First Time Experience

Last week on Wednesday (15/7/09), I have join an activity which is organised by Malaysian Student Association (MySA) organised. This was the first time I played laser skirmish. It was so fun. This laser skirmish do not get bruised after playing it where it was so different from paintball because this was using sensor thing detected on your armored cloth as your opponents shoot at you. Players will try hard to attempt target the opponent in order to score for your team.

There were only three target places you can aimed on including both shoulder and the back. This was an indoor game where it was limited to 20 players as each team consists of 10 players. Each game can last around 10 to 15 minutes. Besides, this activity advantages was the laser gun we used contained unlimited bullet. As you being shot, your armored cloth which told you that you are dead and became deactivated. All you have to do was waited about 5 to 6 seconds, you being activated and your cloth will become got light again and ready to go.

After playing this game, all of us kinda exhausted because you need to run around the field to hide at a perfect spot to shoot your opponent so that they cannot shoot at you.

In the afternoon, after playing three game of laser skirmish and all of us took bus back to the city. On the bus, my friends suddenly asked me whether wanted to watch movies so this was my first time watched movies in cinema in Australia. My first movies watched here was Harry Potter and Half Blood Princes. That day we went was a discount day for student where just required 10 aussie dollar and included either you want pop corn or drinks.

The cinema in Australia was so different from Malaysia. There was no people waiting to ask you show the ticket at the entrance before entering to the specific hall. Besides that, you can just simply seated which ever placed that you feel comfortable to watch the screen in cinema. As compared back in Malaysia, the ticket consist specific row of the seat you are required to sit in the cinema.

As for today, this my first time ever in my life to donate blood. I did not expected the process before you are actually donating blood were quite long. The process involved you have to fill a questionnaire about yourself as the first step. Later, you being asked to sit down and waited for turn to interview. During the interview session, you will be going through the question again to double check whether all the information given was correct. Besides, that person who interviewed you will do a finger prick test to detect your sugar level and measured your blood pressure.

After you go through all the process, you been escorted to the donating blood station and there were people will asked you to be seated and help to withdraw your blood. The needle that used is quite big. Firstly, your arm is being cuff to hold the blood flow so that easy to identify the vein. After that, they will placed something similar like alcohol swab to clean the surface area. Next, the needle is injected to the vein. The first time as the needle injured into your vein, you will feel pain but after a while you feel slight better although you still will feel the pain because the blood is flowing out from the vein. As you were done with the amount of blood required to donate, the machine will make noise so to alert the people in charged. After that, they will pull out the needle and applying firm pressure on the injected site. After passed about 2 minutes, they will put a bandage on that area.

As I am the new donor, they will let me seated longer on the chair just to make sure everything were fine as compared to people who have donating blood before. After that, we given light refreshment so that we have rest after donating blood.