Hope Grandpa gets well

Before I go on to the main topic, let me digress by mentioning abt my wonderful Sunday, my horrid night, and my cousin's present.

Wonderful Sunday

Fantastic is the word to describe it. I had an enriching day and I enjoyed chatting with this lady very much.

Sunday, my weekly family day, is usually boring (oops..). It's often aimless. One may ask, "Since it's so darn aimless, why bother having it?" Well, cos I treasure my family! I love them! So I MUST MUST MUST put in effort to at least be with them for a day. It's been my rule since young, and I don't intend to rid it.

Anyway, Dad was in a good mood, and my parents wanted to bring me and Fred out to do anything we want. I have been recommending this movie, The Story of the Weeping Camel, to them since I came back from UK. I was telling Mum that this movie is interesting, but will not be liked by locals. But should Singapore bring this movie in, I'll bring her to watch it. And..yes! It's showing in our local cinema!

But Fred didn't wanna watch it, cos he thinks it's gonna be boring (which he still claims to be). So we had a little sibling argument over Ladder 49 and that. Of course, Ladder 49 wouldn't be a boring one. It's one of those American disaster film isn't it? And before watching it, you can roughly guess what it'll be like.

Anyway, it's fated that we didn't get to watch Ladder 49 since only the first 2 rows were available, and Dad didn't want such seats. So my recommended movie was the only choice left. As expected, Fred was sulking all the way. Who cares..lol..

Before going for the movie, Dad wanted to pay his friend, Uncle Paul, a visit cos his wife (Aunt Mary) is ill. She had internal bleeding from a peptic ulcer, which caused a mild heart failure.

I enjoyed talking to Aunt Mary. She's a lovely old lady, but mind you, she can turn real nasty if she doesn't like you. She's got lots of medical problems..cancer..diabetes..slipped disc etc. She'll make the perfect patient to take a history from and to do case studies on. She mentioned so much about her past illnesses, and I was deeply interested in what she said. She talked so much about her signs, symptoms, treatments etc. It was great. I managed to do quite a bit of revision through listening and even learnt new stuffs!

That was not all. It was only in the later part of the conversation that she mentioned that she did ballet and is very into performing arts! Oh my!!! BALLET!!! I got extremely excited upon hearing that. She was so excited when she knew I love ballet too, and started taking out all her past albums to show me her ballet photos. They are beautiful. We also started talking about Andrea Bocelli (hope I didn't spell it wrongly), violins, orchestras and musicals. She shared with me the reason why she love the violin and explain to me her view on the violin's beauty. I guess we both have different reasons to violin appreciation, but nevertheless, I enjoyed her company immensely. She was so kind to lend me 3 CDs too...all on violin. I shall burn them and then return them to her soon.

Great! Now I know who to look for to watch all these performances with me. :)

Horrid Night

Last night was terrible. It was so warm, despite the aircon being at full blast. It isn't supposed to be warm since it has been raining for the past days. I got up feeling so irritated. Tossed and turned, trying to find the best position to sleep in, but just couldn't get to sleep. And before I knew it, the alarm went off..argh~~~

Oh ya, I kinda freaked out cos of the sounds of thunder. I am afraid of thunders. The softer ones are ok, but the loud ones really scare me. It was quite loud this morning.

Cousin's Prezzie

Yay! I bought Seraphina's gift. Walked all the way to Forum just to find toys for her. The toys for kids these days are so lousy. And they are NOT cheap manz. Since there isn't much choices around, I just bought her a cooking set. Quite cute. Hope she likes it. It's quite a big set, and I had problems bringing it home, SO she BETTER like it and appreciate my effort..or else....I'll wack her butt.... *grumpy old spinster look*

Grandpa

He's admitted into hospital for the 3rd time. This time, he might be sent for an operation. No one really knows what is going on. I guess only my aunt and his consultant knows, as they are the only ones who's got medical knowledge and have access to his medical notes. Those nurses refuse to let me take a short peek. Shall have to ask my aunt to explain to me about Grandpa's condition.

For the first time in my life, I saw Grandpa's worried look. I can see that he's worried about his operation, because it is risky at his age and he's surviving on only one lung. Somehow, I know he thinks that he might not get out alive. I feel something seeing Grandpa worried. I told him not to say such things..cos..he still has got to see me graduate from university. It's one of his dreams.

After I told him that, I end up feeling worse because of the reaction I got.

As mentioned in my blog quite some time ago, Grandpa thinks highly of me, and feels proud that I will be following my aunt's footsteps soon. But my gap year makes him think otherwise now. No doubt about it. I know he has lost hope in me, and isn't as proud of me as before. Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but I truly think that Grandpa doesn't feel so excited seeing me anymore. It doesn't feel good.... I guess I just have to hide how I feel and bring back my degree. Hopefully, it will please him...

Ok, lost my mood to blog further. I think I've blogged a great deal tonight already. I'm dead tired....shall turn in now.....good night to me..