What did I do today?
Not very much actually...was just sleeping for most of the afternoon...woke up this morning at about 9, then fell asleep at 11 until about 4...gee, I'm a slob...
I've got to go to the dentists later on, so I might make this one a short Blog...going to have my yearly medical today too after the dentist...the whole kit-and-kaboozle...blood tests inclusive...I want to give blood, but I'm not allowed to (that is, until 7 May)...so I'm going to go have a check if I can give blood when the time comes...I'm an A+, and from what I've heard, blood of that type's pretty hard to get hold of and it's aparently at danger levels in both Brunei and Australia, so around my birthday, I'm going to go give blood...and I've promised myself that for the past couple of years...
Well, time for me to hit the sack...it's a bit late, and I've got about 3 hours sleep now...yay! :)
Who Is The Black Chinaman?
- Nick
- Kuala Belait, Brunei
- Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc
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