August

一年过去了，我把这本书郑重地盖上了。

在Boots 的最后一天，是我近期来吃过最好吃的Fish and chips! hehe

 腐竹薏米糖水

 Banana Sundae haha...

Bye~

Sleep and placement

I have troubles getting enough sleep recently due to all those travelling trips and irregular lifestyle. And now I realise that getting enough sleep is so IMPORTANT for a working man. Otherwise the consequences would be just like what happen to me: I have yet to fully recover from my ticklish throat and cough, and I have been doing my work at an incredibly slow pace since this morning. When I was doing the labelling, my eyelids were so heavy that I couldn't help but yawn a few times in the dispensary. I also found myself really HARD to focus on the stuff that I am doing - even if that means taking the right medicine from the shelves - and every task seems to be so mentally straining for me. Never know the jobs of pharmacist and dispenser is that mentally demanding until I am deprived of sleep!

Imagine you have such a sleepy pharmacist at work. That will put the patient's health in great danger isn't it?? So therefore, to uphold the first principle of being a pharmacist which is to put patient's interest my first concern, I really have to sleep early today to ensure I have sufficient energy to manage my workload!

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And hence the long-awaiting summer placement started! It's my third day of working in a local Boots store and I still think that it's quite exciting! There are many new things to learn, many challenges and tests ahead as part of our training to develop our knowledge and skills. I am working in a store with a manageable workload. This is really what I wished for after getting a one-week experience in a super hectic Lloyds pharmacy last year. Maybe my wish was too strong and hence it was granted! Haha. Everything is so far so good, the staff there are really nice and friendly. I did make quite some silly mistakes and have to trouble the dispensers all the time to teach me or fix the problems that I have created due to all the unfamiliarity to the dispensing system!

 I feel like it is really a very good opportunity to finally put what I have learned to practice. Knowledge and practice is like two different worlds to me. One can be really knowledgeable but to be professional we need an integration of knowledge, ethics and hands-on experience. So I shall really appreciate the chance given and make full use of it!

 Go go Carol go~

Summer 2012

Yaa.....The exams are finally over and summer has silently arrived. The weather in these few days are particularly good and can be best described with a Chinese idiom "风和日丽"! It is warm and sunny but having the cool breeze blowing past our skins make the weather a little different from the hot humid weather in Malaysia.

I was just back from a fantastic Poland trip two days ago, with a weight gain of 3 kg after constantly stuffing food into my stomach! And the Polish food tastes quite good as it's new to our appetite..and it is cheap and nice. There's so much good memories there, which I would like to write something about it when I'm free!

Know what's one of the happiest thing I did during my stressful revision period? That is - imagining how would I spend my summer time in UK! This summer I have finally decided to stay back, partly because I have secured a summer placement with Boots Pharmacy here and partly also because it is now my third year already. Btw, I am really looking forward to the placement in the community pharmacy - it is so exciting as I can finally apply what I have learned so far and gain more experience regarding my profession. There's so much to learn from the system they have here - one of the best organisations which constantly strives for excellence and upholds the quality of care to the patients.

And...there's another important update in my life. Did I tell that I worked in the Minerva chocolate shop? I   finally learned how to make different kinds of coffees and desserts, and some days later I might even learn how to make chocolates (well, if I work that long). This is definitely one of the best things I have done during my student life, and I am glad that I have finally fulfilled this tiny little dream in my mind!


Oh yeah, back to imagining what I am going to do during this summer~ I have just spent a lil time to scribble down what I'm going to do during these few months ( just in case I'll be lazy and forgot about them and then I will complain of no time for doing them when the term starts!)

There it goes:

SUMMER 2012~

WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE??

Revision

Organise and back up my photo albums

Download some songs

Plan itinerary to Switzerland

Tidy up my books and room

Keep fit!

What I wanna do in summer~~ ^^

Baking! Pass at least beginner level – I wanna bake cheese cake, muffins, cookies, sponge cake…

Improvise my cooking skills without exceeding the budget, though!

Travelling around - Cycling!

Sept: a musical trip

Visit around UK- Lavender field?? Hehe

Read some books?? Story books :D

Writing and recording some memories of life.

Some dharma input~

Yeah, baking - it has been such a long time since I last baked! And with two baking experts in my house (my housemates) I should grab the golden chance to learn from them!  At least by the end of the hol I should know what means by " light and fluffy", "pale white"..lol. I can never know how it should look like when the recipe states that.

And what I will be doing in June?


BBQ
Switzerland trip 
Attending Dalai Lama's dharma talks
Trip to Manchester and Lake district
(end of June ) Start placement!

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Let the summer begin!