Learn from my Foolishness!!!!

I was at pulau ubin last saturday with the young adults group from my church (International Baptist Church). It was one of many gatherings throughout the year and this time we wanted something different. So off we went to ubin for cycling. Ubin hasn't changed much except there is this new small resort, called Marina Country Club Resort, set somewhere in the middle of ubin, i passed by it while riding. Its one of those nature themed resorts with lots of huts. An ideal getaway from the heavily industralised Mainland? perhaps, after all ubin remains one of the few remaining unspoilt parts of Singapore. Whether this will lead to more development? i dunno but i hope not, or at least try to preseve the original landscape while making such developments.

So the cycling was fun, its been a long time since i went to ubin, last i remembered was 2 years back? So it was good to return and cycle, and feel the wind brush past my face while downslope! ah.....but alas all good things come to an end eh? among one of my group's ventures into some of the less travelled dirt trails, i did what people feared the most, flipping over from my byclcle!! and yes thats what i exactly did thats why i want to blog abt it and let everyone know never repeat my mistake!! learn from it! (including me...)

What happened was that there was this short and quite steep downslope, my friend was ahead and i was about a few metres behind, so from i recall i was coming towrds the downslope with too much speed and i tried to slow down. But my foolishness struck me, i braked too much on my front brakes and promptly the bike threw me over and smack i landed on my ground, hands first as instinct took over as i used my hands to break my fall. Still a little dazed and reeling from my moment of stupidity, i looked at my hand and saw a rather deep cut just to the right of my left thumb. Mr friends came over and the same look came across all of them: the "are you ok" look, the "quick lets find 1st aid" so kudos to them for keeping their cool and taking tissue paper to apply pressure on my wound.

Then we proceeded to a temple we passed by before entering the trail to sought for 1st aid. The monks there and their friends were very helpful, they didn't have a very comprehensive 1st aid kit but they had enough to help me clean my wound and apply some antiseptic lotion. Followed my Handiplast across my cut. To basic 1st aid was adminstered and i'm very thankful to the monks and their friends. THANKS!!! i told Liu Ting today that after my exams, i'm going to go back to the temple with perhaps with a fruit basket and express my gratitude to them. Shortly afterwards my friend James helped to hold my bike as we headed back towards the main group who were resting at a drink stall a couple of kilometeres away. It was also quite funny that my friends were all trying to contact them but most of them were on starhub and there wasn't any reception! only later as we went back the road did some reception appeared and my friends contacted them, alast reporting of my demise!. But well i actually continued cycling, decided the basic 1st aid was sufficient to keep me alive! so i continued to explore the rest of ubin with my friends. But of course this time, with extra care taken!!

So we stayed to abt 2 in the afternoon and went back to mainland. (almost sounds like i'm a chinamen going back! no offence!!!!). Had lunch at changi village hawker and ate nasi lemak, but this time from a different stall as i wanted to compare the difference between the original International Muslim Food Stall Nasi Lemak. So my conclusion, the intl muslim food stall nasi lemak is beta. Afterwards, headed back to Tampines and called my fren Kai Li to ask if she knew of any clinic in the vicinity of the bus interchange. As i decided not to delay further treatment since the wound is pretty deep. So i ended up at Raffles Medical Group Tampines's branch solely based on the clue given by Kai, "did you see any fruit stalls around?" i actually stumbled upon it as i walked towards the polyclinic thinking it would be open, only when i turned back then i saw the sign "Raffles Medical Centre". So i went in, registered, and the nurse promptly attended to me. She further cleaning up, applying further antiseptic solutions and then i waited for the doc to come in. His diagnosis? your wound is still quite dirty, stiching it or closing it might cause infection so i will ask the nurse to try to remove as much dirt as possible and then bandage it. The bandage will help to apply pressure on the wound (it was still bleeding a little when i got to the clinic!) then you will need to see a doctor tommorow (he said that yesterday, which means today) and get him to check the wound again and redress the bandage( there is a gauze and padding inside the bandage). Photos are available at "My blog Photos" album, and yes the bandage makes it look very serious but it isn't really that bad, perhaps just a 1 cm deep cut that is abt 1.5cm wide? haha...

But well i didn't follow his instructions! i sought a church member's advice on sunday (another doctor) and he said as long the bandage is dry, you don't need to redress but you need to see a doctor to let him decide whether to stick or let heal by itself. He said most clinics are closed on sunday so its ok to see one on monday so that is what i'm going to do. Probably will be going to the school doctor, afterall we pay for it! hopefully it doesn't need stitches, nvr got a stich in my entire life!

So there, a very eventful Saturday! both good and bad! so lesson of the day:

NEVER brake on your FRONT wheels WHEN going DOWNSLOPE!!!

get it? you better, learn from my foolishness people!! if u haven't known this fact...which i didn't so promptly paid by my foolishness.( makes me realize how foolish i am...) well I learnt the hard way...So i'm out for the season, no more winning eleven with my hall buddies :( not sure if i can even play street soccer but i got to be thankful to God, at least its my left hand, not the right! if not i don't know how am i going to see for my exams in 1.5 weeks time (although it should heal by then). Liu Ting also said i should be thankful that my vital veins were unscathed and nothing broken! so ya, there is a sliver lining after all! :P

So thats all, hope my wound will heal fast, going to miss my exciting winning eleven matches....at least there's an excuse to concentrate on my exams....