22th October 2008

Woke up again by the irritating voice of a cock from my roommates’ hand phone. Giiiiissssssshhhhhh…… damn irritating, thinking of throwing it out, but it is the only way we can jump out of our beds without getting ourselves late.
We woke up at 6am, bath and went straight to the canteen for breakfast. We then went back to our rooms to get ready for the medical examination. We were greeted by another MOE officer at the lobby. We made our way through the apartments and went to the main street to take a bus.
With the EZLink card in hand, we patiently waited for the bus and boarded the bus number133 to the main bus interchange few miles away. On the way, I got a little drowsy because of the late night sleep. There were three Indian Ladies in front of my seat. They were mumbling and chatting loudly in Tamil and English. They spoke in their Indian axon which I cannot make up what they are saying.
I slept for almost the whole journey, but woke up when we arrive at our destination. We made our way out of the main bus interchange into the busy Singaporean roads. On the way, one of my roommates who is also an Indian explained to me what the three Indian ladies were chatting about. According to him, one of the Indian girl said that she slept when answering the questions during ‘O’ Levels, she suddenly woke up and realized that she have not finished her exam and wrote only ‘I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO’ on her papers…… Giiiissshhhh, got bless her for her ‘O’ Levels. The other Indian girl said that she took her boyfriends hand phone and used it until zero credit, and now, she pays her depts. Little by little to her boyfriend. Hahahahaha……… The remaining girl however said that her father is her step-father and said that her father got how many wives and blah blah blah………… (not supposed to no what they are talking) haha…. Every girl had their story to tell……….. zzzzz……
We made our way to the clinic a few blocks away. There are two main types of clinics, the polyclinic and the panel clinic. After visiting the polyclinic, the MOE will pay for everything whereas you must pay $5 after every visit to the panel clinic. The main difference is that the queue in poly clinics is much longer than in panel clinics.
First, we waited outside one of the panel clinic to undergo the examination. We filled in the forms and waited outside for our turn. We joked and talked while waiting. Soon, it was my turn to do the examination. I went in; the nurse gave me a bottle and asked me to pee in it for a urine examination. I waited for my turn to go into the toilet and peed into the bottled (sparing the process). Then went to the counter submitted my bottle of pee and sited on the chairs provided. After about 10 minutes, one of the nurses called my name and beckoned me to go in one of the clinic’s room. She asked me to stand on a weighing machine and took down my weight as well as my height and asked me to step out of the room. She handed me a piece of card and asked me to close one eye and vice versa for the vision examination. The examination went on perfectly, my eye site was 6/6 which is perfecto……… Then, the nurse asked me to take a sit and told me that she needed to extract me blood examination. She strapped a strap on my left arm and hit it so that my vein came floating up. She then pocked a 1½ inch needle into the vein with an opening to allow a small tube to attach the needle. Just as she attached the tube, fresh dark red blood came spurting into the bottle. She took about half a tube before taking the needle out of my veins, ouchhhhhhh that really hurts.
After waiting for another 5 minutes, it was my turn to see the doctor. I knocked and went in. The doctor, who I don’t know his name, is a young chap with spiky hair. The doctor examined my pulse as well as my heartbeat. The doctor then asked me to lie down on the examination bed. He then pressed a few spots of my tummy and said that I’m in tip top condition. He then handed me some paper and asked me to go to the polyclinic just opposite the panel clinic. I went in and made my way straight to the X-ray department as told by the doctor. I handed the receptionist the papers and waited on the seats provided. After approximately 15 minutes of waiting, I’m finally on my way for my first X-ray. I went in the room and the doctor asked me to take off my shirt and wait in the X-ray room. The doctor then asked me to face a machine and took and X-ray picture of my chest. After that I’m excused. The doctor then handed me the copy of my X-ray picture and asked me to hand it over to the nurse from the penal clinic.
I made my way once again out of the polyclinic to the panel clinic. I handed the copy of my chest X-ray to the nurse and she said that I’ve done all the examination and I may leave. One of the MOE officers told me to wait at the coffee shop near the clinic. She also recommended me to buy the curry puff inside the coffee shop. A regular curry puff cost me $1.10 as well as my first dollar in Singapore. Yay, I’ve finally spend a dollar. Lol.
We waited for about half an hour for the others to finish their medical check-up before making a move back to the hostel. We went back to the bus interchange. The MOE officer also told us to top-up our EZLink card. The top-up machine accepts only ATM cards so I have to use my ATM card for the first time. Haha. I added an extra amount of $10 to my card which makes it a total amount of $14.37. We then lined up and boarded the bus number133 back to the hostel.
We were running late when arrive at the hostel. We had our lunch in a rush and walked quickly to the Kallang Community Hall for our Bridging Course. The course went on smoothly although we were a little late. As usual Mr. Lim told a few jokes, gave us a few Fun Maths questions for students to win some prizes and learned Sec 1 and Sec 2 maths. We learned graphs of linear fractions and graphs and quadratic equations. Compared to our Form 3 maths, this kind of maths has slightly higher standard than our Malaysian maths even though we were studying Sec 1 and Sec 2 maths. Haiz……….
We went back to the hostel had a bath, and took dinner. After that we did our maths’ homework. It was like a ton of graphical homework. Haiz……. We did our homework till 10pm then online until 11pm. Nothing much, then it’s time for sleep………… big day tomorrow.