It's week one of my 6th Semester in NUS and I started it downing Panadol pills :(
The headache started on Sunday night when I was back from Kow Fu's house. I didn't know what it was then but yesterday I managed to conclude that it was heat stroke. The cause was rather stupid - I just spent less than a few minutes under the sun (but it was really blazing hot that afternoon), coupled with lack of rest due to room moving and unpacking. I guess I should really have slept instead of unpack my room before going out again at night, but I didn't know it would make me that tired the whole night. It was quite a strain to open my eyes as it got later (but I must say dinner was really superb). And when I was home I was down with a headache, and a body simmering with internal heat.
Monday was worse. Still feeling the heat and headache, couldn't sleep too, though I tried for hours and hours all through the day. Also, a couple of admin issues in school added to the stress, plus other personal stuff. The weird thing about my feeling hot was the heat was all inside me, but my skin was at a normal temperature. It was very bad. I couldn't eat much dinner. I couldn't do work at all, and FYP balloting has to be submitted in two days. :(
Tuesday. Went to Chinatown to buy bus tickets around 9 something in the morning, before they run out. Had breakfast in Chinatown - and again couldn't finish my food AND drinks. (The cleaners must think I'm a horrible food waster or something). Fortunately Chinatown wasn't too far away from NUS... the whole trip back and forth amounted to around 3 hours only. And there were bus tickets left so I could go back home with Yew Hong and friends. Thanks Yew Hong for calling me to give directions, and for replying the tonnes of sms's I sent. :S
After coming back from Chinatown I had a business lecture from 3-6 pm. The lecturer was a handsome German, very friendly too. Once my classmates knew class participation was 25%, there were enthusiastic remarks from beginning to end (especially the SEP students). Me? With phelgm stuck in my throat (yes I was having cough and cold as well), as well as a body both freezing and burning (air-con was cold but I was hot, yet I was shivering), I couldn't bring myself to say (or think of what to say anything at all). In the end what I did was riase a hand indicating that I was the only Malaysian in class, and ask the lecturer one (rather stupid) question at the end of the class. Sigh. But it was a nice course and a nice lecture. Will elaborate about it in other blog posts.
RHOC chose to have an ice-cream party at night - and I had to settle FYP balloting in that very night too. I had to forgo the ice-cream, but Jon did bring a bit up after it ended. What a horrible task it was to just select 15 projects out of 128 and rank them. You might just end up with any of your choices so I don't want to be doing something that results in my tearing of hair, and gnashing of teeth. After a very small dinner (rarrr going to lose more weight) I went to sleep for an hour or so waking up to feel hot all over. The heat had finally moved from inside my body to near skin surface (like typical fever). It was then that I knew I had a heat stroke. It wasn't nice, but I felt quite relieved knowing what it was. I settled the projects after a few hours, feeling rather brain dead. One big load off my shoulders.
I tried drinking 'liang cha' to reduce my body heat, but then it worsened my cough (cough virus is really rampant in NUS now. Even my professor was coughing.) Pei Pa Koa wasn't effective enough. Hence the deadly resort: Panadol, after tossing for an hour or so on bed (poor Tirza, I was quite noisy). And today my temperature is gone. Cough and blocked nose still lingering though. Hope they'll be gone soon enough too. And I do hope my appetite will come back. I couldn't finish the porridge I had for breakfast this morning, and it really wasn't a lot.
I think I haven't really blogged about being sick before. Thank God this is week 1 and all the late night mugging and stuff hadn't started yet. However, there were hall activities like block initiation this week, and I acted really anti-socially, even during hall dinners. :( I will still need to go out to settle some personal issues these few days, so I'm really glad I have no more fever. :) Now I'll work hard to get rid of the cough instead.
