The Irony of Black Outs and Pen lights!

In contrast to yesterday's sluggishness, I woke up briskly at around 630 AM. Since it was a holiday, I was expecting another lazy day. I tried lying back down and sleeping, but my body refused to accept two lazy days in a row. 

I decided to make breakfast, which today is canned tuna and toast. I felt like a walk so I brought my sandwhich out and made rounds in the hospital at 730 AM. 

I then made warm coco (as opposed to the scalding coco of yesterday) and walked to the ER. And the year of the water dragon greeted me - wet with sweat and a dragon-load of patients to see! 

Then by sheer stroke of pure magical misfortunes brownout came and the hospital ran out of diesel. Pure freaking hell! Especially when you have 2 asthma exacerbations, one lung cancer and a heart disease patient in the ER. Water dragon sure aint looking up just yet. 

Diesel was provided by the governor (thank you governor Nicart) and power was restored by 1pm. The only good thing that came after was me eating a plate (small lang) of tuna pasta and 5 matchbox-sized tikoys! Kung Hei Fat Choi!

After clearing the ER, I decided to finish the guidelines I was making for oxygen use in the hospital. I finished around 5 pm. I then got dressed for badminton, which I will play when light comes back on at 6 pm. 

On my way home, I met a good friend who I have not seen in a while. After a lengthy update, we parted ways. First smile of the day. Thank you Jerryver Cinco!

Six PM breezed by, then seven, then eight. Still no light! After a tart message to NGCP in fb, I decided to get out of my badminton attire and eat the remaining pasta from lunch.      

Having left with nothing much to do, I opened my laptop and typed a questionnaire for an upcoming study on pneumonia, which I will be doing. I finished it in no time at all. 

This made me wonder, if it takes the destruction of my entire day's schedule to make a seemingly productive day for me. Hmmm...maybe a Chinese New Year resolution - throw out scheduler! 

As I finish this blog, the whole province is still cloaked in the darkness that is night (fueled by NGCP's miscalculation), I thought how odd...it took a black out to light my pen! 

Sorry but no bangs for the water dragon year's start. At least there is no where to go but up from hereon. So it might still work out just fine!

Hitting the sack or the bar, whichever cradles me first! Ha!

More to come...