Drifting....

Dear Diary

It is one of those dramatic days…. A middle-aged lady came in with a profusely bleeding finger… I told her that she needed some suturing at the clinic but she refused. Instead, she bought some plasters, surgical tapes and wanted to bandage her wound at my counselling table! I offered to help her make a pressure dressing and then with my new student as my assistant, we bundled that finger into one big bun. My hands were stained with blood… then someone joked about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). How lousy a joke… I could survive a Hepatitis B virus with my immunity but… HIV? No wound on my fingers… Lady did not look like any HIV-infected person. She just looked “house-wife” kind. Oh never-mind, will wear latex gloves the next time I ever attempt to treat wounds. I spent some long minutes trying to disinfect my hands after that.

Wore the Daniey Swarovske necktie (which my ex-students gave to me) for the past 2 days. Kinda missed their antics and cheers but oh well… Also trying to get used to sticking those labels on those Phamacy-Only medicinal products again. Lots of things have changed I guess. They got me a new plastic folder too which I had started using. Amongst the farewell gifts I got for them, I specially made and laminated a certificate for each of them. The certificates were quite a masterpiece, haha… even some of their classmates got a tinny winny envious, haha… =) I am so very proud of myself, hee…

I went out with a friend to catch a movie “Ocean Thirteen” yesterday evening at the Cathay Building after dinner. The movie was quite nice, haha…. When it ended, we sat on the stone slabs outside the building and chatted for the next 1.5 hours or so. It has been such a long time since I really sit down to just chat with a friend. She got some really nice muffins for me to taste too, haha… How I wish I could, one day, sit under the moonlit sky and chat and share my dreams with someone I really love. Time really flies… Last night, my former university lab partner told me online that she is getting married next year Feb. That was not all… 2 more female classmates are also getting married earlier than her! Woah… that’s really fast. I guess I have kinda lost touch with the news of my classmates. Really happy for my former lab partner! I used to have a “crush” on her… always went to the Science Faculty canteen to find her for a cuppa of breakfast beverage!

Maybe it is not about how long you dated someone but whether you know that he or she is the one to be with you for the rest of your earthly life. Well… well… well… I am not making sense here… Sometimes I do feel insignificant because it seems like I am just a small little creature working and toiling in this huge machinery called the “World”. At least, I remember that even how insignificant I perceive myself to be… I am significant enough for God to be interested in my life and to die for my sins. We aren’t that insignificant, right? I am sure He knows what’s best for each one of us.

God Bless,

Andrew