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Back to Bangkok

Today finally took the flight back to BKK, been getting bitten by bugs the whole time when we were at MIL house, hardly slept at all so I am really glad to be back to city area. We are now staying at Mercure Bangkok Siam, very impressed with service and the hotel itself, and the location is good as expected, just less than 5 minutes walk to MBK. And there is free and fast WIFI so I can do some blogging. Not sure why I can't post recent photos, when I get home then post. Anyway overall good trip with the pram and all, glad I brought it along.
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MRI So Expensive

That day went for my appointment, the bill was $800 before subsidy, damn shocked, this is what a foreigner would have to pay so lucky for me government pay 50% so I only have to pay $400 of which $300 I paid by Medisave and the rest by cash. SG healthcare really expensive, foreigners who can afford to come here must be very rich. I have a friend's father-in-law come here for checkup he paid $2k+.
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2nd Day in Udon Thani

I finally got an Internet SIM card, it is AIS, the Internet is kind of unstable, sometimes can't connect. Anyway difficult to type, will post more when I go home.
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Counterpain Cream

My wife bought one tube and apply for me, it is even better than the tiger balm ointment, just now I can't even walk properly but after applying, I feel a whole lot better, must keep one tube at home at all times. For lower back pain I think this is the best so far, I tried yoko yoko, tiger balm but their effectiveness is limited.
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Sleeping on Floor with Ti Lam

Since my last back pain , I have been sleeping on the floor with a cheap foam mattress, it is very thin so my back can fully rest on the floor, I can feel my lower back coming into contact with the floor, now still painful but after my back get used to it, it's actually very comfortable. The floor seems to be setting my back into place, my back feels more straightened now but it's a bit painful, it's as if I am not used to my back being straight, I think prior to this I was slouching too much, now that the floor is straightening my back, I need some time to get used to the new posture. I hope sleeping on the floor solves my lower back problem once and for all, now that I think of it, when I was a kid I was sleeping on a wooden bed, also foam mattress, I never had lower back pain, it all started after my mom got me a spring mattress.
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Might Have Found Cause of Back Pain

I think it's my spring mattress, I remember long ago I slept on the cheap kind of "ti lam", as far as I can remember, I never had any such serious back pain or any back pain at all. After that my mom bought me a spring mattress then I started to have this extreme lower back pain. Then after moving into my own house, I also bought a spring mattress and the back pain keeps coming back every few months. Starting is good, but after a while I think the problem is the spring mattress will start to sink more and more due to usage, especially at the lower back area. So just now I tried sleeping on a "ti lam", I can immediately feel the floor supporting my lower back, starting quite painful but after I relaxed (with help of painkillers and muscle relaxant) and took a nap, I woke up feeling much better, my lower back wasn't that painful anymore.
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This Year Bonus and Increment Might Be So-So

Last week I completed my performance review with my boss, he said because last year I was promoted to senior, he has higher expectations of me, one of it is for me to lead and train new staff, kind of expecting him to say this because he put a new staff under me and he expected me to train that guy, but sometimes when I get too busy I simply bo chup and tell him to go find out for himself. Maybe that guy feedback to him, but ok la since I feel a bit responsible because sometimes I can be quite nasty lol. But then that's the way I learned too, last time where got so nice people sit down and teach step by step, wait long long, when I first started in IT, my boss threw me into several difficult situations and expected me to figure it out for myself, today I when think of it, actually all minor issues, but as a newbie it was intimidating, imagine take a long time still cannot fix the problem and the customer fuming and calling my boss to complain lol, damn pressure man. Anyway from
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Back Pain Again!

Wah piang today my back suddenly hurts again, I was sitting down and somebody came to talk to me so I turned around and after that my lower back started to act up again, sigh, but good thing is it doesn't feel like the full power type of back pain where I will have difficulty changing from sitting to standing position, this time maybe 30-40% damage. After that while smoking I talked to this uncle, I told him I kena lower back pain and he said he also kena many times, he said last time he liked to drink soda and nowadays he stopped drinking, he also said posture is very important. I never heard that soda can cause back pain so it's something new for me, I am an avid soda fan, coke, pepsi, mountain dew, especially love a&w. So after reaching home, I quickly google about soda and back pain, there seems to be some relation but most of the info that I got sounds ridiculous, anyway the best thing to do is to try and stop drinking soda and see how it goes, but I think the key
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Changed Money for Thailand Trip

Today I went to Chinatown to change money, I changed at the shop inside CK, rate was 1 SGD to 25.15 THB, total changed $2000 for 50,300 Thai Baht. So plan is to give her mother 14,000 for insurance and spend the rest, I think should be more than enough, if not enough can use my ATM card to withdraw so today I also setup my card to allow overseas withdrawal during the travel period.
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Seen Sports Medicine Specialist at NUH Today

I tore my muscle earlier on and today I finally get to see the specialist, he did some physical examinations and found nothing wrong and I told him everything is fine only when I do push-up then pain, so he held both my arms and asked me to push outwards then he noticed a dent on my right chest, he did some further testing on that area and thinks could be muscle tear, but he thinks it is partial tear and since overall my arm movements seems ok so he don't think it is very serious. I hope no need for surgery. After that he sent me for x-ray, it doesn't tell much, in the end he ordered an MRI and to review after that. He also gave me a letter to give to my unit MO, he said will excuse me from push-ups permanently, wonder if I still need to take IPPT or just excuse push-ups, hope can excuse the IPPT since no money to take. Have booked appointment to see my unit MO. Oh and bill is $60 since I have referral letter from SAF, this includes the x-ray.
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Toto $13.9 Million

According to news this is the largest prize money ever, so I bought $10 just to try my luck. My wife bought $11, both of us were dreaming about what we would do if we win lol. Best of luck to all! Update: Winning numbers are 16, 18 , 20 , 21, 27 , 49, with the additional number of 23. I bought 18 20 27 35 39 40, win back my $10 lol. Wife didn't win anything. We only recently know that 3 winning numbers can win $10, think we threw away a few already, but not so bad since they will donate unclaimed winnings to charity or grants, but actually even if add up all probably don't even have $50, this amount can't change my life lol.
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Girl Dies After Falling from 4th Storey Flat

Source The flat doesn't have window grilles, and the grandmother still left her alone at home, I think 3 year old can walk can run can climb, very dangerous especially when the house don't have window grilles. I think this could have been easily prevented, why not just bring the baby along, if sleeping why not put in pram and bring along. Anyway my house also don't have window grilles, already told my father to look out for lobang, I want to install asap, might as well change all my windows.
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Bee Cheng Hiang Bak Kwa Still Sucks

Yesterday after visiting my parents, my father gave me half kilo of Bee Cheng Hiang Bak Kwa, this was a gift from his friend. So today I tried, wah still as tough and thick as always, and so dry and charred, seems like they don't do any trimming at all, and it is very lacking in flavour, it is like chewing on a piece of wood, I think old people cannot eat, too tough, but they are still the most famous, probably because they have been aggressively expanding in Asia. Today I went to parents house again, this time father opened a new pack, he say brand is Oriental, never heard of this name, but this Bak Kwa is really good, soft, not dry, not charred, and well-flavoured, not famous one taste better than famous one lol. And Bee Cheng Hiang also not cheap, father say 1 kilo is $52, this kind of standard give me free I also don't want, I probably won't touch it again, maybe my wife will eat, but she say best is still the Fragrance brand.
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