High

Yes I was high on 7th April 2008 cause I was reading sources on Multiple Sclerosis for the past few days and I managed to complete the whole 3000+ (4000+ if u count the words in the tables) essay in 1 n half day (more like half day of a Saturday and whole night of a Sunday).

And this is not where it ends..we still had to prepare for a PSD on Monday and I had to compile the slides for the e-PBL as I was the leader and I still have not started my Toxico presentation yet as of Monday which is the day that we have to hand in the presentation to AAD.So I had to stay up the whole night to finish my CTT and I managed to do it after a strong cup of coffee (which I did know but chose to ignore in the name of CTT that will make me suffer so much later in the evening..think headache and dehydration and feeling like crap).

I only started preparing for Monday's PSD on Monday morning itself. Luckily our patient was late so we did not need to do counselling for antidiabetics which was a good thing cause I just made marks in the BNF to refer to..And luckily I read up a bit on how to use the MDI and Turbohaler (but this Turbohaler is funny..it can twist both sides so I was a bit unsure of the counselling) and the patient I tell you...such a pain in the a**.

He kept asking what if he missed a dose and what if he cannot take it on time cause he's so busy..and I can fairly conclude that half of the time he does not listen to me, seriously..Then when I actually asked him what his problem was that caused him difficulties in taking his doses, he just evaded my questions..twice in a row and he just waved it off..obviously he did not see this coming from me (I was happy that I threw him off guard for once haha). And then when he asked if he takes his dose like in the morning then can he take in the afternoon I answered better if there was a longer period but there is no time limit to when you take the corticosteroid doses..I don't know what I was talking about at this time and he kept repeating the question but it did not go into my no-sleep-the-whole-of-previous-night-plus-still-high-on-caffeine-brain and I was getting irritated so I just stared at him until he finished explaining his question and I went "Sorry?Huh?What?" kind of loudly..and I looked up at the lecturer-in-charge (or outside pharmacist) and my session ended..phew..haha

I was fortunate I got the inhaler one cause I was totally unprepared for the other meds. I'm kind of happy for myself that I can actually counsel better on the use of MDI and corticosteroid inhaler use (Turbohaler) than I did last time on this inhaler thing.

And there was another funny part where Amanda counseled on the alendronate use,sorry I had to say this here ;) This is just a brief summary which may not be precise.

Amanda: After you take this medication, you have to stand or walk around for at least 30 mins.
Patient: What??Stand for 30 mins??
A: Yes, so that you will not get heartburn.
Lecturer-in-charge: You can actually sit for at least 30 mins after taking the med.
P: Can sit one ar?!Then why you ask me to stand for 30 mins when I can just sit and read my paper?!Why I want to walk around/stand for 30 mins like soh chai only!

Hahaha the way he said it was really ridiculous. But in the end you get the 1 mark by just showing up for this thing. I was like "What la..". Then I had to rush for the Toxico slides after that and this time I have to thank VengFoon for doing part of my slides even though he haven't finished his CTT yet at that time. Finally I finished everything by Monday and was free for the rest of the week except for the other 2 presentations. Who said Sem 6 have free time?? Whack that person I tell you..

"Chill" Day

Yesss!Finally after 1 whole month of suffering like crazy i finally get 1 "chill" day!!
I love "chill" days cause I get to be an aimless person for a day n I get to do anything I want without bothering about assignments n portfolios n PBLs n toxico projects n CTT assignments etc. etc. etc. (especially hospital logbooks cos it was a nightmare for me..seriously whoever was under a certain lecturer whom I think the whole class already knows by now went through a hell of a time trying to redo all care plans concerned to meet her exceptionally perfect standards).
Ok enough about the torture,this is supposed to be about my chill day so here goes hehe..

This morning was great!I woke up and the first thing I did was not go straight to the comp to finish my work like I did for the past few days, had a good sleep but still it was not enough cause I drank a whole cup of iced coffee at Kim Gary when I had dinner with HuiXin the day before (drinking coffee for dinner is a really bad idea) and ended up sleeping at 5 a.m. and woke up at 10 a.m. this morning. Anyway even if I can't wake up the stupid construction that has been going on behind my house for the past 3 months will wake me up at 10 a.m. sharp with the drilling and other sorts of construction noises that will definitely jar you from your beauty sleep and for God's sake it's a Saturday ok??Like this also they don't let me sleep.....back to the main topic...

Went out with Dut today to KLCC and yes that's the closest place I can go to chill cause the other shopping complexes require a lot of hassle just to get there..and by the time you get there you will be too exhausted to chill properly anymore haha

So Dut and I went to the Coffee Club Express located on the 4th floor in Kinokuniya for lunch and yes it's a good place to really chill and relax cause the atmosphere there is not as hectic as in other cafes.The food is not bad,delicious even!I think I was too tired then I did not eat much today..now it's time for piccies!!(decided to camwhore today as I have not had the opportunity to camwhore in such a really really long time..)

This is Dut with her favourite Caesar Salad and her favourite cappuccino (mine too!)..

Me with both of our lunches (don't know why I have cravings for chicken pies nowadays..still trying to find the best chicken pie..)

My candid pic *smiles*

I love this pic!Traders Hotel is somewhere outside the window behind me (Andrew said that I was promoting their coffee!haha yeps kinda!but it tastes good!)

Me finally digging into my food..

While Dut has already dug into her food long ago...

And while she was distracted with the camera I was caught on camera stealing her croutons and smoked turkey! I love croutons and smoked turkey! (But you can't really see it from this angle hehe and yes I finally remembered what those bread thingies in our Dome's creamy soup are called HuiXin!They are croutons!)

Yay!I finally got the whole Caesar salad from Dut!You know...I never eat salads and I hate garlic smells but the Caesar salad here is not bad and the veggies are not the dead of dead kinds that you can't even put into your mouth..and yes you get to choose to add smoked turkey in it here instead of plain chicken.

And Dut has to finish my food hehe..

After we finished our lunch and chatted awhile there and I told her about the new bunch of lecturers that the uni has now and especially those that love to laugh at the mistakes students did or I think they perceive it more as crimes that have been committed against the secret code of the International Society of Pharmacist Geniuses You Mere Pharmacist Students Are So Out of Our Leagues or have a stroke just cause we don't have the whole drug database in our brains..maybe they are a group of cyborgs that have artificial intelligence installed in them and they have the whole damn drug database in their brains or what so they think they can laugh at their students..A lecturer is supposed to guide their students,not make fun of them or ridicule them over small matters..and yes I get it that you are smarter than the whole bunch of us cause you have already studied further than us and have more experience than us but these kind of lecturers..I totally have no respect for them as lecturers or as individuals cause they really don't deserve it.I am only speaking about a selected few new lecturers,not as a whole as there are some of them who are really there to help their students and not just there to flaunt their worldly knowledge and act superficially.Argh this is supposed to be about my "chill" day!Can't help it,I will rant a lot whenever this topic is brought up..

After our lunch and chat session,Dut and I headed to the TGV cinema to get a pic with Wall-E (I know he is just made of cardboard but he's so cute in a weird sort of way..what am I talking about la..)

Dut, me and Wall-E.

As it was still early and we had nothing to do,we went to the KLCC park to have a stroll and maybe get some pics (This is why I love "chill" days..I don't need to rush for anything in particular or rush to shop here and there)

Dut with little island in the middle of the large fountain, too bad the fountains were turned off at the time.

This pic was taken by a tourist from Cambodia.Don't know why he took full length...cannot complain la haha.He and his wife and mom were there for a holiday and Malaysia was their last stop on their holiday trip and they were nice people i guess.Then the guy wanted his wife to take pics wit the 2 of us and the wife was hugging my waist quite tightly I think don't know about Dut's side..haha it was quite funny too bad we couldn't get the pic hopefully they had a wonderful time here in Malaysia.It was quite nice to pretend to be tourists and act all touristy..should do that again next time haha

Then we continued our "chill" day at San Francisco Coffeehouse.I love their Iced Chocolate!But I think the guy misunderstood what I said bout crushed ice and ice blended (I wanted crushed ice but got ice blended instead) and it was horribly sweet that one can actually feel diabetic when one drinks it..and the camwhoring continues..

And finally pics of me and Dut at diff places though you can't really see it cause we had to take the pics ourselves and it takes skill!!

Basically all of them have same poses la haha (finally had a pic of Dut in her make-up cause she was going to attend a wedding dinner,hopefully it did not bore you to death Dut!haha)

All this camwhoring in one day and with Dut is amazing..this is the first time I have this many pics with you!Other than the ones from our bdays hehe

That is all for now!Was a really great outing and hopefully I will get to do this next time!Yes I still have a camwhoring session with HuiXin which after I don't know how many months is still unaccomplished.Never mind we will definitely do it if I'm not that tired or haggard-looking that is..

Cheers~

Birth of New Blog

Yay!I finally decided to start a new blog here but i still do not know how to use it..
I need help from u wy!haha
I finally had a bit of time to do some things that I have been putting off for quite some time now and this is one of it (didn't want to use the friendster one anymore cause it was too public ;) and I don't feel safe talking about some stuff there,you know what I mean right?)
Hopefully I can keep this blog going and not let it die like the previous one!
And yes there's still more to come here and I haven't even started ranting on the past few week's worth of torture!
Look out for the next post if you are interested!
Cheers~