tHe liL' PrINcESs eNJoYs t@LkINg To heR aHmA =)

Aww... Her angelic smile simply brightens up my day.. <3

Alive, once again =P

MIA for 2 months this time.. =P

Lack of blogging material lah.. unless u wanna read about my everyday boring routine or my wuliao research lah.. Yeah.. that's my life.. How sad... XP

ANYWAY, I went KL to visit my bro last weekend!!

It was a sudden decision. All because my aunt wanted to pass some stuffs to my cousin so she asked if my parents and I would like to carpool. Of course we accepted her offer gladly.

We started journey on Saturday morning, put a night in KL, and then drove all the way back to BP again on Sunday evening. It was a short but pleasant stay.. =)

Bro brought us for Korean BBQ dinner at a shopping complex named NZX (Niu Zhe Xui) near his housing area. We went jalan-jalan in the complex upon finishing dinner for our tummies were bulging out so much so that it was difficult for us to squeeze back into the car right away.

That was when I saw this!!

Fullhouse Lifestyle Store and Cafe!! Kindly ignore passerby A, B & C.. XD

I had already heard all good comments about this concept shop when Kah Yee's birthday celebration was held there but I never knew about its exact location. Super beria-ia wanna try loh!! Bro somemore said it's not bad... Ok lah... Set!

So under my persuasion, we had lunch there the next afternoon. Kaka...

The menu. So cute so unique!! Like a story book!! They even took note of small detail like the barcode. Bro said the menu was different from its previous version. Well, I tak tau~ =P

The interior

The merchandise

The set lunch was quite value for money. 4 sets to choose from, each consisted of 1 soup of the day, 1 beverage, 1 main course, and 1 dessert. The price ranged from around RM16-18. Three of us took the set lunch while the other two ordered from the ala carte menu.

Mushroom soup!! Super creamy, thick, and rich in mushroom taste!! MUST TRY!!!

My ala carte Wasabi fish fillet. Besides the dipping sauce, there was nothing else wasabi about it...

Mum's ala carte dish.. Baked fish cooked in raspberry & fruity sauce. Yummilicious!!~

Bro's gf and my dad ordered the same thing, wok-sear chicken chop set lunch.

Signature dish of the shop. Another MUST TRY!!

Bro's set lunch. Baked fish cooked in some-kinda-sauce. Can't recall liao lah... The taste was superb though!!

The desserts.. Chocolate mousse and lemon cakes.. Tasted so-so only...

That's my car!! Yeah, I wish... XD

Overall, the food, the ambience, and the service provided were all above averaged. Prices are rather affordable, too. Definitely worth a second visit ;)

tHe liL' PrINcESs!! 2 :D

The happy mum with the tears of joy... Aww...

The proud dad

Just taken out of the labour room.

Hadn't bathed yet but she already opened her eyes!!

Isn't she beautiful? :D

So curious!! Looking at the camera!! Smart gal!! :)

Bathed liao... Looking fresh!! Chubby chubby pinkish pinkish.. :D

Already knew how to hold mommy's fingers on her first day of life!! Aww... <3

See? She's smiling!! Sorry the pic was abit blurry.. My hands were shaky.. :p

Lil' cutie!! Beautiful gal~ <33

2nd day of life :)

Who do u think she resembles more? Daddy or mommy? :)

Dear Isabelle, welcome to this world of wonders...

Love u so much!! <33

tHe liL' PrINcESs!! :D

Sis gave birth to my baby niece today!!!!! She's SOOOOO (multiply by infinity) C.U.T.E!!!!!! ^O^

Will update again soon.

Happy!!~ :D

The Curious Case of Stor Perubatan

Colleague brought Hershey's Kisses chocolates which look something like this to store the other day.

It was minum time and since I didn't have the minum habit, I didn't join. So, I was left with my Ah Tao in the office. Ah Tao saw the chocolates. He picked one up, observed it for a while, then turned to me and said,

"Kisses??! Why kisses? What are these ppl thinking lah?"

"Look at the shape. It should be SUCK what! They should call it SUCKING!! Right? SUCKING!! Hahaha..."

Then he showed me the sucking gesture...

( -_____________________-"')

I got "sha2 yan3" immediately.. Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmm..

Seriously, if that was from an Ang Moh, I'd consider it a verbal sexual harassment already.. Just imagine, Britney' song "If u seek Amy" got banned just because it sounds like "if u suck me" when pronounced fast... Suddenly reminds me of Prof. Ong's "sucking ice-cream" theory. Yucks!! XP Well, seems like I could just take it as Ah Tao didn't really understand what isi tersirat "SUCK" carries and laugh it off ba wtf...

Anyways, I'm sorry for not updating, peeps!! =P

As usual, "Busy loh..". Was in the crazy clinical dept before this ma. When done, I still got piles of PCI waiting to be completed. Not allowed to chin chai write.. So gotta do some reading up first loh.. Even during CNY, I was doing PCI eh... Sad dao~ T__T

Was transferred to Stor Perubatan after CNY. Just when I thought I could goyang kaki everyday, I was asked to prepare for my case presentation. Gotta present 2 clerked cases and hand in 2 reports this 11th of March. At the same time, research project kicks off. And forensic exams are soon to come. In spite all these, Ah Tao came out with several "brilliant" questions regarding management of store. I have to read up to get the answers..

X#$%*&^@?!

So every weekday, upon reaching home after 5p.m., I was only allowed a little time for newspaper and dinner. Then I had to start work immediately. That's why I've got no time for blogging loh.. =(

Nevertheless, working in store is really rather stress-free. Too bad I don't find myself enjoying much le.. It's just like an office gal's work!! I do stuffs like photostating, typing, printing, and even wraping books!!!!! As if I susah-payah (not) studied pharmacy just for that?? XP

But felt very happy when I was asked to handle things like purchase order, issue notes, quotation, commissioning & etc loh. At least I got to learn something ma.. =)

Am abit bit looking forward to working in OPD next week actually. It seems like a department at which I could learn much and fast. =) Hopefully I won't get the so-called post-OPD syndrome, i.e. falling sick ba. Hahaha...

Oh, by the way, I know it's abit late, but do u guys find this year's CNY very de sien? I spent mine in Singapore. It turned out just like every other public holiday. Not meriah at all leh.. It was surprisingly Q.U.I.E.T. Didn't hear ppl playing CNY songs loud loud or playing fireworks neh.. Of course fireworks are prohibited in Singapore lah.. Well, not as if they are not in Malaysia lah, but like ppl care? We're bad, yeah! I didn't even see kids in Singapore playing the infamous Pop Pop leh!! So guai geh?!! Ish... And they get only 2 days of school holidays in comparison to 1 whole week in Malaysia!!! What kind of childhood is that???!! Boring dao~

I wonder if the sien-ness was due to ppl still being haunted by the economic downturn.. Hmm.. And for that, I'm seriously grateful that as a public servant, I don't even have to worry a single bit about retrenchment and I get a rather handsome pay for a fresh graduate's standard. Kakaka... Thank you, Malaysian's gov!! XD

Oh ya, before I forget, Happy Belated 4th Anniversary, P105!! I wonder how many of us still remember that on Valentine's Day 4 years ago, we were actually lining up outside AAD (which was still located on the ground floor) waiting to be registered while grumbling about the stupidity of them for choosing this date as the first day of semester I. Hahaha... Super nostalgic wei... Anyway, love u guys/gals loads!! Muacks!! XD

By the way, St. Patrick's Day is around the corner!! On the 17th of March!! Ppl, must wear green and drink Guiness on that day oh!! Pls do remind me about it as well... Keke.. And I still regret deeply for not being able to join Cookie Monster Su Ann, Cheah Voon and Cheok Xin to the fabulous Ireland last year, due to the shitty chicken pox virus that attacked at the wrong time. Wuwuwu.... ='( Could only watched Gossip Girl (happily) in JBC G6... Chace Crawford is so cute!!~ XD

Just read this from newspaper yesterday. Lee Ann is going to direct a movie based on the novel, Life of Pi!! Can't wait! Hehe.. Finished Life of Pi last year. To me, it's quite controversial, especially the ending (mysterious island). Nice or not nice, it all depends on ur point of view. Sometimes I find it nice. Sometimes I think the ending spoilt the whole story. What's ur opinion then? Chua Ming & Cheok Xin, I know u gals have read the book as well dy.. =)

Oh!! And ppl ppl!! Adele's song, Chasing Pavements, rocks!! It was a love at first "listen" for me.. Haha.. No wonder she won the Grammy.. =)

On the other hand, (OK. I'm risking my life for saying this..) Fahrenheit, aka Fei Lun Hai C.A.N.N.O.T. sing!!!!! Gosh!! The only song from them that I like is TiAmo by Yan Ya Lun and Liu Li Yang. And by "like", I mean in particular the chorus only. Cause Liu Li Yang is the one singing!!!!! I skip Yan Ya Lun's part whenever I could cause it makes my bulu roma meremang and it definitely isn't in a good way!! Damn, I wonder if I'd receive any threaten message from their huge number of fans soon.. XP

I better run off and hide now. Kaka.. Ciao peeps!! XD

P/S. Made a trip to KL around Christmas time last year. I'd like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my dear frens who accompanied and entertained me throughout the visit. I appreciate that very very much. Great memory it was... Thanks so much! Hugz... =)

[EDIT]: YES!! Heath Ledger won the 2009 Oscar's Best Supporting Actor Award!! Sooooo happy for him!! He deserves the award!! Yes!! =D

me no like clinical...

"Freaking tired"

That's the only description I could come up with.

Not even a place allocated for pharmacist to sit in the ward. Stood throughout the day.

When nurses or doctors come round for BHT/Format I/Buku Census, I kena "shoo-ed" aside pulak.

Even when aunty sapu lantai comes round, I have to give way.

Sad case wei.. Thought clinical pharmacist was supposed to look G.L.A.M.O.U.R T_T

What's more, there are so so sooooooooooo many things to do!! Gosh!!Supposingly, my everyday routine includes filling in CP1 for all newly admitted patients in my respective ward, follow doctor's ward round, clerk 3 cases per day (FRP gives big No-No to uncontrolled HPT, uncontrolled DM & AEBA... Urgh!! There goes my favourites!!), counsel at least 2 patients per day, and do TDM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wah!! Like I have 48 hours a day??

AND, the best news is that, I HAVE to compensate for all the targets missed over public holidays and personal leave!!!!! In other words, public holiday or not, I die die have to produce 3 cases and counsel 2 patients per day lah!! Darn it!! Just when I thought I could curi-tulang abit over Christmas...

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....

I have resort to wearing flat-bottom shoes even though this was only my 2nd day in clinical department. Cannot tahan the lactic acid accumulation in my legs lah!! Can get pedal oedema if I wear high heels lagi...

Not fun lah!! I shouldn't have complained so much when I was in inpatient.. XP Am actually looking forward to my remainder weeks in inpatient liao.. Haha.. Luckily Clinical is only for 6 weeks and mine would be completed before CNY.. Yippie!! =D

K lah K lah.. Going to sleep now... Haven't even done PCI for all the cases I clerked. Shitty..

P/S. Am so going KL over the Christmas weekend!! Will start journey on 27th morning and come back on 29th morning. It's MEGASALES, ppl!! What are u waiting for?? XD XD Any shopping kaki(sssss) out there?? XD XD

TGIF!!!!!~~~

TGIF!!!!!~~~

Aaaaaah aaaaahhh!! Wow Wooooow!! Weeeee Weeeeeeee!! Woooooh wooooooooooooH!!

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~

Relief eh!! I'm both mentally & physically tired dy.. Need a rest.. This morning almost couldn't get out of bed. Whole body aching... Like an Ah Po..

But note, I said relief. Not happy. Yeah, I dunno why but I'm not all that happy with the weekend's arrival. Feel abit uneasy and anxious in fact. Can't sit still. Kept sighing. Abit hot temper. Weird huh? That shouldn't be my reaction towards my first precious weekend off what...

Am I too stressed out? I shouldn't be what.. Ppl said HBP very free geh?

Anyway, gotta update abit on my working life here...

Offically started working on 4th Nov. 3rd just went there fill forms & chit-chat XD So will regard 4th Nov as my first day of work from this point onwards.

Was sent to inpatient department. Well, first day was disastrous. Was C.O.M.P.L.E.T.E.L.Y lost. Yes, I am not being humble here. Felt like a piece of shit. Trolley full of Rx started coming in the moment I arrived. EVERYONE expected me to know what I was supposed to do!!

But the fact is, I just stood there helplessly. Staring blindly at the dispensers, PRPs, and FRPs rushing about here & there, having no idea wth were they doing. No one even cared to bother me. Probably they thought I was supposed to know what's going on...

Then I approached & consulted a PRP. She showed me the right way to handle a Rx and filled in all the requested medications so professionally. I looked at her with admiration only to find out later that she's a UKM graduant and it was her FIRST day in the inpatient department as well!!!!! WHAT???!! I mean, I know local students are damn geng lah, but I never expect them to know sooooooooooo much eh!!! I was like a piece of trash standing next to her...

Lucky she was nice. So I followed her to handle a few Rx and tried to start handling one on my own. Gosh. It was tough. I couldn't even locate the drugs! U see, some were arranged in alphabetical order, some according to diseases, some on another cupboard, some in the back room, some were simply placed on the table, and some under the table!! @_@???

How organize can they be? I wonder if all hosp. are the same or it's just HBP?

As if this wasn't bad enough, I was told that List A drugs have to be counter-signed before dispensing and certain dispenses drugs have to be recorded. Blurred to the max. So I asked, " What are List A drugs?" only to get "Very hard to say. Something like expensive drugs that can only be given by specialist." So I continued, "So is there anywhere that I can read up on this?" and got "No. Only by experience..." (o_O")

Then I pursued, "So what are the drugs that have to be recorded?" which again I got "Expensive drugs"...

HOW ON EARTH AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW LAH????? It's not like they label the drugs with their respective prices..

So I kept asking questions regarding the location of drugs, whether they have to be counter-signed, how much should I dispense (can't give out too many drugs of which the stocks are running low of which I had no idea at all), blah blah blah blah blah blah...

Was a complete annoyance. Kept interrupting others' work by asking stupiak questions. Felt extremely useless + embarassed. A burden to the entire department. They could work faster and better without my existence...

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

Was in a very bad mood by the end of the day. When it was about 5p.m., there was nothing much left to do. All the FRPs, PRPs, and dispensers sat down to relax and chat. I was so tensed up that I had no mood to join them. I walked around the dispensary, trying to get myself familiar with the location of the drugs...

Oh, did I mention that they label some drugs according to generic name and some according to brand name?? Did I mention that even doctors prescribed drugs in brand name?? Flagyl sounds very much like bulk laxative to me but it's Metronidazole in fact. Diamox = Acetylzolamide, Gelusil = Magnisium Trisylicate & etc etc etc...

???????????????????????????????????????

Was extremely frustrated & depressed at the end of the day. Mum knew I had had a hard day so she made me super super nice dinner to console me. Hehe.. so sweet of her... At least that made my day much better.. =)

Lucky thing was that my last minute hardwork din go to waste. Starting to catch up on the 2nd day. Did everything faster and gathered up enough courage to answer phonecalls from the ward (even though most of the time I couldn't answer and would just pass the phone to the FRPs). I also asked much lesser questions, found most of the drugs, and even pointed out the location of some to another PRP when he couldn't find it! Aaaaahhh... The sense of achievement... =)

Then I started following FRP to the ward to do bedside counselling. Had seen them giving counselling on eye drops, aerochamber, and Humapen so far liao... =)

Volunteered to handle Imprest Floor Stock. Can now do it on my own liao.. Also, learned about the procedure of dispensing DD today.. =)

At least I don't feel so blur anymore...

BUT, I still make mistakes when dispensing first-time-handled drugs. Just kena tegur-ed today for not recording the dispensing of some "expensive" drugs and for dispensing too much (din realize 1 box of Clexane contains 2amps). Felt bad lah of course. But no one really took the initiative to teach me starting from the first day leh. Mostly, I learned on my own, by asking and by making mistakes. But I hate learning from mistakes... The feeling of making mistakes and kena tegur is awful... Moreover, life's at stake!!!

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

I paling hate the "only-experience-can-tell" part... It renders me helpless...

I wish the FRPs could guide us (PRP) more. They are nice and friendly. I am glad to have them. The only thing is that, they know the PRP are incompetent and lack essential knowledge, but they seemed to take no action about it leh. They always look very busy. So I didn't even dare to bother them with my stupiak questions. Was hoping that maybe one day when they are free they would teach.

But know what? I saw one of them playing Bejeweled-look-alike game in the resting room today... (-__-") Maybe just taking a short break after a long stressful day ba... Hmm...Dunno leh... Hope I would learn more as time goes by le...

Anyway, am lazy to continue this super long post liao.. Haha.. I'm OK dy le.. I will jia you de.. The passion is still there. I will make sure I work very hard de. I promised myself to be a good pharmacist already. So I must thrive to achieve it!! Let's work towards our targets ba, all IMU-Mpharm-graduated PRPs!!!!! HEK!!!!! =)

P/S. I super agree with Ming in hating IMU. But I'm more specific lah. I only hate IMU Mpharm program coordinators. Think Bpharm is quite OK lah...

Amateur Pharmacist

OK. Gotta cut long story short. Super tired.

Woke up at 430a.m. Travelled to JB. Arrived in Wisma Persekutuan. Took form & completed within 5mins. Done. Rushed 2 Menara Sarawak immediately. Apparently Menara Sarawak has been renamed as Menara Cyberport liao.

Only 9 of us today. Got one super outspoken Malay Gal from University of London. With accent! Cheh wah! Was late but challenged Head of Dep when tegur-ed for the wrongly stated building name. "U all SHOULD change the address". Wah...

All were assigned to the desired hosp. Happy! Small batch no competitor ma.

Oh ya. Ja Yee and Chew Yee din lapor. Appealed.

Rushed back to BP when everything was done. Reported at Hosp. Batu Pahat together with Pei Fong. Attempted 3 times only managed to park into a spacious parking lot. Shit.

Person in charged not around. Head of Pharmacy on leave for the day. Waited & waited while chatting. Finally at 420p.m. got the forms and started filling in. Handed in docs after that. Super kelam-kabut. Office hour over liao ma.. Finally got everything settled at 530p.m. The akak was pretty nice. =)

Supposed to report at Pharmacy Outpatient Department after filling in forms. But pharmacist all balik rumah dy at that time. So happily went back home. Kaka..

Mum cooked dinner. Yum yum.. But no appetite. Dunno why. Maybe too tired liao.

So tomolo is gonna be the first official working day. Wish me luck ba!! =)

P/S. A bit sien when come to think that I gotta sleep super early later and wake up super super super early (in my standard lah) tomolo morning and have B.R.E.A.D. as breakfast (equivalent to poison in my standard). Life's wonderful... (>_<")

kIND@ bORed hEre...

Craved for "dao sah beng" so bad the other day. So I went to The Summit Parade Batu Pahat to get some. Mana tau the shop sudah "chap lap"!!!!! I went around the floor it used to be in to see if it had shifted but it was up to no good.. =(

But there was a surprise discovery. I saw a music store playing this MV:

Like Whoa by Aly & AJ!!

Whoa!! I never knew Batu's music sense could be so "in" wei!! Seeing that these gals aren't really that famous, I was really surprised that there are actually ppl in Batu (except for me) who knew them!!

Honestly, Malaysia's music sense is quite advanced. At least we Malaysians are kepo enough that we know most of the pop celebrities and songs on the market. Guess that's because the section most of us never miss when reading a newspaper is Entertainment. Am I not right? =)

Shopped for CDs in HMV Glasgow last time. The "Best-selling albums" were those that I listened to when I was in Taylor's!! Robbie Williams, Ronan Keating & etc.!!!!!! Kill me!! I wonder if it's a UK's or Glasgow's problem. Cause other European countries seem much better eh... When I was in Greece, I even heard Kenny G version of Jay Chow's "AnJing" song in their metro station!!! WOW!! So "in"!!

I chatted with some of our Glaswegian classmates during one boring EBM session. I opened my eyes big big & told them excitedly, "Oh Gosh!! Rihanna is coming to SECC!!!!!" Still remember clearly the "Huh?? Who's that?" expression on their faces and their polite smiles.

Ouch!! I was acting like a total idiot if not because one of them (only one!!) said in a as-a-matter-of-fact tone, "Oh, Rihanna.". Full stop!! And they turned to each other to discuss on the progression of their research project like nothing just happened!!! What??! Don't they even feel a bit bit excited that some huge celebrity is coming to their town??? Oh well, at least from being an idiot I was promoted to a retarded fella who cared more over American's music industry than my studies...

Why ah why ah? If Rihanna were to come to Batu Pahat, I would go all the way out to see her loh.. I mean, I am not a huge fan of hers lah. Not to mention that "Ella Ella Eh Eh" and the "Pls Don't Stop The.. Pls Don't Stop The Music" songs are rather retarded loh... XP It's the celebrity factor!! The "Oh wow!! I saw Rihanna live and took pictures of her!!!" factor!! No?