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^^

A Feeling

I have a FEELING.
And that’s why I feel rushes of adrenaline swimming through my vein.
And my heart is pumping so hard I almost can feel it popping out my chest.
My pulse rate is reaching 113bpm.
It’s not quite an excited feeling and I also didn’t have any nerve-wrecking situation.
So what is this?

And then I thought I have a FEELING,
But now it feels more like mixed FEELINGs that cannot be interpreted.
I know this might sound like an insane person talking,
But yet, I’m having a FEELING and mixed FEELINGs!!(nah, shoot me)
I had this before, it came out of nowhere and it just happened.
So is it just me or what?

Anyway, when you have a FEELING, of course you should listen to Utada’s phenomenal belting like in:
Kremlin Dusk & You Make Me Want To Be A Man

Comparison In Expenditure

Yes, if you've read yilian's latest blog 'shopping spree', we went shopping today! Totally crazy coz we've walked for the whole day and came back only at 10pm. In the morning we had the meet-the-juniors session at time square and went back to fac to listen to some nonsence the HE prof told about the importance of having the subject in our co-curriculum(as if our curriculum wasn't heavy enough).So I was saying we had to listen about that but i was just hearing actually since I wasn't paying attention. In less than an hour later we were dismissed so me and yilian went back to time square for the 2nd time(at least for me)

So in summary, this is how our shopping spree went:

WALKed to the monorail station --> WALKing around timesquare shop by shop to find the dress(to no avail) --> saw watson, WALKed in to get yl's cleanser and remover --> more WALKing and WALKed pass a lot of shops that forbid trying(frustrated) --> gave up and WALKed to sungei wang instead --> 1st foor --> 2nd floor --> 3rd floor(all by WALKing!) --> back to ground floor and finally met this gorgeous-looking dress -------------------------------------------------->

(right after we met this good-looking assistant in KeyNg) --> WALKed around sungei wang to find Kim Gary's coz our memory of the location didn't serve us right,bummer! --> after dinner WALKed to monorail, from chowkit station WALKed back to faculty and drove back to ktsn. Phew...What a shopping spree a.k.a WALKathon of the year!!

Since this blog is about comparison in expenditure, these are what I get from the shopping spree aka walkathon:

1.nice meal(fu chong's fried rice) in food & tea with juniors

2. gorgeous-looking dress

3.belt to match the dress

4.dinner in Kim Gary's

5.Stax's chips

6. some kuih

7. paraesthesia & paraparesis

All the above cost only except for item 7.

Total spending = $134.50

NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How come it's more than yl's T.T,i got fewer items =.=''

BTW, here's a super spellbinding song , Final Distance by Utada Hikaru live. Check it out for yourself and you might as well want to compare with the studio version.

The Ultimate Benefit Of A Cellphone

So today's spotlight goes to these awesome phone(well it was supposed to look even more fantastic 3 years ago but you know the aging process is always inevitable,sad). This phone is the first generation of sony ericcson walkman phone(so i heard and proud of it) W800i, white n orange in colour which makes it look so catchy and gorgeous and all, 2 megapixel, 1 Gb memory with bluetooth and infrared functions and most importantly its walkman function as well. I've adored it for the past 3 years because it never fails to do good deeds to me in a way like with it i can take photos anytime i want, blast my auditory senses with all the cool mp3 i downloaded illegally(opps), text as frequently as i like and make or receive phone calls to/from people if i feel like it XD.

So like i said, it has never failed to do me favours, not even today!! And why? Here it goes:

The incident happened at 8sth pm and I was just taking shower in one of the 3 bathrooms in my block, as usual my phone was blasting songs from my playlist and i was happily singing along with it, as it went: im nt gonna write you a love song, coz you asked for it, coz you need one......(oh yea,i bring my phone n play songs on it in shower) and I was concurrently placing back my body shampoo to the top of the wall deviding the middle and the right bathrooms, while I thought it was safely placed, I actually heard a loud 'PONG' and by the time I looked up, my body shampoo was nowhere in sight already. And 'panic attack!!', I haven't done using the body shampoo yet so how am I supposed to continue my bath??!!OHH NOOO...( oh yea, FORTUNATELY, the bathroom next door wasn't occupied or im nt sure wat would've happened to the sad sad person, she could be depressed for the rest of her life about being in an accident of 0.01 incidence, let's thank god there wasn't this someone tat i would've needed to grieve for)

Thus, withholding the sense of ridiculousness tat almost made me laugh bitterly, I picked up my phone which was still nonchalantly playing Love Song by Sara Bareilles and texted YiLian asking her to come to the bathroom for an emergency help. Then effortlessly she showed up in the bathroom expectedly in less than a minute and were asked to pick up my body shampoo at the fortunately unoccupied bathroom next door where it all happened and place it back on top of the wall. Therefore, here a toast to Ms YiLian ~everyday~ for helping me out in such a critical incident! Because of that, i could carry on with my shower peacefully.

So here's the catch and the reason why my phone should be the highlight of the day:

It all started with my possesion of this fantastic phone with its mp3 player, its texting ability and its space for 'KEY'chain(literally),because since it can play music and text people and unlock my door after i finish my bath, ergo I brought it into my bathroom, ergo the text that saved me from this bewildering situation. So after 3 years of companionship, you still never fail to surprise me!! I hope our relationship can laz as long as eternity stands!

~dedicated to my beloved W800i walkman phone~

and this is my first post and frankly speaking im nt sure if it's gonna be the last. with all regards, thanks for reading anyway~~