It's the end of the world as we know it

So after an ambiguous year of 'yes I've finished uni and I'm working now but I still have to study'... I've officially finished all pharmacy-related study forever and ever...How exciting! And what a relief. Sometimes I think God's way of blessing me is to let me get through exams with relative ease...strange, but useful. Although after a week and a half, the high of passing the dreaded Pharmacy Board oral review is now fading somewhat...

Which then leads to the question...what am I going to do with myself next year? (my current job finishes once I complete my 2000 hours at the end of Dec.) 'Find another job' (which is what my mum is nagging me to do) is not really appealing to me at the moment, as we'll be going on an overseas holiday for 5 weeks at the end of Feb through to end of March....Guess doing locum work will be most likely, both before and after the trip, as full-time work is not that easy to find these days. Maybe I should become a professional blogger again in the time being. Just kidding.

I was planning to write something creative in this post but I think I used up all my creativity during the procrastination phase before my exam...It's funny how once you have all the time in the world, there's no motivation to use it productively...

hmmmm...ok, more later if I come up with anything.

Meh!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/meh--the-really-boring-buzz-word/2008/11/17/1226770336183.html

Unremembered dreams

So I have this week completely off work to study, and it's reminding me strangely (or perhaps not surprisingly) of those good old days of stuvac, when I would write songs or poetry to procrastinate from studying and as an outlet for my angst (while my creative side has been rather neglected recently, I'm glad that the days of angst are over). So I've been compiling a list of all the compositions I've done over the past years; they're scattered all over several notebooks, sheets of scrap paper, this blog and on files on my computer....along with many other "thought scribbles" and unfinished works, half-written lyrics without music....and I came across this on a word document on my computer, which I don't remember writing (so therefore must have been previously unpublished on this blog!) It's dated 21st May, 2006...how interesting to find snapshots of moments in one's past...


Unremembered dreams

Sometimes the moment passes by
And is lost forever
No second opportunity
For those bound by time

To think that moment could be like a thousand years to You

Sometimes you wake up
And in a fleeting moment
You remember what you dreamt last night
Sometimes it’s just the next day
Either way it’s soon forgotten

Do You know me while I’m sleeping?
I don’t know myself
While my eyes and mind are blind
In the darkness of night
Can I still find the light in You?

So wake me up
At the right time
Or I’ll be lost forever
Within the realm of unremembered dreams

Why don’t I feel You now
Am I all alone?
I don’t want to fall asleep while I don’t know You

So can you heal me now
I’ve just been waiting on my own
And I’ve been foolishly evading Your amazing grace

[21/05/06]

movie questions

Tagged again, this time by Cat:

1. One movie that made you laugh: The Incredibles, I watched it for the first time on TV a while ago and I think it's on again tonight...I thought it was the funniest animated film I'd seen in ages. And Monsters' Inc. Therese and I laughed our heads off when we watched that during one of our HSC "study" days at her place...

2. One movie that made you cry: The Lion King, the first time I watched it as a kid. And I'm ashamed to admit, Titanic...

3. One movie you loved when you were a child: Aladdin...loved the genie and the songs and all...

4. One movie you’ve seen more than once: The Sound of Music....watched that one quite a few times on video....

5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it: Haha, I used to love (and mostly still do) anything animated or Disney....including High School Musicals 1 and 2...cheesiness to the max but very enjoyable.

6. One movie you didn't like: Traffic...it was about drug trafficking and I had no idea what was going on in parts...

7. One movie that scared you: Those Alfred Hitchcock ones we watched on Angi's (?) laptop at Terrigal....Psycho and Rear Window and others. Also horror flicks like Shaun of the Dead....yuck (even though it's meant to be a comedy). And parts of The Da Vinci Code as well.

8. One movie that bored you: Hmmm not sure about this one, there was that Chinese arthouse film Pun made us see at Paddington, I can't even remember what it was called, so definitely I would have been slightly bored in that one.

9. One movie that made you happy: Amelie, that's a good feel-good one.

10. One movie that made you miserable: A Very Long Engagement - another Audrey Tautou film, but this one had a rather tragic ending. King Kong was quite tragic as well.

11. One movie you weren’t brave enough to see: Um, not sure, there's probably a lot (judging from my answers to no. 7)

12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with: Legolas in The Two Towers was quite good, especially with the whole skateboarding down the flight of stairs on a shield while shooting arrows :P

13. The last movie you saw: At the cinemas it was Jumper....that was like at the beginning of the year. A bit disappointing that one.

14. The next movie you hope to see: High School Musical 3! :D LOL.... And Step Up 2 did look kinda cool too (Ok, so I'm into the whole singing/dancing in movies thing...)

15. Now tag five people: Not going to bother naming anyone specifically this time, but if you happen to be reading this and enjoy doing these things, go ahead :)

Laughing at myself

I've just been reading over some of my posts on this blog from the past year and a half....and it's so funny...!

And Burn Your Plastic Jesus with speaker Mark Driscoll is on TONIGHT at the Sydney Entertainment Centre! Been looking forward to it for a while...hope my friends come on time and that many people will have their views of Jesus challenged...

I've been tagged!

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.

Thanks to Alicia who was concerned for the health of my blog ("barely alive; hanging by a thread..."), I now have something to post!

Unfortunately, the nearest book to me is the Australian Medicines Handbook 2008 Edition (aka "The AMH"), which is basically like "the bible" of the pharmacy profession...in fact, I was meant to be studying from it before I was distracted by Alicia's blog and found out I had been tagged.

This is rather hard seeing as the start of page 123 doesn't even have proper sentences...but here is an excerpt from that page...I'm in the Antibiotics chapter, in the Penicillins section, in the drug monograph of ampicillin:

[under heading "Indications" (i.e. what it's used for)]

Exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, community-acquired pneumonia
Gonococcal infection, UTI
Non-surgical prophylaxis of endocarditis
Acute cholecystitis, peritonitis, epididymo-orchitis, acute pyelonephritis, acute prostatitis

Riveting. Although, there's quite a few interesting "-itis" 's in there, maybe I should look them up.

Yay, now I can tag 5 people...even though hardly anyone reads or updates blogs anymore....

1. Cat
2. Pun
3. J Chow
4. Kazzart
5. Alex Fung

Have fun!

Back to the AMH...

Argh it's the end of June!

hmmm proper post coming soon.....or later....

Eurovision!

Well as Alicia kindly pointed out, it's nearly the end of this month and I haven't posted yet, so thought I'd just write about something generic...

So last weekend was the first time I'd ever watched the SBS broadcast of the annual Eurovision Song Contest...and surprisingly, it was rather entertaining (and also mildly amusing in parts). Some of the performances were pretty tacky, but there were others that were quite good. Loved the wit and sarcasm of the UK commentator as well...

Anyway, the Albanian entry was my favourite one, even though they only came 17th or something...the vocals weren't perfect, but the singer is only 16, so thought it was pretty good considering....Have no idea what she's singing as it's not in English, but apparently the title translates as "Hearts Trapped in Time". Hmmm...anyway, it had a good melody, and I liked the guitar part in it too :) Go Albania!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqqblwBvubA

Trying to maintain at least one post a month!

Wow this blog is getting very dusty....and so are my writing skills!

So what has been happening? Well March was busy with the first PGTC assignment, April has been rather busy with weddings and other social things, and May is looking to be rather busy with 21sts and PGTC assignment B (which hopefully will be over soon, since my preceptor wants to cram 5 weeks' worth of prac assessments into 3!) Anyway this year is flying past, I'm rather scared I'll come to the end of all this training and suddenly find myself a pharmacist who doesn't know anything! Surprisingly, half of what I do at the moment at work is quite brainless, which is a bit worrying, really...

Retail pharmacy is a strange balance between an exercise in marketing and providing healthcare...I mean, am I trying to sell something, or give health advice? There are pharmacists at both extremes, sometimes I feel like I don't have the skills to do either very well, so I'm kind of stuck in the middle.

Hmmm...

This is cool...

http://www.maniacworld.com/frozen-in-grand-central-station.html

Don't worry, I'm still alive...

:) :) :)