Ancient Disease
Well recently, a friend of mine just got married (or rather Registered ...aka married in the eyes of the law)Singapore is a place where people will choose a good and auspicious date for their marriage but because of the hassle they will REGISTER first. Thus on the actual day.. there are some Traditional "ritual" that needs to be carried out. This is pretty standard for all races... may it be Chinese, Malay, Indians..etc.. and I am sure a lot of the Western people that get married also go such. It was the usual, the signing of the papers was carried out in Fort Canning where the R.O.M (Register of Marriage) is located. And then followed by a luncheon.
It was a Weekday thus only the close friends were there for the A.M session. The long luncheon ended at 3pm in which we all went home and have a good afternoon nap (with a Full stomach.... YEAH!!!). In the evening we ended up at Haku Bar (it belongs to one of our friend along Telok Kurau) And it was cool since the place have a 2nd floor which we had to ourselves and a pool table to add. There was a ad-hoc KTV but the sound was not very good. so many spent talking rather than rage the KTV with their roars :D... The pool table was also hogged by some regular and also long time friends.... they were good so those gals that wanted to play was a bit intimidated...rather piss-ed i suppose... all well no harm done anyway. And the groom soon wondered off to get some lovely Pau from Joo Chiat Area..... anyway wanna sell them at their Kopitiam let me know :D
The groom also my long time friend.. known him half my life.. was not feeling too well for the pass few days. Having Feverish conditions and this just totally sucked for him... I left for home as it was pretty late and went o bed. The weekend and I got a call from the Groom that he had contracted Dengue Fever... WTF!?!?!?!? So off he went to Mount Alvernia (nearest Hospital as advised from the GP) DAMN! the medical fees were Hefty...I believe it was just below S$3k for alike 3~4 days stay. and a CRIB (Complete Rest In Bed) written onto the whiteboard next to his bed.
Apparently if he were to have any injury and bleed.. it would not have stopped. Well his blood platelet count was dropping like crazy. Hitting a bottom low of 10K (normal is 150~180k)... so all in all.. it is fatal.
To find out more there is a link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_Fever_(tropical_disease)
In this link......I quote
"Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics, with a geographical spread similar to malaria. Caused by one of four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae, each serotype is sufficiently different that there is no cross-protection and epidemics caused by multiple serotypes (hyperendemicity) can occur. Dengue is transmitted to humans by the mosquito Aedes aegypti (rarely Aedes albopictus)."
After reading this... basket... such an Ancient Disease and there is still no CURE... same goes for Malaria.. and many more Disease that are fatal. Yet we now look at Cancer, HIV..etc. No wonder we still have not found the answer to so many Disease..... Well, life is like this as usual you do not think about it untill it hits you straight in the FACE.
All I can say is I will not be surprised if we all become extinct from a very Ancient Disease....Anyway I have come to the conclusion that I need to not write my blog at meal times... I am hungry again hahahaha.. I seem to be ending my blog hungry :D
Later...:D
