*^*SiMpLy Me*^* I LoVe My LiFe...

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

*World Pharmacist Day!*

http://www.fip.org/www/index.php?page=latest_news&news=newsitem&newsitem=96
25 Sep marks World Pharmacist Day since last year!
hehe..I didn't know about it until a year later.
Wishing all pharmacist a belated Pharmacist Day!
Continue to work hard in ensuring medication safety in all fields of being a pharmacist. Cheers!

| enjoying the view @ 4:20 PM |

Saturday, March 26, 2011

*Frustration..*

Now I kind of understand the frustration of ex-colleagues.
Was there room for discussion?
Is it so difficult to have effective communication?
Why strain the relationship even though the employer-employee relationship has ended?
Now I pray hard this unfairness will not continue. I'll know by end-Mar and everything will hopefully end by then...

| enjoying the view @ 11:40 AM |

Monday, March 14, 2011

*Hopping Mad*

I don't know what's called an industrial practice and I do not want to care how I am being looked at. I just have a few questions:

- Is it not right to tender on the day of a forced leave? Is it right that I should tender only when we return to office the next day?

- Or should it then be ok to tender on the eve of CNY? Well..the eve is still a working day right?
- If nothing is written in the contract about notice pay, is it not right to discuss if I can go off earlier from a 3-months notice? Of coz..I'd be paying back.

- Is 1.5 months notice period thus too short for the company to bear?

Ok now comes the controversial part...

- Is it not right to go on a surgery during notice period? I did not plan for it to be IN the notice period. In any case, with a notice period that long, ANYTHING can happen.

Probably need some guidance on how such situations should be best handled.

I was told by some that I was indecisive at the beginning and that I should be the one deciding on my last day.
Well...to put it on contractual terms, 3 months means 3 months. I don't know if we can force our way through as long as we pay up. The concern I thought is it's still not nice to be so firm on such "favours". My request was acceded somehow there and then. However, it was eventually found that it was done with much unwillingness and displeasure.

Despite how it seems, no I did not plan for a surgery so that I can go to the new company "clean".
No I do not want to disclose to anyone what procedure it was for me. Not going to say it here too.
I just wanted to treat this like a normal MC.
Was told by the doctor prior to surgery that it would be just 1-2 days rest. Was however, informed after the surgery that my MC was longer than told. I informed supervisor immediately of the unexpectedly long rest.
I am told this incident is very irresponsible.

Things just has to come to this stage whereby I so feel like saying "Well..then make today my last day". However, I kept the words. I apologized.

| enjoying the view @ 7:03 PM |

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

*Bad things always happen at the wrong time..huh huh*

Episode 1
When I was in Primary 2, I fractured my arm after falling down from the Monkey Bar. It was PE lesson, not that I was naughty and went out to play. Ahh..so accident-prone.
The pain was so unbearable that I can't even move my arm to get changed. That was the first time I went to the hospital as far as I can remember.
I was given a 1-month MC, I think. Oh gosh, it was so troublesome. I had to ask my classmate to take back my homework for me.
I had no strength in my hand to write. I fractured my right arm, so I had to scribble with my left.
I returned to school with the cast still on my arm. Luckily I had helpful classmates who helped with the heavy bags that all school students have.

Episode 2
I had chicken pox at the age of 24. Don't ask me why I didn't had it earlier. Having it at an older age does make it really uncomfortable and remembered. Haha...
All the fevers, the aches, the blistering and itchiness - I guess a lot of us cannot remember the process as well as I do.
To make things worse, I had a Pharmacy Board Exam that clashes with my MC. I can't go out (chicken pox is contagious). No invigilators would want to come my house (it's not their standard protocol, not like I was hospitalized, at least that is more confined). I almost had to give it a miss.
A common cold and flu does not have to be quarantined. That was the bottleneck - I need to be quarantined. Grr.. Luckily the hospital eventually gave me an ICU room just to take the test. I had to go via the back door, act like a thief and be in contact with as few people as possible.
I did all that and luckily all went well after much talking and worrying.

Episode 3
I just had my first GA surgery last Thursday. I woke up groggy and for the next 2 days sleep was my priority. I was forced to, by my body.
I never had the chance to find out if the grogginess was the effect of GA or that my body detected a wound and was trying to make me rest while it did self-repair.
To make things worse again, it is during my notice period. Little did I expect to be given 10 days MC coz I was told by the consultant prior to surgery that it was at most a few days, thus the weekend should be sufficient rest for me huh...
I guess boss must be mad at me =p As if my shortened notice period after much unhappiness has not been enough of a headache.
But what can I do? I have to bear this unnecessary pain, the expenses, and a scar left on the body. This is not an elective surgery, therefore I had no choice.

真是一波未平一波又起
Bad luck, but can anyone understand?

| enjoying the view @ 12:39 PM |

Thursday, February 24, 2011

*Mouldy~*

I think I'm growing mould soon...n the longer I stay here.
How good it is to get paid to grow mould...Not.
For retirement, it may be wonderful~

| enjoying the view @ 11:22 AM |

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

*Time flies (or crawl) for a p'cist*

Just received a call from a fellow pharmacist 2 years my junior, relating to work queries made to office. The caller from the other end was unknown until he asked for the name of whom he had made the call to.
Despite saying he is my junior, as a Singaporean guy, he is actually of my age. Hence, after putting down the phone, I made a mental calculation to determine if guys..pharmacists my age has already completed their pre-registration phase.
Answer turn out - almost there, but 'no'.
And so I thought about how long ago it seems to be that I was doing my pre-reg. It felt like quite some time back.
How has other guys my age fared in their career then? Most are earning decent pay, except for those furthering their studies. If we were to look again at the male pharmacists my age, they are still a mere 'trainee' just like what I myself had gone through, and earning meagre pay. How there seems to be a gap between them and their counterparts who has choosen not to take up Pharmacy as their course of studies.
It left me thinking...I do not wish to look back.

| enjoying the view @ 3:02 PM |