Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Bad Experience of Blood Donation~~

As I said I shall elaborate more on why I think it was a bad experience~~~ This was my second time to donate blood... And I finally got the little red book. Haha.. Ok... It happened when we went to Taiping Central. I thought I want to try finding a dress for Bahan Night there. But the mall was quite small, so my search ended in about 15 minutes time. When Sze-Lyn and I were at the ground floor roaming around to wait for time to pass, she was told that some of them were donating blood at the first floor. I was very excited, so we decided to go and have a look. When I queued up, Lian, Ann Nee, Ming Chung and Derrick were already there. I was just 3 persons behind Derrick for registration. After all the procedures of filling up forms and checking blood pressure and all, all four of them got their place already. Ann Nee even almost done. Lian has been sitting there for quite some because they can't find her veins. I sat down and chatted with them. Before I realized, more and more people came and some even took up my turn. So I stood up and waited. But there were already two persons taken my turn. Thank God for the guy who saw me and gave me the place. Ming Chung and Derrick were done then even before I sat down... =( After sitting down, no one seems to bother about me.. I sat there for quite some time and no one attended to me... Tow Lian was finally done too... Left me alone.... =( Ming chung went to tell the nurse and finally someone came... She tried finding my veins on my left hand and she said cannot see. So I said right hand might be better.. So I changed place. Then she said my veins are too HALUS... The first time she poked, tak kena... So she pulled out the syringe and I had to wait some more before she try the second time... Argh... Already feeling very guilty to make so many people to wait for me... Some more Ann Nee was not feeling well after the blood donation.... After a LONG time(long time to me la), she came again to try the second time. She kept on saying cannot find my veins and I kept on saying also the first time it was very easy to find. Haha.... I did not know whether it was her problem or what that this time was painful. But she finally got it.... The "flow rate" of my blood was fast. It was done in quite a short time la.. And thanks to Derrick I donated slightly more than I was supposed to... The funny thing was Aaron and Lian were saying very fast but Derrick kept telling me that there was a long way to go, don't get deceived as he was the one looking at the weigh. Mana tau, he baca wrongly la... Hahaha.... Now my hand got two needle hole's scars. And Ann said it looked like I was bitten by vampire... Where got vampire bite here one?? Hahaha... I thank God that I do not have any bruises like some people always do after donating blood.... Will it stop me from donating the third time?? Hm... Don't think so... =)

Monday, February 23, 2009

Final Year Retreat ROCKS!!!!

I have been lost for quite awhile AGAIN... Have been very busy with CF concert and FYP after the Chinese Year... Too much to update but I have very little time now since this is 5.00a.m. in the morning and I need to sleep for two hours before I wake up and continue my works. Perhaps I just update the latest one first.. Since the memories are still FRESH... Hahaha....
This past weekend, we had our final year retreat at Maxwell Hill... Only 15 of us managed to make it for this retreat where 4 were the master students and FES worker. To those who can't make it, you guys really missed out a lot of fun ler.... =P
On the first night, we stayed at Derrick's grandma's house. It was quite a cozy place actually for me... Nothing much happened that night except four of us were so excited about playing mahjong... We purposely borrowed and brought a mahjong set... -_-|||
The next morning, we had breakfast and then bought stuff for the steamboat dinner. We reached Maxwell Hill later than the time we expected but still we decided to hike part of jungle trek. It was tiring because I seriously have not been excersizing after KK trip. But still we managed to reach the place in the estimated time. Then we took the jeep up to the place we stay. We stayed at... Hm.... I forgot what's the name. But it was a nice bungalow with lots of space for us to "entertain" ourselves with mahjong and rummy-o. Hahaha..... I guess I was at the mahjong table most of the time for the rest of the day when we were not eating, bathing or having session. Hahahha.... The steamboat dinner was quite nice. Thanks to Master Chef, Ah John! Thanks to Yew Kong and Aaron as well who washed the dish for us.... Hehehe.... Then more MAHJONG.... We had our session after one game... The session was about "Called to choose, called to community". It was quite an impactful session though. But to me, the interactions between all of us were more significant. Then more MAHJONG after the session... and you know what, I won with 十三幺. But some of them do not know what is 十三幺 since almost 80% of them just started to learn playing mahjong during this retreat.... Anyway, I won!!! To me, it was like something that only happens once in a life time.
The next day we had a short session before leaving the hill. we wanted to go Taman Tasik to continue the session but too bad it was raining. SO we went for lunch and we had banana leave rice... Hm.... no comment because I do not know how to comment. Ok lo~~ Hahaha.... After that back to Taman Tasik again, and it was raining again. Managed to take few group photos and had a more proper ending of the session. Then few of us decided to go Taiping Central while some went back. Nothing much there but the most unforgettable one was my bad experience of donating blood there. Should talk more about this experience in the next post since this is seriously time to sleep. Only one and a half hour left. Opss....


Proofs of my 十三幺... Hahaha....