Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Back to blogging!
and yes! finally after weeks im back to this thing called blogging. hmm i've finally got my lazy butt off the chair to bring you this post of Medical Check-Down!
okay, cause as male's in the country we're required to serve National Service. I received a letter from Mindef to go for a medical checkup and screening. Hey! but not to worry girls, i wont be entering NS so early, still will be able to go hang out and all. haha.. okay so i went down to mindef on the specified date and on time! surprisingly i wasnt late. usually i'd be late for this kinda stuff but i guess the reason i was early this time was because it was in the afternoon at 1pm! even then, i had a really hard time forcing myself up at 11.30am. its so unusual to wake up before 1pm for me cause of my nocturnal life habits. anyway, got up bathed, changed and headed down to the location. (my dad drove me)
so when we reached, we had to surrender our phones which had camera capabilities at the entrance booth. then proceeded to the infomation counter where i passed them the letter that they sent and the counter girl handed me a sheet of pink paper and asked me to go take my measurements. went to the measurements and used a measuring tape to get my head, waist, foot lengths. haha to my surprise my head was kinda huge! hahaa! cant remember the exact reading though. after taking walked back to the counter and was instructed to fill in the measurements on the online form.
that was done, and next was photo taking! i wasnt prepared for it cause it was not mentioned in the letter which they sent! haha, anyway when i entered the room i saw a middle age man sitting there with a stern look. i stood there looking and him and he just sat there looking at me, then he reached out for a packet and pulled out a shaver. told me "go shave your beard and moustache." i was like !!!! what the ?! i've been keeping my gotii for like a year? and now they dint mention it in their letter and expect me to shave. anyway, i did as told cus i'd be messing with the law if i refused to. so proceeded to the gents and got it shaved. was so sad while i was shaving that i took the tiny strands in my hand and started wishing them goodbye (in my head of cause). hahaha! took a pee and headed back to the photo room. this time round there was another middle age man there and i could immediately tell he was way more friendly than the previous as he look quite a fatherly man. he told me to wet the back and sideburns to hide them. so after some trouble of strands sticking out i managed to accomplish it. okay, so got the photo taken.
next was to the medical screening center. there was another counter there and they asked for the forms and stuff. and in return i got a clip board with a paper listing the stations that i had to proceed through. first up was the EYE Station. did the standard "kindergarden reliving" process of reading the alphabhets on the wall. and ive got this thing called markus gunn since birth but the people there dint understand what it was and the eye doctor went for lunch so they told me to proceed to the next staion then return later.
2nd station was the XRAY Station! haha it was fun man.. went into the room, the person told me to remove my shirt. then i said "bra also?" then he gave me a stare and laughed. so took the xray.. which i took longer than normal cus when taking xray you've to breathe in all the way. the person told me when i say breathe in, u breathe in as much as possible and hold there. so he went behind to the controls and said "OK BREATHE... BREATHE BREATHE BREATHE..." and then he kept quiet. for quite awhile. thinking he was still taking the xray.. WHAT THE! i was desperately running out of air. so i controlled and held my breath for a little longer and let it out. i bet my face was turning blue man. then he said "OK, take again. BREATHE BREATHE BREATHE.." wahhh again after he say that he dint say anything after that and i held my breath for like quite awhile and it was tiring cus i had to lean against the machine. then he came over and say "ok can already". so i turned round and he looked at me and ask "eh why ur face so purple" i said i running out of breah! he say huh.. i nv ask you hold your breathe so long.. !!!!!!! then he said you dont have to hold your breath once i took the xray. i thought "then u never say zz"
anyway, after that i went back to the EYE Station but the doctor was not back from his lunch yet. so they sent me to the URINE and BLOOD Station. the person told me to take a small slip of paper and a green container and instructed me to go take my urine. so i went into the toilet and tried to urine.. but i remembered, i just did before i entered the medical screening center! hahahahahahahah!! so i was like WHAT THE @#$@! how the hell can i do it when i just did! alamak! so i stood there for quite awhile but just could'nt so i decided to tell them to do it later. haha felt a bit malu. so they told me to sit down there, then took my middle finger and used a small clipper which looked harmless and drew some blood from the tip of my finger.
wooh! i dint feel it man cause the needle was so thin.. i thought that was the end of the blood taking. but, it was not! he pointed to the room behind and said ok go in. so i went in and i realised that was the real blood taking. the doctor was quite an elderly skinny man. he pulled out a big big scringe and asked me to stretch out my hand. he started slapping my hand damn hard twice to get the veins out. ouch! but anyway i did as told, and i also looked out of the window so as to try relief the pain if there was any. in less than a few seconds he drew the blood and yeah i could feel a lil of the pain but it wasnt as bad as i expected.
right, 3 stations down, 2 more to go! the JAW Station and finally the Final Station.
the jaw check was nothing much, just stand at a spot marked X and let the panels around hover around your head and thats it. yeah, okay then the final station. it included Height and Weight and the heart check where they see if your breathing pattern is normal. everyone in there had to remove their shirt as to take the breath pattern so i saw some pretty big bellys spilling over their pants. hahaha! anyway, after those 2 was the last room which the doctor will give you the PES which u'll be catogerised into. AND it was also the CHECK DOWN. *wink you know what im talking about..
that was the last of the medical screening! now to the IQ test, so went to the counter but the person told me.. we're closing. come back another day either this or next month to do the IQ test and gave me a form and pointed out the number to call before going. ZZZ what a waste of time.. will have to make another trip there some other day to get my test done.
anyway, that was my episode of the Medical and Screening Exercise! (:
stay tunned for more blog entries.
Cristiano Ronaldo wrote this at 4:28 PM
