At least they had free food la, it was my favorite part. Ish. Piggy me. The cupcakes may look good, but urgh, they did not taste good. I've had better.
And while we were hanging around the lower foyer, Nat decides that she wants to donate blood.
As everyone knows, donating blood is good because not only do you get to help out some poor soul who desperately needs the blood, you get to rid your body of the old blood and regenerate new red blood cells.
Unfortunately, I can't donate blood cuz being nice comes with rules and regulations too. Let's see....
I can't help cuz of Rule #2, which says that I need to be above 18, so...strike one! Rule #4 says that I needed to have more than 5 hours of sleep, which I didn't, so... strike two! And plus the fact I just got my ear pierced, which means I can't donate blood for like 6 months (I don't understand the rational behind this actually) and within those 6 months I'm most probably gonna get a tattoo which means I can't donate blood for about a year and a half (I don't get it either) and whithin that year and a half I'd most probably get my kickass wings tattoo so I can't donate blood for about two years (I still don't get it!!) which means I'd most probably won't donate blood till I'm like, 21. STRIKE THREE AND I'M OUT!
DAMMIT!!
Want to do a good deed also must go through so much hassle...
So before Nat gets to donate blood, they had to type her blood. You know, like if she's A positive, or B negative, or AB or O or P. I'm joking about the last one, just in case you didn't know. The nurse pricked her finger with this awesome looking needle, drew her blood and gave her a cotton ball.
Nat finds this funny. She was like "Take picture take picture!" Hahaha.
And this is how they type the blood. They take two droplets of blood and place them on two separate squares, then drop two different sort of liquids onto the blood and then wait for any sort of reaction. If there isn't a reaction, it'll mean the blood type is O.
It's so cool! I could feel my inner, suppressed nerd struggling to take over and quiz the nurse about the mechanics of it. But I don't think she would have appreciated it lah.
Then after, Nat had to sit down and take her blood pressure while the nurse quizzes her about something or the other. I got chased away. =(
So I went to hang out with KhaiSim instead. I dunno lah, I feel as though she keeps releasing her anger on me. Pisses me off sometimes. Anyways, we hung out in the corridor for a while till I got a text from NakedMoleNat saying we should go teman her cuz she's bored and found her already donating blood! Argh! I missed seeing them prick her with the needle. Haiyah.
Ooh! Looks like it hurts a lot.
Not. See how bored Nat is?
So this is how a blood donating thing looks like up close.
I was so tempted to squeeze this lil bag of blood dangling by Nat's arm, but I was afraid that it would hurt her, so I settled for poking it repeatedly, all the while saying "This is so cool. This is totally awesome!". And KhaiSim sat down next to me and said "This is making me sick."
It's just blood!! Don't we girls see blood like, every month? Or every three months la, if you're anorexic.
Nat is such an amazing sport. She peeled back the cotton wool covering the needle and went "Jiahuey Jiahuey! Look at this!"
And I went "Ohhh fuckkk. That is HUGE!" and it was huge. It's nearly as thick at the needle Ronny used to pierce my ear for me. Nat was laughing about that too. She said it's dumb that we paid to get poked, twice, in the ear just for a piercing and a whole lotta pain while she gets poked for a good cause, for free. Eleh, but your hole in the arm doesn't look even a quarter as awesome as the barbell I have in my ear, kan?
And finally, the nurse came by to check on Nat and told her that she's almost done and Nat was like "Har. So fast ah." I tell you, that girl is crazy! It's almost as though she wants to donate half her blood away.
Nat with her 420ml of blood. I'm so proud of you, NakedMoleNat! You did a good deed, whoohoo!
Oh hey Nat! How awesome is it that I found a song with your name in it? This post is totally for you! And I'm still gonna belanja you one day....
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