MONDAY... yet, no class. Yeay!
Today is the 1st day of the semester break.
I have been having class everyday. In addition, on Thursdays & Fridays there are also practical sessions in the afternoon!
Even in those days when my body system was normal... those 2 days are tiring days! What more now!
Alhamdulillah, I'm getting stronger by the day... but rather slowly & some days are still rather bad.
In additional to the "can't do much at home now", my feet will bengkak at the end of each day, more so on Thursdays & Fridays.
The doctors said that I don't have to worry about it... it's the effect of prednisolone.
So, now almost everything that is not normal with myself is either due to the side effect of prednisolone and/or my body is still adjusting to the prednisolone slowly going out of my body.
Hmmm... ye ke?
This morning (straight after sending Durrah to her sekolah ugama) was the first time I drove myself to UMMC & parked at the scary parking place.
Since I didn't have to rush back for class, I thought I should use the opportunity to get back my confidence.
Since last night I was deliberating whether to drive my small BFX or the big NAZA.
I went with NAZA because I felt more confident driving it.
I need everything to boost my confidence level.
If a person can survive this parking place, I think it's quite OK to give him/her a driving license without taking a driving test!
He.. he... he... marah pulak orang baca ni!
I had to go through the 'harrowing tunnels of each level to reach the 4th floor where I finallty found a spot.
I went out of the car & walked rather unsteadily to the Physiotherapy Unit.
Part of me felt like I just want to drop & lie down for a while.
I realized that my appointment was actually for 3pm but I was hoping that I would be given a chance to do the session in the morning.
Yes, they allowed me BUT of course with the warning that I should't do it in the future :)
This time the focus was on my upper & lower lips.
When I was done I went up to the clinic area that would be occupied by MediNeuro on Tuesday morning & Friday afternoon.
I had missed the appointment on 31 July (Friday) due to my Neuro practical session. The lady at the *JANJITEMU counter gave me 1 September 2009! Lamanya lagi!
(*"JANJITEMU" was being used rather than "temujanji", the term that was often used. But, if you think about it... probably "JANJITEMU" is correct. One has to berjanji before bertemu seperti yang dijanjikan))
The whole time I was in UMMC, the group was hard at work doing gotong royong. We had 2 additional members -- Amiruddin & Khairuddin.
Actually, for quite sometime I've felt very disturbed with the environment in the room... so crammed & cluttered!
However, when I came to the office with KFC lunch (as I had promised them), the room looked so nice ;)
Now, to make them maintain the place as is... Not too tough a job, I hope.
I even got them to help re-arranged the small room.
Oh yes, apart from being happy in seeing the place turned so cheery, I was scared to see the few full plastic bags put outside the door...
Aiyaa... did they throw away a lot of stuff with sentimental values to ME?
You can't win them all!
While I re-arranged my stuff a bit, I did find a box which MdNoor had refer to "Kotak Penuh Memori".
Indeed, he's right. I asked him to take a picture of it. He took 5!!
It was a box used by my PhD supervisor to send me a book WAY after I had left NEOUCOM.
He took his time in expressing his happiness that I completed my studies... probably due to the fact that I left WITHOUT his blessings, i.e. he wanted me to do post-docs & still be in charge of the lab (as I did for many years).
My flight was on 31st August & on 30th August, I still found a note with "CANCEL YOUR FLIGHT" on my office door.
Where did he think I was going? New York? Miami? San Francisco?
For goodness sake, I had even received my deposit back from my landlord!
It was really unfortunate that the end part of my full of happy memories study-stay in Rootstown was a very-very-very unhappy occasion :(
Everyone, in that small-one hallway department, was somewhat involved in my predicament.
Pascal & wife were kind enough to put me up for a night before my flight & they also drove me to the airport.
Of course anyone would be sad to leave a place where one spent so much of one's time & matured to adulthood in one's thinking, etc.
BUT, I was doing it with so much sadness & anger that I was put in a situation not to be able to enjoy saying my goodbyes.
Oh well... live & learn.
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