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I'm back I'm back hehe.

So what have I been up to for the past month that I disappeared?

Lets see,

I changed to a new department, Ward Supply. Basically my role as a pharmacist here is to supply medications to patients in the ward. My main role is to screen all the prescriptions written by the doctors, ensuring the doses, medications, indications are right before supplying the medication to the patients.

So I just sit there and screen and screen and screen whole day long. And I can't believe I'm saying this but I finally found a department that I LIKE! Like genuinely like it from the bottom of my heart.

All the previous department before this, one I was just neutral with it, the other I hated it like mad. But this, I love!! I am feeling super sad that tomorrow will be my LAST day in this department, yeapp one month gone by just like that.

I'm gonna miss the work environment here. So free, so chill, so happy. Everyone does their job but the atmosphere is just so happy!! Like we laugh like mad all the time, we make jokes all the time, but at the same time, get all the work done properly. Both my bosses are super nice and funny. I never thought I would love a department but yeah I guess the main reason that made me love this place is the people who runs the place.

Anyway, I can finally say I'M SUPER DONE WITH TDM. NO MORE TDM FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I can burn all my notes noww!!! Remember I said in my previous post bout how I hate the TDM department? I was on call for a whole week. Basically means that I had to standby 24hours for 7 days straight, to receive any calls for any toxicity cases from the hospital and I have to rush back to the hospital within 10 minutes to handle the case.

I only encountered ONE toxic case throughout my 7 days. Considered lucky d lo. Got called back at 10pm and by the time I was done with the case, it was midnight. I still had to go to work the next day at 8am. It was one of my toughest week ever but I'm so glad I made it thru.

Other than that one toxic case, I had many many many calls during that whole week. Was woken up at 4.30am by a phone call telling me that a patient is fitting in the emergency department, which I cleverly postpone the case till the next morning. And my damn phone rang every single hour on a public holiday I was getting super pissed and cranky because the doctors wouldn't even let me sleep in peace urghhhhhh T.T

At that time, the sound of my phone ringing was seriously hell to me. Like I was super phobia everytime my phone rings. HAHA but now I'm done. Bye bye TDM. Thank god I did not kill any patients during that one week :P


So, back to outpatient department in a day time and I'm super not looking forward to that. 4 months in, 8 months to go. Time really do pass real fast here. I just want to get back home to Selangor. Please time, pass faster!!

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Anyway updates on other stuffs other than work related :P

(All pictures unedited because I do not have the time to edit each and every single picture anymore sigh)

Mostly updates when I was back in Subang. I only get to go back twice a month so I really really appreciate every single minute that I am home. Home is where the heart is. Its where everyone and everything seems so familiar :)

So when I was back, I decided to treat the good friend to an awesome japanese meal since I just had my first pay. :D Hehe he was waiting for it for like 4.5 years ? :p and so I told him, eat all you want, dont have to save money for me hahaa. Want to treat people cannot so kiam right :P

*Randomly walked around Gardens and came across this Japanese restaurant*

*Salmon sashimi salad*

*Soft Shell Crab roll*

*Salmon Steak*

*Unagi set*

This was the bomb!! TOOOO awesomeeee seriously!!

All of that for us two to share and the bill came up to haha not a small amount but it was a good meal and I owed him since ages so I'm not complaining :P

*Our mandatory selfie picture :P*

 Friends of 7 years :D Am always grateful to have him in my life!! I know I can count on him anytime. Just one sentence that I am having a bad day and he would be one of the first to call me just to listen to me rage everything out at him so that I would feel better after. Even though he makes me angry all the time, he has his ways to pujuk me again LOL. And I know anything and everything I want, he will try his best to find it for me :D Feel so blessed to have such a good friend like him!!


After we were done with dinner, I told him I was craving to try the new Green Tea place, Nana's Green Tea. And since it was at the same place, he decided to treat me to my dessert since I treated him dinner hehe. But when we reached there, the place was about to close so they only allowed takeouts which we did anyway.

 Doesn't look too good here but it was satisfying yumm yumm!! Took it to the car and had our feast there. I had 2nd round later with the bf and his gang at Snowflakes :P Haha told you I value every single minute second spend back home!!




One weekend that I was working and couldnt go back home, darling came over to Ipoh and we had a short mini one day trip to Penang!

The journey up took us about 1.5 hours only!! Didn't know Penang was so near Ipoh haha. Definitely will be traveling there more often when we get bored of hanging around in Ipoh.

One of my main reason of going to Penang was to meet up with the ex Monash mates. So glad to be able to catch up with them and gossip non stop :)

*Crossing the Penang Bridge*

*First stop, my favorite cafe in Penang, China House!!*

Super love the cakes and coffee there!! :D

*And my favorite Assam Laksa at Kafe Joo Hooi*

*And lastly, my MOST MISSED Uncle Siam Char Kuey Teow!!

I've mentioned about this place many many times in my blog so yeah the main reason for going to Penang is to have this awesome plate of CKT HEHEHE

SUPER SATISFYING!!!!

Was back in Ipoh at night because I had work the next morning at 8 am. Haha I know I'm so energetic :P But anyway I wasnt the one driving also. I had a personal chauffeur, the bf :P Thanks dearie for driving me all the way to Penang just so that I could catch up with my friends and made u sit there and listen to our boring gossips :P


The next weekend that I was back, I told Hou to think of a dinner place to bring me, and since my train from Ipoh stops at KL Sentral, he said why not we go over to Petaling Street to hunt for food. And I was like okay not a bad idea. So a day before I came back, I started researching on any nice food around Petaling Street.

When I arrived, I told darling I needed a toilet badly before we go to Petaling Street. Told him to stop at a nearby petrol station, and he said 'dont worry the place we going to will have super nice toilet for you'

Me: 'Huh we not going Petaling Street meh?? Where got toilet there??'

'nope, we are not going Petaling Street. That one is to con you one. We go to 5 star hotel eat dinner, because we very long never celebrate our Monthsary d.'

I was like 'WHAT?? Why now only u tell me?? I wearing so ugly!! U should tell me earlier so I can at least dress nicer right??'

He said 'you look perfectly fine :)'

Awww so sweet of him :D

He brought me to The Westin KL. Our dinner place was at an Italian Restaurant, Prego.

*Open concept kitchen* 

Nice environment, top service from the staffs :)

*Our complimentary bread with lots of dippings.*

*Risotto*

My first time trying risotto. I am not a risotto kind of person because I dont fancy soggy rice but this was super nice!!!

*4 cheese pizza*

Also ordered our most expensive 'sparkling water' which cost us rm30 for a bottle. FML. Haha Hou said 'want to come to this type of place, cannot so kiam. just drink lol'.

Thanks darling for the awesome meal!!

The next morning, we had our usual date outing :D More like him bringing me to do whatever that I miss doing. 

Like shopping in Pyramid!! Seriously Pyramid is heaven k!! Big shopping malls in Ipoh does not exist. Only small ones like Ipoh Parade and the rest are Aeon T.T So sad k. No H&M, Kitschen, Nichii, Forever 21. Nothing here!!!

So when I'm back, I definitely have to go shopping hehe.

Shopping and coffee is my perfect day out :D

*Having my favorite coffee at Coffea Coffee* :D

 Dinner that day was with CX, Aileen and YY. It was my idea because I wanted to try a korean BBQ buffet restaurant so badly and if its only me and Hou, it will be quite sad right eating buffet two person. So I made Hou ajak CX and Aileen for a double date and YY decided to join and become the lamp post. HAHA


Name of the Restaurant: Ssikkek Korean Grill BBQ Buffet.

Overall, it was a good dining experience. Food was not too bad. There were a few hits and misses. Super good service, and hygiene too!! The staffs will keep changing our grill plate everytime it turns black. I would definitely be a returning customer! :D

The next day, was meeting up with the Monash peeps who were back for the weekend. Its not always that we all get to come back together so we really make the effort to meet up even though everyone was super busy with meeting up with everyone else.

 Met up at dai lou's restaurant because they were craving for salmon belly yummsss :P

*Makeup, look of the day*

 *Ordered my triple salmon, as usual :P*

Salmon Sashimi, Grilled Salmon, and Deep Fried Salmon. YUMSS

*Unagi Roll*

And my all time favorite Aburi Sake.!!!

 *Miss the girls so much!! I super miss Uni life la!!*

Coffee break after that at a cafe that I was dying to visit but failed numerous time because the first time I went there, it was closed, the 2nd time there was a function happening. So I swore to god if I go back there again and its close again, I will never ever return anymore. 

Haha thank god it was open on my 3rd visit there.

Good Friends Cafe @ ss15. Good coffee, cheap food. 

*Artistic shot taken by Hou lol. And he was very proud of it haha*

*Iced Salted Caramel Coffee! Awesome!!*

*Baked eggs with toast.*

Just sat there and chill and laugh and tease each other. Our favorite pastime. Haha :P

Next day, was dinner with his family at my favorite japanese restaurant, Senjyu @ eCurve. It is still one of my favorite restaurant after sooo long. And also his family favorite too. Muahaha I got both his parents addicted to this restaurant and their salmon sashimi okay :P

YOU CAN DROOL NOW MUAHAHAHA

Ate super alot that day. And at the end of the meal, I quietly stood up and paid the bill. My treat for his family since I had my first pay. And because his parents always treat me to soooooo much good food all the time, and always bring me for free holidays :P

The bill wasnt cheap at all. Like omg wtf ofcourse so expensive la, considering the amount of salmon belly sashimi we ordered.

Last weekend, I took half day off on Friday and also one full day off the following Monday to have a long weekend back at Subang. All I wanted to do was rest and sleep and eat. And that was exactly what I did hehe.

Super relaxing break after the long hectic month at work.

Met up with sis who was back from Melbourne and I treated her and Lincoln to an awesome lunch of pork ribs muahahha. 

 *Makeup and selfie of the day :)*

*Such a cute naughty name that stands out*

*Signature dirty duck*

*Full slab of pork ribs to share. Obviously it wasn't enough hahaha.*

Ok I realized all my updates are just about food pictures. 

I always end up eating non stop when I go back to Subang because I'm like super food deprived in Ipoh. I know you all will be saying 'isnt ipoh like a food haven??'.

Haha yes, for hawker food. But not other types of cuisine. Like japanese, korean, western. Nothing here lorrr :( 

Even though I've been eating like super duper alot, I lost weight ok!! Best thing that ever happened to me since I came here. 

The stress, and me not having much to eat here, and abit of dieting everyday. Everyone saw the difference when I went back!! Haha and I'm also damn sure that I'm thinner d lor!! So happy when people commented that I become slimmer d hahahahha :P

Ok I guess I should stop here.

Thats all for now. Cant go back for two weekends straight because I have oncalls during the weekends!! So sadddddddddd.

Till next time,

-mun-

Btw, I fking hate my new department. FML la. Why cant they just let me stay in ward supply and let me live there happily ever after.. Confirm lose weight again one after this month. So much stress urghhh..

Sad life of a PRP

Omg. Didn't realize that I abandon this blog for such a long time already until Hou reminded me that it has been a long time since I last updated my blog.

At the start of my PRP life, I wanted to blog more often, so that I will be able to read back a year from now and remind myself of how far I've went, and also for me to remember all the bittersweet memories in this hospital.

But I guess I failed miserably. Working life is tough! Not so easy, not so much time to blog anymore. Since starting in this new department (Therapeutic Drug Monitoring) 3 weeks ago, my life has been nothing but busy busy busy.

I usually do not get to go home on time. Not even once I've managed to leave work and punch my card out at 5 pm sharp. If I'm lucky I'll probably get to punch out by 5.30pm, most days its always 6pm or the latest I've tried was 8pm.

And by the time I get back home, done eating my dinner, I will be super exhausted that all I want to do this take a nap and after my nap, I wake up to bath, and study for my counseling assessment test before sleeping at 11pm. Super healthy lifestyle now sleeping so early every night. Seems like my body cant last longer than 11pm any longer. It's either I'm getting old or work has been really tough on me :(

At the beginning, during the first week at TDM, i HATED it. Hated it soo sooo much. I wish god would just kill me. I dread going to work everyday. It was so tiring, needing to go up to the wards at least 3 times a day, clerking cases, and dispatching results. And when I'm not at the wards, I'll be stuck in the small room, working my brain cells out, interpreting patients results and giving recommendation on what to do next.

But now, 3 weeks in, I can say that I finally mastered this department. I can now clerk 10 cases in an hour when previously it took me 1.5 hours for 4 cases? LOL. And I can interpret results and recommend new doses within minutes :P And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I am beginning to like this department, obviously cause I've mastered it.

I only have 1 week left in this place before switching to a new department next month and the horror starts all over again!! New department, blur me, lots to learn from scratch again. Sigh life of a sad PRP.

On a bright side,  2 months in, 10 months to go.

10 months before I can call myself a fully registered pharmacist.

Been dreaming for that day since Day 1 that I stepped into this place =/

Will be back with more updates plus pictures when I have the time.

Ciaoz for now!

-mun-

Mentally exhausted

Can't believe I started work for a month ONLY, it felt like a year already. Oh my, how am I going to get through this??!

But on the bright side, YAY to one month down, 11 more months to go. I can do this. Jia you jia you!!

Stress level is like almost reaching the maximum already. Sigh, life of working in the 3rd biggest hospital in Peninsular Malaysia.

Every weekday, all I look forward to are the weekends, because that's when Hou will be coming over. Yes the bf had been coming over every single week without fail. I know I'm too dependent on him, and yes I will slowly learn to adapt to my life here and not always ask him to come over when the weekends are here.

And this week will be the first weekend that he wont be coming here! Haha lets see what I will do then :P


Anyway, like I was saying, I love weekends because I get to see Hou, and we get our 'paktor' days back. :)

He usually comes on Friday, right after work, and our normal Friday night dinner dates would be the same, like what we've been doing for the past 3 years, no matter whether it's in Ipoh or Subang :)


This was 2 weeks ago dinner date :)

Our initial plan was to try our Sushi Zento, which is the same restaurant as Edo Ichi, in First Subang Mall in ss15. Then while we were parking our car, we stumbled upon this Korean restaurant which was 'Uncle Jang' lookalike, and darling was craving for Uncle Jang since the week before so we randomly changed our plans on the spot and walked in to this restaurant instead.

It was good!! As good as Uncle Jang, and the plus point was it wasn't as spicy as Uncle Jang until it gets torturing. The level of spiciness was just right!!

Will definitely come back for more. And it's so near my house only!! Like 3 minutes away by car. I'm lucky to be staying in such a convenient area k.

3 petrol stations outside my house. Giant, Tesco and Aeon, all 5 minutes drive away. And lots of awesome food like 5 minutes drive away also!!

After dinner, we randomly passed by Haagen Dazs shop and I said 'why you never bring me eat expensive ice cream before one? I so sad, no one cheng me eat Haagen Dazs before :('

And so the next minute, Hou was parking his car and saying 'come lets go eat Haagen Dazs'. HEHE ;D

Me is a happy girl :D 

At first I wanted to choose 2 scoops of ice cream only, then I stood there so long, looking at all the flavors, cannot make up my mind, so the bf being so generous, asked me to take the 6 scoops one, so that I can choose whatever flavor I want. YIPPPIE YAY!!!! Thank you darling :D So much for trying to save money hahahaha.

And so I chose salted caramel (duh, my favorite of all!!), green tea, tiramisu, cookies and cream, mango sorbet and macadamia nuts.

My first love with Haagen Dazs hehe :D


Called it a night after that. Headed home cause I was working the next day. Yes sad life I have ok, working on a Saturday. Thank god I only start work at 1pm, so it isnt so bad la..


Next morning, we had late brunch at my favorite Dim sum shop. My colleagues brought me here earlier and I super love the dim sum there. So much better than the 'already so famous and sucky Foh San'.

Haha so definitely had to bring Hou to try la!! And he also said it was good!! Super lovee!!

*We ordered more than these, but because I was rushing to work, I stopped taking pictures of the others :P*

 
Sunday lunch was none other than the Famous Ipoh Nga Choi Gai!

Honestly, I feel that the standard dropped super alot!! Like it used to be nice, but the last 2 times that I ate it, it was totally 'nothing to shout about'. But since Hou was craving for it like crazy, so ok fine, teman him eat.

Chose Lou Wong over Onn Kee because the last one I had was Onn Kee and it was quite bad.

 One thing for sure, I super love their Nga Choi! So fat and juicy!!

 Btw, that day, the chicken wasn't so bad. In fact, it was quite good. So yeah, I guess I see myself returning some other time if I'm craving for it!!



Last week, to celebrate my '1 month of working', we decided to have a good dinner since it had been such a LONG time since I last took the effort to put on makeup and dress up. Hehe

I did the research on where to eat as usual, and Hou was the driver plus the 'bill-payer'. Haha can't find the correct word to use :P

I was craving for good steaks, so I just randomly googled 'Best steak in Ipoh'. And voila, only one restaurant kept popping up!! And good news is.....................................

Jeng jeng jeng.... They have a branch in Damansara!!! And both reviews, the ipoh and damansara ones are damn good. So definitely I had to try it out for myself, since the Ipoh branch is the 'original one'. LOL

Name of the restaurant: Maria's Steakhouse :)

*OOTD*

 *Oxtail soup*

RM19.90 for this small bowl

My first time trying oxtail soup and it was so good! The meat was soooo tender that it just comes off the bone so easily with each bite.

At first, I didn't want to try oxtail soup cause darling kept lying to me and saying that oxtail is actually the dick of a cow. Yeah, I believed that. I believe everything anyone tells me one lor :(
So I was like wtf no way im eating it.

Then when I was researching bout this restaurant, everyone was saying how awesome the oxtail soup was. So I decided to google 'define oxtail' and turns out its the meat from the tail of a cow. I was like wtf?! How did I even believe that its the dick when the word TAIL is clearly there. LOL LOL I feel so stupid now ahahaha

Ok enough of my oxtail story haha. Getting carried away.

*Hou ordered their Chicken Parmigiana*

And me me me, I got to eat my steak!! Australian Black Angus Steak, priced at rm48/100gram.

And our steak cost us rm99!! Wtf so small but it was sooooo SOOO sooo sooo sooo good. Ok definitely one of the best steak I've ever eaten. Cause not like I always eat steak la, so haha yeah. Go and try and judge for yourself!

 *Cooked perfectly medium* :D YUMS YUMS

 *US* :)

 *Ending our wonderful meal with Carrot Walnut Cake. Soooo goood!!*

Thanks for the awesome dinner darling!!! Sorry for making you even more broke haha. But promise promise, we will be back for the Wagyu!! And the next time, it will be MY treat! My first pay, I will splurge it on you hehehehe :P


Next stop after dinner was my ALL TIME FAVORITE!! Cant believe I found it here, so far away from Subang. Oh my, I almost cried tears of joy when I spotted it for the first time :P

 *YES, ITS GONGCHA, IN IPOH OHMYGOD*

 Hehe, everyone knows I super love gongcha!! Its like a must to drink every week. Whenever we are in Subang and when we go yamcha with the guys, and they cant decide where to go, then I will quickly suggest Gongcha! HAHAHA. Even they can read me inside out knowing that I will definitely choose Gongcha :P


Went strolling around Kinta Waterfront, to see the pretty lights after having our small yamcha session in Gongcha.

*So pwetty horrrrr :D*

 It was a good night. Feels good to be able to do what we usually do every Friday nights, even when we're so far away from Subang. Everything just feels the same, nothing changed, and I love it :)

Darling stayed on till Tuesday and so we had more food adventures together. Hehe sooo happy that I managed to persuade him to stay longer and take a day off work :P

I was working on Monday, and the best bf in the world woke up at 7am despite having slept at 4.30am only, to send me to work. Awww felt so hang fook :))))

And all the time during work, I was waiting and waiting for lunch time to come because the bf was coming over to have lunch with me!! Hehee first time, someone waiting to pick me up for lunch. So happy!!

You see, I told him, I'm very easily satisfied, Just small stuffs like these can make me super duper happy!!! :DD

And after lunch, he dropped me off at work, and took my car for a wash :D Where to find this kind of bf???!

And after work, someone to pick me up for dinner :) 

I just wished he can stay here with me forever :( Then life would be perfect sigh....

Dinner at a restaurant near my house.

*Their signature Curry Assam Cod Fish*

*Salted Egg Chicken*

*Paku-pakis Thai Style*

Super love all the dishes and we will definitely be back to try the other dishes on the menu!!!

Since Tuesday was a public holiday, and I did not need to work, we had the whole day to ourselves wheeee :D

For lunch, Hou took me to the so called 'famous' Yong Tau Foo.

But seriously, nahhhhh, totally not up to my standards. I'll just stick to Puchong YTF.

*My favorite Ai Gua and it failed to impress me. :(*

Right after lunch, we went for yamcha! Literally drink tea :P

Its called 'Somethings Brewing' cafe.

And they have a HUGE selection of teas!! Like so soooo many!!

 *Ordered the Chocolate Chai and Peach White Tea*

Rm8.90 per pot

Unique taste I would say, price also reasonable.

But but I bu shuang one thing is, they didnt allow me to sit on the couch seats when I requested because apparently thats for 'bigger groups', while there were only 2 of us.

Hello!! If the place is busy and full, then ok la fine I understand. But that time it was SUPER empty, like only one table was occupied. Practically empty except for one customer, so why cant we take the couch seats??!! GRRRR ANGRY!! 

So will I be coming back for more? Not for the time being, but maybe when I crave some unique tea. But most of the time, I only crave for coffee, not tea hahaha.

Anyway, after yamcha, it was time to bid goodbye to Hou. So so sad :( And I cant see him this weekend too, cause its stupid to just go home for 2 days and appear in Ipoh again. So ya lets see what I will do for this weekend :)

For now, ciaoz

-mun-