tar pau

If you were observant enough or maybe free enough to come along to the hospital these days, you would see the whole of the service block's flat roof like head thingy wrapped up in plastic, like when you tar pau food from the canteen. So "what's up?" you may ask. This entry serves to educate my dear readers on what the heck NUH is trying to do. And no, to dispel the myth, the building didn't turn religious and wore a turban.

Once upon a time, a short short time ago, in a hospital near near away, there was a block, whose name is Service Block. Now this block was not very old, it was young; if you can imagine some of the historical buildings that went back as far as the 1800's are still standing today. So it was that one day, a person with a name, who will remains nameless here, was walking along the corridor when suddenly he saw! Gosh! a piece of concrete reinforced with steel structures and granite! Falling down!

Actually he deduced that the piece of the roof fell down, because he was the jaga going on his rounds early one morning and found a slab of the concrete jungle on the floor. Sorry, must dramatise abit because blog readers ONLY want to read sensational stuff.

So anyway, the hospital people got very excited. They sat together (on different chairs of course) and figured that the main building that was more than 10 years older than Service block would come tumbling down soon. So everybody got involved. There was the 'Save our Roofs' campaign, the 'Sky's falling' sect, the usual 'it's the government's fault' propaganda, and the 'puzzled student'. I (an intellectual being of the highest order of consciousness) of course, hate to discriminate but would have to admit this one time, that I for a season before last week belonged to the last group.




So the hospital people called in lots of engineers who came to inspect the building and to patronise the Kopitiam there. They found no fault with the main building but their report on the food has not been archived. So the 'sky's falling' sect got extremely dissapointed with this turn of events. The engineers had a second report, especially for Service Block, this time it was a poor prognosis. The building had innate structural defects. Call it genetic, call it environmental: soemthign had to be done.
So that explains the huge amounts of plastic bags around the roof. But they dare not put up any BIG signboards (actually they didnt put up any small ones as well: see first pic) for fear that the vast majority of the (regular class) human population will become paranoid of the hospital. That's why the 'puzzled students' group who suddenly found their path to the staff canteen suddenly blocked remains puzzled to this day.

I hope you have been enlightened.