On job & Dengue

I'm finally blogging again :D

Realised I forgot to blog on an interesting story, that is the process before I got my current job. Haha I took a cab down to the interview venue on that day and the cabbie was asking me what am I going there for etc. So I told him casually that I was heading for an interview. Outta nowhere he asked me if I believed in Jesus. I was like huh.... Oh I was from a Christian school.... Then he kept on asking if I believed and if I did, he can pray for me. So I was like Okie..... He started his prayer, asking me to repeat after him line after line. It was ok for the first few lines... but he kept going on.... until for like 5-7min.....so practically I was repeating after him for the whole journey.... And lastly, he told me if I believed then his prayer will work and that I'll have to go to church if God really showed mercy. I haven been to the church yet, I thought I should at least go one day to thank God :D. The nice cabbie gave me a booklet on his church and most importantly, he only asked for 4 bucks when the cab fare was actually 6plus. He told me money didn't matter, as long as I believed. Haha

I think Heaven likes to play jokes on people. I was asked to go down for an interview by an established firm, IC*N (cannot disclose the full name lah haha) few days before I started work. I told them I'll be on a 3 mth temp assignment and they told me they'll get back to me if they needed someone after 3mths. It probably means gone case cause they needed someone immediately. I didn't lie, in fact my current job is a 3mth temp to perm position. Then today my agent called me up, to go down for a 2nd interview at G*K, another big established firm. I was kinda lost, cos I had to work on the day they proposed for an interview. I told my agent to require for a reschedule. Then after I called home and told my mum about it, I decided to go ahead with the interview, and called my agent back. Luckily she couldn't get hold of the person in charge. Haha so I shall fake that I'm on MC cos anyway I don't have to produce the medical certificate since I can't claim while I'm still on probation haha. Anyways just go to try try lor.... see how... cos my current coy's benefits(salary aside) are rather lousy.

I'm pretty worried that I'll be infected with dengue. Cos my neighbour's stupid maid failed to discard some water holding vessel. And when she removed the lid, many mosquitoes flew out...She even wanted to "recycle" the water and use it to water the plants!!! My house has been frequented by mosquitoes. My bro and I got bitten!!! Ahhh.... with the dengue endemic, it's hard not to feel freaky. So I shall hereby share some dengue knowledge haha there are 4 strains(variants) of dengue and each person can only be infected with dengue for up to 4 times in his enitre life, cos you'll be immuned to that very strain everytime you are infected. Oh but that is you can survive FOUR infections. Cos you usually die on the second infection, as it would very likely cause heamorrhagic fever. Or if you are infected by 2 strains at a time. Dengue is mainly spread by 2 types of Aedes mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. They are called the vectors. Both have different feeding and breeding behaviour, but they usually bite during late afternoon and evening. I can't remember which is which but I remember one type likes clean water while the other likes dirty water. Since A. aegypti is more the well-known one, I think it is the one that thrives in dirty water based on the dengue education. And one is rather small so it requires many bites since its feeding is small everytime, therefore infecting many human host. My prof has told me that in recent years, dengue is not usually contracted at home, but outside home, contrary to the government's effort to clean out homes and to drain any water vessels at home. Homes are clean, but it's usually those sewage, gutters, drains, construction sites that are contaminated. And fogging doesn't help, because by the time the dengue patient is identified, the incubation period of the virus in the mosquito and other infected human is already over. The mosquito would have flown to other places and found new human host. But dengue identification kit has improved the identification process tremendously. Dengue fever actually share similar symptoms like flu. But it is like serious flu, with greater agony and magnitude and with rapid onset of symptoms. Unlike flu where you'll slowly get runny nose etc. Can go and read up more on your own if you are interested haha. Wah this is alot of information already! lol. I love studying viruses and bacteria, I miss school!!

Oh btw, if you all had read TNP, it says that both chop-victims-up murderers share the same birthday.... April 16... freaky.... Any one with the same birth date around?...