a misfortune day.

today, aha! i woke up at 930 thanks to my scatterbrained mum...
she woke me up through my (sad to say) corridor-faced window, to open the door for her cuz she forgot her keys..
and when she entered, she actually also forgot her little pouch which normally contains coins and some cash and her EZ-link card.

after more lazing around in bed tryin to get back to sleep, i surrendered and went to wash up, while my mum left the house to get her hair done.
watched Bruce Almighty to waste time away till 11, and den i showered and dressed up and got ready to leave.
when i reached downstairs, i met my mum! and so we left for Ikea together.
the new Ikea @ Tampines is rather cool. and i think it's kinda bigger than the one at Queenstown area.

the place was freezing, and when we left, the sun outside was scorching. but what the hell, while the sunny sunshine was killing us with the heat, it was rainin too! and on the tarred-road, the rain started evaporatin so the effect looked as though the roads were "smoking"!
cool. (:

went Bugis after that while my mum went home.
bought my pretty accessories! ((((((((((: (to show how happy i am! haha)
and my pocket like, burnt a really big hole. cuz the accessories alone cost a whooping total of $99.40!!! -flabberghasted now that i totalled the sum-

somemore shopping but i cant divulge what i bought. hehs. (:
so total i spent like, $183.5?!?!
oh my god. now that i did the maths... I NEED REIMBURSEMENT.
seriously.

chionged home on 133.
and did i mention how bloody irritating people are, with loud ringtones on the bus???
gosh, for heaven's sake, can commuters please be CONSIDERATE when they are using their electronic devices?
people may be tired from work, or like me, after a whole day of shopping.
physically and mentally exhausted.
the long journey home on the bus or MRT is actually some time they can REST.
but how can they when irritants like you all keep having your LOUD RINGTONES BLARING INTO THEIR EARS EVERY FIVE BLOODY SECONDS EVERY TIME YOU HAVE AN INCOMING MESSAGE?!!!
for heaven's sake, turn in lower or even to silent mode if you jolly well know you're receiving a msg every 5 seconds or a call every 1 minute.
BAH.
inconsiderate people.
it's not only to commuters that wants to rest know.
even those that are energetic and wide awake find it irritating.

there was one bloody guy who had his phone in his back pocket and when his phone rings (every 5 seconds), the entire bus can hear it. -literally.
and it's so irritating cuz it was blaring into my ears. and they are all messages but the ringtone is bloody long.
and he always waits till the freaking long ringtone ends before he reacts and takes the phone out of his pocket. (as though you cant touch the phone when it's ringing)
ANNOYING.
I DONT CARE YOURS HAS 64 or 128 or 256 or what-have-you polyphonic ringtones but just SHUT IT UP OK?
such person should be thrown off the bus.


anyway, i chionged home, dropped my shopping stuffs.
den chionged to the Serangoon Interchange to meet Xiuyi.
since, (sadly) 0612 gatherin has been cancelled due to attendance problem, i asked xiuyi out for dinner to do some catching up! (:
we headed for chomp chomp!!!
ordered carrot cake and the must-have BBQ-ed Stingray with loads of chilli! yum.
and when we were about to start, i was sliding the plastic cover out so that i could use the chopsticks and tada!!!
the splinter got into my thumb. (what the hell)
it hurt like shit.
it was about 2cm long.
and while trying to tug it out, we reduced it to about 1.8cm.
so the remaining splinter that's stickin out was only about 0.3cm long.
afraid that we'll break it further, and the remainin 1.5cm long splinter will be stuck inside, we left it alone and continued with our dinner.

after dinner, we headed for a clinic opposite chomp chomp.
the receptionist was amused how the splinter got in.
so was the doc. =X
the doctor is really psychotic.
he said "wah. it's shallow but deep. nevermind, i'll pluck the splinter out for you"
i said "huh, what if it gets stuck?"
he replied, "if it get stucks den no choice, i'll have to cut the wound up and take out for you"
me: o_O -scared scared- "huh, but i scared pain leh. cuz when we were trying to pluck it out just now, it felt like it's cutting into the flesh.. very painful."
he said, "i'll apply some anticeptic cream for you then. it'll numb the pain."
so after the anticeptic gel application, the doc went to get his tools : tweezers, scapel, gauzes and i dont think there's anything else...

he examined my wound and gently tugged the splinter..
"just closed your eyes and clench your teeth and it'll be out very soon."
i did, and thought, "oh no. what if it hurts like shit, den if i dont look at it, my reaction will be damn big den the splinter break how?!!!!" so i opened my eyes.
when he tugged, i thought, "what the hell. what bloody anticeptic cream is that. it only stopped the stinging but i can still feel the splinter cutting my flesh!!!" and i winced, "ahhh."
he tugged a few more times, and then, with one more final and decisive tug, he pulled the splinter out. piercing pain in my thumb, and i winced once more "AWWWW."

he started examinin my wound again, and he scraped and poked with the tweezers, but there was no blood. and he said "hmm. no blood leh."
i asked, "so is that good or bad?"
he said, "can be good or bad... ..." and continued "i think you might get an infection, plus the chopsticks arent very clean.. you want an anti-tetanus shot?"
"i'll give you an anti-tetanus shot"
me: =X "huh... dont want larh. i dont want injection.. very pain."
he said, "you dont take the jab later you got infection then you die know!"
and after busyin around, he cleaned my wound with some alcoholic stuffs and he also cleaned my arm.
den he frightened me to death with this big fat syringe. (cuz normally those injection syringe quite small one ma. his is like those 5-10ml looking ones that we use in bio lab leh!!!)
oh my holy mother cow.

"huh...really injecting ah? very pain leh."
"not pain larh. just close your eyes and clench your teeth and it'll be over!"
i did. you should have seen my face, cuz it was all scrunched up.
and he literally jabbed me with the needle, like those shown on Zhou Xing Chi's (Stephen Chow's) movies you know, where they jab you hard.
i winced in my heart. but dared not flinch or even more than twitch cuz i remembered my dad once said that if i move or my muscles tense up, the needle might break and get stuck inside.
ARGH.

and he pulled the needle out, i immediately felt my arm go weak. :(
and during normal injections, they pull it out and press a cotton hard on the wound.
but he? he just let me bleed!!! until i informed him it's bleedin. den i think he sort of remembered to cover my wound.
when he wiped the wound clean, xiuyi bent over low to check the bleedin, and he said, "eh! dont go so near! later all the germs from your saliva, the air you breathe out gets in den she gets an infection ah, i dont know."
and he continued talkin but i did not understand (the above story was what i could remember as clear as possible cuz half the time i cannot make out what he's speaking. or rather, rattling) and he mentioned something like i need anti-biotics.

i said i dont need, but he insisted as he said there might be an infection.
i thought, "wah lao. trying to earn my money only..."
i declined. and he stared talking about how we should be mindful when we're eating.
he even told us a story that he once choked on a bamboo stick the size of a toothpick while eating noodles.
and it got stuck in his anus when he was shitting.
he asked his wife to pluck it out.
like, WAH. bull.
and he continued into some rather extremist talks about muslims & christians being stupid as they close their eyes and pray before they eat so people could easily poison them... and how they are heartless creatures,911 and blah blah blah.

p.s. the above mentioned does not represent my view or stand.

and we desperately just nodded, hoping he would finish crapping soon and let us go.
in the end, he still prescribed the antibiotics for me. :(
grrr. so in total, the consultation fee was $30!!!
all hails to almighty carmen. :(((((((((( (to show how sad i am)

proceeded to Ice 3 for dessert!


after much yakking and yakking, we left.
and thanks to xiuyi's brilliant idea/suggestion, and my insistence that we do something crazy, we took photo at the roundabout!!!

TADA! with traffic encircling the roundabout non-stop okay!!! utterly embarrassing but we were oblivious to it.our shadows on the grass of the little roundabout island! (:

xiuyi wong at chomp chomp!

carmen wong at chomp chomp!




hearts to hearts we'll always be.
best of friends, you and me.

i know you dont read my blog, but i still wanna say thanks to you for being by my side and reassuring me just now. i know you didn't want to take the seat like, few metres behind and away from me, (and risking getting killed by the psychotic, deranged doc who ranted that you're in his way a million times and that he'll knock you off like a bowling ball) cuz you wanted to be right there with me. love you!