Ish!!!

I did experience a day of feeling shouting at the pharmacist, for the first time. I've always been a quite patient person but there was a pharmacist (a locum, obviously) just put me off! A well gentleman with quite posh accent,he is, well....at least from his look.

2 pharmacists were in as my tutor was on holiday. He came in and the first thing he did was talking to another pharmacist. We were unusually busy that day and I was typing while dispensing. Everyone in the dispensary was like running here and there except him, standing still with the mouth moving. I didnt expect him to help us alot, but, at least can he just shut his mouth and put away some of the stocks??!!! Just a lil help, maybe just put away one box or 2 box of medicines is enough to show he's helping us. He didnt even bother! One of the dispensers got fed up and said ''excuse me, can u guys give us a help pls? '' of course he did walk towards us and seemed quite willingly to help us.

He walked closer to us and start talking again. What's the point? just changed the spot of talking??!!! Went out for cigarettes like for 6 times in a day? And another pharmacist supposed to go home before him and he actually dared to ask is it possible to stay another 5 mins while he go out to have some cigarettes.....can u actually believe that???!!!

Another pharmacist cover for my tutor on Friday, as usual, to catch up with the MUR. My tutor told me the pharmacist was like his grannies. Ya, indeed. lol. One more thing, he LOVES typing! During my tutor's lunchtime, tutor arranged me, a dispenser, and him in the dispensary and I was the one who supposed to type (well, coz I type real fast...hehe). And we were so ''lucky'' to have so many scripts at that moment and I tried to help them by dispensing some of them and left the few of the baskets for the "granny" to check. I've always thought the first priority of pharmacist is checking the medicines and signing them, surprisingly, he moved aside the baskets that I've done and went to type labels instead. He must have applied the wrong job!!! I really dont mind of he's a fast typer, but he was as slow as snail by pressing one tab by one tab...imagine that! But I did feel it was funny when the dispenser was so stress and asked him to get off the computer! Lol. unfortunately he didnt hear that.

By da way, the weather now has gone insanely cold! Need to spend more on moisturisers and lotions :(

Starbucks rehab needed

Seriously I have no idea how I came bout to this Starbucks addiction. Not towards da drinks as other ppl do but da food, especially their panini. It all started with mini toasted sandwiches with ham and cheese. It sounds...or perhaps it's totally easy to be prepared by oneself. But I'm not too sure what's happening here...I just feel like having something from Starbucks every morning when I go to work coz it's located at the bus station. Or maybe this is one of da diseases I've got from working?

From mini toasted sandwiches upgraded to bacon and egg panini the other day. I just couldnt resist it! I was trying to find excuses to buy da panini. I'm going for training day soon so the dinner and breakfast included and paid by company so it's not too bad if I spend some money in starbucks rite? Believe me, the bacon and egg panini was the best panini ever! Well, I'll try to make it myself instead of sending money to Starbucks I guess.....if i'm not lazy. Today was my day off and still the first thought that came to my mind was Starbucks again when I felt hungry!

It's expensive I know to spend everyday at Starbucks so I really wondering when will the addiction end? Pls send me to Starbucks rehab.

By da way, uk weather skipped autumn and now go straight to winter so all my mind is bout food. Ya, I live to eat.

Alive

Yeah...it's been more than one month that I got totally disconnected from the world out there. Want to know how's the life like without internet? It was suffering at first....and surprisingly we sort of like get used to the condition when we didnt have internet. So what did i do for the past more than 1 month then? Work, of course, which is endless.

Well, after work, the thing we could do without internet other than studying would be chatting. Yes, me and my housemates started to chat once we stepped into the house. Chatted when we cooked till we finished the dinner and continued chatting till the time we felt it was time to sleep only we went for shower and slept. So why it took so long for the internet to settle then? First we wanted virgin broadband but we havent got fibre optic and then one of my housemates who's an irish...I mean an irish GUY (that's what he always corrected us that it never ends with irish, the correct phrase should be irish lad/lass)...he suggested to get sky tv package which includes broadband. Well not really into the programmes here but not a bad idea to get one though. And then we checked with our agent to confirm we can install sky tv. We phoned sky as soon as we got the good news from agent. Appointment was made 1 week later. They didnt turn up. The reason was that they couldnt find our house, how stupid they are that couldnt they just ask anybody on the street? It's Bigg Market, there's always someone on the street! Right, another appointment made 1 week later. I was really looking forward to the installation that day as I was on my day off. The sky man came and told me there was no signal detected and we couldnt get sky. Brilliant!!! We then discussed and suggested to get O2 braodband which is quite cheap and with the fastest speed. Then our friend told us we actually had sky broadband that we didnt activate it. How smart right? We tried and that's why I can write a blog right now! Anyway, the sky man gonna come and check thoroughly again and if we really cant get sky tv then we need to cancel the broadband and get another broadband. So I'm enjoying much while I can b4 another long wait!!!

Moving to Newcastle is totally a different life I would say. Sunderland, indeed, is very peaceful. I like Newcastle though espcecially in the morning when you can see everybody is rushing to work and they're just like me who need to wake up so early to go work. So I'm not lonely! Didnt have this feeling when I was living in Sunderland. So first week our dinner was all about KFC as we didnt settle down yet in which we still have a huge addiction to KFC.

To update some bits bout me : My face has bloated, which is very annoying me at the moment, anyone can help? any remedies? any therapy?

No photos of my new room currently so maybe next post! BE PATIENT!
By da way, that's what I like to tell the Patients to be PATIENT !

Goodbye, My beloved room

Cant believe I'm going to leave Summerhill soon. Seriously I will miss this house very much! I've packed my stuff whole day today and am feeling sad throughout the day. I keep telling myself it's just a room and why should I feel sad leaving the room? It's weird I know but this feeling just indescribable. I looked through every corner, every little bit of this room today and thinking that I will not be back here anymore.

I've been staying here since 3rd year. Just 2 yrs of staying here making me liking this room so much ? I should have been here earlier, I should have discovered this comfy room during first year. This room is like a second home to me, ya the room is the second home as I spent most of the time in it. I think I must be crazy, thinking that I will not be back to this room anymore is making my tears rolling down my cheeks. The feeling is like leaving someone very close to you. Apart from my real home back in Malaysia, this is the first room that I'm really happy to stay and satisfied bout it.

Will I have the chance to stay in another room like this in the future? Will there be second Summerhill ? Still, I have to wave goodbye to her (My room). Will you miss me, my room?

I miss you, room 2.

War Time

Today went off to work quite early to take bus so as not to miss the bus again....the other day when I reached the bus station I saw the X8 (the bus I take usually)passed me by, I was like ''wat???!!! is this the earlier bus or wat? I checked the time and it just stroke 8.25am, well, the driver doesnt need to be so punctual right? '' So I was like late for 1 min. Great!!! I phoned up my pharmacy and told them I'm gonna be late for 15 mins, but the thing is the person who answered the phone asked me '' Have u been here before?'' I was like ''huh? ya'' and she said alright then.

When I reached my pharmacy and asked them who answered the phone just now and they gave me a puzzled look on their faces. Then I found out I phoned the different branch of Lloyds. =.='

Today as usual I read through the metro newspaper on the bus and horoscope that said I'll have a pleasant surprise today. It's just another working day, what's the surprise then??

My manager suddenly smiled at me and said ''Ho, I need to borrow you today'' I noticed that something bad is happening (is this the surprise?). She asked me to go another branch just for this morning because they're short of dispensers. Right. I was quite willing to do so coz I get to go there by taxi which is paid by company..haha. And it's good to change the environment awhile. The pharmacy is in Newcastle's wellbeck road.

I found out they actually do more methadone than the normal scripts. They have 60 methadone patients, just couldnt believe that though. And they use compass system, which is a crap system and I have not been using this system for a year. So I just helped them to do the methadone and trying very hard to type the labels by using the system. Do u know how crap is the system? You cant create a new patient details without entering postcode. The pharmacist asked the lady to tell the postcode but she didnt know about it as she was collecting the medications on behalf of someone. Then the pharmacist asked her to phone that patient to get the postcode. The lady straight shouted " What??!! Are you out of your mind?? I've been waiting here for 1 hour and you want me to phone a sleeping lady to ask her the postcode???!!! Just give me back the script!!! '' Another aggressive customer, haih. Well, this pharmacy is a small shop and actually everything quite new and the people are nice too. But I miss Washington Galleries sooo much!!! I miss the humour and their laughing in the pharmacy...the staffs...everything!!! So I was so glad when I got back there in the afternoon!

My tutor warned me about the ''war'' on this Saturday. Monday is bank holiday so it will be a very very busy Saturday again. I'm off on Friday so my tutor gave me some advices"Ho, just sit on the bed, dont go out tomorrow, have some tea and just stay in bed''

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.

Goong

Ya I know I'm late...this supposed to be the last yr's korean drama hit but am watching only now :) I have to say that it's damn nice!!! It's weird coz I dont really crazy for korean drama. Usually I'll just skip alot when I watch. Maybe this one is the environment and their clothes...but that's not just yet, the most important parts are those scenes where the prince does the things that really touches every girl's heart ! Sounds like I'm dreaming...haha...well it's good to drown in unreality world awhile after all day of working though.

Basically it's about a very young ordinary girl who's just 19 years old got married to the prince due to the commitment made by the former King to the commoner's family (girl's family as the grandfather is former King's best friend). They didnt like each other initially but ended up they fell in love with each other...ya sounds typical drama story but it's worth to watch really...the princess is very cute too!!!

I started to listen to korean songs last month and fell in love with them. What's with me recently?!! What's this sudden korean fever of me???!!!