Back to reality!

Time really flies! Darling's visit to germany has ended today, with 12noon flight back to KL. I really wish to go back with him so much! I know I can't...

We had a great time at Prague and Vienna. Although we walked till our legs gave way. We depart from OW early in the morning to catch a train to cologne and from cologne airport, fly to Prague. Halfway through, we were forced to stop at a station due to DB's staff strike. The signal of the rail won't change and the train cant go through. I was damn worry and angry. We waited like for an hour and board the next train. Luckily I booked the train with 1 hour stopover at Cologne with original plan to visit the Cologne Dom. When we board the second train, we were also unsure what time we will reach Cologne. That makes me cry. Really cry. We've planned the trip since I'm here and DB were to ruin it! God bless, we reach Cologne main train station at 9.30am, and after taking some pictures of the DOM, we took a train to the airport which only takes 12mins. Phew.

ICE train. looked like in plane

 Cologne Dom

We stayed in Marriot Prague thanks to darling's platinum membership and we were given the access to the executive lounge with free flow of snacks and drinks all day long. Our arrival gift, we chose variety of salmon and a bottle of red wine. It was so yummy! We managed to grab the high tea before we went out to visit around. 

Had our expensive dinner at Kampa, and enjoy the night scene of Prague while walking back to the hotel.

 Our room in Marriott Prague

 Arrival gift for darling platinum membership

 darling at Prague street

 Astronomical clock

At the palace of Prague. There's a huge cathedral behind

Dinner at Kampa

We requested for late check out and on the next morning, we visited other places of Prague and ate the street food outside Palladium, the shopping mall. I've never thought roast pork can be that delicious.

We took a night bus to Vienna and arrived at 5.30am. It was so cold! Lucky for us, our hotel is just next to the Stephenplatz station and the best thing is, the hotel let us to check in at 6.30am in the morning! We manage to catch some sleep before we start our day in Vienna. Vienna is a very different city from Prague. More modern, and less of mystic feel. While visiting the Stephen Dom, we were approach by the concert ticket seller dressed in Mozart's suit and bought 2 tickets for the Mozart & Strauss concert, costs 78euro.

hotel room in vienna

 McD breakfast

 View from rooftop restaurant at our hotel

 Stephen Dom

 Cute vespa

We also tried the famous Figlmuller pork schnitzel and it was really big. Visited the Sisi musuem for the day and saw austrian's demonstration too. After a eventful day, we head to Demel to try their famous cake and head to the concert hall. Felt a bit being cheated as it was not an orchestra but a concert with soprano and ballet. A new experience though. We then head back to the hotel with sore foot and grabbed supper at the McDonald's just opposite our hotel. 

 Super XL Pork Schnitzel

 Concert seller dressed as Mozart to sell ticket!

Demel's Sacher cake

 Soprano at concert

 Supper at McD

The second day, we checked out at 10am and went to check in at Wombat hostel for the second night, which was really close to the train station that we were supposed to take a train back to Germany next day. We went to SchonBrunn and spent the whole afternoon there. Then, went to look for Beethoven's and Mozart's statue to take some photo, as well as all the nice buildings we saw on the way. Had our dinner at a small restaurant which serve superb veal schnitzel and beef soup. I really felt that I was losing my senses because I was too tired. Our room at the hostel was a nice one. Clean and neat. Best of all, the wifi was free, not with a charge like the hotels we stayed. 

schonbrunn

 Yummy veal schnitzel!

 Our room in Wombat hostel, nice and clean one!

And the 3rd day in Vienna, we woke up very early in the morning to catch a 9hour train ride back to OW. Brought darling to Rewe to do some groceries and cooked Bak Kut Teh for dinner :)

I've just came back from the airport, after sending darling off back to KL. T_T

Paris, here I come!

I'm going to Paris tomorrow! However, I have a lot of assignments to do T_T

I am rushing the OB and Leadership assignment, and I have a learning report to submit on 6th Nov. I had another supply chain management assignment to do T_T Next week I am going to miss the class for supply chain  sigh... When I am so free, it's really very free. When I am busy, everything comes all together!

WTF

Updatessss

I've been staying in my room for this whole week, after suffering from palpitation and short of breath. Tuesday morning, I had palpitation and my housemates called the ambulance to send me to the hospital. Took some blood test and ECG. I was put to rest in the ward and I was discharged around 4pm on the same day. Unfortunately, when I took a nap and around 8pm, I had palpitation again and Xue Chen called the ambulance again coz it's gonna be bad if I had that in the mid night. After a round of checking and ECG again, the doctor released me immediately and thanks to Brandon and his friends, Tim and Mark, they send us back to OW.

Brandon moved my mattress to his room and I spent a night there in case I need any help as he doesn't has a class the next day. I was alright for the night. Thursday night, I wasn't really dare to sleep as I am afraid that I have palpitation again. Bingo, and I was right, my heart beat turn fast and I woke up, quite afraid, I woke Xue Chen up to accompany me. She put me to bed and try to pacify me. Friday afternoon, I decided to go to the doctor to do a check up. To my surprise, I met 2 Indonesian Chinese aunties there, felt so warm :)

I did another round of ECG and heart ultra sound, showing everything is alright, and the doctor gave me a nasal spray to unblock my nose. So basically I am healthy :)

I realized it may be my heater as my room is small, and when I close my door and window during night time, I got suffocated. Even when I tilt the window, the air flow was not so good as well. In the end, I need to open my room door to have more air flow if I turn the heater on.

Yesterday night, I did not turn on the heater and I had a good sleep. I guess the heater might be the real cause of my palpitation and short of breath!!! However, there goes my Brussels and Luxemburg trip :( and my money of the hostel and tickets!!!

Aftermath from Holland

3D2N trip to Holland, nearly really brought me to Holland. Maybe I'm just being too paranoid but I won't take any luck for granted.

The story goes on like this, after walking around the red light district, I insist on buying the weed cake as this is what I thought must have when I am in Holland. So, the piece of cake worth 6euro and the seller told me to eat half and wait for 1 hour to see the effect.

We went back to our hostel, I ate 1 bite, and continue with my ribs from lunch, then take a shower, and ate another 2bites of the cake. After that, I went to sleep. Yes, sleep. The stupidest thing that I didn't check with anyone is I can't sleep after eating the cake! And I had my glucophage. Another stupid thing that I should have not done. No medicine with weed cake. It just didn't cross my mind.

So, halfway asleep, I woke up to pee and realize that I'm a bit dizzy. When I tried to lay back, I felt my eyes super dry, then I went to toilet again to wet my eyes. I tried to lay back, suddenly my heart pounding damn fast and I am out of breath. I quickly awake Nicole to get help and I rush to the reception to ask for help. The experienced receptionist deemed that I needed sugar water and provided me with that, and told Nicole to get me some sweets. To me, the situation was in such an emergency, and I kept telling myself to keep breathing. After a few glasses of sugar water and 1 bar of Mars, I get to catch more breath but heart still pound fast. My hands are kind of cramp and crooked, that was really scary. I felt the pain in my heart too, it's like going to burst due to pounding too fast and I was so scared that my heart cannot take that speed. I wanted to vomit and I was brought back to my room's toilet. I drank some water and vomited later. I saw the cake was also being vomited. I kept moving my body to avoid numbness in my limbs. Then the next thing I saw was Nicole vomiting. She didn't take any cake, but I guess after seeing my condition and vomited, she got disgusted and vomited. I still remember I patted her on her back while she was vomiting. I couldn't recall how long I was moving myself in the toilet, when Nicole told me it's almost 5am, I told her to sleep since I am better and I continue to take deep breath.

I do not really dare to sleep as in I am afraid that I may actually die in sleep. Eventually, I fell asleep for few hours. The next morning I was feeling okay, we headed for Zaanse Schans for the windmill village.

I started to had palpitation again at the train station and started to buy chocolates and juice. I can feel that Nicole is a bit pissed as I am kind of troublesome. I can understand... When we reached there, I have to walk slowly so that my heart beat won't go too fast. Each time I went to toilet, I had diarrhea. I guessed my body was trying to expel the toxic. On the way back to the Amsterdam, my condition wasn't better. So I took a rest at a cafe and Nicole just went to have a walk. I've checked with the waitress and she also told me to take sugar and water. Nicole came to the cafe earlier and we went to the central station for Den Haag. We were actually supposed to find the medical centre in the station that the waitress told me but there wasn't any medical centre in the station. I therefore went to a drugstore and the lady there told me there was nothing I can do other than drink lots of water and take some sugar.

We took some time to look for our hostel in Den Haag and I can strongly feel that Nicole was damn pissed off. However, she took a very good care of me by helping me to make my bed, assuring me to sleep and awake to check on me while I awake for toilet. I was awake in the night for 3 times and the 3rd one, I had a lot of sweat and I feel ok after that. The next morning, although still weak, maybe due to I hadn't really eaten any food and rest. I had a lot of chocolates though. I decided to just rest at Den Haag station while Nicole went to walk around the city coz I knew that she wasn't really happy and I might as well just don't further bother her. I walk around the station and read up the travel book from Vivi, decided to take a slow walk to some of the nearer places of interest. And I knew, if I can do some shopping, I can divert my attention of keep tracking my heartbeat. So, I did the Parliament, the art museum, and the shopping passage.

When I got back to the station at the agreed time, Nicole was already there. I guessed that she went there quite early. Our train was cancelled and we had to take another train to Utrecht. Basically, we had 2 hours of free time there but when I suggested to her, she told me I'm the one who can't run and walk fast, so it will be a risk to miss our train. Ouch. In fact, the walk is just 5mins and we can just walk back after that. But since she already said that, I just compromised lor~ Since I'm the one turn the trip to disaster.

I don't really can communicate well with her compare to Vivi. Language problem? Maybe, but I just don't feel the connection and can't find the topic to chat with her. Well, it might be due to age gap,who knows~ Anyway, I still need to thank her and I really owe her for helping me.

I really felt that I nearly lose my life and got it back now. At that point of time, I think of my darling and I wanted to tell him that I love him. And I thought of my insurance, oh no, they will not give any compensation due to drug usage! When I got back and told my sis and darling about it, they still "haha" about it, that really got on my nerves coz I really felt like dying. Anyway, it's my bad that I didn't check properly with the seller what to do after eating the cake.

Warning to potential weed cake eater: Eat bit by bit and DO NOT SLEEP after eating it. Do some activities instead!