mother thinks that because dad taught vincent the physio how to glue down floorboards @ his place, we got a dinner invite to his and kat jie jie's house last night! actually, the previous post was about him, too. find it http://embluekirby.blogspot.com/2011/06/vincent-physio.html.
earlier, lisa had come to gimme a shower @ like 5pm, not 4pm, because the poor thing was having exams still. afterwards, i only got less than 1/2 my yummy sausage bun for arvo tea, coz mother said we had to be @ their place by 6:30.
lisa took me once to the loo before she got to leave early, and dad tootled us off to where they live, somewhere in calamvale.
both kat jie jie and vincent the physio met us @ the door. i apologised for not being able to take my shoes off (i can't walk without my AFO) then went inside, after stamping both feet several times on the floor first, to shake off any excess dirt. originally, i took a seat @ the dining table, but then i noticed a keyboard @ the other end of the room, and seeing as kat jie jie was gonna take mother on a tour of the house (vincent the physio had already disappeared somewhere with dad), i asked could i please go and play that while they toured the house. then i played some scales, some christmas carols, just random stuff. vincent the physio wandered over and told ela to play sth too, so she obediently lifted onto the keys and thunked out several notes for him.
when dinner was called, kat jie jie wandered over and ordered, "yau sir, walk with emily over to the dining table." we, like two little good children, complied. :P
i got about two half bowls of rice for dinner. yummy, kat jie jie made chicken and black fungi! earlier, i had teased vincent the physio, "oi, mate, are you only inviting us over for dinner so you can poison me?" but he'd just smirked and said, "kat jie jie cooked almost everything; i only cooked the fish." but, during dinner, he suddenly ordered, "em, gimmee your plate, i'll give you some fish." o_O i thought, "oh no, is this my last meal on earth?" :P
after dinner, they cleared the plates away, and i, having nothing to do, dropped ela onto the table and started trying to pronate her down flat. not much success last night, but i'll keep practising today and toms.
mother took me once to the bathroom and, on the walk back, pointed out to me how cool and furnished their house was. they've even got an aquarium full of fish! and a walk-in pantry! lol, that's the first time i've heard of walk-in pantries, i've only heard of walk-in wardrobes before! :P i had a joke to vincent the physio, "hey, mate, are you and kat jie jie planning to give birth to a whole soccer team? how come you've got that many chairs around your dining table?" :P
and there was even desert! kat jie jie made some kinda chocolate pudding thing! when you dug into the cake, there was actually gooey chocolate floating into the ground! for some reason, mother declined (you know how she is, one slice of plain white bread is too salty for her and one bowl of plain white rice is too sweet for her :P), but father ordered i give her two mouthfuls of mine. no biggie, i'm not entirely a fan of dark chocolate, hey. but much thanks to kat jie jie who kindly poured me a glass of milk. :) see, i believe that chocolate must always be accompanied by a glass of milk! :D dad had brought along this fruit platter: apple, rockmelon, mandarin and pineapple. i fell in love with the toothpick dispenser, though - you pressed a button and a toothpick would pop out! but don't press it too enthusiastically and the toothpick FLEW out! :P
throughout dinner, the AFL was playing, but vincent the physio/someone changed to channel ten, where transformers was showing! so i wandered over there and crashed on the couch and enjoyed several minutes of that, before mother decided that 'twas time we headed home. that was around 9pm. but i shook hands with vincent the physio and said my sincere thanks to him and kat jie jie for the lovely meal. in return, kat jie jie gifted me that cool toothpick dispenser! :D meaning i've asked mother please to buy me some chewy choc chip museli bars to eat, coz only then will i get stuff stuck all through my teeth and require the service of toothpicks! XD
next post here ... umm ... should be in the next few days ... there's something i wanna write about concerning sisability parking permits ... anyways, until then!
cheers,
em. ^^
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
vincent the physio
lol, i must be more demented than i first thought, writing a post about vincent the physio! :P
but we have a love-hate relationship. :P see, he loves to torture me, and when he does that, i HATE him! XD
'twas mother who first started seeing him. see, when we were living @ aunty a's for several months while our current house was still being built, the poor woman somehow managed to hurt her back and couldn't sit down. >< like, she could lie down or stand, but sitting wasn't an option. in her desperation, she rang aunty catherine/ping yee and asked her to please find a physio for her. "anyone," she said, over the phone. "i don't care if it's male or female, aussie or asian. i just need to see a physio for my poor back."
and that was how we first came into contact with vincent the physio. i actually can't remember this, but mother actually tells me that before my brain injury, i'd gone to see him too, coz i had a sore hand after playing baddy too enthusiastically, and vincent the physio had taught me some exercises with rubber bands.
after my brain injury, the parents booked me in once per week for him to gimme a massage. then, somehow, they came up with the crazy notion of him giving me twice per week, and that's when our love-hate relationship began. XD
actually, for all i gripe about him and refer to him in my blog posts as 'vincent the bloody physio', he's actually very nice to me!
quite awhile back, when our downstairs area was still covered with carpet, he walked me over there and sat me down. then he sat accross from me, @ the other end and said, "hey em, come over to me here." i just grumbled @ him, "i don't wanna. why should i? you come over here."
somehow the man must've known that i often say, "the way to my heart is through my stomach. feed me and i'll love you forever." coz he coaxed me with, "you like shallot-flavoured pancakes, don'tcha em? well, come over to where i am and i'll buy you some next week when i come here."
well, what could i say? i LOVE shallot-flavoured pancakes! and i've got one good arm and one good leg (i'm hemiplegic, meaning half my body's crook; for me, that's the left half) so i kinda bum-shuffled over to where he was sitting, tapped his shoulder then cheered, "yay, you gotta get me some shallot-flavoured pancakes now! you PROMISED!" he laughed, but true to his word, he did! one happy arvo tea for me. nomnomnom~
when i went to see him the next week for physio, i thanked him sincerely for them. "you mean you were alright after having them?" he asked me.
"of course not, they were really yummy! thanks heaps!"
"you mean you didn't get sick after eating them?"
"why would i? what happened to you?"
and oh, the poor man! he'd eaten some, then gone to work on a patient. a tummyache had hit him, which he tried @ first to ignore, but it only got worse and eventually, he had to say to the patient, "excuse me for a few minutes," run to the nearest toilet and have diahorrea! >< mother and i were rather mystified, coz we'd eaten some too, yet we'd been fine.
anyways, some months ago, mother and i had been eating @ some asian restaurant also in pinelands after i'd endured a torture session with him. mother notices that there are shallot-flavoured pancakes on the menu and we order some. nomnomnom~
suddenly, a wave of guilt hits me. i tell mother, "mother, i feel really guilty about that time when vincent the physio bought me and you some shallot-flavoured pancake to eat and we were fine, but he ate some too then had to flee to the loo while seeing a patient. could we please buy some back for him this time?
mother laughs and agrees. i make the long hike back to his unmanned shop, but it's empty, so i ding the bell to get his attention.
vincent wanders out, and before he says anything i thrust the takeaway container with the shallot-flavoured pancakes @ him. "here, i bought you some back," i blurted @ him. "coz that time you bought me some and got sick, i felt so guilty! hope this time you're okay, too." he laughs, says thank-you, and we leave.
the next week, when i see him again, the first thing i ask him was, "were you alright after eating the shallot-flavoured pancakes?" and phew, he was. but you can understand why he's never offered to buy me food again! XD
actually, but he did get me more food once! there was a time when he'd come over to torture me on saturdays. after one such session, he mentioned as he was leaving that he was going to yatala next to see a patient. "really?" says i, "can you please bring me back a bacon, steak and cheese pie back from yatala pies?" and he did! just before dinner, there was a ding! @ our door - vincent the physio with my pie! :D
@ christmas the year before, i'd printed him and kat jie jie a christmas card from our printer. but last christmas, he said that he wanted me to DRAW him one! "but mate, i can't draw!" i protested. "but it's more personal that way," he replied, "please?" fine. so the night before i had to see him again, mother passed me a clean sheet of paper from the printer and i began drawing. first, i drew me praying @ night, "dear god, can you please smite vincent the physio with lightning?" next, i drew mother yelling @ me, "em, that's not very nice. draw sth nice." right. back to the drawing board. next i draw me praying to god again. "dear god, could you please let vincent the physio win several hundreds of millions of dollars in the gold lotto so him and his wife can bugger off overseas forever and leave me alone?"
the third picture was of me on MSN Messenger one night, and a friend saying, "emily, you do realise that your chances of winning gold lotto are even smaller than your chances of ever being hit by lightning?"
back to the drawing board again. this time, i'm praying, "dear god. change of plans. SMITE him down with lightning!"
over the page. vincent and his wife, kat, are dating. they're holding hands, love hearts are floating around them, when suddenly ... KAPOW!! he gets FRIED by lightning!
the second-to-last picture i draw is his wife going on the phone. "000. help! i need an ambulance! my husband's just gotten fried by lightning!"
and the last scene: poor vincent looking like a corpse on the hospital bed and me waltzing in. i say, "hello vincent the physio, i hope you get better soon! see, i even bought you some flowers." and i drew several flowers on the card. :P when mother read the card, she shook her head and said i was an evil child, but when i presented the card to him just before christmas, he just laughed. XD
fast forward almost four months. i say to him, "look, mate, it's my birthday this sunday. this time, it's your turn. will you please draw me a card? look, it's your chance for revenge. you can strike me down with lightning too, or you can get me run over by a car, or you can have me shot with a gun. like i said, it's your chance for revenge. please will you draw me a card?" he laughed and agreed.
Two days before my birthday, I went to see him for my torture session. I’d planned to wait until the end of the session before asking him did he remember to draw my card, but when I walked into his shop he immediately handed it to me.
The front cover was of a person smiling as a lightning bolt speared down towards them, and another person that was yelling “nooo!!!” who got struck by the lightning bolt instead. I laughed and asked was that me getting struck by the lightning bolt and yelling “nooo!!!” and was that him just standing there and smiling.
“of course not,” he replied, mock-offended, “that’s you, about to get hit by the lightning bolt, and that’s me, yelling ‘nooo!!!” and pushing you outta the way and getting hit by the lightning bolt instead.”wow. I’m feeling loved here!
Inside the card, he’d written, “dear em wish you have huge huge progress this year otherwise your horrible physio will haveta torture you some more.” And, on the inside, his wife had written, “dear em, happy birthday!!! Kat and Vincent” meaning I gave him points for drawing me such a cool card, but I took away points coz he was too lazy to just SIGN it! XD
But one more awesome thing he’s done for me: last year, mother and I had gone to see the movie despicable me, and my favourite character(s) in the movie was the minions the evil guy had used to perform his tasks for him. I especially liked the one-eyed ones, and requested one for Christmas. I even taught my stupid left hand (the side that doesn’t work anymore) a story to explain why I wanted one. See, my teddy bear often tells me every night, “em, I’m very jealous of you, you know. See, you’ve got four eyes”-ela (emily’s left arm; one day, if I find the time, I’ll write a post about the names all my body parts have) would stick out four fingers –“your mum’s got four eyes-” ela would stick out four fingers again -“and your dad’s got four eyes!” ela would stick out four fingers again. Then, my teddy bear would continue, “but I’ve only got two eyes!” ela would poke out two fingers. Anyways, if em can’t get a one-eyed minion for Christmas, she’ll get a two-eye one, and I get to pull off one eye and have it for myself. That way, I’ll have three eyes! Ela would stick out three fingers. Lol, I had fun telling this story to lotsa ppl, but mother just said, “don’t be disgusting, em! That’s gross!” but dad went online, printed a picture of one from the internet and showed it around to his customers as he went around delivering packaging for them. “do you know where my wife and I can get one of these?” he’d ask, “my daughter wants one for Christmas.”
What I didn’t know was that dad had actually shown that picture to Vincent the physio too! And the silly man even spent several coins on some UFO catcher, trying to get me one! That’s impossible, you know no-one ever gets anything from UFO catchers! So, instead, Vincent went online and ordered me one from ebay for Christmas!!! The funny thing was that, whilst travelling here from around NSW somewhere, it’d managed to get lost, meaning what was supposed to be a Christmas present actually came as a chinese new year present! XD
But yeah, as much as I despise the man when he’s giving me a torture session, there’s no denying that he’s a very good physio. Hopefully, my physical condition will continue to improve, and one day, maybe I won’t haveta see him anymore! XD
Next post here … prolly Sunday. See, the physio’s wife has invited our family over to their house for dinner on Saturday! I’m suspecting that Vincent justs wants to poison my food, so I’ll be six feet under by the next time I’m due for another bloody torture session with him, but mother scoffs @ me if that was really the case, he’d just refuse to see me again. XD righteo, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
but we have a love-hate relationship. :P see, he loves to torture me, and when he does that, i HATE him! XD
'twas mother who first started seeing him. see, when we were living @ aunty a's for several months while our current house was still being built, the poor woman somehow managed to hurt her back and couldn't sit down. >< like, she could lie down or stand, but sitting wasn't an option. in her desperation, she rang aunty catherine/ping yee and asked her to please find a physio for her. "anyone," she said, over the phone. "i don't care if it's male or female, aussie or asian. i just need to see a physio for my poor back."
and that was how we first came into contact with vincent the physio. i actually can't remember this, but mother actually tells me that before my brain injury, i'd gone to see him too, coz i had a sore hand after playing baddy too enthusiastically, and vincent the physio had taught me some exercises with rubber bands.
after my brain injury, the parents booked me in once per week for him to gimme a massage. then, somehow, they came up with the crazy notion of him giving me twice per week, and that's when our love-hate relationship began. XD
actually, for all i gripe about him and refer to him in my blog posts as 'vincent the bloody physio', he's actually very nice to me!
quite awhile back, when our downstairs area was still covered with carpet, he walked me over there and sat me down. then he sat accross from me, @ the other end and said, "hey em, come over to me here." i just grumbled @ him, "i don't wanna. why should i? you come over here."
somehow the man must've known that i often say, "the way to my heart is through my stomach. feed me and i'll love you forever." coz he coaxed me with, "you like shallot-flavoured pancakes, don'tcha em? well, come over to where i am and i'll buy you some next week when i come here."
well, what could i say? i LOVE shallot-flavoured pancakes! and i've got one good arm and one good leg (i'm hemiplegic, meaning half my body's crook; for me, that's the left half) so i kinda bum-shuffled over to where he was sitting, tapped his shoulder then cheered, "yay, you gotta get me some shallot-flavoured pancakes now! you PROMISED!" he laughed, but true to his word, he did! one happy arvo tea for me. nomnomnom~
when i went to see him the next week for physio, i thanked him sincerely for them. "you mean you were alright after having them?" he asked me.
"of course not, they were really yummy! thanks heaps!"
"you mean you didn't get sick after eating them?"
"why would i? what happened to you?"
and oh, the poor man! he'd eaten some, then gone to work on a patient. a tummyache had hit him, which he tried @ first to ignore, but it only got worse and eventually, he had to say to the patient, "excuse me for a few minutes," run to the nearest toilet and have diahorrea! >< mother and i were rather mystified, coz we'd eaten some too, yet we'd been fine.
anyways, some months ago, mother and i had been eating @ some asian restaurant also in pinelands after i'd endured a torture session with him. mother notices that there are shallot-flavoured pancakes on the menu and we order some. nomnomnom~
suddenly, a wave of guilt hits me. i tell mother, "mother, i feel really guilty about that time when vincent the physio bought me and you some shallot-flavoured pancake to eat and we were fine, but he ate some too then had to flee to the loo while seeing a patient. could we please buy some back for him this time?
mother laughs and agrees. i make the long hike back to his unmanned shop, but it's empty, so i ding the bell to get his attention.
vincent wanders out, and before he says anything i thrust the takeaway container with the shallot-flavoured pancakes @ him. "here, i bought you some back," i blurted @ him. "coz that time you bought me some and got sick, i felt so guilty! hope this time you're okay, too." he laughs, says thank-you, and we leave.
the next week, when i see him again, the first thing i ask him was, "were you alright after eating the shallot-flavoured pancakes?" and phew, he was. but you can understand why he's never offered to buy me food again! XD
actually, but he did get me more food once! there was a time when he'd come over to torture me on saturdays. after one such session, he mentioned as he was leaving that he was going to yatala next to see a patient. "really?" says i, "can you please bring me back a bacon, steak and cheese pie back from yatala pies?" and he did! just before dinner, there was a ding! @ our door - vincent the physio with my pie! :D
@ christmas the year before, i'd printed him and kat jie jie a christmas card from our printer. but last christmas, he said that he wanted me to DRAW him one! "but mate, i can't draw!" i protested. "but it's more personal that way," he replied, "please?" fine. so the night before i had to see him again, mother passed me a clean sheet of paper from the printer and i began drawing. first, i drew me praying @ night, "dear god, can you please smite vincent the physio with lightning?" next, i drew mother yelling @ me, "em, that's not very nice. draw sth nice." right. back to the drawing board. next i draw me praying to god again. "dear god, could you please let vincent the physio win several hundreds of millions of dollars in the gold lotto so him and his wife can bugger off overseas forever and leave me alone?"
the third picture was of me on MSN Messenger one night, and a friend saying, "emily, you do realise that your chances of winning gold lotto are even smaller than your chances of ever being hit by lightning?"
back to the drawing board again. this time, i'm praying, "dear god. change of plans. SMITE him down with lightning!"
over the page. vincent and his wife, kat, are dating. they're holding hands, love hearts are floating around them, when suddenly ... KAPOW!! he gets FRIED by lightning!
the second-to-last picture i draw is his wife going on the phone. "000. help! i need an ambulance! my husband's just gotten fried by lightning!"
and the last scene: poor vincent looking like a corpse on the hospital bed and me waltzing in. i say, "hello vincent the physio, i hope you get better soon! see, i even bought you some flowers." and i drew several flowers on the card. :P when mother read the card, she shook her head and said i was an evil child, but when i presented the card to him just before christmas, he just laughed. XD
fast forward almost four months. i say to him, "look, mate, it's my birthday this sunday. this time, it's your turn. will you please draw me a card? look, it's your chance for revenge. you can strike me down with lightning too, or you can get me run over by a car, or you can have me shot with a gun. like i said, it's your chance for revenge. please will you draw me a card?" he laughed and agreed.
Two days before my birthday, I went to see him for my torture session. I’d planned to wait until the end of the session before asking him did he remember to draw my card, but when I walked into his shop he immediately handed it to me.
The front cover was of a person smiling as a lightning bolt speared down towards them, and another person that was yelling “nooo!!!” who got struck by the lightning bolt instead. I laughed and asked was that me getting struck by the lightning bolt and yelling “nooo!!!” and was that him just standing there and smiling.
“of course not,” he replied, mock-offended, “that’s you, about to get hit by the lightning bolt, and that’s me, yelling ‘nooo!!!” and pushing you outta the way and getting hit by the lightning bolt instead.”wow. I’m feeling loved here!
Inside the card, he’d written, “dear em wish you have huge huge progress this year otherwise your horrible physio will haveta torture you some more.” And, on the inside, his wife had written, “dear em, happy birthday!!! Kat and Vincent” meaning I gave him points for drawing me such a cool card, but I took away points coz he was too lazy to just SIGN it! XD
But one more awesome thing he’s done for me: last year, mother and I had gone to see the movie despicable me, and my favourite character(s) in the movie was the minions the evil guy had used to perform his tasks for him. I especially liked the one-eyed ones, and requested one for Christmas. I even taught my stupid left hand (the side that doesn’t work anymore) a story to explain why I wanted one. See, my teddy bear often tells me every night, “em, I’m very jealous of you, you know. See, you’ve got four eyes”-ela (emily’s left arm; one day, if I find the time, I’ll write a post about the names all my body parts have) would stick out four fingers –“your mum’s got four eyes-” ela would stick out four fingers again -“and your dad’s got four eyes!” ela would stick out four fingers again. Then, my teddy bear would continue, “but I’ve only got two eyes!” ela would poke out two fingers. Anyways, if em can’t get a one-eyed minion for Christmas, she’ll get a two-eye one, and I get to pull off one eye and have it for myself. That way, I’ll have three eyes! Ela would stick out three fingers. Lol, I had fun telling this story to lotsa ppl, but mother just said, “don’t be disgusting, em! That’s gross!” but dad went online, printed a picture of one from the internet and showed it around to his customers as he went around delivering packaging for them. “do you know where my wife and I can get one of these?” he’d ask, “my daughter wants one for Christmas.”
What I didn’t know was that dad had actually shown that picture to Vincent the physio too! And the silly man even spent several coins on some UFO catcher, trying to get me one! That’s impossible, you know no-one ever gets anything from UFO catchers! So, instead, Vincent went online and ordered me one from ebay for Christmas!!! The funny thing was that, whilst travelling here from around NSW somewhere, it’d managed to get lost, meaning what was supposed to be a Christmas present actually came as a chinese new year present! XD
But yeah, as much as I despise the man when he’s giving me a torture session, there’s no denying that he’s a very good physio. Hopefully, my physical condition will continue to improve, and one day, maybe I won’t haveta see him anymore! XD
Next post here … prolly Sunday. See, the physio’s wife has invited our family over to their house for dinner on Saturday! I’m suspecting that Vincent justs wants to poison my food, so I’ll be six feet under by the next time I’m due for another bloody torture session with him, but mother scoffs @ me if that was really the case, he’d just refuse to see me again. XD righteo, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Saturday, June 18, 2011
housewarming
well, last night, SHINE fellowship all went to morningside, for camy and kelvin's house-warming dinner!
thomas had sent out the e-mail on tuesday, and i had sent back my RSVP, also asking was there anyone who could please gimme a lift there. i'd received a reply from him the next day, saying "i will arrange for me." confused, i'd e-mailed him back, asking did he mean that'd he'd arrange transport for me, or would i haveta arrange transport for myself? i got his answer the next day. "haha," he wrote, "i mean that i will arrange for you!" XD
only, friday came around and he still hadn't gotten back to me. i sent him an e-mail, asking him please to ring my house and lemme know how things had sorted out. so, come saturday morning, when i was in the bathroom, the phone rang. 'twas vicky, saying she'd come pick me up @ 4:45pm. awesome, things all set. :)
the only thing i got mega-pissed about was that no carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they're called now :P showed up to shower me! >< meaning it'll be mother who watches me shower tonight; that's mega-stressful, coz she always gleefully forces me to do things, some which i'm mega-uncomfortable with, and poor mother's got a bad back; i'll prolly never hear the end of her grumbling about her poor back. *sigh* but hey, i'm used to it.
anyways, with no-one coming to gimme a shower, @ dad's order i went to the bathroom once, then sat in the garage and waited for vicky. dad took this opportunity to read me a rant. ><
when vicky did come, it wasn't just vicky, but kathy too! in fact, kathy was the driver.
sadly, horrid dad refused to put sparkless into their boot, meaning he denied me the chance to fully relax and enjoy myself in the company of all the other SHINE members, but hey *sigh* i still tried to enjoy myself as best i could.
kathy started tootling us off to morningside, making a quick stop to pick up heidi. lol, i dunno why i used to keep getting heidi mixed up with nicole! XD
but, okay, i arrived @ kelvin's and camy's house without most of my brain cells! ><" why? kathy was driving along (she said the entire chow family drives manual) when suddenly, she WRENCHED the car into a severe left turn! we all crashed against the left, and after kathy had righted the car, she said, "sorry." i complained to her, partway through the night, "kathy, you just wiped out about 99.9% of my brain cells, with your driving!!" ><" :P
kathy kindly let era hold her arm while i was walking into the house. i apologised to camy and kelvin for not being able to take my shoes off (i can't walk with my AFO; my stupid left ankle twists out) and stamped them against the ground before entering the house.
i sat on a see-through chair and just introduced myself to new people i didn't recognise. there was a girl there last night not called kyLie, but kyDie!
while everyone was still arriving, i helped myself to several grainwaves that someone had kindly left a bowl of on the table. much thanks to camy who wandered over and helped me take off my jacket and my broncos scarf. hey, she even remembered that i liked the movie 'despicable me'! actually, she and her hubby had brought it recently, and she even offered to put it in the DVD player for me to watch! camy also poured me one plastic cup of orange juice.
lol, 'twas 'bring a plate' shared dinner, and daph had made her yummy cheesy broccoli and cauliflower! they were making in the oven, when suddenly thomas yelped, raced over and wrenched the oven lid open! lol, so the cheesy broccoli and cauliflower were slightly burnt last night. who cares? :P
vicky watched me walk once to the loo before dinner started. much thanks to kathy who gave me two half plates of food. i got: some of dad's yummy egg, ham and onion, two slices of roast pork, lotsa daph's yummy cheesy (and burnt! :P) broccoli and cauliflower, one spoonful of aunty amy's seafood bake, and little odd bits of other random food here and there. much thanks to aunty amy who passed me a lil plastic bowl of seedless purple grapes, two slices of mandarin, one small chunk of watermelon and one small slice of kiwi.
after dinner, kathy took me to the toilet once more, then we all crashed in their living room (aunty amy and i bagged the sofa, everyone else sat on chairs) for the night's activities.
first kathy led us in a game. we had to write answers to her questions on her slip of paper, then go around the room and get ppl to sign your paper if you had the same answers. the questions were varied, like, "which brand toothpaste do you use?" and "how many siblings do you have?" i think i got around forty signatures.
after, vicky led us in worship. we sang one english song and one cantonese. i stayed silent, of course.
there actually wasn't any program happening last night! we just went around in a circle and introduced our names, then some really smart girl repeated everyone's name out once correctly! we also gave camy and kelvin a round of applause to show them our appreciation for inviting us over to their house for the housewarming. i actually forgot kelvin's name! i remembered camy's, but what was the husband called? i leaned over and in a whisper, asked aunty amy, who just laughed. "if you can remember my husband's name, you can remember his! :P
actually, camy and kelvin have sth really cute pinned to the wall - C (love heart) K! when i asked kelvin where he got that from, he replied a stationery shop. lol, wonder if i could get the parents sth like that for their wedding anniversary this year, that's coming up @ the end of august.
and camy had even prepared dessert for us! these lil yummy cheesecakes~ kathy kindly got me half. when i finished it, i asked her please could she gimme the other half, seeing as she and everyone else were eating one full lil cheesecake for themselves, but she decided no, and got me some fruit salad instead. hey, no biggie.
i'm pretty sure we were first ones to leave. @ first, i did jokingly ask kathy could she please let vicky drive, coz i'd already suffered enough brain cell death, but she said that she was good to drive. :P
kathy dropped nicole off first, then drove me home. she's still got sunday school to prepare for toms! (well, today, now. :P it's past 5:30pm. :P)
all in all, i had a fantastic night out with SHINE fellowship @ camy's and kelvin's housewarming! :)
next post here ... umm ... didn't vincent the physio and kat jie jie invite us over to their house for dinner next weekend? if so, cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^
thomas had sent out the e-mail on tuesday, and i had sent back my RSVP, also asking was there anyone who could please gimme a lift there. i'd received a reply from him the next day, saying "i will arrange for me." confused, i'd e-mailed him back, asking did he mean that'd he'd arrange transport for me, or would i haveta arrange transport for myself? i got his answer the next day. "haha," he wrote, "i mean that i will arrange for you!" XD
only, friday came around and he still hadn't gotten back to me. i sent him an e-mail, asking him please to ring my house and lemme know how things had sorted out. so, come saturday morning, when i was in the bathroom, the phone rang. 'twas vicky, saying she'd come pick me up @ 4:45pm. awesome, things all set. :)
the only thing i got mega-pissed about was that no carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they're called now :P showed up to shower me! >< meaning it'll be mother who watches me shower tonight; that's mega-stressful, coz she always gleefully forces me to do things, some which i'm mega-uncomfortable with, and poor mother's got a bad back; i'll prolly never hear the end of her grumbling about her poor back. *sigh* but hey, i'm used to it.
anyways, with no-one coming to gimme a shower, @ dad's order i went to the bathroom once, then sat in the garage and waited for vicky. dad took this opportunity to read me a rant. ><
when vicky did come, it wasn't just vicky, but kathy too! in fact, kathy was the driver.
sadly, horrid dad refused to put sparkless into their boot, meaning he denied me the chance to fully relax and enjoy myself in the company of all the other SHINE members, but hey *sigh* i still tried to enjoy myself as best i could.
kathy started tootling us off to morningside, making a quick stop to pick up heidi. lol, i dunno why i used to keep getting heidi mixed up with nicole! XD
but, okay, i arrived @ kelvin's and camy's house without most of my brain cells! ><" why? kathy was driving along (she said the entire chow family drives manual) when suddenly, she WRENCHED the car into a severe left turn! we all crashed against the left, and after kathy had righted the car, she said, "sorry." i complained to her, partway through the night, "kathy, you just wiped out about 99.9% of my brain cells, with your driving!!" ><" :P
kathy kindly let era hold her arm while i was walking into the house. i apologised to camy and kelvin for not being able to take my shoes off (i can't walk with my AFO; my stupid left ankle twists out) and stamped them against the ground before entering the house.
i sat on a see-through chair and just introduced myself to new people i didn't recognise. there was a girl there last night not called kyLie, but kyDie!
while everyone was still arriving, i helped myself to several grainwaves that someone had kindly left a bowl of on the table. much thanks to camy who wandered over and helped me take off my jacket and my broncos scarf. hey, she even remembered that i liked the movie 'despicable me'! actually, she and her hubby had brought it recently, and she even offered to put it in the DVD player for me to watch! camy also poured me one plastic cup of orange juice.
lol, 'twas 'bring a plate' shared dinner, and daph had made her yummy cheesy broccoli and cauliflower! they were making in the oven, when suddenly thomas yelped, raced over and wrenched the oven lid open! lol, so the cheesy broccoli and cauliflower were slightly burnt last night. who cares? :P
vicky watched me walk once to the loo before dinner started. much thanks to kathy who gave me two half plates of food. i got: some of dad's yummy egg, ham and onion, two slices of roast pork, lotsa daph's yummy cheesy (and burnt! :P) broccoli and cauliflower, one spoonful of aunty amy's seafood bake, and little odd bits of other random food here and there. much thanks to aunty amy who passed me a lil plastic bowl of seedless purple grapes, two slices of mandarin, one small chunk of watermelon and one small slice of kiwi.
after dinner, kathy took me to the toilet once more, then we all crashed in their living room (aunty amy and i bagged the sofa, everyone else sat on chairs) for the night's activities.
first kathy led us in a game. we had to write answers to her questions on her slip of paper, then go around the room and get ppl to sign your paper if you had the same answers. the questions were varied, like, "which brand toothpaste do you use?" and "how many siblings do you have?" i think i got around forty signatures.
after, vicky led us in worship. we sang one english song and one cantonese. i stayed silent, of course.
there actually wasn't any program happening last night! we just went around in a circle and introduced our names, then some really smart girl repeated everyone's name out once correctly! we also gave camy and kelvin a round of applause to show them our appreciation for inviting us over to their house for the housewarming. i actually forgot kelvin's name! i remembered camy's, but what was the husband called? i leaned over and in a whisper, asked aunty amy, who just laughed. "if you can remember my husband's name, you can remember his! :P
actually, camy and kelvin have sth really cute pinned to the wall - C (love heart) K! when i asked kelvin where he got that from, he replied a stationery shop. lol, wonder if i could get the parents sth like that for their wedding anniversary this year, that's coming up @ the end of august.
and camy had even prepared dessert for us! these lil yummy cheesecakes~ kathy kindly got me half. when i finished it, i asked her please could she gimme the other half, seeing as she and everyone else were eating one full lil cheesecake for themselves, but she decided no, and got me some fruit salad instead. hey, no biggie.
i'm pretty sure we were first ones to leave. @ first, i did jokingly ask kathy could she please let vicky drive, coz i'd already suffered enough brain cell death, but she said that she was good to drive. :P
kathy dropped nicole off first, then drove me home. she's still got sunday school to prepare for toms! (well, today, now. :P it's past 5:30pm. :P)
all in all, i had a fantastic night out with SHINE fellowship @ camy's and kelvin's housewarming! :)
next post here ... umm ... didn't vincent the physio and kat jie jie invite us over to their house for dinner next weekend? if so, cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^
Friday, June 17, 2011
28+4 ways to know you're chinese
well, technically, i'm cantonese. only people born in china are really called chinese. but sometimes, i like to say, "hi my name's emily, and i'm hongkongese."
"you're what?!" asks the poor befuddled person i'm talking to.
"i'm hongkongnese. you know, from hong kong." XD
but just this afternoon, mother forwarded me this funny e-mail she'd received from her former boss, and i found it so funny i just had to share it with everyone! (with my own comments inserted throughout :P)
1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping
and especially those ribbons. (okay, i admit i don't do that. i get wrapped presents so rarely, i'm more liable to just shred the wrapping paper right away to get to the present XD)
2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them
in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has move out. (okay, yes, my mother does buy excessive toilet paper. but luckily, i'm an only child who lives in a four bedroom house - plenty of space to store those extra toilet rolls! XD)
3. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times. (we don't do this one, well, come on, we've lived in australia for more than twenty years! :P))
4. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers. You use the grocery
bags to hold garbage. (well, what else would you use them for? XD)
5. You hate to waste food (i think this should be a rule that ALL ppl stick by, not just us asians! XD)
a ) Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw
away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Your mom will give a
lecture about starving kids in Africa) (yes, that's me. but no, i didn't cop a lecture from mother about starving kids in africa. XD)
b ) You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one(
leftover chicken wing. (umm ... what's tupperware?)
6. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but
carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam jars. (lol, i'm not sure if we actually have any margarine tubs, but i'll admit to the odd takeaway container and jam jar. just not a cupboard full! XD)
7. You have a collection of minature shampoo bottles that you take every
time you stay in a hotel. (of course! always ransack a hotel for all the free things you can nab before you leave! :P)
8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them in a small basin of hot
water before you eat every time you go to a restaurant. (well, we do that in hong kong when we're having yum cha. not sure about here, though.)
9. You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker. (yup! XD two rice cookers, actually! :P)
10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it. (well, just twice. twice looks clean enough. besides, we're not supposed to waste water! XD)
11. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill. (well, mother does. i just sit there and learn tactics on how to win in the event that one day, i may need to fight with someone over who's paying the bill! XD)
12. You have a teacup with a cover on it. (lol, not a teacup, it's a rather huge winnie the pooh bear mug! but yes, i have a cover on it. XD)
13. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive walkman if you're
over 20, you own a really expensive camera. (sadly, i own neither. ><)
14. You're a wok user. (yes! well, technically, not me, but the parents are.)
15. You only make long distance calls after 7pm. (of course! well, the main reason is coz my aunty works till fairly late, and she's usually not home till after 7pm)
16. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached-it means
they're fresh. (lol, me don't even EAT shrimp! XD)
17. You never call your parents just to say hi. (does that make me un-chinese? coz i do! ^^")
18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they'll ask if
you've eaten, even if it's midnight. (well, my grandma always asked me this question regardless of whatever time it was when i rang!)
19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you get sick.
They also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods because they're
heaty (yeet hay in Cantonese). (luckily, they don't force me to drink 'bitter tea (say that in canto) which is boiled herbs.)
20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only sit 10
feet apart. (sorry, i'm a jobless bum who doesn't have any chinese work colleagues><)
21. You always cook too much. (well, my parents do! :P)
22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last
piece of food on the table. (well, that's common sense - you're not supposed to eat food that's been dropped onto the table -that's dirty!)
23. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet. (isn't that common sense also? means you get to eat lots when you get to the buffet! XD)
24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or
electronics, computers. (umm ... uncle yuk tai, maybe?)
25. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it. (dad does! XD)
26. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin. (thanks to mother, yes, they are! XD)
27. You know why this list consists of only "28" reasons. (why?)
28. You take this message and forward it to all your Chinese friends. (rather, i'm sticking it into this blog post! XD)
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There are four more indications that you need to add 8-)
*29 You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons and forks of the airline
that you fly on and put in your travelbag as souvenirs. (maybe not the cutlery, but we've taken the blankets before. XD)
*30 You never forget to take with you all the unused bath and facial
tissues when you check out from the hotel because you believe that you have
paid it all. (well, duh! XD)
*31 You will laugh at yourself when you read all of them (lol, i was laughing @ myself WHEN i was reading all of them! XD)
*32 And you will always proud because you're Chinese. (well, i also consider myself australian ...)
XD that was just a funny e-mail i received that i thought i'd share with everyone! asian pride, hell yeah! XD
anyways, next post here ... should come on sunday, if toms, i really get to join SHINE fellowship on some housewarming gathering happening toms arvo! until then~
cheers,
em. ^^
"you're what?!" asks the poor befuddled person i'm talking to.
"i'm hongkongnese. you know, from hong kong." XD
but just this afternoon, mother forwarded me this funny e-mail she'd received from her former boss, and i found it so funny i just had to share it with everyone! (with my own comments inserted throughout :P)
1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping
and especially those ribbons. (okay, i admit i don't do that. i get wrapped presents so rarely, i'm more liable to just shred the wrapping paper right away to get to the present XD)
2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them
in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has move out. (okay, yes, my mother does buy excessive toilet paper. but luckily, i'm an only child who lives in a four bedroom house - plenty of space to store those extra toilet rolls! XD)
3. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times. (we don't do this one, well, come on, we've lived in australia for more than twenty years! :P))
4. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers. You use the grocery
bags to hold garbage. (well, what else would you use them for? XD)
5. You hate to waste food (i think this should be a rule that ALL ppl stick by, not just us asians! XD)
a ) Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw
away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Your mom will give a
lecture about starving kids in Africa) (yes, that's me. but no, i didn't cop a lecture from mother about starving kids in africa. XD)
b ) You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one(
leftover chicken wing. (umm ... what's tupperware?)
6. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but
carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam jars. (lol, i'm not sure if we actually have any margarine tubs, but i'll admit to the odd takeaway container and jam jar. just not a cupboard full! XD)
7. You have a collection of minature shampoo bottles that you take every
time you stay in a hotel. (of course! always ransack a hotel for all the free things you can nab before you leave! :P)
8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them in a small basin of hot
water before you eat every time you go to a restaurant. (well, we do that in hong kong when we're having yum cha. not sure about here, though.)
9. You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker. (yup! XD two rice cookers, actually! :P)
10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it. (well, just twice. twice looks clean enough. besides, we're not supposed to waste water! XD)
11. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill. (well, mother does. i just sit there and learn tactics on how to win in the event that one day, i may need to fight with someone over who's paying the bill! XD)
12. You have a teacup with a cover on it. (lol, not a teacup, it's a rather huge winnie the pooh bear mug! but yes, i have a cover on it. XD)
13. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive walkman if you're
over 20, you own a really expensive camera. (sadly, i own neither. ><)
14. You're a wok user. (yes! well, technically, not me, but the parents are.)
15. You only make long distance calls after 7pm. (of course! well, the main reason is coz my aunty works till fairly late, and she's usually not home till after 7pm)
16. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached-it means
they're fresh. (lol, me don't even EAT shrimp! XD)
17. You never call your parents just to say hi. (does that make me un-chinese? coz i do! ^^")
18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they'll ask if
you've eaten, even if it's midnight. (well, my grandma always asked me this question regardless of whatever time it was when i rang!)
19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you get sick.
They also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods because they're
heaty (yeet hay in Cantonese). (luckily, they don't force me to drink 'bitter tea (say that in canto) which is boiled herbs.)
20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only sit 10
feet apart. (sorry, i'm a jobless bum who doesn't have any chinese work colleagues><)
21. You always cook too much. (well, my parents do! :P)
22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last
piece of food on the table. (well, that's common sense - you're not supposed to eat food that's been dropped onto the table -that's dirty!)
23. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet. (isn't that common sense also? means you get to eat lots when you get to the buffet! XD)
24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or
electronics, computers. (umm ... uncle yuk tai, maybe?)
25. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it. (dad does! XD)
26. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin. (thanks to mother, yes, they are! XD)
27. You know why this list consists of only "28" reasons. (why?)
28. You take this message and forward it to all your Chinese friends. (rather, i'm sticking it into this blog post! XD)
-----------------------------------------
There are four more indications that you need to add 8-)
*29 You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons and forks of the airline
that you fly on and put in your travelbag as souvenirs. (maybe not the cutlery, but we've taken the blankets before. XD)
*30 You never forget to take with you all the unused bath and facial
tissues when you check out from the hotel because you believe that you have
paid it all. (well, duh! XD)
*31 You will laugh at yourself when you read all of them (lol, i was laughing @ myself WHEN i was reading all of them! XD)
*32 And you will always proud because you're Chinese. (well, i also consider myself australian ...)
XD that was just a funny e-mail i received that i thought i'd share with everyone! asian pride, hell yeah! XD
anyways, next post here ... should come on sunday, if toms, i really get to join SHINE fellowship on some housewarming gathering happening toms arvo! until then~
cheers,
em. ^^
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
bookclub! (june)
well, seeing as the poor maroons lost to the smelly blues last night, i'm hardly gonna write a post about origin two! XD instead, this post is all about last thursday night's book club!
mother had already gleefully FORCED :( me to hike the stairs once for her that arvo, meaning i got to take the lift up.
tilly DEMANDED that i take her to see erika! "it's been THREE MONTHS, em!" she wailed. "i wanna see erika! i miss her!" :P
when i arrived, amanda sauntered over and handed me the book i'd spend the night reading, a star trek novel! it was even pre-TOS! amanda told me that she actually belongs to some star trek fan club and that she prefers DS9 to TOS. oh well, each to their own. :P
much thanks to erika who made me one cuppa, white and two, which of course i held 'incorrectly'. she also passed me four or five bikkies to munch on.
as usual, we first went around with our impressions of the book. i impressed everyone - myself included - when i managed to hum the theme song out to them! i mean, i've been outta the insane asylum (more commonly referred to as the princess alexandra hospital :P) for just over three years now, and i can STILL remember the theme song! lol, i guess coz M*A*S*H aired @ 5pm, which was when dinner was served.
the book was titled 'never have your dog stuffed', and was the autobiography of one of the main characters in M*A*S*H, alan alda. mostly everyone enjoyed it, but i did raise the question of, when they took their deceased pet dog to the taxidermist and the guy asked them, "what expression does your dog usually wear on its face?" exactly how did they convey that expression? :P
after that, we just went into a discussion of what other books we'd read this month. me, having become an incredibly slow reader post brain injury, only finished the book three days before book club, only had to read several more pages of john howard's autobiography, lazarus rising. he's just become the treasurer, BTW.
anyways, the book we're reading for next month is one called 'my place'.
next post here ... umm, i think this saturday SHINE fellowship are going to some housewarming! cya sunday, then!
cheers,
em. ^^
mother had already gleefully FORCED :( me to hike the stairs once for her that arvo, meaning i got to take the lift up.
tilly DEMANDED that i take her to see erika! "it's been THREE MONTHS, em!" she wailed. "i wanna see erika! i miss her!" :P
when i arrived, amanda sauntered over and handed me the book i'd spend the night reading, a star trek novel! it was even pre-TOS! amanda told me that she actually belongs to some star trek fan club and that she prefers DS9 to TOS. oh well, each to their own. :P
much thanks to erika who made me one cuppa, white and two, which of course i held 'incorrectly'. she also passed me four or five bikkies to munch on.
as usual, we first went around with our impressions of the book. i impressed everyone - myself included - when i managed to hum the theme song out to them! i mean, i've been outta the insane asylum (more commonly referred to as the princess alexandra hospital :P) for just over three years now, and i can STILL remember the theme song! lol, i guess coz M*A*S*H aired @ 5pm, which was when dinner was served.
the book was titled 'never have your dog stuffed', and was the autobiography of one of the main characters in M*A*S*H, alan alda. mostly everyone enjoyed it, but i did raise the question of, when they took their deceased pet dog to the taxidermist and the guy asked them, "what expression does your dog usually wear on its face?" exactly how did they convey that expression? :P
after that, we just went into a discussion of what other books we'd read this month. me, having become an incredibly slow reader post brain injury, only finished the book three days before book club, only had to read several more pages of john howard's autobiography, lazarus rising. he's just become the treasurer, BTW.
anyways, the book we're reading for next month is one called 'my place'.
next post here ... umm, i think this saturday SHINE fellowship are going to some housewarming! cya sunday, then!
cheers,
em. ^^
reflexology
well, mother found sth new to force me to experience - reflexology! @ first, i told her, "no way, mother, i've heard that reflexology hurts like HELL!" but mother tried first, liked it so much she went again, then booked me in for a session!
the reflexologist actually lives very close to us! we're in the same suburb!
when we knocked on the door, his wife welcomed me inside and bade me sit on this comfy armchair. rock, rock, rock. i told mother, "i'll stay here doing this for the rest of the night; i'm very comfy here, thanks." ;)
the reflexologist's name was david; when he came him we shook hands. i asked him, "umm ... i've heard that reflexology hurts a lot, is that true?" david just smiled. "nah, it doesn't hurt a lot," he reassured me. "but if you're in lots of pain, i give you permission to SHRIEK." awesome. :P
he shucked off my footwear; i apologised just in case i had smelly feet. :P then i pointed to ell and explained that the stupid thing got clonus (for those of you not aware of physio things, clonus for me happens when i've had to walk a long while, and my leg gets tired. when i finally get to sit, my leg starts bouncing all over the place. i'm not doing it consciously, it's just the tired muscle spasming in response to being overworked.) david just nodded, then started gently flexing both bare feet. i also explained to him how i was hemiplegic (meaning only one half of my body works well) and he said, "oh, my son's just like you! i'll call him in!"
david introduced able to me, we also shook hands. then he told mother to re-sock, AFO and shoe me, and instructed me to lay face-down on the single-size plinth in the room.
he started kneading my shoulders, back, and behind the thighs. hell, kneading behind the thighs, especially the left thigh, hurts! >< but i thought better of shrieking. :P
mother mostly chatted with able while david was working on me. turns out he's twenty-nine and isn't studying/working currently. able's a hemiplegic like me coz, back in 2002, he fell off his scooter and was run over by a car. ouch! ><
after david was finished, i sat back up and asked to use their toilet. then i took a seat back on the rocking armchair and rocked for a lil while longer while mother paid david and made another appointment for me next wednesday night.
but origin's on tonight! mother said she wasn't sure if i'd return home in time to watch the game, so i asked her please to cancel it for me. i refuse to miss out on queensland snatching the title for the SIXTH successive year! instead, mother re-booked for tomorrow night, i think. lol, david can laugh @ me when he sees me tomorrow for missing out on a reflexology session just coz i needed to watch origin. XD
next post here ... have i written about bookclub last week yet? i don't think so, cya toms, then!
cheers,
em. ^^
the reflexologist actually lives very close to us! we're in the same suburb!
when we knocked on the door, his wife welcomed me inside and bade me sit on this comfy armchair. rock, rock, rock. i told mother, "i'll stay here doing this for the rest of the night; i'm very comfy here, thanks." ;)
the reflexologist's name was david; when he came him we shook hands. i asked him, "umm ... i've heard that reflexology hurts a lot, is that true?" david just smiled. "nah, it doesn't hurt a lot," he reassured me. "but if you're in lots of pain, i give you permission to SHRIEK." awesome. :P
he shucked off my footwear; i apologised just in case i had smelly feet. :P then i pointed to ell and explained that the stupid thing got clonus (for those of you not aware of physio things, clonus for me happens when i've had to walk a long while, and my leg gets tired. when i finally get to sit, my leg starts bouncing all over the place. i'm not doing it consciously, it's just the tired muscle spasming in response to being overworked.) david just nodded, then started gently flexing both bare feet. i also explained to him how i was hemiplegic (meaning only one half of my body works well) and he said, "oh, my son's just like you! i'll call him in!"
david introduced able to me, we also shook hands. then he told mother to re-sock, AFO and shoe me, and instructed me to lay face-down on the single-size plinth in the room.
he started kneading my shoulders, back, and behind the thighs. hell, kneading behind the thighs, especially the left thigh, hurts! >< but i thought better of shrieking. :P
mother mostly chatted with able while david was working on me. turns out he's twenty-nine and isn't studying/working currently. able's a hemiplegic like me coz, back in 2002, he fell off his scooter and was run over by a car. ouch! ><
after david was finished, i sat back up and asked to use their toilet. then i took a seat back on the rocking armchair and rocked for a lil while longer while mother paid david and made another appointment for me next wednesday night.
but origin's on tonight! mother said she wasn't sure if i'd return home in time to watch the game, so i asked her please to cancel it for me. i refuse to miss out on queensland snatching the title for the SIXTH successive year! instead, mother re-booked for tomorrow night, i think. lol, david can laugh @ me when he sees me tomorrow for missing out on a reflexology session just coz i needed to watch origin. XD
next post here ... have i written about bookclub last week yet? i don't think so, cya toms, then!
cheers,
em. ^^
Monday, June 13, 2011
x-men: first class
well, one week ago, mother took me to see x-men:first class!
i fell in love with the first movie simply because of the soundtrack. :)
but here are all my favourite quotes, trivia and quotes courtesy of imdb:
quotes first:
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: Listen to me very carefully, my friend: Killing will not bring you peace.
Erik Lehnsherr: Peace was never an option.
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: [to Eric] There's so much more to you than you know, not just pain and anger. There's good in you too, and you can harness all that. You have a power that no one can match, not even me.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: Tomorrow, mankind will know that mutants exist. They will fear us, and that fear will turn to hatred.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: [to the Class] You want society to accept you, when you can't even accept yourselves?
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: [to Eric] A new species is being born. Help me guide it, shape it... lead it.
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: We have it in us to be the better man.
Erik Lehnsherr: We ALREADY are.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you. But you can even accept yourself.
-[from trailer]
Young Raven: You're not... scared of me?
Charles Xavier: I always knew I couldn't be the only one who was... different.
-Erik Lehnsherr: Excuse me, I'm Erik Lehnsherr.
Professor Charles Xavier: Charles Xavier.
Logan: Go fuck yourself. (A/N: this was the funniest quote from the movie, BTW! :P)
-Erik Lehnsherr: If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.
Erik Lehnsherr: Just pointing out something that could save your life.
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
-Erik Lehnsherr: If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.
Erik Lehnsherr: Just pointing out something that could save your life.
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
-Professor Charles Xavier: I suppose I am a professor now. Pretty soon I'll be going bald. (A/N: from the first few x-men movies, he IS bald! :P)
-Hank McCoy: Are you sure we can't shave your head?
Professor Charles Xavier: Don't touch my hair! (more emphasis on how bald he actually is)
-1st German: Who the Hell are you?
Erik Lehnsherr: Let's just say I'm Frankenstein's monster and I'm looking for my creator.
-Hank McCoy: Am I still a bozo?
Alex Summers: Yes Hank, you're still a bozo. But good job.
-Emma Frost: Erik, isn't it?
Erik Lehnsherr: I prefer... MAGNETO!
-Erik Lehnsherr: This is what they wanted, for us to turn against each other. I tried to warn you.
[turns to Moira]
Erik Lehnsherr: You did this.
Professor Charles Xavier: No Erik, you did.
Erik Lehnsherr: I want you by my side. We're brothers, all of us. We want the same thing.
Professor Charles Xavier: Oh my friend, we do not.
-Erik Lehnsherr: My parents didn't have a name. It was taken from them... by pig farmers... and tailors.
-Professor Charles Xavier: [to Angel] How would you like a job where you get to keep your clothes on?
-Erik Lehnsherr: [before Charles uses Cerebro for the first time] What an adorable lab rat you make, Charles.
Professor Charles Xavier: Don't spoil this for me, Erik.
Erik Lehnsherr: I've been a lab rat. I know when I see one.
-Professor Charles Xavier: You know, I believe the true focus lies somewhere between rage and serenity.
-Professor Charles Xavier: I can't feel my legs.
and now for trivia!:
The film is based on the "X-Men" comics 'Uncanny X-Men' (1963) and 'X-Men: First Class' (2006).
-The uniforms the X-Men wear are colored blue and yellow, in homage to the original blue/yellow suits the X-Men wore in the comics from1963 (their debut) to 2001 (when X-Men (2000) and the Grant Morrison written New X-Men comic inspired a change to black leather).
-Director Matthew Vaughn cited the first two X-Films, Star Trek (2009) and the 1960s Bond films as major influences on this film.
-In April 2006 Zak Penn was hired to write and direct this film; he was going to make a prequel about Magneto, in a vein similar to X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). However, the filmmakers decided to shift the focus from the early years of one mutant to those of the X-Men. Penn found this approach more interesting than what he'd come up with and so stepped down with his blessing.
-Filming was originally to take place on Tybee Island, but a producer browsing on the online map program Google Earth found Jekyll Island to be a more suitable location.
-Matthew Vaughn instructed the cast to do away with all accents in their performances. James McAvoy had planned to copy Patrick Stewart's voice (since McAvoy was going to play a younger version of Stewart's Xavier), but Vaughn quashed it; Vaughn also told Rose Byrne that Moira MacTaggart would not have her trademark Scottish accent in the film (to the Scottish McAvoy's mild disappointment).
-The film was originally to be a prequel about Magneto. Screenwriter Sheldon Turner wrote a treatment which he described as "X-Men (2000) meets The Pianist (2002)": the story focused on Magneto's early years as a prisoner of war in a Nazi concentration camp, until liberation by a squad of Allied Forces led by Charles Xavier. They later meet after the war and become friends, and later become rivals. The studio decided to change the film's direction to the early years of the X-Men, but incorporated aspects of Turner's script into the film.
-To prepare for his role as Erik Lensherr, Michael Fassbender studied Sir Ian McKellen's performance as Lensherr in the previous X-Films, but also looked through the comics as he decided to make his own version of Magneto: "You want to respect what someone else has done, especially because the fan base really liked what Ian has done with it. But while I could have gone and studied him as a young man and brought that to the performance, I don't think Matthew is very interested in that. So I'm just going my own way and working with whatever is in the comic books and the script."-
To prepare for his role as Beast, Nicholas Hoult studied Kelsey Grammer's performance as Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and Grammar's early series "Frasier" (1993); he also underwent training in athletics, weightlifting and boxing.
-The filmmakers hired an "X-Men" specialist to help the cast understand their roles.
-Charlie Rowe was initially cast as the young Charles Xavier but, due to scheduling conflicts with Neverland (2011) (TV), he was replaced by Laurence Belcher.
-The filmmakers had only two choices for the role of Sebastian Shaw: Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. They decided to go with Bacon as he was American and seemed more menacing than Firth.
-This film is a reboot that discards the continuity of the other X-Men films.
-The ending fight between Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr was going to have them use their powers, but Matthew Vaughn reasoned that since it was an origin story about the early X-Men the fight had to be a more conventional brawl: "Fox were saying, people want to see super heroes use their powers... but not in this film." "Sometimes they just want to punch each other. That, to me, is what's different."
-During the Cerebro sequence, one of the first mutants to be seen is Storm as a young girl, noticeable by her long white hair and dark skin color.
and finally, goofs: :P
-Revealing mistakes: In a wide shot, Charles moves his legs when lying injured on the beach, despite the fact he is newly paralyzed.
-Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Magneto is riding on the X-Men's plane as it is flying close the ground, only his hair moves with the wind, none of his other clothing appears affected by the wind even though the ground speed of the plane would be very high.
-Factual errors: Erik's memory of celebrating Chanukah with his mother includes a seven-branched candelabra. In Jewish tradition, Chanukah is celebrated with an nine-branched candelabra.
-Revealing mistakes: When the young Raven is in her true form the seams of her costume are clearly visible.
you know, i was so incredibly proud of mother for most of this movie! you see, poor mum's usually a nervous wreck, squeaking with fear and clutching @ me whenever sth even remotely frightening comes up. but last tuesday, she was so remarkably brave! it wasn't until the last ten minutes of the movie, when the war was happening and there were missiles and explosions and stuff, that she started squealing with fear and clutching @ me. but no tears! i thought, "could it really be? could mother really last one whole movie without bursting into tears?" alas, no. pfofessor xavier gets shot, and suddenly mother is blubbering. "well, now we know why he's in a wheelchair." i told mother calmly. she just turns to me and BAWLS, "oh, em, it's so touching! he did it to save his friend! BOOHOOHOO!!" and i'm like, "mother, please get a grip. it's just a movie." XD
and yay, mother also got us one box of popcorn to share! usually, i like to take one lil piece at a time, but mother was instead reaching into the box every so often and grabbing a whole fistful. so i copied her, grabbing a fistful everytime she did. only, i think my way of getting popcorn is better, just one kernel each time, coz doing it mother's way, i ended up with popcorn all over my seat! XD but mother said she apologised to the guy working @ the cinemas who comes in to clean up after each movie, about the mess i'd left. XD
one more thing: there were short snippets of exceedingly beutiful music throughout the movie, like when they were in that metal bunker thing discussing their next course of action.
all in all, a beautiful movie. :)
anyways, next post here should come toms! i haven't written about my experience of going to reflexology yet, and i'm going again toms night, so cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^
i fell in love with the first movie simply because of the soundtrack. :)
but here are all my favourite quotes, trivia and quotes courtesy of imdb:
quotes first:
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: Listen to me very carefully, my friend: Killing will not bring you peace.
Erik Lehnsherr: Peace was never an option.
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: [to Eric] There's so much more to you than you know, not just pain and anger. There's good in you too, and you can harness all that. You have a power that no one can match, not even me.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: Tomorrow, mankind will know that mutants exist. They will fear us, and that fear will turn to hatred.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: [to the Class] You want society to accept you, when you can't even accept yourselves?
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: [to Eric] A new species is being born. Help me guide it, shape it... lead it.
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: We have it in us to be the better man.
Erik Lehnsherr: We ALREADY are.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you. But you can even accept yourself.
-[from trailer]
Young Raven: You're not... scared of me?
Charles Xavier: I always knew I couldn't be the only one who was... different.
-Erik Lehnsherr: Excuse me, I'm Erik Lehnsherr.
Professor Charles Xavier: Charles Xavier.
Logan: Go fuck yourself. (A/N: this was the funniest quote from the movie, BTW! :P)
-Erik Lehnsherr: If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.
Erik Lehnsherr: Just pointing out something that could save your life.
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
-Erik Lehnsherr: If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.
Erik Lehnsherr: Just pointing out something that could save your life.
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
-Professor Charles Xavier: I suppose I am a professor now. Pretty soon I'll be going bald. (A/N: from the first few x-men movies, he IS bald! :P)
-Hank McCoy: Are you sure we can't shave your head?
Professor Charles Xavier: Don't touch my hair! (more emphasis on how bald he actually is)
-1st German: Who the Hell are you?
Erik Lehnsherr: Let's just say I'm Frankenstein's monster and I'm looking for my creator.
-Hank McCoy: Am I still a bozo?
Alex Summers: Yes Hank, you're still a bozo. But good job.
-Emma Frost: Erik, isn't it?
Erik Lehnsherr: I prefer... MAGNETO!
-Erik Lehnsherr: This is what they wanted, for us to turn against each other. I tried to warn you.
[turns to Moira]
Erik Lehnsherr: You did this.
Professor Charles Xavier: No Erik, you did.
Erik Lehnsherr: I want you by my side. We're brothers, all of us. We want the same thing.
Professor Charles Xavier: Oh my friend, we do not.
-Erik Lehnsherr: My parents didn't have a name. It was taken from them... by pig farmers... and tailors.
-Professor Charles Xavier: [to Angel] How would you like a job where you get to keep your clothes on?
-Erik Lehnsherr: [before Charles uses Cerebro for the first time] What an adorable lab rat you make, Charles.
Professor Charles Xavier: Don't spoil this for me, Erik.
Erik Lehnsherr: I've been a lab rat. I know when I see one.
-Professor Charles Xavier: You know, I believe the true focus lies somewhere between rage and serenity.
-Professor Charles Xavier: I can't feel my legs.
and now for trivia!:
The film is based on the "X-Men" comics 'Uncanny X-Men' (1963) and 'X-Men: First Class' (2006).
-The uniforms the X-Men wear are colored blue and yellow, in homage to the original blue/yellow suits the X-Men wore in the comics from1963 (their debut) to 2001 (when X-Men (2000) and the Grant Morrison written New X-Men comic inspired a change to black leather).
-Director Matthew Vaughn cited the first two X-Films, Star Trek (2009) and the 1960s Bond films as major influences on this film.
-In April 2006 Zak Penn was hired to write and direct this film; he was going to make a prequel about Magneto, in a vein similar to X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). However, the filmmakers decided to shift the focus from the early years of one mutant to those of the X-Men. Penn found this approach more interesting than what he'd come up with and so stepped down with his blessing.
-Filming was originally to take place on Tybee Island, but a producer browsing on the online map program Google Earth found Jekyll Island to be a more suitable location.
-Matthew Vaughn instructed the cast to do away with all accents in their performances. James McAvoy had planned to copy Patrick Stewart's voice (since McAvoy was going to play a younger version of Stewart's Xavier), but Vaughn quashed it; Vaughn also told Rose Byrne that Moira MacTaggart would not have her trademark Scottish accent in the film (to the Scottish McAvoy's mild disappointment).
-The film was originally to be a prequel about Magneto. Screenwriter Sheldon Turner wrote a treatment which he described as "X-Men (2000) meets The Pianist (2002)": the story focused on Magneto's early years as a prisoner of war in a Nazi concentration camp, until liberation by a squad of Allied Forces led by Charles Xavier. They later meet after the war and become friends, and later become rivals. The studio decided to change the film's direction to the early years of the X-Men, but incorporated aspects of Turner's script into the film.
-To prepare for his role as Erik Lensherr, Michael Fassbender studied Sir Ian McKellen's performance as Lensherr in the previous X-Films, but also looked through the comics as he decided to make his own version of Magneto: "You want to respect what someone else has done, especially because the fan base really liked what Ian has done with it. But while I could have gone and studied him as a young man and brought that to the performance, I don't think Matthew is very interested in that. So I'm just going my own way and working with whatever is in the comic books and the script."-
To prepare for his role as Beast, Nicholas Hoult studied Kelsey Grammer's performance as Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and Grammar's early series "Frasier" (1993); he also underwent training in athletics, weightlifting and boxing.
-The filmmakers hired an "X-Men" specialist to help the cast understand their roles.
-Charlie Rowe was initially cast as the young Charles Xavier but, due to scheduling conflicts with Neverland (2011) (TV), he was replaced by Laurence Belcher.
-The filmmakers had only two choices for the role of Sebastian Shaw: Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. They decided to go with Bacon as he was American and seemed more menacing than Firth.
-This film is a reboot that discards the continuity of the other X-Men films.
-The ending fight between Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr was going to have them use their powers, but Matthew Vaughn reasoned that since it was an origin story about the early X-Men the fight had to be a more conventional brawl: "Fox were saying, people want to see super heroes use their powers... but not in this film." "Sometimes they just want to punch each other. That, to me, is what's different."
-During the Cerebro sequence, one of the first mutants to be seen is Storm as a young girl, noticeable by her long white hair and dark skin color.
and finally, goofs: :P
-Revealing mistakes: In a wide shot, Charles moves his legs when lying injured on the beach, despite the fact he is newly paralyzed.
-Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Magneto is riding on the X-Men's plane as it is flying close the ground, only his hair moves with the wind, none of his other clothing appears affected by the wind even though the ground speed of the plane would be very high.
-Factual errors: Erik's memory of celebrating Chanukah with his mother includes a seven-branched candelabra. In Jewish tradition, Chanukah is celebrated with an nine-branched candelabra.
-Revealing mistakes: When the young Raven is in her true form the seams of her costume are clearly visible.
you know, i was so incredibly proud of mother for most of this movie! you see, poor mum's usually a nervous wreck, squeaking with fear and clutching @ me whenever sth even remotely frightening comes up. but last tuesday, she was so remarkably brave! it wasn't until the last ten minutes of the movie, when the war was happening and there were missiles and explosions and stuff, that she started squealing with fear and clutching @ me. but no tears! i thought, "could it really be? could mother really last one whole movie without bursting into tears?" alas, no. pfofessor xavier gets shot, and suddenly mother is blubbering. "well, now we know why he's in a wheelchair." i told mother calmly. she just turns to me and BAWLS, "oh, em, it's so touching! he did it to save his friend! BOOHOOHOO!!" and i'm like, "mother, please get a grip. it's just a movie." XD
and yay, mother also got us one box of popcorn to share! usually, i like to take one lil piece at a time, but mother was instead reaching into the box every so often and grabbing a whole fistful. so i copied her, grabbing a fistful everytime she did. only, i think my way of getting popcorn is better, just one kernel each time, coz doing it mother's way, i ended up with popcorn all over my seat! XD but mother said she apologised to the guy working @ the cinemas who comes in to clean up after each movie, about the mess i'd left. XD
one more thing: there were short snippets of exceedingly beutiful music throughout the movie, like when they were in that metal bunker thing discussing their next course of action.
all in all, a beautiful movie. :)
anyways, next post here should come toms! i haven't written about my experience of going to reflexology yet, and i'm going again toms night, so cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
eating watermelon
well, my mother would prolly be the first to tell me that i didn't eat enough fruit.
it's yummy ... my favourite fruits are pears. normal pears, nashi pears, ya pears, you name it, i love it. :)
but for my father, the watermelon is his favourite fruit, followed closely by oranges. there's been many a night, when, after dinner, he'll happily sit on the sofa and peel himself an orange.
as for me, i've been put off watermelons. i mean, i still eat a slice or two when offered, but i wouldn't go around looking for watermelon to eat.
you can blame my dad for that. :P
see, when i was a wee lil girl, the parents and i were eating watermelon after dinner one night. munch, munch, dribble some juice. :P
dad suddenly remarks, "oh, em, be careful you don't swallow any watermelon seeds."
"huh? why not, dad?" munch, munch, slurp."
"coz if you do, you'll grow a HUGE watermelon belly." that was said with a completely straight face.
okay, i was a gullible lil girl. i think i was only six, then! but i BELIEVED him!
that night, my mother headed upstairs into my room to say good night to me. however, she found me in FLOODS! of tears! "oh, em, what's wrong?" she asked me.
i blubbered @ her, "oh mum, i didn't mean to, but i accidentally swallowed a watermelon seed! i didn't mean to, i promise! but i don't want a big watermelon belly!"
mother tried to tell me that dad was joking, but i was inconsolable. finally, she headed back downstairs, slapped dad awake (dad usually snores on the sofa after his dinner) and ordered, "michael, go upstairs and tell your daughter that you were lying!"
so poor sleepy dad trudges upstairs and reassures me, "oh, em, dad was only joking. i promise you won't grow a watermelon belly, okay?"
so i went to sleep. but lemme tell you: everyday for the next three weeks, when i awoke each morning, the first thing i did was run to the bathroom and examine my belly, to see if it had actually grown any bigger. and it wasn't till i had checked everyday for three weeks without noticing any signs of growth that i conceded, "righteo. guess dad was really joking. no huge watermelon belly for me."
fast forward about fifteen years, post brain injury. one afternoon, mother remarks to me, "oh, BTW, em, be careful not to swallow any apple pips when you're eating an apple. else, you'll grow an apple tree out of your ears."
i roll my eyes. "yeah, whatever, mum," i reply. "dad got me with the watermelon thing more than fifteen years ago. your apple thing isn't gonna work on me." XD
anyways, next post here should come on thursday - bookclub! unless sth mega interesting happens toms, which i doubt. until then~
cheers,
em. ^^
it's yummy ... my favourite fruits are pears. normal pears, nashi pears, ya pears, you name it, i love it. :)
but for my father, the watermelon is his favourite fruit, followed closely by oranges. there's been many a night, when, after dinner, he'll happily sit on the sofa and peel himself an orange.
as for me, i've been put off watermelons. i mean, i still eat a slice or two when offered, but i wouldn't go around looking for watermelon to eat.
you can blame my dad for that. :P
see, when i was a wee lil girl, the parents and i were eating watermelon after dinner one night. munch, munch, dribble some juice. :P
dad suddenly remarks, "oh, em, be careful you don't swallow any watermelon seeds."
"huh? why not, dad?" munch, munch, slurp."
"coz if you do, you'll grow a HUGE watermelon belly." that was said with a completely straight face.
okay, i was a gullible lil girl. i think i was only six, then! but i BELIEVED him!
that night, my mother headed upstairs into my room to say good night to me. however, she found me in FLOODS! of tears! "oh, em, what's wrong?" she asked me.
i blubbered @ her, "oh mum, i didn't mean to, but i accidentally swallowed a watermelon seed! i didn't mean to, i promise! but i don't want a big watermelon belly!"
mother tried to tell me that dad was joking, but i was inconsolable. finally, she headed back downstairs, slapped dad awake (dad usually snores on the sofa after his dinner) and ordered, "michael, go upstairs and tell your daughter that you were lying!"
so poor sleepy dad trudges upstairs and reassures me, "oh, em, dad was only joking. i promise you won't grow a watermelon belly, okay?"
so i went to sleep. but lemme tell you: everyday for the next three weeks, when i awoke each morning, the first thing i did was run to the bathroom and examine my belly, to see if it had actually grown any bigger. and it wasn't till i had checked everyday for three weeks without noticing any signs of growth that i conceded, "righteo. guess dad was really joking. no huge watermelon belly for me."
fast forward about fifteen years, post brain injury. one afternoon, mother remarks to me, "oh, BTW, em, be careful not to swallow any apple pips when you're eating an apple. else, you'll grow an apple tree out of your ears."
i roll my eyes. "yeah, whatever, mum," i reply. "dad got me with the watermelon thing more than fifteen years ago. your apple thing isn't gonna work on me." XD
anyways, next post here should come on thursday - bookclub! unless sth mega interesting happens toms, which i doubt. until then~
cheers,
em. ^^
Saturday, June 4, 2011
paatoral visit
usually, a pastoral visit is when the pastor goes and visits someone, right? well, yesterday, SHINE fellowship and i all went down to varsity lakes to visit the pastor!
grace the physio came to pick me up. originally, she said she'd come @ 1:30, but didn't arrive to collect me until like past 2pm! the reason, she explained, was that there'd been a change in leaving time, and that somebody (kathy, i think 'twas) had rung my mother to inform her. i asked her where tim, her lil bro, was, and grace said that he'd join us for dinner but not the walk around the lake, coz he'd been playing soccer earlier in the week and some big horrible player from the opposing team had STOMPED on him! ><
grace tootled us off to BCAC first, where everyone was meeting up before we set off together to varsity lakes, where the pastor lives. dr. dr. tai popped into the driver's seat for a quick chat, before vicky and kathy hopped into the backseat, then grace finally tootled us all down to varsity lakes!
on the way, she flicked the CD player on - she was listening to some singer called gem.
when we arrived, dr. dr. tai gave me a hand in. i apologised to reverend lam for not being able to take my shoes off unless i was using my manual wheelchair, then flopped on the couch and had a nice long chat with grace and dr. dr. tai (anna gets two dr.'s coz she's doing further study for her medicine degree! she's already a doctor, but after her study, she'll be doctor doctor! :D)
awhile later, reverend lam got us all for a nice long walk along the lake. sometimes i was allowed sparkless, other times i walked short distances with either uncle kelvin or reverend lam holding era.
and gosh, but the lake ... 'twas BEAUTIFUL! like, coz 'twas sunset, the lake was reflecting the sky, and the water was a shimmering blue, purple, orange ... just spectacular. :)
but it's winter now, and it gets dark really quickly! the pastor was leading the way back, and @ one point, i called "marco!" then was rather freaked out to hear the "polo!" response coming from BEHIND me! XD
but with the help of michael's i-phone GPS, we all made it back to the house safely. some girl (her name's not heidi, but i keep forgetting what it is! ><) took me once to the loo, where i managed alright by myself.
then back outside, 'twas dinner time! everyone had brought along a plate to share; much thanks to florence jie jie who had kindly fried me one plate of ham, eggs and onion to take along and share. :) much thanks to dr. dr. tai who got me some food! my favourite dish of the night was daphne's - she made broccoli and cauliflower in cheese! so i honestly told mother that night, "i ate lotsa vegies last night!" XD
i also had two slices of mccain's ham and pineapple pizza, some of dr. dr. tai's spaghetti with red sauce ('twas really sour! ><") and kudos to tim, who made really yummy chicken! aunty amy kindly passed me a lil bowl of mandarins and purple grapes, and thanks to tim who passed me a plastic mug of water.
after dinner, kathy kindly lent me her arm to hold as i walked over to the living room where tonight's program kicked off. i really enjoyed that, coz i sat in an armchair - the computer char. complete, blessed safety. :)
thomas led us first in this game. we had to write down eight things that were very dear to us. my eight were: (1) parents, (2) bear bear, (3) my ability to function as an independent person, (4) my other teddies, (5)my books, (6) the computer, (7) the rest of my family and (8)the piano. next, we went around the room, playing scissors paper rock with everyone else. if we lost, we had to give up one of our eight slips of paper, but if we won, the person who lost against us would have to give away one of his/her pieces of paper. @ the end, we shared about what we'd chosen to give away and what we'd won. i didn't know that was how we were playing @ first, and just gave mine away @ random. but i won several myself. the funniest one was 'dai dai' ('little brother' in canto), which i won off grace, and i told tim, "hey, you're my little brother now. that's cool, coz i've always wanted a sibling (i'm an only child). i'm twenty-four, BTW. how old do you wanna be?" i think he chose twenty-one. :P the other really interesting one i won was from thomas. "hey, what's elim?" i asked him. turns out 'elim' was the name of the former company he worked for.
after the game, thomas and daph lewft, coz daph was leading worship @ church toms and needed a good night's sleep.
someone led us in worship to sing two songs, one in canto and the other in english. i made the mistake of accidentally singing some harmony during the english song, then caught my mistake and shut up for the rest of the song.
then reverend lam took the stage, and shared a bit about his life. his mother, the poor woman, she had lost six babies before giving birth to rev. lam, but then had gone on to produce another SEVEN! and rev. lam was born a MASSIVE baby - he weighed in @ TEN pound ELEVEN! lol, @ this point, i raised my arm and asked, "umm ... rev. lam, i was born only five pound two. why were you so big?" XD
after he finished sharing, 'twas time to head home. someone took me once more to the loo, then uncle kelvin held onto me while grace went to move her car to the driveway. lol, i can never remember: does grace and tim attend CCCB or BCCC? lol, it's one of them. all these As, Bs and Cs! i've a mind to open a church one day called WXYZ! 'y' can stand for 'yahweh' and 'z' 'zion', but what about W and X? XD :P
anyways, grace tootled me, tim, that girl who's not heidi and some other boy (i didn't see who he was coz 'twas all dark already) home.
i arrived home after 10:30 but before 10:45. for some reason, the parents both chucked an absolute @ me before they finally lemme sleep. :(
but all in all, i had a great time joining SHINE fellowship, going down to visit rev. lam @ varsity lakes! i'm just curious, though ... how did we manage to find a pastor that lives so far away from us?
anyways, next post here ... should come on thursday - book club! until then~
cheers,
em. ^^
grace the physio came to pick me up. originally, she said she'd come @ 1:30, but didn't arrive to collect me until like past 2pm! the reason, she explained, was that there'd been a change in leaving time, and that somebody (kathy, i think 'twas) had rung my mother to inform her. i asked her where tim, her lil bro, was, and grace said that he'd join us for dinner but not the walk around the lake, coz he'd been playing soccer earlier in the week and some big horrible player from the opposing team had STOMPED on him! ><
grace tootled us off to BCAC first, where everyone was meeting up before we set off together to varsity lakes, where the pastor lives. dr. dr. tai popped into the driver's seat for a quick chat, before vicky and kathy hopped into the backseat, then grace finally tootled us all down to varsity lakes!
on the way, she flicked the CD player on - she was listening to some singer called gem.
when we arrived, dr. dr. tai gave me a hand in. i apologised to reverend lam for not being able to take my shoes off unless i was using my manual wheelchair, then flopped on the couch and had a nice long chat with grace and dr. dr. tai (anna gets two dr.'s coz she's doing further study for her medicine degree! she's already a doctor, but after her study, she'll be doctor doctor! :D)
awhile later, reverend lam got us all for a nice long walk along the lake. sometimes i was allowed sparkless, other times i walked short distances with either uncle kelvin or reverend lam holding era.
and gosh, but the lake ... 'twas BEAUTIFUL! like, coz 'twas sunset, the lake was reflecting the sky, and the water was a shimmering blue, purple, orange ... just spectacular. :)
but it's winter now, and it gets dark really quickly! the pastor was leading the way back, and @ one point, i called "marco!" then was rather freaked out to hear the "polo!" response coming from BEHIND me! XD
but with the help of michael's i-phone GPS, we all made it back to the house safely. some girl (her name's not heidi, but i keep forgetting what it is! ><) took me once to the loo, where i managed alright by myself.
then back outside, 'twas dinner time! everyone had brought along a plate to share; much thanks to florence jie jie who had kindly fried me one plate of ham, eggs and onion to take along and share. :) much thanks to dr. dr. tai who got me some food! my favourite dish of the night was daphne's - she made broccoli and cauliflower in cheese! so i honestly told mother that night, "i ate lotsa vegies last night!" XD
i also had two slices of mccain's ham and pineapple pizza, some of dr. dr. tai's spaghetti with red sauce ('twas really sour! ><") and kudos to tim, who made really yummy chicken! aunty amy kindly passed me a lil bowl of mandarins and purple grapes, and thanks to tim who passed me a plastic mug of water.
after dinner, kathy kindly lent me her arm to hold as i walked over to the living room where tonight's program kicked off. i really enjoyed that, coz i sat in an armchair - the computer char. complete, blessed safety. :)
thomas led us first in this game. we had to write down eight things that were very dear to us. my eight were: (1) parents, (2) bear bear, (3) my ability to function as an independent person, (4) my other teddies, (5)my books, (6) the computer, (7) the rest of my family and (8)the piano. next, we went around the room, playing scissors paper rock with everyone else. if we lost, we had to give up one of our eight slips of paper, but if we won, the person who lost against us would have to give away one of his/her pieces of paper. @ the end, we shared about what we'd chosen to give away and what we'd won. i didn't know that was how we were playing @ first, and just gave mine away @ random. but i won several myself. the funniest one was 'dai dai' ('little brother' in canto), which i won off grace, and i told tim, "hey, you're my little brother now. that's cool, coz i've always wanted a sibling (i'm an only child). i'm twenty-four, BTW. how old do you wanna be?" i think he chose twenty-one. :P the other really interesting one i won was from thomas. "hey, what's elim?" i asked him. turns out 'elim' was the name of the former company he worked for.
after the game, thomas and daph lewft, coz daph was leading worship @ church toms and needed a good night's sleep.
someone led us in worship to sing two songs, one in canto and the other in english. i made the mistake of accidentally singing some harmony during the english song, then caught my mistake and shut up for the rest of the song.
then reverend lam took the stage, and shared a bit about his life. his mother, the poor woman, she had lost six babies before giving birth to rev. lam, but then had gone on to produce another SEVEN! and rev. lam was born a MASSIVE baby - he weighed in @ TEN pound ELEVEN! lol, @ this point, i raised my arm and asked, "umm ... rev. lam, i was born only five pound two. why were you so big?" XD
after he finished sharing, 'twas time to head home. someone took me once more to the loo, then uncle kelvin held onto me while grace went to move her car to the driveway. lol, i can never remember: does grace and tim attend CCCB or BCCC? lol, it's one of them. all these As, Bs and Cs! i've a mind to open a church one day called WXYZ! 'y' can stand for 'yahweh' and 'z' 'zion', but what about W and X? XD :P
anyways, grace tootled me, tim, that girl who's not heidi and some other boy (i didn't see who he was coz 'twas all dark already) home.
i arrived home after 10:30 but before 10:45. for some reason, the parents both chucked an absolute @ me before they finally lemme sleep. :(
but all in all, i had a great time joining SHINE fellowship, going down to visit rev. lam @ varsity lakes! i'm just curious, though ... how did we manage to find a pastor that lives so far away from us?
anyways, next post here ... should come on thursday - book club! until then~
cheers,
em. ^^
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
brr...
it's winter now. i'm a cold frog. i hate winter. ><
funnily enough, 'cold frog' doesn't have a direct translation into cantonese. i tried literally translating 'cold frog' into canto for my relatives, only to be met with blank stares. nowadays, i just tell them, "i'm afraid of the cold/i get cold easily."
three years ago, i was still stuck in the insane asylum (more commonly referred to as the princess alexandra hospital :P) around 6:30 every morning, the nurse would dig me up for breakfast. after the nurse got me kitted for the day, i'd ask, "nurse, can you please gimme another jumper? i'm still cold." the nurse would stick one jumper on me, then i'd say, "nurse, can i please have another jumper? i'm still cold." so the nurse would stick another jumper on me, only to hear me say, "nurse, can i please have one more jumper? i'm still cold."
@ this point, the nurse would stop and look incredulously @ me. "emily, are you sure you want to wear THREE jumpers?!" and i'd reply, "yes, coz i'm cold! >< look, if you see me during the day and i'm melting, you've permission to take them all off, but right now, i'm COLD!" XD
BTW, i think that whoever invented the heater deserves a nobel peace prize. :P
luckily, when i came home from hospital three years ago, dad installed an air con for my room, meaning i'm now warm in winter and cool in summer. :) i'm particularly grateful for the heater in winter, coz i'm a first class messy sleeper. i @ least wake up once every night, freezing my socks off coz i've kicked my blankets to the end of the bed/off the bed entirely! to combat my messy sleeping, i remember mother once zipped me inside a sleeping bag. but guess what? come the morning, i'd officially squirmed out of it. XD
but yeah, basically: i hate getting wet and i hate being cold. :P
hmm ... i guess this post should also be reflections on autumn, too, now that it's officially winter.
well, after saying that summer was actually quite bearable coz of all the flooding, which kept the temperature from searing us, autumn met us with some spectacularly hot days, if you can remember.
but autumn's officially my favourite season of the year - know why? coz my bday falls during autumn! :D
anyways, next post here ... umm, i think SHINE fellowship are going to the pastor's place on saturday ... cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^
funnily enough, 'cold frog' doesn't have a direct translation into cantonese. i tried literally translating 'cold frog' into canto for my relatives, only to be met with blank stares. nowadays, i just tell them, "i'm afraid of the cold/i get cold easily."
three years ago, i was still stuck in the insane asylum (more commonly referred to as the princess alexandra hospital :P) around 6:30 every morning, the nurse would dig me up for breakfast. after the nurse got me kitted for the day, i'd ask, "nurse, can you please gimme another jumper? i'm still cold." the nurse would stick one jumper on me, then i'd say, "nurse, can i please have another jumper? i'm still cold." so the nurse would stick another jumper on me, only to hear me say, "nurse, can i please have one more jumper? i'm still cold."
@ this point, the nurse would stop and look incredulously @ me. "emily, are you sure you want to wear THREE jumpers?!" and i'd reply, "yes, coz i'm cold! >< look, if you see me during the day and i'm melting, you've permission to take them all off, but right now, i'm COLD!" XD
BTW, i think that whoever invented the heater deserves a nobel peace prize. :P
luckily, when i came home from hospital three years ago, dad installed an air con for my room, meaning i'm now warm in winter and cool in summer. :) i'm particularly grateful for the heater in winter, coz i'm a first class messy sleeper. i @ least wake up once every night, freezing my socks off coz i've kicked my blankets to the end of the bed/off the bed entirely! to combat my messy sleeping, i remember mother once zipped me inside a sleeping bag. but guess what? come the morning, i'd officially squirmed out of it. XD
but yeah, basically: i hate getting wet and i hate being cold. :P
hmm ... i guess this post should also be reflections on autumn, too, now that it's officially winter.
well, after saying that summer was actually quite bearable coz of all the flooding, which kept the temperature from searing us, autumn met us with some spectacularly hot days, if you can remember.
but autumn's officially my favourite season of the year - know why? coz my bday falls during autumn! :D
anyways, next post here ... umm, i think SHINE fellowship are going to the pastor's place on saturday ... cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^
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