NEW year indeed

it's the second day of the chinese lunar new year and it has been 3 dreadful days .... *sniff*. i wish it wasn't so. i wish i didn't have to say that such a beautiful and traditional celebration was dreadful but it was.

on the eve of the eve of the lunar new year [yes the night before the eve], i began to feel slightly nauseous. i was lying on my friend's couch and just listening to him talk but i felt like throwing up. i had a sick dread that i was coming down with food poisoning. i know the symptoms. it's horrible. that flash of pain in your stomache that comes and goes every few minutes. horrible.

anyway, the next morning, the eve of the lunar new year, i threw up 3 times and it wasn't even nine in the morning. i crawled into bed and between flashes of gut-wrenching pain, i was feverish and having the worst kind of headache. the abominable pain continued ALL DAY. the traditional reunion dinner was a no-go. i tried to be present but sitting there and listening to the noise around me and having to deal with the aromas of the food just made it worse. i slept in the car while the family finished 'reunion' dinner.

the first day of the lunar new year, i started to feel better towards the evening. the pain in my stomache was gone and my headache was subsiding. feeling slightly better, i decided to go get a few books around 8 in the evening as i knew i would be in bed for quite a few days.

the 'gods' must have been having fun with my misery. at 9pm, when trying to leave the darkening mall, the car wouldn't start. i tried and tried, to no avail. the car battery had died. i didn't know whether to scream, shout or cry. i was beginning to break into a cold sweat, feeling sick-ish and i couldn't go anywhere, stranded in the mall.

today, the second day of the lunar new year .... here i am. the scent of food still makes me nauseous. don't even mention the word food to me.

i must be having the greatest start of the lunar new year of all.






Happy Chinese New Year