Sunday, September 30, 2007. 4:03 AM .
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Blood Donation Drive Cheated
My Feelings.
My Feelings.
Reply to the one and only tag:
zHu-tOu: Haha. Ran out le. Didn't when hunting for animals liao. Haha. Not always got a chance to see all this things running around lah. Sian, now my turn to have TEP. bah..LONG HOURS...gosh. i can't imagine the suffering.
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Today is my first time donating blood! What a breakthrough for me man. Gosh, I've never heard of queuing up to do a good deed before for a few hours but this is ridiculous. I came at 1pm and finish the whole entire process for blood donation nearing 5pm.
Let me elaborate the entire procedure. First, we have to queue up to register for the blood donation, so the queue was visibly very long, probably about 150 people ahead of me for registration but the waiting time wasn't that bad, maybe about half an hour. After that, I have to do this terribly long wait for the doctors to do a check up that I'm good to go for the blood donation, this is very essential as they do not want sick people to do blood donation as it will affect the person receiving the blood. That wait alone made me wait for another 2 hours and 30 minutes before i get to see the doctor.
Getting to see the doctor still must wait some more, an additional half an hour. And what do you do at the doctor there many people will ask, and why take so long? All the doctors did was to merely just check the pulse of the donor then after that, lead you to another doctor to get prick on the finger to check if the blood have enough iron in it. Nothing much. But the doctors were taking ages to get things done man.
Finally, I've got through all the registration and check ups and I'm good to go for the blood donation after 3 and a half hours. So I walk into the room, and saw the people around who were donating blood and the needles in them and the bags filled with blood, I was afraid and started chanting, "Lord have mercy on me". haha. The nurse saw me lead me to a seat where the blood donation would take place.
So she ask, "this is your first time doing blood donation, don't worry, is not pain at all", looking at the forms I've filled up. I looked at her and said, "you can't be kidding me can you? The needles are HUGE!"
While she was still preparing the needles and tubes, i asked her, "Can you work on my right-hand instead? I'm a left-handler." She agreed with me, and walk off for awhile and then came back, applied anesthetic on my LEFT-HAND.
I was like, oh great, there goes my left-hand.
She took out a small little needle filled with local anesthesia, and poke it gently onto the place part where the REAL needle is going to be. That needle was small, but it kinda hurt as it forces its way into my flesh, especially when they are injecting the local anesthesia in that time.
Done with that, here comes the real thing, the BLOODY BIG FAT NEEDLE probably as fat as 16 of these fullstops[.] put together. At the state of panic, I ask the nurse while she was still preparing the needle, "Err, my friends who donated blood before and told me that if you miss 'Q', must redo again. Err, Auntie, this is my first time leh, can don't miss the target please?" The nurse replied in a friendly jovial way, "Choy! Choy! Choy! Later you say so much then really kena, you better zip your mouth and go through the process quietly ah, if not later really happen then you know."
At this time, the needle was just a few centimeters away from my skin, i saw how big that needle was, bah...
All the thoughts of fear was rushing through my head. Pain was seemly felt like a taboo at that time. Already the first needle was so small, but it had a little impact, what is more with the big fat needle that was coming way, I'm gonna get a blow of my life.
As the needle was aim precisely at the spot where it should be, I was also prepared for the stabbing pain that was about to incur. The needle gently slides in deep into the flesh and suddenly a rush of blood came flowing out into the tube to the bag where the blood is to be contain. 'Phew!', what a relief, not a pain at all. That needle actually cheated my emotion, made me freaked out for nothing. But nevertheless, it was a success and the blood flowed in smoothly. Praise the Lord for that.
After a minute or 2, my bag was filled with my blood and I was ready to remove the needle from my arm. So those tapes on my arm have to be remove first before the needle could be taken out. And so the nurse happily remove the first tape on my hand really fast and "OWWwW!", there goes my arm hair onto the tape. Realizing that she removed the sticky tape too quickly, the second tape nearer the needle, she did it much gently. Then the needle slides out and finally, the long grueling process was OVER AT LAST!
I was bandage and I'm done. Out I go probably a kilo lighter from the lost of blood.
Girls, this would probably be a good way to start losing weight, you do a good deed and at the same time you grow lighter. =D
Thursday, September 13, 2007. 6:32 AM .
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No time to blog during the holidays sia.
kel: haha. yeah. i love this as a blog song too although i realize i got bored hearing it whenever i open my blog. haha. And sure, i can send you this song=D
Dori: Oh man. so sorry. haha. yeah. i think imma link u le.
tanpeng: yeah, i drew those! haha. thanks for the compliment! haha.
sahara: haha. that was not cutety mama, that was shitty mama. cuz my internet was down that time. hahaha. i didnt mean to scold anyone, i just tend to use that word when things goes wrong. yup!.
khad: haha. you ask him lah. he that time visit my blog, and tell me he is piss cuz i didnt put his face on my blog. So okay lor, in order to please him, i put more of his face lor. make him happy if that would do. haha.
py: eh. so long didnt talk to me, then start calling me crazy, what is this man. horrible girl.=P
Leenx: Sia lah. call me emperor, still dare to chop my head off ah?? u siao ah? hahahaha.
debbie: hello to you too!!=D
My Experience with New Creation Church. - 23/09/07
Today after 3 years, my family have finally once again go to church together. We were going to the church my elder sis just got planted to, i.e. New Creation Church.
Personally, I do have my own church and I'm very proud of it and that is City Harvest Church. So when I got to New Creation Church, I had a major culture shock, they were different from my church in several ways, but their preaching is the same, they speak of the same one true God Jesus Christ.
At first, i was really disappointed in the way their members were discipled, they didn't come early and their pastor had to wait for them before he could start service. They don't clap with the rhythm of their praise and many weren't singing along. And went their pastor is trying his very best to stir them up, they were like just staring at him. When the pastor did the alter call, you could see a great number of people start flowing out of the stadium before church is considered dismiss.
After awhile, I soon came to realized that their church were practically the same, is just that the people there are less responsive when pastor is preaching, and that could be attributed to the fact that most of their members there are adults. In fact, I even soon came to realize that their church had most of their members going with their families. So the difference between City Harvest and New Creation is that one cater to the youth while the other is for the adults.
This Church, New Creation, is an awesome church, with a superb pastor who love the lost souls. I thank God for this church and I was indeed bless with their service I had with them, even though I had a culture shock. But I think this would goes the same for them if they were to visit my church, they'll probably get a shock of their time too.
NYP-CHC Camp - 10-12 Sept
This is so far the only camp that i felt until so relax, no ter kan or anything, just pure fun and joy. hahaha. The 3 best thing of this camp was none other than 1. Dodge ball 2. Ultimate frisby and 3. TAU POK!!!
Ha! Nothing beats the last one man, it was like the trademark of this camp.
I'll just talk about the last game we had for this camp, and that is dodge ball, we played that game the longest. Okay, at the start, it was the official game where there were much rules and regulation and even lots of pausing while the game was in commence and no throwing with all your might, it was that fun, but not that great. Than after that, when everything was over, no more judge to judge us, it was all hell break lose is a Christian camp. Dodge ball without a judge, without any pausing and without limits of strength use. Super SHIOK!!
At the start, it was a boys vs girls game, apparently i was in the girls team as i was a strong thrower and it would be really pain for the girls if i here to hit them with my ball i throw at them. Haha. my team kept losing, and what happen is that the guy that hit the last girl out of the game would be tau pok. There was no rules in saying that "thou shall not hit the last girl out of the game", it was just a random attack if anyone would put it. Because it wasn't a rule or anything, none of the guys actually knew what was going to happen if they hit the last girl out. The moment he hit the girl, someone would shout, "Wah!! so ungentlemanly, TAU POK!!" and there goes the poor dude who thought he was the hero of the team. That only happen for the first few rounds, after that no more, cuz everyone knew that was coming.
Service with Nick Vujicic - 09/09/07
This is one of the most amazing man I've ever seen in my life. He is a man without limbs but yet he lives a life much more fuller than most average people you see in the streets. He does not see the things that he doesn't have, but yet sees the things that he have.
He was born without limbs but he is very active, he can swim, and he play soccer, and he is superb comedian. He keeps making the church laugh.
He showed us a video of his life, it was super touching and you really feel that often we blame God for the things that we fail to have when we forgotten the things he have provided for us. I nearly cried just watching that video. Trust me, if you were in my shoes, you would probably flood the whole of expo if you saw this man and the attitude he have in life.
He was born without limbs and he was actually suicidal when he was a youth. He was depress that he was not born like the ordinary children, and his schoolmates were mocking at him, he wanted to die and end it all.
But he didn't in the end, i cant recall why. But soon after that, he start understanding why he was born without limbs. He used to blame God for that but after that he didn't. He knew his purpose and he accepted the way he is and is happy with it.
This man is so positive about life, even without limbs, he achieved much, he even got 2 degrees too! He didn't seat back and gave up, instead, he pressed on. He is a superb encourager!
Nick Chia's sister wedding. - 8 September
Congrats to Germain and Peter!! Have a happy marriage yeah!
Gosh. To think that i can constantly keep up with blogging was just a wishful thought man.
zhu-tou: Ha! You better be touch man, i'm like the nicest person in the world can. haha. Hey. Here is another animal for you to see. Although it ain't mating like the rest, but still, yeah. a BIG FAT TOAD for you=Dkel: haha. yeah. i love this as a blog song too although i realize i got bored hearing it whenever i open my blog. haha. And sure, i can send you this song=D
Dori: Oh man. so sorry. haha. yeah. i think imma link u le.
tanpeng: yeah, i drew those! haha. thanks for the compliment! haha.
sahara: haha. that was not cutety mama, that was shitty mama. cuz my internet was down that time. hahaha. i didnt mean to scold anyone, i just tend to use that word when things goes wrong. yup!.
khad: haha. you ask him lah. he that time visit my blog, and tell me he is piss cuz i didnt put his face on my blog. So okay lor, in order to please him, i put more of his face lor. make him happy if that would do. haha.
py: eh. so long didnt talk to me, then start calling me crazy, what is this man. horrible girl.=P
Leenx: Sia lah. call me emperor, still dare to chop my head off ah?? u siao ah? hahahaha.
debbie: hello to you too!!=D
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My Experience with New Creation Church. - 23/09/07
Today after 3 years, my family have finally once again go to church together. We were going to the church my elder sis just got planted to, i.e. New Creation Church.
Personally, I do have my own church and I'm very proud of it and that is City Harvest Church. So when I got to New Creation Church, I had a major culture shock, they were different from my church in several ways, but their preaching is the same, they speak of the same one true God Jesus Christ.
At first, i was really disappointed in the way their members were discipled, they didn't come early and their pastor had to wait for them before he could start service. They don't clap with the rhythm of their praise and many weren't singing along. And went their pastor is trying his very best to stir them up, they were like just staring at him. When the pastor did the alter call, you could see a great number of people start flowing out of the stadium before church is considered dismiss.
After awhile, I soon came to realized that their church were practically the same, is just that the people there are less responsive when pastor is preaching, and that could be attributed to the fact that most of their members there are adults. In fact, I even soon came to realize that their church had most of their members going with their families. So the difference between City Harvest and New Creation is that one cater to the youth while the other is for the adults.
This Church, New Creation, is an awesome church, with a superb pastor who love the lost souls. I thank God for this church and I was indeed bless with their service I had with them, even though I had a culture shock. But I think this would goes the same for them if they were to visit my church, they'll probably get a shock of their time too.
NYP-CHC Camp - 10-12 Sept
This is so far the only camp that i felt until so relax, no ter kan or anything, just pure fun and joy. hahaha. The 3 best thing of this camp was none other than 1. Dodge ball 2. Ultimate frisby and 3. TAU POK!!!
Ha! Nothing beats the last one man, it was like the trademark of this camp.
I'll just talk about the last game we had for this camp, and that is dodge ball, we played that game the longest. Okay, at the start, it was the official game where there were much rules and regulation and even lots of pausing while the game was in commence and no throwing with all your might, it was that fun, but not that great. Than after that, when everything was over, no more judge to judge us, it was all hell break lose is a Christian camp. Dodge ball without a judge, without any pausing and without limits of strength use. Super SHIOK!!
At the start, it was a boys vs girls game, apparently i was in the girls team as i was a strong thrower and it would be really pain for the girls if i here to hit them with my ball i throw at them. Haha. my team kept losing, and what happen is that the guy that hit the last girl out of the game would be tau pok. There was no rules in saying that "thou shall not hit the last girl out of the game", it was just a random attack if anyone would put it. Because it wasn't a rule or anything, none of the guys actually knew what was going to happen if they hit the last girl out. The moment he hit the girl, someone would shout, "Wah!! so ungentlemanly, TAU POK!!" and there goes the poor dude who thought he was the hero of the team. That only happen for the first few rounds, after that no more, cuz everyone knew that was coming.
Service with Nick Vujicic - 09/09/07
This is one of the most amazing man I've ever seen in my life. He is a man without limbs but yet he lives a life much more fuller than most average people you see in the streets. He does not see the things that he doesn't have, but yet sees the things that he have.
He was born without limbs but he is very active, he can swim, and he play soccer, and he is superb comedian. He keeps making the church laugh.
He showed us a video of his life, it was super touching and you really feel that often we blame God for the things that we fail to have when we forgotten the things he have provided for us. I nearly cried just watching that video. Trust me, if you were in my shoes, you would probably flood the whole of expo if you saw this man and the attitude he have in life.
He was born without limbs and he was actually suicidal when he was a youth. He was depress that he was not born like the ordinary children, and his schoolmates were mocking at him, he wanted to die and end it all.
But he didn't in the end, i cant recall why. But soon after that, he start understanding why he was born without limbs. He used to blame God for that but after that he didn't. He knew his purpose and he accepted the way he is and is happy with it.
This man is so positive about life, even without limbs, he achieved much, he even got 2 degrees too! He didn't seat back and gave up, instead, he pressed on. He is a superb encourager!
Nick Chia's sister wedding. - 8 September
Congrats to Germain and Peter!! Have a happy marriage yeah!