My New David Cook

Ok. Some of you might already know that I’ve been in love with David Cook(DC) since he started on American Idol.

I’ve been loyal to DC all these years, ( Adam Lambert does not count since he is gay) UNTIL NOW.

My new DC is…………………………… (drum roll please)

LEE DEWYZE!!

In case u think I’m being shallow, it was not his looks which made me switch from DC to this guy, it was this performance…

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m not being shallow OK! I think the guy is hot based on the way he sings, not the way he looks!!!!

Fine, I think he is hot based on the way he looks when he sings, BUT the point IS, if I did not see his performance, I would still be in love with DC.

So, I’m hoping this guy wins tomorrow! Honestly, Crystal totally rocks as well, but I’m in love with Lee. :)

Go LEE!!!

p/s: Special thanks to Kah Yee for introducing him to me. =p

Happy Teacher’s Day.

Teachers/lecturers/parents or whatever else you call them, they all have the same meaning. They serve the same purpose.

They are educators.

Patient, understanding, forgiving, selfless, optimistic people who actually care about us and make an effort to help us out and make sure we are on the right track.

They plant seeds of knowledge and wisdom in our heads and hope that we grow and bloom into something better.

They are the ones who sit by us and impart knowledge and wisdom into our short-sighted, foolish, rash minds and hope that we will become wiser.

They are the ones who help us get up and walk again no matter how many times we fall down.

They never give up on us.

The only thing they want in return is to see us succeed in our lives, and to see that their hard work actually paid off.

They were the hands which have helped in moulding us into the individuals we are today.

They were there when we were growing up and making mistakes, and they taught us how to learn from those mistakes and how to grow.

They never judged us.

They give us so much and rarely get anything in return, but they don’t complaint.

Happy Teacher’s Day to all the teachers out there. Thank you for being there for us when we needed you.

I love doing my elective!!!!!!! :D

Where do I start????

Ok, when they told me to pick an elective early this year, I decided I wanted to train at GSK Ampang. And that failed. So, I decided to go to my community pharmacy and learn stuff there. I THOUGHT it was going to be boring. I was SO wrong.

Let me tell you what I’ve done so far.

DAY 1

- Familiarised my self with the BP and Glucose measuring machines.

- Watched the pharmacist measure people’s BP and sugar, after which I was handed the task to measure the BP and Glucose AND counsel the patient on DM and HTN. ( when applicable laaa)

DAY 2

- Was taught how to use the uric acid and cholesterol measuring device

- Was given the responsibility to measure BP, Glucose, Uric acid, and Cholesterol AND counsel the pts on the respective diseases. :D without being supervised by the pharmacist!! :D

DAY 3

- Stood behind the counter, dispensed medication ( labelling and filling the prescription packet like in Sem 4) I was actually nervous when I was dispensing cause the pharmacist is actually garang, there was another diploma student training under him, and he scolded her when she dispensed the medication without labelling the packet. IN FRONT OF THE CUSTOMER. Thank GOD i wrote the label properly.

- Responded to symptoms!!! :D

- Taught a patient how to use Spriva!!!!!!!!

All of Day 3 activities were done under the supervision of the pharmacist. Pharmacist was impressed with my knowledge!!! :D (maybe he thinks i dunno anything, so when i could answer the questions, he was impressed. =.=”)

DAY 4 (TODAY!!!)

- Attended the launching of NiQuitin.( NRT patch and lozenge by GSK).

- It was cool!!! Fine, so I’ve never been to a product launch before, but it WAS fun. It was held at 1 world hotel. We each received a goodie bag!

The Goodie Bag

 

The contents…..

(a) The big horlicks 3in1 cereal drink.( got 15/20 sachets in it i think)

(b) Dequadin Pastilles

(c) A box of Panadol

(d) A Parker pen

The talk was great. It was abt NRT and all, and it was like a refresher course for me, since I’ve learnt it before. The fun part was when Prof Dr.Haniki, Head of Pharmacy Practice from IIUM or UIA started to talk because he was more focused on pharmacists and our role in NRT. He even taught us how to counsel effectively AND he was funny! :D

And then there was the lucky draw. 3 Apple IPod shuffles were up for grabs.

Dr. Haniki was the the first to go up and pull a number. And the number fell down. =.=”. Then he picked it up and read, “ No.30!”. Then the emcee was scanning the name list and called out “Shamala”.

:D

I WON!!!!!!!!! :D

They were giving 3 away, there was like 100++ of us there and I was the FIRST to win it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D

And to think that I was planning on getting one this week. Now can spend the $$ on other things.. I need to shop! I just realised that I’ve forgotten to shop! *gasps*

And then we had makan, and then we went back to the pharmacy to work. More like being excited over the fact that I won la.. the whole pharmacy kecoh… :p

So, I rationalised the situation this way, I wanted to do my elective at GSK badly. And they ignored me. So in return, God made them give me an IPod! :D

Oh, and I LOVE my elective! Did I already mention that?

I also met a pharmacist which just resigned after her 4 year compulsory service to join retail pharmacy and chatting with her was great. She told me what expect and all la.. it was very nice to talk to her, and she is from USM.

By the way, all the pharmacists I met there are from USM, I think I was the only one from IMU. :(

I’m going to enjoy the rest of my day now… :)

My darkest hour.

April sucked. Seriously. It is like the month of deaths.

My uncle passed away at 6.40 am on the 27th of April. I received the news at 7.45am on the same day as I was preparing for my CPK exam, which was at 9.00 am. God knows how I did my exam. All I know is that during the first hour of the exam, I was on auto-pilot mode. I had everything in my head and I was doing it by default. There was no thinking involved. Thank God I managed to get a hold of my head and started to focus on my paper. And I double checked the things I did on auto-pilot mode, and it didn’t seem wrong to me. Who knows if it is right in the first place. My MSK day wasn’t a happy one either. On Sunday afternoon I was told that my uncle had 24 hours left to live, and so I was already emotionally disturbed on Monday. So yea, I honestly don’t care about my exam. I want to pass it and get it over with.

During the exam week, I kept regretting not going to see my uncle during the study break. I kept asking my self if this exam was worth missing my uncle. I honestly don’t know. Certain days during the exam week, I won’t freak out ( I usually do). In fact, the ENTIRE exam week was panic-attack free because I didn’t care anymore. I kept thinking, “Maybe I should’ve skipped exams for his funeral?”. But then again, the funeral was a Muslim one, meaning even if I went, I wouldn’t have been able to do much there.

It was an emotionally taxing week for me. When I call my cousins up, after the exchange of hellos, I can only hear uncontrolled sobbings on the other end of the receiver. What made me feel even worse is the fact that my late uncle was asking for me and my brothers during his last days. I kept thinking that there would be more time after exams. But I guess he couldn’t wait for me and brother to finish our finals.

I went down to Ipoh after exams to see my aunt. It was an emotional visit. I met up with my cousins and they made the visit more bearable. We went makan-makan and all. I think I gained like 5 kilos over the weekend…

Anyway, going back to why I call April the month of death, during the study break Joanne’s puppy died. Abby was just 3 months old. =(

And on the last day of April, I woke up thinking, “ Today is the last day of April, what else is going to happen?”. And as I was preparing for my Toxico paper, I get a text from one my closest friends informing me that the grandmother had passed away early that morning. My friend and I are very close, practically like sisters. And she was having her finals this week. So yea, it was a bad time for her too.

See, April indeed was a month of deaths.

I guess I have to bear the responsibility for my actions, and I have to live with the regret of not going to see my uncle. Don’t cry over spilt milk they say, just shut up and clean up the mess.

I’m hoping for a happier May.