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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

UCSIUPSS Team Building Camp

From last friday till yesterday, which is Monday, the pharmacy society of UCSI University organised a team building camp to Nur Lembah Pangsun Eco Resort. The total participants are around 50+ and if include the committee, there will be around 70+ people attending this camp. Getting to mix around with the juniors, especially the year 1 and year 2 really makes me feel like I am getting old. Haha. Please bare with me as I have not taken any picture during the camp. Waiting for nice pictures from the committee then I will upload the picture here for everyone to view.
I arrived at UCSI University at about 9am and go for registration.There I met with Ivan and some of the familiar Year 2 Juniors. The camping trip start at the UCSI U lobby with icebreaking. Each of the Year 4 seniors are divided into 8 groups, 1 each. I was being assigned to Group 2, with 2 Yr 2 juniors and 4 Yr 1 juniors. Seem like I'm bullied here as I was being selected to be the group leader. Each of the group are required to come out with a group name and a group chant. SO, my group members decided to name our group as 'Fantastic 7'. WHY? Because there are 7 members in my groups and we feel that we are very fantastic.
After lunch, we depart to Nur Lembah Pangsun Eco Resort at 12.30pm. On arrival, the sky started to rain and we all gather at the office. The juniors on the other hand, all stay at the badminton court which have a big tent for them to take cover. We all have to wait until 3smt before we were allowed to check into our dormitory. When the rain start to get small, we all follow the committe to the so called 'Dewan' to gather and some briefing regarding the camp and activities.
At 4pm, the 1st activity of the camp was flying fox and follow by station game. The flying fox was not as exciting as last time during the NOGAPS while for the station game, it was very tiring as we have to compete with the other team who was also at the same station. A tournement like station game. Dinner was served at 6.30pm. After dinner, treasure hunt was the activity of the night. Again, running was expected. When we wanna get the 8th clue, we found out that the treasure had been found. What a luck. Haha. After treasure hunt, briefing on the second day activities was done at the Dewan before everyone was allow to go back to the dormitory for rest and light off. Since the light off was at 12 pm, me, JY, MF, KZY and few juniors decided to play Big 2 to spend out time.
On the next day, jungle trekking was the 1st activity. 2 hours hiking for going and coming back from the jungle. We did not get the chance to go to the water fall as 35 minutes is needed to reach the waterfall from checkpoint 2. So, due to time constrain and safety reason, we did not continue our journey there. Checkpoint 2 was our final destination before turning around to go back to the camp site. At 11am, Ms Penny visited us to give us an experience sharing of her student and working experience. Various questions were asked. Indeed it was very interesting story for us to listen to. Since the time is still early, Joanne and Rajes were invited by Ms Penny to give their experience sharing of their experience during HKL clerkship. It Seang and Han Boon also visited us. After our lunch, every participant went back to the dormitory for a change of cloth of the next activity in the afternoon, which is abscailing. For the Yr 4 seniors, we all sat at the cafeteria and chit-chat with Ms Penny. She even bought us and the committe ice-cream. Very thanks to her.
During abscailing, it was the first time I do so. Being a first-timer, I do fall a couple of times before I manage to get a 'hang' of it and manage to abscail a 5 metre cliff. What an experience for me besides getting dity. Ms Penny, It Seang and Han Boon left us during our abscailing activity. After abscailing, the next activity was team-building. Indeed, teamwork is necessary for us to complete every task given to us. Since the second night will have camp-fire, each of the team were required to do a 10 minutes performance to entertain everyone. So, right after the team-building activity, me and my team-mate start brain-storming on what to do during the campfire and we all decided to go with sketch or drama. A little practise and some changes, we manage to get the drama a very joyous one.
After dinner, we all start practising again before the real event start. Since there was mark given, we all would try our best to get as much mark as possible. Campfire was a bit boring but we all get a good laugh during the games played the camp fire. One of the games was conveying message from one person to the next person, ensuring the last person in the line get the same message as the first person. In the end, from "I know that you know that I know that you know who was bathing naked in the toilet today" become " I know that you know that I know that you know who was bathing in the toilet today". The 'naked' had been censored out. Haha.
When the camp fire started to get smaller, we all headed back to the Dewan where we all start the performance session. Everyone was laughing non-stop, seeing the funny drama, listening to funny song and fashion show. Very happy moment during the night. After the performance, we all headed back to our dormitory for rest. Since it was the last nite here at the camp, everyone seem tired and sleep quite early. The senior, on the other hand, start to play Big 2 again until 12 something before we all get a shut eye.
On the last day, the only activity was rock climbing. Even though I had done it before during my Genting Trip, I could not get myself very high. Haha. But it was a nice experience indeed. After the rock climbing, the yr 4 senior all when to the Dewan to rest and play Big 2 again while waiting for everyone to come for the prize giving ceremony. Even though my team did not win, I am happy that I am happy that I get to kmow some of the juniors. Haha. Some of the juniors are 1st time joining such camp and I do hope that they do enjoy themselves. For me, since I have joined several camping before, I do not face any difficulty adjusting to the life during camping.
This morning when I wake up, I could feel the pain in my muscle. Well, everyone will sure have muscle pain every camping. I felt no regret in joining this camp as I got to know many people. However, I have a dateline to meet as I need to submit my corrected dissertation on Wednesday or Thursday. Hope I can make it in time and at the same time enjoy my holiday and also my part time job.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Research Project

The whole June holiday I was in the lab doing my project with 1 week of break due to SUPP exam. Haiz. Holiday is coming to an end very soon and I still have not even take a glimpse of how beauty is the holiday. 6th of July will be the beginning of new semester and I myself not sure whether I will be able to proceed to the 4th year as the SUPP exam result have not been released.

Back to the topic, my title of research project is Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Selected Botanicals. The title seem very bombastic but yet simple. But here is the twist, it involve a lot of pipetting and analysis and long waiting time for extraction and concentration. I still remember when I 1st started the lab work, I was completely blur as I do not know what I'm suppose to do. After a long tedious day, when I sit in front of the laptop, i suddenly felt the pain at my back.Wah, I have low back pain. Haha. very tiring.

My 1st week of lab is filled with extraction, while 2nd week i did extraction as well as concentration. 3rd week and 4th week is an off week coz I needed a break to study for SUPP. Now is the 5th and last week of my holiday and I can see some bright light ahead of me. I need one more day to complete my analysis and then will be followed by writting the report. Time is running short for me as i need to do presentation of my result on the 3rd week of semester.

As new semester gonna start, the 2nd year junior which going to be 3rd year soon, will now at a fork road as they need to decide whether to take the research project or not. This time, they offering 7 topics if not mistaken with addition of Dr Loga, Mr Fatokun and Mr Lee, a new PA lecturer while mr Lokesh not offering any topic. I heard from Kevin that there will be 2 new lecturers in Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, one is Mr Lee who is going to teach Pharmaceutical Analysis while another one is Mr Ganesh(not sure) who is going to teach Dispensing and Compounding.

Some of the juniors approached me and ask me questions regarding the research projects. The pros and cons of taking it as well. My piece of advice is, take it if you are really interested in and also if wanna further your studies in the future. Or like me who are not sure of what I'm going to do after I graduated. Haha. the cons is that you need to sacrifice your time for it. Really as a lot of time is needed for it.

I hope that tomolo will be the last day for my lab work in doing analysis of my extraction while thursday will be a cleaning day. I do hope that my results are good enough in the sense that they are good.hehe. Yesterday and today have been analyse 180 test tubes each day. Wah, imagine that. Maybe I shud take some picture tomorrow.haha.