I'm still slowly recovering from COVID symptoms with the main killer being the total loss smell and taste. You can't taste anything you eat or drink, not even smell perfume sprayed directly at you! Although it feels very strange, it's a really great chance to lose weight. Once recovered, I need to resume gym and cardio straightaway as I can feel my strength and fitness quickly withering away.
As of midnight last night, the Victorian rules for COVID-positive cases have changed i.e. the isolation requirement has been reduced from 10 to 7 days, which means that I'm now out of isolation, 2 days after Ision. I'm still not feeling fully together so I'm definitely not venturing out of home other than to buy groceries. The nastily-hot and draining weather these few days doesn't help either (today is 39ºC!).
The handover meeting for my next work hitch has been postponed for a few days as I'm not 100% well-enough for work yet (my manager has just approved the medical leave application). My departure for PNG has also been delayed by a week. Apparently, people who have recovered but are still shedding the virus (resulting in a positive COVID test) have been denied boarding flights for PNG as it's up to the discretion of the check-in staff (crazy, I know). Hence, the company's latest travel advice is to get both a negative pre-departure PCR test and an all-clear-from-COVID medical certificate (I guess in case I test positive for some reason at the Port Moresby airport). This means that my flight to PNG will be delayed by a week at a time until I get a negative PCR test i.e. there's a chance that I won't ever get to PNG this hitch (shedding can persist like for 80 days!), not that I'm complaining.
I was told the all-clear certificate is no longer issued by the Department of Health and can only be provided by a GP i.e. the you-are-now-released-from-isolation SMS I got last night is the "certificate". For fear that PNG wouldn't recognise something this unofficial, I've booked an appointment with a GP next week to get an official letter. THIS IS ALL SO PAINFUL!
Last but not least, here's my musical sharing for this month. It's a cover of my idol Faye Wong's "传奇" when I was busking with my sister in Singapore's Chinatown before COVID changed the world (other posts in this busking series are here: 1 2). Even though this rendition is a little pitchy at certain points, the important thing is I had great fun doing it. The adrenaline rush I get from performing is like nothing else in this world and I so wish there were a drug that can replicate that sensation. I look forward to a future existence when I can do this again.
Oh, I almost forgot. Happy New Year everyone! I sincerely hope 2022 doesn't suck as much as 2021!!!
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