insane in the membrane, insane in the brain!
Mike and I played badminton last Saturday then I took a quick shower before we dashed to Gateway to watch the 3:35PM screening of "Superman Returns". It was a good movie although there were a couple times when it felt a bit slow. There were also times when I was a bit weirded out because Superman didn't look real. He looked like he was a CGI animation or he was made of wax. Is it just me or did some of you feel that way as well? Mike claims this was because his face was so perfect but, well, I'm not sure. It was just weird.
We hung out after the movie, waiting for my sister and her friends so I could hitch a ride home with her. We were sitting outside Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and my head was starting to throb and I was starting to sniffle too so Mike bought me a cup of hot tea. I thought maybe I just got cold inside the cinema, especially since my hair was still wet. It got worse though, and I started shivering uncontrollably even if we were sitting outside the airconditioned area and I was wearing my jacket. My neck and my lower back ached horribly. I could barely move and I couldn't stand up straight. When I got home, I took temperature and it was at 39 degrees C (102.2 degrees F). No wonder I felt terrible. I don't even remember when last had a fever. Sunday was spent sleeping and recuperating. I hardly ate anything because I didn't have an appetite.
Yesterday, I felt well enough to go to school though I still had a really terrible cold. I didn't feel like I was up to driving so I asked Mike to pick me up. My thesis adviser texted me at around 10:30AM to say "Funding for your trip is ready. Work hard and don't disappoint. Good luck!"
I'm getting funding for my trip to Shanghai!
When am I leaving for Shanghai? Next Wednesday, July 19. Talk about short notice. I thought I wouldn't get any funding for my trip because I hadn't gotten any response from all those requests for funding that I sent out over the summer. I'm not done with my project yet and I hadn't prepared anything for the trip. I am going to be completely stressed until the day before I leave.
Yesterday, I asked the contest organizers to email me an invitation letter. I wrote an endorsement letter for my visa application and had our department chairman sign (they would have asked me to write the letter if I had asked one from them, so I just beat then to it). I had to go home after that because I still wasn't feeling too well.
Today, I applied for my Chinese VISA and I asked my dad to go to the Bureau of Immigration to get me a clearance. Due to some stupid mix-up with DOST, I only had my scholarship officially terminated this year so I'm still on the hold-departure list in immigration. I need to get that fixed. I'm going to pick up my passport + Chinese VISA and my immigration clearance on Friday. Right now, I need to call a travel agency and book my flight and beg to let me pay for it on Monday, instead of the usual three days before the flight because I won't be getting my money until Wednesday.
Tomorrow, I'm staying the night at the lab to finish my project.
I still have to make a big presentation poster and my presentation slides. How am I going to cram all that? Usually, I thrive on this kind of stress when you have to do one thing after another, but I'm still sick and I'm not recovering because I'm abusing my body when I need to be resting. It's oh-so-crazy.
I'm excited about the trip but I'm stressed because there's still so much to do and a little bit sad because I won't be here for our 2-year-6-months anniversary. I'll be leaving on the 19th and I'll be back on the 23rd (our anniversary's on the 22nd) so I'll just make it up to him after.
We're watching "Pirates of the Carribean 2" on Sunday at that cinema in Gateway where they have Lazy Boy chairs and unlimited popcorn and drinks. Yaay. I plan to make that day, at least, a stress-free one.
We hung out after the movie, waiting for my sister and her friends so I could hitch a ride home with her. We were sitting outside Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and my head was starting to throb and I was starting to sniffle too so Mike bought me a cup of hot tea. I thought maybe I just got cold inside the cinema, especially since my hair was still wet. It got worse though, and I started shivering uncontrollably even if we were sitting outside the airconditioned area and I was wearing my jacket. My neck and my lower back ached horribly. I could barely move and I couldn't stand up straight. When I got home, I took temperature and it was at 39 degrees C (102.2 degrees F). No wonder I felt terrible. I don't even remember when last had a fever. Sunday was spent sleeping and recuperating. I hardly ate anything because I didn't have an appetite.
Yesterday, I felt well enough to go to school though I still had a really terrible cold. I didn't feel like I was up to driving so I asked Mike to pick me up. My thesis adviser texted me at around 10:30AM to say "Funding for your trip is ready. Work hard and don't disappoint. Good luck!"
I'm getting funding for my trip to Shanghai!
When am I leaving for Shanghai? Next Wednesday, July 19. Talk about short notice. I thought I wouldn't get any funding for my trip because I hadn't gotten any response from all those requests for funding that I sent out over the summer. I'm not done with my project yet and I hadn't prepared anything for the trip. I am going to be completely stressed until the day before I leave.
Yesterday, I asked the contest organizers to email me an invitation letter. I wrote an endorsement letter for my visa application and had our department chairman sign (they would have asked me to write the letter if I had asked one from them, so I just beat then to it). I had to go home after that because I still wasn't feeling too well.
Today, I applied for my Chinese VISA and I asked my dad to go to the Bureau of Immigration to get me a clearance. Due to some stupid mix-up with DOST, I only had my scholarship officially terminated this year so I'm still on the hold-departure list in immigration. I need to get that fixed. I'm going to pick up my passport + Chinese VISA and my immigration clearance on Friday. Right now, I need to call a travel agency and book my flight and beg to let me pay for it on Monday, instead of the usual three days before the flight because I won't be getting my money until Wednesday.
Tomorrow, I'm staying the night at the lab to finish my project.
I still have to make a big presentation poster and my presentation slides. How am I going to cram all that? Usually, I thrive on this kind of stress when you have to do one thing after another, but I'm still sick and I'm not recovering because I'm abusing my body when I need to be resting. It's oh-so-crazy.
I'm excited about the trip but I'm stressed because there's still so much to do and a little bit sad because I won't be here for our 2-year-6-months anniversary. I'll be leaving on the 19th and I'll be back on the 23rd (our anniversary's on the 22nd) so I'll just make it up to him after.
We're watching "Pirates of the Carribean 2" on Sunday at that cinema in Gateway where they have Lazy Boy chairs and unlimited popcorn and drinks. Yaay. I plan to make that day, at least, a stress-free one.