I just came back from Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic. Yeah, I was down with fever, sorethroat and running nose. Usually I would just sit at home and eat the leftover medicines. But now is the Dengue and H1N1 domination so I have to take extra precautionary measures against these viruses. Everything starts with our social responsibility, as for me I got little siblings and old nanny in the house so I've got to be vigilant enough so they won't fall sick either.
I left the house at 8.45 am without breakfast (what the hell!....), hail a cab and direct to the polyclinic. When I reach there, I declared myself having fever, sorethroat and running nose but when they check my temperature, it's 36.4C. So they give me the yellow sticker to show my severity status. (From normal to severe: Green, Yellow, Orange and Red) and they gave me a mask. So I collect my queue number for registration, registered myself and proceed to consultation area (anyway my queue number is 2223).
30 minutes have passed........
45 minutes.......
100 minutes gone and I'm still waiting........
FINALLY!!, after 135 minutes 'fly' by, my number popped out from the screen. I quickly make my way to the consultation room, with my mask covering all the lip-synching of vulgarities for making me wait more than 2 hours. After a mere 5 minutes of check-ups, I proceed to the pharmacy to collect my medication. So I submit my prescription to the pharmacist and wait for my queue turn. While waiting, I walked around the pharmacy, thinking of grabbing something (anyway, it's a pharmacy, not a souveneirs or gifts shop). Suddenly something came across my mind. Why not I buy mask just in case anything happens. So I picked the mask in box of 50's from the counter. Then something inevitable happen.
While I was paying up for the masks, got this nyonya in 40's I think, look at me with this one kind look. I know I was wearing mask but the way she look at me like she wants to tell me this:
"hey boy u got SARS ah? sorry sorry what I mean is H1N1 aka swine flu. Eeee yerrrr, so gross ah you, so dirty. Don't pass the virus to me. Shoo!"
PUKIMAK PUNYA NYONYA, KAU TAHU TAK PADAHAL KAU DAN BANGSA KAU MAKAN BABI. BABI YANG DAH LENYET-LENYET DALAM LUMPUR DAN PASAL TU LAH KENE SWINE FLU. CHIBAI PUNYA NYONYA, MUKA DAH LAH SEAKAN2AKAN MACAM BABI JUGAK. SIAL PUNYA NYONYA!!
Okay I vent my anger already in malay because I think my vulgarities is effective in malay. Haha!! After paying the stuff I bought, I proceed to the pharmacists and collect my medicine. Walked out to the main road and hail a cab back home.
And honestly I just finish swallowing 2 tabs of fever pills, 1 small tab of running nose pill, 2 spoon of cough mixture and right now I'm still sucking my sorethroat lozenges. My eyes is as heavy as if it's carrying weight. My god, I guess I'll better stop here and have a good rest. See you again people!
