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09 Jun 2010 1 Comment

by Ubiquityin Reality bites, Sprechen sie Deutsch? Tags: Aargau, Luzern, Switzerland, woes

I’ve not been at my best lately and it seem to happen quite often these days. It’s mostly the usual bouts of missing my family (especially my mom), being alone and the changes that my body is going through. Since the big move, I’ve had 2 major breakdown. Poor Fred having to witness me at my lowest.

Life is fine. I couldn’t ask for more. I got everything to be contented for. A cosy roof over my head, a responsible husband who come straight home after work and take very good care of me. I’m not complaining. So what else is missing?

I guess knowing that I can’t fall back to the familiarity aches me.

My woes aside, remember me mentioning about my skin condition in a previous post? Well it’s not getting better. But it’s not getting bad either. It’s just there. Dark. Scarred. Like a sore thumb. To make matters worse for me, I got dry scalp. They’re so dry that I began to lose more hair than usual. I’ve used Head & Shoulders thinking that my problem is dandruff but it didn’t help. I’ve tried those gentle shampoos for babies, still the same. Then, I switch to another ridiculously pricey shampoo which is supposed to ‘Heal & Soothe’ but it didn’t heal. Yeah okay, it’s soothed but I’m still losing hair and clogging the plughole! So after months of misery, I’ve finally made an appointment with the dermatologist. Now I really can’t wait to get some professional treatment.

Looking at the brighter side, I have shed a kilo from the smoothie-for-lunch diet. Not bad huh? The Swiss immigration authorities have also extended the dateline for my permit application. Big relief for me since Singapore is taking too long to process the required documents. And that means… I can now look forward to South of France at the end of this month! Yay!

Speaking of Singapore, I can’t help thinking about the Swiss man charged in court for vandalism. Click here for more info. My heart goes out to the poor guy. There’s no way he can escape the Singapore law. The Michael Fay incident should’ve made him think twice about vandalising the train but I guess he simply didn’t know. On the other hand, I think that the graffiti wasn’t such a bad idea after all. It certainly gives some color to the boring looking trains in Singapore.

But of course, Singapore does not tolerate law-breakers. It’ll tarnish the squeaky clean image of the country! If Olivier Fricker or even Michael Fay had been let off with just a warning, it’ll be the start of a pandemonium of vandals. There will be graffitis everywhere! There will be no control! Anyway, vandalism is punishable by up to three years’ jail or a maximum fine of S$2,000, plus three to eight strokes of the cane in Singapore. Well, God bless you Olivier!

Wrapping things up, I’ll leave you with some photos from the last weekend…