Sunday, April 13, 2003
We live in interesting times.
Somebody from the Finance Dept at work has been diagnosed with SARS. He got it from the MediaCorp staff who is his sis-in-law I think. He is now warded at TTSH and what worries me is that he went back to work last Saturday (my working day) and caught a high fever on Monday before being admitted on Tuesday. So there IS a possibility that the deadly virus is still lingering somewhere at the HDB Hub, waiting for its chance to hop on to the next unsuspecting fella and .. well, I dont need to go into details, I'm sure we ALL know what's going to happen then. Sure, MOH did come and scrub the entire floor clean, even to the point of purging out the aircon vents and shampooing the carpets, but those bastards are known to cling onto an infector who has a strong body resistance and who are not affected by it or show any symptoms, but they themselves can pass on the virus to somebody else whose body will crumble under their dominance. Who knows? I might already be an infector. It has certainly caused panic at work. On Friday 3 of my colleagues took MC cos of fever. It might be because of the weather, it has been raining the past week. It might be purely psychological. Adding on to the paranoia, ISD's management has decided to split the units up into 2 groups, X and Y. This is so that if one of us gets infected, the whole unit dont have to be quarantined, effectively shutting down that unit for good. The 2 groups are not supposed to talk to each other both on and off work. Ladies and Gentleman, get your masks out. We're at war.
Friday I met Mervin and Audrey for dinner then we went to Chinatown and met Kian Chai there. It was just a normal chat, walk, chat, take pictures, eat, chat kinda night. There was something not quite right about Merv and Audrey errr.. I dunno I think he's quite pissed about something. As usual, I will not be taking sides. Yesterday I went for bike lesson 8 and it really pissed me off that the instructor wasnt there when I did my plank very nicely for 4 times in a row and then he shows up and I fell off it. I swear if I do not pass this coming Tuesday, I'll do a wheelie and ride thru the plank with only one wheel, the other weel high up in the air. That'll show them that I can do it. Sofian and KC joined me at night and we went to watch Dreamcatcher. It was a typical Stephen King movie, some parts were really gore but I felt Morgan Freeman's character wasnt really well developed and the audience is left with 3 mini half-baked sub-plots. The memory warehouse was a cool concept though. And somebody in the audience was wearing a face mask. Tsk.
Somebody from the Finance Dept at work has been diagnosed with SARS. He got it from the MediaCorp staff who is his sis-in-law I think. He is now warded at TTSH and what worries me is that he went back to work last Saturday (my working day) and caught a high fever on Monday before being admitted on Tuesday. So there IS a possibility that the deadly virus is still lingering somewhere at the HDB Hub, waiting for its chance to hop on to the next unsuspecting fella and .. well, I dont need to go into details, I'm sure we ALL know what's going to happen then. Sure, MOH did come and scrub the entire floor clean, even to the point of purging out the aircon vents and shampooing the carpets, but those bastards are known to cling onto an infector who has a strong body resistance and who are not affected by it or show any symptoms, but they themselves can pass on the virus to somebody else whose body will crumble under their dominance. Who knows? I might already be an infector. It has certainly caused panic at work. On Friday 3 of my colleagues took MC cos of fever. It might be because of the weather, it has been raining the past week. It might be purely psychological. Adding on to the paranoia, ISD's management has decided to split the units up into 2 groups, X and Y. This is so that if one of us gets infected, the whole unit dont have to be quarantined, effectively shutting down that unit for good. The 2 groups are not supposed to talk to each other both on and off work. Ladies and Gentleman, get your masks out. We're at war.
Friday I met Mervin and Audrey for dinner then we went to Chinatown and met Kian Chai there. It was just a normal chat, walk, chat, take pictures, eat, chat kinda night. There was something not quite right about Merv and Audrey errr.. I dunno I think he's quite pissed about something. As usual, I will not be taking sides. Yesterday I went for bike lesson 8 and it really pissed me off that the instructor wasnt there when I did my plank very nicely for 4 times in a row and then he shows up and I fell off it. I swear if I do not pass this coming Tuesday, I'll do a wheelie and ride thru the plank with only one wheel, the other weel high up in the air. That'll show them that I can do it. Sofian and KC joined me at night and we went to watch Dreamcatcher. It was a typical Stephen King movie, some parts were really gore but I felt Morgan Freeman's character wasnt really well developed and the audience is left with 3 mini half-baked sub-plots. The memory warehouse was a cool concept though. And somebody in the audience was wearing a face mask. Tsk.
