Top JC?
11:56 pm - Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Imagine this: u're late for work, and ur bus just came. In fact, this is de third. U missed two b4 this. As u tried to board, u can't. Cos it's jam packed with ppl. As de bus leaves de bus stop, what do u see? There's plenty more space at de back! Cos those inside DO NOT want to move to de back. Typical Singaporean behaviour. For some reason, to play safe, they stand near de exit. As if de exit would somehow disappear! Irritating, isn't it? Could it get any worst than this? Well, it could. In my opinion, that is.
In de bus home just now, I think I saw smthg worst than what I've just describe above. I was seated right at de back, and de bus wasn't at all packed. Every1 was sitting, and there wasn't any1 standing. Except one, that is. This bugger, for some reason why I dunno, decided to stand just beside de entry! If that wasn't enough, this guy was from one of the 'top' JCs. All-grey uniform, with de JC emblem/logo in red on de left side of the shirt. I don't want to name names lah, but I guess I'm very detailed enuf here, right? And he alighted only at de 5th stop after de interchange!
Just wtf were u thinking?? Scared can't alight, izzit? Pls lah, even if de bus was packed like sardines, which it was not, u CAN still say 'Excuse me', and alight, right? Standing there like a fool, and making it hard for others to board, is what u were doing. And u came from a 'top' JC? Ofc to be fair, not ALL would be like u lah. But wth?! Cramping too much for de As, and not much brain cells left for some basic courtesy, izzit???
Docs
6:19 pm - Friday, September 19, 2008
Today, I just have a thing against docs lah! Thou I DIDN'T do it on purpose. Both were slips of de tongue. Serious. I swear! These (this?) is how it went:
Doc 1
Location: enclave
Although I'm fasting, I go to de enclave whenever I'm on break. At least being with de team beats being alone in de day room in de ward. De enclave is de staff canteen at NUH, fyi for those not in de know. So anyways, after everyone were done eating just now, we just chatted. Not chatting all de way lah. Intermittent chats and silence. During one of de silence, my thoughts wandered to some of de docs I've crossed paths with in 58. So I said 'Some doctors have this air of arrogance'. And de best part is that I dunno why, I forgot that de table beside us are doctors! It just slipped my mind lah! One of them got so embarassed (I think), she stood up, said to me 'Do I even know you?', and walked away. I was feeling kinda weird sitting there too, so in de end, everyone went back. Thou we still had some time left for our break!
Doc 2
Location: lift
There was these two doctors with us on de lift. It was obvious one was much senior than de other. Reason being his paunch and his receding hairline. He mentioned to her smthg abt not limiting her choices. Smthg like advising her lah. Halfway from basement to level 5, some healthcare assistants shooed us away. Cos we were in de Patients lift, and they had to transfer some patients. De senior doc had already left lah. So it was us, de younger doc n some others. This younger one, a female doc, I was looking at her during de time we were in de lift. She's this petite lady. If not for her NUH staff pass n lanyard, I wouldn't know she's a doc. So outside de lift lobby, as another lift was opening up, I said to a fren:
Me: Just now that one doesn't look like a doc.
D: Which one?
Me: The girl.
R: Shut up! As she was saying this, her eyes were pointing to someone behind me.
And wanna guess who was behind me?
De petite lady doc! Nice one, right? She came from behind me, and walked into de lift.
This time round, in my defense,I didn't see her lah. She was behind me, what.. And D and me broke out in laughter! Guffaw would be a better word lah!
So you see, I DIDN'T do it on purpose. Both were slips of de tongue.
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On a serious note thou, some docs ARE like what I said as above. Arrogant. I dunno why. Yes it's true that ppl generally look up to them, but I don't see why they have to be so stuck up on that, right? And for sure, you docs don't have to look down on nurses like they're some lowly runk on de health services ladder! It's just so putting off!
Q
5:39 pm - Saturday, September 13, 2008
Overheard while queueing to pay for some stuff at NTUC just now.
Man: This queue so long.
Cashier: If this queue so long, next time don't go this queue lah..
I let out a little laugh hearing that! But I guess it's not little enough lah. Cos both man and cashier turned and looked at me. Paiseh a bit, and as I was sms-ing, I pretended to be laughing at what I was reading on my hp. Dunno if they bought my pretending thou. Heh.
On a slightly more serious note, NTUC should really, seriously consider having Express Lanes. If I'm right, Carrefour has this Express Lanes thingy. For ppl who're buying say 10 items or less. Wah lau, de queues were damn, damn snaking long lah! At least at de NTUC at Jurong Point that is. Idk abt other NTUC outlets.
And de funny (or pathetic) thing is, some were queueing to pay for one or two stuff only! Like this man I saw, he took a basket, and all that he had in it were two 1-litre HL packs of milk. Pathetic, right? And in front of him were these ppl with tons and tons of stuff. And he? Waiting like some idiot fool just to pay for two 1-litre HL packs milk? Wt*!
Singaporeans have grown accustomed to queueing I think. Singapore is a fine city? Yeah I guess. And a queueing one at that. :)
Any1 knows where to write to NTUC? Heh..
Fly our flag up high
7:27 am
"Do you know what's it like to be a ___ ___?"
"Yes".
"You will be our ambassador, and fly our flag up high".
She has such a philosophical view of it. Pfft. Can't really blame her lah, I guess. She is de deputy director after all. So she's like just one step below de biggest f***. Up to your interpretation what that word is. Heh.
And, two weeks? More like two days. Whatever it is, it's good news lah. I think.
YCK will nvr be de same again..
Numbers
7:20 am
I don't have any 'favourite' or 'lucky' or 'special' numbers. Thou I do like de number zero, cos it's a number and also NOT a number, depending on ur opinion of it. Some maths hocus-pocus lah. Integers, if I'm right.
But I guess one number combination that I don't really like would be 611. This time, it's some NS hocus-pocus lah. Too lazy to describe/elaborate. Suffice to say that some things are better left the way they are. Never to be re-visited, or looked back on. Some things lah, NOT all of it.
10 years to ROD. Faster get it over and done with lah! Gggrrr..!