Easter Saturday

Oh dear! I swear, if it is so busy everytime i work...I would break down very soon.

Pharmacy was closed yesterday, maybe that explained why it was EXTRA SUPA MEGA busy today...Overtimed for 25 minutes too...and no i don't get paid for it =S

Duno if it is the flu going around in aunt's house or just coz i was totally worn out today...I am starting to get sick now...again =S how annoying this is...and no, i am absolutely NON-ADHERENCE to my medicines. I take them when I remember, I take them when I feel like it...don't remind me what course I am doing, coz that doesn;t help ME at all.

Another failure on the attempting to make a chocolate mousse cake.
That's how terrible I am at cooking...and baking =[

IT WAS ONLY CAKE-MIX!!! HOW COULD I STILL STUFF IT UP??!

Oh well, I've alwasy know I am not born for cooking...

I;ve dne absolutely NOTHING so far in my easter holiday...

Work, Work, and work,,,
today 7 hours...
tomorrow 4 hours,
monday another 7 hours...

not that I am complaining...(maybe I am, just a little bit)
...its true that I should be happy having a job...

but sometimes I want my break too...

Oh well, its holiday...
be happy, don't worry!

Japanese dinner tomorrow!! can't wait!!

W.O.R.K.

After working 2 concsecutive days, with 7 hours each day...I am feeling tired.

Yesterday wasn't bad, Boxing Day mah~ public holiay and most people went shopping.

But today was nuts. I've always knew Saturday is a busy day, but it was just crazy today. Customers all came into the shop in the LAST hour at 4ish, and I was the only staff on the sales floor ( There was another staff at the register)... With heaps of new scripts coming in, those that were waiting to pick up their medications were getting impatient. They complained about the long waiting time, and was asking rudely "why does the phrmacist have to re-check it again when she has done it?!"...Dude, this is for your own safety reason =S

Been having retarded nose for the whole day!!! and my feet hurt. Plus I stupidly cut my finger with PAPER ....and..oh yeh =S....and I bang my hand on the register which gave me a nice cut and bruise. What is going on with me today -.-"

Another 5 hours tomorrow.
Then Tuesday 30th Dec from 10-5pm again
New Year Day: 10-5pm
Following Friday 2nd Jan:5-9pm
Saturday 3rd Jan: 10-3pm
Sundy 4th Jan:10-2pm
Friday 9th Jan: 5-9pm
Saturday 10th Jan/ last shift before I leave Melb: 10-3pm

nice timetable...at least I am keepng myself busy, let along i am half dead by now...

4 more days...

It’s a sunny and hot day after all…

And seems that I haven’t been working for so long! Today I was up dispensary with Larry…It was so busy. Wasn’t too bad, it’s manageable =] After that I shopped in my pharmacy for stuff like moisturizing creams for mum and dad…yeh everyone, I am leaving *only* on 12th January, 09. I wish I had booked earlier.

Stayed at home afterwards and finished off my Korean drama “Behind the White Tower”. It is one of the few *very few* dramas I’ve watched that is NOT a love story. It is more a drama about doctors in hospital trying to get into the positions they want. Pride, Fame, Money…And because of that, patients care is no longer the first priority as health care professionals. Very pathetic. I spend around 4 days to finish all 20 episodes. Was great coz I got something to entertain myself =] Plus, I still have a few interesting dramas/TV shows in my hard drive waiting for me to finish!

Don’t care la…I need new glasses anyway, wont; make a difference by now =P

4 more days till Christmas….
I am never very patient…and I am told not to open the presents till Christmas morning (Traditionally its Boxing Day morning right=P shuuushh =P I don’t want to wait one more day!)…I am so tempted to pull off the sticky tapes! I would be honest and say this is one of the biggest tests on my patience so far. Especially when that golden bag is right infront of you!!! And on it there were handwritings “Do not open until Christmas morning”…BACK AND FRONT!!!

So tempted…

Self control….

A late update

Sorry...!! I really have to apologise to you guys that...well..i have been pretty lazy lately, not really updating my blog >.<" Holiday is driving me a bit crazy coz I am losing track of time!

Anyway...Its december!!! AGAIN!

I don't now if I should be happy or not.

Yeh Its Christmas, but everyone had left...ok most people!

I hate the feeling of boredom...so i decided to work more in my pharamcy during the last weeks of december and start of janefore I leave n the 12th. Its good to have somethig which keeps me busy, but hopefully not too busy.

This week I had been going out shopping and bumping around!...visiting my friend at work ( ANDI and the yummy milk shakes! )...did some X'mas shopping at Westfield Doncaster...went to Sandringham beach too! That wasn;t a very hot day, which is good for ME! at least I wasn;t very tan by now....havent; turn into dark chocolate *yet*. But I would say it was a nice day out to relax on the sand=] hmm, the water was so salty tho =S next timeI will bring my goggles!

and then yesterday night it was my pharamcy's chirstmas dinner. It was nice! I guess its my first time taking part in social events liek that...but at least I know most of the people there =] oh yeh ..should mention I stuffed sth up as well...I was thinking it would be...erm..a semi-casual-semi-formal-ish event...but turns out it was more liek a casual event...so, basically We dressed semi-formal...it wasnt; my fault tho. Don't blame me! Nice food tho! We had salad and some seafood for entree...veal and chicken (YEAH chicken! lalala~~ -.-") for main..and tiramisu and icecream (which somebody said one of teh scoops taste liek curry) for dessert...

Worked today....kinda tired but it was alright coz I had a cup of coffee beore work! yeh coffee~.(It is for the benefits of the patients ok!?)but coz it was theisant coffee I made, i didnt; get hyper like I usually did in lecture hall for early lectures...

Tomorrow is ...going to be anoter happy day =]

Cup Day

..So who won?

I started work at 3pm today, till 9pm...It was...so....QUIET...I guess customers dont; even know we're opened. So what we did was, check the stock, clean the stock, put out new stock....grrr. 6 hours work and I didn't have a proper break. Not that I am tired, more like I was bored. All the fun we had were playing with perfumes and make up. Eating lolliepop and drinking coffee....oh ad my strawberries and the chocolate froggie.

Couldn't wait to get home...

And now I am home, I am too tired to study. I wanna go shopping...maybe tomorrow or thursday. Gota go Westfield to get something anyway...

arghhhhhhh....c'on! 10th!!!

HAPPY hello-win!

YEAH! 3 exams done....!! one more to go and I will be finished. So far I thin I passed all, but its the matter of whether I can get above the level to maintain my scholarship =S anyway! the last one is on 10th nov, so basically I will have 10 days to muck around...

my plan is....
Tomorrow, work in pharmacy...
Cupday, work in pharmacy...
Coming Friday, work in pharmacy...
Next Saturday, Pharacy training in main office...
Next Sunday, worki in pharmacy....
The rest: sleep, eat, get distracted as usual...

Tonight i will relax...then maybe I will start doin some reading after work tomorrow if I am good...or maybe I will start on Monday (Luisa's procrastinating syndrome ...again!)

Today had been a gloomy day, but it is Halloween! (omg...these bunch of kids are outside my house...)...and what makes me more happy is that exams are endin, and finally I can rest a bit. Waking up at 5am today totally stuffed my head up...especially after I had that cup of coffee from Hungry JAck, my heart was racing madly even I wasn't panicking for exam=S bad enough to start a day in such way...

Oh! the amount of lollies and chocolate I have now is enough to get me to the dentist soon....but... =]

慌。

Today wasa busy Sunday to some extend in my pharmacy. So many prescriptions T^T

I am still not good at working under stress, coz aparently I stuffed up a few scripts today. Didn't prepare the Generic Amoxil syrup but instead the normal band; didn't print out labels properly...grrr...SORRY LARRY~! (even tho he won;t be reading this)...Seems that i;ve lost my brain. So tired. Good thing is that m pharmacist helped me out with my Medcine In Profile study for tomorrow's exam. His unique way of teaching me really helps me a lot. " Yeh, so tell me about aspirin, what is it? ...yeh..NSAIDs, then what are the side effects of NSAIDs?...no you tell me, i won;t just tell you the answer...ok, doxycline, tell me what u can't lie down after taking it? " THX LARRY! (again, he wont; be reading it but ijust want to shout it out)

Got home at 2:30pm after doin some lollie shopping for exams. Igot some sugar free lollies and also the yummy Glucojel-jellybean proudly manufactured by The Pharmacy Guild of Autralia. Now in tomorrow's exam if they ask me what The Guild does, i will put down "It manufactures Glucose Power JELLY BEANs!"

I hit y pillow right after I had some food, soooo worn out. And then when I woke up, its was like 5pm already....My heart is racing and this is not a nice feeling. 很慌乱的感觉...怎么办才好？心很不舒服Y。

Good Luck Vcp-ists, I will see yo guys tomorrow in exams =]

The power of media and television...

On 10th October, 2008.Today Tonight broadcasted this clip on this 'amazing' heath care product called "Painaway".What's that? Well~ it is simply a cream or spray that contain 5 mian herbal ingredients for treating Arthritis, the inflammation of joints. Arthritis is a characterised by pain and swelling in the joints and believe it or not, it actually affect 1 in 5 Australian.

The used of 5 herbal ingredients are as followed...for those who are interested:

"Aarnica is for bruising and swelling, rosemary and eucalyptus is for circulation, the emu oil is a carrier that carries the actives deep down onto a bone or vertebrae to attack the inflammation and remove the inflammation in combination - it's unique in that way."

So after this clip was being broadcasted...a funny thing started to appear in my pharmacy this afternoon! A customer came in and asked "Can i have Painaway?"...as usual...i went and check with other staff...and apparently we are out of them coz the manufactorer was 'out of stock'...Then...10 min later another customer am in..and asked the same question, "Do u guys sell Painaway?"...ok this time I knew how to handle it...but then when the 5th customer came in...I started to giggle already... "sorry....i truly am, but you are teh 5th customer in 2 hours that came in and asked for the same thing! yeh i knew it was on Today Tonight..."....there were around 10 customers caming in just this afternoon to ask for that! How AmazING/ CreePy that is...Even thought other medication have ingredients such as Emu oil and aarnica....customers seem to refuse them.

Media has a very very big impact on everyone's life. It is a very strong and powerful tool apparently, especially in manipulating ideas and thoughts. I guess being a health care professional which we (my vcp matezz) later in lives would become, it is very important to understand the impact Media has on an individual psychologically. Give patients the knowledgeable and professional advices, guild them and point them to the right direction which can lead to the optimal outcome for their conditions and treatments. Pharmacists are not just someone wearing white coat, hiding behind the counter and sticking colourful labels on the boxes ( Even tho I DO like to do that ).

I enjoyed my work today, even tho it was a bit long coz another staff needed to go home early and I stayed for 3 hours more. Obviously it wasn't as busy as yesterday which was great. Sota getting the hang of the computer input and knowing where stuff are...

Working with this pharmacist on sunday is fun too...I guess i am not someone who talk a lot when i am working... I used to think he's not someone who smile often...but now I reckon he is kinda funny. He's always very patience and would never panick like I do...He told me today not to worry when there are nasty customers but just do my own stuff and don't panick,,,I would say all pharmacists have this similarities. This guy really taught me a lot even tho I am really stupid and learn every thing SOO slowly. Sometimes i feel really bad to bother him. Unlike some other pharmacists that would just give me the answer to my questions, he actually makes me think logically and tell him what my ideas are first..."yeah...so what do u think? what do they do? Tell me what you know about it?" ...I learn more this way...And his cantonese is really ...cute XD..I hope i didn;t gave him a lot of trouble when I am working...coz it's his responsibilities afterall if I'd mess up sth >.<

So tired today...so hot...Tomorrow i will have to go back for an hour for my training...but I am sure I qill enjoy the peaceful morning...haven't been studying for a few days already!Pro...crastinating again...

P.S: I am in the 3th row counted from the front and the 4th girl counted from the left in my kindergarten photo in my 1st blogs

A bad day at work...

Normally I work every Friday nights and every alternative Satrudays then Sundays...so i guess today is not really "my day" since I was just filling in the 10am-5pm shift for someone.

One staff called up in the morning and said he couldn't make it to work coz he had a sore leg, that seemed to be the first news other staffs told me when I arrive at 10am, we opened at 9am as usual...I've always knew that Saturday is a busy day; but I thought it would still be ok...

Morning seems fine, everything was pretty smooth...Even thought I always miss out the 10 min break in the morning, I am more than happy to work coz I do enjoy it.

Ather 3pm there were only 2 pharmacists and 2 staffs left, that's including me. Then this other Pharmore store called up and the line was being passed onto me. I hate...really hate...picking up phone calls seriously, I would have an heart attack when the phone starts to ring andI would do basically everything to avoid it...at least petend I am busy...that didnt; work this time, coz I was right next to the bloody phone! She asked if we had some N-something-wash-cloth...I had no idea wt she was talkin about so I went to ask the other staff..the only staff that is avaliable. She said we didn't have it in store, so I picked up teh phone again "Sorry we don't have it in store"..."Oh You SURE? coz thecomputer said you have 3 in store"....So i turned and ask the other staff again...she told me to ask whats that for..so i did...n i got this weird answer that i didnt; really get....so i didnt; what to do...that other staff was busy too so she ignored me while i was standing here holding the bloody phone...All i did was pick up the phone "Sorry, can u please repeat what are those for?"...."Look, its ok, i would just ring up on weekday and talk to SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT I AM TALKIN ABOUT!" and she slam her phone. There were so many customers/patients waiting for scripts in/out at the other end so i just had to run back to prescription area...Let's hope I don't get into trouble...aiks.

I was tired and I am still tired. And there were just so many little things today tht went wrong on me. This patient got a OTC medication plus 3 other prescriptions, i was down the register at n he came up to pay. I put everything thro in the register....then he went n open his bags of medication.."Look i didn;t ask for the Efexor-XR..i only asked for two scripts..i dont want this!"....ok...apparently I can;t do any refund...so i asked another and only staff to do it and i had to check with the pharmacist. Then somehow the blame was on me...coz "She's already put it thro"... Look, I didn't take that script in, I wasn;t workin up the dispensary today and I didn't prepare that; most importantly, he was the one who check it ONLY AFTER the transaction was done...and now for some reason the blame was on me...

so....I apologised, customers come first mah, yah i no...fine. After working for a while in retail, you know how to smile and do wht the customers ask for. Then after they're gone, feel free to say fuck off. That seems to be an interesting thing that happens everywhere I work.

I am really feeling stupid. I dont; know anything in the pharmacy. All I know is to listen to the patient/customer and then say,"yup yup...hold on, i will check it in the computer"...I would hv no clue when they come in and name me this bloody long name of the drug or the brand. I swear freaken Medicinal Chemistry is nto helpin me A BIT in my work, at least i dont think it is...and as for Pharmaceutical Chemistry...all it helped was when soemone came up and ask me what is the difference b/w the Cream n Ointment of the same medication. I am feelin so...useless. I can't believe I am a pharmacy student.

Mum and dad used to tell me I have to learn to lower my head sometime when I come out to work and to the society. Not a little princess anymore. "Just do what others tell you to".Sometimes even you don't like someone, hide it inside you but smile and be nice to them. Sometimes it is better off if you just apologise and get on with it. I always nod my head and say "yah la, mum, dad...don't worry la...i know how to do la"...but then when you have to do it in some situations, you will realised it is not that easy.

Stay in a country that doesn't really belongs to you; being far away from home...sometimes all you want to do is not to let mum n dad worry. Being strong, or at least pretend to be; tellin them i am coping with my life well even I am struggling; try not to let them know I am sick or worn out when I really am...maybe they know my well, and it seems they can always tell when i am ill or tired...but now I do understand what they mean by the real world. Not everything will go in the direction u want it to be. Sometimes you will just have to give in for the sake of everyone and urself.

It seems there are yet a lot of things I have to learn...not just in Pharmacy course, but in life...

Let's hope tomorrow's work up the dispensary will be better...I wish:
1) Everyone just bring in their repeats from my pharmacy so i can just scan easily.
2) No doctors' handwritten-scripts for me to read
3) ....bla....my neck pain and headache would be gone...
4) patience patients
....ok i am too greedy... too many wishes...



okie, the one and only thing that made me laugh today...here is a photo I found in a magazine when i was in my break today:

Awww-.-" i duno if i should say its creative or gross..but its none of my business i suppose...I will never need to come across that...