a never-forget camping

wuhoooooo~~
I already came back from a 2D1N disaster training camping few hours ago
this camping was meant to prepare or train us as a humanitarian volunteer in a disaster
the mission of the camping was : we are humanitarian volunteers who are going to rescue victims in a disaster area. However, there are always some obstacles (eg. chaos, shortage of resources, terrorists) which have to overcome in order to accomplish the mission.

my Uni is the only one university offers this course (disaster relief management, DRM) in M'sia. So there are many people out there are unfamiliar with this course
this course is meant to teach people the things involved in disaster
our lecturers who teach and train us are well-trained humanitarian volunteers involved in rescuing of victims in disaster area internationally
many of them joined the rescue team of tsunami incident happened in Aceh 2004
I am always excited to hear about their experiences in a battle field or disaster area during class

during the training, we opted for one task among police, hospital, paramedic and triage
when we were in the scene area where disaster happened, we had to carry out our responsibilities according to the job chosen

when there is a happening of disaster, terrorists always find chances to create chaos in that area
(if you watched movies related to disaster or wars then you'll know)
most of the terrorist are craving for food and money when there is shortage of resources in a disaster

so those lecturers and some hired actors had became terrorists to invade our campsite anytime without giving us a signal (even at midnight)
the 'terrorists' kidnapped some hostages (which is us) to threaten us to hand in money or food to them
so negotiation is a very important part to rescue hostages and negotiator must be a sweet talker
although we knew that the events are fake, but we still needed to act like we were in the real situation to gain marks in order to pass this field work

I'd learnt a lot of living skills and get to know any possibility event which may happen in a disaster
I'm touched and admire the courage of the humanitarian volunteers because they are risking their lives to save people who have no blood relationship with them
I felt thankful because I gained a chance to learn first-aid skill which is very beneficial in dealing with any emergency case one day in future

I was really enjoyed the activities in camping
and truly appreciated what I had learnt during the process
this camping had made some changes in my life
salute to humanitarian volunteers  =)

wonderful weekend

Year 2 of pharmacy course is really a hectic year until I have no time to update my blog TT

ok, well. 

stop beating around the bush, I'm here to share my experiences in a national 5th pharmacy quiz last weekend

that was a grand and formal competition for pharmacy students from any university to show and exchange their knowledge

universities that were joining the quiz involved local and private U (taylors, imu, aimst, msu, mahsa, cucms and so on and so forth)

the pharmacy quiz for this year was held in UM and two teams from my uni(cucms) were qualified into semi-final and final round 

so we were there to give them mentally support and as a learning process

I'm very glad to be the audience of the competition as it was a super amazing contest

I did gain lots of benefits from the contest and knew that many talented pharmacy-to-be out there who will become my future colleagues

by the way, I'm not freaking out instead it will motivate me to work harder so I won't get eliminate from those future talented pharmacy and try to be one of them 

back to the result of the quiz, two team from my uni had secured 4th and 5th place in the quiz which really surprised me

I'm not doubting my course-mates but I never know that cucms can beat well-known pharmacy school eg. IMU, USM (so excited^^)

the champion goes to UM followed by UKM and UIA

it's not fun enough to see course-mates answering questions on the stage

I want to be the representative for my uni to join the quiz next year which held in UIA (sound confident XD)

praying that my dream comes true!!

one more exciting stuff to share is related to my mid-sem result

5As 1B, more than enough because I knew that I din't perform well in mid-sem exam
must jiayou for final to get dean list for this sem!!