My 89 year old grandma has a handphone!

It's not that she's hip or wat. but due to some silly issues in my family.

my sis and she cant get along with each other from a very long time ago. and i heard her complaining to my dad that my sis doesn't hand over her the house phone when her fren called her, when my maid is not ard. bcos if my maid is ard, my sis will pass the maid the phone to pass my grandma. ya.. quite -_-" so she complained and i sort of make out that her fren suggested her to get a handphone.

my dad alw dotes on my grandma. so...... he got her a SIM card and let her use his old phone (while he upgrades to Nokia 6288)

his rationale is that he dun wan such issues to affect anything else. so he let the $14/mth corporate plan solve the problem.

To me, my grandma doesn't have alot of phonecalls. and being illiterate, she cant use the phone for SMS at all. so the $14 is only a sum of money spent on like.... ONE phone call per mth.. cos u noe, old ppl dun call their frenz that often one...

not that i'm trying to deprive my grandma of a handphone. BUT, this is quite a foolish way of solving the problem... cannot tell my sis to juz hand the phone over to her?

ah. not my dad's fault. he's juz sandwiched between his mum and his daughter.

probably not my grandma's fault oso. but i dun get y she wants to mention this whole thing and let my dad be sandwiched and duno y she even mention abt her fren's suggestion abt getting a handphone. (ya some of my better frenz will noe that sometimes, i dun really agree with my grandma's actions/thinking)

argh. my mum was saying "rich oso dunnit to waste money lidat ma". ya true, $14 doesn't seem like a large amt of money to him. but.. can buy 1 more fish for dinner leh....

i duno how liaoz. mayb it's juz an impulsive decision....

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abt FYP. i really hate to bring my worries back home. and then sleep with it. and then wake up next day thinking of it again...

pls cheer me up when u see i 脸黑黑... i've been sighing alot recently.

总觉得一切都不顺利，只能走一步看一步。这种生活要到几时？

Some pharmer news updates

Senior Michelle Tan's letter on ST online forum

There's more to a pharmacist's job than just dispensing medicines

AS A fresh graduate from the NUS pharmacy cohort 2007, I followed with great interest the recent exchanges in The Straits Times regarding the public's opinion about pharmacists and their roles as played out in hospitals and community pharmacies.

What struck me was that the role of pharmacists is neither well defined nor understood by most.

Unlike other professionals in the health-care field who play more visible roles in our society, such as dentists, nurses and doctors, pharmacists are not seen as playing an evident part in the health-care scene. We are somehow in the picture, but no one's quite sure about what we really do.

Typically the pharmacist's main point of contact with the public is in the course of supplying medicines to them. Little else is known about what goes on behind the counters, from the reception of the prescription to the end point when the patients receive their medication.

As mentioned in the letter, 'Educated public best check on prescriptions' (ST, Oct 1) - 'I doubt if any pharmacists would or should challenge a doctor's prescription' - the common misconception is that pharmacists simply supply medications as directed by the doctors. End of story.

However, in the outpatient pharmacy in hospitals, there is a systematic process which involves pharmacists using their professional judgment, and contacting the doctors about changing a dose or adjusting a treatment to ensure that the public gets the most efficient and cost-effective drugs. Other clinical roles of pharmacists include medication monitoring, patient education, improving patient medication compliance and side-effect profiling. Pharmacists also play active roles in answering doctors prescription queries, and regularly publish updates to keep fellow health-care professionals updated on recent drug developments.

I believe that we, as a profession, have the knowledge and training to make informed decisions about prescribed medications, and it is our responsibility as part of the health-care team to ensure a patient's best interests are always met.

Michelle Tan Wan Lin (Miss)

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And some from PSS websites:

PSS Vice-President's reply "Pharmacists help to ensure safe and right use of drugs" to Edgar Koh's Tough Pill to Swallow

Cheryl's birthday!

Celebrated Cheryl's birthday with some pharmers + yimin. pictures to be uploaded when i got the pics haha

there was supposed to be a surprise... but liwei 破坏, din noe that what i was trying to say under my breath is not supposed to be heard by cheryl. haha, and so, cheryl said that she guessed who was the surprise already when liwei asked me so loudly "y got 7?".. -_- haha... nvm... still quite a surprise hor :P hahaah

dinner was at some ramen restaurant at Central Mall. supposed to be those traditional Japanese type of ramen. heh. the ramen was not bad. but i think it's rather ex. esp the side dish. like 1piece of char siu cost $1... hahah.... but got real Japanese patronise. shd be authentic ba? haha



then we ate the cake which we bought at Swissbake. presents were Royal Sporting House voucher + 37degrees pencil case. swee..

so after the traditional ramen, we went for another dose of "Japanese"-ness. haha HOKKAIDO ICE CREAM!!! haha liwei said it was like the pre-grad trip to Japan. ahhh.. i wish lo... hope to go somewhere like Japan, Australia or other nice nice place for grad trip.

oh i really like the HOKKAIDO ICE CREAM. had green tea again. but kop rum and raisin and durian. tried durian before, and first time trying rum and raisin from there. i must say that the ice cream flavours are really ichiban + oishi! haha.. cos the flavours the moment u eat, u dunnit to guess one, sure noe the flavour. that's how good they are.

then walked around clarke quay. i'm sua ku and it's the first time i see the pub called CLINIC. i wan to go there! haha. the sofa is in the form of hospital beds and chairs in the form of wheelchairs. there are operating theatre lights around and the bartenders dressed like OT docs haha.... and the bar there is called "dispensary" hehe. heard from cheryl last time they got an IV drip or syringe thingy to pour out the drinks. ahaha. wahh so cool hor.

anw, heard about Elgar's revolution about him trying to psycho ppl not to sign up for pre-reg so that MOH will wake up their idea and start to realise our importance. i tink it may work, if enuf ppl dun sign up for pre-reg. but who wants to take the risk? i felt that maybe i'm not so noble. i dun really wan to be a whip master or a passport chopper like him. haha... perhaps i just dun like to take risk, dun like to waste my education and want to practise what i've been taught... haiz. 我没有勇气.

Elgar's grad trip to North Korea seems... haha... like a funny idea. but i wun support him HAHA... North Korea leh...



ermz nothing much abt the hat, just that me and cheryl decided to wear it together that day :P

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anw i've been quite cynical about life nowadays, and i've also been having stockmarket-like mood changes, partly cos of FYP. and cynical cos of the things i've experienced and seen and heard so far... cynical about ppl? or perhaps just life... wah. i dun wan to grow up to experience more of it.

part of the talk about pharmacist low pay is not only about us not being paid accordingly to the HUGE amount of work we do. but slowly realising that, after working, the money we earn have to contribute towards the family and supporting parents etc. will that be enuf? suddenly so many things to think about...

and ya, i really feel like going for enhancement surgery... *sniggers* haha! LASIK la!

Cheer Chen's Concert

Found videos with clear and close-up quality (good enuf for such clips) on youtube for A Piece of Summer ~ Singapore!!

Reptily Run

I was jogging along the canal beside Jurong East Swimming Complex, when I saw a KOMODO DRAGON beside the canal on the grass...

eeeks! (haha the picture is not from me, just pasted a photo from the web here)

the one I saw had a sharper mouth and not so fat. haha. but still, fat. was around 1.5m. When I saw it, my first instinct was to turn back and run away, but being rational, I think I hadn't read on any poisons or human-eating komodo dragons before, so I decided to head back and continue my run. haha. My route was to reverse at the ending point of one side of the canal, so when I returned, it wasn't there anymore. Maybe it's swimming happily in the canal now... I think it was preying on a ka leng (a type of bird my mum calls this in cantonese, the black bird with yellow beak..) when I saw it haha...

and i'm not dreaming ok!!! it was moving and i'm quite sure it wasn't a tree branch...

i hate reptiles, especially those big house lizards who just appear from nowhere and then scoot around the ceiling/wall/floor. but sighting KOMODO DRAGONS is quite cool hahaha...

the last time when I saw a komodo dragon was my Pri 1 zoo excursion. I was already on the bus, ready to leave, and when I turned back, the huge lizard was crossing the road... -_-

Read up more on Komodo Dragon from Wikipedia

Shopping! + Books

last day of mid sem break should end with a happy day (since i hadn't been very happy, stuck in the lab for the past 1 week)

SHOPPING with cheryl and lee cheng!!! haha to use up y 20% birthday discount from Esprit.

my 收获:

all of us bought stuff!! haha exactly 2 items each for ourselves. haha!

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4 cello books with my $100 deposit, paid $4.60 extra cos the books were a total of $104.60.
wrapped the Drug Information Handbook today!!

陈绮贞's a piece of summer~~

alright. u can get the pics from DanK's blog. cos i haven gotten the pics from him yet. (forgot to bring my camera)

IT WAS A GREAT CONCERT!!!

haha... i really din noe what to expect when i stepped into the hall. sat there. expected to be entertained. but dunno whether it's those quietly sitting there and listening kind of entertainment or HIGH kind. thanks danK for the light stick (yellow one turned out to be blue. HAH!)

she started with slow songs. i tink the first song was 九份的咖啡厅。 and then about 8 other slow songs, alternating those which i noe (i.e. more popular ones) with those which i dunno (i.e. older and less popular ones) haha..

then she started a rock song. HIGH-ed!!! and then it was rock all the way~~~

we couldn't stand sitting down and listening to ROCK music. so stood at the side and waves the light sticks!! woooo.... i like the way she makes the songs different by using different 编曲. so it's normally "eh wat song is it ah?"... den when she started singing... "orhhhhhhhh..." *waves light stick and sings along*

best part was 让我想一想. when the guitar came in, i was jumping around. HAHA and waving the light sticks.

last song (before the 5 encores) was 旅行的意义. it was the song which she'll put on her motorcyclist helmet 安全帽 and sing. actually she did ask the fans to bring helmets with them and put on. but i think only a few (like 10?) brought. (quite sad hor) but i think it's a different culture in Taiwan... before she started singing, she said something like "让我们一起出发吧..." and put on her black helmet, it's something which i'll remember, but cant exactly pinpoint why. maybe it's the sense of "belonging" and "familiarity" when she said "我们 "...

5 encores. i think the audience become wild when she started singing 告诉我 cos it's a more popular but old song.

was quite touched when she said 我不怎么会说话 when she was touched by the audience. then, one of her fans shouted 不要紧， 继续唱歌!!! There was this kind of interaction between the idol and the fan, the fan showing support for the idol which makes me remember again. it also shows that her music alone, can satisfy us all, and she doesn't need to work on her language to make it flowery or watever at all.

the concert ended with her saying 下一次我再来，会带来更多作品. that was what she said in her previous concert too. i'll be waiting :)

Found the sequence of songs:
1 九份的咖啡店
2 情歌
3 就算全世界與我為敵
4 我親愛的偏執狂
5 躺在你的衣柜
6 小塵埃
7 還是會寂寞（大合唱）
8 失敗者的飛翔
9 80%的完美
11 倔強愛情的勝利
12 La Javanaise
13 一起去巴黎
14 溫室花朵
15 Sentimental Kills (imho, this was 1st gig climax)
16 躺在你的衣柜
17 地下道
18 Self
19 小步舞曲
20 華麗的冒險
21 我的驕傲無可救藥
22 女明星 (the 2nd gig climax...which turned out to be unbelievably GREAT performance! )
23 等待
24 讓我想一想
25 吉他手
26 最初的起點
27 旅行的意義
Encore 1
28 和你在一起
29 漫漫长夜
Encore 2
30 告诉我
31 1234567
Encore 3
32 After 17
Encore 4
33 太聪明
Encore 5
34 微凉的你

her new song:


oh i bought this from the merchandise booth: