*Originally appeared in my other blog
It appears so. I saw and heard a lot of evidences in the past 2 weeks. To list them out:
1. I and my friend were standing in a MRT station (underground)
waiting for the train. A woman came almost running and dropped few
pealed skin of oranges behind the pillar. We were standing behind the
pillar and we were watching the whole thing; in fact she knew we (for
that matter few other people who were waiting for the train too) were
watching but she was least bothered. She dropped the pealed skins and
walked slowly as if she had done nothing and sat on the bench and waited
for the train. How can she ever do that?
2. On that day I was going to Bukit Batok driving center. I had
evaluation exam or something. I took the green line and I had to change
line at Jurong East station. Those who don’t know about the station: To
change line from Green to Red at Jurong East one can just alight at the
stop and walk straight to the waiting red line train. So as usual the
red line train was waiting. It was fully packed. People were standing
out in the platform and waiting to board the next train. They didn’t
squeeze themselves in. I had alighted and I ran to board this waiting
train. In a few seconds I knew I cannot board the train because it was
already full and people were already waiting and so I slowed my pace.
But I could see some people still running with a hope to board the
already fully packed train. I watched. In spite of people waiting to
board the next train, these new people started to squeeze themselves in
to the train. They adjusted themselves with in the slightest gap
available. After settling themselves, they just stared the ground and
never looked at the people who were already waiting outside the train,
never.
3. I was waiting for the green man when a CRV stopped in the nearest
bus bay and continued to wait there for few minutes, making other buses
to wait for this CRV to move. On the same day I saw another SUV which
stopped way after the white line and poked its nose in to the pedestrian
crossing.
4. Previous week there was a robbery in one of my friends house.
Planned robbery. We were shocked to hear this news because it happened
to one of my close friend’s wife. She was alone that day when suddenly
current went off. Can you imagine power cut in singapore? No way. She
was a bit worried and called her husband. After a while 2 “big” men came
and told her that there is an up gradation going on and they will have
to check the house and do some changes. This poor girl didn’t gave a
second thought and let those 2 “big” men inside the house. And there
started the problem. They robbed her gold chain, bangles, watches, her
husband’s chain, cell phones etc. They had a one year old baby boy whom
those 2 “big” guys had used to blackmail the girl.
5.On the night of this diwali my baby was running high temperature.
We do our regular checkups at Kinder Clinic but since that was a public
holiday we had no choice but to go to KKH. This was our first visit with
baby to KKH.There was a big crowd. And once I entered the emergency
information/appointment/registration/pre-checkup hall I saw bits of
notice standing on the table showing “Consultation fee $80”. Almost on
all counters.After waiting for 2 hours we got our turn to see the
doctor.We explained and gave all the data correctly for which she
promptly replied “there is a 90% chance of H1N1 for the baby”. And
advised us to start Tummy Flu. I asked her why can’t we do some test to
confirm this; for which she replied me that now H1N1 has become a common
flu and for almost all the cases they prescribe Tummy Flu. And she
insisted that the baby need to start taking Tummy Flu with in 48 hours
of the fever. Already a day has gone. We were scared. Taking Tummy Flu
has its own complications. It is not as simple as taking Panadol. For
one reason it is bitter and children(especially toddlers) find it
extremely difficult to drink it. One must mix it with ice cream or
something. Another thing is for some children this may lead to nausea,
diarrhea etc. Scary information. My kid had nausea effect and she
vomited for first three doses. She was very tired and she had diarrhea
too. 2 days gone. No effect. Fever didn’t subside. We were really scared
now. Luckily the next day, our baby’s pediatrician returned from his
overseas conference and I thought of consulting him too; just in case. I
was right. At first look our pediatrician told that this is not H1N1.
After few checkups he concluded that this is just an ear infection. And
he told me that he has a kit to test for H1N1 positive and he can get
the result in 5 mins. Just 5 mins. He was pretty much shocked that KKH
has prescribed Tummy Flu for ear infection with out even doing this 5
mins test. My baby got well with in 8 hours after we gave her the
antibiotic prescribed by our pediatrician.
These are just few examples. What is happening? I am staying in
Singapore for almost 5 years now. This is the first time I am seeing a
dilution and this is really not good.
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