Listening to 王力宏 - 公转自转

i want to whine about my work these days.

im currently stuck at the urine bench so my job these days is to process the 24 hour urine samples.

and i am fucking sick of doing that.

i dont mind the combo orders like phaeochromocytoma + calcium + cortisol + copper urine

they're troublesome

phaeo pH has to be adjusted by adding acid and given to special chem, calcium pH has to be adjusted and made to stand for one hour before loading it on track, cortisol urine have to be frozen, copper urine have to be aliquoted in acid washed tubes.

but i dont mind doing them if they arrive in my hands in a decent state.

and with decent, i meant that i do not wish to see any of the following, ranked in the order from what i hate most to what i hate least (note: i hate all of them).

(1) Pubic hairs stuck to the exterior of the bottles.

this one irks me the most and i am very very disturbed by it. i can close one eye to pubic hairs inside the bottles but i cant stand the fact that its sticking out there and the owner of the urine have no courtesy to kindly remove it.

(2) Bottles that are not properly capped.

the patient may have overlooked the fact that the cap is not screwed on properly but the least the people who collected the bottles from them could do is to check that they are capped properly before sending it to the lab.

i am sick of seeing urine flow from the top level of the trolley to the bottom level and to the floor, because im the sucker who has to clean up the mess. for those who cant imagine what im talking about, imagine champagne flowing down the tiers of glasses at a wedding dinner. bad illustration i know but thats the best i can come up with.

the sight makes me lose my appetite for lunch and the smell is something that generous amounts of LPHse cant remove.

(3) Retro urine bottles

ive got to transfer everything from those funky looking bottles to the ones that are currently in use because the weight of the bottles have to be subtracted away and nobody knows the weight of the funky looking bottles.

remember from one of the previous entries i said that ive got zero talent in pouring urine from one container to another?

that was used to describe pouring urine from a 15ml container to a 3ml tube.

now im talking about pouring urine from a 4L plus container to a 3ml tube.

i dont want to elaborate on the mess. go figure.

(4) Leaky urine containers

i hate it when im pouring the urine out and the urine leaks out from every single part of the bottle except the hole where the urine is supposed to come out from.

need i say more?

i dont know how many "fuck-s" and "knn-s" i mutter under my breath everyday while processing the urine.

and notice that im not hating the job for unreasonable (and uncontrollable) reasons like stinky urine and the likes. im hating the job because some fuckers out there have made my job difficult for me.

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i realised that im trying to kid myself by telling people that i have got no interest in what im doing sometimes.

i find myself googling on stuff related to my work when im off work. just to find out more.

perhaps its thoughts of the huge sum of money that i need to get a degree and the meagre pay that im drawing now that makes me psycho myself that i hate the job and i need to move on.

*shrugs*

at this point, i really got no idea what i want to do with my life.

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i really like the song 爱与诚 by 古巨基 right now. the lyrics to the cantonese version is beautiful but i cant possibly translate it to chinese and put it up here cos its prolly going to take me forever considering my cmi cantonese and the lack of a decent typing programme for chinese.

tell me if you want to listen to the song. ill happily send it to you.

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im going into my second week of restriction from physical activities because my leg is still swollen.

now i understand why zh says that he wants to run until he drops dead after he recovers when he went for his knee op last time.

now i want to do that too. maybe not until i drop dead. becoming dead tired would be enough.

i miss mt faber.

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i came across this little boy telling his father that ITE students are stupid on the train the other day.

i would have reached across and slapped him if my arms were long enough.

for people who do not know, i hate people who look down on ITE people. maybe its because ive come across many good people who come from ITE.

i also hate it when i see JC students giving ITE students the "i am more superior" look when i take bus 198 to work every morning.

i dont know what is it with these people. they behave like they have got royal blood flowing in their veins just because they are from a JC.

childish, immature kids.

ITE students will kick their butts anytime when it comes to practical stuff.

example. imagine having to open a cardboard box that is sealed with masking tape.

the JC student will probably start looking around for a pen knife while the ITE student will probably cooly fish out a bunch of keys from his pocket to slit the tape open.

there is only so much that you can learn from a textbook.