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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

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Today's NAPFA seriously sucked for me... Shouldn't have went... Hell, ended up failing 3 stations and falling out of 2.4 cos of stomach cramp... But during this NAPFA I got to know this guy who was enlisted for NS I think and is/was from NYP's engineering or ECC... Very friendly guy. Pity he didn't pass his 2.4 but passed all others with 2 or 3 points... So "sway"... Or else he might have got a silver... Sigh.. I think our performance was adversely affected by the weather. It was so damn HOT... And it just so happened that today there were 2.5 times more participants then usual... Usually there were bout 100 participants but today there were 250. And we were in the last batch taking the test... By the time we got our results back it was nearly 12 and he left after some mutual well-wishing... Stuck in the middle of Toa Payoh wasn't fun. I seriously had no idea where to go and the lady I asked told me to cross the bridge and from there ask. After crossing it I spotted a KFC and had lunch there before heading to the mrt based on total instinct... Thank God I managed to find the MRT... So after that I took the MRT to Redhill, where the idiotic army recruitment centre had to be located; in the middle of NOWHERE. Even after taking the bus, still I had to walked some distance to the ARC itself... Which reminds me of the 1st time I went there with Mic... Haha and thanks to that day today I didn't make the same mistake of walking along the pavement that was separated from the road by intertwined bushes, which we did that day.. So we had to make one big round to cross the damn road... Ah.. Those were the days.. The med check was totally different from the one I took for poly, but I shan't bore and disgust y'all with the details, save one. Blood tests revealed I have "thalassemia", which is basically is "inherited disorder of hemoglobin production", and in complex terms it means "production of the protein portions (globin) of the hemoglobin molecule is decreased, and the globin protein itself is abnormal. The red cells thus produced are smaller ("microcytic") and more pale than normal ("hypochromic"), and are more fragile and prone to early destruction." I wonder what Ms Wong would say to this... The site is here so if by any chance you're interested, check it out. (Just choose any username and pass, it doesn't matter.)
So I've to go back this Friday to confirm this blood test. Oh yea I forgot the part bout the injections... 1st was to test what blood group I belonged to. When they called me back to tell me I've thalassemia, they injected a needle the size of 2 toothpicks as deep as that time I went for blood donation, except the needle was the size of a screwdriver then. Screw it. I still shudder to think that I actually went thru that. LOL. Yeah so by the time the tests were finished it was 5 already. What a day eh. Oh well guess this ends here. Chris out.

chris was reminiscing @ | 5/26/2004 08:25:00 pm

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