Whatsup Doc?

So, we need to complete a health checkup for public uni entrance. Yes,its a must. Together with the X-ray negative. Gawd knows why they wanna look at my bone structure as well.

I have a fren working in University Hospital...Hospital Universiti...I'll just call it UH. Anyway, he's sorta like a general practitioner there, a grad from UM few years back. So he suggested for me to get there for the checkup...as i figured it out, I can probably skip the queue of waiting for an attending doctor.

It shall start with the outpatient counter (i dunno why they call it outpatient) for registration. So i went and told the makcik(could be a nurse or clerk, but aunty sounds good) that i have an appointment with Dr Chung at rehab clinic. Quite obvious she have no idea which doctor i'm referring to. After 5 mins of clarification of what prob i have, giving him Dr Chung's number,full name, and she made a few phone calls

"Oh...Dr ChAng! Bukan Dr Chung"
Oh gawd, and during that moment i realise that a couple mispronunciation could cause a permanent surname change of one person.

I just agreed with her to reduce the fuss. After some small registration fees, she asked me to sit down while she will get someone to send me to the rehab clinic.

There came this pakcik...called my name as Wong Min Kee (i'm not suprised).
Then he started calling "Ah Moi" several times. From his action, i can tell that he got a serious case of long sighted. As he extended his arm to the furthest just to read the other person's file.
He gave up and asked me to tell him the name instead

"Tia Ah Booy, bukan Ah Moi"

He's a 60 years old uncle

So we went thru a series of stairs,lifts and corridors. As we arrived to this section of the hospital, the pakcik handed me the file and asked me to take a number and wait at the further end. So far so good...till i walked down further and saw the sign and counter sayin 'KLINIK SURGERI'

"Wait...this aint right, its not even near the rehab"

A glance at the file

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..
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TIA AH BOOY!!!???

WTF
He gave me the wrong file! I lost sight of him when i rush back from where he dropped me off.
All this happened within 20 secs. For a long sighted pakcik, he sure can disappear damn fast.
What to do...what to do, so i just enquire at the surgical clinic's counter

"Oh...fail salah lah tu, awak sekarang kena balik ke kaunter yang awak register tadi"

WTF no.2

Frustratingly and unwillingly, i walked back where i came from. Eventually, the makcik have to walked me from the counter to find tht blur pakcik.
And now he's leading me to the rehab

Finally!

"Oh,sorry ye. Itu lah saya hairan, sepatutnya awak yang kena ke rehab"

Oh great, not only he lead me to a wrong direction and almost forced an 'extra' surgery on me...but now he assumed i'm a junkie!

I kept telling myself "Its ok that you can skip the queue, despite the fact that everyone thinks ur on a drug addiction or somesort"
Just so happened Dr Chung is on duty in the rehab department.

Its quite a fast checkup, as i was told the urine test result will take bout an hour to be processed. So i go on with my x-ray. The usual chest x-ray. But he told me it will take another 30 mins to process the negative.
Great...more waiting, and now i'm stucked watchin tv3 with some Indon love series. Well, you can choose to look at some sick and coughing ppl instead, your choice.

From the radiology/x-ray department back to the rehab took me bout 10 mins. So yeah, everything are quite done when i got back there.

"Oh...Dr ChAng sudah keluar minum. Dia akan balik sebentar lagi", said by the nurse in his room. At least the waiting corner has some magazines and that department is rather peaceful and quiet. No crying kids or ppl rushing here and there.

My UH misery finally ended...which took me bout 3 hours in total.

And look at all these cobwebs

Yeah, someone gonna send me a death threat if i don't update soon tho. Sorry peeps =P
Alot been happening, ever since the p2p greeniz camp. I'll just get to the latest update first


Uni,Yoonie,YouNee,You Nih, Yun-Ni???

The very much anticipated public university entrance was finally out. After a few rumours saying its gonna be out 'soon'.
Me, Sin Yee, E-von and Yi Vern were walking around Low Yat on Monday and suddenly phone starting beeping with messages saying the results are out.

"Eh....Qui zheng just said that we can check out our results already!", Hooi E-von
" UPU RESULTS WILL BE OUT BY MID NEXT WEEK",The Star newspaper
"Betul ke nih...i just woke u this morning and the first thing i did was online and check it, nothin also", Wong Miu Kee

We got really convinced the moment Qui Zheng told us what offer she got. So yeah, instantly our heart flew away from Low Yat plaza and kept on thinking bout bein online and check it.
Probably somethin like wanna know if ur wife gave birth to a boy or gal...lol.

The moment i got home, i ran up to my room and checked it. My dad was beside me, knowing what is the commotion bout.

Well...my eyes were looking everywhere on that page. So the first word i spotted was EKONOMI. Half light of hope were shinning
Second word spotted: UKM
"Oh fuck..."
"Geez...no way"
"Stupid fucking public uni...the hell"

Its rather obvious whats the good news and bad news tho. Yeah, the offer i got was my 3rd choice.
As honest as i can be, I am really disappointed for the fact i couldnt get into UM for the business/econs course.

You might be asking,
"Whats wrong with UKM?"

"Nothing wrong bout it, but there's a reason why i didnt put UKM as my first choice"
"...coz UKM aint the first place i wanna go in order of priority!"

Bet 6/10 of u all don't even know where the heck is UKM

Probably my biggest mistake and regret was listening and accepting those 'hopes' being fed directly into my head. Disappointment happens when you get too comfortable with a certain idea in the future.

Yes, alot of ppl been telling me how great the chances of me gettin into that uni. It varies from teachers, students who graduated there, current students, relatives, even from my weekly house cleaner who is from Indonesia!(don't ask me how she knows all this public uni entrance, coz i wanna know too)

"okkkaayyyy, sounds convincing"
So there goes the journey of me mentally preparing myself for that uni. It doesnt take much to prepare for tht, with such environment, it pretty much absorbs by itself.

As hope piles up, there goes SPLAT on ur face as the 'idea' changes direction.
Its exactly the same phase and emotions when i applied and got the results from NUS.

You might be taking me as over-confident, but try being in my position. All the 'predictions' and 'confirmations' given by others just seemed as some sweet talk in the end.

I was being rather emo and angst up for those particular few days. Till the idea of being in UKM started bein comfortable in my head.
Nopes, aint any choice for me actually...knowing i have to accept whatever it is anyway.
Bout 2k+ for a year/2 sems. Probably the cheapest fees u'll ever find for this course.

Moral of the story: Don't let urself or anyone else count the chicks before they hatch.

Coming up: The journey to complete the medical checkup report, p2p greeniz, PD BBQ trip 2007 and Green fest