I KNEW IT.

bicycles do give you numb nuts. so be wise, boys, and switch to seats that let your oysters remain tasty.

(nice dream)

xia and me in hongkong
sne on her way there
swimming in from baltimore
caught in typhoon
rescue boat, hospital
frantic interlude
gets better, losers reunited, blessed bliss
but wake up crying and dont know why

the previous poster was not me, btw.

sometimes i think pharmacists share the same inferiority complex which possesses them to apply meaningless corporate slogans to a noble profession, and to frantically scramble to come up with more and more Roles that define their Contribution To The Medical Arena. we used to be chemists up on a pedestal, mad scientists with the pharmacopoeia at their fingertips, compounders who knew how to create medical-grade drugs from mould and animal body parts; today ask any singaporean on the street what a pharmacist does and the first image he’ll get is a Guardian employee giving out clarinase. maybe it’s just in singapore that pharmacists are so peculiarly pigeonholed into the cough syrup-dispensing arena, but that’s what makes us so desperate for people to think that we are important too, that we come right in between the doctors and patients because doctors are too busy, and, really, patients whose hypertension meds are making them dizzy would rather wait 45minutes for two minutes with the pharmacist sitting in a row of other pharmacists, who will eventually have to go back to the doctor about changing the medication, than wait an hour for five minutes with the doctor in a consultation room. im not saying pharmacists are useless, it’s just that all this clamouring for attention is quite ridiculous

i dont hate pharmacy after all, and i know that pharmacists do carry out some very interesting drug research into specialised areas, and watch over patients whose medication lists contain 30-odd different drugs and whose doctors sometimes forget that they’ve already prescribed penicillin and tack on a cephalosporin (had to wiki that, am after all a lowly year 2, am hoping i didnt get it wrong), and save patients from unpleasant drug interactions or unnecessary medication. i just wish the profession would get its head out of its ass and realise that there is a whole other ball game to be played here; why scuffle with doctors and nurses over who gets to diagnose and prescribe and follow-up, all that inbetween stuff, when you can focus on improving the drug itself and how it is used? we rule drugs, people. not patients. sure patients eventually get outside of said drugs, but that process is covered by physicians. we got the making before and constant vigilance after! that’s really pretty cool. see we already know we’re good, we dont need to have modules like SP1203

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anyway im very very sad that channel 5 has elected to broadcast the news over a live telecast of the men’s 4×100 relay. you get malaysia wittering on about sodomy and their elections every single blessed day, but how often, HOW OFTEN DO YOU GET TO WATCH THE OLYMPICS LIVE HUH. i choose bolt over buttsex every time.

lately i’ve taken to annoying my big good ole seesy by popping bubble wrap – i secretly think she’s annoyed because i refuse to let her poke any of them – ha ha ha ha ha

watched the airshow from atop a huge pile of sand and fertiliser somewhere in the middle of a gardens by the bay construction site. having an engineer dad is very handy, the view was incredible and there was a RAINBOW halfway through which i dont think the buzzing tv helicopter caught. and we were right below the airplanes when they zipped past each other and omg when one of them went across i saw the hard blue flame from its rear and then it went straight UP right above us and i could see right up into the engine flame OMG speechless

happy birthday singapore, dont have a midlife crisis. youre not so bad after all :]

and side note -

PHARMACY WON FAC RAG!

OMFG!!!!11!!!!1!!

because 080808 is such a nice number

my hair is suspiciously purple under light.

i did not:

1. ceremoniously open the box of dye i got last year, very clearly labelled blue-black
2. painstakingly apply it strand by strand
3. sit for half an hour smelling like several incontinent cats

to end up with suspiciously purple hair.

but the olympics have started and apart from my parents insisting on pronouncing it olumpics it is all very exciting. at risk of sounding completely shallow hot luxembourg flag-bearer FTW!

have spent entire day going through bananas models catalogue

have drooled

am slightly dehydrated.

have suspicion am turning into pervy redhead-fancier

such glorious hair against such pale skin

damn

everything just screams TOUCH ME