Address pls?

Finally touched the comp after a long day of rushing and hassling around work... And yah, visiting to a patient , who happens to be my cousin who injured himself in reservist.

Was asking for ward at the front desk and the woman sitting there, obviously startled when I approached, seemed not to know how to use the system in front of her.

Yah I do know I shouldnt be so unforgiving, but I seriously thought she is really just sitting there and answering random telephone calls about directions to the hospital only lor... I must be the first person in ages to ever ask to check a patient's ward number.

She was fumbling with words to respond to my query, and asked for patient's ic number.. I mean it makes sense to ask tt but seriously how many people knows other's ic number by heart leh?

Qi guai!

So gave her full name of patient, and gender. And while she obviously have only one return, (dont ask me how I know, I just do ok?), she wants me to provide address of patient...


Imagine:

One day a colleague of yours is hospitalised. You don't want to go but still, because you have to maintain the facade as being a caring/thoughtful/warm-hearted/whatever co-worker you decide to pay a visit despite you have facials and eye-brow shaping sessions to show up for.

Being non-sociable as you always are, you forgot to ask for ward number and don't have any colleagues' contact number by hand.

You went up to the front desk to make an enquiry, let's say for a pretty unique name like 'Purple Chan'. The lady manning the system reluctantly pushed the mouse around to deactivate the screen saver, and ask for the ic number...

You tell her you dont have it, and only know patient's name as purple chan, while being secretly in glee that it is (un)fortunate your colleague has such a weird name.... The lady barge into your secret joke and ask for full name, or provide address, or father's name, or last school studied in, name of flea on house pet, or whatever crap..

Ok, I exaggerated on tt one.

But it is absolutely brainless. pls don't ask questions that no one but the patient himself/herself knows, ok, and not forgetting the ever-biased-beyond-belief granny will know. who else can answer the questions leh?

I mean even my mother cant remember my ic number by heart (all I need is to prompt her the 7 numerals and she will come up with the last alphabet correctly).

Aiyah, but shuan le la... I am in service myself, I always remind myself (and forget later on), tt I must be extra nice to fellow service staff. so with this entire passage of ranting, I shall forget abt this incident until a later date, which might be tmr. =p


And and and!!
Before I forget, happy birthday to jasper aka fu2-ye2... this old man is 23 as of today. I simply love it when there are people older than me. ok. not older by much, just a few months, but well well, being in denial is my hobby anyway.