I’m going under the scope.

I’m currently in my english class but I feel like posting an entry. I’m already a book behind in the class, so I am really lost with the class discussion.

This is a late update, but might as well keep a record of it. I am getting arthroscopic surgery on my knee, but I am still in the waiting list (about 6 months, i think). The knee specialist could not pin-point whats wrong with my knee so I’m going under the scope to find out whats wrong with it. Im sort of excited, but sort of not becasue surgery is surgery.

I asked the assistant specialist if I’m allowed to play sports and she said as long as I am careful, I should be okay. So this past saturday, I decided to play basketball. It feels really good to run and jump, but I was pretty rusty. Lots of turnover =( The knee was sore afterwards (and it still is) so I wrapped my knee with saran wrap and ice. I feel like one of those NBA players =)

Meeting my knee specialist was pretty funny and stupid. I had to go an hour early to do some paper work and stuff. I was asked to get an xray on my knee at the building beside the knee specialist’s building. When I got at the xray place, I noticed that my doctor gave the wrong instruction on which knee to get xray on. So i went back to the knee specialist’s building and told them that they gave the wrong instructions. They told me to ignore it and just wait for the knee specialist. So I waited for about 10 minutes was able to meet the knee specialist’s assistant. She did the usual thing, asking me how I injured my knee, when I injured it, etc. Right after that, she went to get the real knee specialist. When she was getting the knee specialist, I decided to check my wallet for stuff. I looked at the parking card ticket, and saw that the ticket must be put on my car dash. So I was >___<” . Right when the knee specialist and the assistant came, I asked if they can spare me 5 minutes because I had to go my car and put the parking ticket card on my dash, or else my car might get towed. How embarassing T_T.

After meeting my knee specialist, I pulled off another stupid thing: I ran over a red light. T_T . I was on the phone trying to contact my physiotherapist to let him know that I am getting surgery, so I was sort of out of it. I knew there was a red light because people were trying to cross but right after the pedestrians crossed, I ran a red light. I only noticed that I ran over a red light when the car beside me did not move. >__>. I was so embarrased. I had to cover my face on the next stop light; so the other cars could not see my face. Hopefully I won’t get ticketed.

So this past weekend was the Easter long weekend. I wasted it, because I did not do anything productive. I did some readings with Huck Finn though, but Im still far from finishing it. I also went to my friend’s church for Good Friday Service. They performed the Lifehouse Everything skit. I was very impressed. It was really good and the message of the skit struck me. Its a very powerful skit.

Lent update: Im almost done fasting but Im thinking of extending it because I am not very satisfied with the way I’m lenting. I am thinking of extending it until end of April.   Scratch that. Broken.

Anyway, I should end my post here; its getting long and class is almost over =)

It tastes awful but it works … not!

Dear Buckley’s, why isnt your medicine working? I’ve been feeling pretty sick lately. Phlegm, coughing, sore throat and major headache. Ive been taking Buckley’s for the past 2 or 3 days and somehow I feel like I’m getting worse. How come Buckley’s isnt working for me?  T__T

I should be writing my geography research paper right now, but I have the writer’s block. The paper is due on Wednesday and I dont have much time to write it. I have about 3 or 4 days to write the term paper (8 pages / 2000 words). In the past, I would usually be halfway done now but for this term paper, I just started and already am stuck. I have the writer’s block. I don’t feel like writing my paper and don’t really know what to write; that’s why I am writing an blog entry right now. I am hoping that by writing an entry on this blog, I could get some of my creative juice (also known as the BS generator) flowing.

So I finally got an appointment with a knee specialist this coming tuesday. I am somewhat looking forward to it, but scared to know what the prognosis going to be. I am hoping that nothing serious will happen. However, I have a strong gut feeling that I will be needing surgery. I know that there is a lot of risk and stuff could happen if i get surgery, but its something Ive been kind of looking forward to. I don’t know why, but I think getting surgery is pretty cool. It’s like an interesting chapter in a book that you captivates you. If I get surgery, its going to be a chapter that could be very entertaining or something cruddy in my life story. Not a lot of people get to have surgery in their whole entire life because they are healthy or not injured, so getting surgery could be a privilege. I know this sounds pretty absurd but getting surgery could really be something entertaining. >_>

430 bus ≠ 480 bus

One of the funniest things just happened to me today. I woke up today and decided to do park and ride since I have the car for the month (mom went back to philippines). I decided to go early so I can get a seat on the bus (1 or 2 bus earlier than my usual bus). At the park and ride bus stop, I saw my friend and we went on the same bus. We got in and we were pretty happy because we got the last two courtesy seats. So I put on my headphones, all happy, and started listening to my mp3 player.

Suddenly, the bus took on a different route and stopped on a different bus stop (to drop off one of the elderly people). I thought that this was just a courtesy stop so no biggie. Then I went and looked around the bus and noticed that there are a great number of older people; so I started thinking that me and my friend might have got on the wrong bus. >_<” . She was thinking the same thing too, so she went to the bus driver and asked if we were on the 480 UBC bus. The bus driver said that we were on the 430 Metrotown Bus. So we went (literally) o.O” and immedietly got off the next stop.

Right after getting off the bus in bridgeport (near A&W), we were wondering how we got on the wrong bus. o.O” I didnt really checked the bus when I got on but just followed my friend and she did the exact same thing; she followed this other guy who looked like a student, but apparently he wasnt (or so, I think). So we decided to walk back to the park and ride stop which took us about 20-25 minutes.

It was a good long, morning exercise walk (I guess). Right when we got to the park and ride bus stop, a 480 bus was just about to arrive, so we had to run to get on the bus. This time I checked whether if it was 480 or 430. HAHA. It was a 480 bus that was almost full.*sigh* I had to stand up for the trip to school, which basically defeated the purpose of going to park and ride early. T_T.

Lessons of the day: Not all bus leads to UBC (All roads lead to Rome…. get it?), always check if you are on the right bus, and 430 bus does not equal 480 bus