It was my first visit to a Chinese doctor,
and I tell u,
the temptation to address him as "dai fu" was extremely strong.

It was just like in the ancient kungfu shows,
there was no exaggeration at all.

None.

"Can u rest ur hand here?" Says the dai fu, as he gently places a mini cushion in front of me.

I did as told.

Just like in the shows,
he rolled up the sleeve of his right hand with his left,
and stretched it out to rest three fingers on my wrist.

I was so tempted to ask him if my tai er was ok.

I really wondered, wat he could tell from my pulse.

Hello? I'm coughing my lungs out,
and I really don't think u can tell wat's wrong with my lungs by counting my heartbeats!!!!!

I mean, the most u can tell me is how many calories I'm burning up!

Anyway, the miracle worker, who is damn inefficient,
(when I say inefficient, I do mean inefficient)
prescribed me with 4 different types of tablets and a gigantic bottle of cough syrup.

The cough syrup is the most disgusting thing I've tasted in my entire life by the way.

Oh speaking about the cough syrup,
I really need to mention about this stall in serangoon gardens chomp chomp.

Yummy house of beancurd.

I was eating with some of my gal pals(here on known as makan gang) at chomp chomp.
And after I broke my promise to the doc to stay away from his "banned" food,
I decided to take the gazillion of medicine that he prescribed.

It was a bad idea.

I forgot that the water that I brought from IRAS
was almost diminished by the shiok shiok stingray and gong gong.
I made do with wat's left of the water and took the pills (It was no mean feat ok?With 1 mouthful of water, I actually managed to down 6 pills. And hello? They were not small ones.).
Which means, I have no water left for the superduperyuckydisgusting cough syrup.

And the stupid man told me to take one marking.

Hello? Do u know how much is one marking?

TWO freakin large spoonfuls can!!!!!

Of cos I grimaced.
Of cos my face was contorted.
Of cos I stuck out my tongue.

Of cos I complained.

Then out came this really nice lady from

YUMMY HOUSE OF BEANCURD

"Do u want water? Aunty take water for u lah, take medicine cannot don't drink water one.The water is we boil ourself one"

I was stunned.

And we actually ordered beancurd from her rival stall.

She really offered me the lukewarm water,
and rejected my offer to pay her back.

Heck, she even rejected my offer to wash the cup for her!

She is so damn nice lah!!!

And I tell u,
from now onwards,
I promise!!I somba!!!
That I will only order beancurd from her when I go chomp chomp.

Somehow, that glass of water tastes especially warm and sweet :)