him for the umpteen time, he finally gave up and gave me that it's-your-loss attitude. Seriously???!

Third. Also from that irritating app. When I told him I was looking for a new job, he started pushing his company to me. Some Unihealth Happy Life Project thingy. I am so not amused.

Said his company deals with health supplements, yada yada. I told him about my health condition and that I should not take anything without my neuro's approval. It worked when I told the Amway people that. They didn't push any supplements to me. So it should have worked with him right? WRONG.

He was so persistent that I think if that was a boyfriend persuading his love to marry him, the girl would have said yes. Kept saying he wants to understand more about how I got epilepsy, how many seizures I have, etc etc etc, so he can ask his doctors and find a cure for me.

HELLO. My doctor is a specialist. A neurologist. She say no cure. All doctors say no cure. I only know God will and can cure me. Period.

I was really annoyed by his questioning. Even more irritating than when I gave that interview with The New Paper. I think I got rid of him with dead silence.

Has MLM pple gone so low to even go to chat apps to look for business?

Feeling sick bcos of this harmless drink...

This is an iced blended hazelnut. I ordered this, forgetting to ask if it contained caffeine, which all epileptics should try their best to stay away from. 

I thought it was just hazelnut syrup n milk!! After drinking it, even though thank God I don't have any seizures, I started to feel sick. I feel like puking, n I feel a bit feverish now. 

According to my friend, who used to work in Coffee Bean (or was it Starbucks...), it prolly has coffee in it. Meh! My bad!!! 

Now I've downed lots of water to try n flush it out, but I still feel like puking. 

It couldn't have been the chicken stew, cos my colleague n I had the same thing. It might have been the coffee sweet though... but just one sweet???! 

That's it. No more caffeine. 

Should I switch to Artistry?

I was rather excited when my friend told me that Artistry had sponsored one of our local tv shows, starring Desmond Tan, my favorite actor. 

So yst, my friend and I were invited to their school to see the products for ourselves, n also to try out their skincare n makeup. I was hoping they have a concealer good enough to cover my horrendous eye circles. 

First, the trainer checked my skin, which was dry. So she exfoliated my horrible skin n did a nice moisture mask for me. Smells like cucumber! Very nice n cooling. 

After all the skincare was done (yes, i'm lazy to describe step by step), makeup time!!! 

I'm like a kid in a candy store when I see makeup. I love lipsticks, I love reading the names given to the lipsticks. The shades are really pretty! Was hoping they had ox blood red, but their darkest was a crimson red. Still, very pretty! 

This is my friend and I after our makeovers. My phone doesn't do justice to the job because resolution is not v gd. 

And also, my dark circles r really so horrendous that nothing can save me except a cosmetic surgeon. 

After being prepped pretty, we all went for sashimi buffet at Momoya. Before meeting them, we actually had lunch buffet at Tung Lok, so u can imagine how stuffed we were. 

Back to normal lifestyle now.