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My New Year's Resolutions

tintin0661 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:23:04 +0800

I know I am a bit late with coming up with my New Year's Resolutions...... I need to live a more healthy life. By saying this, it may sound like my current lifestyle is very unhealthy. Haha.

I eat too many snacks almost continuously, so I have gained weight. I kind of expected it though. I should stop eating snacks as frequently as I do. And I should resume jogging. I think it was because of the cold weather that I stopped jogging.

I calculated my 'real' age once. And it was a few years older than my actual age. And after I started jogging, I recalculated my age again and it turned out to be a few years younger than my actual age. So I should start doing exercises again.

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Last Christmas....

tintin0661 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:27:20 +0800

I miss my friends with whom I went Christmas shopping, at whose place I spent the Christmas, and with whom I went Boxing Day shopping. It has already been a year.... I hope I will see them again before next Christmas....

港女.... What the heck?

tintin0661 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:42:58 +0800

As mentioned in my earlier post, my ex asked me about where he could get a drug for his friend, because she said she needed it. He told me the dermatologist his friend went to did not want to prescribe the drug. My immediate response was that apparently it was not necessary for her to use the drug. The drug in question is isotretinoin that is used in the treatment of severe forms of acne. It has some serious side effects, such as teratogeneity which can be prevented by the simultaneous use of oral anticonceptives.

I asked him how severe her acne is, because I still believed in his judgement. Then he kept saying that it is not about the severity of the problem and blah blah blah. And he would not want to tell me that. I was wondering why the hell he wanted information from me, if he did not want to tell me about the details of the problem. After asking him a hundred times why his friend thought she needed that drug, he finally told me a little bit more. I really did not see any necessity of using that drug, if the acne problem were almost non-existing.

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Do you really need them...?

tintin0661 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:39:28 +0800

When I was in Hong Kong in September, I had a fever the day before I was supposed to leave for Seoul for a few days. Since my mum was very worried about me getting sicker, she said I should go see a doctor. Although I knew the doctor could not do anything but prescribe paracetamol (Panadol), I still agreed to go.

As expected, I got paracetamol for the fever. My mum told the doctor that I must have some allergy problems, and I got a non-sedating antihistamine, as what he said. Because he thought the fever was caused by a bacterial infection of my throat, I got a prescription for Augmentin, an antibiotic. I also got nose drops and lozenges for my throat. I even got two different doses of paracetamol (250 mg and 500 mg per tablet).

I did not expect to get that many medicines for a fever that would subside after taking a paracetamol. In the end, I only took the antibiotic and paracetamol. I thought the other drugs were kind of unnecessary.

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Just some random thoughts - continued

tintin0661 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:39:37 +0800

Yesterday I chatted with a friend from Toronto. It is pretty funny that this Chinese guy who was born in the States, but who has lived for more than half his life in Canada, is so obsessed with Amsterdam. When I first met him, he would not believe I am from Amsterdam and he would not believe I never smoked pot in my entire life. Partly because he did not know there is a Chinese population of adequate size in the Netherlands and partly because he could not find the signature Dutch accent in me, when I speak English.

I have always thought that he is an optimistic person. We could talk about anything. Yesterday I asked him how come he could always be optimistic. Well, he answered me that he was not. He said that the mood depends on the person you are with. I think it is true. If you are with someone who is always cheerful, it makes you feel better.

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Just some random thoughts

tintin0661 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:11:28 +0800

Sometimes I am just scared that I will not find true love. I thought I found the one, but it turned out that it just did not work. Maybe we were not trying hard enough. Maybe I expected too much from him. Maybe he did not expect that much from me.

I am just getting a little too emotional lately. I really do not know why. Maybe I am afraid of the future. Perhaps I am afraid of getting old. I am afraid that things that I want to happen will not happen. I am afraid that things will happen that I do not want them to happen....