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 I got COVID!!


Ya, betul! This is my experience.

I'm gonna go back to when I started feeling paranoid, and not when the actual symptoms set in haha
It's 10th May, the day AFTER MY BIRTHDAY. We got informed someone from the main contractor's side got covid, and some of my colleagues joined some site walk and meeting that the guy attended too. So those two colleagues are considered close contact and ordered to stay quarantined, and get swabbed again on the 12th, day before Raya.

The whole office has to get swabbed on boss's orders. I decide to get swabbed separately cos I don't wanna go to the company's regular doctor all the way at Desa Park. So I get swabbed on 12th, day before Raya.

I ended up being negative but I didn't really feel good emotionally or mentally cos on the 15th I woke up to a news article on Facebook saying a neighbourhood grocer got case (6 staff members tested positive), and my parents revealed they were there on the 8th. We all develop (probably) psychological induced itchy throats hahahaha


I go to work as usual after Raya, but I still didn't feel good cos case numbers were rising every day and whO knows who's positive and who's not and I STILL have to go office and it means CROWDED MRT everyday and figuring out lunch, etc, etc. I go to office until 24th May, cos my boss started getting messages saying the government does office spot checks and orders non-site team to stay at home.

THANK U LORD cos we all know the project manager ain't gonna be letting us work from home if he has to get his butt to the office everyday hehe THANK U.

26th May was Wesak Day and that's when I started feeling cold. It's a strange experience to me cos I'm usually quite sensitive to heat so if anything, I would be sweating lol but it felt like my legs weren't getting any blood or something, until I even had to tuck my toes under the cushions to feel normal lol begin my onset of more paranoia.

I start checking my temperature, which made my mother (who also developed paranoia) check my temperature obsessively. My temperature was slightly above average, I hit an average temperature of 37.3 degrees. The rest of the family didn't go above 37 degrees lol but this didn't freak me out AS much cos I know my body temperature usually runs on the high side - I attribute this to my innate gan-jeongness and dehydration.

I only decided to go get tested on 28th May cos my mother wouldn't stop checking my temperature and freak me out so I booked a morning test on 29th. We were pretty confident I would be negative cos my "fever" went away and I didn't feel anything else aside from an itchy throat (something that stuck with me since December 2020, my first close contact experience lol).

30th May (Sunday) passed and nobody called me yet. To be on the safe side, I kept to one corner of the living room and during meals I called first dibs and didn't double dip. 

31st May (Monday) comes and I text the clinic in the morning to ask for my results


I tested positive. 

My CT value were all >20 so I guess I was around the center of the healing curve, leaning towards recovery. All the same, I freaked out and told my office admin, my boss and my friends. Sent my family to BP for swab test to be sure.

 I was feeling pretty sure that they wouldn't be spared from this and I was asking myself where I could've gotten it and I can't believe this is happening why me why now but at the same time I sorta had a feeling I would've gotten it sooner or later lol when I was busy trying to get the vaccine appointment, a voice in my subconscious was like "you're gonna get covid and your appointment will be fucked" so I wasn't thAT disappointed I didn't get it lol
I digress. My parents weren't feeling tip-top cos my mother was complaining about her throat and my dad was coughing more than usual. So I got really really scared I could've caused them this disaster.

But thank the forces of the universe, they all tested negative!!
I then settled into my condition of self isolation and waited for KKM to call me - which they didn't lol I ended up contacting PKD Cheras instead and they got things arranged pretty quick!



So in the end:

  1. I have no idea where I got it from, cos my work colleagues and family tested negative. Likely I got it from the MRT, despite me being careful enough and wearing my mask properly, washing hands, not touching anything lol. The crazy part of me suspects its that spoon from Go Noodles I didn't wash before using but do you get covid from digestion??? Probably not lol
  2. I did not get a gelang. 
    My family did though?? They went today ostensibly to get their second swab but ended up with a pink wristband and new confusion LOL my mom says it was really confusing and crowded there and every body was up in arms, so they couldn't ask anything, just go with the flow.
    By right if their results were out by 31st, 10 days would be on 9th June. Today is the 7th day.
    I Whatsapped PKD about it and the guy said it's weird but to wait for the results. He was like "nanti lepas 3 hari kalau takda orang call, you call balik PKD cheras and tanya result. Kalau negative, bagitau mereka first swab dkt private on 31st, second swab dkt Cheras, then tanya bila boleh potong gelang"
    Although I had no proof whatsover of this phone call, I trust him lol
  3. My discharge appointment is tomorrow!
    I hope it's a discharge!!! I want freedom to roam the fridge again lol
  4. I worked every day during quarantine cos my boss said I "had nothing else to do anyway" lol eventhough I felt fine and fit for work, I still feel a bit pissed at this lol no sensitivity at all
  5. Yes I feel some side effects, ie: when I lie down or when I feel hungry, it gets slightly difficult to breathe. Like your lungs can't get all the air you're breathing in, or you're wearing a really tight bra.

Hope all is well! Fingers crossed their results are negative!
还我自由!身体健康!
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So I've been in this new job for ~2 months now. It's a Chinese company.

So far, my back and neck are dying cos the chairs aren't adjustable so I slouch. For some reason there's no drawers on my desk, so everything I own is on the table top or the stool next to me. I'm not bringing my full desk set yet cos we expect to be moving offices soon, but not sure when lol 

I'll say in comparison to my old place, this place certainly fares better in teamwork and team spirit. But I suppose that's difficult to achieve in a larger company like my last one, where there's literally no time to appreciate every single person.

I wonder sometimes if I made the wrong decision doing this. I sort of miss talking to more people, being more on the move. I now walk an average of 6000 steps a day, in contrast to the 10k I was managing last time. I also miss looking at more packages, rather than just one that I am now. 

Also, they sort of hinted today that I don't really OT.

I was also the butt of the OT jokes back at the old place, where people say my life is good cos I don't OT much lol it sorta sucks cos I know I'm doing my work, and I think I didn't suck at it, considering how they still sometimes call me in to ask stuff lol 

But I think maybe it does mean I don't actually have that much to do lol but when I really think about it, I still don't see what else I could do that would warrant OT-ing every day lol 

I call this toxic work culture. 

Not that everyone who works overtime are bullshitting their bosses; but it doesn't mean people who don't, have it easy at work. Perhaps we're just faster at our jobs lol 


Maybe I need to start advertising how absolutely ~tired I am.


Seriously though, I've seen a lot of people who work really hard when they don't actually have to lol 


I also really need a chiropractor my neck is dying

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Allow me to be self centered for my own blog.

The world truly will not let me rest.
June: boss leaves Malaysia promising me a spot in the podium project.

August: my colleague who is scheduled to leave for the podium project is informed to stay longer in this project longer - of which she promptly lost the spot for said project cos they can't afford to wait.
We call our old boss (he went back to Korea) and I find out my spot has been taken too.
Essentially - I will have no job after this project.

September: While I seethe over the fuckery of August, project manager tells me I'm gonna be included in the org chart for this upcoming project.

October: due to the covid situation, we find out the prospective client cannot finance the new project. Boss tells me my contract will be due end December, while he tries to find me a spot in other ongoing projects.
No news.
Job seeking commences.

November: I get my contract termination letter. Job seeking continues. Boss informs Project A will contact me soon. 
Advertise my contract termination to whoever will listen - gets offer from subcon. Terms are nice.
Went for an interview somewhere else but the terms were meh.
Gets contacted by Project A.
The above all occured within 2 weeks. I am mentally and emotionally exhausted.

December: COVID SCARE that delays all my plans for 2 weeks. Signs offer from subcon during quarantine cos it's not like I have anything else more attractive lined up. 
Goes back to work and tells boss my leave plans. Confirms I will not sign any extension cos I already got an offer somewhere else.
Spends some time in bliss cos the Koreans can't believe I didn't wait for them (sometimes I feel like contracts really are nothing to them lol I can't spend my time in agonizing wait forever)

Now I'm stressed out because:
  1. Covid numbers are rising and therefore it is literally not safe anywhere anymore. I used to be more passive about contracting the disease in the beginning, but after some rational thought reading some tweets, I realize I really don't want my parents to die from this.
  2. If the rumours are true and MCO really is announced next week, it will definitely go longer than 2 weeks. Will I even get paid in February??? They told me it's ok but will it really????? 
  3. Am I even making the right choices?? 
    - If I stayed in my current company, I might have a more stable income. But the future is unclear. They keep saying the prospective project will be signed soon but with the pandemic going on in the background and the finicky client...nothing can be said with what will happen. 
    - If I join the subcon....I will be a subcon lol but their offer is currently higher than what my current place can offer me. And I'll be able to learn stuff from a close knit team.
    But I also have a feeling they're hiring me to be a glorified clerk (ie being a translator)
    Also, these people keep going out!! The project director is meeting his penang friends as we speak!! Penang numbers are no joke too!!!!???? What if there's no MCO and I join them and  (god forbid oMG) then I get another covid scare???????????
  4. This is really vain but my skin condition has been so terrible lately I have 0 confidence when going out now haha even with the mask on I feel disgusting. 
    When I take it off to eat, I feel like everyone's judging me.
  5. I'm a horrible person?? I don't know why I'm like this. Why am I such a bitch sometimes I don't get it. Why do I hate everything? How do I stop?
  6. My period is late?? I'm bloated af everyday now and I haven't been able to wake up at all (I keep sleeping over the noise of my alarm??? This never happens consecutively????)

What is going on? 
When will it end?

I just want the world to fast forward to when it's ok to breathe again.
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 CONTEXT:

It was 4pm, I was at client's office with my teammate and bosses. The consultant walks in, the bosses get a text and tells us they have to go back immediately. I get 50% curious but mostly annoyed. 

10 minutes later, my other colleague at site office texts me saying "shit the office boy tested positive we're doomed"

2 minutes later, client swings in and says "uh...I think this has to be postponed. I just got informed there's a positive case in site"

An hour later we were all sent to Prince Court to get ourselves tested. Thus my 2 hour long panic begins -

where do I go?? Do I go home?? my parents are old?? 

My mother rationalized and says if I am positive, I would've been positive before this day and I should just go home - a rationale I ignored cos I'm dumb.

My colleague (S) instead offers me a room to stay for the night while we wait for our results, which I take cos  my head was still hot from the hysteria.

My results came out negative the next day @ 4pm. I thank my colleague and go home relieved - we're saved! My parents aren't gonna die in Sungai Buloh! 

Went home and took a full body shower, before sitting down for dinner discussing the day's events.

8pm: S calls, crying, and tells me she's tested positive.


AND SO:

The ensuing panic of preparing the front room for me to stay in, while I whimper in a corner, confirming the world truly cannot let me rest without having some sort of reason to be anxious.

I spend the next few days micro-analyzing my interaction with her in that one day. I didn't really spend a lot of time with her prior due to personal reasons, so it could only be:

a) the one lunch (since literally almost two months) that same day with our ex-subcon, or 

b) the juice she made and insisted I drink (I really, really don't quite enjoy juice like this haha)

The crippling anxiety that I could've infected my family too through dinner renders me useless and I lose my appetite for two days. I can't lie down or do anything without the pang of paranoia slapping me across the face - my chest hurts, my throat itches, my body feels hot.

I open instagram and a lot of the friends I follow are out, having good food. I look out my window and the sun is setting. It hits me that life moves on, whether I die or not. I realize that even if I die today, the world truly isn't that affected - the sun still rises, the clouds still move, people still go to work.

I open Youtube/Netflix to watch shows and I am nostalgic over safer times, when we could touch stuff outside and not get paranoid over being infected by a disease (realistically the risk is still there but not as high).

Spammed multiple friend groups (or to anybody who would listen and not judge) with anxiety stickers praying I test negative. I received mostly lukewarm responses of "it'll be okays". Verinia stopped replying at one point cos she got tired of it hahahaha (what kind of friend....)

Cheryl was more empathetic cos she freaks out over shit like this too like me haha *cries*

AFTERMATH:

I tested negative today!

I don't have a fever!

My throat still itches but it's okay! I'm negative!

Suddenly, covid seems like lightyears away from us! I feel immune! I can fly!

Okay let's continue on. I have emails to reply and work starts next week.

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Wow the last I posted was 6 months ago 

Thinking back at how I used to post something every single day, makes me feel so old haha 

don't blog as much anymore cos I just unload my feelings on Whatsapp 

And cos I have so much rage within me (see note: my spirit is a 60 y/o uncle ala Ove from A Man Called Ove), I tend to split it between 4-5 groups...but I can tell people are getting tired of it haha case in point, Verinia told me to get a life and stop dwelling on things so much

Not gonna lie, it hurt a little, but I totally understand why people would feel this way hahaha I know how it feels being on the receiving end of constant nagging about ~annoying things

I wish I had a larger threshold for people's "quirks" (usually it's general idiocy/ laziness) 

I make myself feel better by saying it means I have a more boss attitude for life (shut up), but really I probably just really do need a life.


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Been having drops in my mood recently (usually occurring around my period...) cos all I feel is varying amounts of empty inside. I guess this is what those sad poetry mean when they say you're just a shell - all hollow inside.

I don't know what I'm doing here. Every day I wake up, go to work and then go home. There is literally nothing I can do, or dare to do, cos of the whole covid situation. 

I mean, I can't blame my lack of life on covid, but it certainly isn't helping!!! I'm already anti-social! I'm already cripplingly awkward around people! Ugh


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This morning I went to the sky garden one level down from the site office to menikmati air segar but there were workers lurking around so I felt awkward (workers tend to stare a lot lol it's quite creepy) so I just walked around and U turned back. 

In the short 5 minutes walking, my eyes got a little wet for no reason at all. I just got hit by a sudden wave of feels for nothing.

It was like a culmination of sadness and total nothingness. 

I'm 24 and I have no life.

This is so depressing.


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The people in the office want to know why I don't have a boyfriend

People who know me for longer have probably accepted the fact that I will be the way I am forever


Me?

I don't know lol it's not that I'm strictly against having a partner, I just haven't really developed anything beyond crushes, cos the people I like don't like me, and the people who do, I just cannot bring myself to like lol 

I'm just destined for a life alone at this point hahaha 

It just concerns me cos the people around me are gonna slowly get married off and soon I will truly be alone, cos everybody would be even more busy with their personal family lives to entertain my regular rages lol no one will be there to even send sticker responses to my texts


Maybe I need a hobby? But what?

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Last month, the company realized the project they've been eyeing has been put on hold (agAIN) till the indefinite future (rumor has it, it'll be reopened April 2021, but the insiders I know are being transferred to other departments, so probably not....) 

and so, they've starting sending termination letters out. A whole bunch of people are gonna leave end November/ December... 

My boss told me I would've been let go end November, but he extended it to December.

Two weeks ago, he told me to send him my CV so he can try to land me in another project.

So far? No news yet - typical of this company I'm in lol they literally tell you nothing until the absolute last minute.

Which is why it's really frustrating if I stay - I'll have to endure their shitty management and planning for even longer.

The pros? They have the backup money to pay us our salaries

The cons? I probably won't learn much except subordination lol 

Trying other places now but nothing back yet.... I'm quite concerned.


Please pray for me

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I'm just gonna talk whatever here lol I ain't no writer, I'm not gonna have a cohesive train of thought.
Here are my feelings:
  1. I hate Disney live action remakes - and I'm not 100% prejudiced.
    Aside from the fact that this is an obvious business decision to rake in the bucks at the expense of our childhood nostalgia, and the fact that it is completely unnecessary, there's totally no magic?? It's like they almost completely rely on their CGI team and costuming to make the people look good, but with no character depth?? Some of the characters don't even look good!!

    Also, no offence to Queen B, but her voice totally does not suit Nala's lol she sounds 30 years older than Simba in the film.

    In the comments section of Mulan's trailer, most of the comments were either
    "I teared when he said I am blessed with two daughters" like....that is so not the point of Mulan. OK sure, it's cool she's actually female and yeah, girls can be tough too but the whole plot line of Mulan isn't 100% centered around feminism ok lol the huns are coming to wreck havoc and take over the throne!! She struggles fitting in cos OBviously she's not trained to fight!! Liu Yi Fei looks too girly and pretty to be a person who fooled an entire army into thinking she's actually a man!!!!!!!!!!! What's with Gong Li's character?????? No talking dragons but flying witches are ok??????????????????????? 

    Also?? The dialogue sucks?? You're already making China speak English, you might as well change the dialogue a bit to make it more relatable to your audience right. Maybe it's just my problem, I don't know. Maybe their voices just don't match the dialogue and the feeling is lost.

    Ugh.
  2. People are becoming wayy to sensitive
    Ok, perhaps our ancestors and parents weren't exactly comforting to us when we were kids. I was raised in an uptight household cos my Dad doesn't understand why 5 year olds cry Asians are just generally stricter than the parents we watch on TV. And my grandmother never really noticed me cos I'm not first born or a boy.
    Ok, I agree we should be a bit more empathetic against kids cos they have their problems too and we should be understanding. Ok, racism is bad. Ok, sexism is bad.
    But have we come to a point when people are becoming too sensitive?? It's like if you have said "this girl is bad at sports", keyboard Nazis will fly out and attack you "why don't you use this person instead?!? Why do you have to use the word girl?!?! DoN't yOU KnoW iTs dERogATorY!??!?"
    It's almost impossible to argue with anyone now on the Internet without it becoming a sexist/ racist slur. There's a fine line, and I want to find it.

I'm tired.
Bye
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I'm so accustomed to writing emails I almost started this post with "Dear all," lol

But hey! I just checked the last date of posting and it's been an entire year??? Now that we're stuck in a quarantine, it warrants hauling out my laptop and charger haha still didn't replace the battery cos I can't bear to split with 500 bucks for a new one so I'm running on DC.

Even though I spend 500 bucks on sneakers no problem now #millenialissues

Man, so much happened but it seems like nothing now. I'm still with the same company, still pondering my existence in this world every passing moment.


The end of 2019 was one of the darker moments - I found myself crying in front of the screen when work started based on the sheer thought of doing all this for the next 10??20?? years of my life. Like, is this really what I want to do with the rest of my life??

I blame this mini crisis for my increased caffeine consumption lol I spend about 200 bucks a month on iced coffee cos I can't start work happy without some indulging. Though I try to limit myself to one iced coffee maximum every other day haha

It's not like I hate anybody I work with (although truthfully sometimes they drive me up the wall with their inconsistencies and lack of work ethic);

I think mainly, I'm just really bored with what I'm doing.


I'm not really making a huge difference, nor am I actually growing anymore. Now, I'm just here to finish the job lol and I've always had an issue with finishing anything.

When I first joined this job, I fluctuated between "yeah! I'm gonna finish this project and it's gonna look great on my portfolio! I'm gonna go places!!" and "oh my god what am I doing with my youth"


And okay, in one of my darkest moments of working with the company, I suddenly got the opportunity to go to the head office in Seoul and it was a pretty cool experience. But it makes one question - what next? This is as good as the company is gonna offer me; I have no future in this company cos a) I'm not Korean, b) I don't speak Korean, and c) I'm not really obedient 100% of the time and I don't think I can survive in their culture lol it's so limiting! I want to speak my mind! I want to have opinions!

And okay, so you're gonna tell me to find a new job already and put myself out of this misery.

But truthfully? I'm working for the cash now. As much as we complain about the company, it's not like they treat us like shit lol how many places can match your salary, guarantee a bonus and increment, and feed you so much shit every few months (literally, there's a staff welfare budget lol we get random Haagen Dazs or imported fruit)??? And the people I work with (ok, just a small percentage haha) know their shit and I get to learn new stuff.

But is it time to move on? Broaden my horizons?

Brad Leone - my main crush from the BA test kitchen
I've been watching Bon Appetit videos a lot (even before this quarantine) and like, this is what I envision my life to be! Brainstorming and creating with people like me but not like me (generally, architects tend to be....really pretentious....or I just lack the ~sense~ idk)

At the same time... I can barely mince garlic hahahahahahahaha
And I also hate so many food groups........ I'll probably be a really shit chef on the basis that I dislike so many things and for the things that I like, I'm really particular with how I like them

So really, what is my calling?? I'm not particularly good at anything? I can't finish anything I start cos I get distracted lol I don't know what these articles about Tauruses are on when they say we're finishers cos I generally don't finish anything I start lol except for the ones that can be finished in one day.

Case in point, I'm bored of writing lol

Bye!
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