ish...the day is approaching...the day of leaving n loads of crying...leaving my best place in the world-home!!! arrgghg....i hope that i have a magic to pause the time, or just slow down the speed of the time...oh no...i cant i cant...pls stop dreaming...no matter what, i know i have to face the truth one day. im excited but quite worry of what is going to happen in this coming new life...new environment...meeting new ppl...the more i think, the more acnes popping out from my little moon face (this explains what happened to my use-to-be-fair-n-smooth face lately..lol). alrite, the solution is, i've been trying lots of different brands of facial cleaser, from haneko to st.ives to garnier to gerneve to clearasil...to i doono-wat-coming-soon....but the outcome seems disappointing. GOD...pls return me my suisui face...lol
okay, lots of ppl don know about why am i going uk so early, same questions i was asked when i told them that im going to uk on the 22nd of july. so here, the answer is "I'm going for summer placement in a pharmacy!" I was so lucky enough to be offered a job in the Co-operative pharmacy in Nottingham for 4 weeks, yes...4 weeks only! but its better than nothing la rite, at least i can get some experience while earning pounds..wuhaha!! What i wanna emphasize is the location of the placement, it is at Selston, Nottingham road. Alrite...maybe you will think its pretty near since its located in the nottingham, BUT...haha...you are absolutely wrong...after few million times of research on the internet and kacau-ing the seniors...the diagram below summarise how shall i get from my accommodation in Dunkirk, nottingham to my workplace in Selston. Pls have a better look before feeling shock...
the dotted purple line shows the direct route, also the quickest n shortest journey found from Dunkirk, Nottingham to Selston Pharmacy,137 NottinghamRoad,Selston,Nottingham,NG166BT.
it looks just a short distance from the map, BUT...see the truth below, the real transportation route which will take me about 1 hour 15 minutes to get to my destination by doing WALK-BUS-WALK-BUS-WALK activities every morning and evening for total of 4 weeks...except weekends la of cos. i personally recommend everyone
so you know whats the negative side of getting a summer placement, for those who cudnt get, at least u will feel glad after realising that you don need to spend your time and energy looking for accommodation and finding out cheapest and most efficient way to get to your pharmacy...for me, i feel better after knowing that Susan (seniors) travelled to her placement for 45 minutes, at least mine only half an hour more than hers, not very over rite, lol. ohyea, jus for you information, i just found out that the pharmacy that im going is not actually Co-operative pharmacy by its name, but its P William pharmacy, which i suppose/suspect is the sub-company of Co-op's company...haihz...profitable world, as u know Co-op is really a big company which does not only open bussiness on just pharmacy but funeral, foods, insurance, bank....etc...as well...Shock no.2?!! lol...don be surprised...
well...a place far far away, UK is so far away from Malaysia/Australia >_<
also...a place far far away, Selston is so far away from Dunkirk
im finding my way to explore the new challenges awaiting me...im coming no matter how far you are!!!
Monday, 30 June 2008
a place far far away...
Thursday, 5 June 2008
The story of QQ
Now i would like to tell a story about a dog which is so extra-ordinary cute and brilliant. His name is QQ. QQ's breed is mixed poodle. He is very loyal to his master.
QQ on the shoe rack, posing nicely
Three years ago, QQ was rise up by his first owner who is a guy selling drugs (in this case, the drugs stand for illegal drugs such as heroine, marijuana...etc). One day, these drug dealer was caught by the police while he was buying drugs from another drugs manufacturer, and so he was committed as criminal and was put into the jail.
So then QQ was left alone in the criminal's house because no one has ever bother about him but only his owner who has no more freedom. Even the criminal's wife who went to the house for house clearance, she has gotten everything pack up and brought away but never care about QQ and left him there. As a result, QQ was suffering hunger, loneliness and panic in those days without accompany. He was sad...innocence as he didn't know that his master has abandoned him...
After three days, there was this reporter/house owner who went to the criminal's house to check the house if its cleared and ready to rent to a new tenant. That was the time when this house owner found QQ in the house, he looks tired and weak...Out of pityness, the house owner gave QQ to her friend who is also a reporter. QQ finally has somebody to take care of!
QQ has a happily life staying with the new master. He has got the best of everything, the best foods he could have, the best cares that he deserves because he is so adorable and the whole family of the new master love him very very much. They bring him out for a walk everyday, they feed him with cooked mince meat with rice and cookies, they bath him and hair dry and comb his hair, they bring them to the saloon (even the price of a hair cut is much more expensive than Human's one), they play with him so that he wont get bored during the day. QQ likes to play with cloth and chewy sticks. Days after days, QQ has gradually learnt to understand some of the language that the master used.
When the master says: QQ, gia poh lai! (in hokkien means take the cloth here). Then QQ will go and search for the cloth and grab it to the master even if the cloth is hidden somewhere.
When the master says: QQ, pang sai! (in hokkien means pass motion). Then QQ will be happily jumping up to the knee of his master and excitedly run towards the front door indicating that he is going out for a walk!
Sometimes QQ would observe what his master is doing and speaking, he is trying to learn the habit of human. QQ stares people like "i know what you are doing"...that's why he is such a special dog that the master has never come across before. The master has never imagined that he would one day separate with QQ.
But, one day the disaster has happened. After two years of jail's life, the ex-master was free from the jail and started looking for his dog. He called the house owner everyday even though the house owner told him that the dog has already been given to other people two years ago. He even urged and threaten the house owner that he would burn the house or kill the whole family if the house owner could not return the dog to him. The family that has QQ in hand was not known by this criminal and so they were thinking if there is any other possible ways to settle this problem, they have thought of many many ways, they have asked many many people of their opinions, they have even wanted to bluff the criminal that QQ has been sent to the China as during that time, most of the family members are in China and so they were able to call the criminal from China and lied to him. But things just could not work out, everybody was so worried and scared that the criminal would do anything to just get back the dog.
Finally, the family surrendered. Many tears have fell because of QQ, many worries many sadness many many more reluctance...there is no choice but to say goodbye to QQ.
Even thou in the end, the criminal has agreed to let the family bring QQ home for 1/2 days every fortnightly, the house of the family has no longer fill with the joy of having QQ in the house everyday. Every corner in the house reminds the family of QQ's absence...tears come out uncontrollably when the mother of the family realised the absence of QQ, the two sisters of the family have cried too much until the tears have dried out. They are wondering if QQ is having a good life there. The only hope that the family have is to see QQ every fortnightly, to treat him even nicer...to love him even more...they always hope that QQ will come back to them one day...
Thats the ending of the story.
What i want to say now, erm...maybe you will think that a dog does not stand such important place in your heart, but for the family, QQ is more like one of the family member in the house. The truth is, the family is my family...thats why it was such a great impact to me. This happened just during my final exam, and I have alot of emotion during that period of time. Within the three days of revision, I cried for 2 days and I forced myself to study on the last day of revision for the Natural Products paper. If not I could have failed the paper...Because of QQ, I even skipped the visa office trip, partly because I was sick la...heheh
So after Exam, all in my mind was to rush back to my home to see QQ, to spend more time with him before he left the house. I appreciated all the moment with QQ, we went beach, we went different places for a walk, we even brought him together for dinner...all that, counts how much we love QQ.
QQ first came to our house, looking for toilet because he was trained to shit in the there. so guai~
QQ napping on my body, his hair is so smooth n nice to touch
QQ's poohing pose, so cute >_<
QQ after got his hair cut, his hair was tied with ribbons, haha became heterosexual, he likes to sit sengekly like this, so weird but yet so cute!!!
QQ is dinner-ing with us! Salivating while looking at delicious penang's foods
QQ was so scared of the sea, dared not to go near
QQ watching sunset