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Crossed over to Funan the IT Mall to collect my 2 Balduvian trading posts and browse through the latest in IT.

The KFC at Funan sells Pizza Hut meals! Gotta check that out, ya Crust-dough lovers! Unfortunately, I was not able to find alliance member, Taco Bell's, wares.

Grandma is showing signs of recovery. After two days ofdrifting into a subconscious state, she spoke her first coherent sentence to us this afternoon!

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Went back to SRJC to contribute to a sharing session. Ahem... stuttered quite a bit in the LT, so I guess I'll have to work on public speaking (especially in front of a large audience). The tutorial-sized session was not too bad, considering the fact that I was just 'warmed up' to the audience.

Grandma was rather chirpy the whole afternoon. The Speech therapist came down to take a look at her, putting Grandma through a series of tests, including sipping and acceptance of fluids through the mouth (Grandma actually gulped down the water, and rightfully so; She hadn't drunk a drop in four days!) and the chewing of wheatmeal biscuits. Several of my distant cousins paid her a visit just before dinner. And for dinner, she took her first physically visible meal in three days - porrridge with mashed vegetables and minced meat. At night, she got all sentimental and broke into sobs, handing out bits and pieces of advice to all present, each different from the previous one. I suspect there is more to the human brain. Apparently, she could remember what to tell each and every one of us (something that I believe has been kept in a corner of her brain for cold storage) even though she's unable to repeat something she had mentioned half a minute ago. The power of human memory!