Make-Up Workshop & Light Refreshments- A fruitful & relaxing weekend

I've been extremely busy wt works nowadays, thus do not have sufficient time to update my blog as often as before. However, I notice there're still quite a number of people continuously visiting my blog, really wanna thanks you guys and gals!! ^^

Yesterday, me and my sis attended a FREE make-up workshop organized by Aurora Boutique for it's loyal customers. ^^ The event took place at kota damansara branch of aurora boutique, and there are approximately 30 participants. Berry & Anthony has shared many make-up tips with us, I find it very informative and fruitful. :)

Volunteer & Anthony

The make-up tools ^^

Light refreshments by Bev's Bites & Belle Notes. The cupcakes, pastries, scones etc are extremely yummy and not too sweet, really didn't expect to get this kind of food as refreshments in a FREE workshop, unbelievable. Luckily not those ordinary nyonya kuih and curry puff we usually eat during government meeting, or sandwiches served in hotel during cme.

pineapple tarts , very delicious!!

I love this cake the most, so so tempting and yummy. The mango slices in the cake is fresh mango. :P

Thanks a lot to Aurora Boutique, Meng, Apple, etc :)

那些年 我们一起追的女孩

前几天到戏院看了九把刀的<那些年 我们一起追的女孩> You Are The Apple Of My Eye, 很好看感人的一部电影. 90年代的背景,觉得有种熟悉感,那年代流行的NBA,闪卡,明星,都是我小六时流行的东西. 突然想起之前看阿牛的<初恋红豆冰>,也是有种共鸣感.觉得自己特别喜欢这种题材的电影,有种遗憾美.

喜欢这电影的选角,虽然不是什么大牌演员,但这更有真实感.演员的表现不错,尤其是女主角,演得很自然. 更喜欢戏里的对白,记得沈佳宜那句: 人生本来就有很多事是徒劳无功的啊...突然有种很深的感触,电影结尾前再倒述回那一幕,莫名地就会有种感慨,为主角的错过而觉得可惜,遗憾. 因为缺乏勇气,信心不足, 他不敢踏出一步,而之前的努力都白费了. 可能只有错过的东西才会特别珍惜,特别令人回味吧...

“谢谢你喜欢我”“我也很喜欢当年那个喜欢你的我 你永远是我眼中的苹果”

有感而发

刚在网上听了SELINA的新歌- 谢谢你们 爱我的每个人. 很好听,歌词很感人,觉得她是个很勇敢的女生. 近来在工作上遇到瓶颈,不知道要怎么办,我觉得我要坚强面对...

Afternoon Tea @ Winter Warmers, The Curve, Mutiara Damansara

Last week I took 2 days of annual leave to rest my soul & mind, after working non-stop and one-man show for 2 weeks to cover both OPD + methadone service. On monday I went for a day trip at Malacca with my ex-schoolmates, frenz since my primary and secondary time. On tuesday I slept until 11pm, surprisingly no calls fr clinic asking for pathetic questions. My sis ,who's also on leave, suggested to go for afternoon tea at Winter Warmers. I was delighted for that suggestion as I love the rose milk tea and sandwiches there.

We opted for afternoon tea for 2 persons. Add another RM1 to change to other beverages instead of the original black tea. I picked rose milk tea for sure, it's not too sweet and I love its refreshing rose aroma + silky texture.

Love the peace and tranquil atmosphere

For winter warmers card member holders, get 50% off for that day. So we basically paid for 1 person by having the 2 persons set.

Love the sandwich, cheesecake, cookies and chocolate cakes. The scones has vanilla flavour, but I don't really like it.

Sometimes we have to face lots of stress during work or encounter some challenges in life, in order to release tension, I'll pamper myself with a good meal and relaxing vacation, haha... This's called life!

New Year- New Hope- New Task

Happy Chinese New Year to those who are celebrating this festival!!! Hope that this year of Rabbit will bring fortune and prosperity to everyone!!! ^^ Now I'm still enjoying my long CNY break after non-stop working for many days, even right before Chinese New Year I was still working, trying to purchase all the necessary medicines with the new budget.

2011 will be another challenging year to me, especially with the leaving of my another hardworking and good colleague + subordinate. Hopefully the one who is replacing her will be equally good or even better, pray hard! Anyway, I've submitted my transfer letter and waiting for good news, wish is a quick one! While waiting for transfer and enjoying my working + vacation lifestyle, I'm still keeping an eye on any suitable yet interesting job outside. I'll definitely go for it if there's better offer outside, with equally good benefit, haha.

And in 2011, I'll start my locum in Midvalley. Already got the approval from KKM and JKN, now waiting for the License A from enforcement. Should be able to start in March or April. Wanna gain some experience in retail and consider whether it's suitable for me... Btw, really didn't expect to get CNY greetings from the chief pharmacist of a well known chain pharmacies...2011, hopefully is a more meaningful, fruitful and lucky year for me, my family and frenz.

Suspected Dengue?

2 nights ago, I started to feel nauseated, stomach cramp, fever, chills, headache and generalized body ache. The body ache was so torturing that I couldn't sleep well, the feeling was like someone non-stop hammering you. The stomach cramp was unbearable too, but no diarrhea.

Yesterday morning I went to polyclinic to seek treatment, reluctantly. The pain was so killing that I walked like an old lady. I was not given any medications as the doctor knows that I've all the required medicines at home. Since I was suspected to have dengue, he told me to monitor my own body temperature regularly, and I bought the Wellmex glass mercury thermometer from his clinic. When I was at home and wanted to check my body temperature, I realized that the thermometer is damaged... The reading always at 38C even I tried to immerse it in a cup of ice water. >< But I was too weak and lazy to ask for refund from the clinic, whatever, just pop Paracetamol into my mouth when I feel feverish, I know it's subjective though.

The body ache already subsided last night after I've taken Ponstan. Now I've occasional fever, stomach cramp and nausea, but getting much better compared to yesterday morning, at least I could sleep well last night. Tomorrow going to my KK to do blood test, hopefully everything turn out to be fine...

Lunch @ Chili's Grill & Bar Restaurant

Today is a wonderful day, I watched a great movie 'Inception' by Leonardo DiCaprio and had a delicious lunch at Chili's. It's easy to satisfy me, no? Good movie + Good food= Happy Mindy. :)

Tomorrow is my sister's birthday, so we gave her a treat today. Angeline suggested Chili's which I've no objection since the food there is really good and tasty. The portion is big too, I doubt I can finish a main course on my own.

A great variety of food and beverage for you to pick

Cajun Chicken Sandwich(RM20.95) - It looks more like a burger, or I've eyesight problem. The taste is heavenly good, even the bread also very yummy. I love the chicken meat the most, I don't know how to describe the way it's cooked but just a simple word- delicious!

Quesadillas Chicken (RM24.95)- This will never disappoint me, first time ate this was many yrs ago with Enne and Im, and this round the taste is still equally good.

We ordered a dessert- Molten Chocolate Cake (RM19.95)- Don't ever think that you can finish this by yourself after eating the main course, unless you are a big eater. The cake is topped with vanilla ice cream under a hard chocolate shell, good combination. A must try for all chocolate lovers.

Prices are subjected to 10% service charge & 5% government tax.

Happy Chinese New Year 2010!!!!!!

Today is the first day of Lunar Chinese New Year 2010, wishing all of u a happy and prosperous chinese new year!!! ^_^

Nice & beautiful CNY cup cakes, of course not made by me, haha

The bowl of shark fin I had last night during the reunion dinner, yummy!

So 'Rich'

I dunno why there're mini moon cakes, this dish not belong to us but the waitress served wrongly, so we have free dessert. ^^

Can't wait for the buffet dinner tonight at One World Hotel, so fattening hahahah...

Congratulations to Huey Im & her hubby!!!

On the 1st of January 2010, me, ya lin, wei lin , thean yee & vivien headed to singapore by First Coach Bus to attend Huey Im's wedding. We were given this big surprise early December through sms, thanks to Huey Im whom hobby is to create surprises. == Haha.

It was a simple but touching & lovely wedding. We only get to know her husband, Darren, from this wedding, he is a shy guy from what we seen. The 'brothers' were helpful and friendly too, fetched us few times, from the groom's house back to Hilton hotel & Amara Hotel, from Pasir Ris to the resort which the wedding dinner was held. The whole event turned out to be a success, feel so happy for Huey Im. :) We know each others for many many years, we attended the same kindergarten, primary school and secondary school, and we started to become good fren since standard three. I still remember our friendship started when I asked her 'May I borrow your Doraemon comic book?', and we were only 8 years old that time, well, almost for 20 years!!! I'm happy for her because she finally found the right man, hope he treat her good and treasure her. Huey Im is a very nice, helpful and funny girl, I believe she can be a good wife and... good mummy, hehe.

Why the bride not looking at the camera? Too tired i guess, haha

Me & huey mei, huey im's eldest sister

SMILE :)

Photo taken during the wedding dinner

When? When? When?

18 September 2009 is my 3-year anniversary of working at the current hospital. When I first reported duty at kuantan back in 2006, I didn't expect myself to be working at the same place for so many years. Frankly speaking, I quite enjoy working there because not much of politics and can get along quite well with my fellow colleagues. But after work I don't like the life over there. The town is so small and 'dead', not much of activities can be carried out. Not many friends around there too, or shall I phrase it this way. Most of the friends over there are very homely and boring, can be bored to death if you can't adapt yourself to it.

When will I get my transfer? Have submitted the letter since last yr but until now still KIV. Why some juniors get to transfer out but we still stuck at the same old place? Please answer me~~

永远怀念您

2009年7月29日晚上11时50分左右，我的外婆离开了我们。知道这消息时已经是30日的早上6时30分，那一刻我以为自己在睡梦中，久久都回不过神来。经过2年多洗肾的日子，外婆的身体已虚弱了许多，尤其是6月尾进了一趟医院，健康更是每况愈下。虽然如此，我在星期一回Temerloh之前看她还是精神奕奕的，所以收到消息时觉得很诧异。听姐姐说，外婆去世前的10分钟还跟他们说话，而且胃口也不错，没想到一转身离开房间不久，她就走了。。。不过值得庆幸的是，她离开时很安祥，没有痛楚，应该是在睡梦中离开的。

跟外婆相处了20多年，在我的成长岁月中她都陪伴在我左右。我对孩提时最初的回忆就是4岁左右外婆帮我扫背，然后说我头发那么长，是时候剪了(那时我因为生病所以吐了一地)。不知道为什么有一段那么深刻的记忆，可能是那时生病很辛苦的关系，反正对童年的记忆就是由那时开始，再之前的都没印象了。

小时后我很顽皮，固执及不听话。在三姐妹中我应该是被长辈骂得最多打得最狠的一个，所以我有个花名叫'癫狗'。我那时经常顶撞外婆，觉得她偏心，每次把她气得直跺脚。我还试过把自己反锁在厕所里，任别人怎么叫也不开门，所以她后来也不敢对我太过凶。其实外婆是疼我们的，毕竟我们是她的孙女，而且同一屋檐下相处了那么多年，怎么会没感情呢？

我生平第一个lady包包也是外婆买给我的。那时我还在念小学，跟姐姐、外婆及亲戚到新加坡探望小舅父，顺便到处走走。记得在Sentosa Island时外婆因为腿酸走得较慢，我看她一直落在后头，就放慢脚步等她，其实她那时已经接近70岁了。后来外婆在当地要我选个自己喜欢的包包送给我，我就选了个枣红色的包包，它的价钱可不便宜呢。经过了15-16年，那个包包已经不知道被收到哪了，但外婆的那份心意却被我牢牢记着。

这是2002年再次跟外婆到新加坡游玩时的合影。外婆是个很爱旅行的人，生病前时常到处游玩。我最后一次跟她到外地旅游是2006年到上海-杭州-乌镇游玩的时候。那时她的记性开始衰退了，在凉风习习的黄浦江边，她竟然要我们到SS2打包炒粉给她吃。

在外婆人生的最后几个年头，她的性格变了许多。小时后外婆给我的印象是严肃和性格较刚烈，但后期她变得很温和及慈祥，而妈妈与她的关系也改进了很多。他们每天都在外婆房间聊天，只要外婆想吃什么，妈妈无论多累都会去准备；而妈妈只要遇到什么有关家庭的不愉快事件，她都会跟外婆倾诉。

那天从Temerloh开车回KL时，我以为我不会哭，但泪水已经开始在眼眶打转。那一刻我终于得接受，一个跟我相处了27年的人已永远离开了我。每当有亲人离开自己时，我就会警惕自己要更加珍惜身边的每一个人。

今晚是外婆的回魂夜，我希望她跟外公能够在极乐世界重逢。

等待。。。

很想转换个工作环境，可是一直苦无机会。在现在这间医院服务了快3年，是时候转换一下工作环境和接触些新的人与事物。这3年来舟车劳顿，辛苦了我的MyVi,劳苦功高啊。

近来我的unit来了个好吃懒做、时时玩失踪的PPF,他这种人去到哪里都带给大家麻烦。之前在上班时间溜出去喝茶,被院长逮到后还若无其事般，他的脸皮真是厚！每天看到他那副'尊容'我就想吐，根本是一副等退休的嘴脸。最气人是他现在是U32 (这种性格也可以升职><)，在我的unit是最大的PPF，所以只要我不在他就'欺负'别人，自己跑去厕所睡觉，让别人去忙。像昨天那样，我去了ward做counseling，他竟然趁我不在就溜走了，他没想到我会去spotcheck他，哼！这种懒惰又记性差的人，害到有critical unit的护士打电话来跟我们投诉，因为他on-call时不跟SOP做事，真讨厌。现在只差还没有incident reporting吧了。

我已经告诉老板他的'恶行'，下个星期开会，我要想办法叮走他！

終于可以放假了！！！

連續工作了168個小時后，我終于可以休息了！！！今天呆在家里休息，過了非常懶惰及無意義的一天。看了很多漫畫，再追看on demand的劇集，然后一直吃吃吃，真是有意思，哈哈哈。。。

上星期first call,手機24小時響個不停，真想把它給扔了@@( 開玩笑，很貴的！〕我以后一定不會選擇在醫院做工，no no no~~ 發現自己的脾氣越來越不好，尤其是精神不足的時候，tend to scold people.真的要好好控制自己的情緒，hoho.

Is it ethical?

Is it ethical for health professionals to receive free gifts/goodies from pharmaceutical companies? Whenever they attend any conference/course/congress, they might receive gifts like pen, note pad, bag, calculator, mouse etc with drug company logo nicely printed on them. They even have free lunch sponsored by those companies.

Will this affect their judgement in selecting or prescribing a drug? Big Q~~

大馬的治安真是糟

近來馬來西亞的治安真是越來越糟糕了，連我這個土生土長的馬來西亞華僑都感到心寒及害怕，更何況是游客。接二連三聽到身邊的朋友或同事遇上竊匪，有些還受傷入院治療。歹徒的行為越見猖狂，每天翻開報紙都可看到有關的新聞，有些歹徒還成群結隊盜車，這個社會到底怎么了？

今天去購物中心時遇到一件事，現在想起都心跳加速，覺得自己很幸運。那種人渣，希望他早日被送進監獄，得到應有的懲罰！

Crazy for Panda

Panda Chocolate

Sneezing Baby Panda :)

時間

時間，真的會沖淡一切嗎？
如果時間停止轉動， 您是否能阻止它的流逝？
曾經聽某人說過
這個世上是沒有永不變質的東西 什么事物都會有個期限
而這個期限又是何年何月何日呢？
我不清楚 也不想去考究
無論如何 我一直都感到很慶幸
因為我們共同渡過了
那是屬于我們的集體回憶
永遠忘不了
而回憶與現實一直在并肩同行中
對 這是我所堅信的

Pharmacist = FarmAssist

Until today, pharmacist role in healthcare service is not widely recognised, especially in Asian countries. When I was studying in university, a taxi driver once asked me why do we need 4 years to get a Pharmacy degree. He thought that those ladies in private clinic who dispense medicines to patients are pharmacists. He even told me that's an easy job, just pack some medicines into plastic bags according to doctor's prescription. I was speechless. ><

Few weeks back, I lie down comfortably on my bed and reading a magazine. To my surprise, there are people who think that pharmacist daily routines are linked to farm. Pharm=Farm? So pharmacist = FarmAssist? Eh hem, so am I supposed to do farming in the hospital? Get myself involved in pest control programme during oncall hours? This is really interesting...

I dislike Darlie Toothpaste

Why? Not because it's ineffective or with unpalatable taste, in fact I use it quite often-my second choice after Colgate. The reason is simple, it reminds me of someone!!! A person who is extremely & undoubtfully irritating + annoying! I wan to stay far away from him, as far as possible, STAT!

Some Forgotten Memories

I was searching for pix in my old pc when I suddenly found some old photos. Those photos were taken by me when I first reached Temerloh Hospital, the place which I received PRP training. I still remember how depressed & sad I was when I knew that I was posted to Temerloh. Where on earth is Temerloh? That's the first Q came across my mind. I was so hopeless and lost because I'm the only student from my batch who got that hospital.

During the first few days of work, I disliked my job!!! I couldn't communicate with people around me that well, maybe that's some kind of cultural shock? Everyday after work, I'll go back to the quarter and stayed alone, with mosquitoes flying around me.

The houseman quarter is big, one person per unit. Can you imagine how lonely I was?As time pass by, I managed to adapt to the new environment. I started to like the working atmosphere there- no politics and with many friendly colleagues around. I even applied to stay back in Temerloh Hospital after my training completed, of course the main reason is still its considered short distance from my hometown, hahaha.

Now I've been working for one & a half year in HoSHAS. Other than those projects which piss me off, I enjoy working as in-patient pharmacist. I like my colleagues because they always cooperate with me. Sometimes we go out for dinner together and chit-chat til sleeping time. I'm certain that I'll miss these moments after I completed my compulsory service. What can I do now is to treasure each moment we shared together.

If not because of these seemingly lonely photos, I wouldn't recall how sad I was back then. How silly I was, LOL~~