Sunday, October 18, 2009
seaside.
love the view.
love the scenery.
most importantly,
love the companion.

but,
definitely hate waiting.

如果有一天
我们不再见面了
请好好保重自己
答应我
你会好好的活下去
 
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
It has been 12 weeks since I started my pre-reg with Boots. 40 weeks to go ... till I qualified.

This is the 3rd time i went to Luton for courses. We went through hectic days this time, too much information, too much to learn in that 2 days (I was there on Tuesday and Wednesday). It was all about cardiovascular diseases and consultation skills in those 2 days.

Anyway, forget about the courses, I did have a wonderful night in Luton. I was staying in a hotel which located right next to the Arndale Centre, the place where I need to go for courses. The course started at 10am, so I slept through till 8.40am, when Chui San (a friend which stays in the same hotel as me) called, I guess I won't able to get up if not because of her call :)

The course finished at about 4.15pm on Tuesday, we went to check in to the hotel after that. Boots booked the hotel for me in advance, and know what, they booked the single room with dinner and breakfast for me, what a surprise!! I was told that I have 27.50 food allowance and 7.50 pounds drink allowance to spend on. How good they treated me :p

But because we are meeting another 2 friends for dinner, so I didn't spend the 27.50 pounds in the hotel, hotel food is always not as good as Nando's, haha, so we had Nando's piri piri chiken instead. Had a lovely time chatting with them, Chui San, Shara and Anne. I think we spent 2 hours or more in Nando's haha.

After dinner, San and me went for sauna and steam, i can't remember when was the last time i went to sauna, but i enjoyed steaming myself so much. We wanted to swim but too bad both of us haven't had swimming suit, so we promise we will definitely bring swimming suit with us the next time we are there (January maybe).

I think I lost some calories after the steam, hahaha. So we went on to order room service, not feeling hungry, but don't want to waste the 27.50 pounds, hehe. We ordered 2 soup of the day and 2 desserts, not very good but satisfied :p and went straight to sleep after the supper. So if you see me getting fatter or having big tummy, don't laugh ok!!



Next day wake up having full English breakfast, my favourite, yummy yummy!!!!

Life in Luton is so good this time, like living in heaven, Boots is treating me extremely well this time, I love them so much now, just because of the hotel, hahaha. Still deciding whether I shall stay to work for them after I qualified .... (probably not).
 
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
I have a c2pid customer that came in with a prescription yesterday, and he was coughing non-stop right in front of me while waiting for me to get his prescription dispensed, such an idiot. He was coughing really badly while i was labeling the prescription items, exactly right in front of me, few cm away from me, facing me, arghhhhh...!!! The dispenser did "hint" him, asked him if he would like to do some shopping and come back for his prescription later, but he bloody idiot just said NO i will wait for it here. So I tried not to breath while labeling the script, coz I don't want to inhale all the virus from him and get sick, whats more I don't know if he had swine flu.

Oh well, i think swine flu is getting better over here in the UK, but winter is coming, so it's flu season again, how can one differentiate if that is a normal seasonal flu or swine flu (oh, I would probably have to do a CPD cycle regarding swine flu vs seasonal flu).

OK back to the idiot customer, i had headache last night (yes after serving that idiot), and still feeling unwell this morning, and started to have runny nose, and feeling so tired all day in work, shit shit shit, I think my body is fighting hard against the virus that I inhaled from that idiot yesterday, please please please let my body be stronger and kill all the virus, I don't want to be ill. Will sleep early tonight, hope I will get better tomorrow.
 
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Can't believe I have came to the end of the 7th week of my pre-reg, time flies isn't it? I'm slowly adapting to working life, I mean I have accepted the fact that I have to get up early every morning to get myself ready for work, and don't feel sleepy while working anymore. I miss my student life so much now, but i know this is part of life, the "adverse reaction" of growing up so i have to face it :)

For some reason, this is the most dreadful week I've been through. Don't worry everything is fine, work and colleagues are treating me very well, just some emotional problem, that I thought it will resolve by itself this weekend, but obviously I'm wrong. This weekend isn't as excited and wonderful as I thought it will be. Oh well, blame the PMS ... 

I haven't been to cinema for a long long long time d, I want to watch Final Destination, but ....... it is too expensive to watch it in the cinema, mind you I am no longer a student, so I have to pay the bloody adult price for one movie, which is GBP 6.60, what's more we only have Final Destination 3D over here, which cost GBP 2.20 on top of the adult fare. How can I afford GBP 8.80 for a movie? So the conclusion is, stay at home "grow mushroom" and stare at the wall instead of cinema :(

Anyone please help:
A lady and a boy (her son) came to me to pay for their shopping, then the lady asked:
"do you have a piece of tissue paper?"
"yes certainly."
(then I pull out a piece of tissue from the normal tissue box and handed to her)
"that is tissue, I need tissue paper, it's ok if you don't have one."
So what is the difference between tissue and tissue paper. For me, they are the same, maybe I am too stupid for not knowing what is a tissue paper, so please tell me the difference. 
 
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Taadaaaa ....

My ONLY all time favourite English food ...

Home-made English Breakfast.
yummy yummy.

Special thanks to the someone *@*

I can eat this for breakfast, brunch or lunch,
but definitely not for dinner.
Having this as breakfast,
plus a cup of hot mocha,
p-e-r-f-e-c-t

I miss you, gillian.
We used to order English Breakfast in every cafe we went to in Cardiff.
And,
I woke up at 8.30am on the day she leaving,
just to go for ONE final small english breakfast with her,
hehe.
Ask me (or Gill) if you want to go for the best 
English Breakfast in Cardiff
:p

week 4 now,
48 weeks and 4 days to go ...
加油!
 
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Monday, August 10, 2009
This is the 3rd week of being a pre-reg pharmacist in Boots, Didcot. 

Everything went alright. 

The 1st week was abit boring though, as I was still new to the store, so it takes time to get myself adapted to the environment there. Colleagues are all very helpful and nice and friendly, thanks God!! Everything becomes more clear to me now in work. The people here is really friendly, especially the elderly. I will introduce myself to them when i really bored (when the store is quiet). 

As i don't need to wear a uniform while working (while others in the store need/must wear a uniform except for the pharmacist), people will just walk up to me and think i am a pharmacist, then hit me with lots of questions. Good thing is when I answered all of their queries and decided to sell them something, but still need to double check with the pharmacist, this happened:
"well, i will speak to the pharmacist and see if this is the best thing you can take ..."
"oh i thought you are a pharmacist ..."
"no i am not a pharmacist, i am a pre-reg pharmacist, a trainee pharmacist ..."
"but you did well, you explained everything very clearly, i'm sure you will be a good pharmacist soon .."
(smiling happily in my heart :p)

That's summary of my work life now. 

Accommodation wise, yo i love my room so much!!! but no pic taken yet as i am still trying hard to clear every unused stuffs in my room. I thought I have thrown half of my stuffs away while i was still in Cardiff, but no, i still got hell lot of stuffs here with me in Didcot now. Arghhh!!! 
 
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