An Eventful Monday

Sometimes I think this taxi peak period surcharge, call for a cab surcharge thingy is ridiculously a vicious cycle!

Left home at 10am to catch a cab to Northbrooks for my presentation to the kids. 4 people waiting for cab, many cabs zoomed past, either busy with passengers onboard, or just empty with an oncall sign. 10min past, situation did not improve. Saw 2 picked up their hp, I reckon they must've called for a cab. Miraculously, their cab appeared within minutes! I wonder where these available cabs were all these while! Refused to pay that extra $6, I waited on... Another 15min, still nothing! But by now, there's really hardly any cab on the road. I panicked, so finally decided to call for a cab :( Shockingly, this time, there's "NO TAXI AVAILABLE"!!! iyo.... this is worrying... Just when I was about to call another hotline, my savior appeared, an empty taxi! yay... this Mr Soo Ah Kow helped save me from missing my presentation & more importantly, helped save my $$$! yippee...! :D

Reached Northbrooks on time, no exactly pleasant experience. I mean, everything went smoothly despite some technical faults on their side, but just feel that they are rather disorganized, their teachers (besides the Mdm Gan & Anson) seem inexperienced & have this rather "couldn't care less" kinda attitude, students rather restless & unattentive (& these are the Exp NA kids!)... *sigh* seems like I'm back to my neighbourhood-school-general-education-hi-class-baby-sitting kinda Art teaching... Hope Koon won't mind.

Received a shocking SMS from Ayako, asking if I wanna visit Elaine in hospital! Apparently she was admitted to Alexandra Hospital the night before as her whole body was yellowish! This is so unexpected! She's always very healthy & she's very sporty. She's at Sentosa beach almost every weekend! Remembered I noticed her tired eyes & thought I found her eyes rather yellowish, but just thought she was tired. So Ayako & I arrange to visit her after my class at SCGS.

Had an hour or so before my class at SCGS, so was knitting at Mum's. Told her about the Aquamarine I got for her for her birthday. Will give it to her later when she comes. Cindy called so told her about Elaine & arranged to visit her together tonite & will go for dinner together after that. Also told Sis about it, so she can go visit with us.

Counting down the hours, finally lesson over... took a bus to meet Dar. Was starving! so bought Char Shao Su, carrot cake & spring roll (any 3 tim sum for only $2, very huge pcs). Dar showed me the free parking space he found opposite his office, where the landed properties are. Wa, what "hide out" for drivers! There were quite a number of other cars parked there too. But it was a long flight of stairs up to reach the place. What a work out too :P

We got Elaine a bouquet of flowers & a piggy toy that can record voices. We shouted "Elaine, get well soon!" & roared the hospital lobby! hehe... Elaine was surprise to see all of us there. She looked so weak... She lost so much weight since just last Saturday when we met up! Think she hardly ate anything for the past 2 days. Then guess what? Our Dear Miss Cindy was so cautiously teaching Elaine how to operate our reocrding piggy, yet taught Elaine to press the wrong button, which ended up resetting our recording!!! What a blunder!!! We, including Elaine, sure had a good laugh! Laughter must be good for any patient, so, at least we did something right outa it! :D So we had to re-record our "cheer". Tried doing it outside the ward along the corridor, but sounded rather "lau hong" since we had to whisper. So we walked towards the Exit where there's an outdoor balcony. There, we did out cheer, this time loud & clear! I'm sure it will frighten the negative energy with Elaine away this time! hehe...

Stayed there till Sis Tom & Sis came. Had lotsa laughter there, even joked about my new outrageous hair! It was hilarious when I told them how Dar said I was "Wu Meng Da" the 1st nite I had my hair down! haha....!!! Went to Vivo City after all these laughter with Elaine. Edward & Tom commented how we should've gotten a membership card from Vivo for visiting it so often!!! Yet, the funny thing is, we are still lost in that place! Took a long drive home yesterday night after dropping them home.

Even though we were all joking & laughing, we were all worried about Elaine. We know she's worried too, especially since she's always been healthy. Good thing Ayako just found out earlier on that they've removed the drip. This sure is a good sign. Yippee...!

Very touched by what Ayako did for Elaine. Even though we kinda got together as a group for only a month or 2, it's amazing how such bond can be built. I'm sure Elaine can feel all the LOVE around her & will be back to her strong, bubbly self in no time!

Dar, you know what's the best part of it all? You were with me all these while! I can feel you are beginning to loosen up a little, to take it easy & able to "embrace life" after a hard day's work. I can feel your ease, open-mind & open-heart when we visited Elaine & also the whole night later. This blog is lovingly dedicated to you. Some of my friends are also reading this. Everyone's been warmly invited to be part of our lives, to witness our growth. Our bond will only grow stronger with all our friends' blessings & also our faith for each other. Counting down to Valentine's Day when I can finally share this with you. You know how I'm a lousy liar. It's even harder to hide things from you! Just hope you won't find it a hassle to have to read through all these wordy stuff :P Nonetheless, some things in life just can't be expressed enough in words, like 1 student of mine once told me, "this cannot be expressed in words. It can only be felt." How true... :)