From 14th to 16th of April, my girl friend and I went to Korea for vacation.
It was only a three days trip and kinda busy all the time but pretty good one I think.
What was good was that we met up with friends from Canada.
I mean they are originally Korean but were schoolmates at my school in Canada.
We've known each other since then, though each of us already took off for own countries, not anymore in Canada.
Well, I'm goint to write down here in my journal what we did, where we went and what experiences we had during the trip.
Last night, my girl friend got sick, still now though.
It seems not cold or flu apparently
because she doesn't cough and have a fever, just feels not good.
The beginning symptom was a headache that was what she first told me
when she came home from work.
Immediately I told her eat some food and brought some medicine for her, tylenols I've got from friends.
She got that and laid on bed right away.
An half hour later, she seemed to be getting well, so that
we had dinner and watched TV shows as usual.
And I noticed that she fell asleep while watching because ...not the sound of her snoring,
I just know it when she gets in sleep.

Well, I thought everything would be fine at that moment.
She would wake up and act like all this was nothing in the morning.
But things went wrong.
At middle night, suddenly she leaped out the bed and told me to get her a glass of water,
saying sickness was even worse and she might throw up.
I rushed into the kitchen and I did exactly what she said,
grabbing a glass and pouring water into it, and gave it to her.
This time looked different.
A symptom she was saying now was nausea, not a headache.
I never saw her sick like this.

Next day, which is today, 6th, my day off.
I took her to see the doctor, and as a result, she was diagnosed that she would need some infusion at a clinic,
At this point, I didn't know the detail why she needs it because I heard it from one of nurses working there,
not from her. They said it would take an hour to be done.
One of nurses told me that my girlfriend was saying I could go home,
so that I decided to back home and an hour later come back here.
When an hour passed, I headed for the clinic again to pick her up.
As she came out of a consulting room, she gave me a glare as though she had some kind of bad news,
kind of threatening me.
She whispered that an illness she got was fucking Flu.
But in her case, she is almost recovered from that, the doctor said,
which is not quite understandable to me.
Because I've never heard of that there is a person who got away with the Flu
without any harm.
Always high fever, unstoppable coughing, nasal congestion, severe dizzy,
those are what you would get when the flu comes to you.
So does she.
She told me that the docotor says there are some of this people with strong physical energy,
and they could have a potential to defeat or protect from flu. She could be one of them.

"Awesome, but for me out of that group of people, having you at home is fucking frightening me."
Thursday, April 5th, 2012

I woke up at 9:30 today, which was rare to me.
On my days off, I usually sleep in until at noon.
Since I had fallen asleep early last night, it happaned to me obviously.
Well, this morning somehow I felt really good.

I used to wake up around 10am on my days off and do what I want,
using the precious time efficiently.
A long time ago, when I had worked for a real estate company,
I had only had a day off a week,
so that I had to use the time of my days off for any kinds of things like shopping,
hanging out with friends, and going for a drive.
It had been busy but become normal to me, kinda habit.

But with my current job, I get two days off a week now.
Plus, I am away from my local town so I don't see my friends often as I did before.
What I do on my days off in these days are to study at a cafe or Macdonalds
and visit an English cafe or go shopping downtown.
That is it.
I could use my days off whatever I want, which is really good.
But thinking back to the time I used to wake up early, getting up in an early morning
allows me to use time with efficiency.
Now I realize I think it would lead me to make my life valuable.
The more I could focus on study, the more I could get benefits from it.
It makes me feel good as well.
What's more, it would resolve my current issues, insomnia.
Not that I can't sleep a whole night, just having a difficulty at getting to sleep.
I'm sure that this symptom has been raised since the form of work changed to shifts,
involving day shifts, middle shifts, and night shifts.

To live with happiness and to be successful,
I should change the time of waking myself up on holidays to more early.
Although I've decided yesterday two things to restart, here is another one.
Well, let's make my life very valuable and enjoyable!