Saturday, December 08, 2007

Commencement of Semester 8!

Yo... Semester 8! The last semester! And I'm convocating on May 2008...

Busy doing research project and writing thesis for the previous sem (sem 7). Sad to say that, we have no "real" holidays as our holidays are spent for thesis... What a relieve when i submitted my thesis to AAD on friday (7th Dec 2007). Hopefully everything will turn out to be fine for me. Let's look back to Sem 7, it was a disappointent for me as i saw some "ugly faces" of the lecturers and my colleagues. Well, i know everyone is self-centred but you just don't have to make it to the extreme end! *better keep my mouth shut at this point of time*

The first week of sem 8 was not a good start for me. I found out that i will be sent to Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (HTAR), Klang for the next 2 1/2 months (17th Dec to 27th Feb 2008). What again!? This is my 3rd/4th time being placed at HTAR... and it is damn far from my living place. I was upset and so i talked to Dr. Tey and the pharmacy practice team about my problems:

1. I stay at cheras and it took me around 1 hour to drive to Klang (one-way). We were told to be at HTAR at 8am sharp. It's going to kill me physically and mentally. Who is going to be responsible if accident happened to me when i get "exhausted"? IMU? No, they just like money (IMU = International Money University)... No offences. The lecturers? No, they will feel sorry but everything will be too late. Then who to blame? My bad luck... that's the only answer.
2. The cost of petrol and tolls. The petrol and tolls cost RM22.60 per day, and IMU is not going to reimburse us. True, we can cut the cost by car-pooling but it will still be large amount.
3. I want to spend more time with my family (not going to elaborate here).

And the outcome is... I failed. I still need to go HTAR for the placement. Don't get me wrong, i'm not here to blame Dr. Tey and the pharmacy practice team as i understand their difficulties in accomodating us. And as Dr. Tey said, not everyone can be pleased (more than 50% of us did not get the hospital we want). I did appreciate the pharmacy practice team as they gave me some suggestions for my problem and not just entertaining me. I guess that's all they can do as the number of places in each hospital is not determined by the pharmacy practice team. Thanks anyway... Hopefully doing placement at HTAR is going to be a great experience for me.

I feel kinda sorry to LG and HP as they are going Seremban Hospital... Just blame our lucks. A chinese preposition says that "Good lucks are coming after the bad ones". To think positively (and superstitiously), our good lucks are coming dudes!

HTAR... Here i come!

*praying hard*