Land Below the Wind - SABAH Posted by chiechek , Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 23:53, in Labels: hospital, Hospital Kota Belud, Kota Belud, Kota Kinabalu, Life ain't that easy, Penang, Pharmacist, Sabah

"As promised" few months ago, I will update my life in Sabah to this blog. But seemed like I have been so lost in Sabah till I dragged the blog post for around 8 months. Well, IT HAVE BEEN 8 MONTHS already since I get myself stuck in Sabah. I didn't update the blog not because I couldn't connect to the internet in Sabah. The most likely reason is I am so reluctact to admit that I am gonna to stay in Sabah for sometime.

Ok, that's nothing wrong with Sabah and sorry if I did make you all think Sabah is not a really good state in Malaysia. *grin*

So, let's start my journey to the "Land Below the Wind" ~ Sabah. :)

Here I say Good Bye to Penang and there I say Hi to Sabah :(

With mixed feeling, I leave my beloved hometown, Penang and I come to Sabah, a msytery land for me. I still can remember how I really stress when first I reached Kota Kinabalu Airport (BKI). And it was 1st of December 2011. Once I reached the airport, then I called a taxi to go to the Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sabah (JKNS) to report duty. Well, it is determining step for my life in Sabah. As everyone, Sabah is big state and it consists of many rural areas which actually do not favour for me to live there. So, I don't know my own destiny till I report my duty to JKNS. Luckily I got a placement that consider 'not-so-bad'. I got KOTA BELUD! which mean that I gonna stay in KOTA BELUD for this coming years (at least 1 year)

Frustrated? not really, I felt much more of lost. I got no idea on how actually Kota Belud look like and I was worrying where to rent a house. Well, skip those troublesome stuff, I gonna start to know more about Kota Kinabalu. Luckily I got a good friend, Lipton who already worked in Kota Kinabalu as enforcement officer. So I stayed in his house for few days before I go report duty to the Hospital Kota Belud.

Here is the view from Lipton's house. Quite nice view, right? Sabah is quite a peace place to stay :)

Ok, I will stop here and I will continue next time for my adventure in Sabah. :)

Sbaahh..Ops!!! is SABAH!!! Posted by chiechek , Friday, 25 November 2011 at 00:19, in Labels: hospital, Pharmacist, provisionally registed pharmacist

As I mentioned in previous post, I will be posted to other place once I done my 1 year Provisionally Registered Pharmacist (PRP). Don't know consider lucky or not, for the PRP year, I get posted to Penang and worked in Hospital Pulau Pinang (HPP). Once mentioned Penang, the Penang food will come in everyone mind or may you all may think about the Penang Bridge.

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*All photos copied from web :)

Penang is well known as food paradise, but at here I am not going to intro you all about penang food nor tourism place. Penang absolutely a nice place to live, but HPP was not a good place for me to work. My friend should know that I am a lazy bump, I hate the heavy work load. And who knows that I am so lucky to get HPP as my PRP housemanship. HPP is known as 'second busiest hospital' in whole Malaysia. And so you can imagine HPP just get 13-15 PRPs for the year which compared to HKL (the busiest hospital) more than 40 PRPs. The work load here just simply make all PRPs suffocated.



However, after done 1 year PRP, we will just get a new posting to other place or will be 'luckily' retained at the same hospital. Don't know I consider lucky or not, I get posted to Sabah and I am not so wanted to go Sabah. So I did appeal and I failed! So no choice, I will need to go Sabah to work in the coming year. 1 year, perhaps 2 or 3 years?!?! No one will know it, only god will know. Wish me all the best ba! :)



Sabah Here I Come!!!

ops...over-excited d!!! I may not even get a nice place in Sabah, not matter what

see you all in

Sabah!!! :)

The Life of PRP!!! Posted by chiechek , Thursday, 25 August 2011 at 01:48, in Labels: Pharmacist

It have been few months...erm I think almost 1 year I didn't update this blog. Well, here is the update. I have been worked for almost 1 year as PRP (as I mentioned on the title). PRP!!! So what is PRP??? Actually you can get quite many answers from the google search. Here is some of the example: Peel Regional Police, People's Reconciliation Party, People's Republic of Poland but the PRP that I mentioned is none of the above. PRP for me is Provisionally Registered Pharmacist. So, you may ask me what is that? Not juz normal pharmacist? Actually, it is pharmacist and not-yet-fully registered pharmacist.

In Malaysia, to become a lisensed pharmacist you need to do the1 year clinical attachment to hospital (PRP for pharmacist or housemenship for doctor) and 3 years compulsory service (and recently health minister suggested to change to 1 year compulsory service). It is just 1+3 and total 4 years service in hospital to get the lisense of pharmacist. It sound suck? Perhaps yes and perhaps not. For someone, this rule and regulation has forced them to stay in government. However, it do provide a stable income and job for freshly graduated pharmacist. As I always said, depend on what's your preception.

Be a PRP, it's really very very very busy and I think it gonne to end soon in another 3 weeks. Well, I will share about my PRP life next time. Wish me good luck to stay alive for another 3 weeks :)