"its gonna be another day with the sunshine..." - jang nara

just when i thought i have nothg more to write im ny blog... then i had another exciting thought-filled day!! time's now 2am, just got home after a loooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg chat with huiting at the kopitiam near our hse... we met up to visit maggie, our pri sch classmate who's hospitalised as a suspected case of dengue fever. poor girl!!! actually mag is in a ting's pri sch clique, (we were in different cliques then)so we are not that close. wah quite a sombre thing, to visit a friend in hospital. she was put on drip, and no medicine has been given as the blood test's results were not out yet. had fever for abt a week already, and was only warded yesterday! as me and a ting talked to mag's parents, jaws dropped. (our's) cos we were told horrifying tales of how the nurses do not respond when the patient press the buzzer, and how mag's meals are always served to her last. wah, outrageous!!! hehehe can see a ting blowing up with indignance!!!(like puffer fish heh sorry v late liao feeling corny) and she promptly stalked to the nurse station to lodge a complaint after hearing that mag's rashes has become worse but no one's doing anythg abt it... i meekly followed haha. wahhhhhhh there we realise the inefficiency of the care-giving system. we were directed from one nurse, to another nurse, to yet another nurse, to yet yet another nurse... and then told to wait. we waited, paced along the corridors acting fierce and impatient, then were told to go back first the nurse in charge would be told of this matter... 15 min later... no news! went back to the nurse station, finally managed to grab hold of a nurse. then a ting assumed her no-nonsense tone of voice and rattled on abt mag's rashes and how come it took so long for a nurse to answer a patient's call... nurse looks uncomfortable, then went off to get calamine lotion. later we had a analysis of why the system is so inefficient. turns out that there are only 4 nurses taking care of 44 patients!! and all the nurses looked rather harrassed and overworked. wahhh how can. in this case, the needs of all patients would not be well taken care of, what if it's a matter of life and death??? it really doesnt count for much if the surgery is successful but a lack of manpower causes the patient to die of some other unjustifiable reason. hmmm food for thought. in dealing with nurses, mag's parents told us most of them turn a dear ear and blind eye if you cannot converse with them in english. you can pester the nurses for hours, but they would still not come and see to your daughter. seems like only the more ang-moh ppl get served. cos in local context, english is sort of a social standing marker. to many, english=educated, english=more well-off. i beg to differ! what nonsense. this is especially unfair to the older generation (my parents' generation) who studied in chinese schools!! i've seen alot of ppl who take pride in the fact that they speak lousy mandarin or cant speak at all even though they are chinese; i totally look down on these ppl. if you are chinese, you should know how to speak chinese!! why pretend to be someone you are not? or worse yet, feel ashamed of your own heritage? personally, i feel that most asians look towards the west with awe and admiration, associating them with progress and wealth. sorry lor, you are what you do. it doesnt say much if you are a purely english-speaking chinese who only knows how to put on nice accents and pretend to be upper-class! i mean, whats the point? its not as if our forefathers were only less respectable or hardworking than the westerners lor. if we look down on ourselves, who would look up to us?? bah. oh yar sorry to digress so much. in dealing with nurses, sometimes really have to act fierce and demanding so that they would pay heed to the patient's needs. there are some really caring nurses, but tink some are also so tired of nursing that they normally bo-chup the patients. quite sad, imagine you are sick and your friends and family are not around and the nurse ignores you. we decided that if we ever do become doctors, we must always ask our patients whether the nurses are taking good care of them. yar lar, sometimes patients can be overbearing also but i tink that nurses play a very very impt role in getting the patients back to health.

after leaving the hospital, we went makan in a 24 hr kopitiam near cck mrt station. ah had sinful laksa and fried carrot cake yummmm.... we can feel our tummies growing bigger urgh. (mine's 5 mths going on 9 *swoon*) had a good girly talk. heh abt shopping and image revamp! yahoo. gonna chuck my always-wear-jeans-with-brown-shirt-and-bring-deuter-bag go to sch outfit. seems like the whole world noticed i always wear them same clothes, day after day, week after week, mth after mth, year after year... u get the idea lah. time to shop haha. but i always feel very contradictory abt what to wear to sch. on one hand, i dont wish to stand out, on the other hand its fun to dress up once a while to go sch! instead of wearing jeans everyday... same old brown stercobilin shirt... big schoolbag... just feel very lazy to match clothes n tink of what to wear leh. appointed a ting the fashionista to shop with me this sat! yay! havent shopped for eons... time for retail therapy! =D

we migrated to the kopitiam near our houses. yakked on abt... what huh?? alot of stuff lah. from soma trip to the ppl we met to the type of ppl we r... and throughout the whole conversation, we were interrupted by large-as-kittens rats happily scampering to and fro among the tables and chairs, sometimes scampering towards us and we would do the reflex action of lifting our legs in unison. funny man! quite exciting too... like detective hafta keep keeping a lookout for possible rat sneak attacks... wah didnt know s'pore got rat problem. the rats are so FAT!! rounded, big, the cat looks like it can be eaten up by the rat lor. and the tail... ewww. we agreed its most disgusting. very long, hairy, looks like a worm. no wonder hamsters are cute... very short tails. =D

we stopped yakking at 0145am... not bad!! was a good talk. very productive, very know-more-abt-myself too!!! should do this more often... of yar ting passed her driving!!! ehehehe congratulations! *drums pls* treat me hor thx hahah. =D

(NOTICE: ehhhhh, why got another anonymous leave a comment huh!?!??! wah gg crazy lah!!!! pls i very old liao, dont keep me guessing... young ppl nowadays tsk tsk)