What make this chinese-physician trip LOADS better is that he is accompanying me there! I messaged him my frustrations after my mum's phonecall and then we spoke on the phone. Of course, he chided me for how I was feeling towards my mum...but I guess it's normal to feel frustrated when you're almost nearing the big THREE-ZERO and your mum still nags at you?

He is one half-day leave today! And to accompany me to the clinic, he has taken the rest of the day off too!

I might see Dr. Tay again in the noon if the fever is still erratic. I might need to get excused for the next 2 days as Thursday will be Day 10 since I last had "contact" with my colleague C. If I get my excuse for another 2 days, and Friday is Good Friday, then I have effectively had THREE weeks of holiday! Not that the past week or the next few days will be much of a holiday being cooped up at home, but I get to be away from school for THREE weeks!

Don't know whether to be happy or not. Knowing the amount of work that I am missing and how it's all piling up on my desk at work, I am trying to create a mental picture of how my desk looks when I return. I left it neat and tidy the last time I was in school, but I'm sure it is now covered with memos, papers, post-its, etc. People at my workplace have this habit of just throwing whatever they want to pass to you onto your desk. There is no effort made to place it properly on the centre of the table-top so that you can see it easily. (I have had mini post-its pasted at the right corner of my desk and had I not looked carefully, I would have missed it.) So you can imagine if different people just throw their little notes all over your table....it will be a war-zone when I return...