Last night of quarantine

I made a mistake thinking that the neighbouring room was occupied by hotel staff. I found out that the hotel did not segregate those undergoing quarantine and the normal guests. How do I know this? When I placed my bento box outside, I saw 2 cosplayers at the corridor. I believe they were going for the Animetoku event at MOI. Anyway this morning, the uncle next door was already singing Great is Thy Faithfulness so loudly.

This morning I went to shit 4x although they were not diarrhoea kind. It was weird because I have been able to pass motion daily. Perhaps it was not as much as what I ate and today everything was just flushed out. I suppose since I did not eat the meat dishes with bones and I mostly ate vegetables, those left so much fibre and rubbish in my digestive system. I did my swab at 8am and I was not informed the result. Anyway when I called the hotel earlier, they said I could check out tomorrow even from 3 am haha.. As much as I want to quickly go home, I will just enjoy another night since I am paying. I also do not want to take a risk that my quarantine release letter not ready yet and I am asked to sleep again haha.

Day 6 Breakfast

Day 6 Lunch

Day 6 Dinner

I have realised that they are running out variety and the food are already repeated, just being mixed and matched. Thank goodness I am not too particular when it comes to food. However, I have started to get sick of the bones and I wish I chose the Western food option. Anyway, as if I checked the full list.. Lol.. I only saw the header of Indonesian and Western food when choosing since as I mentioned, I am not that particular about food.

My laundry has just been delivered so it is time to pack now. Home sweet home tomorrow yay!

Quarantine Day 5

Similar to yesterday, the only thing which pisses me off today is my neighbouring room. It seems that the room is used by the hotel staff. I heard that the room was cleaned and vacuumed in the afternoon and in the evening, the room is occupied by someone else. Yesterday the noise came mostly from people talking and the TV while this evening the noise was someone coaching or practising vocal work. Jeez.. The only consolation is that at least the voice is not terrible.

The hotel called to inform me that I can go for my swab at 8am tomorrow. I asked about my check out time on Sunday and hurray, I can leave from 5 AM onwards!! Hehe.. I was expecting 0001 AM as long as the day has changed to Sunday. But oh well, at least 5 AM is better than if they were to calculate the period as 7 x 24 hours.

Day 5 Breakfast

Day 5 Lunch

Day 5 Dinner - Hmm.. left over jelly from breakfast meals?

Quarantine Day 4

As promised yesterday, I shall post my quarantine food daily just to kill time. It is day 4 now and surprisingly I do not find it stressful or boring. People say being cooped up in a room for quarantine is driving them crazy etc. I guess my normal life is worse than being quarantine and hence I am feeling better during this quarantine. I have a bigger room, I do not have to deal with the dirty maid and I do not have to worry about disturbing phone calls from my landlady. Sadly my perfect time is ending today with the neighbouring room already has people staying in. Haiz.. I thought they will still do social distancing with the rooms. The people next door are irritatingly noisy. Seriously... Anyway tomorrow is already Friday. Time really flies and I can finally be home very very soon. 

Day 4 Breakfast

Day 4 Lunch

Day 4 Dinner

Staycation? Quarantine!

I have not posted anything since 2022 started because things have been very stressful to me. I finally made the decision to go home and the next sets of stressors came in: booking a quarantine hotel, timing the flight with booking of the pre-departure PCR test, deciding about hospitalisation insurance in case I catch COVID, packing for a few months trip and so on. Perhaps the most 'memorable' one is about the PCR swab test. It really went so much deeper than the self ART which I did in December before I went volunteering. Haha..

Surprisingly, the actual travelling in the midst of the pandemic was not as stressful as expected. At Changi, the only difference with no COVID days was the checking of pre-departure PCR document before I was allowed to proceed with check in. There were more staff than passengers (or perhaps I was too early) so I received helped in printing the boarding pass as well as tagging and dropping off the luggages. Since I was carrying my laptop bag, I checked in the bag which I usually brought as hand carry. Its weight was only 2kg and it was deemed to light to be detected by the drop off machine. Anyway past the immigration clearance, it felt business as usual for the airport.

I made use of my free Priority Pass lounge entry and because of COVID, the food choices were limited. I took one sandwich, ham and cheese platter, and one don't know what bread. Haha.. The hot food had to be ordered and pretty sure they just microwaved the food in the kitchen.

The fish was pretty dry but at least it had no fishy smell

The plane was not as empty as I hoped. I could not see any seat plan (even during check in) but it was good enough for me that there was still some social distancing. They did not group different people to be sitting in the same row. I had a whole row by myself. Hehe.. I watched Shang Chi but there were still around 45 minutes to go by the time I landed. While normal airplane food is usually already pretty bad, the food during COVID was even worse.

At Soekarno-Hatta, I was pleasantly surprised with how smooth things worse. It only took me less than 30 minutes from leaving the plane until I waited for my luggage. That included multiple checks for the documents, immigration as well as the swab. The hotel pick up was already waiting for me so everything was good. I watched my friend's vlog who went back in early December and she had to wait for the result of the arrival PCR before she could go to the hotel. Luckily the arrangement changed and now we can travel to the hotel first while waiting for the result. If it turns out to be positive, we will just be re-routed to the designated hotels for the positive people.

Since I have nothing better to do, I guess I will just be posting photos of my food while being quarantined. Haha.. I worry that I would gain weight with 3x daily meals but that does not seem going to happen because the food portion is rather small. I chose the Indonesian menu and I will be half-vegetarian for a week since most of the meat dishes have bones!

I am staying at All Sedayu Hotel and I am pretty happy so far. The first hotel which I contacted is too money minded. It expected 50% for downpayment which will be forfeited even if I could not fly because of positive pre-departure PCR test. If I wanted to pay using credit card, the hotel asked me to give all my card details (including the CVV) as a guarantee. Where is their fucking logic? All Sedayu Hotel has been amazing. Even during the check in, I only signed an agreement that I was staying here and would be aware of the quarantine rules. Nothing was mentioned about the payment arrangement and everything shall be settled upon check out. 2 bottles of water, soap+shampoo, and minibar tea/coffee/sugar/milk are topped up daily without request. I usually do not consume from the minibar but I have to drink some tea and coffee daily because the holder for these sachets is already full.

Anyway, let's spam pictures now!

My room for the next 7 days.. or 4 days by the time I am typing this

Day 1 Lunch

The purposeless wrist tag. It does not track me but I cannot remove it. It is supposed to be waterproof but the paper was already soaked after I showered one time.

Day 1 Dinner

Day 2 Breakfast

Day 2 Lunch - Finally a meal without bone, and there was beef

Day 2 Dinner - Yay beef again

Day 3 Breakfast

Day 3 Lunch - Eeww... chicken wing

Day 3 Dinner

Surprise gifts from the hotel this afternoon

I thought I would be bored in the hotel by now but it was not the case. I was still in the holiday mood yesterday but today I was already working as usual. I am also getting more tired because I am still adjusting my sleep cycle. I am working from 7am-4pm now just to maintain the same working hours as if I am still in Singapore. Anyway it is only 2 more working days to go in the hotel so I am not going to complain and just enjoy the moment. To be able to stay in a hotel and working for 1 straight week may not happen again.