hilo! and so, because of work, i've got less time for my exciting life which has implicated this space with the deficit of exciting posts.
ok. life now, is probably all about the haze. hahas. lets go into that later. its just too overrated for now.
(literally, with PSI currently at 250, which is becoming a norm.)
and u know what, i.am.still.sick. wts.
its been probably 8-9 days alrdy. i dont rmbr being sick for this long. i guess its coz i'm stubborn - didn't see the doc, didnt get the much required anti-biotics, but just being over self-confident with my own immune system. i mean i'm getting better day by day, but this is seriously too long!
maybe its also coz of the haze... and i've not ran in 11 days. omg.
all those weeks of fitness/speed trng gone to waste in 2 wks just like that.
it just feels that u've lost something that u've worked so hard for.
anyways.
as u know, last Sunday was Father's Day. didn't realized that until Sunday itself.
and so, on instagram, posted this up in memory of the biggest man of my life.
Happy Fathers Day to my most fav guy on the planet!
Though u may not literally be on earth right now, being able to meet with ur old friends makes me experience the footprints u’ve left behind in the Aviation Industry. Im so glad to be proud of it now and in the attempt to carry on the Poon legacy. Hahas
Imagine that we’re working in e same company now. It’ll be weird coz if I do make it as an engineer, I’m gonna be able to legally boss u around. :p but yea… sad to have lost an immediate walking-engineering-dictionary. We’re all doing good now. Hope u’ve having fun up there.
✈
i really miss him.
its not just about his love that i miss, but his no-link jokes, his big black dirty hands, his Hugo-Boss-before-work smell and his after-work--decomposing-hydraulic-oil-sweat smell, the knocking and banging sounds he make (coz it would mean new toys/furniture just for me), and really, just his company to make this family complete. i can't seem to get out of those living norms, for me that is.
to be honest, after he left, no doubt that we're all managing well after so many years. however, there's always this lingering void that in whatever ways u try to do it, u cant seem to successfully eradicate that empty space. this household was alway cheery with this laughter, really a perfect complete family of 4.
dinner out was always likka perfect 4 in a table. now its just the 2 of us, or occassionally with the sister. Always an empty seat.
it's really never and can't be complete.
now that i'm getting older, my sis has married out of the house, it leaves just a me and my growing older mother poon. thankfully, shes's still full of energy to an extent where sometimes i really think she's physically stronger than me....still. but yea, with age, it comes with all the physically aches.
bah.
ytd.. mother poon wanted to buy some N95 masks for me.
but not surprisingly, everywhr ran out of it. so she got home trying to digg some out for me and found theses!
well... these are my dad's and he probably koped it from SIA for the family during the SARS period which was just a few months before he passed on. hahas. they can't be used anymore though coz the metal piece rusted and the inner mask is covered with rust dust.
but i just find it funny how my dad is still able to protect this family though he's not physically around anymore.
sucha nostalgic night today.
coz today, i took a no pay leave. wait. its not because of the haze. not so impractical.
i've got a shoot for a client for the morngs from wed - sat. took on this job prior to joining the company. so i applied half day no pay leave (except for today that i took a full day off.. because i had to go for medical check up to satisfy my company's job application procedure)
honestly, its quite a big client, so just these 4 1/2days of work, i'm getting equivalent monetary returns as to what i'm getting a month for the current job that i'm in.
Shell's is my client's client. hahas.
quite a big event...
on wed, it was the first day of the event and there were supposed to be at least about 10 GOHs that i've gotta cover for the media / PR agencies affiliated to it. was actually quite apprehensive for it coz its been long since i've shot big shots. and what's more, this time, i've covering sucha large scale event on my own. so with my anxiety, i borrowed gab's camera as a 2nd camera - just in case my old 30d fails and that i dont have to change lens so often. and wah, he's so nice as to lend me his Mark II. feels so good coz its full frame and all. with the 16-35mm on it, it was extraordinary. yea. another aim to work harder. hahahahs.
anyways, the event was cancelled, but the company continue to do a dry run in which i still covered it for the day.but since the haze is at its hazardous level, today and tmr and probably even on sat's schedule are cancelled.
from a marketing point's of view, its damn sad coz an event like this to create publicity and all has gone to waste. all the planning, the hardwork, the manpower, the resources, and especially the money all gone down the drain man. really sigh. yea, and it even came out in the news that the event was cancelled.
but yea, it was indeed a good break and rest for me. even had time to enjoy lunch at home with mother poon today. vietnamese spring rolls. always wanted to do it on my own.
esp with my favs: tung hoon, prawn, hotdog, corn, carrot, veg, and mother poon's whipped up thai sauce.
see so nice right! i make one lehhh. #skilled #ikr #youdontsay
hahas. and so, if all else fails, i've still got another alternative future route. whahhahaas.
medical checkup.
i grew 1cm!!!!!!!!!!! Huat ah.
and my bp is so low that the doctor kept retaking it with disbelief. Ahhas. "83/47... hmm. I guess i'll just have to accept that" bauahahahs. But yea. Im always with low bp. Last time wanted to be cool and donate blood... everything clear until the last moment when they took my bp, they had to reject me.
and so.
The Haze.
with an all time psi record of 371.
this morng, after gg down to ecp to meet up with the client, i went back home to put back the stuff, then went out again to do my medical checkup.
was using my Laos-bought-checkered-face-mask, that when the client saw me, he immediately went to his van and gave me his N95 mask. :D yea, reallly THANK GOD for that.
coz even while trying to protect myself from the haze especially while riding, i felt that my eyes were getting watery and those eeky stuff in my nose keeps on building up. applying what i learn in Bio class in sec 4, i rmbr these substance is caused by irritatnts stimulating the cillas of the walls of the respiratory track, so mucus-producing glands get activated. hence, the over-production is a problem. and with my previous stubborn virus/ bacteria and now + haze, i'm really feeling it in my system.
so with the N95, life got better. hahahs
further more, its not available anywhere in the market. haahhas. and on fb, some even suggest an emergent of the black market for these masks. WAHHAHS.
but yea, the social media stream has been quite entertaining.
comparing PSI with PSLE scores, stock market exchange values, bowling high scores and so on. all full of shit, but making this uncomfortable period of time more bearable.
as i was free (oh such a rare moment in my life that i had to cherish it), i was watching Channel News Asia. frequent updates about the haze situations. and i realized how this whole haze thing leads to other bigger issues like bilateral relationships between countries, especially amongst those within the ASEAN treaty if u may call it.
and i guess as how many are uphappy with the government and all, they are trying their best to protect the country and at the same time, figure out ways to salvage a mother-nature situation those its mainly caused by the actions of human.
i was actually quite surprised at one of the minister's comment that was headlines of a news article.. it says "Stop-work order may be issued if haze worsens" when the psi read at 321 at that point of time. hahas. i mean like, u mean its not bad enough?
but yea, then i thought through again, having such an order would mean an implication of the country's financial growth. hahas. and i guess coz its also during the school holiday, there's no need to issue such an order because as working adults, we all should have that right mind to protect ourselves right.
and so, it was last night that the haze escalated from 190 - 290. that would mean a sleepless night for many of the country's leaders, having to spend their nights a conference room in their full working attire and all. so i guess as singaporeans, we should be thankful for having a government that cares?
but if i'm the govt, i would find ways to produce the N95 masks and have like the community centres to distribute it to those who bothers to seek out for one right. that's primary... as compared to trying to find out who caused the fires/ and how to put it out and so on. i mean these are the root-causes of the problem, but it would be better to protect out people with more practical means right?
ok, i'm not the govt, so of course, its easier for me to say all these. ahhhas.
and also, this is not the first time such thing is occuring leh. its a yearly thing and how/what that country does to its plantation is predictable. its nots something out of the blue. i mean u can attribute it to the wind-conditions / weather and whatever nots that impacts the haze situation in our country right. but i think its always good to have a contingency plan ahead, especially when such situations are predictable.
and u know they always say that in life, people are generally never prepared until the problem occurs. why wait for it to happen? prevention is better than cure right. u can talk about the resources and all, but we're dealing with health issues here that no money can buy.
i'm not angsty now la. just see that there are soooo many loopholes that can be filled up with constructive criticisms, and that if singaporeans can be abit more pro-active and action-taking to help each other out rather than just complaining. this includes me coz really, there's nothing much i can do but to tell the world to keep hydrating with good and clean water into ur bodily system.
hahas. and yes, i have to express my angstyness to the country that says that we (singapore) are acting "like a child" over the haze.
of course we are. afterall, we are still a growing country.
but look who created the problem. we're not exactly pin-pointing or blaming anyone as a general population.
look, our representative leaders has kindly raised out our helpful hand and dilligently focusing on solutions to solve ur problems at the expense our resources for our own self-protecting (and more useful for ourselves) means. so i think, comments like such are reallllly unnecessary. its ur negative repercussions that we've got to deal with. #noremorse #itwasntme yea. move on.
and i'm also secretly proud of how our govt responded to such comments. focused. dilligent. efficient.
just get on with solving the damn prob and not create unnecessary tension.
situations like these and really make relationships go either ways... they either tighten the bonds, ur just create more political tensions.
i truly believe that with the amount of tolerance and perseverance we have as a country after coming thus far, we're capable on surviving on our own, just basing on the leadership and how the country works. but tooo bad... were just a small red dot on the map and we do need those external resources.
ANWAYs. had a company bbq just amongst the Airport Ops dept ytd.
was abit awkward for me coz i didn't know everyone. basically, its likka social thing for the office side and airport side ppl to get together.. so i saw some of the techs from the airport.
but yea. it was after all, a wed with a following official workday the next day.
anways. kinda time to sleep now.
gd nite.
and may the haze fly away.
or SEND THE RAIN. amen.
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