The Diary of How I Survived 2 Weeks Confinement - Days 8 & 9

okay i just found out that an old friend from primary school had read my previous diary entries and suddenly i feel all embarrassed and exposed. oh, well. it's my fault for writing so openly about my experience of being away from alfiyan while he's doing his confinement. :(

but i guess i won't stop now, since i was already halfway through. nobody else has to read it though! this is a warning! hahaha. i don't want you to sue me because your computer short-circuited from all the barf that came after reading my entries.

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Day 8

somehow after i got back from my aunt's place the night before i started itching. initially i thought it was just the work of pesky mosquitoes, but when i was still up, scratching so many body parts at 2am in the morning, it occurred to me that the mosquitoes weren't to blame at all - my allergies were acting up again!

so i'm sure it comes as no surprise to you that that was the second night in a row that i barely had a wink of sleep, but not without trying. i applied liberal amounts of tiger balm all over my body hoping the heat sensation would distract me from the itch but that worked for an hour at most. i went to the doctor once i knew they were already open, and received an injection for my allergies.

that put me to sleep for at least three hours, so yay that was half my day without alfiyan gone! :)

when i woke up i started feeling all sad again so i logged onto msn looking for victims. lucky for me, an old friend from andalus was online and we arranged to hang out at about 5pm. although we met for barely a couple of hours (only two hours because the effects of the injection was starting to wear off which meant the rashes had come back), that was enough to have endorphins flowing in my bloodstream again! we talked about quite a number of things, which made me feel tons better.

i canceled tuition because of the allergies.

alfiyan called at night as usual. the same thing that has been happening for the previous nights happened again, but that doesn't matter because it's all good now. alfiyan's the best boyfriend-who's-in-ns that i could ever ask for, really.

after some initial distress because rashes had broke out EVERYWHERE, including on my face, i slept soundly for the first time since alfiyan had booked in, thanks to antiallergy medication. :)

Day 9

A GREAT DAY.

alfiyan called me SO MANY TIMES, and he was so sweet every single time. it was such a pleasant surprise, because i was getting used to the sporadic phone calls that i had received for the past eight days or so.

at first alfiyan suggested that i don't go out shopping like i had planned to, since my rashes hadn't gone away completely at about 5am. but they did by the time i woke up at 10am, so yay!

i met anusha at orchard at about 2.30pm (she was late!) and we went off in search of things to buy. unfortunately for me, i didn't find many things that i really liked or that were worth parting my money for so i only ended up with one top from f21. anusha, however, bought soooo many things i almost felt jealous! hahah. i had lots of fun, thanks to anusha's company and alfiyan's calls and smses.

but oh! alfiyan's hp almost got confiscated, though, because apparently they aren't supposed to make any calls during training hours although they are having free time. i was extremely worried that alfiyan would get into serious trouble, but thank god it was just a warning. phew! from now on he has to be more careful when calling me in the day, i guess.

at night i had tuition. i think i make the lousiest malay tutor EVER because i have to look up the dictionary for practically every other malay word. -_-'' and there was this big hoo-ha at my student's house when nobody knew what a certain peribahasa meant. SO PAISEH.

alfiyan called at about 830pm when i was only half an hour into the tuition session, saying he was already free for the night. :) and so that was the reason why i took a cab home so that i could talk to him as soon as possible. we didn't argue at all that night.

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okay back to my old friend from primary school. as embarrassed as i am that he had read my entries (also since he's an officer), i am rather touched by his gestures, too. on his blog, he presented what both sides in a relationship are experiencing during the ns period, and that sort of enlightened me a bit. oh and he posted this on his blog:

i wonder, if that last part is true, how else can a boyfriend NOT be routine in ns? after all, he is in a military environment where schedules must be adhered to.

anyway. it's nice when friends are there for you during tough periods like these. sweet, thoughtful smses that i never expected to receive never fail to cheer me up during my loneliest moments. :)

thanks everyone!

and since i'm in a rather good mood, here are some overdue photos:




i love my boyfriend!