When's your Tivoli moment?

After much lack of sleep and editing powerpoint slides, finally the presentation is over. Although I feel that it is kind of last minute, but I do feel that we've put up a good fight. Still, I'm still immature as a marketer, or even a presenter myself. Anyway, this is my first in doing this kind of business presentation. It's not even anything similar to normal marketing module presentation. Hopefully I didn't embarrass myself, my teammates nor my university by giving a crappy presentation. Proudly present to you team Quadriga!This is my Tivoli moment. When's yours?

Sweet!

After not blogging for two weeks, I've finally decided to blog again. Last week have been a hell of a week for most pharmacy year 2s I guess, with Pharmacostatistics CA on thursday and DFD reports due on Friday. Further outlook includes final submission of SP1203 Assignment 2 and submission of assignment 3 draft. We're also expecting dispensing test next thursday. I've totally no idea what pharm law, pharmstats and sp1203 is talking about until today. At least I'm still following quite closely to Japanese 1, or else......DEAD!!!

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.