I had a sudden outbreak of rashes after a run on tuesday. it was such a grotesque transformation or shall i say misfiguration that more than several people were stunned beyond words upon coming across me. I belive for a moment i was the new Medusa. aptly M. back to the pt of the rashes, i was truly despondent that it could have been due to the prawns that i had for dinner. No prawns = no to many foods = a truly hum drum existence for me. truly. and i was pretty dismayed that it could have been due to my own perspiration. not that i'd miss torturing myself but that means no IPPT incentives = min $2000 for 10 ICTs...and the possibility of downgrading:)

Hence, with unwavering determination(okay, slightly) i decided to have fried hokkien mee at the canteen for supper on wednesday. kindly teddy and jianan donated 2 prawns each so that makes a grand total of 6 tantalising crustaceans. thankfully 3 hrs later, i had yet to transmogrify into "the thing" or my OC who came a-visiting would have had a most visible shock of his life. and mz said he would slap me if he saw me if i had transformed during the night. No tight slaps means a prawn for dinner today. :)

After putting off running on wednesday(i slept in to skip SOC and coy run only to be arrowed to clean the veh shed...), i decided to test the perspiration theory today by running around the neighbourhood. No weird tingling, stinging sensations, no misshapen lumps trying to break free of my epidermis to gasp for air. That's a good sign. Half-way through the static i was fatigued beyond believe and still no lumps:) The session concluded with me trying to walk back home in good shape. So the perspiration theory has been...proven wrong. Which was kind of weird since the stinging got worse that night when i rubbed my temples with the beads of excreta rolling down my cheeks in the ambulance that fateful night...

This brings me to conclude that it could have been a mix of many things: dissolved gases, POL from the Ultra servicing when i ran past the veh shed, other weird things in the dinner that night, or simply a case of bed bugs and dirty laundry / bedlinen. Whatever the case, im glad that it's not tasty shrimps nor slimy excreta that has caused the abrupt case of acute urticaria http://www.allergyhospital.co.uk/urticaria.htm: Exercising after eating certain foods such as wheat, celery and shellfish might provoke delayed urticaria now i know). hopefully it's a once-off thing.

need to send in my resume to MFA for a temp position. how wonderful when the recruiter said that," ...it'll not be unlike army." FOOYI didnt reply to my mail so i guess it's ok to go ahead?