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Friday, August 31, 2007

August , a slOOw month - j0n

yes, today is the last day of August 2007. and i reckon
it will be the only entry for this month.
should be more if we gotten to kart at Sepang, but we
never had a chance to have a taste of it. a shame.
the shame is not on us though, as we traveled over 1 hour
from our hotel in KL to the track. only when we arrived
we gathered the guy who run the rental kart is not operating
that day... and this is after i called him and inquire on his
availability only a week ago!
SHAME on U, whoever u are!!

if u have recollect, i had a neck strain, sprain or basically a injury
not too long ago. i recovered from it going on the trip. already
thinking and planning the days i want to go and test my kart
at PJ.

then disaster Stuck again! football game... then chronic back
strain and very likely herniated disc too! damn damn damn!
who says lightning will not strike twice...

this injury is bad. on the scale of 1-10, 10 been a very bad injury
i will have to rate it as 9.5. on the Saturday itself, when i first got
the pain, i had problem climbing the stairs to my place which is
on the second storey.
following day, waking up and getting off the bed took me like 5-10
mins.
the back feel wasted. it was painful (10) and standing up from the
bedside required both of my thigh to bring up my body. it was a
traumatic experience again. btw, i had such experience once in 2000.
the next few days had me in bed rest. had to. barely can walk proper.

everything we took for granted, like bending down while we brush
teeth, picking up something after we dropped it, or simply walking
became a chore to me. a tiring chore. a painful chore.

for treatment, i went to a chinese sinseh to massage my back,
and get it realign. it helps. then i also went to another chinese
doc who does acupuncture. his method is to draw the bruised
blood from the injured area, so that the 'bad blood' will not be
acting on the nerves which create the pain. it helps. a week later,
getting up from bed is natural. sunday, i went swimming. and it
helps too. cos by the time i got up i feel the back, though weak,
but stretched and relaxed.

at present, i am about 60-70% there. can walk better without
having someone glancing at me. driving, especially clutching in,
no longer bring a grimace across my face. but i had to be careful.
not to rush back into anything extreme.. and that also means
not bracing myself for a sneeze haha
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Turkish F1 Grand Prix
Massa won. seems like schumi tutoring helps..
It was not as boring as the press might had put it.
but then since i was lying on the bed the whole day, that might
be the only excitement i got. hahaha
with only 5 races left, and only 16 points differences between
the top 4 drivers the season will indeed climax at its closing...
will Ferrari (kimi or massa) prevail or will the Silver Arrows
(alonso or hamilton) fires all the way to the top.
it will be interesting final 5 races. very interesting indeed.