COVID-19: Desensitizing numbers
One case of Covid!
Beware, COVID-19’s here!
Careful, don’t go out!
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Going on two years
Covid numbers kept climbing
Up-trend graphics show!
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More daily numbers
What statistics, what numbers?
The figure’s blurring!
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SOPs complied,
Yet the number kept rising
Soon, it is numbing.
Dual perspectives: Bringing hospital care to home. (Poem, poetry, Senryū)
Changing time beckons
Hospital versus home care
A time to reflect.
Both venues promise
presence of healthcare workers
and assessment tools.
Certain illnesses can be treated and cared for at home and community. In the light of COVID-19, would home-care be a better option?
How humorous and courageous can one be?
A group of elderly senior surgeons put up
a courageous and entertaining show
for fundraising… Good idea!
With exposed hairy chests
and ballet-like costumes
they skipped in a row
as they pointed their shoes.
With a tap, tap here,
and a tap, tap there!
Here tap, there tap!
Turnaround tap, tap!
And they flap their ‘wings’
and disappeared behind the stage.
Only to come back again
to take a grand bow
to a thunderous applaud!
When fund-raising is fun raising, indeed!
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How flexible is humility?
This is about how humble one can be, the higher one goes up the career ladder.
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A medical specialist asked a nurse along a corridor, “how come you always greet my boss, but you never greet me when you see me?”
She answered, “we have to, otherwise he will greet us first, even to the cleaners!” 😐
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Have you noticed
some people in higher management
are so high and mighty,
they are not able to bend
to touch those below!
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Just how humble
are your top managers?
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“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.” – Michel de Montaigne
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Are angels with you?
This poem reflects the missing of loved ones and associating angels with living high above in heaven.
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Silent Saturday
Most children are by nature
active and noisy.
Would they appreciate
silence the way adults do?
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It’s a sour, succulent Saturday ( A Senryū)
Lockdown continues,
my neighbour invited me,
to taste his ‘dukung’!
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Another pic came.
Even Eve wouldn’t have resisted,
these ‘forbidden’ fruits!
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Tempted as I am.
No, no, wait till next season.
It’s sour this time!
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Let’s go home
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Tired, weary day,
cars inch all the way in jam.
Setting sun watches.
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Let’s go home – is about a tired weary day at office and being caught in a daily three hours traffic jam all the way home, with the beautiful setting sun as consolation!
That was before several highways were built.
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Can’t see through an acrylic panel?
It was an amusing morning. I sat and watched the frontliners serving clients over the counter.
There were transparent acrylic panels in front of each staff. But, the clients have the tendency to move their heads to the side of the panel to talk to the staff!
Psychologically, it was like “I can’t see you!” or ” I can’t hear you!” through these panel! Luckily they were all wearing masks!
Frontliners at busy counters are like sitting ducks to potential virus carriers!
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Chen Song Ping 