Monday, November 26, 2007

Oh Sweet Liberty!

Today's Thought: "It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize." - Robert Mallet

Mineral Water delivery does not exist here. You have to buy bottles in boxes or those containers that goes with a hot & cold dispenser. It's arms exercise and endurance everytime I buy a box and carry at most 3 bottles at 1 go. I live on the 3rd floor and there's no elevator. I might be a gym rat but the body's not build to carry boxes (even a guy would complain!).

It's just interesting and never fails to make me smile every time I got to read the box. I never thought this country is under siege and crying of liberation, hehehe.




Friday, November 16, 2007

In sickness and in health....There's Always a Medicine You Can Take

Today's Thought: “I'm so ugly - My mother had morning sickness - After I was born” - Rodney Dangerfield


I had slight flu and cold just last month, my first time to get sick while I'm based here. I went to our company doctor and was given these meds, 1 sachet for cold and 1 sachet for fever. I think the plastics' pretty cool, hehe. It's not a practice here to hand out any prescription paper so you can go buy them yourself. Instead, the meds are covered under sick leave (provided it was approved and signed by the boss) and are provided by government hospitals. All details are written in 3 languages - English, Malay and Chinese. The picture's a little blurd but these two just say that I should take 2 paracetamol tablets 4x a day & when necessary & before meals and 1 fedar(?) 3x a day & when necessary. If you ask me, the 'x a day' conflicts with 'when necessary' but who am I to question the doc? The result? I was sick for 1 more week and finally felt good after taking Neozep from a Pinoy friend. Pati ba naman sakit, brand concious?