Monday, August 31, 2009

Mr Mario Nintendo


drum roll for my pre-birthday present from my dear sister, Shir Li.
Thanks a lot sis, i have never thought that i would own a nintendo one day but surprisingly i did thanks to you of course.
and definitely my little nintendo who travels all the way from Melbourne deserve a little publicity on my blog.
red and sleek and trendy - what a girl desires.

Happy Birthday, Tweety Bird.

(last year picture)
I have a very sweet friend.
A friend is sweet when its new...
but it is sweeter when its TRUE.
But!!!
It is the sweetest when its you. =)

Happy 20th Birthday, dear Carolyn, the merdeka child

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Hospital Placement


apart from the five weeks of community placements, we have hospital placements too but only for a week and once. it was definitely an experience that i never thought would have an impact on me tremendously. ever since i took the pharmacy course, i had never really wanted to open and run my own pharmacy for i feel the area of work is pretty restricted. i have always took interest in hospital pharmacy but there aren't many stories of successful hospital pharmacists.

when i went to the hospital in Brisbane last Thursday and being exposed to what a hospital pharmacy does on their regular jobs, perhaps i might have the right thoughts on pursuing hospital pharmacy. we were brought into the dispensary and it was amazing to see the different kind of medicines surrounding us. from bottles to vials to capsules to powder....though a dispensary may look small from outside, it was absolutely huge in the insde.

we were brought to the sterile compounding unit too where we were able to watch the pharmacists compounding eye drops, total parietal nutrition, chemotherapy drugs, ointments and even intravenous fluid which definitely left us speechless and amazed.

in fact, i learnt on that day that a hospital pharmacist is capable to choose to specialise in one particular area or field such as the renal department, neurology or even cardiology field. the pharmacist who brought us around was working in the renal department and her responbilities were mainly on renal drugs and wards. that's where i would love to be.
a specialised pharmacist in cardiology.

the biggest weighing machine i have seen in my life.

xoxo,
the future to be pharmacist. =P

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Ekka Festival

this is what i call as FUN.
Ekka festival turns out to be one of the most prestigious event celebrated by the Queenslanders. ekka festival in Brisbane is a festival that is celebrated for a period of ten days with even a special train operating directly to the ekka site. I have seen on tv on competitions like cattle judging, milk quality judging, horse breed judging and etc and this is what Ekka Festival is made up of. Pretty surreal to be exposed to something you have actually seen it on tv for your whole life. Generally, the Ekka consisted of a variety of programs such as shearing demonstrations, firework display, cattle judging, food showdowns, showbag pavillion, and equestrian matches. There is a even a fun fair with more extreme rides I had sat in Dreamworld and Movieworld but we did not sit any for they were costly.

the colours of every boo
th at the fun fair were really enlightening.

i used to play this game called carnival circus on my sis's nintendo and they have all sorts of games which were actually TRUE cause i saw every single one of them in Ekka. how unbelievable. pretty much like an exact copy.

all those fluffy toys waiting for their owners.

shen became over-excited over a fat cow ( good breed obviously).
though cows do stink at times and get pretty unbearable sometimes, who would want to miss the opportunity to actually pat and touch them?
not kampung cows but good quality cows.
(just check out the amount of milk that cow had!!!)

and i actually saw many quirky farm animals too during the festival. for instance, meet this charming mr alpaca. cutie pies, aren't they?
alpacas are bred specifically for their great quality of fibers.

few words to descirbe them "hen ke ai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
even the way they eat.

the evolution of blind mice into a species that i somehow forgotten their names. lol.

animals parades and how should i describe the parade was?
it was similar to each countries parading during Olympic but only replaced by animals and on certain times, you can see the whole parade/ line stopped moving because of one particular animal peeing. lmao.

so many horses!!!!!!!!!!!!! too many of them to be uploaded.
i just randomly grabbed one picture but this horse doesn't look as good as the rest. just the painting on the horse symbolized the Red Indian Breeds.

and yes i touched, carried, cuddled and hugged a young goat. white innocent goat.
lifetime experience.

to simply end this post, i uploaded one of the cutest picture i have taken of the alpaca.
he is smiling for my camera!! a poser he is. =)

yours truly,
shen

Monday, August 10, 2009

Scalded by Hot Oil

shen's endless misfortune.

a few months back, i was requested to leave the house we were renting.
spending the whole two weeks walking around st lucia and indooroopilly to search for a house, i thought that it would be the first and the last misfortune to happen in Brisbane.

two weeks ago, i was trapped in the bathroom and was saved by four hunky firemen. well, that turned out to be a funny incident instead of a misfortune. But still who would want to be trapped in a bathroom?

and yesterday, was the PEAK of all misfortunes i had in my whole 19 years of life. i never thought it would ever happen to me. but it did.

Some Hot oil from the frying pan spilled onto my left thigh and palm.
(don't worry it is not that i was burned, i was just scalded).

so this is how the story began.
the adventurous me as usual decided to cook some fried chicken wings. deep frying for the first time left a lifetime memory for me. how 'wonderful'.
when the frying pan slipped from the stove, i tried to save it using my left leg ( trying to be a heroine! haahah). that was just my uncontrollable reflex reactions. blame it on my nerves impulses. lol. as my mission failed and ended up with hot oil landing on my left thigh, i did not reacted for i felt nothing and i thought it was nothing. i tried saving the pan again using my left hands and again the oil spilled onto my left palm.

the burn immersed with cold gel.
so it wasn't obvious anymore.

that was the moment i felt excruciating pain. stinging pain. throbbing pain. burning pain on my left thigh. hahaha i must have screamed like a mad woman, scaring both of my housemates, running to the bathroom and ran it with cold water. i saw nothing on my leg and i thought it was fine. i assumed it would be the usual burn like those you felt sometimes when you were normally cooking with oil splashing onto your skin.

i was fooled by my assumption. eventually i saw red marks on my skin and the pain won't stop.
i cried. my housemates were scared and they told me to put toothpaste on it. yeah i called my mum and that's what she told me to do too.

and because the pain won't go, my housemate called the paramedics. the paramedics came and they said "WHY YOU PUT TOOTHPASTE??"..hahaha well, i wasn't supposed to do so according to them. i was asked to wash it away.
they gave me penhtrox ( some kind of drug that will eliminate any type of pain) which made me drunk.

so i am fine. no worries. just a red burn on my thigh and some patches around my palm.
moral of the story, do not try to save a frying pan and your chicken wings. let them die not you.



xoxo,
bandaged shen

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Masa Sekolah Dulu Dulu


Aku rindu masa sekolah dulu.
(i have no idea when this picture was taken till sabrina tagged us a few days back)
was it during sports day?
LOL.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

My First Community Pharmacy Placement

when we, the 1st year of Pharmacy students were told that we will be having placements in both community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy in semester 2, i was terrified. what if i did something stupid and embarrassing. what if my preceptor hates me and evaluates me badly. what if i look like a dumb ass in the pharmacy not knowing a single drug name.
i should have reminded myself that i am in 1st year not in 4th year... hahhaha...

being the last among my pharmacy friends to start the placement, i heard many experiences of theirs and some were good and some were utterly bad which totally shattered my confidence. before i left for home this morning, i could not get myself in proper as i was scared.
School of Pharmacy uniform.

i even told my housemate that ' i would rather sit for an exam or to debate instead of going to the pharmacy. yeah you would have expected what kind of responses they gave me. 'stupid shen'..

but thankfully my placement turned out to be fine, not as bad as i had expected. though i stood in the dispensary for two hours observing them only ( as required by our module) i learnt many things. i was impressed. my very first time to be impressed by this profession. i even realised that a pharmacist can seriously earn a lot. a pharmacy usually receives 200 over prescriptions over a day and that would be approximately four thousands dollars a day ( assuming each prescriptions worth twenty dollar- which is obviously untrue cause i seen some cost nearly sixty over). that equally means AUS 120000 in a month. minus all those employee's wages, shop maintenances, electric and water bills and stocks, it would still be more than AUS 100000. holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . well, that technically applies in Australia only. pharmacists over here are highly recognised and professional. now i know why i have a course mate from China who graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery opt to study for pharmacy. WOOT!!! that's like the first time i heard a person switching from medicine to pharmacy. according to him, a pharmacist earns more in his country. WOW! can i work in aussie please???? i would be rich! =)

now i am crossing my fingers that Malaysia will give the dispensing power to the pharmacists instead of the doctors ( don't be furious with me doctors. hehehe) at least, pharmacists there would be doing something more. just like the one i saw today.

xoxo,
shen.