I organized my first outing!

Last Friday was Wesak day and I organized an outing to bring members of IMU Buddhist society to a few locations to witness different ways in celebrating this holy festival. It was a blast!!!

Our first stop was the Subang Jaya Buddhist Association.

Then we went to Uttama Bodhi Vihara (Bandar Utama Buddhist Society).

and lastly, Nalanda Centre (Nalanda Buddhist Society).

I hope everyone had a great time during this trip and get to learn something.
lalanandaFRY
31/5/10

Uni-4-disaster week 5 & 6 report

Ever since the start of this semester, I have been a lazy blogger. This is obviously reflected in this fortnight blogging habit.

After all those words I have read, I had the most interesting and humourous workshop in University so far.

I've also done a good deed for the forth time,

donated blood.

Lectures were as usual until week 6, the week with very few lectures and a class test for

PP1.

I also had a healthy yummy vege-food day with

Today was probably the first time I felt uncomfortable with being a pharmacy student looking at all those things I have to do in the future of my career. I also felt lucky I didn't pursue my career as an actor... lol...

That's all folks

lalanandaFRY

26/5/10

Uni-4-disaster week 3 & 4 report

Currently immersing myself in words

WORDS Need to make some changes in PP1 Ethical Essay.
WORDS Need to read tonnes of papers for HP workshop.
WORDS Need to write a 3000 words HP essay.
WORDS Need to study for class test.
WORDS Need to write some 500 words about Orientation for convo mag.

Why so manyWORDS???

Wouldn't the world be nicer with more PICTURES???
I'll let the PICTURES talk from now...

watched Ironman 2, was woo-ed by the cool technology and the suits, but something is missing from this movie that couldn't match the first movie.
Did PP1 essay in
spent 2 lecture-less days there using
to get a bunch of words out of my tiny
Then I had PP1 mock test on Wednesday, screwed it...
Had photoshoot for convo mag on Thursday
and took the best Gang photo so far
Aspiration:
Need to spend more time in
to finish studying all my
or I'll be

lalanandaFRY
15/5/10

Uni-4-disaster week 1 & 2 report

Now it is Uni-4-disaster, another 4 subjects, in 4 months...

P109 is back!!!

Started up pretty much the same as previous semesters, lectures are back in LT2. Lectures and workshops are also pretty much the same, except that the lab sessions were very different from anything I have encountered.
In the first two practical sessions, we had to move from station to station to learn basics of Pharmacy Practice. We had first hand experience in serial mixing, label making, calculations, using of BNF and making measurements using non-conventional chemistry apparatus.

difference in colour when mixed in different wayspowder mixing and measurement apparatus

liquid measurement and mixing apparatus

Calculation station

In week 2, I had more exposure to actual makings of medicine in the form of solution and powder.

my fellow batchmates preparing powder
powders need to be wrapped in folded paper envelops
my first medicinal solution

Next will be suspension and cream, but I don't have any pictures of it. Should I get pictures from someone else? Maybe not, no authenticity anymore...

lalanandaFRY
4/5/10

Holidays so far part 5

Number 6: Attachment

Since before the EoS, I've been applying for a pharmacy attachment in community pharmacies and hospitals but it was almost a total waste of time. I'd tried contacting Caring, Guardian, Watson, SJMC, Assunta, Sunway and Pantai, but none gave me anything positive. Just when I was giving up, I realized that there was a medical centre nearby my home and decided to give it a try.

Finally I've got myself a place to gain some experience in an actual pharmacy. The hospital is very small, thus the proportionality. Despite its size, it still has an intergrated computer system for prescription printing and stock keeping. There were also several other students from other institutions undergoing their attachments, whom I would learn from since they were there for a longer time.
The pharmacy was quite busy all day long since everyone had to deal with request of inpatient, outpatient and discharge all in one place *small hospital*. It was good to me since I got to learn an overall working of the pharmacy within the first few days which include stock checking, packing of medicine, keying in prescriptions into the computer and filing of documents.
A week went very quickly and it was a pleasure sacrificing a part of my holiday for a valuable experience.

Number 7: Date Night

Holiday style living continued for the last week of my break as I didn't have to resit for any of my papers. So I joined the same group of friends, with addition of sophia & ZF to Midvalley to celebrate ZF's delayed birthday. We weren't really sure what movie to watch at that time, then we glanced through all the posters on the walls and found the Date Night poster with Steve Carell and Tina Fey looking so good together.

The movie was hilarious if you enjoy some dirty jokes and unbelievably coincidental incidence coming together in one weird adventure.

After the movie, we went to TGIF for lunch and to give ZF a surprise.

Another group photo!

Number 8: PC unfair... not!

On the last weekend of the holiday, PIKOM was having a PC fair at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Although I wasn't planning to buy any gadgets, I wanted to go to see the prices and latest gadgets available. I was kinda lucky when taking the LRT as the train was there everytime I reached the platform. However it wasn't very good since I reached uber early and had to wait at Kenny Rogers for the rest of my friends to meet up while squeezing through all the staff and promoters at the entrance.

Although it wasn't the first time I'm visiting a PC fair, I had an impression that this had more daring girls than before *not that I'm complaining*. After exiting the convention centre, we walked to Pavillion to have lunch at The Loaf before taking a stroll at Low Yat Plaza.

How nice if I have loads of cash to spend on techno gadgets... *dreaming*

THE HOLIDAY ENDS HERE