Believe!

The last 2 weeks have been tough for me. Last week, flew back from New York on Wednesday. Found out that my son fell ill while in school on Monday Feb 13. And bizarrely, for the past 2 weeks, he has not been well.

It was strange. Monday last week fell sick, Tuesday still feverish, Wed started to get better, then Wed nite started getting feverish again. Thursday still down with fever, Friday started to get better, Sat attended an open house, then that nite fell ill again!

Then this week, I noticed something strange... he started developing a cough that was bad during the day, no fever during the day, but at nite, he would complain of being tired. Then when he sleeps, his temperature would rise around midnite! This went on Sat/ Sun/ Mon/ Tues this week! Wed I gave him some "leong char" and his temperature came around 2am instead. Then on Thursday, my mother in law suggested, maybe he "kena kotor" or "hit some dirty things" (to translate it crudely).

So I went over to the prayer shop, talked to the woman there, and she asked me what date he fell ill. When I said Feb 13, she pulled up the "Tong Su" (the chinese almanac) and she asked "your son, in the middle of the nite, does he suddenly have a fever, and his stomach is burning hot?" My mouth dropped down to the ground man! That was the exact thing.

So I took a whole bunch of items... candles, jossticks, tea, rice, fruit, some chinese paper, had to pray in a certain direction, and that nite, my son slept slightly better, his temperature only came at 6am. Then last nite, smooth!

Now, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that tonite will be a "clear nite". But I don't know man.. a man of science like me... believes!