the train ride
i don't mean to be so full of complaints or anything but today i was on the train while coming home. (some pre-train info: i had to travel halfway across sg to attend a lecture (which was good and funny but that's another story) and i am currently still nursing a cough/flu which means i was feeling ill and cold). i got onto the train and because trains hide the airconditioner vents, i couldn't figure out where to stand so the cold wind doesn't direct itself at my throat (which'd make it itch and make me cough) but somehow the wind got to me and i started to cough badly. (definition of cough badly: i was gasping for breath and choking badly because my throat was so itchy and i couldn't stop coughing AND coughing and coughing and coughing and coughing, you get the point. AND soon, my eyes were teary and my nose was runny, i had to struggle to reach for tissue paper in my bag and juggle my waterbottle (see, water was already cold from lecture theatre's airconditioner but i drank it anyway) AND put my jacket on. and i was coughing while doing all the above.) INSTEAD of showing concern and being humane, people were STARING and staring RUDELY too! the entire carriage was looking at me! (may i add that their expressions were blank) two middleaged women EDGED AWAY as quickly as they could and one middleaged man GOT OUT FROM HIS SEAT (the one in front of me - i wasn't even that close to you uncle! i was about 3.5 feet away!) and walked off to the next carriage. EXCUSE ME SINGAPOREANS??????
oh my god i could have died from the coughing and nobody would have bothered. instead, it'd be smarter to quickly move away JUST IN CASE i am TB-infected or something huh. and aside from all the struggling i had to do, i had to handle being appalled AND disgusted at the same time! i am so sad lah i tell you, nobody cares if i die on the train or anything. finally, i coughed until i cried and blew my nose a few times (oh yes, soiled tissue story next) and people soon stopped staring. :(
anyway soiled tissue episode: about ten mins after i coughing my lungs out, i was holding on to my soiled tissue papers and i dropped ONE onto the floor without meaning to and the guy who took uncle-who-ran-away-from-me's place gaped at me in horror and moved his feet away from it. HELLO I AM GOING TO PICK IT UP OKAY!!! i finally figured that that carriage was not the place for me so i moved to the next (which, coincidentally was the one uncle#1 ran to! i was thinking that he'd run to the next carriage to avoid me but he did not, hoho.) and i found peace (mainly because i did not cough anymore - only ocassional ones and kept my soiled tissues away).
maybe i should scratch incessantly next time i take the train, hohoho.
oh my god i could have died from the coughing and nobody would have bothered. instead, it'd be smarter to quickly move away JUST IN CASE i am TB-infected or something huh. and aside from all the struggling i had to do, i had to handle being appalled AND disgusted at the same time! i am so sad lah i tell you, nobody cares if i die on the train or anything. finally, i coughed until i cried and blew my nose a few times (oh yes, soiled tissue story next) and people soon stopped staring. :(
anyway soiled tissue episode: about ten mins after i coughing my lungs out, i was holding on to my soiled tissue papers and i dropped ONE onto the floor without meaning to and the guy who took uncle-who-ran-away-from-me's place gaped at me in horror and moved his feet away from it. HELLO I AM GOING TO PICK IT UP OKAY!!! i finally figured that that carriage was not the place for me so i moved to the next (which, coincidentally was the one uncle#1 ran to! i was thinking that he'd run to the next carriage to avoid me but he did not, hoho.) and i found peace (mainly because i did not cough anymore - only ocassional ones and kept my soiled tissues away).
maybe i should scratch incessantly next time i take the train, hohoho.