Taken from Stephanie’s video collection, here is Sew. Some people call him Jian or Jian Wen… or… sometimes Timmy and the boys just call him wanker or fucker or whatever kinky.
What happened to that dude, huh?
How many pharmacist it takes to change one light bulb?
You may say just one, or it may just takes as many as 3, or maybe a thousand.
Any figures, but the whole point is to make the place brighter. Or at least, SEEM brighter.
So it seems. But what if there is some blind people in the place? What about the visually-impaired? Worst is… what if some people in the place “deliberately” have their shades on? Then, there is only a number of people will be grateful having the light back on.
My case? Already, in my flat, 3 out of 4 pharmacy students decided once upon a time ago to take up this course to get the license to open a pharmacy and let it managed by someone to just get the income. I wonder, does it happen the same amongst.. say, the engineering students? You get your degree and then.. what? Teach a drop-out how to fix some mechanical toy, make him fix more mechanical toys for other kids while charging them (or rather, their parents) impossible fees and then retire young? How about the law-students? The moment you have your degree and you will probably practice in court once or twice and voila, open a solicitor office and hire a few newbies to serve the community? Accountants? Teach a coupl’a clerks to do the tallying and next day build up a pseudo-Ernst&Young to hire more of the same capable clerks to do the same while sitting back making calls to old buddies to chat about how run-down the economy is today?
Nah, i am not mocking anyone. Really, if anyone thinks the previous paragraph was an insult to any profession you might be partaking in the future or probably are right now, the real pointer is on me and my fellows. The fact that pharmacy graduates have the luxury of using the license they own rightly to open a pharmacy (that includes selling out prescription-only drugs and poisons) due to the degree they have, this may also mean alot of them take advantage of it to actually “bid” these licences out to business-persons that would want to earn from the pharmaceuticals. And honestly, it is a BIG business out there. Check out the Mercks, Boots, GSK.. bla bla bla, other giant pharmaceutical companies and you will know how big they can get. When asked, “why not do something with the system back home to somehow follow the NHS system, where all health professionals are indeed ‘professionally’ involved in healthcare?” the respond: “how caaaaan? See our Malaysia like dat, how to dooo? No need lah, open the pharmacy and just earn back the degree I have paid for lor.”
So, if EVERY person in this whole flat I am currently living in think the same and giving the same respond, is it not even much further that we have to go through to actually improve our healthcare system to an extend where every healthcare professional do have a role to play (yes, that includes nurses back home) when providing health services? I am not bringing up on how to get the”blind” to come into the pharmacies for advice. Heck, I am not even coming up on how to establish our status as yes-we-are-pharmacists-and-we-do-not-only-dispense-drugs-but-we-offer-healthcare-advices-too-*smiles* to the “visually impaired” yet, mind you. Just perhaps to begin reminding the “shades-on people” that we are the upcoming healthcare providers who also had to go to a Pharmacy School “to save people”. So, here I am.. wondering… why do colleagues i have as such, actually took the trouble getting themselves here, studying the ethicals and pharmacology and in the end just to get big bucks, while seeing the whole NHS system first-handedly. Wouldn’t it be easier to just study management which is relatively cheaper and the end-agenda is still the same?
Oh well, such is life. It takes shit loads of time to comprehend what the future installs for us. Everyone thinks that someone will do something someday. As i can almost hear that again, “Ayaa! Why worry so much? One day someone will do it one la, hor? So wait for that day to happen lorrrr…!”
“Ok!”
and i will be back to Malaysia!
WALAO! tak habik-habik ku kirakan masa i ‘kan balik wumah (ru-mah)!
Translation: i can’t stop myself counting those time i am going home! WALAO!
Anyways, hello! again… after a long time since the last post. Schedules are all fixed and my The Simpsons daily planner is well-used. So i need not ellaborate more. Things are pretty much to say, “hefty” around this time while I am coping real hard doing the studies and at the same time rocking my social life. Missing people that I’ve longed so much back home. Honestly, Malaysia meant just another geography to me. Life would still be bliss if those peeps were stranded with me altogether here. So… yeap, another reason to look forward to going home!
oh my! What should i do? Ok ok… When i go home, i wanna go yamcha! yamcha at 2! morning! WALAO!
What else? wakeboarding with Weips, maybe Eugenie, Gary and Dean! WALAO!
Wear shorts and terrorize one of my chimuis house and annoy the hell out of her and her family and say, “WALAO! auntie! uncle! look! i am wearing shorts!”
Bumming into Khar Yan’s house and call out “Mama, yao mou kwa-chi ngor mou? (got miss me or not?) hi mom, hi dad! it’s been one year!” WALAO!
Considering dropping off in Singapore and maybe a rest in NZ and OZ before the real work takes me in and consume me till every oxygen in me is sapped out. WALAO!
Eat cendol! WALAO!
Drive a car with my brother in it, WALAO!
WALAOWALAOWALAO!
But of course, I am looking forward to Barcelona, Spain; Rome, Italy; and Nice, France for a sun holidays at the moment! After that, fellowship with my dear Jeng in London for a while before meeting my parents for around a few European countries holidays… and finally the graduation… and then wakeboard in Scots! WALAO!