生活随笔

懒洋洋的下午

白色的落地窗外

 绵绵细雨

交织着

一窗的绿

@home at Cardiff, June 2012

叶叶秋声

摄于Cotswolds, Bourton-on-the-Water @8th Nov 09

树树皆秋色

New Members

We have a few new members in our family recently .

My favorite is this elegant Phalaenopsis Orchid

Next to the butsudan is the Dracaena Marginata,

also known as Madagascar Dragon Tree

Mikado

This unusual small plant, native to the swamps of Brazil,

needs high humidity, so we leave it in the bath room.

Yucca Tip is stationed next to the tv set

Oh, I love this new red throw with white polka dot
It brighten up our living room

This is litte 'Tesco'. He was given the name because we found him

in Tesco supermarket when I was studying in Cambridge.

Tesco is not a new member in the family,

but he migrated to Cardiff this July.

Because me and Woon often sleep quite late, so Tesco can't wait

and he normally doze off before we go to bed, ha ha :P

填写表格

在生活中常常需要填写表格，从参加什么抽奖游戏或活动、报读课程、抵境表格、申请护照、申报所得所税、申请贷款及信用卡等等，现在有许多表格已经电子化了。在你所填写过的表格里，最长最多的有几页？

我们在英国的两年签证今年9月就到期，因此必需再申请新的签证。英国Home Office今年换了新的条例，申请表格跟我们上回申请时的不一样。告诉你文光的表格有57页之多！而我作为dependant，申请表格也长达49页！在这么多页的表格里也包括一些讲解，这是我所填写的表格中最多最长的一次。除了申请表格，单单是给dependant的，另外还有一份长达16页申请说明书。此外，申请费六百多英镑！真是有够贵得！（如果我不是和文光一起申请，比如说我先回新加坡，过后再提出申请，我就得另外再付四百多英镑的申请费！）还有，申请费在交上表格时就得先付。也就是说，即使你的申请不被批准，钱他们还是照收。下次再提出申请时还是得再付同样的申请费。如果我没记错，在新加坡申请签证，是在拿回签证的时候才付费，所以我想如果签证不被批准的话、应该是无需付费的。

再谈吃药

I can't believe it, the infection came back again last night! Iphoned the GP this morning, and they told me that the clinic was fully booked and there is no free time slot that the doctor can see me. But they said they will get a nurse practitioner to phone me back soon. This is the system in UK. You have to register with a GP before you can see the doctor (unless you go to the hospital) and you have to phone the GP for an appointment before you can see the doctor . Not like in Singapore, you can choose to go to which ever clinic you like and you can just go to the clinic if you are sick, and you can even go to two clinics if you like to seek for second opinion.

The nurse practitioner phoned me 10 mins later. She asked me what happened and she asked me to go the clinic to see her at 12.20, so I went. Because I had been taking antibiotic (which apparently does not kill all the bacteria), she is not sure whether she should give me another antibiotic. So she went to consult the doctor, then she came back to tell me that she decided to give me a different type of antibiotic. After she printed the medicine chit, she brought it to the doctor for signature before giving it to me. She said she is not the doctor and she is not authorised to sign the medicine chit. So, I was treated by the nurse but not the doctor. With the medicine chit, I went to a pharmacy nearby to buy the medicine. In UK, the clinics do not sell medicine. They only give you medicine chit and patients have to go to pharmacy to buy medicine themselves.

So far, these are the antibiotics I have taken:

Midecamycin 200mg - 15 cap for 5 days
Augmentin 625mg - 21 tables for 7 days
Macrodantin 50mg - 30 tables for 7 days

I learnt that it is important to keep track what antibiotics I take, so that next time, I can tell the doctor which antibiotics work or do not work for me.

谈吃药

我乖乖地吃了这款抗生素一个星期。念医科的屋友AK说这是很强（也很贵）的抗生素。我飞回英国前吃的抗生素只有250mg，而这款抗生素却有625mg！在英格兰，到药房看医生无需付费，但是医生只给药单，病人去pharmacy拿药时就得付药钱。但是我是在医院拿药，所以无需付费。AK还说这药很强，会同时杀死肠胃里坏的和好的病菌，尤其对老年人不太适合用这款药。

还记得护士把药交给我的时候，我问他这药应该在饭前或饭后吃，他说饭前或饭后都可以。在新加坡，药物上通常会标示药应该是在饭前或饭后服用。如果没有特别标示，我习惯在饭后吃药，总觉得这样药物才不会对胃造成伤害。后来，我看了附在药盒里的information for patients and carers, 才发现原来这药应该是在饭前吃的，这样就能够避免产生腹泻的副作用。我这才知道原来前一天腹泻和吃这药有关。于是我改在饭前吃药，就再没有腹泻的情况出现了。虽然这看起来是小事一桩，但是我觉得医务人员不应该忽略这些讯息。还好，我及时读到有关的讯息，要不然，吃这药一个星期，不就得腹泻一个星期？！还有，我也学习到，吃药应该遵照指示，不应该擅自决定。

病

是因为时差？
是因为睡眠不足？
是因为水土不服？
还是因为天气太坏？
回来才两个星期，就病了两次，
难道真的不能适应这里的天气？
以前在学校教书三年，以及在英国一整年都没有这样病过。
以前即使生病，吃了药躺一两天就没事了，
或许因为年龄的关系吧，
现在表面上看似已经病好了，
但总觉得那里有点不对劲。
看书不三、五页就觉得累了......

Frozen leaves

现在已经是进入冬天了。这是我在英国度过的第二个冬天。今年的冬天似乎比去年来得冷。星期天早上因为要去参加支部教学会，所以起得较早。虽然没有下雪，可是屋外的景物都穿上一层薄薄的霜，在晨光的照耀下，显得格外好看。

记忆中的枫叶

我喜欢枫叶，喜欢它美丽的形状，还带有秋天的凄美。

这几片枫叶是03年到台湾背包旅行时从太鲁阁捡回来的。我喜欢收藏东西，但是过后往往不记得放在哪儿。这几片枫叶是收藏在相簿里的，但是树叶收久会干掉，更久些也许它会破碎。于是我想到了用扫描机把它扫描成jpeg档案收藏起来，效果不错呢。

What a Feast!

Woon went for 2 days 1 night MD training Course over the weekend. Samantha came over to my place yesterday. We chatted and chanted then we went to Tesco to do food shopping. She showed me where to find the Chinese sweet and sour sauce and tou fu. You see Tesco Extra is so big, sometime I can't find things that I want.

After returning from Tesco, we have dinner at my place. Look what we have for our dinner:

Starter: Wild mushroom soup, potatoes salad
Main course: Grill salmon with terayaki sauce
+ Compo meal: BBQ chicken wings, chicken nuggets, potatoes Wedge

+ Sushi handrolls with pork floss & cucumber

我们不是吃得很饱，而是吃得很撑！

This is the first time we made handroll, so must take commemorative photo : )

单车

好多年没有骑单车了。以前在新加坡，只有去到东海岸公园时才有机会骑，那也是很久很久以前的事了。每次骑单车时，我都会想起七、八十年代邓妙华唱的《我骑着一部单车》：

我骑着一部单车啊哈哈要到那个尽头

没有人陪伴我，啊哈我却不寂寞

青山绿水鸟语花香，风光多美好

渡过小桥，越过原野，心中多快乐

这是我最近买的一部单车，约70英镑，以后也可以骑它去上课。

天气好的时候，WG就会骑单车到大学上班。有时我们也到附近的公园骑车，算是一种运动。

虽然这天的太阳相当猛烈，但吹来的风还是非常凉快。尤其在一片绿荫下，更是感觉到阵阵沁心的凉意。

多变

约两个星期前，气温忽然从12度跳到24度，我把又厚又重的棉被折起来，换上较单薄的。L开玩笑说我们没有春天，直接从冬天跳到夏天。昨天气温却急速降到10度，现在又好像是从夏天回到冬天。