Wednesday, January 31, 2007

My 'Cottony' Brain

Met a new friend last week and this affable chap was regaling us with his experiences at work and also telling us about his hobbies and social activities and all. This fellow holds a full-time ‘official’ day job that calls for long and sometimes odd hours, a job that requires him to deal with customers with some odd-balls thrown in between and to travel out of office as when required. Besides, he holds 2 other part-time jobs and he also finds time to maintain an active and happening blog. Writes for Pay Per Post too. Wuuah, he has so much on his plate and listening to him talk, I also felt tired already. How does he manage all this? Either his days have 72 hours or he has excellent time-management skills. Or he doesn’t sleep. I asked and he said he gets by with only about 3-4 hours sleep a night and can still be as perky as a bird singing on the tree. Wuah, lidat also boleh.

For me, an ideal would be 7-8 hours uninterrupted sleep with no waking up in between – straight through till morning, and then I’d wake up feeling very refreshed and ready to take on the bulls and horses. Note, I wrote ‘ideal’. This means, most of the time I make do with about 5 hours sleep, and sometimes less when I take into account the couple of times I wake up to go to the toilet; or sleep disturbed by those annoying motorists/motorcyclist with machines so noisy that it can wake up the dead; or irritating mating calls of the stray felines and this I hate - being feasted live by the pesky mosquitoes. Aiyoh, I’d be tossing and turning and scratching and then get up from bed looking for the medicated oil or Mopiko. Airconditioning helps but I find this drying for my skin, so I normally switch it on for a couple of hours only.

When I lack sleep, I’d be at work whole day feeling woozy and with an all-cottony brain. Ya, the eyes are wide open but the brain is slowwwww…..real slowww…..and I’ll have to read a sentence a few times or my colleagues will have to repeat what she said before it can register in my ‘soft-soft’ brain. And today, this familiar feeling is back and I can see a loooonnnngggg day ahead.

 
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  At 9:51 AM Anonymous Anonymous said:
Kak, if it's any consolation to you.. I've been sleeping only 3 hrs the most per nite for the last month. :(

I'm exhausted but I can't sleep.

HUGS!
  At 10:08 AM Blogger ilene said:
NyonyaPenang,
Just try and hang in there. After all tomorrow is a HOLIDAY - can recuperate!
  At 10:09 AM Anonymous Anonymous said:
Aiyo...don't worry about that guy! He won't last very long!! Sure engine conked out one!! U oso lite sleeper kah??? I hate those cats. The male ones go, "Mau!.....Mau!' and the female ones reply, "Tak mau!.....Tak mau!"

P.S. Jem, u Catholic? Try saying the rosary, so boring that b4 one decade is thru...oredi zzzzzz!!! LOL!
  At 10:17 AM Blogger nyonyapenang said:
jemima,
adoi.....gua pun lidat sekali-sekala. macam ni panda eyes liao lor.
take care, sayangzzz.

ilene,
ya, tomolo can sleep in until 12 noon!
:)

suituapui,
i'm a light sleeper - itulah, problem.
  At 11:13 AM Blogger Sasha Tan said:
i feel you woman. everyday also i'm like this ..
  At 12:42 PM Blogger Winn said:
i know who u refering to i know i know i know..

guess correctly got prize or not?
  At 1:08 PM Anonymous Anonymous said:
kakakaka! i also know who! can share prize with winn??

Shall We Joget?
*wink*
  At 1:22 PM Blogger moz monster said:
Lack of sleep is a theme in modern life, isn't it?

I think we chase the 'important' things in life so much we forget that the best things in life ... are free.

Sleep well. Tomorrow should be a good holiday.
  At 1:31 PM Blogger nyonyapenang said:
sasha,
come to think about it, all this lack of sleep started when the boys came along. hang on there, sasha. :)

winn,
prize? errr...what shaliuliuliuliu prize you want?

angel,
no need to share wan. gua gib you anoder one.
pssst....dunno why my kaki sekalang very itchy leh?
kakakaka....

moz monster,
okie, gonna wake up earliest at 12noon tomolo.
you have a good rest too.
  At 1:40 PM Anonymous Anonymous said:
i know exactly how u feel lor..hehe..though i got hubby to help me out w Cayden at night , i still dun get enuf sleep...at least my brain will be working alrite till abt noon , then i nid to nap for a while to recharge..not easy if u have to work 12 hrs a day..and 'on call' every night..haihss..
  At 6:19 PM Anonymous Anonymous said:
my brain also become cotton-cotton liao... must be the holiday season coming up! too lazy to work these days...
  At 6:46 PM Anonymous Anonymous said:
Wah so keng ah
Me if got things to do cannot sleep at all
:(
I wonder if I can stop time...
  At 10:36 PM Blogger Guatyen said:
sleep? i soo greedy wan, i trrryyy to sleep early to have more hours to zzz, but my kucing always come kacau, pijak pijak me, wake me up coz wan to makan or simply saja. me oso light sleeper. have good rest 2moro.
  At 11:36 PM Anonymous Anonymous said:
That's why I have Nescafe in my fridge. I thot I wanted to switch to decaf, but that doesn't work.

Happy Thaipusam and Federal Territories Day, nyonya!!
  At 11:57 PM Blogger King's wife said:
My brain is cottony most of the time also lah!
Sleep is also very important to me..if not enough, sure grouchy all day!
  At 11:59 PM Blogger Sam said:
Everyone feels cottony every now and then. I call it being light-headed. =P
  At 12:03 AM Blogger savante said:
Who is this friend! I need tips on time management!
  At 12:33 AM Blogger nyonyapenang said:
eve,
adoi...tell me about night feeds and all. **tabik-tabik** to you.

may,
ya...ya...must be the holiday season....and all those gong xi, gong xi ni songs. :)

zeroimpact,
it's true you won't feel tired when you have things to do. the 'cottony' feeling only comes after you finally crashed on the bed and then have to wake up in a couple of hours.

alison,
you kucing so manja with you wan ar?
LOL

kat,
nescafe tak ngam wif me ler.
after taking nescafe hor, gua not cottony - gua turned grouchy.
sei mou, lidat? LOL

king's wife,
lidat, next time got appointment to joget at night, then must sleep whole afternoon lor. :D

sam,
ohhh...lidat sounds more correct ler.

savante,
oh...you got sikit ploblem wif time management ar? patut la, gua ni tunggu...tunggu...tunggu....aje.
tips?....boleh...boleh arrange. :)
  At 2:46 AM Blogger scarxxx said:
lolx... nyonya.. ur brain become cottony d ah.. mine fills with sarang labah labah d..

sleep around 3~4hours a day.. akibatnya, sarang labah labah. nasib tak jadi spiderman.. lolx
  At 8:39 AM Blogger Jonzz said:
Wow, is it possible to survive on 3 - 4 hours sleep continuously while doing a full time job? It's dangerous once your body decides to collect the sleep debt.
  At 9:22 AM Anonymous Anonymous said:
'Nya, u lite sleeper...I snore like KTM enjin ordei rosak. Like tat, how leh? LOL!!!
  At 10:00 AM Blogger 2crazydogs said:
That guy's engine is going to kaput one day. I get 5 hrs every night and when 7 pm comes, I'm already nodding off. Sei lor, how to do study like that??
  At 10:12 AM Blogger http://chinese.yenjai.net said:
nyonya jie, go install wood panel on your bedroom, and sound-proof glass on windows, double layered dark curtains.
A good night sleep worth more than you can imagine.
Night night.
  At 4:04 PM Blogger jazzmint said:
wah 7-8 hours, I kinda miss that mann
  At 11:39 PM Blogger doc said:
some people need only few hours sleep a night & will still be wide awake the next day - they are just different from most of us, but certainly not abnormal.

to compensate, a few will catch 40 winks during the day, while others will sleep longer during weekends & holidays.

i may be such a person & my wife often said, bcos of my sleep pattern, i should have been a night watchman. she's partially right!
  At 11:43 PM Blogger nyonyapenang said:
kah wee,
adoi....you boleh tahan ke, with 3-4 hrs sleep? kalo gua macam ni, gua mia brain terus shutdown liao. LOL

jonzz,
sleep debt? i was told that one big ploblem wan lor. LOL

suituapui,
lidat ar? store room boleh pakai lar. kakakaka

2crazydogs,
wuaah, so good hor, can sleep at 7pm. for me leh, sometimes belum reach home pun.

yenjai,
good idea hor. thx, doc.

jazzmint,
ya, i read your blog - you wake up at 4am hor? kalo gua lidat ar, terus pengsan lar.
  At 12:09 AM Blogger Chen said:
I think I sleep less nowadays...
4 to 5 hours gua..
  At 10:22 AM Blogger nyonyapenang said:
dr chen,
why? going around chasing cockroaches ar? LOL
  At 1:21 PM Blogger Chen said:
cannot waste too much time sleeping mah.. :P
Got so many other things to do ;)
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