Last Weekend, Things Felicia Says #2, Friyay

Last Weekend

Hey guys, sorry about the delay in the update. I should really be more diligent about this. Lots of things happened in the past week or so but mostly I've been caught up playing DotA. Firstly, last weekend Pearl and Khang came to visit. Pearl is my housemate in Newcastle and Khang is a handsome Viet guy I met in Newcastle. Both of them are doing medicine. Argh I just remembered that I forgot to take a photo with them. They came with so many gifts that I am still reeling in surprise till today at the amount of love I am receiving. I really appreciate all the gifts that has been sent so far as well as all the visits from you guys. Thank you so much! Pearl and Khang bought kuih lapis from Kuching, an MU jersey (OMG!), 2 DotA mini plushies, and 2 Pineapples (Pearl thought I cannot eat pineapple tarts which are my favourite cookies so that is 2nd best). I feel so spoiled by you guys!! Got some photos here. ;')

Here is the MU jersey and the DotA plushies <3

Thanks to Elise too for visiting me earlier this week and passing me Felicia's clothes from Australia!! :) It was nice to see you and thanks a lot for coming!


Things Felicia Says

Earlier in the week, Felicia and I were skyping and talking about me eating outside food. I was saying it is safe because we have been eating at the shop for a long long time. Almost 20 years and still nothing. And she said it doesn't matter because it only takes one time and it would make me get infected. There is some truth in what she says too of course but I came up with a metaphor saying," if you have sex with the same girl for 20 years, isn't it very unlikely for you to get an STD?" ;)


Weekly Updates

I went to see the doctor twice this week. On Monday was to get one of my chemo drugs and also to just check on my bloods to see if my white cell counts are high or not. I also am on a booster jab to increase my white cell counts now and today will be my last jab for this cycle I think. I am going to be doing a PET/CT scan to check on the progress of my cancer on the 9/11. Besides that, I am generally feeling alright. Been having a bit of back pain here and there as well as quite a lot of tummy pain but so far it is tolerable. My appetite has not been affected much and I think I am gaining more weight. Seems some people have noticed too haha. Yeah I have been eating heaps here. I am now 70kg from 64kg when i was in Australia.

Friyay

So yesterday was Friday and the gang (Kev, Ky, Jay, Ju, June, Fish, Kai, Huihun) came over to play ps3 and hang out with me. I forgot take pics again. Argh. Thanks a lot for coming guys. And long time haven't seen you huihun. :) I really need to remember to take more pics! I got another surprise though. (This week has so many surprises for me and I cannot thank you guys enough) This surprise is from UK and it is a really heartwarming postcard from none other than Li Chun!! I cannot believe you actually coloured them and this is only the first one! I can't wait for the rest. Thank you so much Li Chun and it has definitely made my week. Or month. :D All the best in your job interview ok?

I can't believe you coloured this, Lichun! This is so awesome that it looks printed!

;') Thanks so much. I am a sucker for postcards

My new setup :D thanks Ju for the suggestion

Me and Fish (Dedpul,) and Ju (Jagungboy.) and Kai's (AhKai ' |) win rates when we play together in DotA

Weekend, Anniversary and 2nd cycle

Hey guys, so last weekend I was just playing catan with Feebs, Ben, Kai, Kev and June. Really fun rounds we had on sat and Sunday night :) hope we can get to play the new expansion soon !! :) fritz, Ju and ky came to watch football as well. Was a good weekend before the dreaded Monday. Anyway Monday wasn't too bad. Had 5 pints of drugs dripped into me and had to stay in the ward for a night because they couldn't finish dripping everything in before they closed the day care centre. I didn't feel too bad besides some tummy pains here and there. Tuesday was also my 5 year anniversary of Felicia and I being together. It has really been a wonderful journey so far with little bends on the road but we pulled through to the 5 year mark!! On top of that, doing 2.5 years of LDR. So I facetimed Felicia while in the ward. I basically had the room to myself even though there was an extra bed for another patient because the previous patient left in the evening. I also managed to coax my parents to go home haha. So they only came back at 7am the next day which is on the Tuesday. I got discharged from the ward on the Tuesday evening.

Foot of my bed and the little table thing

The other bed

Wednesday, we found out somehow that the ward nurses and doctors only gave me one pint of medication (supposedly 2) on Tuesday which means they sorta messed up the schedule set up by my doctor. I can sorta guess my doctor was furious when she found out haha. The nurse and the doctor is gonna get it real bad. From what I hear from the daycare nurses.

Thank you so much Val and Viv for the fruit basket. Haha I was suppose to get a parcel for my mum and thought I asked my dad to collect it. But ended up it was this! Surprise, surprise! 

Letter from val n Viv

Fruit basket and balloooooonnn :D

This post has so much for me to say. Haha. Over the past week or so, I have been playing a lot of Dota. Thanks fish, ky, Kai, Jay and Ju for accompanying me to play Dota.

Hi again Cia bii... Sorry that I do not put you in front of my selfish brain that only thinks of himself. I have to learn to know when I am wrong and not be so stubborn all the time. I hope you can go through with this slowly with me as it is a bad part of me that needs to be weeded out.

Just some updates on what has been happening to me over yesterday and today. I have sore gums and bleeding gums which started yesterday. My doctor said it is part of chemo. A side effect called mucositis. That means inflammation of mucosal membranes which is gums, stomach mucosa, and a lot of other places. But for now, mine is only bleeding from the gums and it makes eating food a right pain in the arse (in this case mouth). Appetite is sorta weird. Like there are things I don't really wanna eat and I hate repetition of food. My body is always feeling warm. Nurses say i just need drink more water and hydrate myself more. 

Okay guys. Toodles. Will try to update more. I'm getting a bit lazy. I need a spank in the butt to get moving with writing. Now I'm writing this ending while sitting on my throne in the toilet. ;)

Cause i owe you a nice pic :)

Awal Muharram

Happy Awal Muharram to all my Muslim Friends. I am a couple of hours late because I haven't been getting any visitors lately so nothing much to write about haha. As it was a public holiday, quite a number of my friends came to visit. Thanks for coming Kai, ky, June and Kev. Ky came first and played some Dota on my laptop. I just remembered I need to change my hot keys back again. Haha. Luckily I haven't played any Dota games yet. June and Kev came and we played catan the whole afternoon! 3 games of the normal catan and 1 game of catan seafarers. I actually have not opened the cities and knights expansion yet which is going to make it more fun. Also can't wait for the 5-6 player expansion that my bro is going to bring back from Sydney next month. ☺️

L-R : Kai. june, ky and kev

I also have not been skyping much with Felicia... She's been a little busy lately. I've been busy too actually. Hope we can Skype a little more.... Besides that, I have been waking up at 3am everyday. No idea why. Posting this update at 2.50am is proof enough that this is a real problem for me. Generally, I have been feeling better since Monday. Been prescribed a proton pump inhibitor on Monday which helps reduce the acidity of my stomach and I have been getting much less tummy aches. However, I have been getting running nose every time I go downstairs to my living room. Seems that I'm allergic to something there. Eyes get itchy and heavy with my nose all dripping is not fun...

Till next time!

Monday #3

Yesterday night, I managed to get out of the house after such a long time. Went out with Hy, Ju, Kev, Bea, Huihun, Jay, and Fish. It was a fun night out and we went to Olfactory Bulb. (I am still laughing at this name seriously) No idea why cafes have to have such hip names. Here are some pics from last night. The coffee was so-so but the concept was quite interesting. It is a cafe which emphasizes on coffee mixology and they mix them with alcohol. The alcoholic drinks were pricy though.

Some cocktail drink of Hy's

Some alcoholic waffle for the alcoholics Hy and Bea.

Seems like a cool shot that i took of the "Bar"

Cute fat Asian boy and his waffle

My matcha latte

They gave us a little bookmark thing to draw on and hang on their wall

Guess where everyone is. XD

This morning, I was reading my Facebook newsfeed and I came across this. I am pretty sure I've read this before and it is just sorta an Aesop fable kinda thing where you learn some life lesson from a short story. This story was about a husband initially thought to be selfishly leaving his wife on a sinking ship and his wife shouted to him to take care of their daughter. Yeah read it for yourself. It is quite short and sweet.

http://www.upmoments.com/husband-pushes-wife-to-save-himself/

Today's random story started with me going downstairs and looking around my fridge. My mum asked me,"What are you looking for?" "I think I dreamt my friend gave me pineapple tarts," I replied. My mum laughed and said, "Yeah, I think you were dreaming." I came across the pineapple tarts and said, "There! Haha." "Oh yeah I didn't get a chance to see what was inside the plastic bag," Mum said. "YES!" I cheered, "I wasn't dreaming after all!"

Went to hospital today to get my endoscopy result and to see my doctor. The endoscopy result was just some chronic gastritis which is not caused by any infection or malignancy. My white cell count dropped which means I definitely can't go out anymore and less outside food too. Doctor said that I will be starting chemo on Monday 19/10 and she will need to recalculate the dosages again as my white cell count has dropped. Really dreading that Monday. That's it for today. Hope you like today's post!


P.S. Thanks viv, val and von for the pineapple tarts XD

Sunday Bumday

Hey! So I couldn't get to go to Hong's Birthday cause of some stupid allergy to my sofa cover. Was sneezing like crazy and all while playing Catan with June and Joyce. Thought I was coming down with the flu but it wasn't. Thankfully today I'll get to go out tonight after dinner to see Hong and the gang. Just felt bad and disappointed for missing out on her birthday party after saying that I'll go and also cause I was stoked to go out after more than a week at home.

Hong and the bois

Hong and the gals

And June won 2 games of Catan broke my win streak. HAHA. He's so going to get it next round. Tonight going to go to Olfactory Bulb. (super funny name) Some cafe in Kota D'sara. Will post something if it is worth posting about as I havent had good coffee in such a long while. Today such a good day for me I won 10 games in a row of dota haha. And got to play with Jono and his lil bro. Pretty much owned all the games we played eventhough they were playing with lag from Mauritius.

I didn't get to Skype Felicia much these past few days though. Felicia's birthday cake baked by her friend in UK!

Felicia's cake

Overall, I've been feeling fine. Just been having this slight tummy ache now and again. Going to go see the doctor on Monday to check up on the results of the endoscopy and this tummy ache (tube stuffed down my throat to see my stomach). Off meds for another 7 days. Counting down to the dreaded day... Fritz sending yummy food pics from Johor! Scumbag.

Otak-otak Fritz sending yummy food pics

Kueh cap Fritz from Johor

Kaj in Singapore working... Wishing him all the best there ! Picture with him and KY in Singapore.

Kaj and ky in singapore

Okay that's it guys, till tomorrow I'll update on any results and on olfactory bulb! haha still laughing at it.

Thursday Visits

Hi again, I've been a day late with my updates. Thursday night Von,Viv,Val, Ky and Roy came to visit. haha it has been such a long time since you guys came to my house huh? The last time was post SMKDU prom. Right? haha that was sooo long ago. Anyway thanks for coming. And talking about hepatitis. This is an article about hepatitis C if you guys are interested. 

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article.aspx?articleid=1895249&utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=social_jn&utm_term=252691142&utm_content=content_engagement%7Carticle_engagement&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=17861756

 It is 4am Saturday morning and i just woke up. It seems as if my sleeping schedule is messed up. Sigh, I can only take naps throughout the day. Didnt do much yesterday besides skyping with Jono and Jackson while playing Dota with them. 85minute Dota game :(

Today is suppose to be Hong Yen's birthday dinner with everyone. Hope that I feel well enough to go. :) Can't wait to actually get out of the house.

Royz, viv and von

Val, Me, Von. Viv (bot to top)!

Felicia's Birthday

To Felicia,

Happy Birthday to the most special person in my life! Baby, it has been wonderful to have you in my life and to celebrate all these events with. Thanks for staying with me through all these years and for being with me in my most dire time of need. I hope that you enjoy your birthday in Leeds and also your present from me. Please take care of yourself over there in UK and I can't wait to see you after my treatment so that we can make more memories together! I love you always. Thanks Huihun and Kevin for all your help in getting the present :)

Newcastle Beach Lighthouse

Max Brenner

Grand Pacific Drive

Harajucube i think. That square dessert place. haha

Catan, Visits, Hair loss

Hi again guys. Short post. So I am currently on my 2 weeks off of my chemo and yesterday I received my new catan expansion sets. :D It came while Razlan and Nidhish were here visiting and we sat down to play it straight away. Haha. Yesterday I also shaved my head. I attached a picture for all of you to laugh. :) I also got myself a new cap. Thanks wil and siang for coming to visit and playing catan with me on Tuesday!

So far I've been feeling okay. Just dreading the end of these two weeks.

Thanks Fish for the cap! Have a safe flight to UK, Razlan.

See ya guys soon!

New Catan Expansions :D

Razlan flying off to UK on Monday

Botaktat

New Cap by Nike

Another Monday

Another day, another Monday... I guess I am starting to dread Mondays. Monday is going to be the worst dose of drugs every cycle. :/ Monday is going to be follow-up day. Sigh. Yesterday, I received my first major hair fall of many to come. Saying bye to my hair is always a little depressing. Especially if it keeps dropping this way. I will be shaving it off today too.... Size 3? One more reason to hate Mondays... :(

On a lighter note, Xin Ni and Wesley visited me at my house yesterday. Was fun catching up with them after such a long time. Wishing you both the best of luck (and wealth) in all your endeavours. Bummed around at home all day playing Cities. Lol. BUT Joyce and June, I bought the Catan expansion sets already. Time for a session when I get it tomorrow. :D

I am now at the hospital waiting for blood tests and the doctor's appointment. Hope it won't take too long. Kinda bored being here and plus Felicia is asleep which means not many people else to text. And Hong Yen! I can go out for dinner on Saturday. :) See ya guys then! 

Updates

Hey guys. Haven't been writing much so just want to leave some updates on how I am doing. Was totally caught up playing games on steam. 😣 I've been feeling really good lately as I am off the chemo drugs for 2 weeks till the following Monday. Doctor also said I could go out and enjoy as my white cell counts are normal. Meaning that my risk of infection is probably the same as everyone else's. Only minor hiccup was my iron which is very low and the doctor was worried of me having a bleed somewhere.

So right now, I am in the endoscopy waiting room getting a tube stuffed down my throat into my tummy to have a look inside. While I am writing this, a Malay gentleman started talking to me and asking about me. I think he is a little bit gay. No idea. Haha. Hope he doesn't contact me. He even asked for a selfie but I refused. ✌️His English is really good though.

Yesterday, I went for dim sum with Ju, fish, June and Kai. It was my first dim sum meal since I got back and it was really yummy.

Day before, Nidhish and Razlan came over in the afternoon after their hospital placement. We chatted for a bit then played catan. Glad that they enjoyed it. :)

In the night, Xianhui and mari came for a visit. What initially was thought to be a board game night turned into us talking about mari's interesting work. I'm glad she's passionate about it albeit tiring. Hope she'll enjoy the best and be the best in her career!