At the Clinic
for the longest time, i've been procrastinating. but die die have to go today - it was my pre-employment medical examination. so what to do? go lor.

i hate going for such appointments because more often than not, the queue is pretty long. just have to wait, wait.. and do more waiting for your turn. you Q for xrays, then you Q to see the doc, you Q again to take your height and weight and eyesight... and you continue Q-ing. -_-

what freaked me out today wasn't the long Q. it was the needles and the doctor's un-pro-ness. i walked into the small little room and as usual, the doctor invited me to take my seat. he started fumbling over his stethoscope as he tried to check my lungs and heart beat. he told me to stop breathing as he listened through his stet. i almost got breathless, cos he took his own sweet time! and as i continued breathing, he said, can u stop breathing? this is so weird! i thought normally you don't need to stop breathing for the doc to listen thru the stet?

what's more worrying was when he said, i think i heard some weird noises from your heart. has any doctor told you about your heart problems? i looked at him with a blank face, huh? can you repeat? what heart problem? and he was like, okay nevermind. maybe you need to lie on the couch and i have to do further testing. after a second round, he then said, he must be hearing things and marked on my medical record sheet as everything normal. ah, what duh?

when i thought i could leave, he said it is time to do the blood test. i thought it was the normal pricking of the finger. no! he pulled out his long needle and i got even more freaked out. needles?! oh no. then he started with my left hand, trying to find the vein... then back to the right hand... then back to the left hand again... then back to the right hand... it was pretty scary as he held his needle while he tried to find my faint-looking green vein. when he finally did, he was like - "Ah-ha! i found it. i THINK it is here." oh man, when he said that, i felt that i'm just seriously the suay one today to have gotten myself such a horrigible doctor.

when it was time to leave the place, i was truly relieved. goodness. never wana see the doc again.