Konichiwa! Minasan wa ogenki desuka?

Yup.. today is Friday.. I'm clearing the 1-day off which I had accumulated during deepavali. So here I am.. at hm.. feeling the effect of the flu bug.. just nice took this off so that I can take a nice rest at hm. It's still raining outside.. Got sick on Tues.. so had to cancel the runs which was supposedly fixed on Tues and Thurs.. gomen ne Z-san, Jun-san and Daren-san. Hope to rest well over these few days and recover b4 I start work on Monday.. work's gonna pile up soon.. esp for the next 2 weeks at least.

Ok~ I don't think I should be talking about work on my off day.. But I must say that the turnover rate at my current workplace is very high.. Reasons? I think can come out with many even though I've only worked there for about a month or so.. The latest personnel who is leaving this job and moving on is Brother Ling.. Wish you all the best in ur future endeavours!!

At workplaces, we can see the true personality of the people we are working with. Names shall not be mentioned here.. as disgusted as I am with some ppl, I must admit that there're no perfect working environment in the current society we are in. 1 person which I'm describing, had totally turned me off though the incident did not affect me at all. When you need Brother Ling to continue staying here to help you with the work, I don't think that you should be coming out with those absurd reasons like Contract Offer is much stable than Permanent Job Offer. What the hell? If you feel that Contract is more stable, y don't you urself volunteer to convert from a Permanent staff to a Contract staff? This is total crap. When you need ppl, then u start to treat them differently. When you dun, you dun even take a glance at them when they walk pass u. Bragging abt your 1st class honours, I wondered where you took them. If it was from NUS, I would have saluted you if you had achieved that. Come into NUS School of Computing and you will know how hard is it to actually achieve 1st Class. And the following saying is true.. and I really believe in it : "You may have excellent results, but you may not be able to work well in society". Think some places who focus on gd results when hiring ppl should think twice.

Looking on the brighter side, there're still many great colleagues around me.. Brother Kelvin, SY, Charmiane, Richard, Winnie and a few others, it's great that they are still around. Though no humans may be perfect, they are probably the nicest ones around. Heard from Wendy that there's a "yayapapya" new HRE in RU. Ha.. my sisters.. dun bother abt her man.. she will find out that something is wrong when nobody wanna talk to her anymore =) take gd care of urselves.

Just finished watching the japanese drama series: 1 Litre of tears.

I think I took damn long to finish watching this drama cos when I started there's not much time liao.. However, this show certainly made me understand alot of things.. and how fortunate we r to be still living and kicking.

This drama is a real life story.. about a young girl, Ikeuchi Aya, starred by Sawajiri Erika, who got this disease know as Spinocerebellar Disease when she was only 15. Medical technology may be high now.. but some diseases such as SCD is still incurable up to date. This disease slows down the cells development in humans.. and even destroying it. Imagining a 15 yr old gal, who suddenly know that she had gotten this disease.. how would she feel?

This disease progresses gradually but slowly. In Aya chan's case, it developed very fast. As time moves on, problems pile up. With time, Aya chan can't speak or eat properly.. choking on food most of the times. She couldn't walk n write properly, falls down without any warning. Sometimes injuring herself very badly. Her movements are being restricted. Apart from this, imagine the problems she faced in school. Those heartless glances by other ppl, the pain she felt when she knew that she was becoming a burden to her family and friends, losing her frenz and her bf, and alot more. I think I may not be able to bring out the true feelings the drama portrayed out with my blogging. It will be better if you watch the drama...

Despite her disease, she continued to write her diary daily.. writing out her own feelings everyday. She continued to write till one day, she couldn't hold the pen/marker anymore. She even volunteered to donate her body as research material. You can't really imagine the thoughts that are going through her brain during those times..

After 10 years of struggle and fighting with the disease, she died peacefully on her bed, nvr even giving up once during the 10 years of struggle. She got what she needed most during those times, the support of the whole family, the few true friends she had around with her, and some other ppl like the doctors and teachers around her. Her diaries were being published and it gave others who were down with the same disease alot of encouragement.. even those who were not ill received encouragement from her phrases and words.. Learnt quite a great deal from this drama..

woo.. seldom do I write this much in my blog.. but since I hardly have much stuffs to say here.. but I felt that I should write this down once i finished watching the drama cos it's still fresh in my mind. Cherish the good and healthy body which you have.. dun destroy it through smoking or alcoholism.. some ppl don't even have the chance to have it. For Aya, her normal life ended when she was only 15 years old. She died at 25.

jya.. enough of that. those who wanna watch can borrow from me.. now going to rest liao.. feeling the effect of the medicine.. take care everyone!