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I received an early morning call yesterday from FAC (Fucking Annoying Classmate) at 8.30am who proceeded to tell me that a further 2 more subjects’ results have been released – we have just checked our Financial Accounting results the night before online.. and RMIT is weird like that in that results are released slowly per subject rather than all at one go ala Curtin. :/

After checking for my own results, I received an e-mail from a seller who replied about my enquiry on the Raynox DCR-250 Super Macro Close Up Lens, which was really an attachable filter of sorts to any lens with the diameter between 52mm to 67mm. At about 9.45am I left home and went to his house at USJ 3 (he does not have a physical shop, but does his business entirely online), and stayed there for about an hour while he showed me how to use the Raynox, and tried to persuade me to buy a few more other things.

Eventually I ended up with a purchase of the Raynox DCR-250 (RM250), a blower (RM30), and a diffuser for my external flash (RM50). Which Eric (the seller) owes me RM70 because I earlier pre-paid him RM400 for a Lowepro Computrekker AW bag that I was eventually told was out of stock.

Then I went back home, immediately tested out my Raynox with much glee, ate a homecooked lunch of buttered dory fish at about 1pm, and halfway through suffered what I thought was gastric pain. Eventually the attack grew stronger and stronger and I forced myself to the toilet bowl and sat there for about half an hour as I felt the energy and valour draining out of me – I felt faint. The spasms in my stomach were so bad I fervently wished someone would just tear the whole damn thing out of me – it was worse than being punched in the stomach.

I was laosai-ing quite violently that when I felt the attack stopped momentarily, I summoned all the strength I could to bring myself downstairs to tell my mum that I’m in a great deal of pain and I needed to be fetched to the clinic. Then I had to run up again and laosai wtf.

5 minutes later I brought myself to the car while the pain had subsided slightly, clutching a plastic bag, a change of clothes, and towel that my mum passed to me in case I laosai in the car wtf. Seriously I have no control over my bowel movements la, it’s like my body was reacting quite badly against whatever toxins that entered my system.

But fret not surprisingly I didn’t laosai during the 15-minute journey to Klinik Ooi at SS15. And when I just entered the car while clutching my stomach in pain, Brandon was asking me “Baby ah?” WTFFF I would have laughed la there and then if I wasn’t in such a pain and was in no mood for jokes at all.

And luck was on my side ‘cause there were no patients around, and I was immediately ushered into the doctor’s room. Long story short, I was to see a gastroenterologist at SJMC immediately because of the bloated stomach I endured for the past 2 weeks and the sudden diarrhoea that I had.

So blabla we went there, the nurse weighed me (and I saw myself gaining 5kg WTF no joke I’m wondering whether it’s because of my bloated stomach – 5kg of air? wtf) saw the kindly Indian gastroenterologist who told us that I’m unlikely to be suffering from any serious problems because my bloated stomach was actually very common (something about due to diet and lifestyle, which I strongly suspected was the stupid foie gras I ate (which was only a mouthful) two Fridays ago), and that I had food poisoning.

And I’m suspecting the bakchang I ate in the morning, which was actually made by grandma. :/ Or the homecooked lunch.

Oh and as I exited the hospital, I saw Paul Moss wtf.

In any case this whole episode was incredibly trying and when we reached home, I slept immediately. And later on Ding dropped by my house at about 8pm to work on his assignment (and I helped correct his grammar wtf) and lepak-ed till about 11.20pm.

Here are some macro shots I took in my garden, I’d really appreciate if you can help me decide which one you think is the best/you prefer the most ‘cause I may submit one of them for a competition. :D

#1 Drop on pinkish lotus

#2 Drop on green

#3 Drop on pinkish lotus (part deux)

#4 Drop on green (part deux)

#5 Drops of the world

I personally couldn’t decide between the last 3, though I’m more biased to #5 due to the degree of difficulty in obtaining such a shot (had to use continuous shooting and remove the others).