remember i said i was having a games night? we ended up just chatting till almost 1:30am…and so i woke up pretty late and was basically just really tired the entire day. didn’t do much except chilling and doomscrolling.
i however showered four times though, because of allergies, godammit. i slept really late too because of the allergies and had to distract myself (with YouTube).
Fifty Shades was on the 10th place today.
bottom right: Duolingo asking me some really hard questions
hari keduabelas (idek if this is the correct spelling)
why are there so many insects in this room??? i have committed at least 5 murders today on ants (ant-icide?).
i rushed some tasks for the university project and had a meeting too. that is easily the most productive thing ive done today.
according to my rough estimations, i would need about 4 more bottles of water to survive if i were being discharged tomorrow around noon. they gave me 10 so i’m thinking of doing a drinking game with water. im watching Sexify later with my partner per Teleparty, maybe every time they say the word “sex” or imply something sexual??
ive also been starting to pack as if im really gonna go home tomorrow (it’s supposed to be till Sunday), it’s not like i unpacked a lot but im really looking forward to leaving this Allergy Dungeon filled with crawling and flying insects! i actually brought a bunch of scrap paper too but i only used like 10% of it hahahahhaa.
apparently my dad’s been spending his MCO (Movement Control Order; basically a lockdown) deep-cleaning my room hahahah, so im looking forward to going home!
Fifty Shades is not on the charts anymore!
bottom left: ordered chicken rice from Outside again! ; bottom left: ready for the drinking game!
PS: another two ant-icides happened while writing this.
i spent day nine in a pretty lethargic state throughout the day…
hari kesembilan
i had a university project meeting in the afternoon. i was still stuck with a thermodynamics problem. at night i rewarded myself for being a lazy twat to chicken rice, after a week of vegetarian meals.
the tops: really horrible meals. worst ones in the quarantine so far. ; bottom left: this was a GREAT meal and it was still mildly warm when i got it!; bottom right: #SnackOfTheDay
hari kesepuluh
a swab test is done on the 10th day of quarantine and there was a knock at about 7:30am and i thought i was late for it! but no…it was just breakfast. nevertheless i popped out of bed and had breakfast and did some studying, mixed with Netflix here and there. im watching Cuckoo and it’s actually weirdly hilarious and hilariously weird.
was summoned at about 11:30am to do the PCR test and i waited at the hallway for a few moments before i was joined by another 6 quarantine buddies and together with the POC we took the lift. though it was really short, it felt great to be able to put on shoes and see some people! after they verified my payment status, i had to go to another section to get my nostril pricked. it was different from the one that i did in Germany, the nurse or whoever she is kept going deeper and deeper into my right nostril then she kept saying “sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry…” as i was like: *cough* *cough cough* *cough cough cough* *COUGH* and my right eye was tearing up. however at the end of the ordeal i still assured her, while half-coughing and with tears, that “it’s okay.”
this in total took about 20 minutes, from when i was first called to being back in my quarantine space again. i also saw two guys, with whom i briefly chatted with when we arrived 10 days ago; we locked eyes and nodded and waved, without even a squeak. pretty weird how it was as if we thought that we weren’t allowed to speak.
today the registration for the AstraZeneca vaccination opens to younger people at states with the highest cases (mine). i am gonna get mine in Germany so i was helping a friend but the website pretty much jammed. and then i tried refreshing it and it wouldn’t even bring me to the registration page anymore. since i was really free, i pretty much stalked the Malaysians that i follow on Insta to see that everyone had the same problem ahahahhahaa. there are so many jokes on Twitter about it so my day was made. someone also called it AstraJenaka, “jenaka” meaning “joke” in Malaysian hahahahaha. which is why i spent quite some time on Twitter and Instagram today, witnessing how everyone is dissing the Malaysian government. i took a nap too.
i have a little games night with some friends later, this time with people in the same timezone. quite looking forward to it since i haven’t spoken to them for a long time too.
oh and i submitted my thermodynamics homework.
wow it took me 10 days to finally order bubble tea!
i just realised that i miss eating warm, or even, hot food. temperature-wise. today is a holiday in Germany, as such i act like im on holiday too. the Ministry of Health gave me more antihistamines to treat my allergies.
supposed to have a meeting with my university project group but only two of us showed(out of four) and we haven’t talked in a long time (3 weeks; which is pretty long for close friends eh!!!) so we ended up catching up but i did manage to do some literature reading after that.
i just realised that i forgot to snap the breakfast and lunch today lollllll, but for breakfast: bread, butter/jam, soy milk, baked beans, hash brown. lunch: pasta with vegetables and salad. they were pretty good.
at night i called a friend i haven’t spoken to for a longggg time. happy day!
i basically had very horrible sleep because of…well i have a few theories. one, im having very horrible skin issues, it itches like crazy and even the meds don’t help fml. two, i was watching Dix Pour Cent on Netflix and i just really wanted to finish it, so i did, in five days, all four seasons with 6 eps each, each episodes averaging a 55 minutes, so i spent at least a whole day in my past five days here watching this series, insane!!!! on top of that i spent at least an hour on Brooklyn 99 too…now you know what happens in quarantine…
hari keempat
i slept a total of 4.5 hours, broken into a 2 hour sleep and 2.5 hour nap, to me, nap is what happens during the day after you officially woke up.
i now no longer remember what i did but it was a holiday in Germany so i was really glad that there were no classes (not like i attend them anyway). i only remember feeling like a zombie the entire day. had to do a homework which has to be turned in on fridays by 8 am GERMAN time, which is 2pm MALAYSIAN time ahahahha so i gave up trying, because i was a zombie. zombies don’t have brains, right? or do they eat brains? i have no idea.
oh i also finished reading a very fascinating book about true crime. i spent some time reading up on some of the crimes mentioned too.
top left: mihun!! finally! a little too salty but not bad. top right: so glad i started liking brinjals (aka eggplants/aubergines) since going to Germany because they serve it like, at least once a day. bottom left: dinner was pretty disappointing and i forgot to snap a picture when i first got it and i regretted not ordering dinner from Outside though i planned to. bottom right: this is part of breakfast and i thought they were grapes at first but hey, they are olives! fancyyyyyyyy but olives mostly suck….
hari kelima
the Ministry of Health stood me up!!!! they were supposed to come!!! they told me that!!! i was on standby mode the entire day for nothing!!!!
my 13L of water supply was drying up pretty quickly so i requested for more water and got 12L delivered. according to my calculations, this wouldn’t last me till the end of the quarantine but if they sent me another box, i would be left with too much water…
attended a tutorial hosted by a good friend and at night a meeting for the university project. slightly more productive day but the most productive part is finishing Dix Pour Cent vroom vroom.
bottom right: ordered my favourite beverage!!!new water supply! along with the receipt of payment of the quarantine fees…had a tiny heart attack thinking that 12 litres of water costs over 2k MYR….
wow i haven’t written in ages, so what better to do when stuck in quarantine?? well actually there is a myriad of other less tedious options than keeping an online diary…
due to a mandatory 14day quarantine, im currently temporarily residing in a hotel at Kuala Lumpur, among multiple skyscrapers. if i make a little effort by turning my neck an awful lot of degrees, i can faintly see the world’s tallest twin towers, both of them even! i should take a picture during the day when the weather is good.
let’s see if i can update this daily.
hari pertama
i decided to start this just because…i need more content on the blog hahaha. i actually arrived yesterday at around 5pm but today is the first official day. i slept at about 10pm and was confident that i would not suffer jetlag until i woke up at about 1:20am and i was like: f***. then i slept and woke up again at 2:32am and i was really like: f***ing hell. and i tried to sleep again until breakfast was served at around 8am, at which point i gave up trying. i was reading a little of two books, texting friends in Germany, who are 6 hours behind me, made an Instagram Reel, even called a friend…to still be awake.
i spent quite a lot of time on social media today but i did manage to study a little. i spent about 4 hours to place my order at the only approved supermarket by the quarantine station and at the time of writing, my soft drinks and snacks aren’t there yet!!!! and we are only allowed one external order per day!!! dammit that means i wouldn’t be able to order anything tomorrow and i was planning to order either chicken rice or bubble tea (yes, this is a very important issue in quarantine that requires delicate planning). [Update: my order came!! they are pictured below.]
after lunch i felt that my brain is shutting down so i went to lie on the bed…to wake up almost 4 hours later and i missed an online meeting for a university project…urgk. but i attended the second one(yes, we have two meetings in one day and a total of three in a week).
i requested for an extra towel and got three, well im not sure what i wanna do with the extra two now since i only need one towel to be a makeshift exercise mat….maybe i should just be more hygienic and change towels after a few days. i don’t even know how often should a person change its towel…okay maybe that’s why i have skin problems sometimes…another mystery solved and it’s just the first day!
Netflix Malaysia is honestly so much better than Netflix Germany but i suspect that it’s due to the strict German copyrights law and whatever. well sometimes it benefits the society when you care less. i found Dix Pour Cent, Attack on Titans, the 7th season of Brooklyn 99 (the 6th was just released in Germany a few months ago, and it was available on flight and i was so elated i lost sleep because i thought i wouldn’t be able to watch it for a long time and lo and behold, i have 2 weeks of quarantine to watch all seven seasons), Happiest Season (this is only available for purchase in Germany!! and i paid the price) …..ahhhhhhhhhh amazing!
started with top left, then top right, then bottom left (pls remember this convention cos i ain’t repeating myself again), and finally bottom right: a form that only has the question “how are you?” i chanted: yay i finally got to use this high-end fridge! then i found out it’s called a wine-chiller. okay. if you tilt this image about 45º clockwise, on your left is a fancy granola with a very local twist that im testing for the first time ever; on the right is what it says it is.
hari kedua
i was wondering if i have 4hour sleep cycles now because i slept at around 12:30am and woke up at about 4:30am feeling very itchy…so i took a long hot shower (not good for the skin but oh it feels so good, and also i don’t have to care about electricity costs here).
then i actually studied a little and after a while i had a headache but it took me till about 8am to fall asleep again. around 09:12 came a few knocks and i ignored it, thinking it was just food that was delivered. but noooooo, it was two nurses in full PPE suit coming to treat my wound! i felt the same as in German medical care because i struggled to find words in Malaysian…so they had to remove the crust that has formed on my elbow due to pus due to infection (?) im actually not sure. the ordeal (for them, because it’s hard as hell to use the plastic tweezers) took about 35 minutes with the both of them working simultaneously, which wasn’t that bad considering their estimation of two hours xD they practically yelped whenever a huge piece came out at once and when it was over. i just tried to entertain them with my broken Malaysian.
and then i had breakfast. studied a little. read a little. then lunch and took a 2 hour nap in the afternoon (pretty odd how i felt so lethargic at that time, same as yesterday; i hope this wouldn’t persist). then i opened a dressing kit to treat my wound but then apparently i was supposed to do them on Thursday…oops…wasted…
i had to send another reminder about vegetarian meals and although they double confirmed with me that i would be having Outside Food for dinner, they still sent me a meal (my first vegetarian meal here) so i ate 1.5 dinners today. also i requested for new trash bags and they also delivered 4 biohazard bags, on top of the one that we receive daily…like…what are we supposed to put in it…i think if you chopped me up i’d fit into only two….
this is how big it is
also coded a very basic magic-8 program in Python:
bottom right: breakfasts come with a beverage, it was soy milk yesterday and chrysanthemum tea today, which i absolutely missed!my grandma gave up trying to send me fruits but managed to send me dinner thank you Ministry of Health!
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