Food that you cannot eat when having chicken pox
Image via WikipediaYou should stay away from seafood as they have high levels of toxicity that is not very good for the body in it’s frail state. Certain kinds of fish are good, i.e. white Promfret or Threadfin, etc. You should also stay away from chicken as it also contains toxic which will cause you to itch even more. Other items to stay away from includes deep fried food, as it is too “heaty” for the body, dark coloured items, including soy sauce (dark or otherwise), oyster sauce, fish sauce, mushroom sauce … you get the drift … coffee, milo, dark tea … chocolates … dark coloured food substances once in the body will quickly darken the healing skin of the scars. These might be old wives’ tales, but who’s going to prove them wrong? Like the 10 commandments, you should stick to them or it would be live to regret when that huge scar across your forehead becomes a deeper shade of black than the obscure mole growing from the back of your ear.
Hence, having be abstaining from so much for more than a week, I sorely miss my daily cuppa of coffee, chocolates, potato chips, fried chicken wings, food with greater and more flavourful taste. Someone said you needed to abstain for 6 months … that someone must be a monk or nun … Ideally, I should be chomping down my usual within 2 weeks to a a max of 1 month time.
My auntie’s holding a BBQ this Sat, pending my being able to attend. Even if I’m no longer infectious, what’s the point if I can’t gorge on the chicken wings or the crab or the sting ray? =( Sighs! I go to see the doc again on Thurs, he will them pronounce a clean bill or otherwise.
Who passed me Chicken Pox?
Sometimes things goes against your greatest of intentions.
I had been meaning to avoid Chicken Pox ever since I realized that I did not get it as a child. I had a vaccination at 20 just to make sure I did not get it again. When my brother caught it a month ago, I refused to meet him for fear of having it spread to me.
Finally, with no cause in sight, I caught the virus.
I initially thought it was a bad bad bad outbreak, probably due to being too heaty - eating too much curried food, sleeping late, fried food and even milo dinosaur! Well, it appears that I had more than just an out break. The doc looked at me and shone his torch light at my forehead then exclaimed: you have chicken pox! I asked if I could go to SGH for my medical appt and he exclaimed again. How to go like that, after you infect everyone at the hospital?
Oh well!
I’ll be out of action for 10 days … and will be back to see him then to see if all has cleared.
ad tech singapore
My first ad tech event ever … my first experience with Digital Marketing in all it’s magnitude and glory!
The event was great thus far. Attended various sessions and 2 of them struck me alot.
- The Virtual world
- Creative Showcase - Effective campaigns, how and why they work
The Virtual world had speakers from Second Life, Sulake (Hobbo Hotels), Twinity, all different types of virtual worlds. The topics centered around how these virtual worlds were like and who their audiences are. How brands and advertisers should position themselves in virtual worlds, how they might do so in conjunction with integrated marketing campaigns, and also how to measure engagement level of the audience with the brands. It’s a huge area of the digital space to explore and I’m sure as the Virtual Worlds mature and more people are engaged in them in a meaningful way (exponential growth), we can look at Virtual Worlds becoming more mainstream. Brands and advertizers would then have more incentive to advertise in them.I also liked the final keynote by various Creative Directors. I especially liked the presentation from Dirk Eschenbacher, who was ECD and Managing Partner at Tribal DDB based in China. He showcased one of his recent McDonalds Campaign - 我喜欢中国赢！- which was a massive campaign that worked tremendously. It was led with a digital campaign and viral in nature.China as a market had always fascinated me. How the millions of people feel so strongly for their nation while as individual competition amongst each other is huge and they all are dedicated and determined to be better than the other. Rules in China changes rapidly and what works today might not work the next. Working and living in China is like standing on the edge of a cliff. You ever know which way the wind can change (and when you will truly be safe). The other challenge of being in China is the lack of intellectual property (IP) protection. Hence, ideas are rapidly copied and by nature of being in digital, ideas and concepts are even more easily copied.Tomorrow is the final day of the conference. Hope to get more interesting insights from the speakers and the people I meet.
Temple and Kungfu Panda
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Been “offblog” for a couple of days.
Recently, I went to watch a local theatre production - Temple - with my brother. It was part of the Singapore Arts Festival, a production of Cake Production. This was the 2nd performance I watched in the Arts Fest. I have to admit that this is the first year that I am actually seeing more than 1 production in the festival. Most years, the festival just goes pass me. The show was very rapid and droning. It was a different take on the reflection of society. It borders on being good, but lacks something to make it excellent.
Over the weekend, finally went to have lunch with my grand parents and the old time place - Hai San Chicken Rice. That place, we ate since I was little and it’s surprisingly still there, undisturbed by the changing times. The food remains good!
After lunch, I caught the long-awaited Kung fu Panda. The movie was EXCELLENT!
The animation was marvelous, the details was meticulously presented, the accuracy of Chinese style of legend was there, the Extreme comic relief of the hilarious Panda was definitely the essence of the show. Occasionally, I wonder if the show is correlation to China as a nation versus other countries. Whatever politics, it was THE most enjoyable show I had watched this year!
等待
最近心情很浮躁，总觉得有点郁闷。
我们周围的人的性格是我们无法控制的，只能够抱着宽大的心态互相谦让。那如果处境是非常偏向一边的话，那您就必须容忍。俗话说：忍一时，风平浪静，海过天空。
我正在等待着我希望能够实现的愿望。如这一次不达到目标也不气馁。将来的前程是无限的，只要有激情，有恒心，有志向，我想信什么梦想都可以成真。
Inside Steve’s Brain
Been eyeing this book - Inside Steve’s Brain, by Leander Kahney (author of The Cult of Mac) - both at Borders and Kinokuniya for a couple of times, but never got down to getting it. I think I have something against Hard Cover books. They tend to be way more expensive than their Soft Cover counterparts and it becomes a huge deterrence for me.
Thankfully, I spotted this book on my colleague’s desk, Kevin, and quickly ask if I could borrow it. I did the same when I saw another of my colleague with the book “Confessions of an Advertising Man” by David Ogilvy and Sir Alan Parker
Something in the air has changed … it is a different direction … and sense for me to pursue.
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