Saturday, December 15, 2007

Xperience Pharmacy Camp!

woah. i sort of regretted saying that i don't wanna go for the camp!
it was really very very damn fun!
(minus some talks probably...)

alrights, now i am feeling really guilty that i missed some talks due to my short attention span
and also my lousy ability to keep my eyes open.
talks refer to talks by mostly external speakers and not those lectures given by the NUS students themselves.
i find the lectures and practicals really interesting! (:

Day 1
raining day.
and foul mood.
was waiting for bus 95 at the bus stop with a bunch of JC kids in school uniform.
(i am officially not a JC kid anymore! *grins!)
unwillingly, i left da snoopy at home,
'cause he doesn't want to get in the rain.
=(
dreading the 3 long days without snoopy.
finally reached NUS.
again we waited for registration and stuff.
to wait is a chore.
but i am glad that jiawei, stef, liyong and kesleen were there.
haha. at least there is "entertainment".
when we finally joined our group, OG 12- ketoconazole,
kes and i were thinking, oh man we are like the only J2s there!
how?!
and all the rest were from the top top schools in singapore.
they are like the elites!
HCI, NJ, VJ etc.
tsk tsk tsk. TJ is like so insignificant?
ah.. whatever!
the project coordinator kept n emphasising that this is an educational camp!
and my mindset was - this is gonna be a fun camp!
first the introduction, it was so boring?
i ended up talking to kesleen.
and from where i was, i saw liyong talking to her og mates too.
she was like talking excessively!
i have to stress that liyong is being too talkative during this whole camp!
she has caught the phebe disease. (her voice was extremely audible.)
then, some lectures on acne and sun protection.
it a rather interesting.
and the lecturer, Amanda, who is one of the ogl was very funny!
it was her sense of humour that kept me awake throughout the whole lecture!
after that, we were exposed to Practicals!
i love practicals!
we made calamine lotion and some Menthol and Eucalyptus Inhalation.
the Eucalyptus oil really stinks!
and its like oily and stinky.
yucks!

calamine lotion.
yes its poison.
not 'cause i am lousy.
but the ingredients are expiring soon or close to expiry date!

the Menthol and Eucalyptus Inhalation.
not to be taken.
its meant for inhalation only.
but don't try inhaling.
personally, i think it stinks!
haha.

my lab-bench mates.

kes working seriously.

me working quite seriously too.

required mass was 1.250g and 0.500g.
and i really got it!
kes can be my witness.
but everytime i tried to take a picture of it, the mass changed!
ahh!
but my point is, i am very accurate!
(:

here comes the most fun part of the day!!
haha. Human Game of Life!
i think it was until this game then i started liking my group!
OG 12 really can play madly!
and our group got the best of everything that we could get in the game.
our strategy works! (erm, do we have one in the first place?)

shoulder to butt!
ahh! its somewhat like speak of the devil la.
before our turn, kes and i were trying out shoulder to butt, and we really got it.
we were very fast!
too fast for the shutter to capture!
haha!

kes distributing the plastic bags for water bombs!

i think our group is damn good at it!
it was prefect toss after prefect toss!
so cool!

discussion and strategy time! (:

the mo qi game.
kes and i were supposed to be the head and tail respectively.
'cause we are seen by our group as the most got mo qi ones.
and we are sadly also known as the siao zha bos, by salyonn and amanda.
thanks ah...
):

finally! end of game!
our group photo!
i think grace(our ogl) was great!
very encouraging and sporting!

kes and i after the game.
sweaty and tired.
ugly picture.
but still, its marvellous yet pitiful.

came across this really interesting picture when browsing through the photos.

liyong kissing a soccer ball!
haha!

finally, checked into our hostel.
only one single bed.
played scissors paper stone with kes.
and loser get the bed. haiya, and i won.

after bathing went over to jw, ly, and stef's hostel.
we intended to go to the 7 eleven, which we thought was quite near.
we asked a stranger who told us that it is a 30minutes walk!
and volunteered to bring us to the prata shop instead, which was around 290minutes walk.
haha. lazy us didn't want to walk. so we continued roaming around the place.
met ah boon(seng han).
dunno why we started calling him ah boon,
'cause we all thought that he has that boon face.
but ah boon also dunno where the 7eleven is.
so we got his number and continued roaming around.
kes finally called grace to ask and we were damn glad that she was at 7eleven!
yeah! supper finally arrived at 1plus.
although there was no mee sua ):
liyong where is the mee sua that you promised to cook for me!!!
it was still a happy eating and chit-chatting session!
jiawei fell asleep first. she found her comfortable position and zzzz...
so kes and i left for our own room at around 5plus.
and coughed to bed at around 6. ):
the floor was really hard and uncomfortable.


Day 2
woke up quite late.
had a morning call from liyong.
yawns*
woke up reluctantly and i had a difficult time waking kes up!
she mistook me for mj!
haiyo...tsk tsk tsk...since when did i grow that tall la!
cheesecake and ovaltine for breakfast.
shared cheesecake with kes.
and stef took a mouthful of cheesecake from my half eaten piece!
oh gosh. i spread the germs to her.
she is infected with my cough on the third day.

first thing n the morning was lecture.
Diarrhoea, dandruff and Constipation
my group was like trying damn hard to keep awake.

my group.
the first and second row.
or those rows with coffee(:
our ogl bought the coffee for us!
haha. to keep us awake! they are damn nice la.
yeah, i really did managed to pay attention throughout the whole lecture!

yueting and ben role play.



ben and i role play.
i am supposed to act constipated.
i guess i didn't look very much constipated la hor?
thanks la, i was being sabotaged!
and kes is so much suited for the role la. she was really constipated.
:P
after that, movie screening.
Constant Gardener.
i spent half the time sleeping.
didn't really catch the storyline.
among the five of us, jiawei was like in z cube land throughout the whole movie!
i wonder how did she managed to find that comfortable position in the not-so-comfortable chair.
anyway, that sleep was good.i felt much better after the sleep.

then came lunch.
not delicious.
haha.
after lunch, retail and hospital pharmacy talk.

that is kes and i in the almost last row.
we are always sitting at the last few rows when it comes to talks.
see, we were not asleep.
wide awake, listening.
*grins* yeah right. haha.

after the talk was the visit to IMM Guardian.
its so unfair la.
other groups get to go to places like SGH and AH.
and my group got Guardian!
it wasn't that bad though 'cause we get to shop!
haha! shopping was good!
shopped at giant.
we bought tibits, presents for our ogl, and also a bottle of conditioner.
the visit to guardian was really quite short.
quite informative.
then, went to shop around IMM for a while.
i saw this really nice adidas shorts, which is the same color scheme as my jacket!
damn nice la (:
i want!!!
but after some serious though, its not worth it la. ):

and back to NUS!
buffet dinner!
delicious tofu and broccoli!

and night games!
Human Cluedo!
at the number of hands and legs station:

think think think...

slacking...

pumping position down!

alright, this is good stay in this pumping position.

haha.
poor them.
what a tiring position!!!

high five yueting!
(click to enlarge!)

oops.
wrong wrong.
hands on the ground. no high five please!

at the end of 9 stations, we were shacked.
was pretty scared by the three corpses at the mortuary.
the eyes were frightening!
and also the maria station.
luckily she was our ogl and she was kind enough to not scare us too much!

our ghostly ogl grace.

the bangladeshi worker.
he is a damn good actor la!

Mr Qi Goh Pek.
who is also the pervert!
haha.
i would not say that he is good in acting but hmm...
he is naturally like that!
haha.

then, back to hostel again.
our og booked the tv room, ordered mac and played games there.
we played bluff. it has been such a long time since i last played bluff.
and asshole dai di during dinner was fabulous!
we were like damn excited la!
in conclusion, ketoconazole is a crazy and highly enthusiastic og!

jiawei, stef and liyong joined us in our hostel that night.
we chatted.
played truth and truth.
it was wow!
hmm. pretty interesting.
yawns. went to bed at around 6am.
haiya. feeling rather sad that we did not join our og in the games!
heard that they played really fun games like sabotege?
ahhh..we missed the fun!!

Day 3
prata for breakfast!
yummy!
but it was bad for the cough.
and with my og mates stressing me when i am eating!
ahh!! i gave up the half eaten prata, i really wanted to finish it la!
off we went for some super duper boring talk.
took a shuttle bus there.



cam whoring in shuttle bus.
non-photoshopped.
with all the eye bags and dark eye circles.
sleepy eyes.
bad picture.
went for some super duper boring talk.
or probably because we were sleepy!
haha.

caught her sleeping red handed!
but she is not the worse.
she was on screensaver mode,
Salyonn was hibernating,
Amanda was on standby mode,
i shut down totally,
and worst of all...
Jia Wei!! she was totally not operating liao!

Practical was more interesting!

our precious baby lotion.
nicely decorated by salyonn.
very cute right?
baby lotion made by: kes, ee jia, amelia, salyonn and i!

presenting the chio "pharmacists" and their baby lotion.
from left: kes, me, salyonn, amelia and ee jia.
eejia is very shy!

salyonn, kes and i cam whoring in the toilet after the practical!

then, closing speech.
and finally, break camp.
but before that,
my crazy ketoconazole camwhored!
haha!
all the way from 1 to 12!!!

ONE 1!

TWO 2!

THREE 3!

FOUR 4!

FIVE 5!

SIX 6!

SEVEN 7!

EIGHT 8!

NINE 9!

TEN 10!

ELEVEN 11!

and finally
TWELVE 12!
with the "K" for ketoconazole!
haha.
my group rocks to the max!!!
i hate it when its time to bid farewell.
i really wish that i can stay there longer.
what an irony.
on day 1, i wanna go home.
on day3, i don't wanna go home.
haiz.
life is filled with uncertainties.
you never know what will happen next.
so does the end of camp marks the end of ketoconazole bond?
i dunno.
only time will tell.


lastly, all my night chat buddies.
oh ya, and we have names.
me- mar vellous
kes- pi tiful
jiawei- beau tiful
stef- won derful
liyong- scan dalous
notice the spacing? the first word is our sir name, and the last word is our name.
so just call us by our full name!
(:
hehe.

woah finally done!
i took so long to upload and blog about everything!
photos by Alvin the photographer (: