Permanent Stand-In.

A permanent stand-in,
To take you over
Hurt me so bad, I've been counting the years-

-Now it has turned two.

And I wonder if life-to you; is something true.

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My porcupine brother brought me the memories of being a Lab Technologist. He's straining his eyes to dig into 'kidney failure', which simply is awesome. I used to be a Lab Technologist in UKM. I was a trainee. I learned about lab equipments, about viruses, about cells, and everything in between. We were middlemen, unsung heroes who work underground. We don't see patients, but nurses send us samples from doctors, which would be analysed (by us), before a patient can know if he's unwell.

Simply put, we Technologists rock. We wake up every morning at 4.30 am. Ride the UKM bus at 5.30 or 6.00 am, be in the middle of KL around 7, and reach our 'school', the HUKM or KL campus at 8. Rocks. We rock.

-for not failing to carry the same routine day by day, which makes us disciplined. For singing to the radio in our bus every morning-that's like enjoying every day with a jovial kick-start. For arriving to the campus (or hospital) and sipping in the smell of a hospital the way someone else would sip a cup of coffee for breakfast. For sitting on the couch near our lecture room, overlooking Cheras and KL from atop the building while waiting for classes to start. For walking into the dissection hall, torturing our nostrils with the vapour of formaldehyde and fixed specimens (humans and animals) and never running out of fear. For laughing at a senior when he ruins his ribbon of an organ or breaks his glass slide. For dissecting a dead man's leg and seeing who's the gentlest for the most unbearable task. For going off after 'work' at 5 pm, and washing the smell of dead creatures off our shirts. For sleeping at night with our lab coats (the smell of death intact) hung on the wall, and for walking proud technologists the following days. Every day.


For keeping the memory alive. I am proud to be blessed with the chance to feel how it's like to be a Lab Technologist. Which is out of the universe.


And every job in the world rocks too, in each of its own ways. We serve the people in our respective part to keep life going for everyone. Yeah,we all rock. ;) Thank YOU.

Salam. :)