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For those suffering from a cough or sore throat…

Yes, this has magical properties.

Yes, it is Chinese medicine at its best.

Yes, it is nasty tasting.

And yes, it works.

Build up of the Humours

It is a bloody downer getting sick in your first week on a new job. Much that I would rather have gotten ill on my dying days at my last job. It was somewhat amusing that my new colleagues rather forcefully insisted that I go home yesterday¹ so this morning when I woke with a temperature and sore throat, I would do them the courtesy of resting. Hopefully, this will give me a chance to recover as the body needs rest to heal itself.

I suspect that either I have a very virulent strain of the virus running through me or that the build up of stress over the last week was finally released into my system. I am a firm believer that if you’ve been working yourself ragged for a period of time through stress, your body holds the bad humours² in check until you begin to relax, whereupon it releases all those toxins in your body at once.

Right now, I’m looking forward to a cocktail of antibiotics³, a healthy portion of congee with liver and lean meat, and a blend of liquefied fruits in one easy to drink mug. So excuse me while I’m off to cough up my lungs.

1. Although one suspects more out of personal concern for their health. [↩]
2. Okay, I like the term humours but perhaps it isn’t the correct terminology for humourism. [↩]
3. Not a great believer in these since it actually reduces your immunity to otherwise innocuous things. Although in a case where I’m sick on my first week on the job and an Expo event this weekend, perhaps I should just go for the drugs. [↩]

Visitors From Afar

My transition between my old job and new job¹ has been far from sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for novel levels of stress to roll in. El Revez and Azumi decided to make the most of my downtime and fly in on Tuesday night which followed with my folks arriving on Thursday. I must say that I am happy with the company although it has been quite tiring ensuring that all the different groups in my life for the last week are entertained².

Both groups had been before to Singapore³, so I was trying to figure out something more than just shopping, eating and drinking. So I came up with a nice iron-clad agenda for the last five days.

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1. See my Transitions post. [↩]
2. Thanks to that one person who helped out a lot of with helping me to manage it all and here’s a public apology for the snippiness. [↩]
3. My folks lived in Singapore over 30 years ago and El Revez and Azumi have been visiting me regularly over the last couple of years [↩]

Transitions

I am in a state of transition at the moment. This past week has seen me leave my old job at the events company I used to work for in Hong Kong. I’m leaving behind some people I genuinely enjoyed working with¹ and some that I would rather not work with again immediately in the future or beyond. It’s all water under the bridge though as they say.

So where am I heading off to?

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1. Devilite has a nice professional obituary for me on his own blog [↩]

Last Minute F1

Managed to score some last minute tickets for Singapore’s first ever F1 yesterday (thanks to Lyn for that). Having no wish to go to F1 by myself alone, I dragged along my friend to watch the race from the Padang stands. It was a moment of triumph as we both realized that we too could walk around Singapore and look like we owned the place with our F1 badges¹.

The F1 certainly brings a holiday atmosphere to the place that almost makes the actual race a moot point. In some ways, it was also Singapore’s first actual world event², and there were plenty of vibes in the air that Singapore could yet be cool. The upper crust of Singapore echelons finally had an outlet to display their wealth beyond their country clubs while the general rabble could feel Singapore’s prosperity first-hand, even if it was just latching on to a small part of the F1 in some way.

Actually, the F1 was quite exciting.

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1. Of course, no amount of waving these badges entitled us to anything free or exciting except to access the circuit. [↩]
2. That people actually care about, folks. [↩]