Finale of the chapter, again.

Well guess what, I'm here again 3 hours pre-examination. The most unpredicatable and unexpected things happened to me yesterday. Tenage Nasional Berhad decided to play a prank on us and cut off the power supply to the university, ended up the uni doesn't have sufficient generator to run on their own. We're forced to reschedule the timetable to the following day, which is today! Such a party popper! I'm already ready to celebrate and get the hell outta my house exactly at 12pm for my celebration, and now I have to wait another 24 hours. Omaigod!



But ah well, the 24 hours passed without much trouble as most of us are procrastinating and have no study mood already. Anyways, all the best in the upcoming paper! Shit happened yesterday, but it won't happen again. We're taking the flag down! Let's drown the paper!

Signing off,
Andrew Neoh

T-minus 6 hours

Talking about mixed feelings:

Freaking worried about the paper which commences in 3 hours time...



Overly excited about the after exam afterparty!!!



I'm officially with split personality!!

Add oil Bpharmers! The last final step!



Signing off,
Andrew Neoh

The End of Another Chapter

I didn’t realize it’s been long since I’ve left this blog growing on its own, moulds and all kinds of mushrooms unknown to human kind. The last time I updated it was the start of second week of Semester 5, and now I’m already at the last day of the Semester 5 End-of-Semester Examination. Time flies huh?

Well a lot of things happened throughout the semester; some brought me to the moon, while some kicked me down to hell. But what matters are the decisions that I’ve made, hell lot of decisions, and every step I made, I’m rewriting my chapters of life. Definitely there are faulty decisions where I end up being miserable, but that’s all life is about right? Only with mistakes you can learn from them and repeat them again.

I’m so darn looking forward for the end of exam tomorrow. The final paper is a pain in the ass! 13 lecture notes and basically all are about memorizing and nothing else. Some friend of mine said that this paper is about “testing of ability to achieve the MIRACLE!!!” which I find it kind of true for myself. I’m not a memorizing person, nor I’ll ever be, but after this semester, I think my memory power had grown tremendously, as this semester, 50% of the subjects are testing your memory. It sucks to the max. But oh well, it’s the last paper, last 24 hours of agony and pain, rewarded with a month and a half of freedom and enjoyment. As the Chinese proverb says, you have to taste the bitterness before all the sweetness comes.

What activities will I be involved in? Basically hanging out with my friends, going back to Penang for the holidays, getting my iPhone 4 no matter what, and preparing myself to go to Hong Kong for 2010 trip! I’m kind of excited with whatever that’s going to happen next, anticipating and looking forward for the well deserved rewards *ya right*. Hong Kong trip was my birthday present from my brother, and iPhone 4, well, I half conned my mom into buying that, HALF or maybe even only a quarter! =P

Anyways, I better get back to my “beloved” lecture notes for the last 24 hours. It’s the last fight and we’re still standing, ready to close this chapter of our lives and move on to the next! Gambateh to all studying out there! It’s the last fight and I can hear Dr. Rajinikanth announcing that the exam is over!!!



Signing off,
Andrew Neoh

Semester 5

Today mark the first day of the second week of Semester 5. Up to now, I should say I'm enjoying Sem 5 much more than the previous semesters. One thing is that we have quite an empty timetable. The kind of emptyness that can wake me up middle of the night just to sit there and think how free am I! But nonetheless, the effort must still be constantly kept up to lecture pace in order to reduce last minute stress. One advice for those studying, do not leave lecture notes untouched till study break. You'll suffer from depression, anxiety and panick attack for sure. Study constantly to make your life easier!

This semester I've made myself some resolutions, one of it which is to lose my belly! Well I do not intend to make it into six packed concrete, but just for health purpose! So up to now, I'm heading for jog everyday without fail in Commonwealth Park. Just 5 rounds per day and with slow increase, I do hope that I can train my stamina for marathon, following the footsteps of my sister. It's not easy having to force my lazy arse outta bed every morning at 7am, but for the sake of my belly and health, endurence and perseverance is definitely driving me! Nevertheless, this semester is the time where I can explore the sporty side of me. Previous semesters kept my hands tightly bound! And, for the first time, I'm joining futsal!!! Am definitely looking forward for that piece of experience!

Also, I promised myself that I'm gonna change myself personality wise this semester, which means, no more teasing and cursing! For a person like me who LOVES teasing and cursing, it's a hard process. Harder than waking myself up in the morning! But for the sake of myself, I push myself hard mentally. Up to now I think I should say I manage to keep up to some standards!

Outings with sistas and housemates also increase tremendously thanks to the relatively empty timetable for the first few weeks! We went for movies, clubbings etc etc. And well, I really enjoyed myself much in the company of great friends! As the saying goes, You need only a few great friends be happy. And I'm happy to say I have more than a few! Credit goes to Sharon Tang, Shiau Mei, Syok Hua, Kelly Fum, LeFei, both aunties sleeping next to my room and also auntie's bf, Jason Seng... Hope I didn't missed out anyone! Thanks all!

Finally, I'm gonna go watch Grey's Anatomy already. Can't resist the temptation!

Signing out,
Andrew Neoh

Weather

It had been 3 weeks since EOS4 examination's results are released. I wouldn't say I did very well, but I'm considered happy with my own results. At least I've done my very best. And pretty amazed over some achievements too! =D

Oh well, back in Penang the weather had been pretty unexpected. Blazing hot sun and duper stuffy weather in the morning, thunder storm slightly after noon, stuffy again during evening, and drizzle at night. I think we should put the blame on people who keeps polluting the environment till the point where nature is exhibiting its wrath on human kind. Nature conservationist talking. But what I can't stand most is that people misuse technology for their own purpose - i.e. modify their electric meter resulting in lesser electric usage. Damn irresponsible.

After watching Prince of Persia with Kelveen, I headed home and outta randomness, I changed course to Jusco Aeon City and got myself some ice cream. 31st so I get 31% off. I thought ice cream and chocolate can help me with soothing my mind and make me high. But in the end, I got the side effect of ice cream, depression and sadness. Sigh... I don't even know what's wrong with me. Sigh.

Signing off
Andrew Neoh

Truth being an Adult

If you’ve read the previous post, you might realize that I’m on a voluntary hospital attachment for 3 days. Few lessons learnt along the way, hard and soft ways.

Hard way:

1. Never loose your smile and patience in front of the superiors.
2. Never complain like a baby.
3. Never try to be smartie-pants when you don’t even have the idea of how things run.
4. Try to understand that people might be under tremendous amount of stress and they deserve to be bad-tempered

The soft ways we learnt thing would be that we’ve met a nice pharmacist who is willing to bring us around during grand ward rounds. We’ve benefit a lot from the rounds about our roles as pharmacists in the healthcare plan, and something discovery that I found is that perhaps doctors aren’t that mean and bossy after all. The specialist that was the boss of the ward round appears to be quite nice and polite to all the staffs (well except for some MOs), which busts a lot of myths that doctors are super duper mean to pharmacists.

Despite some lousy treatments, I could say that the visit was quite an eye opener for the life that we’re gonna face in the future.

Outpatient pharmacy – VERY busy and hectic;

Inpatient pharmacist – more relaxed and slower pace;

Ward pharmacist – tiring but satisfying.

The words simply summarizes the things that we’ve seen in the short duration of 2 days, but I say for sure that this career that I’ve chosen 4 years back wasn’t the easiest job in the medical field. It requires commitment, interest, and hard work in order to succumb to the pressure and rise as a leader. It’s still a long way to go, 2 more years to graduate. Currently, I should be more worried about the semester 4 results which will be released tomorrow. Oh crap, I’m having shortness of breath and panic attack. Fark.

Signing off,

Andrew Neoh

Tranquillity and Serenity

First week of the 6 weeks holidays, and I'm quite out of plans for myself. For the past week, life had always been about sleeping and slugging around doing basically nothing. But I kinda like this feeling, the sense of freedom and nothing to worry about. Everyday I’d wake up only when I want to, I don’t need to know what time is it as I don’t have any restrictions on how I splurge my time. But apart from all these freedom, I felt that I should make good use of this time and do something interesting instead. So, I arranged for hospital attachment which will only start tomorrow due to last minute arrangement. The attachment will last until Friday. Shit mentioning Friday, it’s results day. Sighss… Wonder how did I do this time, oh well but until then only start worrying la… Anyway gonna stop writing already, there are matters that I need to attend to ngek ngek ngek.. Till then.

Regards

Andrew