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Good medicine is bitter to the mouth

There is a Chinese proverb “foo houw lurng yerk”, which I translate to as good medicine is bitter to the mouth. Whatever is good to you is difficult to swallow. For the past 2 weeks I’ve been popping vitamins and supplements non stop because many of my coworkers were falling ill one by one. Finally, I fell victim to the flu and I have been sick for the past week and had to take 2 days off work. I’ve been having problems swallowing my flu/cold medication, and now I can’t even swallow my usual supplements any more. It became a very conscious effort.

What is good for you is not the easiest to take in. It would be tough; it would get you frustrated; it would make you put your hands up in resignation. As long as you have faith that it is good for you, you would gulp it down – if you still can’t, you would crush it, shoot it, snort it, liquefy it, or do whatever you can to have your body accept it. The problem comes when you’re not certain it’s good for you.

My New York trip is compromised :(

So, after my Eurotrip plans fell through in the midst of swine flu panic, I've been looking forward to my New York trip. My dad is visiting for my convocation end of June, and we planned on going on a short trip to New York while he's in North America. My dad's pretty fearless when it comes to germs - he went on frequent trips between China and Hong Kong at the height of SARS, sometimes without masks and alcohol wipes or antibacterial gels. Swine flu was no biggie in comparison - it's not even airborne. So I've been checking up on ticket prices every once in a while over here and him in Hong Kong to compare prices. (Apparently there's a difference?) His secretary emailed me to check the prices again, because it's cheaper to book locally, so I called my dad that there's a change in price. Then he tells me that maybe we can wait it out a bit to see how the pandemic situation is going.

I'm a bit disappointed... and bummed. Why does it seem like my grad trip plans are falling through? Stupid H1N1. Worst year to graduate ever. x((((((

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Video from Quaratined man in Hong Kong's MetroPark Hotel

I don't know how I would feel in that situation.

Watch out for the Saran wrap!

The swine flu - I mean H1N1 - is supposed to be under control, but just in case it truly converts to zombism:


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This has got to be ethically wrong!!!!! Parents of the kid - better watch your back when he grows up and finds out.

H1N1 in Hong Kong

Metropark Hotel in Wanchai is sealed off after a Mexican tourist is confirmed to have H1N1

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong confirmed Asia's first case of the new H1N1 flu virus in a Mexican traveler on Friday, prompting authorities to seal off the hotel where the 25-year old man had been staying.

...Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang told reporters the man arrived on a China Eastern flight on Thursday afternoon after a stopover in Shanghai.

He had a fever and went to Ruttonjee Hospital for help on Thursday evening, Tsang said. The Mexican is now in hospital in a stable condition.

... "He didn't leave the hotel (except to go to hospital) because he was feeling sick," Health Minister York Chow told a news conference.

... The affluent financial hub on the south coast of China is widely seen as one of the best-prepared Asian cities to deal with the new H1N1 flu virus, given its experience in handling sporadic outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu, as well as SARS in 2003 which killed 299 people. >>

What is with Hong Kong's luck with animal flus? I'm glad that HK has learned from H5N1 and acclaimed to be the most experienced with how to deal with the situation. I hope this really would control the situation.
My heart still sinks everytime I remember how SARS killed so many people. Even though I was in such proximity to the whole ordeal, my memory of it is very vauge. Classes were suspended, but I don't even remember what I did during that time. My dad would still travel to and from China and completely wanted to shove my sister off when she urged him to wear masks and use sanitizer gels.

Why do I have such terrible memory? It seems like if I don't write it down, nothng is worth remembering. Yet I remember so much trivial info -- my semantic memory (aka encyclopedic memory) is much stronger than my episodic memory (aka autobigraphical memory). Suppression much?

ZOMG! Swine flu = Zombies!!!!!

In the latest developments:

• The Netherlands confirms its first case of zombie swine flu, in a three-year-old boy recently returned from Mexico. After passing away early this morning, he rose from the dead and lunged at his mother.

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