First Week of Work

Wow! It's been a week since I last updated my blog. Yesterday was the end of the first week of work in Guardian. The week went by quite fast and before I know it, it's the weekend already haha...

Started my first day of work on Tuesday. All of the pre-regs went to Peace Centre for our briefing at 9 and we were introduced to the organisation structure of Guardian, Dairy Farm and the parent company Jardine Matheson. We were briefed by the various managers and we had an introduction session as well. And as Jerry and Jialing came late, they are asked to do a penalty haha... Well, Jerry sang some chinese kiddy rhyme and jialing did a catwalk hahaha

After all the talks by the various managers, we were served with catered lunch. I must say that the food is quite good and we had a good lunch. During lunch, one of the area managers Mr Yong came over and chatted with us. Soon, Wai Lin the Asst General Manager came as well. Somehow, she brought up the topic of Diary Farm Idol and said that Mr Yong can sing very well haha... She then asked him to sing for us! Mr Yong was very sporting and sang a cantonese Happy Birthday song for us. His voice is very good really.

The day continued with briefings by David, Christine and Ivan. We were given our rotation schedules and I learnt that my first stop would be at Taka together with Lee Sun. I was a little disappointed not to get Cheryl as my preceptor but it's good to know more people as well hehe...

So on Wednesday, we started work at Guardian Taka. We found that our preceptor was on MC that day, so he couldn't brief us. So, we followed another pharmacist who came to replace our preceptor and the day was pretty uneventful as we tried to familiarise with the area and the people there. The people working there are very very nice and friendly and we could easily fit in. There is also a 2nd year Pharmacy student there by the name of Angeline who's on her 4th week attachment.

On Thursday, we met Mr Tharakan, our preceptor for the first time. He striked me as a very friendly and approachable person. So far I have not felt any stress learning under him haha. He has been with Guardian for the past 10 years and is very experienced as a pharmacist. In fact, he's the Pharmacy Manager in Guardian Taka as well. Had lunch with Cheryl and 5 others including Yvonne and 4 Year 2s haha.

I worked the morning shift this week, so I'll be in the afternoon shift next week. This means that I'll work from 1.30 to 10pm next week. Ahhh....my nightlife!! Haha... Also, I'll have this weekend off, so this means that I'll be working one day of the weekend for the next 3 weeks...sigh...

All in all, it's been a nice first week of work and I hope that I won't feel stressful as the time comes for presentations and project submissions haha... :P