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