Archive for December 21, 2007

44 kilograms

Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2007 by Lydia

JMHE_074ust wanted to share something ridiculous which I experienced at the Kampung Angkat stay last weekend. I stood on the weighing scale some of my colleagues had used to weigh the villagers, just to see how heavy I was… and I got this absurd number.

44kgs.

Yes! A whooping 44 kilograms, or 97 pounds or 6.9stones. It’s extremely nonsensical that that was how much I weigh, even with my running shoes on!! Believe me, it is.

Yup. This revealed that we had used a completely inaccurate scale to weigh our villagers. They were all recorded WAAAAYY lighter than they actually are. Imagine all the overweight people who missed the mark of being overweight but were instead labelled as normal?

Oh well… I guess that would have made some ladies quite happy.

Insomnia Day 2

Posted in Thoughts on December 21, 2007 by Lydia

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I really don’t like this. It’s 1:42am… and I’m wide awake. So awake I believe I could be up the entire night without much effort. I suppose in some ways this is a good thing. It’s good preparation for the very near future on call nights where I have to be awake until 5am… delivering babies.

I need sleep… but can’t do anything about it. My sleep cycle just won’t begin. Argh!! I feel really foolish staying up like this.

Help!

Clocking out now at 3:00am. Release me from this agony.
(Friend, if you’re reading this, thanks for listening to me in the middle of the night. Really appreciate it)