a rather undignified first
I owe Chen and Sin Ling a few first times. Having such a poor memory to begin with, I really can’t remember many… not even my first date! Must’ve been quite insignificant for me to forget that easily… Anyway, I do remember one which, although it’s not really my first (since as a baby I would’ve received quite a few), it kinda stuck to my mind. I do recall…
My first injection as a child.
Usually in Malaysia, when we’re about 7 years old, we’re all given BCG jabs in school. Being Mummy’s girl, and having nightmares of nurses looking like they’re perpetually having a bad day, I didn’t get my shot in the arm with the rest of the students. Rather, my Mom took me to a clinic to get that jab. I remember feeling a little smug too, when I didn’t have to be one of those crying kids standing in the corridor looking miserable after their shots.
I thought I’d get a gentle one in the arm (since done by “pro”, mah) but no-o-o… the Doc (not to be mistaken for Chen, of course) pulled down the right side of my shorts and gave me a jab on my heinie. Ouch! It stung a little, and later on it swelled up quite a bit because I kept scratching at the tiny, itchy scar. The swelling stayed a few days too, and it certainly wasn’t pleasant at all. So much for being more “privilege”, I certainly didn’t feel all that grand after what happened to my bottom post-jab.
And that’s the last time (I hope) I got a shot on my arse.
The end!
Is ignorance truly bliss?
Would you rather go on not knowing about something that would affect you for the rest of your life, and live a carefree existence? Or would you rather know as much as you could, even though it’s not good news and potentially life threatening?
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This sure is an Honorary First for moi! Wheee!!!
Ignorance is truly bliss … hehe
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i remember i used to like injections in school because i got to skip class. teeheehee.
12 years old was BCG
7 or 8 was rubella or something like that
Ignorance is bliss…
But how can you be sure that as much as you ‘could’ know would really come true? Unless you go Back To The Future…
Did I sense a lacking in F o c u s ? Everything will be a-ok… okay?
i got 1st wan but miss out the 2nd injektion at 12yrs old til now nvr injek…
BLUR is BEST!
One down. Four to go. keke
Still got scar meh? Need picture to prove yes or no.
Your question. I have to know if it can be known. I’m a big boy lor?
ouch, so painful, i scared injection when i was young but not now, can donate blood somemore…
Nice one may, good luck may, hope u have a nice and sweet memories in Malaysia…
ouch… hehehe
strangely i could not recall any jabs on my butt cheeks
I had one in my right arm and another one on my left thigh.. Dunno why the nurse go & give me a jab on the thigh pulak (when I was small time)… Might be she thought the scar will be less visible kua? Mana tau the scar on the thigh becomes ugly keloid pulak
Ignorance most of the time is bliss..
but at one point of our lives, we will get to find out what issit about…
hope u are okie
Wow … how did you sit in class for those few days ? I just grit and beared with it.
My earlier comment kena telan already …. first time kena telan …
Knowledge is power
However we always have dilemma
Dilemma of knowing to much or knowing too little
It’s human nature to want to know more but at the same time not as well, depending of what it is.
And the jab, I can feel the pain…
i nvr draw blood ` i very scared the syringe poke poke into me leh` kekekeke
and why got piku and all that but din write KA chng~ aiyoyoyyooy
Ignorance is bliss though it wont do you good in the end. I mean how long would we ignore the obxious? surely someday, we still have to accept the reality, rite?
princess a - 5 HUGS… a very honourable First Time Tops for this month!
sbanboy - 3 HUGS… huarrrr, you’re so lucky! second time here and you’ve already clinched a place in T H E H U G H U G C L U B™. well done! yes, ignorance is bliss, at times…
moopig - 1 HUG… really ka? 12 for BCG, 7 for rubella? I can’t rightly remember. all I recalled was that jab on my derriere, and it wasn’t pleasant. urgh.
princess a - it’s almost like a case of chee kei hak chee kei, except of course, it’s not totally unfounded. “symptoms” that are so common that we might just pass it off as normal, but… what if it isn’t? would you want to dig deeper?
breathe in… breathe out… calm down… o k…
ah nel - is the 1st one related to the 2nd one ka? hmmm… booster, hor. I got the 2nd one in my arm, no more on my arse liao.
L B - Amen.
SA - four more? no no, this is the one and only First Time™ to be posted. I really don’t remember much firsts, honestly. maybe the First, One and Only time I broke my front tooth, but that’s about it. no more scar on my arse to show for it either.
yea, Big Boys don’t cry, hor? still scares the crap out of you if it’s life threatening, doesn’t it?
sin ling - then I’m an even scardier cat than you, I haven’t donated blood before. draw blood for tests is as far as I go. hate needles!
Will - you’re not missing anything, seriously… heheh.
Chen - thigh? maybe she was too shy to look at your lovely round buttocks kwa. haha!
I think it’s a little too late for me to be ignorant these days. probably because the older I get, the more paranoid I get. especially if it’s life threatening, though it might just be a 1:1,000,000 chance. better known than unknown, then?
moz - it wasn’t so bad, since the jab wasn’t right at the spot where I sat on. almost at the hip area. but urgh, still wasn’t pleasant.
the Akismet Spam has been misbehaving again, I had to fish a whole lot of you out! *kicks bin*
zeroimpact - rightly said! took the words out of my mouth. maybe I should remain ignorant, but too much paranoia going on in my mind to neglect all the possibilities.
ben - aiseyyyy, I totally forgot! sorry sorry… I write big big here now… KA CH’NG!!!
Ignorance is a bliss but we cant be too ignorant on all things that matters. Especially if it is a life threatening thingy.
Jo - right you are too. though sometimes I wonder if it’s better to just be really shocked towards the end, than be scared for a long time knowing what might come. happy now, worry later? hmmmm…
darn that Spam bin… *kicks it again*
I thought BCG was given once around birth and anoher at 12 years old. Anyway, I hated shots, and manage to sneak out and avoided it.
IF it has anything to do with health (reading your replies & all), then I say Ignorance is NOT bliss… go have check up… and I mean GO, ok?
the day when we told we would be given our BCG shot, it was the day which spelt doomsday to us all the YEar 6 students..all kinds of horrific stories were shared amongst the students.. like the needle breaking, huge boils, bad scarring, etcc..
regarding the ignorance is bliss thing?
being bodoh is definitely NOT a bad thing.. 
i rather be ignorant and lead a carefree life.. its alot more happier.. worrying over something in which we know pretty well that nothing can be done, it’s just way-y too tiring..
the last injection which i can remember was the rubella jab in Form 3..wasn’t so bad..then it was a jab i took for fever in a hospital on my buttocks when i was in 1st yr Uni…tat one left me with an anaesthetic patch on my buttock till now..yeah..i think the nurse hit the nerve n destroyed it..dem..
One first time only ah? My experience kena jap at my butt was horrible too… the doctor just hammered in then pull out like stab people to die.
If I can shut my worries out of my mind, I’d go for ignorance is bliss. But being the worrier that I am, I’d rather know now (and do what I can about it) than know later and be bothered with the ‘If only’ kind of thoughts. When I’ve done all I can, the rest is up to my Maker.
Whatever it is (and whatever your choice), my wish for you is to have peace in your heart. :o)
Got injection scar on your buntut now?
If it’s life threatening, I’ll rather know. Otherwise, ignorance is bliss most of the time.
*comes over and cry again>….*
wargh warghhhhhh…….:(
ur piku pain, my heart pain:(
i actually hate ignorance most of the time~
I hate ignorance most of the time~
Hmmm…difficult question. No right answers…as always with these Qs. I guess I would want to know rather than be ignorant. At least I have a choice in shaping what little I can of my life or destiny. For example, if u were going to die tomorrow, wudnt u want a chance to do certain things today? I know its kind of an extreme example, but so is the Q.
Well…..painful ass job you had there! Hope this was not what the Q above was about, right?? :))
Hmmm…difficult one…as always with these Qs. No right answers either. I guess I wud rather know than be ignorant. So that I wud have a choice in shaping what little of my life or destiny I could. For eg, if you knew you wud die tomorrow, wudnt u want a chance to do some things differently today? Extreme eg i guess, but so is the Q.
Btw, must have been one painful ass experience u had! :))
There is something wrong with the system? Had to try twice to get comments in.
speaking on injections, 3 years ago i kena MVA…in the ambulance the paramedic jab me twice…somemore while jabbing me, she said “oppss…maaf, silap cucuk” then as I reached HUKM, they send me to A&E, in there they jab me again and this time another nurse made the same mistake…I was looking at how she jab my arm I was like…”hello! sakit laaaaaa!”…the nurse just say…sori sori ….hahahaa..that was really funny…
*crying with winn*
Waarrghhh….
Knowing, while sometimes painful, has worked for me so far.
TUX - know what? I can’t rightly remember either. I think there’s 2 shots to it, but when it is during our childhood, I’m getting it mixed up now. either way, I got one on my arse at 7 years old, that much I do remember!
princess a - yea, it does have something to do with health. can’t be too careful with it these days, can we? only 1 life to live. live it to the fullest, yes, but also take precautions to make it last longer and healthier, hor.
yen chiew - I’ve only heard that it’s painful, that’s about it. never thought about the scarring or the needle breaking, not things I’d like to be thinking about either when I get my shots. that’s like horror story from medical school!
nah, being “bodoh” is not a bad thing, but I’d say don’t be too ignorant either, where your health is concerned. prevention is better than cure, or so they say. then again, why live life in perpetual fear of every little risk of disease, eh? just gotta learn to not be too paranoid being around gazillions of germs and bacteria. and have a few bottles of vitamin C handy.
eve - the nurse destroyed your nerve? eh? you mean if I smacked your bottom, you won’t feel a thing? haha! come come, lemme try and see…
Kenny Ng - that doctor must’ve really had a bad day to “hammer” it in. either that, your you have buns of steel! LOL!
rinnah - good answer! you’ve got a good head on your shoulders. I tend to over-worry, yet sometimes intuition tells me that I’m rightly to do so. I guess extreme ignorance is totally out of the question, eh? selective ignorance. that’s what it should be! like selecting to ignore work… for now… *wink*
king’s wife - no ler, thank goodness for that. imagine having a bump on my bum. that sounded awful! and rather uncomfortable to sit on, too…
Winn - *cry* *cry* *wipe* *wipe*
my pigu not pain-pain anymore. so your heart not pain-pain anymore too, kan? kan?
don’t forget to have hug-hug session this FlyDay ya!
~TheAngel~ - I don’t hate ignorance, just can’t be that mode all the time. curiosity makes us all want to know as much as possible. and we all know what it did to the cat, eh?
tired_man - very true. (and choi choi choi for saying that we’re gonna die tomorrow!) it makes sense too, to want to know so we could have a so-called better future. in a way. or not. I’m confusing myself now. nah, the jab and the question are totally unrelated, unless you look at it at the health point of view. forgive my Spam bin too, it’s been misbehaving so badly yesterday! upgraded it, I hope it’s better now.
Monkticon - it is funny the way you put it, although at your expense! ouch! those nurses baru graduate from nursing school or what? can cucuk wrongly so many times wan. scary liao. pssst… what is MVA ar? I ignorant wan…
plink - *waaaiillllls* *sniff* yea… I’m just too curious for my own good sometimes, too. *sigh*
lidat also consider bad memoli hah? cant even remember when i had my bcg. maybe cos i never scared of jab, even when i was a kid! aiyah i tot you will write something like your first kiss. me voyeur mah!!!
ouch.. i totally hate injections
hehe..i managed to escape the terror of BCG injections..once in primary and another in secondary school!!! YEAH!
ya lor…proly the nurse baru graduate…MVA is Motor Vehicle Accident…hehehe…
BCG in the buttocks? I can’t recall properly, but I thought it was on the arm.
I had bad experience with that too.. while rocking on the chair waiting for my turn to get jabbed, I fell from the chair, got a cut at my private part, and fr Kajang I travelled to KL to get that stitched up. It took 2 strong nurses to hold me down.. and the blood trail I left behind was wow.. almost as dramatic as the one I left behind after giving birth. Blech!
Your spam bin??!! You mean I was driven almost insane by that? Sigh….tired man.
OUCH!
and for your question, i dont know. sometimes it’s good to know, sometimes it’s better not to kepo. i’ll say it depends.
watever i wanted to type flew off the window after reading Zara’ mama comment. *faint*
(i unfaint soon and reply you proper k?)
health matters have to check. unless suicidal or have a gun at your head to sign insurance papers to pass to an accomplice. go check! most times it turns out to be ‘nothing’, and at this young healthy age, you will have strength for treatment if needed. wish you a good healthy life. *hugs sweet May* (and yes, i was the stalker today with the “sweetheart” msg!)
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seefei - not really bad memory la. just my first memory of an injection. didn’t quite say it was bad, did I? if I wrote about my first kiss, i think too steamy until it’d fog up your glasses liao! hahaha!
velverse - I still do too, to an extent. but I’m not afraid of them lah.
Leonard - uik? BCG not compulsory for all kids wan ka? aisehhhh… then I should’ve insisted on not having jabs at all! oh wait… did you just sneak away while they were giving the jabs ah? kekeke…
Monkticon - ahhh, sodesne. MVA almost sounded like Malaysian Video Awards, but I knew better than to go down that road. I sure hope those nurses can give better injections now after lots of practice. if not, then better not be nurse liao.
zara’s mama - O M G… such horrors! my hairs stood up as I read your experience… must’ve been so O U C H ! ! can’t imagine getting a cut deep enough to require stitches (thank goodness I’ve never had to in my life), let alone leaving a long trail of blood behind me. *grimace* *shivers*
now I may have confused the BCG jab with another one of those jabs we get at the age of 7. BCG? tetanus? rubella? either way, it did go into my arse instead of my arm.
Of course it can be scarey without faith. But death just means I move on to eternal life. So fear is really stupid. Plus the next body will be so much better than this thing I got now.
tired_man - ya lor, Akismet (the anti-spam plugin) must’ve had PMS yesterday and kicked everyone into the bin. sorry ya. should have no more insane moments because of that, you can rest now. aspirin? *holds out a glass of water*
kyh - if it’s totally to do with gossip, then I leave it alone most of the time lah. what I don’t know won’t hurt me, kan? but if it’s my own health, then I’d want to know how to make it better lor. life threatening wor… only 1 life to live, mustn’t waste it!
misti - yea, I was totally spooked by her experience! are you un-fainted now? *waves a bit of smelling salt under your nose…* there, all better now!
you talk most sense here. thank you for setting that thought straight! only one life to live, hor? mustn’t waste it, take all precautions, leave no prisone… errr, I mean, leave no signs unchecked! aye aye, mistiliuuuu!
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SA - what’s wrong with that nice huggable body of yours? besides, it’s not really the body we really care about. it’s the wonderful mind, heart and soul that reside in it for their time on earth. those are the real treasures!
echos with Mayliu to SA!! wanna complain about body ah? look at mine!!! eh… did that come out right?? hahahahaa!
hi ho hi ho… and licking here we go
we lick lick here and lick lick there
hi ho hiho hiho hi hoooo..
And fortunately I get to keep that part.
May Cher kena tembak kat punggung ye
re ur question:
I’ll rather know then being kept in the dark about it. Knowing the problem will make me appreciate what i have even more. cheers
checking in and leaving a hug. HUUUGGGGG!
misti - and what’s wrong with yours? nothing what! so nice and huggable too… *teehee*
hi ho hi ho… my ka ch’ng I will io ~
this way and that, give me a pat
hi ho… hi ho!
SA - yep, some are only so privileged. *grin*
JL - no more tembak-ing my buttocks. very precious liao. I need to sit on it very often. yup yup, know the unknown, and love what you have!
misti - taking attendance and returning the hug! { { H U G } }
You should have asked the doc to jab you on the other side as well so that it looked ‘balanced’. Otherwise, one side big, one side small. LOL
hahahahhaa … don worry la May, now no more si fat injection.. make sure u don scratch ur limb when it is itchy, if not then one will look bigger than another…
i kena first time fm SInling also.. Also haven do….
Usually BCG injections will leave a scar if effective. Since you don’t have one, maybe you better have another injection??
Ignorance is bliss, if it concerns matters of the heart, esp when you know and can’t/won’t do anything much about it. I prefer to be an ostrich when it comes to this!
Health, work, taxes and everything else other than personal matters, must know!! Does this have anything to do with the gynae??
Cocka Doodle - if jab me on both sides, then how to sit leh? I’d have to either kneel or the time or lie on my tummy! hmmm, then again, the horizontal position ain’t too bad, eh…
RayChin - that’s what happened to me lor, I did scratch it! end up one side swollen, but actually a bit only lah, can’t really see. just darn itchy for awhile. I thought I’d better do the tag before I forget, even if it’s just one First Time. at least I could say I did it, heheh!
凯西 - ahhh, maybe it was like what moopig said, could’ve been rubella instead then.
I guess it depends. sometimes even matters of the heart can’t be ignored, especially when you’d end up being even more unhappy than confronting the problem and getting it over & done with. your question couldn’t have been more public than this, eh? and no, it doesn’t. thanks for the concern.
sweet May, i’m putting a basket of hugs on your front porch. will make more baskets to last your whole stay in sydney!
hie may! sorry i haven’t been around much.. how have u been?
Must KFC liao
KFC = Keep fingers crossed
Woops! Mite too revealing, that question. Sorry ’bout that! Yes, KFC…A&W (ask & weep??)….McD (maybe can die??)!! :lol
tumpang ‘ouch’ for injection in the butt! hehe
may jie, I do ponder on the question too sometimes. used to think that ‘ignorance is bliss’ kinda thing is no good at all, but lately I started to realize that maybe, just maybe.. some things are best left unknown if it means that we’ll be happy for the time being.
okie, now I duno if wut I’m toking about makes sense or not..
I was injected in the arse before too! I don’t remember what it was for, but I remember asking the doctor whether I can take it on the arm instead. He said: “Sure, as long as you won’t scream from the pain later.”
So I “guai-guai” take it in the arse
Painful too!
misti - thank you soooooo much for the basket of hugs! they’re so huggable! so warm and fuzzy. awwwwww. I have tears in my eyes… *sniff* { { { H U G S } } }
J - yippee!! you made it here! all’s as well as it could be. always could be better, but I ain’t complainin’ if nothing terribly upsetting happened. and praying it’ll stay that way…
Chen - for a moment there I thought you were gonna ask me to lick my fingers!! so the pengsan. so the sotong! *lidi lidi lidi*
凯西 - sorait, honest mistake. and I’d cross my toes too, except that would make it KTC. doesn’t quite make sense after that!
_butt - you make sense, girl! it’s always that dilemma of wanting to know and live with the news especially if it’s bad, or don’t bother with it at all in the first place. what we don’t know won’t hurt us, right? then again… there’s that curious cat lurking around…
Emily - hahahaha! that was funny of the doctor to “convince” you in such a manner. I think I’d take that in the arse too, in that case. probably ‘cos there’s more fatty tissue in my backside to help numb the pain, maybe!
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