Pollyana Cowgirl

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My blog is suffering from fatigue.

I am wondering if my blog posts about my rather tepid life in Jakarta is getting boring.
I am wondering WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED to that picture of a tree on my page! It vanished. I will fix it soon... HTML whizz that I am.

The vaguely excitable 'event' that might ripple your bored dazed-out expressions while staring at my blog is... I was inflicted with, diarrhoea.

It started off on Saturday night when I had a dinner of hot-plate kang kung and some crackers. Yummy enough and hey! Its vegetables! Veggies do not make people sick! Or so I thought.

Tummy rumbled at 4am, signalling the start of my eruption. Half hourly visits to the toilet, nauseous and almost on the verge of stapling my anus shut, I managed to pop pill after pill of Lomotil to stop the flood. Successful.

I am one of those people who jog the day after recovering from a sprain. You might want to call it 'living on the edge'? I did promise Prince Charming to help him paint (not in an artistic role, but in a labour demanding role of splashing paint on styrofoams... one can not go wrong), and we trotted off to paint. I felt feverish and started to feel, really sick, and went home soon enough.

The thermometre read 38 degrees. Oh yes, I am sick. Alone and sick without the usual Mummy fussing all over me and without the dear PaPa taking me to the doctor. Falling sick, stinks. The aura of a day off from school did nothing for me as I had to get an MC from the doctor the next day, and I was certainly not up to any sort of travelling along the congested streets of Jakarta for a miserable slip of paper.

But of course, the Prince came to my rescue to amuse me with corny remarks and to kindly drive me to the clinic to obtain that piece of paper to certify that I am indeed sick.
'How is your shit?'
'Looking good..'

Two days later, and a few more visits to the toilet, I am now a-ok.
I am swearing off kang-kung for a while. The thought of getting sick all alone in Jakarta...
Scary.

posted by Poot @ 12:38 PM