Ah. Bored. Nothing much. Well, visited my grandmother at TTSH today. I think it's a lung problem. Since I was on leave, so well, decided to go down. Can't remember the last time I've been there. The atrium is really nice, and with all the F&B shops it resembles a shopping centre. Kinda.

In any case, my grandmother is doing fine, when I first saw her she was walking to the toilet so my mum and I caught up to her. My and I stayed till 2, end of visiting hours, and 2 other aunts came. I realised that nursing is not what it seems. I think. The following post is a little graphic well, not really but may be kinda disgusting, so turn back if you want.

In one of the other beds was an old woman, restrained with a tube down her nose. Apparently, from what I could hear, she had somehow managed to remove the thing. So, they had to put it back. Now I've seen pictures of dead people. Severed limbs. Cracked open heads. Brains across the floor like so much minced meat. People blown to bits by bombs. People shredded to bit by bombs with flayed strips of skin.

But there was something about the piteous moans and groans and gurgling and the whir of machinery coming from behind the curtain that unsettled me quite a bit. My mum chose that moment to come up to me and offered me fat juicy red strawberries that my aunt bought. Being unable to think of any polite reason to reject it on the spot (I was distracted by the gurgling), I took one.

I was thinking "Don't you hear it too? =SSS" And with that I bit into the wet and sweet juicy strawberry with that gurgling coming from behind. Thinking what great timing it was. =S The same kind of thing happened in secondary school. During biology, the entire class made disgusted noises and squirmed at pictures of foetuses and embryos while I marveled at the wonder of life and the vaguely cute fish-like future human floating around with the cute black eyes.

I was discomfited by the later pictures of STD-infected organs whereas the entire class behaved as though they had been looking at pus-oozing genitalia their entire lives. Maybe I'm weird. LOL.