Monday, December 31, 2007

Medical Assistant Training

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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Online Backgammon

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Shell Citibank Credit Card - A Cash Draining Card

Are you fancy of getting a credit card that offers 5% rebate on shell petrol and 1.5% rebate on other purchases? If your answer is yes, then you are draining your money away!
The newly launched Shell Citibank credit card is not as good as its sounds - to enjoy the rebate, you must have a carry forward balance. Yes, a carry forward balance that you have to pay Citibank 18% interest per annum. But that's is not all, your so called 'rebate' is based on your current month spending. That means if you have a carry forward of RM10,000 but did not use the card at all for the current month, you get 'zero' rebate.

This is how the rebate scheme works:
-First, you need to have a carry forward balance. The amount of that carry forward determines the rebate rate (%) that the card holder is getting.


-Then based on your current month spend, you will get the rebate (as shown by the rebate table above) - your rebate is not based on your total carry forward balance. Repeat: your rebate is not based on your total carry forward balance, but current month spending

In short, to get your 'rebate' you must have at least of RM2,000 outstanding balance in you card AND continue use the card. The outstanding balance is the net of previous month balance minus current month payment. If you do that, every month you will be paying RM30.00, or RM360 a year for the minimum RM2,000 outstanding balance.

Let's do a simple math here:
If you spend RM500/mth on shell petrol and your classic card has a RM2,000 outstanding balance, at 1.5% , you are getting RM7.50 as 'rebate', while at the same time, paying RM30.00 for the interest. The 'nett' profit for Citibank is RMRM22.50. Your are essentially "over paying" 4 times the price (30/7.5) To 'break even' (so that your RM30.00 interest payment = rebate value), you need to pump RM2,000 shell petrol a month, or charge RM6,000 a month for non-shell related purchases.

The USD100.00 per barrel of crude oil won't kill you, but the Citi-Shell card will.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Hospital Attachment

From Titiwangsa LRT station, next passed by a bus station, car park and a smelly big dustbin beside a small lorong and then comes to a busy two way street where u need to choose either use the bridge or risk being caught by traffic police because of using the shortcut and kena saman RM500, u will come to Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), the busiest hospital in KL, everyday when I passed by the outpatient pharmacy I can see a huge crowd waiting for their medication. I believe I have been to HKL for not less than 3 times, may be I need to consider myself lucky as I don't need to travel by car everyday to outstation, but waking up at 6-7am everyday is just very tiring...

The first week in Oncology ward let me realised that my clinical knowledge had became rusty after doing research for the last whole semester. How am I supposed to remember the drug regimen (e.g. CMF, FAC, VAF, FOLFOX, FOLFIRI etc) for so many types of cancer ? Anyway our preceptor is a helpful pharmacist, Cik Kamalrun was able to answer to our doubts rather than asking "what do u think ? go find out yourself " which makes our life easier.

It may be unbelievable for a pharmacist student never seeing a real packed cell. What is a packed cell ? Cell packed together in a bag ? Hmm... quite correct, actually it is a bloody red bag for blood transfusion. Looks like Ribena in a new packaging, to blood hunter may be...

Interesting drug in which a patient can kept until year 2090!

Athough clerking case is tiring and reading those doctor's handwriting is just a torture to your imagination and brain power, but I will be motivated to clerk case if next year pharmacist and doctor pay will increase again, hope that is true hahaha...

Monday, December 17, 2007

Is my birthday tomorrow!

Another 2 hours more I will be officially 22 year-old. This will be the first time I am not celebrating my birthday at my hometown Penang for so many years because usually this time I am still enjoying school holiday.

I would like to share some of the photo I took with my classmates on last Friday for our convocation magazine. After this we won't be having a lot of chances meeting each other because we will be going to hospital attachment for 9 weeks times.

A/P Dr.Kang Yew Beng, who always bugged be "Poh Hon, where is your tie ?" Whenever I got my tie on he will be so happy hahahaha... Look at the photo his smiles was so big! @_@


Photos with some of my classmates (Gangs of black, white and gray :)

Nothing bocor, just wandering where is the old roof top canteen, the new canteen food is so expensive and tasteless.

Why do we need to clerk case and prepare for seminar... :(

Two leng chai and leng lui

Moo: Go Klang remember "ta pau" bak kut teh for me !
Kit : Yes Boss...

Then I found this balloon inside the student lounge, too bad no birthday present for me, whose balloon is this? I will destroy it!

Who got photos to share ? Please let me know or send it to me ok ? Thanks!

This new semester started so early, so sien one day before birthday still need to wake up so early at 6a.m. and go to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for my first day of hospital attachment. After briefing ends at 9 a.m., 5 of us (Jivanti, Kai Shing, Cathy and Diayana) who were assign to Oncology ward should be allowed to go back straight away rather than waiting the pharmacist in-charge to handle us who never shows up until 3 p.m. and was still busy with meeting until then.

Each hospital got the pros and cons, HKL usually allows you to go home earlier, got a lot of cases but it isn't really a teaching hospital. Moreover it covers a huge area, sometimes you need to walk a lot to reach you destination and not many of the department are equipped with air con. So stop complaining la to those people who went to Seremban and Klang... hahaha I see u good u see me good only.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Online Casinos

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Online Backgammon

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Online Slots

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Chat Lines

Chat Lines is a free local phone chat line service offering live chat and also voice personals.

Users can call in for free and chat live OR leave Voice Personals for others to hear when they are off the phone.

Callers don't have to give out their phone numbers and are Anonymous when they are on the system.

When callers call the chat line they record a greeting for others to hear while they are on the phone. Then they listen to greetings of the other callers that are live on the system and then can choose to send a message to that person or they can request a live connection with that caller.

And as mentioned above, they can also leave a voice ad that others will hear when they hang up. Then next time they call back in they can hear the messages that were left for them by callers when they were not on the phone.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Last school holiday

It is just so fast, 1 month school holiday passed by in a blink of eye, beside playing Football Manager 2008, DoTA, Hitman 3:Contracts, watching movie and drama, basically I didn't touch a book the whole holiday because this may be the last time in my life I can enjoy a school holiday. It is because after the final semester, probably I will be busy looking for a hospital which will accept me as a houseman pharmacist. I wonder whether IMU will help us to look for a hospital or we need to look for ourself ? I think it will be the latter, "ji gei zham sang"....

In order to enjoy my holiday, everyday when I wake up at 2pm in the afternoon, coz I watch Hong Kong drama until 5-6am usually. 溏心風暴 (Heart of Greed) and 赌场风云 (Casino Air and Wind??!!) are both really interesting drama to watch, to those who haven't watched it, I think you should not miss them. I like these two drama because they shows the ugly side of human, being selfish and will just think of anything to get what they want, including hurting your best friend or family. This also happens in our daily life isn't it ? When a person will just come to you and ask for your help if he/she think you are useful to him/her and after that treating you like shit after they think that you are of no use to them anymore. What can you do, just think positively and live with it...

Alright, back to my holiday story, I can't be sitting at home and just doing nothing, so sometimes I went out with my friends to have a walk. Gurney Plaza and Queensbay Mall are meant for movie only, not shopping coz no $$$. I will go to places which don't need to spend money such as Botanical Garden, waterfall and sea.

You may have seen a mature monkeys a lot of time but how about a baby monkey? This was taken at the Botanical "monkey" garden.


It is so hard to find a waterfall nowadays, I managed to found one in a hidden location at Batu Ferringi. The water was crystal clear and cooling but this waterfall is too small to let us swim in it.

Do horses knows how to swim ? I have seen horses pooing at the sea shore and the carer just use sand to cover it. Please think twice if you wanna swim in the sea. This is at the Golden Sand Beach resort at Batu Feringgi, outside there is the place where I can get cheap DVD movie and drama at RM 4 per piece after 7pm.


Original Penang Bangkok Lane mee goreng, the one at Sri Petaling Ameen Bistro is highy recommeded also because I tried it before and it taste equally as good as the original ones.

When was the last time you de-worm? It is recommended to take it once every 6 months, I think I have never de-worm before, until when I ask a pharmacist why I eat a lot also cannot gain weight he told me some of the reasons, one of them is the worm in your intestine are also eating what you eat so I get this chocolate flavor suspension from him for RM7. It taste acceptable, not as bad as I think because azole group drugs usually taste bitter.