Haha i know this is quite lag, but shall blog abt my camp! =)

Had this camp from 13th to 15th of dec at NUS. It's mainly a pharmacy camp where NUS Faculty of Science is like trying to encourage people to take up pharmacy course, so i just went there to know more about it and have fun. At first was kind of dreading it cos just came back from malaysia then i was very lazy to go for a camp straight after my trip, haha but the camp was quite fun ^_^ Anyway, some highlights of the camp...
1. the practicals are so much more interesting than the boring VA and heating practicals in school. Got to make creams and play around with the emulsifying agents in the dosage form design practicals (even though i still dunno the concept behind the difference in the effects of using single and multiple emulsifying agents). Dispensing practical is very tedious but satisfying, especially when i managed to stuff about 200mg of charcoal powder into small little capsules of about 1.5cm long, and the dispensing labs have a weird smell.
2. the talks and lectures are as usual -- BORING! Almost slept through all of them, especially for the last day since we stayed up quite late for the last night. I had to go through the same set of slides for the hospital pharmacy talk by some SGH personnel, since I saw them during the SGH attachment already. But some of the speakers are quite interesting, especially the guy from guardian pharmacy for the community pharmacy talk and a SGH pharmacist from the drug and poison information centre, so managed to stay awake O_O
3. one of my most favourite parts of the camp is the game of life! It is quite complicated at first, but once people start playing it makes you very high! The situation is like this: everyone is born as a baby called pharm into pharmily. Our parents died in an accident and left 10K as inheritance. The main aim of the game is to plan our life, and the point system is based on shares, cash, property, transport, spouse and education. There are a few parts to the game
- Education: we are supposed to "study" and increase from no education to pri, sec, jc and finally university level (which is a pharmacy degree of course). So pri level is "spot the difference", sec level is a memory game using poker cards, jc level is "circle out the words" puzzles and lastly uni level is sudoku!
- Pharmacy: That's where we are supposed to work. Mainly it is made up of 6 station games and we earn money by playing those station games, and our salary depends on our education level.
- Disco: It is also made up of 6 station games, and the difference with those in the pharmacy is that the salary does not depend on the education level and we can multiply our salary when we throw the dice when we redeem the money at the bank. Since it is illegal, there are police raids
- Casino: Got blackjack and "odd or even" (where you try to guess the sum of the two die whether it is odd or even after the banker threw them). It's illegal, so there will be police raids
- Jail: The only way to get out of jail is that every member of the group must try to throw a double 6 or double 1. If after 3 cycles no one managed to do that, the group will be let out of good behaviour (which is quite dumb -_-")
- Shares: Every share bought brings the price up by $200, and every share sold brings the price down by $200. The pro part about the shares is that one senior managed to use the microsoft excel to make the shares system "automatic". Somehow i think he made use of AP and GP, which i totally sux at
- Banker: Duh, the person whom you redeem money from (and probably got shouted at most from me =P)
- Property, Transport and Spouse: We supposed to buy property and transport, and there are 5 types of spouse, type I being the best and type V being the worst
- Miscellaneous: every 15 minutes is 10 years, and we died at 60 after getting a genetic disease or sth like that (which means time limit is 1.5 hr long) and every "decade" there are announcements
haha..mainly tt's the game of life! my group managed to get first cos we got uni education, type I wife, bungalow, limousine and more than 1 million cash! (even though we got 0 shares) Haha, this is all thanks to those gamblers from my group. They really earned like a few million from the casino, and thank goodness we managed to escape all the police raids! =)
4. haha, here comes the best part of the camp, which is group one! ok, it is just my group, which made up of mabel (my pri sch friend and kang's neighbour!), hwee keng, esther, josephine (kelvin ho's pri sch classmate), ni zhen, jimmy, leroy (ex-dunmanians), cheryl, sylvia (hcco mate!) and me, and huimin and wanyu (our camp group leaders!)! haha, quite obvious that my group relationship a bit complicated. Really had lots of fun with this group, cos everyone is like so easy to get along, especially during the last night, when we played so many dumb games like indian poker (mabel's favourite!), heart attack (with the inclusion of the different levels of pig), asshole daidee etc Really had lots of laughter, and i laughed until my stomach super pain, especially during heart attack. Rah, kind of miss them now, looking forward to the dinner next wed! =)

ok..that's quite a long entry on the camp haha! lazy to type anymore stuff, but after some things that happened recently, just suddenly felt very appreciative to dhsco exco 2004-2005 and hcco exco 2006-2007 for giving so much support to me as a treasurer. Really without their cooperation, i would be in a super sad state and dying off somewhere. Haha, just want to say a big thank you to these people =)

Oh ya, gu du feng qing rawks! especially the cello solo, even though i not sure if we can play until gan ren de jing jie. And the other potential syf piece is nice too! but sounds a bit hard. haha, just to summarise, going to really look forward to next year syf! but before that, must start doing hmk! =(

P.S.: If anyone had started to notice, i am trying to write more properly instead of including all my ".." ^^ But it feels so weird and sounds so boring!