Salad Days....: May 2008

Penang...

Category: Crap , Vacation , Work By Nisha

Oh god!! Holidays can be so-so-so boring! Especially since there isn’t anything for me to do but sleep, eat, read and watch the DVD’s I bought from Penang (I wasn’t complaining initially but even that is boring now!) its like I have a directionless life. Every morning (erm afternoon or evening) I wake up thinking what to do and so on. At times if I really don’t have anything to do I’ll just sit and stare at the clock thinking how to fast forward it. I’m done reading all Judith Mcnaught’s book as well as all the other historical romance I have, done watching all SRK’s movies for the 100th times, given up doing distorted lamps and so on. So right now, starting from today, I’m gonna find a part time job. At least in that way hopefully my days will go by soon (if my dad allows. He feels that I need bonding time with my family since I was ‘away’ from home for close to 6 years). Except..I NEED STRESS!!! (Yea freak I know :-) ).

Anyway I just got back from Penang so I’ve uploaded the pics here. It was fantastic!! Especially Batu Feringgi. I had fun selecting and buying DVD’s. Dragged everyone there for 3 days in a row. Besides that of course the company was great so the 4 days; I would say were the best days in my holiday so far.

Penang the food paradise:

Ketua polis negara n me :-)

Some funny looking prawn..

opps.. DVD counting...

Clubbing...

Clubbin time!!: in some club which made me look really old since everyone around was 17 or younger :-)

:-0

Caught in act!! Indra dancing!!

ish ish ish.. what hv they done to my baby sis?!

Sight seeing:

While waiting for the 'jolly' ride in Penang Hill..

Up on the hill..

Duta tandas..

Strolling by the Beach:

My fav pic of all..

Last Day..exploring penang our own way:

Makan time..

Where is my food!!?

4th time in in history..

So called kidnapped..

Like I said exploring penang our own way... :-)

P/s~ thanks guys.. for making my hols so memorable.. sob..sob.. gonna miss U all

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"Lunatics".. That’s what they are called Then... And Now..

Category: attics , Dilemma , sad , Work By Nisha

I’m going to Penang tomorrow with the gang and Pinache’s parents. I’m just so excited that I can’t sleep so I’m reading whatsoever that comes into my mind, just to make me sleepy; ex reading boring political stuff. However, instead of making me bored and heavy-eyed, whatever I’m reading now is making me excited and angry! The worst was when I read about how people in 15th century used to treat psychiatric patient, or what was more commonly known as lunatics;

Bethlem Royal Hospital became famous and infamous for the brutal ill-treatment meted out to the mentally ill. In 1675 Bedlam moved to new buildings in Moorfields designed by Robert Hooke, outside the City boundary. In the 18th century people used to go there to see the lunatics. For a penny one could peer into their cells, view the freaks of the "show of Bethlehem" and laugh at their antics, generally of a sexual nature or violent fights. Entry was free on the first Tuesday of the month. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814, there were 96,000 such visits. The lunatics were first called "patients" in 1700, and "curable" and "incurable" wards were opened in 1725-34.

Can u believe that!! People are just so ridiculous and so heartless at that time! It’s not like it doesn’t happen nowadays, though I have to agree not as terrible as it used to be. I still remember when I had my psychiatric visit 2 months back, my groupies were actually laughing at the patients during the counseling session with the doctor. Well hello!! They made more sense than regular people! (I did too :-) but I think most of us were laughing surprised for their knowledge in world politics)

Then there was a time where we had to wait in the outpatient department. I saw many patients walking in and out. Some seem cured and were there just to get their regular check up, but most of them unfortunately could be differentiated with normal healthy person. Though several were obviously enjoying the attention; 1 aunty came with bright pink evening gown with Chinese opera-like make up & foundation (one of the characteristic of a disorder known as manic), a number of them were also awfully depressed and were crying, if not shaking and having robotic movements or drooling and staring deeply at one point all the time.
What caught my attention was a Down syndrome boy of 13 years old. He was one of those who looked fine and was sitting quietly. After some point of time he was looking at my group and started smiling. He was just so lovable that my heart went all out for him. Suddenly his caregiver, or probably maid came and just smacked him for staring at us, which then had stir him up and started acting violently that the nurses had to bind him to the wheelchair. It was just so sad. I mean he might have just been looking at us for no reason at all, and the guardian, being such an *******ass had put him into the hospital! Just hope to god he doesn’t get one of those scary ECT shots. I seriously adored him. But then again there is nothing I can do about it. Sigh… I just wished that along with evolution and the bloody development that has been happening since 15th century came with humanity!

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Pics From the past... :-)

By Nisha

Ok not exactly past but these are the pics from the parties 1 attended: 1 on the nite after my final paper in Rum's Jungle, and 2 in my uncle's bday party :-)

RUM JUNGLE:

Thats all of us in Rum's Jungle~ when the girls just arrived :-)

the first pic: taken when we- the girls just arrived, ("yam Senging"), the one next to it: err.. 3 hours after that with lots more additional yam seng in between :-)

Ok now the individual pics:

My younger and elder sister :-) trust me the red is elder

Can't seem to decide which one :-0 one is hopelessly romantic and superbly nice (indra:-)), one is good looking (Saran), and one is machoman (Kathir) hmm...