Month: July 2008
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Dengue
I’m now on the upside of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Last Saturday I had a bad fever that didn’t let me do much other than sleep. Because I had heard about a few people in the area having dengue, I looked up the symptoms. One of the symptoms is a rash. Because I didn’t have…
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Translating for Honey
Last night my neighbor asked me to help his girlfriend translate something from English to Thai. It was an article on osteoporosis. I quite frankly don’t know many of the Thai words used to talk about osteoporosis. As I was slowly crawling my way through the first paragraph of the three page article, my neighbor…
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2s and 7s
Tomorrow morning I have a parent teacher meeting. Knowing that their parents were going to see their grades, a number of students asked if they could turn in homework late. I said yes. After school I got busy grading, they got busy doing homework. Around 8:00pm after most of the students had left, I noticed…