Sunday, January 21, 2007
Yipee I jus love this wkend cos i am on leave tmr and i am going JB with my mum again! Haha My colleagues kept teasing me that since i enjoy going to JB so much, i might as well migrate there or perhaps i may meet my prince charming there too. Anyway its just a gateaway, away from Singapore, away to a place where no one knoes me and also away from work and stressful stuffs.
Perhaps the sudden surge of loneliness attributed to that fact that i am too stressed up. Been very busy recently cos our health attendent unfortunately suffered a heart attack and she is hospitalised so most probably she is going to be on MC for 1 month. And that means that i got to cover part of her duties and most importantly our audit is coming in early March which means double work, double trouble and double stress. Anyway it looks like there are lots of things to do myself, including washing the staining machine, pump the alcohol, preparing stains, printing labels, tidying up the cabinets and on top of that i also got to do the processing of specimens. Oh my god, dont knoe how am i going to cope. Wish me good luck man!
Anyway jus manage to finish another novel. This time round is "My sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. I can say its quite a interesting book cos it somehow got me thinking about civics and moral choices. The story is being set on this thirteen yrs old girl who is being brought to the world by her parents with one objective which is to save her older sister who happens to suffer from leukaemia. From the day she is concieved, she is being genetically designed so that her stem cells and bone marrow are suitable for her sister. Although she is not sick but by the age of thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusion and injections to help her sister. However one day she decided to sue her parents for her moral rights as she is unwilling to donate her kidney to her sister who this time round suffered from renal failure. Being caught in a dilemia, she is not sure whether is it right to sue her parents for invading the rights of her own body or is it right to donate one of her kidneys so that her sister will be given another chance to live. Anyway this story has a sad ending cos shortly after she won the case against her parents in terms of having her own rights in all medical desisions, she met with a road accident. She eventually died but one of her kidneys was donated to her sister.
Well after reading the story, i just felt sad. Its a difficult decision afterall but she has taken her sister's place to die instead. Anyway if u were to place me in her shoes, i will not be sure of my own position too. How about you?
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