Daddy update again

Daddy’s back home and the surgery went fine. A little bit of the tumor could not be removed because it was in a sensitive area. Heard that there was fluid under the skin where the wound was and was removed using a syringe. We’re hoping that the wound would heal fine. Other than that, everything’s good! Hehe. Parents should be returning to Shanghai again a month later.

Daddy update

Parents are back in Singapore for my dad’s medical checkup. And unfortunately there is tumor growth (again) and my parents have scheduled my dad for his 4th brain surgery. Thankfully, according to what my mum told me, the growth is only on the surface (what surface? I have no idea). I think his surgery is on 1st Oct, again I’m not sure whether is it the 1st or the 10th because my mother typed the date out in her email as ‘1Oct’, so it’s like, did she think the ‘O‘ was a zero or what, while looking at her screen. But I shall assume my mother isn’t that blur and that she meant 1st and only forgot to tap the spacebar between the one and the ‘O‘. So anyway, his doctor is concerned with healing of the wound and stuff because this is after all his fourth surgery.

At the moment, the plan is that my parents will return to Shanghai after my dad’s surgery and followup, which would mean that they’ll be in Singapore for about a month or so. We’ll see how things go.

Thanks for all the prayers.

Daddy update

Maybe most of you would have heard about it already. But anyway, my dad has accepted a job offer in Shanghai and he is going back to Shanghai on the 11th of July. And he’ll be back again in September for a checkup.

I’m excited that he is going back to work again! HEHE.

And yes, my mum will be going too.

What it’s like

I called Singapore for the first time since I got to Adelaide today, and my mum was working so she couldn’t talk, called my grandmother’s place and found out that my dad wasn’t around to take my call either. I think my parents have abandoned me!

Anyway, so I spent the past half an hour whining to my grandmother about how the rice here isn’t as fragrant as the Thai rice that we get back in Singapore and how I’m starting to run low on cash to get food and how I don’t get yummy Cantonese-style herbal soups anymore. So she told me to bear with it and she’ll make loads of soup for me when I go back at the end of the year . She also told me that I should learn how to boil them myself, but I don’t think they have the chinese herbs here. And I complained about a whole bunch of other stuff which I can’t remember now.

Short Daddy update

Just got to speak to the parents on the phone! All’s well and Daddy is fine. He just went to see the doctor today and Dad might have to go for radiotherapy. But Dad sounds fine and energetic on the phone, I was whining about how quiet it can be here at Adelaide. Haha, he was busy laughing at me. Tsk. What parents I have.

Why I’m putting on weight

Because I can’t stop eating. GAH.

Mum being dubious about my photography skills and a really happy dad

It was claypot rice, soup, yummy sugarcane juice, char kway tiao and popiah. Totally bloated right now, but the food was good! As you can all see from the huge smile on my dad’s face.

Stir it up!

The mixing of the yummy claypot rice, all my dad did was sit by and talk. Haha.

I’ve finally got out of my hole (& Daddy update 2)

Ok, so recently I’ve holed myself up in almost complete isolation in a bid to finish the Twilight series of books. And, I’m glad to say that I’ve succeeded. I really wanted to update my blog right after I was done with my books, but due to some internet/phone bill issue thing our internet had to be cut off for a couple of days. Gah, just when I decided to tear my eyes away from Edward and Bella for a while.

Anyway, I took about a week or slightly more than a week to complete reading all 4 books (time to buy all four books included as well) of the Twilight series. So I’ve been pretty much immersing myself in the make-believe world of Twilight. The lines written are so sweet, I could feel myself swooning. I’ve been so engrossed that I’d read the books late into the night, as a result, I’ve been appearing at work with horrible dark circles under the eyes. My colleagues were shocked, think I gave them a scare or something. They couldn’t stop commenting. Sigh.

One morning, I found a note on my workstation when I arrived at work.

Daddy update

Daddy is admitting on Saturday and going for his operation on Monday.

You know you’re late for work when…

You see this on your desk:

What I found when I got to my workstation.

just random rants

For those who have been dropping by here every now and then to keep yourself posted about my dad, he is still alive and kicking. And kicking too much probably. Basically he is fine and all is well.

He just came back from a checkup on Monday and the doctors found out that the tumor grew yet again. But the amazing thing is that, he isn’t showing any negative symptoms (thank God)! Which is a good sign and it has left the doctors puzzled. But then again the growing tumor isn’t really that good, I’m not sure what treatment he’ll be going through yet. Either going through a surgery again or chemotherapy (which may or may not work). This will only be decided upon one month later when my dad goes for another scan. Anyway, thanks for all your prayers.

Going on from here are just my rants. Proceed with caution. Heh.