Friday, November 07, 2008
Twenty-Two
Wow. It's Saturday again. It seems like just yesterday when I sat down infront of the TV to watch Psych and Kyle XY. Now I'm going to be watching them again tomorrow. Time really flies, huh? All the days and weeks seem to just blend together, until, one day, gedebak gedebuk, you wake up and suddenly find yourself married with kids, a house, and a career, and you had NO idea when it happened.
Freaky.
Which only makes it fitting for me to mention the interesting things that have happened this past week, to make it stand out from the rest and be forever remembered.
So.
List of Interesting Things That Have Happened This Past Week to Make It Stand Out From
the Rest and Be Forever Remembered.(1) Sunday. Me, Kak Han and Kak Wani (Kak Han's friend) when to the Blood Donation Centre to donate blood. We've been delaying doing it for quite some time now because of the time I had had to devote to my O'Level exams (curse the Os!). So now that the exams and my burden have lessened considerably, we finally allowed ourselves to go. I was really excited because, well, I love donating blood. Does that sound sick? Hmm... No, I don't think so.
So, anyway, once we got there, all smiley and jumpy from the anticipation of doing a good deed, we filled up the necessary forms and handed it in to the counter. After a while, we were called to the desk - and by after a while, I mean immediately after we handed it in. So we sat down.
The lady read through the form I had filled in and asked, "May I see your consent form?"
I froze.
SHIT.You have to be 18 to be able to donate without parental consent. I'm 16, so I need my parent's signature first before donating blood, which makes
no sense to me whatsoever. What, you think I sneaked off under my parents' noses to save lives? Why would I do that, and if so, that would be a bad thing? I'm trying to save people here!
Three people, to be exact. Is that so wrong?!
So yeah. Hahahaha it's always funny on hindsight, but at that time it wasn't. I cried a little, but there really wasn't anything to do. Rules were rules. Despite being the regular rebel that I am, I couldn't very well just run into the donation room and stick the needle into my arm. That would just be plain silly. Instead I was forced to just go back to the waiting room, sit and, well, wait. Kak Han and Kak Wani's forms were fine, so they went to the doctor's office to be checked before disappearing around the corner to have their blood iron level checked while I sat in a dark corner cursing the number 16.
Two minutes, later, they came back.
The passing mark for the amount of iron in your blood is 12.5.
Kak Wani got 8.4.
Kak Han got
12.3.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
That made me feel
much better. Truly, misery loves company.
And thus, we all walked out of the centre with nothing accomplished.
We're thinking of going again in 2 weeks time.
(2) Lily stepped on a toothpick and bled something pretty intense. She went, "OMG someone help me someone help me please OMG!!" which again, in hindsight, is funny. Though, come to think of it, it was funny even then. Sorry Lily, but seriously, you'd think her whole foot had been cut off or something. But anyway.
There she was, screaming, "Help me!"
So I grabbed the first cloth I could find. It was hanging on my room's doorknob, so I whipped it off, pressed it to Lily's foot, and made her sit down.
Lily: "You're using Nina's singlet?!"
Me: "It was the first thing I could find!"
Lily: "Oh God it hurts!"
Sabrina got all excited about seeing the trail of blood she had left on the floor and started calling for my mother.
Nina: "Mama Kak Lily is bleeding!"
When my mum came,
Mama: "AGHHH GOD THE SINGLET! Now who's gonna use it, huh? HUH?!"
Lily: *hysterical* Well, I'm sorry I stepped on the toothpick!!
Hahahahahahaha the drama, the drama.
Welcome to my family.
(3) This hasn't happened yet, but I'm going out today! Having breakfast with Dinah later, then going to Teacher A's party. I miss sitting down and just talking with friends about things other than studies, so I can't wait.
And that's about it.
See you guys later, I hope.
3:44 PM
