I am not sure why my level of intelligence seems to ‘fluctuate’ a lot these days. Some days I was super smart and some days (very bad day), I was just being very. very. dumb!

On Saturday, Natasha finally took her cat “Forrest” Ah Pui (fat in Hokkien) to my house. Forrest is such a friendly cat! No matter how hard I stroked his head, belly and ears, he just didn’t react or reject me. Anyway…

5 minutes after Natasha and Forrest left, my left eye started to itch real bad. There was a bump hidden underneath my eyelid and I was totally freaked out. “Oh no, am I allergic to cat??”

So I smsed Natasha, knowing that she had the same allergic reaction to cat fur before.

“Nat! My eye is swollen! What ointment did you use before?”

Ya ya, I know I was dumb. Didn’t understand why I sms-ed instead of calling her. Not because I was cheapskate ok? It just didn’t cross my mind.

She replied:”Oh, I used tiger balm.”

“Huh? You put tiger balm on your eye?”

“No!! On my arm..”

At this point, I thought the last time she had an allergic reaction on her arm instead. So being super “smart”, I thought, may be, it helped if I applied the tiger balm on my eyelid. Just a little..it won’t hurt..

Note: This is a very dangerous stunt which can only be performed by professionals – do not imitate.

Ya..Smart…

You know, it did help to relief the itchiness because……… MY EYELID WAS BURNING IN PAIN!

And being so “smart”, I told myself:”Well, I’ll just hang on to it. I am sure the burning will go away.”

But IT DIDN’T!!

I started to tear. Then I realised that I had to rinse my eyelid.

Finally, my brain started to work and was able to function properly. I ran to my medical box for my beloved Zyrtec pill (anti-histamine). Popped one pill and the swell subsided after 20 mins. GAH!!!

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And just 3 hours ago, she told me that she thought I was asking her what ointment she applied when she came to my house. It was just happened that she applied some tiger balm on her arm and thought I was allergic to it. Sigh….

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