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Friday, November 04, 2011 

Work or no work

I've been battling flu for two days and it is still not showing any sign of recovery. I can walk and drive my car but I do not want to take any chance it might get worse by going to lab. Plus, I also do not want to disseminate this virus to anyone else. The good thing is I am living in a new apartment complete with kitchen and utensils so I can prepare my own food. I could not take anything much but a veggie soup was a good one. But other than cooking, I hardly do anything else.

"Relaxing is good," said my gf. She's always worry about my health condition which she thought getting worse everyday since I started my phd. I know I hardly pay attention to my health condition since then but I hardly get sick. I exercise regularly every week to keep my body fit and healthy - I suppose. But my gf insist I should not work out too much. Maybe she was right. The day before I got sick, I played badminton for 2 hours. But I hardly want to blame it on my regular exercise.

In the afternoon before I got sick, I was hit by rain. The moment I was soaked with rainwater, I knew I'm gonna get sick because it happened before. But since I was paying more attention to my studies, I brushed off the idea and hardly did anything. I got home that night feeling superb after my 2 hours badminton game and looked forward to a shiny day. But not only did it rained yesterday, I felt exhausted and weak after I woke up from bed. I realized I just caught a cold and resorted to lying on the bed hoping it would get better by itself.

It did not so I had to see a doctor today. Luckily I found a UPM panel clinic nearby and got my consultation and medicines for free. I'm still hoping to get better tomorrow because I have tons of works to do. I have already spent two days without doing anything meaningful and could not bear to spend one more day doing nothing. But perhaps taking another day off might be the better thing to do. Like my gf told me, I deserve some breaks.

I would like to think the other way round. My buddy, Dr. A hardly took any sleep, let alone break, to finish his phd. Why can't I do the same. I was surprised to learn that until today, Dr. A is still not taking much sleep and break from works. I always know he is a workaholic but I am thoroughly impressed how he always remain in healthy condition even without much break and exercise. I knew Dr. P passed out once in class from exhaustion, Dr. M was admitted to hospital due to hypoglycemia and our VC is battling cancer for years. But I do not remember Dr. A getting sick if any. What is he like? A superman. Even superman will get sick from kryptonite poisoning.

oit.. let's futsal la every friday nite with aimi hazwan (anak abg zizan).. the whole family is coming back for good on 12 jan if i remember correctly.. have u changed a lot bro?

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