Anyway, i think i have not played badminton for ages. Cant even hit the ball properly, so ya, caused my friend to lose a lot of matches. Feel a bit bad. Anyway that's not impt, the impt thing was that my friend (call him foo from now on) actually twisted his knee when landing after a smash. biang, can hear the "pop", and from my experience, I know that's it.... ACL ACL ACL ACL....
Helped him to the courtside, gotten some ice and applied the famous SAF "RICE" technique. In case you all dunno, it's Rest, Ice, Compression/Compact, Elevate. The staff in the gym were very helpful, they keep checking on foo's condition. Get him to the office and then started to contact different hospital. This is the time when the ugly side of Japan surfaced.
I think most of us had read from newspaper that Japanese Hospital are damn notorious for turning away patient in A&E. No matter how bad or urgent the situation is. They would not like to take up responsibility and thus rejecting emergency case, especially pregnant women giving birth. I think like sometime last year, some man died after being rejected by 30+ hospitals in Tokyo. And it caused some uproar but nothing had changed. So the staff at the gym started contacting different hospital to no avail. Only after 1.5 hours of calling, then a hospital was willing to accept foo. ya, it's that bad... Anyway from the time when foo got injured, there was another singaporean whom both of us dunno, but was also playing badminton in the gym, helped us translate to the gym staff. He is kind enough to follow foo to the hospital and I went home after they boarded the taxi. Lucky the doctor diagnosed that nothing was torn and it's just a strain or twist and some wear on meniscus.
Ya, so it left the gym at 2240, and on the way home, ate at some so called "中華料理" and ordered some crab meat fried rice. It is actually not bad. Got the 炒飯's 火候味 and 鍋氣. This is it.
That night was ECC final, and it was aired on FujiTV, a free-to-air channel. Channel 5 should really buck up. Something interesting is that when they showing the team-list, it's in Katagana, macham playing winning eleven like that. 
I actually thought Chelsea played better and would deserve to win... But it seems destined to be Man Utd's year. As arseblog said, it's a c**t affair. But still feel Avram Grant deserved something, he had performed very well under that type of pressure. Oh, anyway Japan is not called "Land of the Rising sun" for nothing. During the match, I realised that the outside sky is already damn freaking bright at around 0415. Land of the Rising Sun.Thursday was another normal working day, finished work ate dinner went home. Slept early that night due to the late night football. This is the pork version of 牛丼. Had it in 松屋, something like 吉野屋(yoshinoya).
Friday, that evening is the welcome party for me. YAY. Company's $$. Sounds good right, vacation intern also got welcome party. Actually not the case, cos on the same day I joined Nokia, some finland guy was transferred to Tokyo as well, so the welcome party is more of for him, but somehow my name was mentioned as well. Ya. haha.So dinner was at some buffet restaurant which served Indian and vietnamese food. Erm, since when these 2 styles can mixed. Dunno la. Anything the food was not fantastic, so went for 续摊 at some Jap-style shop. Ate sashimi there, and some other jap style fingerfood. Drank those warm sake there also. Totally dun like it. very bad. Anyway, tt meal was treated by the working pple again. haiz... feels bad, everytime go out with them, they'll treat me....
Anyway tmr is weekend again. Yay, going to 1 of the colleagues' place for BBQ and some wii session. Sunday, one of my uni friend, junsheng, will be in tokyo for holiday. should be meeting him. So ya, that's it for these 3 days.
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