Bootcamp!!!

Many would think that Saturdays are quiet days for work. Well, it's not!!! Apparently I use double the usual energy to survive Saturdays. There are just me and my tutor in the dispensary. Usually there will be 1 hour 15 mins break for lunchbreak. Dont even think bout this on Saturdays, the best is return to the dispensary as soon as possible! So I was like rushing to finish my bread and went to buy some stuff in ASDA ( rushing on the way of buying stuff too). Not even the 15 mins teabreak. When I went back to the dispensary, tutor told me I can have abit longer break if I want to, coz he said they dont wanna kill me....haha...then I know that there're tons of work to do, so it's not very good to just leave my tutor alone there right? I just remember I went into the pharmacy and work till I stepped out of the pharmacy today (sweat!) "Thanks" to Lloydspharmacy, wanting to save money and try not to hire locum when the pharmacy is damn busy. The other day a locum came in when my tutor was off. He only had 20 mins break and he kept complaining bout that. "The person that arrange this certainly not a pharmacist. A pharmacist will understand and wont do this...u kno it's for patients' sake as well, if i'm not given enough break...bla bla bla...." until I really felt like laughing coz all of us were busy doing our own stuff and didnt really have time to listen and he could keep complaining while doing his own stuff also. I told my tutor this and he said ''Welcome to the real world"

My tutor said I'm in a bootcamp...haha...so need to adapt to it.....wondering will this last for 1 yr?

And now, I'm one of them.

Another incidence is that a chinese came in the pharmacy. The healthcare assistant was trying to explain something to her but she just couldnt understand it. She bring in a painkiller gel (Ibugel) box to show the assistant that she wants that, but we didnt have the exactly the same brand Ibugel but the assistant suggested her another brand. She kept looking at me and I was looking at her also wondering should I go and have a look.
Then I went to talk to her. She speaks cantonese, well my cantonese not very fluent but still can handle i guess.
The lady: Gong guong dong wa? (u speak cantonese?)

Me: Hai (Yes)

Lady: Ngo yiu li go (pointing to the box she brought there)

Me: Li go hai yat yong ger ( This is actually the same)

Lady: Zhan hai yat yong ger? (Really the same?)

Me: Hai. Bao zhong mnn tong hai yan wai koi tei hai mnn tong ger gong si zhou ger (Yes. The package is different because it's from different companies/manufacturers.

Lady: Ngo yong ger hai zhi tong yok wor (The one I use is a painkiller wor)

Me: Hai, koi pei lei tai ker tor hai zhi tong ger (The one assistant showed u also a painkiller)

Lady: ooo...dor hor yi yong ger hai mai? (ooo...also can use izit?) And she sounds abit worry here.

Me: Hai, mnn sai dam sam, koi tei hai yat yong ger (Dont worry, they're both the same)

Lady: kei to chin ar? (How much)

Me: (Since the one she use was 50g, and the one we suggested is 20g per pack so I told her the price for 2 packs)
bat bong (8 pounds)

Lady: wah...bei ngor yat kor zao gao lar, si har yong sin (wah, just give me one pack, try using it first)

Lady: Lei hiong kong lei gar? (u come from hong kong?)

Me: Mnn hai. Ngo hai dai ma yan. (I'm a Malaysian)

Lady: Zhou tong ngo kong kwong tong wa ma ( Should speak to me early when u see me mar)

Me: Ngo mnn chi mar (I duno mar)

Phew...I was stress man....trying to figure out every single word that I said

See? acting as a translator other than working in dispensary. Stress.