Insuficient pharmacists?

I hope I'm not the only one following the news recently. Kind of feeling down after all the bad news about pharmacy profession in Singapore. I know that I can't really express myself well, but I'll try to comment on what I think about the whole event here.

Firstly, I feel that our salaries should be comparable to the amount of hardwork we put in. Compared to doctors (GPs in particulars), the ratio is kinda alright in my opinion. Quoting a source, doctors don't really earn that much also, in a range of 3000, which in my opinion is not really very high considering they spent 5 years and lots of money to take the course.

Now, somehow I feel that our curriculum system is flawed, too much emphasis on theoretical stuff and too little on real clinical settings. Even the attitudes of some pharmacy students in NUS is not right. Not that I wanna bring in controversial topic, but it is true that some people came into the pharmacy course solely due to their inability to get into medicine and dentistry, apart from lacking the money to go overseas for the above mentioned courses. Naturally, they don't have the passion for pharmacy at all. I'm guessing that most of them just want to finish a course that at least look better than just a normal science degree. Maybe this also explains why the public do not really respect the pharmacists.

Somehow I realised I'm just writing whatever that comes into my head. Apologies to those who're offended. No offensive materials intended, just pure ranting.

Holiday!

After 6 weeks of school finally it's the holidays! One week holiday isn't really enough for me though. But whatever, enjoy the holiday while I can. In the mean time I should really be catching up on pharmacostatistics as well as pharmacy law. Jap 1 is going to get tougher and more complicated. Hopefully I can cope with it without breaking down in the process. I'll have to postpone the update on the remaining of akatsuki as I'm currently back in Malaysia and have no access to my tools and kits. SP1203.... more surveys and reading to do. Sienz.

Akatsuki

Ok I'm running out for things to blog about. Maybe I'll just post some work in progress pics for my 1/100 akatsuki. So far I've only finished building the head, body and hands, which took me about a month to build. (Not that I build super slowly, just that I didn't find time to continue building pass the head part due to assignments etc)

The front view of the head. Notice the smudging on the v-fin. I'm not exactly good in panel lining. Coupled with PGP's poor lighting in the room, it's even more difficult to panel line properly. Reason being I can't see what I'm doing properly.

The side view. I didn't line the upper row of the small little words at the ear area coz it's super hard to line.


Anyone thinks the back view is messy? If you don't I'm afraid to say that you need new specs.


The front view of the body. Personally I think it's quite nice as compared to the head that I've done. But it's definitely something that can be improved on.


The side view of the body. Kinda messy at the joining part between the front and back armor. Again, poor PGP lighting and my noob panel lining skills.


The back part of the body. You'll realise that the two circles are not panel lined. Personally I find it quite hard to draw out the circles which doesn't have any groove for me to base on. Time for more panel lining training :P

Combined photo of the head, body and both hands. The head looks fierce alright :P More pictures coming soon if I manage to find time to build the kit. Mid-semester break coming tho. Hopefully I can finish it before then. As a side note, just came back from the medical alumni dinner, I think a-gong is super funny la. Certainly someone to be respected. His track record is like WOW! You need to see him yourself to believe it.

DRUNK!!!!

Went to Ministry of Sound for four-play bash yesterday night to help out the ex-finance director in the running of the programs. For the information of those who don't know, it's a bash co-organised by the 4 health care faculties/departments, namely pharmacy, medicine, dentistry and nursing. Guess what? I got so high that I couldn't even walk properly... talking about alcoholism.....

Some people say I'm drunk, but I don't know that for sure. I still remember sharing a taxi back with CK, Kenning and Adeline, and I puked out the last 2 glasses of drink I had...which is vodka cranberry and bourbon dry (did I name it correctly) Forgot what happened after that, although I remember clearing up the floor and pour concentrated dettol over it.

I woke up this morning at 8.40am and OMG..........I SAW A GIRL SLEEPING BESIDE ME!!!!!!!













Ok just joking, I woke up and go straight to bathe :P

Now more on the event itself. As I'm helping Xuan Wei to sell tickets, I missed both pharmacy dance teams' performance. After closing the ticket sales booth at 9pm, I went in with Ivan to join in the fun! Somehow I just can't stop drinking, not because I'm an alcoholic, just that I can't stand looking at drinkable liquid in front of me without drinking it. Those that know me well should know :P Ivan was asking me to stop drinking...... Haha...... Putting that aside, I think I finished 8 glasses... (Yes, 8 glasses and I'm going down!) Vodka lime, vodka orange, 2 vodka cranberries, whisky coke, whisky cranberry, bourbon dry and gin sprite. Although I wasted the last 2 glasses.... Maybe it's because I don't drink often, this kind of occasion really makes me forget about assignments and readings temporarily. But then I remembered blabbing a lot of medical advice when I'm high......CK was like constantly asking me to shut up on the way back from MOS. By the way, can someone describe what do you feel when you have a hangover?

Anyway, back to assignments and drafts......

Yes? No?

"With great power, comes great responsibility"
someone

and " With great responsibility, comes tough decision"
ecnerwal

Why can't I make decisions?
Factor 1 : Both are equally difficult to reject
Factor 2: Both are equally important
Factor 3: I'll feel bad rejecting either one of them
Factor 4: Clash of mind and heart
Factor 5: Someone took out my laundry before they're dry!

Can I have the best of both worlds? Not easy, almost impossible. As a chinese proverb goes "Don't fill too much water if you don't have a jar that is big enough for it". Nevertheless, I'll try my best. Without expectations, there will be no disappointment. Without disappointment, there will be no violence. Without violence, there will be world peace.

Nationalism?

Went to a guards changing ceremony at istana this afternoon. I would say that I'm quite impressed with the guards for the "performance". Anyway, I came to think about why do people tend to treat a person with different nationality differently than how they treat their own countrymate. Is there no way a foreigner can blend in with the local society completely? Or maybe it's the foreigners themselves that caused the differentiation. I would consider myself as a transnational. It's not that I do not feel anything for my own country, it's just that I feel that earth is meant to be shared among homo sapiens. Why do we even bother to differentiate ourselves as chinese, indians, malays, whites, blacks ......? When will it be when we can all live together as a single human race?