Wednesday - MIPA day

Mipa stands for Medic Individual Proficiency test. 6 people were involved in this, and 2 of them from docu. which means...

I'm pretty much the only guy left to man the reception. Which was madness! I picked up a phone call, helped this guy stamp his mc, asked this person what he's reporting sick for, asked another person to fill out this form and sign here for his attendence, picked up the emergency line, registered the people...

Alone.

Thankfully every 15-20 minutes i'll got some wandering soul to help, else i would've died horribly. Died of overstress.

In the afternoon it wasn't that bad, cause there were less people reporting sick, but it was still quite messy.

At the end of it all, i got a little surprise. Our sgt was asking for volunteers, and when no one volunteered, he said he's going to choose if no one volunteers, and i did.

Guess what it was for?

Free off! Woot! No work tomorrow! Yay!
No more chasing MMI for stress ecg appointments! No more calling up people who don't want to be called! No more asking for report sick!

For a day at least.

I couldn't be happier really...

But i'm so tired... yawnz. I sure hope tomorrow's off will NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT be like my first off. In which i completely died.

Haha.. pray for me~ Things are finally looking up..

Tuesday - RT cover day

Don't remember much of what happened in the morning. But i do remember i was pretty reluctant to wake up..

But in the afternoon, at around 3:50, i took Dr Adrian's car and left for Maju camp, where there's supposed to be Remedial Training for those who failed IPPT.

Maju camp happens to be in clementi, house of 6SIR, and etc, etc.

First thing i noticed were housing bunks for the people staying in there. Guess i've been staying in a naval base for too long it feels kinda weird.. and big~

Second thing i noticed is that i'm the only guy in blue coveralls... the medics there thought i was from the air force. heh. I stand out completely man.

The cover was pretty ... well. Boring. I tired to nap a bit in the safety rover but there were mosquitoes and i was sweating quite a bit, so i gave up and walked outside, reading my medic aide memoir a bit.

It was then Bro Jianhui called out to me. My scout leader whom i haven't seen for some time, updated me on what's going on back in Hongkah. And guess what? I may be going back to school soon~ Play with the little kids~ Haha... (dang, i feel so old).

The maddening thing is that when the event ended. They didn't even bother to tell us. The PTI's just closed shop and left off. I just happened to walk by and they told me it was over. how.. grr.. frustrating.

Went back, unloaded stores, ate an ice cream (from dinner), and took Dr Adrian's car to Clementi, where i took 99 back. Got home pretty quick, though i was really tired.

Sad thing was i had to do some emails for dad, when i haven't really eaten anything. *mumbles*. I was in quite a bad mood yesterday as you can see..

Fell asleep near 12...

Monday, 27th March

I was reluctant to wake up. Felt so tired! Monday blues maybe?
The weather was pretty cool, it was still drizzling a bit when i went over to work. And when i reached the med ctr, i realised that there was a power surge. The reception and waiting area lights were down, and the computers were all down.

It felt and Was pretty cool. I feel pretty relaxed there. haha.

Unfortunately. by 9am everything was up.. *awww* and we had to go to work. What happened for today?

The few things i remember, other than constantly on the verge of sleeping, was that Unit Fitness Program was cancelled. Beh, and i was all ready to join them for a run and a workout at the gym too.

The other thing was that there was an emergency case. Someone suddenly stopped moving, and was only able to blink his eyes in response to everything we said and did. Its kinda scary. We had to insert IV (needles and saline solution) into him and we tried a variety of stuff but it didn't work. In the end we had to send him to the hospital.

We did know that he was referred to Psychological Care for depression just today, and that they gave him off but he came back to work anyway.

I shouldn't talk too much more about this. The rest are confidential.. Pretty much.

I want to sleep early. Yawns. May tomorrow be a better day..

Meet up with old friends + Church

Saturday saw me playing Grandia 3 in the afternoon, and going over to Marina South to meet up with some of my BMT mates at night..

It was good to meet up. I had quite alot of laughs, and we caught up quite a bit. Later went to Marina square macdonalds for a drink. Marina Square has really changed... its so much .. 'spacier' and bigger now. Its like a mini suntec city. Definately a place i want to explore more given the time.

Strange how time flies and we all have different vocations, doing different jobs. My BMT mate broke up with his girlfriend... and we're talking about this girl who waited more than 1 month for him to say yes, this girl who spent months organising and planning for his birthday, this girl who spent more than $400 on a watch she got in Japan (ya, she seems pretty rich). She was so devoted...

But my friend told me she changed after he went for a 1month pilot course in Australia. I didn't know she had depression too.

Life is full of surprises. Surely.

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Sunday afternoon i went over to Expo for a service by Faith Christian Baptist Church(I think). My soul needed enrichment you see, and the only other offer i had for that day was 8:30 at some place in the east.

Considering i slept at around 4+, the answer was obvious. The service was held in an exhibition hall, and they were not unlike CHC. In fact, other than some of the pastors looking a bit older, less pretty, less handsome, they're exactly the same i guess.

It wasn't a bad place, and i expressed interest in the end... i should be joining them next week.
I guess i need more friends.. or something.

End of work week

Meant to write this earlier, but guess its better late than never huh.

Yesterday was my duty, and i got hit by a double whammy. An operation was activated, and there was a person coming in to report sick at 2:30am...

Lets just say i had a near out of body experience... i knew what i was supposed to do... but i didn't do it... its like... i felt too tired and suddenly there's alot of things to do. Sorta like suspend mode i guess.

I think bad things tend to happen when i'm on duty. The last duty i had there was also an operation being activated... the one before the auditors came... What next?

Well i'm finally going to church on sunday. Its been too long. Maybe that will clear up this ... evil spirits following me or something..

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My sgts have a strange way of making a point... sometimes they get straight to the point, other times they walk in a circle. like..
*pulling at my hair at the back of my neck*
"Does it hurt?"
He obviously wanted to comment that my hair was too long, but blur me just said..
"Yea a bit."
He then tried to pull at his non-existant hair, and said
"How come mine doesn't hurt?"

The rest of my colleagues were already telling me that my hair is long =_=
He said one of them looked like a convict, for not shaving. Which is quite true.. haha.

Then another sgt asked, "What's on tv? Is it nice?"
One of us replied "Not too bad."
He continued with "Really very nice?"

Warning signals on! We nudged him and told him to turn off the tv.
Working here really utilises our brain man..

Mid-week

Its wednesday.

I saw a cute girl wearing a hongkah pe-shirt board the bus on my way back home. It sure brings back alot alot of memories...

I forgot how the girl looked like after a few minutes, but the memories of hongkah remains...

Maybe its me, but i think i finally realised that happiness is temporary, and its a choice. I don't ever recalla time when i was happy everyday. More like happy for a few minutes, then normal, then sad for a longer time, then normal, then happy.

I think i need to balance up the happy times, cause the dark side is taking over. Crap. i wanted to blog about something completely different, but i forgot too.

I should go back to church soon. Maybe when there's something to Love, i'll become more passionate about life, and feel more positive..

Actually, that IS the way isn't it? hah. i guess i should have went back long ago..

Saturday

saw me waking up at 1+pm, to meet KC and his friend to donate blood.

Lets just say it was a wasted trip, because of something, i can't donate.
Nvm about that.

Went to JP, wanted to eat at pizza hut. But when i reached there, it was closed for renovations..
Heh, everything bad seems to happen at the same time..

So i had lunch at KFC instead, and then went over to Tampines for Jiahui's birthday.

I met Jade and Gwyneth there, and we took the shuttle bus over to the Savannah...
Sounds pretty grand isn't it?

When i reached there, i saw that all the animals they published in the news and papers... were statutes. All statues! Statues of jaguars, turtles, and whatsoever...

It isn't that bad a place though, it looks pretty spacey, and has water flowing all over the place. The places that were booked were the KTV room, function room and bowling alley(which was unfortunately out of order, as we realised when we went to use it). There were 2 groups of her friends around, namely her primary(1girl and her bf) and secondary school friends(6-7girls and 3guys).

Her secondary sch friends used the ktv room, while me, jade, gwyneth, yenting and michael were left wandering around, wondering what to do.

It got really boring for the 1st 1.5 hours as we were just.. idling around. Thankfully after we cut the cake things got slightly more exciting... but then we had to leave.

I would like to say this is a good day... but i don't know what i have achieved today.. haha.



Almost forgot. This are the people from Law that went, Me, Jade, Gwyneth, Jiahui, Yenting and michael respectively...

The cake is a LV bag .. i think. I could never smile in photos.. think got time i go and train up.. hah..~

I care too much

Friday was perhaps the best day of all.

We were busy yes... but there was alot of laughter and friendly words were exchanged...
If only everyday was like that i'll be alot happier..

And its only today when we were talking that we discussed why i'm always so busy..
I think i care too much. I talk to them for a longer period of time compared to the others... cause i spend too much time explaining and making sure they understand perhaps..

They're right. We're NSFs, don't need to care so much.. we're underpaid anyways.
If caring less will give me less stress... maybe i need to try it out a bit.

And maybe i need to apply this to my social life as well..

Thursday night..

I had a dream... i dreamt that i died somewhere along the way...

But i woke up feeling good...
What did it mean?

I saw a car accident...

Didn't actually see who crashed into who... but i saw this car stop at a very strange angle. Its front bender was facing the side of the road, and it was at a degree of about 75. There was a bus beside it, and a fellow medic told me that the bus crashed into the back of the car.. and that its the car's fault.

What happened after made me believe so too. The car suddenly reversed, and took off. But the car's left wheels hit the side of the pavement, and went on TOP of it. It went on that way for a while until it reached the bus stop, which was about 10m away. Then sped off to a little clearing 50m away.

By this time it had already attracted quite a crowd of buses and other vehicles behind it.. I noticed that the car's back tyres were literally slashed... you could see the rubber flapping when the car moved...

When i took my bus and it went by the car, i saw 85% of the car on top of the pavement again... and this time the entire rear bender fell off.

Wow. What a show.

And before you ask, no, i did not take down the car's license plate. I did see that it was a relatively young guy though.

Poor guy. I thought i had a sucky week, but his was worse i suppose. Thankfully no one was hurt...

Tomorrow will be a better day.

I can't do this anymore...

Just too many depressing stuff has been happening...
...

I just hope this phase goes over quick..

I wonder what i did wrong.

Week quick roundup

Long post ahead, you have been warned...

Chapter 5 of the bad luck story..

Friday was my duty, and to keep things short, i received a call from my brother telling me that the computer cannot be booted up. Sigh. Another thing to add to my worry list. Its no wonder i'm growing white hair i tell you.

Saturday saw me being in a bad mood. I was irritated rather easily, and i had reason to! How would you feel if you were playing a game in the arcade and people keep bumping into you without saying any apology?

I think i really did something wrong... somewhere... all these things are combining to drive me crazy. But... I'll live.

On my way back home from the arcade on sat, i began to feel really moody.. so i msged a couple of people.. but they were either busy or er... well. Lets just say they weren't free to talk..

I got by with my Tales of Legendia, but wow. For the first time, the story got really sad... thankfully i was over it then... but still.. the sad story comes at a bad time..

I want happiness around me... not sadness ... nor anger.

Guess its that time of the year again...

Sunday:
Went to temple for some veg food, played a few hours of games, and slept. In the evening i had the honour of talking to Ms Kaili while i'm on the way from the library to Bukit Panjang. I met gwyneth on 176.. and met up with Minghan to get some discs from him and to chat a bit.

Did you know that Minghan is going to Taiwan on Tuesday? And Did you know i also applied to go to taiwan? It could be me that's going over... but its not. I'm kind of glad though, cause there's quite alot of stuff here i can't leave behind right now..

But we did have a good time talking... Old friends who are reading this entry is free to msg me anytime... lets meet up and talk.

I've convinced myself tomorrow will be a good week.. but that remains to be seen right? I'll keep you updated on what's happening...

After an hour+ at the gym

Its been a long time since i've gone to one.. but here i am, old me deciding to pull some weights and work out a bit. It wasn't such a bad idea... and i kinda liked the place, Chevrons' Gym, and at $3, it cheap and actually beneficial to your body.

Thing is my arms and shoulders feel like they've been stretched too long. Like a rubber band.. now i'm just feeling a bit seh.

Not to mention the taiwan sausage and otak i had just now. Heh, just hope its worthwhile...

Will be on duty tomorrow, so no updates. Continue to support my pictureless blog guys.. and let me know what you think.. Thank you~

The story of bad luck continues..

Last night, at around 11:45.. i was awakened...

Not by any dogs barking, nor any cats fighting(speaking of which. i haven't heard them fight for a long time..), but something smaller... something much more annoying...

Smaller than a cockrach, bigger than an ant... the Mosquitoe(s?)..

I was actually dreaming.. dreaming that i got bitten by mosquitoes... beh. Turns out its not a dream! Would you believe it? I had to get up and turn on the aircon... (See, mosquitoes are cold-blooded, so when you turn on the air-con, they either die, or they grow very sleepy and inactive. Personally i'm hoping for the former to happen).

I got hungry too, so i had to cook some noodles and stuff. Hope i'm not gaining more weight...
Woke up feeling.. tired. Again... grr.

Another round of bad luck

i woke up a bit earlier as i was supposed to be on duty today. (Keyword supposed)
So i ran a bit when i saw the bus coming...

Managed to catch up to it and reached work place at around 7:40. . then i realised...
That my name was not on the 'duty' list.
Which means..

I'm not on duty today.

Clarified that with my sgt, and he told me he changed my duty to friday and had someone informed me on saturday. Great news eh?

It was another busy morning, and my senior medic asked in a cheerful voice how's my off day. haha.. if only he knew..

He also spoke to me and another guy at the recept area, asking us to stop acting like the building is collapsing and stop speaking so fast... you know... we're just always so busy. And there's never enough people.. so we rush..

But he has a point.. i think we shouldn't rush.. i shall keep that in mind. In macdonalds i learnt how to 'act busy' so that the customers won't feel like we're not doing anything...
Oh well, different places, different philosophies.

I reached home and msned a bit.. and i realised that a friend in my block is going through worse things...

一山中比一山高.. even when it comes to tragedies and misfortune eh..?

I can feel the bad luck fading... i'm sure i'll be fine come the day tomorrow...

For a better day ahead!

This is a rant

I'm ranting... be prepared.

Today is a monday, my first off for the year, or rather, my first off ever.
I slept at 4+, thinking that i'll be able to wake up at 11+ or 12 then go swimming...

But that's all what i thought. What i planned.
As usual, things don't turn out how you plan right...~ I think this is starting to be a personal thing in my head...

Things don't turn out how you plan all the time.

I was awaken by a phone call at 7:30... I saw it was Jean, instinctively i knew that its because ...
i'm the first person in her phone... after rejecting her first call, accepting her second one, rejecting 3rd, and smsing her to keylock her phone...

I slept for a while longer. Then Jiaxing called from Tuas Med Ctr (henceforth known as "TMC"). Asking if i'm really Off today... Yes i'm really on off. I thought everyone knows... the most Gek thing is QS was there and he decided not to say anything... and let them call me!

Its okay. Wo Ren! Then at 11+ Qs called me to ask me where am i, when i smsed him earlier to tell him i won't be joining him to swim. I tried to sleep some more, but it was impossible...
So i woke up, and decided it Would be a good idea to swim after all.

So i packed my stuff and walked over to JE swimming complex, to realise that .. its only open at 2pm on Mondays... Sigh. They went over to Clementi when i called. And on the way there Fidelis called from TMC to ask where i kept some stuff. And after i reached home a bit, Cheehan called from TMC. Asked about some stuff... and Songda from TMC called from home...

Then i played a couple of games, then left for CCK to join the rest for sushi buffet. We played at the arcade a bit too, and watched Big Momma's house 2. Did i forget to say i received 2-3 phone calls in the middle of all that?

IS God playing some kind of trick on me?!
Why couldn't all these wait until tomorrow?
Why so many phone calls?
I'm being driven crazy!

*screams*

You must understand.. Normally i receive less than 2 phone calls a day... usually once per 2-3 days.

If this is off... then i wonder what leave would be like..
I'm really... irritated... really.

Edwin's Bday BBQ

Saturday saw me sleeping at 4+, waking up at 12+, then sleeping again til 4+.
That was quite a nap eh?

I gamed a bit, then went out to meet KC and Fidelis at Yew Tee. Took Kc's car over to Pasir Ris, where we tried to find out where pit 29 was... we even parked in the wrong carpark.
So we had to veer back to the right place.

Eventually found the pit, but it was filled with er, guys? Not alot of ladies around, that's all i can say. More and more people came, but we just talked amongst ourselves, catching up.. Updated the changi medics about Tuas, and etc.

We had joy, we had fun.. we had laughter underneath the stars.. I even chatted with Kaili abit when i first arrived... almost couldn't find anything to say though.. how rare..

Food was pretty scarce, but in the end Edwin's sister(who happens to be taller than him) constantly brought food to us.. and she's the prettiest girl there.. (haha, i'm so biased... bribe me). She's 19 btw, in case anyone i know who was there happens to read this.

We reached at around 8:30, and left at about 12.. or 1? Then we drove a few people home, til we reached Fidelis place in which we had a drink, and stayed for an eps of Scrubs and Eyeshield 21. Fidelis actually lives in a Terrace house.. a 2 storey one. Whew.

Then we went home..

Oh right, I've actually seen Edwin's gf around in TP biz school. Small world ain't it?

They say..

That you're lucky if you can find 2 people to stand by you ... 2 true friends to be by your side when you've lost completely everything...

Can i be the 2nd one for you? And can you be the 2nd one for me?

The audit's over!

What a day wednesday was...

It's the beginning of the month, i was the only Tuas duty medic, and the audit came!

Which means, i'm the busiest person of the day. Sort of.

All in all, i managed to get through the audit unscathed, unlike other departments which had a mark or 2 deducted.. i managed to get a day's off...

Do you believe that i spent more than 24 full hours working on the audit?
And they spent less than an 10-15 minutes checking it.. hmm~

We ordered pizza for dinner...

As usual, when i sleep in TMC, i have dreams... this one was weird.. what i recall of was a girl playing some game in the arcade... and then i took over...
Maybe i'm lonely?

I dreamt that Ning called me to ask for Ricky's number... turned out it wasn't a dream. Weird though.

Today... i fought a war. There were loads of appointments. I mean Loads. And only 2 people were at the reception. Its crazy! It got so bad that i almost had to beg for help in the afternoon... from my senior sgt... i guess its too easy to just sit someplace and slack...

Luckily i opened my mouth. I was so busy i think i was about to cry.. heh, makes me wonder when was the last time i Did cry..

I just finished watching Dream Chasers... not a bad show.. and it was filmed in TP! Aargh! Why they film it when i'm no longer in TP? Why??