rain collector: i'm a blood donor

I watched Harry potter last saturday. hmm... harry is getting hotter. The only disadvantage is his lack of height la... quite short. Haha! I think the show is pale in comparison to previous episodes... Too much details are left out of the movie... No quidditch this time round.. (sad) Plot is abit too dark and diffcult to understand for young children...

while everyone was off to NTU and SMU talks, we chose to boycott them and head for the library...

Four of them looked intently at their notes... (they didn't know that i took a picture of them)

I went for blood donation today!! Grace was there as well but she was not eligible to donate so i was left alone... i went ahead with it of course...

how it goes...

filled up a form with questions that are ahem! very personal like 'have you had sex before?', 'have you had sex with a homosexual before' blah...

proceeded to the doctor for medical screening and she asked the same old questions for double confirmation i guess.

The was off to test the density of my blood i guess. A staple sort of thing was used to prick my middle finger and blood splurt out ok... erm maybe not that exaggerated la but quite a lot of blood k... the nurse used a straw like thing to collect the blood via capillary action. The straw like thing looks like the straw used to drink yakult. She used that straw like thing to prod at my wound and squeeze my finger so that more blood gushed out...painful k... One drop of my precious blood was placed in a blue solution. Mine sank in the blue solution which means i was alright for blood donation...

waited for few minutes for my turn to donate blood. in the meantime, i was looking at the expressions of people. Some guys looked away and cringed when the needle was inserted into their arms... hehe! some looked wide-eyed with shock. Some obviously looked nervous... of course nervous la! i was nervous too ok.i'm human.

the nurse had a hard time locating my vein. Had to squeeze the stress ball real hard... next was followed by sterilisation blah blah and the humongous fat needle was inserted into my vein and immediately my precious blood gushed up to fill up the bag...

took me less than 5 minutes to fill up the bag. i had to continuously do the squeeze ball actions as the bag was being filled up.

witnessed a girl who fainted or somewhat on the verge of fainting and had to be escorted to i-have -no-idea-where by the paramedics...

in another words, donating blood is such a brave act man! I'm not trying to say i'm brave la... but u see...i went there alone. Grace left since she couldn't donate her blood and there was no one to accompany me... not brave... hahaha!

that was so byl... read between the lines, infer, think, think some more and you'll get what i'm trying to imply...

i wanted a blue bandage with smileys on it was got this instead...

Pink one with purple hearts

The nurse asked me whether pink was ok. Obviously i had to say it's ok although i hate pink and have allergy to pink frilly stuff... But it's ok...

had free milo after that to replenish energy. Of couse i felt abit weak in my legs. (i'm feeling weak now still...no energy like that)

Me and my pink bandage

yay! i'm so proud of myself!

Cool!!

I donated blood for the sake of experiencing it la... anyway, donating blood is supposedly a good thing... help save lives especially since dengue is so rampant nowadays...

to digress, durai (ya ya the one involved in NKF saga) got dengue! it was reported in a small section of straits times but still i saw it!! and burst out laughing... a case of retribution? omg! i can't believe i'm so morbid... where's your compassion hazel?

i strutted around the house in an attempt to attract people's attention to my bandage. Despite the bright pink colour, nobody asked except for my aunty and i lied to her that i engaged with a battle with someone and sprained my elbow. Of course, she didn't buy that because i'm a good and well-behaved person.

i deliberately walked in front of my grandma a few times and she didn't notice my bandage... i had to resort to flinging my arm in front of her several times before she noticed and called me a 'hiao za bo'. she thought the bandage was some bangle that i wore it around my elbow... all because of its bright pink colour!!

i had to point and fling my arm under the nose of my cousin before she noticed. she scolded me 'siao!' why the lack of concern ah?

the main reason why i want people to notice the bandage is because i want to describe every single details like needle pricking into my flesh, blood gushing out to them so that they'll get grossed out...

just a simple wish of mine... anyway, i managed to get them grossed out still by the explicit details...

donating blood was ok la... slight pain when the needle was poking through my flesh but otherwise it was considered painless. the effects would be lack of energy and feeling abit weak. No strenuous exercise, can't even carry my bag after donating blood cause the nurse stopped me from carrying my barang barang...

The bad part is this....