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Sad findings

For some reason I googled “foods to avoid if you have hypothyroidism’ out of the blue today, and was dismayed at some of the findings.

Foods rich in the amino acid tyrosine are recommended because tyrosine combines with iodine to make the thyroxine, one of the key hormones produced by the thyroid gland. Meat, fish, turkey and chicken breast, low fat milk and yogurt, almonds, avocado, bananas, lima beans, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, and lentils are examples of foods rich in tyrosine.

Iodine is needed to make thyroid hormones, but it must be handled carefully. Too much can be as bad as too little. Ideal food sources include sea salt, seaweed (sushi, nori rolls), salt water fish, and other sea food. Iodized salt is used by many but should be used in small amounts under the direction of a doctor.

Some foods have come under fire for making hypothyroidism worse. Frankly this information annoys me a great deal because these foods, termed Goitrogenic, are the very ones that we are urged to eat. And I enjoy them. The foods, brussels sprouts, rutabagas, turnips, radishes, cauliflower, potatoes, corn, millet, cabbage, peaches, pears, strawberries, and kale, have compounds in them that can negatively interact with thyroid medication, nullifying its effects. People on thyroid hormone replacement are now advised not to eat these foods in large amounts.

Source: Fit Fare

I like to eat turnips, cauliflowers, potatoes, corn, cabbage, peaches, strawberries. Some even say broccoli should be avoided which is a BIG BOO HOO for me.

As I read on to see some of the comments there, there are some with pretty serious conditions affiliated to hypothroidism. Some were of coz side effects of the illnesss, some were actually side effects of the medication they are currently on.

I didn’t realise that the side effects can get that bad. All I focused on previously was to make the thyroid levels normal and also with the hope that I can be off medication if the levels are controlled. But now, it seems more complicated now (and probably I would be on lifetime medication now.

And I <3 food so much. *sighz*

The doctor at AH did say that if I intend to get pregnant, I would need to go for regular followups to keep the thyroid levels stable and regulate the medication dosage.

Going for a follow up next month at AH. Hope the blood test reads well.

Something to know…

The other day when I checked my Citibank bill, I was angry to find that I had been charged late payment for my bill last month. I was angry coz I remembered that I paid for it on the due date itself, via AXS machine. And there is no reason for me to pay if the processing time for Citibank is so late, right?

So I called (spoke to them rather coldly too – short of not shouting over the phone) asking for an explanation on why I must pay if it is Citibank that is slow in processing?

They said that the cut off time for AXS machines (inclusive of Saturdays) is 8.30pm for same day processing, otherwise the payment will be processed on the next working day (like seriously how would I know?). And so I told the CSR that I am not going to pay for the late charges, which he asked in return so how can he help?

Duh…what else?

I managed to get them to reverse the charges.

Nowadays I find Citibank very ngiaow. Even late one day also they want to charge me. I forgot to pay off UOB once in time and was late for 2/3 days, but they didn’t even charge me.

Citibank didn’t use to be like that. Now they are straight as ruler.

So nowadays I use more UOB than Citi. Unless for petrol coz Citi got more discounts off.

Who would have thought of it?

Heard some issues happening to one of my uncles yesterday. Apparently some time ago, my uncle made my cousin the owner of their current residence. And in return, he gave him some money (of coz much lesser than what he would have gotten if he sold the flat instead), probably 意思意思. Then now he wanted to sell the place and make my uncle and auntie move out of the place.

My first reaction: 养儿子什么用？

As in, what’s the use of having a son?

My uncle is now having difficulty in moving, and somewhat a bit senile. He used to be taken around to places and to the doctor  by my cousin’s (the sister of this said cousin) husband who passed away a few months ago. I guessed he wanted to be relieved of the ‘burden’ of taking care of my uncle, thus wanted to ‘chase’ him away so that one of his daughters will take them in.

I told my parents, that parents should never give the whole house to any of their children (indirectly also saying us lah - heh) because you will never know if one day the children will turn against you. Even if they need to, the most make one the co-owner, and leave the other name as one of the parent’s name. Otherwise, if they decide to abandon the parents, then it would just be another sad case.

Anyway, this said cousin’s son is a spoilt brat who has no respect for elders.

We’ll see if karma goes round.

And I won’t be surprised too.

Days passing by

Received a sms this morning that my ex-lecturer’s mom just passed away last nite. Looking back his FB, realised that his mom was hospitalised earlier on.

My condolences….

Am on half day leave today. Needed to go to AH for the checkup and due to the odd timing of 3pm, had to go on leave. I brought a pair of shorts along actually, so that I can change into that and maybe go to Orchard to buy my sashimi *slurp* and do a spot of shopping, in my Crocs.

Am going for fishing the whole day on Sunday. 2nd instalment after the prawning session last Sunday. My mummy just asked me yesterday if I wanna go Batam on Sunday but I told her I’m booked for fishing. And then it started their fishing itch again, so they wanna go rent a yacht and do it again soon.

I wonder if Caramel can be brought onboard on Sunday?

I am hungry now…saw a customer’s surname – Lay, and it makes me have a craving for Lay’s Potato Chips. Oh noes.

The other day, I saw something sticking out from a car’s undercarriage. From far, it looked like a glove, then with the car moving and it flapping, it looked like it was waving at me. And I start to imagine someone being locked in the boot, and that the gloved hand was left outside dangling (of coz, if it had been snapped shut it would have caused a broken wrist) and it was calling out for me for help.

On closer look, it looked like some feathery/rope thing.

Chey~

Oh, yesterday I was damn pissed coz someone borrowed my CEO’s phone charger and didn’t bring it back until he was looking for it. so I told the secretary who took it for my director. turns out the director might have taken it away (out from the office). the worst thing is, the secretary left me alone to go and look for an alternative one (which was quite difficult coz of the stupid Nokia different sized chargers for different phones) without even offering to help. She just went back to her desk and continued with her work. I was in a panic coz the CEO kept asking for it and the only person I could see has it is the GM, but he was grumbling also coz his was almost fixed to the socket and a bit of hassle to take out and put back again. Nevertheless, he took it out grudgingly to lend it to my CEO.

And what else? The charger has still not come back to my CEO’s desk. And I have no blardy idea where it is now.

Damn idiot one leh. Borrow, then must return la. Must wait for people to ask before you will return meh?

Of cakes and pork

It’s 30mins to long weekend and everyone is on standby (waiting to go home) and holiday (long weekend leh!) mode. The cold weather is making us lazy too.

Was at Paragon just now to get the cheesecake that CEO wanted. I asked him, how big you want the cake to be, and whether Hilton’s one is ok. He said, anything. In the end I went to buy one at Bakerzin coz I’ve tasted the cheesecake there before and I felt it was good. Anyway, he asked for good one. So I thought that would be ok.

I checked on their website that a 23cm Ø cake cost about $58. Good. Expensive enough. I got AA to check if they’ve got a whole cake for me since he works at Paragon, and he did a reservation for me.

I went to collect it and paid, they charged me about $42. Then I used my Citbank credit card to pay, it ended up only about $38.

Not expensive enough now.

Went for lunch there at Dome, coz I thought that place should be quieter than other places during lunch, after it no longer occupied the first floor. Big mistake. Their Hawaiian pork chop, which I had, barely filled my tummy. I only felt NOT-HUNGRY, not full. It was only warm, and I wonder where do they now bring their food up from (last time they’ve got a kitchen just next to their outlet at first floor).

The place is nice and quieter, but I think no more food for me next time (if I ever go back there again). Coffee/drinks should be better, since they make it at their outlet premises.

And barely 4 hours later, I feel hungry again.

Looking forward to the Kims Hokkien Mee dinner later…

Kena sabo

Damn sian!

Someone pls remind me not to be so helpful next time. This time I kena sabo-ed.

He came to ask me yesterday if I can help him out, like very kan chiong. I managed to do something quite fast and solved his problem since I could contact the customer in China (no time difference). He came next to say today dun commit to the customer first, when I had already done so. And which he could see what I wrote in my email since it was cc-ed to him. Now he’s trying to look for alternatives and lands me in an awkward situation and refused to let me have the goods which he was stuck with.

Now I duno how to tell the customer that it was a false alarm all along. Blardy hell.

Ka booom~

Was contemplating whether to go see doctor or go to work this morning. Felt better when I woke up, only the tummy still bloated and uncomfortable. Then I thought, nvm, go to office.

Had fever last nite. It just came, and my back down was aching. My mum asked me to go see doc but I thought, mc won’t be able to use so no point queuing up for it. Might as well go to the polyclinic in the morning and queue for a ‘valid’ mc.

I used the 如意油 to alleviate my tummy, which helped a bit. At least it calmed the tummy down. Didn’t want to use it this morning coz it will emit the smell, though I would gladly like to to make myself more comfortable.

Now I wish to have teochew porridge to warm the tummy, those chap fan stalls ones.

But I hope I dun fart and kill everyone in the department.

吵醒，吓醒，非自然醒

Woke up at 4am today coz Caramel was crying again. The same sounds I heard on Sunday, not his usual whining cries. He was at the legs area, so gotta get him to the pillows to hug him and make him stop crying. Seriously, I think he saw something, coz if he was bored he would have gone to his house to get his toys and played with it instead of crying.

Anyway, I tried hard to go back to sleep, but couldn’t until an hour later coz I was wide awake by then I managed to coax him to sleep.

The next thing I realised when I woke up. Quarter to 8am. OMG. LAAAAAATEEE!!!!

Was still blur when I rushed to get ready. Really still half asleep. Thankfully the traffic was good and all I was was 5 mins late.

I hope Caramel won’t cry again tonite.

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G’s going to Redang tmrw with JH and SS. I so wanted to go but can’t, coz I’ve got the 7th month dinner, the last one. Because the restaurant we used to hold it closed down this Feb, and my uncle and other uncles are all getting on age, so it’s sometimes quite tedious for them to coordinate and arrange things every year. So I needed to go (I’ve never missed it actually), though it will be held at my old residence’s car park.

Also my leave allocation is not allowing me to go. I needed to have some leave left coz of the year end dive trip in planning. Maybe have to take unpaid so I thought better left some paid leave so it’s easier to take unpaid leave. Also, a lot of us always take leave in Dec which boss sometimes doesn’t feel pleased if half the office strength is gone.

And to top that, it is the last voyage that Star Cruises is going to Redang. No more next time.

I’ve not been there before.

I hate making such decisions.

Kaypoh ass

Can’t believe someone can be so 吃饱没事做.

Think I mentioned before that my place is always full of cars, and many a time some can’t find a parking lot if you come back too late. Heard too that the season parking might also run out in certain months. So it is not an unusual sight to see someone park illegally.

And yet, this morning, I see this kaypoh person who had too much time in his hand and took photos of this car which was parked at a non-parking lot. That car owner is a resident staying at the same block as mine. I thought the car was offending the kaypoh but he was not even a driver! He was taking photos left, right, centre, front, back, before he went off by the stairs.

What!?!?! And frankly I dun even recognise him as a resident here.

What shit. If got so much time in your hands, then go eat breakfast!

And to take photos for what? I won’t be surprised if it appears at that stupid *STOMP site.

*Edit: When I was saying about STOMP being stupid, I’m referring to the section “be seen”…something I think, where those people take pictures of things they see. I find the other sections rather entertaining though, so pls do not be mistaken.

Near miss

Just realised that I nearly had the chance to see Wilbur Pan and Jolin Tsai in person. Apparently they were at 渔人码头, with Wilbur holding his album 007 wrap up concert.

I was there on the nite before.

Bloody polyclinic

I’m still blardy waiting to see the doc after 3 hrs. If I had been in pain like last nite, I would have died by now. Should I just go off now and just take as leave today instead of MC? I’m going to just go and fill up their survey form which they ironically gave today.

Edit: someone heard my prayers! The moment I wrote my comments on their survey paper, someone called out for my queue number and I got transferred from the still-crowded 2nd floor to the empty 1st floor to see the doc. And I was being looked at within 5 mins. She gave me 2 days mc and the lady whom asked me what was my queue number while we had both waited for some time, was surprised to see me at the pharmacy.

The doc asked me why I didn’t eat. I told her so many people, and waited for so long. Wanted to eat but then worried that there will be no seats by the time I came back. It would have been terrible if I got no seats with my aching tummy.

And yes, it’s gastric still.

Torturous Sunday

I thought I would have a good time at the beach today with Caramel, Denver and Five. Never did imagine that the small throbbing pain in myself since morning wasn’t going away just like that.

I woke up with some pain in my tummy. I thought there was a ball of gas inside and nothing that a visit to the toilet would not solve. But unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be any cooperation time sitting on the throne, so I just let it go, wishing and feeling if the pain will start to travel downwards.

At the Tanjung Beach, I started to feel unwell when it started to drizzle. Or more appropriately after I finished my lime ice blended. The pain got worse, and I started to feel like I’m burping gas out and anytime going to hurl. Tried to go to the washroom again but it just wouldn’t come out and my tummy was started to pain more unbearably. I finally gave up to say I wanted to leave coz I tried not to dampen the mood of JH, SS and G. And also the dogs. And before we left, everything I ate for brunch just came travelling northwards up my oesophagus. *eeewww*

No choice. I had to go. As I can’t handle Five in my car (he’s pretty fidgety in confined space), he had to go home in JH’s car. I took Caramel and blocked him from coming to my side which helped, and he was good as gold. Thankfully.

I have the next round when I reached back to G’s place. This time, I felt everything like the good ol’ Merlion over at the Singapore river. The lime drink came pouring out of my mouth.

I laid groaning in bed while trying to go to sleep coz I was very tired but was unable coz of the pain which travelled to the lower abdomen. I was going to call my mei mei for advice but then thought it would be better to go find a clinic to cure the excruciating pain.

Finally gave up and told G to send me to the clinic. Couldn’t find one so he drove thru the small streets. I was going to say let’s go to the A&E at CGH which he asked me when we were about to give up. Finally saw the freaking cross signboard that was lit.

The doc was sitting outside (there was no patients except me) and he looked too relaxed. He said I was having some gastro something though I did tell him I suspected food poisoning. But he thought otherwise when I told him nothing came out southwards. By then I thought he was like some 江湖医生 coz of his laid back attitude. He just used the stethoscope to hear my tummy and nothing else. Not even took my temperature.

Anyway, I got home quick and took the medicine which was to be eaten before meal. I was in too bad shape to want to eat anything, so I just popped the pill and went back to sleep. And thankfully, the medicine worked!

Now I feel one sore part in my tummy when exerted strength. And my legs are aching (for unknown reasons). Anyway I feel much better now though still a slightly bearable tummy ache in me. And I really much surprised myself for having such a huge threshold of pain. I took the other medicine for the gastric just after a croissant coz that one has to be taken after food. Now I’m going back to sleep. Will see how I feel tomorrow again.

Tata.

When a ‘blind’ person checks the work

Boring day at work, although prices are fluctuating like hell.

I nearly hurled the ultimate words at her today. Recently there were so many mistakes from her work and she was supposed to check (still mistake -_-”) and it was only till at the end of the road that someone pointed out the mistake and raised the question.

By then, to reverse things take some time and effort and even costs incurred. Just because she didn’t treat her work seriously.

I am close to telling her, that there are mistakes too even after she checked, so what is the use of her being here?

All she can give (her reason) is, I missed out.

There are only so many things that she can miss out. If within 2 days you find 3 mistakes because “I missed out”, then really, what is she actually doing?

Seriously, what’s the point of her being here if she just doesn’t want to do her work seriously? It’s not that we load her with tons of stuff that she has to stay back and work. In fact, she is never late for lunch nor for going back. ALWAYS ON THE DOT. We don’t have a clock in our dept but she is the one who tells the time.

I told her that if anything is not in order at this critical time, I am not going to bail her out like last time. Not again. Time to let her realise how serious it can get if she doesn’t want to be serious in her stuff.