Big Dip of Reality

Monday, November 20, 2006

What a week...really very happening week.

The weekend was unusually unhappening. Tons of things happened. Tons. It's so much more exciting to be a civilian than to be inside camp. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Three days that made me feel much more fulfilling and lively compared to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Friday. My singing partner (lol) wanted a K-box session a lot. And thanks to the early book-out we managed to start singing at around 3. Actually this time was not as "high" previously, but it was still very fun :) and I think it was very worthwhile (only paid $12 each). Our singing group became a bit larger - 6 people, with me, Bear and Justin being the 3 most frequent member...now with Winston John and Sunat...



(Photo thanks to Bear)

Then we went to eat at Billy Bombers. Long time didn't visit since JTS from 05s64.


Saturday. Even more happening. Now me and sunat goes to swim every week at Civil Service Club. I was one train late and there's already a big crowd at Bukit Batok station.

Then I see sunat kneeling down beside this old man who is lying down. There was lots of blood. Apparently sunat is trying to attend to him.

There was really a lot of blood (even more blood than in medic training course IV) from the head. This poor man fell down and hit his head. The blood was quite fluid (luckily) and the blood seemed to clot quite quickly.

Then the MRT staff came to help and came with the First Aid Kit. Without the First Aid Kit we can't even help this old man :( So sunat and the MRT staff did a bit of just pressing the bandage on the wound. This old man didn't want anyone to call his family and kept saying he's OK (But he really isn't)

SCDF people came around 5 min later...and I think they are also NSF and just like us are not very skilled paramedics. Just checked Level of Consciousness and did a bit of checks.

Although it was a short incidence, I was sweating all over already. My whole shirt was wet before going to swim. It was quite scary. Don't know if I can still think calmly during this kind of situations. But as a medic somehow you feel an obligation to help, no matter you are afraid or not...

Sunday. Went to the ticketing agency to book airline tickets to Hong Kong. EVERYTHING IS SO FULLY BOOKED. Went into quite a lot of agencies to ask. X agency said their SQ, Cathay and United Airline are fully booked. Panic. Y agency only has tickets for SQ, but not on the days that I prefer.

So my stay in HK is shorted, and have to come back on 20th. Only have 2 days to make all my necessary documents, hope I still have enough time to do some shopping and bring some souvenirs to everyone here...but schedule will be really tight. Guess I will make a proper trip there (as long as 1 month) when I'm going to ORD.

Weekdays. My emotions were at rock bottom. Felt very tired. My team has a lot of people who "keng"s and don't want to put in their effort. Sometimes really feel quite an idiot to put in effort in deployment or helping to move stores. Everyone in the bunk is just having this "fatigue" and don't want to work.

"Things may be done in the end anyway"

But...I just don't feel right.

Something is just not really right.

I don't want to make my friends worse off to make myself better off. (Allocative efficency?) It's the teamwork that makes the entire thing work. That's why we are all in the team.

Eventful week.