Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | 6:37 PM

Life has been pretty good. I won about 10 bucks in mahjong against my cousins (so what if the monetary value drops by half when I convert my winnings to Sing dollars, the point is, I won!! Mwahaha.)

I had spent my weekend over in Malaysia, stuffed into a kampung wooden house with more than 30 people, with only 2 toilet and 2 bathing facilities ( albeit them not being very complete facilities), with the flying insect population nearly doubled that of the human population. My brother's showing up for this annual get-together made waves, as he has not been there for around 5 years already (blame it on teenage rebellion and, I suspect, intelligence)

Skipping the boring relatives-wow-you-are-so-tall parts, and the i-wanna-slap-my-bloody-whiny-cousins parts, and fast forward-ing through a two hour drive back to S'pore, followed by a bout of travellers' lag. I found out, upon my return that only two people are visting Mrs Chan. After making a half baked plan to visit her, I had to cancel it when I discover that it is not traveller's lag I am having but a bloody bout of flu I caught from my twerp of a cousin. Fast forward through 3 bouts of medication, 2 flu-medicine-induced naps, 7 Strepsils lozenges for my swollen throat, I am now recovering, and not looking forward to the amount of talking I have to do today. (Oh, my boss told me that people under the zodiac sign of the Dragon should not start work early today, hence I am allowed to go for work only in the noon!! )

It is about 11am now, I am off to have my lunch and pokey my way to work. Tata!!

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