Fried Rice Paradise at 5 in the morning
It’s one thing to get into a routine – in this case, taking my weekly Fosamax dose every Wednesday morning, and having done so without fail for the past 15 weeks – and another to miss one and then to forget to take it the next morning.
I’d woken with a pounding pain behind my left eye on Wednesday morning and it was a choice of gritting my teeth and taking the Fosamax tablet (and probably throwing it up almost immediately) or foregoing the Fosamax tablet in favour of two Ponstans for the pounding pain. After looking up the instructions (”If you miss a dose, just take one FOSAMAX PLUS™ on the morning after you remember.”), I decided to do as instructed and downed two Ponstans.
Almost 40 hours later, I’m in the kitchen and opening my meds drawer for my lupus meds. As the drawer slides open, I see the Fosamax box. Oh shoot, I forgot to take the Fosamax dose this morning.
The instructions didn’t say anything about taking the tablet two mornings after I’m supposed to take it, but I decided to do so anyway. After all, it’s another five days to the next dose, so I should be alright. It’s better than not taking the tablet at all. Anyway, that’s my reasoning.
I found myself wide awake at 4:30 this morning, and decided to get up and take the dose, just in case I went back to sleep and forget later on.
After taking the dose, I’m supposed to sit or stand for 30 minutes, and of course, I’m sitting in front of my computer. For some reason, a song from my long-ago teenaged years started to play in my head and wouldn’t stop playing. So, now I have a craving for “Fried Rice Paradise” – not to eat but to listen to, and not just in my head.
Hey, maybe it’s on YouTube. And yes, it is! A 2007 version from a stage musical that Dick Lee wrote around the song in the early 1990s. The original version was first featured in his debut album, Life Story, released in 1974. The version here is from the “President Star Charity 2007″.
Dick Lee is a Singaporean who started his musical career in 1971 at the age of 15. These days, he’s better known as a Singapore Idol judge, but in his hey day, he played the piano, produced his own albums and wore make-up. And yes, I have a vinyl copy of Life Story.
