Sleep Starved

Have you ever said to yourself this,"I'm starving. I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse!" Well then, if that is the case, I've been guilty of that (eating a horse) for a very long time.

I'm not talking about the actual consumption of a horse but the meaning behind the words itself. To me, it could be used to mean similar things, like my blog title today: "I'm so tired & sleepy that I could eat a horse!" Get what I'm saying now?

I don't know why it always has to happen on Sunday nights, especially now when I'm working. I would be there, lying on my bed, counting sheep. 998, 999 ... until I started thinking of LAMB RECIPES!! There's lamb chops, soup kambing, mutton satay ...

Have tried many many ways to stem the bad tide of insomnia but this "sleeplessness" is really insane, I tell you. Now, I understand why people have coined the term for Monday as the "Monday Blues". Grouchy, moody & tantrums, are all words that are wonderful to describe the feeling many people get whilst on their way to work on the first day of the week.

Medical experts will have you know that it is due to an off-balance of your "biological alarm clock schedule". It's your body's way of telling you, "Hoi, sleepyhead, wake up! Time to go to work!!" Come weekends & public holidays, as well as your annual/sick leave, your whole world turns upside down, as you don't keep to a regular wake-up time. Some people who do have a "regular wake-up time", tweaked it a little for these "special days"; instead of waking up at 7.30am, they wake up at 10am latest. Hence, their advice would be like my parents: yak ... yak ... yak ... nag ... nag ...

DON'T even think of asking ME what time do I wake up on those days. I ain't gonna tell.

Still, to wind down my night into LaLaLand, or as one would say in Chinese, "qu jian zhou gong", this is my 2 cents' worth of advice for anyone facing a dull prospect of not being able to sleep:

1. Thou shalt not drink coffee, or any caffeine-laced drinks in the AFTERNOONS
2. Hell had no fury than an active mind just before bedtime
3. wearing not the full set of PJs help; shorts & singlet will do, thank you

When I can't sleep, I still would like down & shut my eyes, whilst listening to the late night shows on radio, switching between P98, P10, C95, UFM, DL883, G90, 933 ... and the ultimate, BBC.

Now I'm not saying that BBC bores me to sleep. It is a wonderful news channel (I just wish that they have a cooking programme). My favourite BBC personality is this chap called "Frederick Duff", unless I heard his name wrongly; last I heard about him was that he presented the news programme called "Outlook".

The point I want to make here is BBC gives notice of the time in "Greenwich Mean Time". Translate that in Singapore Time & you get this:

1. 1800hr GMT = 2am in Singapore
2. 0000hr GMT (midnight) = 8am Singapore

But at such a late hour of the night & in line with my habit, I do not keep track of time. Not on my watch & certainly not on my alarm clock.

Now then, as anyone would have guessed, I'm an extremely light sleeper. In the wee hours of the night, in my old neighbourhood where I used to stay, I could even sometimes hear people playing mahjong. PONG goes the tiles!

It's no wonder & no surprise then, that my all-time favourite piece of make-up that I always use is the CONCEALER. Guess I've something in common with the adorable panda.