Catch up

I have the most stressful and stress less holiday combined last week. But just before I explain about that, this is my pharmacist who recently got married. Absolutely happy for them. She was the pharmacist and he was an intern =) Lovely couple. What's best about mixed marriage is that you get to conduct the wedding twice! In the favour of each family's side.

I had been studying for exams for the past couple of weeks. It is the most dreaded oral exam of all. You are expected to deliver everything at this stage and to think of this is just purely stressful. Oh goodness! So I packed my luggage once again, boarded a 2 hours flight to Adelaide and sat for my oral exam the very next day.



As strange as this sounds, I really enjoyed the oral interview process. I um.. giggled quite a lot (I don't know what's gotten into me). Perhaps, I would never thought Mr J. Whitehouse will be assessing me =) it was great to see my ex-lecturer that day. I thought for a moment I was looking at a look-alike person, but he has indeed returned from England. Still as charming! Okay, back to the story, the oral exam wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be. There were heaps of legislation scenarios otherwise it was pretty manageable.

And right after the interview, I headed off to the airport to fly to Melbourne for a 3-day conference. It was super fun although I did this alone.



For me, highlights of the event would be the great debate: selling evidence based medicine, counselling competition, talk on being an excellent communicators and the therapeutic update sessions.


In particular, I enjoyed this one session by an eye and ear specialist. His slides were interesting, talked about whether we should be referring or treating patients with presenting eye problems, but I find his aesthetic vessel even more interesting. Hahaha.... you hear me correctly. He is absolutely gorgeous, I find myself admiring him from far, thank goodness I didn't drool over my notepad. His CV is so so so impressive. Before the chairperson introduced him, I thought he was just another doctor with a handsome face. Man, he's a valedictorian, obtained PhD, author of some journals, plans to do a post-doctoral fellowship and he is a marathon runner, raising for charity.

Impressive or what? Oh, and the chairperson ended his introduction with this, "So that's Dr van Wijngaarden. He's my son-in-law, so be nice! ".

He was kind to share his new born baby's photo at the end of his slide wearing a funky sunglasses. Super adorable! =)

Went back with all the goodies. These are just from Day 1


Day 2

The young pharmacist of the year went out to an ex-S.I.T student ( a senior, few years ahead from me). Its a prestigious award and I'm very proud that a Malaysian won the title. Congratulations, VM!


Ain't going back without having my dose of Boost Juice.

Yummy Mango magic mantra smoothie!



Next on my agenda:

Work work work (oh joy!)

Dinner @ Chinese next week ( I've passed my oral exam!)

and then early Christmas dinner in two weeks time (yay!)