top ten thoughts going through my mind when i was on the operation table last night

#10 The male nurse/doc is so cute. *hearts*
#9 It is weird that my feet are the coldest part of the body when the warmer is blowing at them.
#8 Man, I can feel the blood squirt out.
#7 Here he comes again!!! *hearts*
#6 4a.m, 2 men are fiddling with my fingers, but i don't feel a thing, literally.
#5 Why is the microscope THIS big??
#4 His hands are so warm. *hearts*
#3 Can they switch on the radio or something? It is getting bored...and dead quiet.
#2 I should distract myself from the damn arm vest by thinking about his dazzling eyes. *hearts*
#1 Are we done yet?

top ten thoughts that ran through my mind when i was waiting at the A&E area

#10 Shouldn't ve let the nurse rip the bandage off my finger and let the blood drip to the floor.
#9 Harry Potter and the goblet of fire is showing on Ch5 this Sunday,must watch!!!
#8 Why are all the docs male and the nurses female?
#7 Do I ve to wait for another 2 hours before a doc attend to me?
#6 Can I go SGH instead?
#5 Tin Man is a weird show.
#4 Why is Ch5 showing the Potter ad every 5 min?
#3 Why are there 11 rooms but only 1 doc available?
#2 Has anyone died of cold at the A&E area before?
#1 When is MY turn?!

Reading club: The Boy in Striped Pajamas

Today I switched off my computer after lunch (no RC for a day!!) and had a good read. Bought the Chinese version of the book, and finished reading it in the evening. After I put down the book, and though I already knew the ending beforehand (damn it, wiki), I was quite stunned by the ending.

The author uses simple words, and writes from the POV of a nine-year-old, yet it is so powerful. There are no graphic descriptions in the book, yet it invokes a sense of horror and despair. A moving story indeed.

The book is accused of falsifications of history by the critics (about the existence of small children in the Auschwhitz camp). But the book does have a good message in the end: this kind of thing will not happen again, at least not in our time. And may us not meet a fence like that.

I have watched a documentry on NG (title is album from hell, not quite sure) some months back, which showcases the photos taken at the camp. Some of the photos show the hours before the people were ushered to the chamber and gassed. They probably did not know what was about to happen, and some of them are shown sitting on the grass in the sun, probably enjoying the fresh air which had not been available on the trains earlier on. Little did they know they had hours to see the sun for the one last time. Those images are chilling. No matter how many holocausts books or films I have been exposed to, I am still appalled at how such atrocities could have really happened, and at how some people who knew all of these and still lived normally.

All these information is not meant to stir up sentiments, but to remind people of the atrocities which should not have happened in the first place, and not to let this kind of thing happen again.