RoCk Me Not

Motion sickness - a dreaded term I had been inflicted since young.

Be it taxis or buses I have experienced it all. Am especially prone to puking syndrome when I take long trips or 'blessed' with a driver that jerks like crazy.

But with age my resistance or tolerance level to puking in long journeys have somewhat lessened but some traces of it is still left. There are forever some stuff I can't do onbroad a vehicle.

I totally CANNOT read on the bus or train. Yes, even reading on the train will leave me with a woozy head. This is sooo unfair coz due to the fact that I spend a fair bit of time travelling on public transport (esp when I was still in uni faced with close to an hr of bus rides to school) hence I am not able to utilize the time well. Such as revising notes on the way to school (esp before exams) or just pure leisure reading to make time pass by faster.

Do you know that it actually took mi a few weeks to get used to travelling to my uni located in Clementi without turning green in the face? My usual initial route involves taking bus 165 to Clementi interchange then switching to bus 96 which loops in NUS (found another shorter route thru bus 74 then switching to bus 151 at bt timah). Kaoz, even I can't believe how I got thru it. Urgh.

Whilst my friend can actually even DO HER HOMEWORK on the bus and complete all or half of it by the time she alights.

I am sooooo envious.

Just the other day my bf and me took bus 169 from Woodlands interchange back to AMK. And both of us endured the 40 mins journey with a bout of dizzy heads and near puking incidents. I practically tahan-ed till we finally reached amk and alighted one stop earlier than the normal. It didn't help that the bus airon was leaking on that rainy evening and I was the 'target' for the fallen drops. DARN.

Even when I was kayaking during OBS in sec 3 I had a terrible bout of motion sickness on the sea. Plus at that time my team was supposed to kayak and race to be the first. Needless to say with my motion sickness (though I din puke but I was like a limp fish outta water when we reached ashore) we ended up first from the bottom. Thank god the motion sickness subsided after I got used to the sea and we managed to race to the lead the next day. Haha...

Mum and bro are also inflicted (hence I assume it was genetic la :p) and have tried many ways to delay the effects or cure it (though the effectiveness is not very stable).

We have tried:

1) Eating sour preserved fruits to curb the puking

2) Drink brown sugar (yuck!)

3) Sleep on the journey

4) Listen to music (quite effective for me as it takes my mind off)


Any good suggestions from you guys? :)