Brittle Health, Brittle Bones

Anatomy of the Human Heart Embroidery Wall Decor, swiped from Spec-ta-cles on Flickr.

Early Saturday morning, mum told me she did not want to go to market. She wanted to do a medical checkup instead! She thought that something was wrong with her heart. Said it felt weak. Gulp! Hearing that at 7:30am really swept all the sleep from my eyes. So I brought her to Taman Desa Medical Center for a check-up. Met the MO and he asked me what was wrong. Explained the situation, and he ordered up an ECG. Thank goodness it was normal. Since mum mentioned increased heartrate, he ordered up a thyroid test. She did have the problem some 31 years ago. The blood test was normal too. Perhaps she was just feeling a little under the weather. With that cleared up, MY heart was definitely lighter and we went to the Anlene booth there to get a free bone scan. According to the test results, I'm at the borderline of the high risk group to develop osteoporosis! My results were worse than my mother's! What a shocker.



At about 10+, we went off to have breakfast at OUG. Had a bowl of curry noodles at Restoran Seaview. At MYR4.50, it came with three pieces of chicken, not bad at all. But it was just average-tasting. Did some minor shopping at the OUG wet market. Since it was late, we got to take advantage of the lower prices. Bought some cherries too at MYR50 a kilogram. Obscene price. The only downside is the fact that the sun would be blazing and most of the choice items gone. Mum wasn't hungry, so I just had a bak zhang for lunch. The leftover pork fat I fed to the neighbourhood cats. Hope they weren't Muslim cats. XD. At about 2:00pm, mum went out for her society meeting. Feeling bored, I watched "Prince of Persia" and "Schoolboy Crush" on my lappie. PoP wasn't exactly a very good movie, but watchable la. The Hassansins! Such a cheesy name. Better to remember it as the 2D side-scrolling game I played on my brother's 8088 PC. "Schoolboy Crush" is a gay Japanese movie set in a boarding school. Teenage angst, classroom politics, love triangles, broken families, suicide, sex for money and forbidden love. The usual. Haha. Lots of scenes in the shower room though. XD.



Towards evening, I was feeling bored, so I decided to take advantage of the good weather and went for a swim. In my rush, I forgot to bring my googles and I couldnt use SK's cause they were powered. Damn. So I tried swimming without 'em. Boy, did the chlorine sting. And the water was full of debris-- dead bamboo leaves and dead insects. Yikes. Having no choice, I made the best of things with my lousy backstroke and did the doggie paddle. As usual, no eye candy. Sigh. When are the cute guys gonna move in to my apartment building!? For dinner, mum bought nasi dagang, nasi kerabu and onde-onde from the bazaar near OKR. The nasi dagang was superb. The red rice was of good quality. My only complaint was that the kari ikan tongkol was not sour enough. The nasi kerabu wasn't bad, but the rice was a tad soggy. Spicy enough, but the stall didn't give us keropok to go with it. And thank goodness the onde-onde actually had gula melaka filling inside. It was half the price of the tang yuan onde-onde (practically zero filling!) that I bought at KLS. Guess I negated my swim once again. :).