D has had persistent fever the entire week; and it was only this morning at CGH that the doc diagnosed him as having caught pneumonia. We were quite fearful it was dengue and have been pretty vicious in eradicating the mozzies in the house (as the symptoms looked like dengue to a layman) but thankfully it wasn't. Nonetheless pneumonia is pretty bad too and he keeps coughing non-stop. It was quite baffling too where he caught it from.

To fulfill my duties as the caretaker, I finally inaugurated our rice cooker today - not to cook rice but to cook porridge! Attempted to replicate the sweet potato taiwanese porridge by dumping some sweet potato into the rice cooker too. Though I only got hold of yellow and not the orange kind of sweet potato the porridge still turned out quite decent; and I realised that it's actually quite simple to cook porridge with the rice cooker. So quite happy with our purchase; except that the metal portion where all the steam rises up to isn't detachable for washing! Eeks, so we have to wipe conscientiously with damp cloth each time... :(