Bryan Chung’s Blog

This boy is so cute and talented of course. Even though he does not know what he is singing, his guitar skills is cool! He strumming to the song of “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz.

*Sigh* For the I-do-not-know how many times I sprained my ankles. Yesterday it was another serious one as I landed inwards on my ankle after jumping for the basketball. Previous time it was a badly sprained on my left ankle, now is my right. Anyway both my ankles had bad sprained before. Yesterday I was still able to walk quite normally. But overnight, the pain worsens. Although I do not see a lot of swelling (from the photo below cannot tell much too), there is still a lot of pain. Comparable to the pain I suffered on my left that I decided to go hospital for a check. This time round I am just going to self-medicate.

What I suspect is ligament damage. That I know the doctors will probably give me diclofenac to reduce swelling and paracetamol to reduce pain. For both, I already have the medications. However if is really a bone injury, then is going to just get worst if I do not seek professional medication. I am just waiting to see how it develops as I know normally the worst is yet to come after the first day of injury. And if it is not a bone injury, the recovery should have already begun.

So it seems like I will not be playing basketball for a week or two at least. :(

I am so lost for words! So excited and happy that Cheryl added me back on Facebook! It is so surreal! Since a few weeks ago, I have been trying to find Cheryl again. I searched Google and Facebook and Friendster in every position ways I can but I found no match. I Google “Cheryl Wee”, “Cheryl Wee + Republic Poly” and many other keywords but came up with no match. I really wanted to reconcile with her but all my efforts were futile. Just yesterday I was looking through the photos we took years ago and I did another search but still not found.

Then out of the blue this afternoon, I received a Facebook friend request from her! “Cheryl Wee added you as friend on Facebook…” e-mail pop up and I was shocked! “THIS CAN’T BE REAL!” I thought to myself. Low and behold it was really her! How ironic that for weeks I have been trying to find her and end up she added me on Facebook! She mentioned she was free this afternoon and visited my blog. Hence added me on Facebook. If I knew earlier she visits my blog, I should have just created an “I am looking for Cheryl Wee” blog entry!

Cheryl and I have been friends since I was in secondary school. Although we were not from the same secondary school, I got to know her through my buddy (back then) Daryl. Since then, I have always called her as “Jie” (older sister) although she is younger than me. That is because she has a real life younger called Bryan too. So I thought it would be fun to just have an elder god-sister instead of always playing the elder role to others.

I am really very happy and I am so looking forward to meeting up with her again after years! So many years have passed, now she is already in university while I am still in polytechnic. We have so much to catch up with one another. Here are just few of many photos we took back in those days!

Day after day I read about Haiti’s situation on newspaper after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on 12 January. Even as I am across the other side of the earth, I can sense the desperation in that country. Never have I heard of “Haiti” as a country before. Probably many never heard of them before too. Now this country is internationally known. What saddens me more is how the people in Haiti are reacting to their situation. They feel that there is lack of international aids. They feel that countries are not helping them. While US are sending more military troops to protect the streets, they actually told them to get lost? “What we want is food and shelter not military!” as someone commented on the newspaper. But without the peace, how can looting stop? Without the peace, how to get the trouble makers off the streets? Have they considered that the biggest badest people are out of the collapse prison? And that they are stealing from the poorer too? However, how can I blame them for feeling that way in such times?

I remember newspaper even reporting about how a looter was dropped off by the police. Then that looter was stripped naked, beaten up, thrashed piled onto him and eventually burnt alive. “Come on! That is totally inhuman! Seriously!” What if that looter was that desperate too? With more than 200,000 dead, why add to that number? :(

Anyway my heart really goes out to Haiti and those who lost their lives and to those who are suffering from the aftermath of this disaster of epic proportion. Thank God that I live in a country free of natural disaster (for now). “God bless Haiti!“

Finally after days of her counting day, it is her birthday! Rebecca is a new friend I made since last Sunday when I saw her at the basketball court of my condominium. Actually we have crossed path a few times but never became friends. Until I decided to take the first step to search for her online. Just based on “Rebecca”, I had to do a lot of Google-ling until I narrowed down my search. And from there finally found her! I decided to find her this time round because I played basketball with her friends that day. Ever since Sunday, we have communicated a lot and got off the friendship to a very good start. I think a lot due to the fact that she is a believer in Christ too! We also had our first lunch outing few days ago. I brought her to City Square Mall to have lunch at Saizeriya. She kept the present box closed until today! So I can go ahead and post the photos too.

I knew she like Elmo. She wanted an Elmo hat but I did not find any at Suntec City when Louis and I went there to shop earlier this week. In fact I found it quite hard to find Elmo products after doing a search on the Internet. A lot of Elmo’s products are plush toys. I did not want to buy her plush toy for I know she already has plenty. Hopefully she likes the presents.

“Rebecca! Let this special day of yours be one to remember! Wishing you a very happy birthday! May God blessings favour you all throughout this 2010! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!“