Taste of Reminiscence

Once upon a time I used to feel for a person, it’s the things we had in common, our background, our interests, her being so supportive and cheerful, as well as the sharing and caring toward each other that made us click so perfectly that we promised we’re gonna stick with each other despite of anything at all that might potentially stand in our way. We did share a beautiful thing together back then. But well, does feel like a long time ago and at the same time like it was just yesterday. Because there is a time in between I’ve forgotten how it feels like, I’ve lost my way to the place where she belongs in my heart, the memory of her in my brain locked deep down in which I haven’t visited so long that I’ve lost the key to it. It’s tragic to have put aside something so crucial to my life just because I’ve traveled from one world to another (metaphorically) adding important figures one after another in my life, I was too happy to even look back and get a glimpse of the important ones that I’d neglected over years. So one day I’ve lost faith in the things that I couldn’t keep track of. And then today, with one look on her face and one little gesture of her giving me a letter showing her support in my exam, assuring me she’s still there and always will be when I thought she had ceased before, that’s when it totally melts my heart. It’s given me the opportunity to finally stop and look back on things, remind myself the taste of our beautiful friendship. So there I am, sensing the surge of warm tears behind my eyes, wanting to shout out: dearly, shall us be friends until the ticking of the clock halts in us.

Venipuncture/Venepuncture Hands-on

The first time I let people take blood on me, I felt like I was having a roller coaster ride-like the spaceshot in Genting, when you are hung in the middle of the air of 20-storey height and waiting for it to dash down in full force and you hold your breath for it and wait for the moment to arrive-that was the kind of moment I had for my very first time of being poked. Because you see, the thought of pain is just overwhelming, but the truth is the actual feeling of pain might just be less overwhelming after all. Anyway, after being poked, I was just simply buoyant over the fact that I've been POKED for my first time eventually, I did conquer my fear over the thought of pain and I pretty much had a very 'high' moment of my life!

So I thought, now that I had my first time of being poked, it's time for me to poke other people some other time, and today, I had my chance *YAY*(shouting inside)!

So today I had my clinical session in PPUKM, there're a few doctor stuff that we had to learn: 1. interprete chest X-ray; 2. venipunture and; 3. listen to the heart sound.

We went on to the chest X-ray part after listening to the briefing, it was very catchy looking at all those abnormal X-rays and being explained to. Following that, we rotated to the next station which was venipuncture and when we arrived there was already people practicing on each other and it was so thrilling by watching alone already. However, there was one not so successful trial that had put the sudject in great pain, could see right through her expression, just dreadful, blood was coming out, subject ouch-ing in pain and the handler not sure to go further in or out *shiver

Anyway, after we were brieved about it, we tried on a mannequin first, even though wasn't really successful but till the end I still decided to do it on a real human being as I didn't wanna regret over missing the chance. But don't be scared by the sound of it, coz now that I know, I'm fully capable in fact haha! Okay, after me and Ryan reached our consensus of being each others' victim, I had my go before him. And here goes the drill:

For starter, I gathered all the essentials needed, a syringe, a needle, gloves, alcohol swab and a cotton. Next thing I did was to feel the vein, choose a nice and conspicuous one, wear on my gloves, tie the tourniquet and prepare the needle and syringe. When all things were set, here I went, holding the syringe, toughened up my mental state a bit convincing myself that I'm gonna do best and started to approach the VEIN(I didn't notice how Ryan looked but Pau told me later on that he was quite anxious watching me lolx!!)Anyway, maintaining the needle at 15 to 30 degrees, I firmly pushed the needle in without a problem, well at the same time I could see my hand which was holding the syringe shaking quite a bit, god knows how the owner of the vein felt(but it's not that I could control, I wasn't nervous at all alright). Then I kept on pushing it waiting the back flow to appear but after a bit less then half of the needle had gone in the back flow still didn't appear. So, the teaching staff asked me to stop and start to pull the blood out and surprisingly, it did come out which indicated my golden success! hurray^^

After that was Ryan's turn for revenge. And he did all the pre-procedure preparation and found my vein too. One thing to highlight here is that my vein was praised!!Ohhohoho! The staff said it was a really nice vein and told Ryan not to mess up with it and lose my vein(and then I thought well it's okay coz if he loses my vein I still have my VAIN-ity)erhm, and then when all set, he began to insert the needle. Watching it go in and the transient stinging pain were quite thrilling, I think the pain might have triggered the release of Endorphine in my brain hah! Anyway, it was quite a success too but not that much compared to my 'GOLDEN' one hah!!Coz too bad an hour and a half later, it became like this:

However, none of his fault, just some insignificant local hypersensitivity, now it has subsided most of it. Anyway, I wanna do more venipuncture in the future, might even get addicted to it hah.

ATM Card?? CREDIT Card??

Usually people with sanity have no trouble telling between CREDIT card or ATM card, but with all due respect, I don’t mean people who can’t recognize a CREDIT card from an ATM card like myself are to be called insane, coz that’s just so rude, isn’t it??
So here are my defenses:
i. It was an early morning, my mind hadn’t waken up yet.
ii. I had an empty stomach, the desperation had obviously taken away my ability of reasoning
iii. They were both green in colour, can’t blame me rite?? Colour tricks.

ATM card? CREDIT card?

This is what happened:

It was a morning in the airport, it was our last day in Taiwan, the morning for our departure back to Malaysia, the morning to say goodbye to the land we’d no longer be standing on. Since it was an early flight, we had to wake up even before the dawn to get to the airport to check-in. We got up at 4 in the morning only after 2 to 3 hours of a ‘nap’, then we got on to the bus to the airport at 4.30. After checking in, it was 7am and all of us decided to catch our breakfast before boarding the flight. So we went into a café, and before I placed my order I asked if they accept credit card coz I’ve bled out of all my NTD already, literally broke(of course I didn’t tell them that)hah! Was so relieved when the girl said yes, and then I excitedly took out a GREEN card which I so confidently assumed as my CREDIT card and passed it to the girl. So unexpectedly to the me at that particular moment, the card failed to read, what I did to prevent myself from looking awkward was that I nonchalantly said to the girl maybe the VISA machine can’t read mastercard and told her to cancel the order and quickly moved out of sight.


And then my instinct chipped in and told me to have another try in another shop, so I walked to Starbucks feeling undefeatable, asked if they accept mastercard, and then once again I confidently handed them the same card as I used at the last shop. But this time, the girl staring rather bizarre at the card, asked me where the mastercard label was. So I was thinking what a stupid troublesome CREDIT card,no shops in Taiwan accept it. Once again I canceled my order and tried to move out of sight unnoticedly. While putting my card back into my purse, *DING*suddenly as if the light from heaven had shined on me for the first time!! As if that was the moment I was finally fully awakened, as if that was the first time I noticed another Green card lying in my purse silently all along, therefore, I immediately recognized the real CREDIT card from the imposter held in my hand! Rather thrilled, I said out loud to the girl that I’ve actually found my real CREDIT card already, so the girl made my order. And finally being able to purchase, I sighed in relief, I sighed in the fact that how well I’d just embarrassed myself and I sighed for this silly morning. *SIGH*

The rest of the day was just fine, thank god! Except that we had experienced some turbulence while our plane was pushing through the clouds which I thought was super cool and the speedy landing which was like a spaceshot experience both made the flight come to live!

Oh yea, there was also a quarrel between the poor stewardess with an aunty who didn’t know when to shut up. She was ranting and ranting ‘bilibalabilibala’ about something like her knee being bumped by the cart and being waken up from her sleep. Sick of this kinda people, didn’t realize she was just embarrassing herself all along.
Ok, that’s about it^^