I'm InFeCtious!

I've always written about how someone's music on NPR or whatever recommendations Cher gave me are infectious .. but this time i'm putting this on myself. Physically. Yes i am INFECTIOUS. And what does it feel like being infectious? Sucky.

The apparent fever which made me groan and whine at home on Saturday night was actually the beginning of what was soon to be a whole week of MORE rest and basically doing nothing. Sunday i couldn't go to church so i slept longer and then pulled myself together to melawati to still replace one class until 3pm. Then by Monday i woke up wanting to finish the YYO arrangement , i couldn't stare into the pc more than 2 hours and finally collapsed onto the sofa. Strange i thought , how can mild fever be so serious? Then i still met up with Poh Yee for tea and we went to the doctor , because mom was worried.

In 2 days i saw the same doctor. So it was a mild fever he said. Then at night i stayed over in Poh Yee's house because khye lin was around too. I brought my work and i finished it there , we still went to Uma Rani (mamak) for supper and by the time we got home .. i saw some red dots appearing on my face and khye lin inspected and said

"OH this is Chicken Pox" (in a very as a matter of factly khye lin way but freaking ME out!)

Then it was time to sleep and the next day after we woke up , poh yee brought me to the SAME doctor again. Yes more dots came out and thus diagnosed as chicken pox. How ridiculous .... at this TIME !?!?!? I've got sooo much going on.... nevertheless some rational thinking had to be done so i quickly drove home with poh yee and packed a whole baggage of clothes and left the house.

And so i've been quarantined in poh yee's house since last Monday. And yes today i'm still here although it's been a week now since the first spot came out but never will i thought that my FACE will be horribly infected .... the freaking pox just grew on anywhere there's space on my face except the eyes and inside of the nose. The 2nd day was so scary looking that i woke up and looked into the mirror and got myself horrified that i came crawling back to bed feeling dejected and depressed. I practically look like some person with leprosy . My girls could still look really calm and normal at me , knowing i had been looking ever so grossly from day to day. Mun wei said i just look like anybody with chicken pox but because none of my family members were infected i've not had a glimpse of anyone with it.

Moving around was a pain for me , for my body muscles and abdomen were painful i couldn't distinguish whether i was having gastric or backache. Soon i found out sleeping was also a burden because i began to feel itchy but i still (THANK GOD) could sleep almost 11 hours everynight. Later i found out my tongue was burning and there were pox inside too .... then my throat began to hurt that whatever i eat was just too hard a chore. For one of the days i resorted to only eating porridge and fluid food. Besides all these , i also found out that everyday i woke up i get new discoveries .... this pain goes away , then another one comes. The poxes grew more but at least it's all recovering now.... their drying up but my face is still gremlin looking .

I'm really really grateful though , besides all the above pain ... i have great (I MEAN GREAT!) hospitality and treatment center to recuperate in .. hahahha ...poh yee's house is really a great place to retreat and have rest. You have all the privacy you want , no HOKKIEN drama for A WHOLE WEEK (How's that!?) , and friends therapy. Poh yee's been such a great great great great (look at how many great i wrote) nurse cum babysitter to me. Without her i might've died not knowing what to eat. She's done so much i can't list them all here but to the extent i feel guilty that i've eaten up her piano practice time. Her exam's coming in 1st june ... but yet having to take care of me still ...

Then the other girls also came to visit me...Mun wei came last Tues night to enlighten me and join in the company because i looked dramatically depressed during that time. And i still do sometimes now that i've got nothing else to do besides sitting down staring at four walls. (I've been DOING A LOT OF This past one week!) When Poh Yee's out, mun wei takes over the shift and that same night Eden insisted on coming over to pay me a visit and so mun wei drove her over here again. Then it was eden's turn to take over the shift till she leaves . ahahhaha .... I'll never forget that night . Though i was depressed but it was great fun to have their company.

There was the day that Richard called ... and we spoke on the phone for quite a long time.. listening to his jokes enlightened me as well .. with all his sarcasm and what nots. I've been encouraged lately by his encouragement about EF this year. I do'nt know why , but it wasn't like this last year ... this year he seemed to be more concern and really wanna know my progress. Thanks ! Let's hope i do not disappoint you guys as well! Then there was the planned visit by C.H who wanted to drop by to have a "look" (or laugh) at me .... It never happened on Sat night because of some little situation but nevertheless yesterday night he dropped by awhile ... and gave me this HUGE

"YEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!!!!! GELI!!!"

On my face . Right .... i knew that was coming ..... he saw me at the staircase and after that reaction i quickly went back into the room and closed the door. Dignity .. yes- i'm still a girl who cares a lot about my face. Anyway had a short chat then he left. That was nice of him.... thanks beloved teacher. Then the girls went out for supper while i stayed at home waiting for their return. Waiting .... this whole week i've been waiting and waiting a LOT . It feels quite strange.. i've not had this feeling for ages .. i remember i used to wait for my mom's return , sis' return when i was a kid at home .. now waiting for my friends' arrival ... waiting for poh yee so i can have company. How miserable ....

Then there was of course the time that i had to make frantic phone calls , type urgent looking sms's to practically most of my colleagues who teaches J Courses in yamaha. For what? Seeking help to replace my classes while i'm recuperating at home. Tuesday was the day i had to go kajang but because it was too last minute i couldn't get KK to help me. There is still Friday's 3 classes and Saturday's all so tiring 6 classes. What am i gonna do!??! I was expecting to cancel them all knowing nobody would be free to help me. Then Joanne replied asking me to get anybody possible to help take any classes instead of getting 1 teacher to replace whole of Saturday for me. GOOD IDEA never thought of that. So , Joanne herself very kind of her helped me take 1 class , while Shiyan takes 1 and Carol agreed to to take another one after reschedulling her individual student for me. Really great colleagues i have too.

So Friday i have no choice but to call them all off because my ex-colleagues were not free to help as well. Then there came Saturday where i slept till 12pm and by the time it was 2 30pm i found out Ampang Point was on FIRE and all the remaining classes from 3pm onwards had to be called off. Hahahahahhah hillarious isn't it? What drama added onto my chicken pox! So, out of 6 i only had 2 replaced while i'll have to take the other 4 on my own as replacements later. So tomorrow is another Tuesday which i was expecting to resume work by tomorrow ... but of course advised not to by practically EVERYONE i talk to .... so i've decided to rest a little bit more.

And thankfully , i've managed to get another colleague to help me out in Kajang tomorrow to relief one of the JMC classes .... while the JXC one i have no choice but to cancel it again. The moment i hear KK's not available to help me take them all i began to be moody again yesterday and started whining ... then i thought SHIT June 2nd i have to cancel classes again ... The parents are so going to launch a complain .... I got so worried yesterday night i sat down in front of the laptop and started reschedulling all my class replacements and when i saw the list of classes i almost fainted. But after much brainstorming i figured out 4 extra days at work is not giong to take my life. Anyway i guess June 2nd will not be a problem since my colleague has agreed to help me again and i'm so glad! At least i have less replacements to do.

Then there's also the time that i just sit around and do nothing .... i did basically have rest , and managed to finish reading the Bill Evans book FINALLY (it has been stuck at the last few chapters for months) and started on Oscar Peterson's biography now.... super interesting to find out from the jazz pianist's words himself. There were also the times all i did was just going online searching for references how to improve Eerth , analyzing my performance and also soaking in as much jazz as possible through NPR and youtube. But apparently now when i'm sick i don't feel like listening to so much music intently. Guess i just need to really rest. Of course my girls were telling me this is a really good time to talk to God and i did ... i spent few moments praying and praying for healing .... and just telling Him i will trust in Him no matter what ... i really dont know why it has to happen during this time when i'm so busy with other things ... it's like as if i dont have enough work to do ... what a breather. I asked for a break but i didn't know an extreme one is coming my way after EF.

I also received flowers from my sister .... really nice of her to ask mun wei to buy me half dozen of roses , not only sent to me FRESH but with a beautiful card in it written with a verse from the bible.

"Be strong and steady , always enthusiastic about the Lord's work. For you know there's nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless."- 1 Cor. 15;58

Reading the card made me emo... even now i still feel the same kind of feelings. I just can't wait to get back to life , get back to working towards EF and WVU. So for that , i've bothere poh yee and her family for far too long .. i've been here for a week now , since Monday. And i've decided to go home tomorrow. Whether or not ALL my poxes are dried up totally (which they say it's not infectious anymore) but nevertheless i read on the internet (I EVEN GOOGLED CHICKEN POX!!) it says i'm clear after 5-7 days of the birth of the first pox.

Well , i'm not totally healed yet .. and the folks say usually it takes up to 2 weeks. I'm into my 2nd week now , but although i'm still infectious tomorrow i'm going home. I miss my piano , i miss working whenever i'm awake and not asleep. I still have a few days to rest before resumin work on Fri (I haVE TO) although my face is terribly ugly. ... but that's better than sulking at home. Yes having chicken pox is a very sucky experience ... but yet it gave me a lot of positive things to thank God for.

Tomorrow ... begins a new experience i will encounter from what i officially call HOME. Let's go home Pylo..

Oh and blogging with Joshua Redman's elastic band music is just so damn awesome!