Friday, 23rd Jan 2004
We went to my Da Yi's home at Pasir Ris, reaching there at about 10 to 11am. My sister was the one driving.
Jun Hen is the cutest little thing. He's about 1 year old, one of the children of my cousin Hiong's wife, Ah Zheng. Francis fed the boy some bai du (white stomach) fish, which my uncle told me costs $160 per kg at this time of the year! My goodness... My uncle bought 1kg of the fish or more. At that rate, that 1kg of fish cost much more than the usual fish I ate with my wife, cod fish, which costs about $25 per kg. And the boy is apparently very smart. He doesn't like to eat plain rice or porridge, preferring to have some stuff to go with it, such as some fish or meat.
Started gambling with my cousins after lunch. We played blackjack.
At about 8pm, I started feeling quite strange. It's as if a fire has started building in my stomach. No matter how much I ate, I didn't feel full. I thought it was pretty strange. So, I ate and ate. Nevertheless, 20 minutes later, the fire is still there. Something has gone wrong, and I didn't know what, until much later.
As it is, I lost $8 that day on blackjack after the entire day of gambling.
Since my sister and Francis had left early to visit someone else, my cousin Chin and his wife, Sandy gave me a ride to Sengkang. Subsequently, I took bus number 161 to Woodlands and switched to the MRT to reach home at around nearly 12am in the morning.
Saturday, 24th Jan 2004, around 12am
Around 3am, felt that my stomach was quite strange and bloated, and rushed to the toilet, and started vomitting for between 5 to 10 minutes. Much later, I realised that it was the fried oyster that I took shortly before dinner that caused it.
And I started having a cold and sore throat almost at the same time.