Selfie while......... donating blood?

Apparently, you can 'selfie' everywhere... grave yard, in the car while driving, diving, on a long flight, everywhere. You can also do it while you're dressed, in the dressing room or in your birthday suit. The possibilities are endless. Anywhere, wearing anything, all the time, you name it.

So after getting the key to my 'Alfa Romeo', I went to the blood bank in Canada*. While donating blood, my seatmate or cubicle-mate did a selfie. Do you really need to tell the word how you lose 1 pint of blood? Or as an evidence for your leave. (Yup, one can take a half day off after donating blood in this region... not sure about the real Canada though...) Funny thing people do here.

Donating blood is another story. I am naturally talkative. So it's my second nature to chit-chatting with salesperson or a seatmate. I can be a nightmare. It's my way of exchanging ideas. I'm not really an extrovert. So imagine if I were to be a doctor. I'll be the big mouth one. Not sharing gossip, sharing ideas. That is why I always exceed the time limit for viva voce examination.

See, one paragraph just to tell you that I am talkative. Back to the story, the doctor, a pathologist, needs to interview me. I lost my booklet, so it is a routine procedure. Furthermore, I never donated a drop of blood in this Canada. I intercepted, most of her question, and sound to be knowledgeable in the medical field. So she asked me what did I study. I lied. "Business" I replied. "I just read a lot of Wikipedia". Lying on a Friday?

 Then come to the procedure, the lab technician also asked the same thing after I told him, "This vein is prominent, but it's darker. You can just blind poke it... no wait, you can blind poke for venepuncture, it's small bore needle. Ok just do your job. How many G is the red hypodermic needle again? I can't remember". I accidentally let the cat out of the bag. And I got the reaction I dread most. I told him, I'm actually in my final year before I got 'kicked out'. "Why?" actually it's "WHY?"... he is friendly though. We share our experiences of studying in the big city. He studied 10 miles away from my former faculty. Then, we talked about Jackie Chan because Jackie Chan movie is playing on the telly.

And yes, I have a new booklet. Yay. Although at first I was nervous, it's a new place and new people, new environment. I got desensitized in just half an hour. Thank you, for making me at ease. And apparently, I am the first donor today in the blood bank. Yay! They thank me for breaking the jinx.

Ok that's for now. Quebec Alfa Romeo is still dirty. Ughhhh.

*Canada is just a nickname. It's somewhere over the................................... arc en ciel, not the real Canada.

p/s my sister called me while I type this post. She asked me which rice to buy... I should open a helpline.

The tale of two cities...

No, I'm not Charles Dickens.

I am moving to my hometown tomorrow, leaving this city, to make a new chapter of my life. Anxious, yes, as there are a lot of uncertainties, but, life must go on. I used to hate this city for being gloomy and sometimes stuffy. Yup, this big city is like New York and my hometown is like City of Angels. Nope, not Bangkok. (although not many know that Bangkok is also known as City of Angels... hey, look up on it in wikipedia)

Let me list down, what I'll miss about this city
1) A decent place to buy DVDs. I love TV series, so I'll definitely miss those small kiosk selling DVDs. There are DVD stores in my hometown but not as decent as here.

2) My best friend. Enough said. Thank you for everything Pollo-Poullet, I know I misspelled the French word, but that's me, butchering French again.

3) During my 'limbo' times, I've made new acquaintances. Some are my best friends colleague, some are working next door to my best friend's workplace. Some are just an acquaintance of my best friend. Sobs...

4) I'll miss working as a 'filming crew cum extra'.

5) I'll miss the State Library and my crazy kleptomania

6) lots more to come... I'll miss this place after harbouring me for almost a decade.

7) ... hmmm if only there are inter city high speed train connecting these two cities.

Bye bye...
love and peace

hahaha... another thing that I'll miss is one particular vegetarian stall and a Japanese outlet selling cheap sushi...

another thing is my favourite radio station. If only there are satellite radio for cars like Onstar here. Yup, my favourite radio station is like Sirius in my hometown, but available in FM here.