Not all of us can do great things during our lifetime, but we can surely do many small things with great passion and love.

Friday, July 31, 2009

35th Update – 26 Months after Surgery

My knee is holding up quite well, although from time to time, I do experience some rheumatic pain. But it is not serious and usually goes away the following day. However, one should never be too complacent. Last month, after bringing visitors around my workplace, we have to go down several flights of stairs. As usual, I held on to the railing when going down. However, I was distracted when someone asked me a question and I must have lifted my arms to gesticulate when my knee suddenly buckled and I tumbled downward. Fortunately, it was probably at the last few steps and I wasn’t injured. Except for some embarrassment, I was all right – there was no pain, but some soreness at the knee afterward. I still need to constantly remind myself to be careful.

At my last posting, I mentioned that my citrus tree is fruiting with green oranges. It grew to be larger than a normal orange as can be seen in the photo. Well, we couldn’t resist the temptation and finally harvested a few. Somewhat to our disappointment, it wasn’t oranges, but some kind of calamansi lemon-lime variety – it was quite sour. Anyway we juiced it and sweetened it with pandan leaves flavoured syrup – it makes a really refreshing drink when chilled. Cheers!