After Christmas and New Year, it's only 3 weeks away from Chinese New Year of which I'll be heading back home for a week. My last CNY home was in 2006. Certainly, the CNY atmosphere here in Melbourne (or even in Perth) differs from what I have experienced. However, the atmosphere back home is not what it used to be. Anyway, CNY this year coincides with Australia Day which means it's a public holiday (long weekend).
On another matter, I have been to my first ever plasma donation on 2 Jan 2009. The main difference between whole blood donation and plasma donation is it involves filtering the whole blood for plasma only. The whole blood goes through a machine that separates the blood and pumps it back to the body. This may cycle through 3-4 times to obtain about 600ml of plasma and may take up to an hour in total while subsequent donation can be done with a fortnight interval. Plasma can be frozen up to 12 months but more often they are used up way before the 12 month period expired.
Let the count down begin......
Sunday, January 4, 2009
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