Friday, July 25, 2008
sometimes, it's funny how a song can actually change a person's life.
that doesn't happen so often. but usually, songs are pretty useful in conveying messages and reminders to that puny brain of ours when we're lost. i guess this is especially so for people like me who's always having my two precious earphones stuck in my ears and my beloved ipod in my pocket.
"won't look back,
when i say goodbye.
i'm gonna leave this hole behind me,
gonna take what's mine tonight.
'cos every wasted day,
becomes a wasted chance.
you're gonna wake up feeling sorry,
'cos life won't wait"
"i guess it's up to you"ok songs aside. went for physio session this week (finally!) for my back, and there will be more sessions to go to ensure my back fully recovers. good la, got more excuses to get off pass (HA!). anw, on my way back to camp from SGH, i happen to witness a no-hit-and-run-and-come-back accident just outside my camp.
it went like this: the car was turning from my camp's car park onto the main road but the (lady) driver failed to spot an oncoming motorbike and cause the motorbike to swerve to one side to avoid the car. the bike, together with the 2 guys riding it ended up skidding for a good 40m on the wet road. the lady began to panic and drove off, leaving the 2 guys swearing and cursing at her. one guy only suffered some scratches while the other had 2 deep cuts on his left foot. so i ended up running to the guard house to borrow first-aid kid to help attend to them.
it was only then then i realised i should have paid more attention to the (lousy and boring) lectures given by the medics a few months back cos i was like ransacking through the first aid kid for a while not knowing what to do. in the end, all i did was to wipe the blood off, wrapped his wounds tight with some first aid dressing and waited with him for the ambulance to arrive. in the meantime, the lady driver drove back (yea that's why i called it a no-hit-and-run-and-come-back accident) and started apologising to the 2 guys. the pool of blood + the 2 guys blaming her for driving away started to make her cry (at that moment i was like "what the hell... this is so drama man...")
as i was pondering over if i should console her somehow, this guy wearing NDU shirt came towards us and to my disappointment, he wasn't the medic (LOL) but the lady's BF. the ambulance came a while later before i finally took my leave and reached my camp late (xD)
that incident somehow made me want to get posted to medic course to learn something useful, but i guess that isn't possible anymore with my pes status now being downgraded to C2L2 for 6 months, along with the longest list of excuses i've had so far:
1)excuse diving for 6 months
2)excuse heavy load for 6 months
3)excuse standing broad jump for 6 months
4)excuse shuttle run for 6 months
5)excuse running, marching, jumping for 6 months
point 1 is redundant since i'm no longer a diver, and point 3 and 4 is the same as point 5 so i'm assuming sembawang medical centre has a lot of ink in it's printer. but anyway i'm probably gonna ignore some of them because i know there's no way i can sit there and do nothing for 6 months.
1)excuse diving, i still can swim and snorkel
2)'heavy' is subjective
3,4,5) cannot run, can jog. cannot march, good. cannot jump, ehhh ya better not jump too much
6)never say cannot play tennis
aaron | 5:15 PM
