Bandung: Mission Accomplished!

Salam..

After all the challenges and huddles, my trip to bandung finally become a success. *yeay*. The initial plan was to go for a whole week, but as human beings who are under the control of Almighty, I have to shorten the trip to 3 days 2 nights despite having to leave my other girlfriends to spend their millions of rupiah exploring the city and outskirts of bandung for another few days (sila baca dengan nada yang jeles).

Not to mention, I leave for Bandung one day earlier than the others and I would say it was a challenge for myself to travel alone in a new country even just for a day. And I'm proud to tell you, I passed the challenge succesfully!

Passing through the immigration alone, riding a taxi to Hotel Cemerlang, where I spent my first night, walking from the Hotel to Pasar Baru, shopping in Pasar Baru alone and riding Angkutan from Pasar Baru back to the hotel. It was all a smooth success, Alhamdulillah. The important thing is, you have to always ask for the local people's help especially for directions and which angkutan to take. They are very helpful. Shopping inside the Pasar Baru itself, at every shop that I went, they were suprised seeing me alone by myself and some even care to give pieces of advice on how to take care of my bags and wallets. And luckily, I met honest people where there's one time I'm trying to take out seven pieces of 100,000 IDR notes for a shirt  priced 70,000 IDR. (Mind you, I'm trying to pay 10x the actual price). Alhamdulillah, the owner return me back the money and tell me which IDR notes I have to give to him. Then, another occasion at the food court, I'm giving 5,000 IDR for a meal cost 27,000 IDR (I've mistaken 5,000 to 50,000). See, I'm so bad at all these ribuan and jutaan rupiah T_T.

The next day, upon arrival of my friends, we went to Tangkuban Parahu, Sari Ater Hot Spring, Lembang Floating Market and checked in to Hotel Salon Fora. At night, continuing my shopping at Rumah Mode. On the last day, we went to shop for more telekung and kain pasang, Kartika Sari for some brownies and airport for sending me home.

There goes my short trip to Bandung, Overall. I have to say that I had a new kind of experience as I met and mingle with different kind of people especially in the flight sitting next to me and at the KLIA2, where I met an Indonesian footballer who requested to go with me to the immigration since he doesnt know the direction. *Actually, aku pn xtau tapi buat2 konfiden jek tau*.

Ok then, sekarang dah bleh start berangan untuk next trip yg xtau kat mana and bile. LOL

2014: A year to remember

Sayonara 2014, Welcome 2015!

In a blink of an eye, 2014 has come to an end. That also marks the end of one-year-of-a-hell journey of the so called PRP. Now, I'm no longer working at the same hospital where I was attached to during my PRP time. I was transferred to a district hospital 60km away from home and I've officially become a fully registered pharmacist (FRP).

It was almost a cultural shock coming from a state hospital, where u meet more than 1000 patients per day to a much smaller district hospital; where u get more than 1000 patients per month. However, things may not look as relaxing as it was. I was assigned as a clinical pharmacist at the medical ward on the very first day of working in Hospital Setiu. Clinical field was never my strong point during my PRP training, so I'm still struggling to learn and becoming better each day. Thinking on the bright side, it's an opportunity for me to grab the experiences and knowledge that come along the way as a clinical pharmacist and build a better path for me to achieve my dream, insyaAllah.

Looking back at last year, most of the time was spent working and some small amount of time travelling and exploring Penang and most importantly, the Penang food. It was actually a year well spent with my friends. It was a year where I met very good friends which are very helpful and supportive to each other especially during the hard times. Yes, it was hard, sometimes I even think about quitting, but as the saying goes, "What doesn't kill u makes u stronger". Holding our hands together through the journey was a very memorable experience. I shall probably say, these were the times I met true friends, friends that doesn't stabbed u in the back, friends that know exactly what we've been through, friends that were willing to spend their precious weekend just to help u at work, friends who were willing to offer help whenever needed and friends which u can never stop talking and sharing with, even though I've been seeing them 24-7. Though we are now apart to all different kind of places in Malaysia, may the friendship last forever and I really hope that we can met again someday.

Thanks guys for becoming a part of my journey!

Now I'm living a new life, in a new environment,  with a lot of new commitment, meeting with new people. What a great way to start a new year! Hope 2015 will be a blast in every aspect!