fallen sick

i should have known better before gulping down an orange juice.

from what i observed so far, it was only in very humid places, i.e., singapore, that if i were to drink an orange juice, within a couple of days, i will develop a really dry throat, which leads to pain in the joints, and subsequently, to a cold.

during my 4 month stay in naperville earlier this year, i tried couple of orange juices and that did not seem to happen anymore, so i was really happy.

until couple of days ago.

i guess it depends on exactly what type of orange juice i drink. but whatever it is, it seems like i have some sort of an allergy with orange juice. this sucks.

or, it could be that i got the cold that my brother has been having for the past few days. but the orange juice is too coincidental. almost everytime i get the cold, i can trace it back to an orange juice.

sigh, i thought that here, i could drink it, i guess i gotta stay away from them for good.

at least it happened during the holidays, and not during the semester. the pain in the joints would have fucked me over since i have to walk a lot around campus. plus no work for now, so i can just sleep, rest, recover, and maybe cram in couple of movies along the way.

i watched three movies last night, 'fargo' a very interesting movie. (you just get so sick of the minnesotan 'yeah?' by the end of the movie) i finally watched 'the shawshank redemption' a favorite for many of my delta sig friends and a relatively unknown movie for many that sits pretty at the no. 3 throne of the top 250 all time list in IMDB. i agree, it was a good movie with some fine acting, but i couldnt shrug the feeling that the whole thing came to me as just another average movie that is better than others. i guess its after couple of viewings and really following the events that you appreciate the movie, like how my delta sig friends do.

and then i watched 'american history x.' boy, that was really extreme, a white power fanatic movie. obviously, i disagreed with a lot of things these guys mentioned along the way, about how they never did anything to make their own lives better before blaming the non-white races and that 90% of the followers dont even know the true cause for their neo-nazi movement, and treats it as a cult, and i was surprised that i was spot on on those two points later in the movie. but it was a really strong movie and i guess this needs to be shown to most high school kids for history lesson. thought provocative.

i tried to go to sleep, but i have such bad headache that i cant. this sucks. maybe i should try to fall asleep watching a bad movie instead. nah, no matter how bad it is, im the kind of person that must watch it til the end. might as well watch a good one then.