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During my train ride this morning, a lady sitting beside me is engrossed in reading a hardback.  I don't know what is the title, only manage to take down these 2 passages :

"Hi" I say without really looking up.

"Hello" He says, hovering over my right shoulder, "What are you reading about?"

Seems that I got nothing better to do ha .....

The past 2 weeks I was not in any good mood to read, only fighting hard to peep and glance through some light essays and short stories on and off here and there, as I was in real pain suffering from tooth nerve infection  (aka root canal infection)  and couldn't sleep well.  Had undergone a round of endodontic treatment last Saturday, and now waiting for a second treatment this coming weekend.  I just hope that everything goes according to plan.  The treatment fee of SGD600 is really bitting on me..... I can buy a lot more books with this sum. Errr .....

Amidst my pains, another problem was that my incredible didn't go to school for the past whole week.  Both my hubby and I weren't aware that he had missed classes from Tuesday onwards until his form teacher called me out-of-the-blue on Thursday late afternoon. When asked, he just said that he wasn't feeling well - bleeding nose on Tue, stomach-ache on Wed, nausea and fever on the subsequent days, which were undoubtedly suspicious. I repeatedly reminded him that he must ask me before he could call in sick.  He still didn't attend his classes for another 2 days this week and lied to me, which made me very angry and disappointed, so I temporarily cancelled off the subscription of Starhub's Kids channel as penalty.  After much coax last night, we finally squeezed out some information ..... apparently, his school-mates refused to play hide-and-seek with him on that particular Monday without any reason, he was mentally hurt, making him not wanting to go to school which will have to face his school-mates, so and so forth.  What can I say ? Nowadays, kids are hyper-sensitive, man.  Without any obvious solution right now, I have no choice but to personally bring him to school 3 hours earlier before I go to work for the time being, and have requested his form teacher to keep an eye as well, hoping that he will eventually realize that it's no big deal.  Your friends don't always play with you, right ?