UCSI University Oath Taking Ceremony 2010

This Oath Taking Ceremony is held annually for graduating students from Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (School of Pharmacy), UCSI University. It has been a culture for Pharmacy students from universities all over the world to take the Oath of A Pharmacist before joining the working profession.

In this meaningful event, we were pleased to have Puan Abida Haq, Vice President of the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (MPS) as our Guest of Honour (replacing Datuk Nancy Ho, President of MPS who was on duty).

In the Oath of A Pharmacist, we vow to devote our professional life to the service of all national and international health care communities through the pharmacy profession.

UCSI University Convocation Briefing, 20th July 2010

If you miss the briefing session, no worry. This post will give you exclusive coverage from A-Z for the briefing session held on 20th July 2010 at DeTSAR. However, since I am lacking of sleeping time, I will try to write less as pictures speak thousand of words.

I'm not sure who was the emcee for this briefing session but it wasn't a boring one but instead quite entertaining.

Listen attentively to the briefing session.

Dim Sum @ Kedai Kopi Mee Bon, Jalan Ipoh

2th sis would like to treat us a dim sum, so we woke up early and headed towards Jalan Ipoh which is the nearest dim sum eating place nearby Setapak. 

Thomas Western Food @ Restauran Ong Lay, OUG

OMG! This place has a cheap western food in town!

Won fabulous prizes @ Bangsar World Cup Street Party

Where had you been to watch the recent World Cup? Staying at home? Argg .. didn't you get my invitation to the World Cup Street Party at Telawi 3, Bangsar on my previous post?

Me, Vun and Joshua arrived at about 8.30 pm after safely secure a parking not far away at the nearby neighbourhood. We were actually invited by P1 and in the invitation email except mine, we were told to reach there by 9 pm. We thought we were in time but upon seeing the queue, we were completely worried.

So, we made a queue from the far end near the McDonalds. As we waited half way, we saw almost everyone who came in the queue was bringing an invitation card. Then, we started to be puzzled on how come we do not have one. As the queue was getting nearer, we managed to ask one of the zebra stripe alike (black and white alternate stripes aka referee jersey) on how to enter to the street party. 

We were deeply saddened when she said that only those with invitation card or SMS can enter. Then, we then seek assistance from her superior who said that entry to the public was closed (close to 9 pm that time) due to the high number of turnouts and the street was already packed with party goers.

So, I went to seek assistance from another organiser at the entrance while Vun and Joshua remained at the queue. Initially, the man which I confronted was giving me the same reason and was reluctant to help. Then, I asked him to offer me help by seeking the P1 staff. We only knew the name of the person who invited us but do not have her contact. So, we were a bit helpless. Luckily, that man agreed and helped me searched for P1 staff. Vun and Joshua needed to come over my place as the queue was getting nearer to the main entrance. 

Finally, one P1 male staff came and gave us 3 invitation cards. We actually required 5 invitation cards as Wan Nah and her bf will be coming later at about 11 pm. Then, we asked whether we can straight away enter but the guard at this entrance point said we need to get ourselves the wristband otherwise we cannot enter. So, in another helpless mode, we had to QUEUE UP again!! The queue now was even further from our initial point.   

That P1 staff later came to our queue line together with the person who invited us, Cynthia Chung Li Yar. They apologised for the inconvenience and then gave us another 2 invitation cards. They even borrowed us a pen and told us to fill in the form attached. Anyway, problems had been settled and I we wanted was to successfully entered into the street party and later to decide to stay for how long due to the super pack number of people. At that point of time, we received call from Wan Nah saying that she couldn't come as her bf was sick.    

Applying new MyKad @ JPN Wangsa Maju

Are you planning to make a new identity card?  Well, your application can be done in a minimum of 10 minutes depending on the crowd. 

If you clearly see my IC above, you will notice a hole near the chip. Actually, I don't really bother about the hole but more importantly is my chip. I been through various banks and their chip reader couldn't read my thumb print. It might due to damage to the chip or there is something wrong during my earlier application. I still remembered that my hand was sweating heavily during my earlier application and probably may cause to this unreadable thumb print. 

FYI, this hole was accidentally created during the inspection in the middle of the sea while cruising back from Pulau Redang. It was my first time experience a maritime police check and the hole was created when I tried to insert my IC back to my wallet.

64 K smart chip in our MyKad but how many of you use it for other purposes eg the Touch 'n Go. I wonder when our country will follow the Japanese who uses their identity card and their handphone to pay for parking, to go through LRT station, to buy drinks from machine etc.

Petrol, diesel, sugar and gas price increased starting midnight

Good news to all Malaysian!!

According to Malaysiakini  (Source here), petrol and diesel will increase by 5 cents. The new price for RON 95, RON 97 and diesel are as follow:

1. RON97 = RM2.10 per litre
2. RON95 = RM1.85 per litre
3. Diesel = RM 1.75 per litre

Apart from that,  the price of sugar increase by 25 cents and LPG gas by 10 cents. The new price are as follow:

1. Sugar = RM 1.70 per kilogram
2. LPG gas = RM 1.85 per kilogram

The new gas price are as follow:

1. 14KG cylinders = From RM24.50 to RM25.90 (Increase RM1.40)
2. 12KG cylinders = From RM21.00 to RM22.20 (Increase RM1.20)
3. 10KG cylinders = From RM17.50 to RM18.50 (Increase RM1.00)

Accordingly, PM Najib Tun Razak will announce the good news later in the evening.I would really want to know the reason given. The Government had already ask the rakyat to reduce the consumption of sugar due to rising diabetes and so now what?

Ride bicycle to office?

Tell me tell me WHY!!!

PharmRace @ Taman Jubli Perak

That was me and Kuan Poh after changing to the NOGAPS 2010 T-shirt which has chemical structure rings printed on it. We were required to wear the given T-shirt and a track bottom.

We also brought along the given goodies bag in red which contains a multicolour changeable pen and a note book bearing the word 'NOGAPS 2010'. The organisers must had spent a lot in giving away a lot of freebies to us.