† Happy Birthday Dr Cheah †

Happy 27th birthday Dr Cheah! Just for a general introduction, Dr Cheah originated from Penang island but somehow got transfered to Pekan, Pahang by the government during his medical practice. This is the day Dr Cheah turns 27 and a few of us surprised him with his favorite chocolate mud cake.


Along with Christine my university junior, we have Dr Tan my ex-housemate in Pekan whose going to transfer to Kuantan soon.


Zhi Yong my ex-housemate in Kuantan who is transfered to Pekan and the one besides him is his girl friend Pui Yee aka fatty (ah pui) although she's not fat at all.


Here we have a wonderful stunning cake specially customized for Dr Cheah. I know exactly what Christine and Dr Tan are thinking. This cake was designed base on...


Dr Cheah's Wolverine hair!!! Bwahaha... What a genius I am *grin*


Dr Cheah's making a wish and I think he was wishing for his transfer out of Pekan.


Such big portion of chocolate cake... Its specially for Dr Cheah.


I can see Dr Cheah is happy with his cake. So once again Dr Cheah, happy birthday to you and may your wish come true!

† Fire Hose Recycled Items †

Looking at the fire hoses above, what do you think you can make out of them? Its heavy, its bulky, its dirty, and its nasty. Surprisingly the Elvis & Kresse Organisation (EaKo) was able to create stunning life-style accessories by fully utilizing such unwanted hoses.



Recycled fire hose made handbag.


Recycled fire hose made pouch.


Recycled fire hose made sling bag.


Recycled fire hose made table mat.

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† Write Your Name In Elvish †

This interesting post is taken from the original website written by Ned Gulley. With this we learn to write our name in Elvish.

The following alphabets are going to be used in generating names in Elvish.

I think I'll just explain the first lesson about writting Elvish and the others can be read from Ned Gulley website.

First of all, write the name ROBERT in a piece of paper.

Identify the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and shift them upward, then bring them to the left.

It is then become OE on the top, and RBRT at the bottom.

By looking at the Elvish alphabets above, try substitute the current alphabets with that of Elvish and you will get what is shown in the picture on the bottom left.

Of course there are many more websites of writting Elvish in full sentences but I find this version that I posted is so much easier to read. Perhaps if you have the time, you can give it a try here.

As for downloadable Elvish course, the English version can be downloaded here. Its always fun to learn foreign language isn't it?

† Axsym Makes Our Life Easier? †

We pharmacist often do therapeutic drug monitoring aka TDM and most of our on-calls during the week days are associated with medication dose confirmation such as antibiotics, anti epileptic drugs and most common of all, paracetamol poisoning. With the technique of TDM and pharmacokinetic calculations, we are able to determine whether or not a patient is receiving adequate amount of medication or the patient has a potential of toxicity.


Our previous TDM machine has been giving us a lot of headaches and finally we're able to get rid of it and here we have Abbott's Axsym. After using the previous antique TDM machine for such a long time, it can be hard for technology caveman pharmacists like us to operate such sophisticated machine.

Generally, this huge machine is consisted of 3 segments:

1. Sampling Centre

This is the first area where the sample will land.


The black compartments is where the sampling reagent will be placed. Apparently there are more than 10 compartments which means more than 10 different drugs can be tested at the same time.


Sampling tube is where the blood serum will be placed prior to be analyzed by the machine.


Reactor vessel is where the machine's probe (something like the hand of this machine) will place the serum along with the reagent before it is sent into the processing centre.


The left steel stick as you can see on the left part of the picture is the so-called probe thing.


In case your eyes aren't observant enough, here you are, the probe. So the probe's function is to served as the hand of this machine, picking up or inserting liquids into the vessels.

2. Processing Centre

This is the second area where the sample goes: the processing centre.


It looks complicated but you can handle it like a baby.


These tubes are important because they can affect your results of the sampling if there are bubbles in it. So make sure there's no bubble(s) in it.


Colleague Yap with his cute face looking at my camera.


Colleague Fiza trying to observe the inner part of the machine.


This is the carousel, where the reactor vessels will be placed and analyzed by the machine.


My colleagues were learning to detach and replace some parts of this machine.

3. Analyzing Centre

Results will be shown here in analyzing centre.


The keyboard looks nice but its slightly differs from the normal keyboard we're using.

4. Miscellaneous

Well well, there's nothing much I can talk about here and its mainly a huge rubbish bin and a few solution that we used for this machine.

Keat's Thought:
Pros: This machine is rather user friendly and many samples can be analyzed at once. This is for sure a better machine than the previous idiotic out-dated machine. Many manual procedures have been automated and it saves a pharmacist's time.

Cons: Complicated function. Many functions are remain unknown to us because this machine was not made solely for TDM. As I was told by the product specialist that this machine can be used for tracing opioid misuse, cancer marker, so on and so forth. Also, the price of this machine. I won't want to reveal the price here but I think readers will get a rough figure by themselves.

Conclusion: Axsym makes our life easier? No idea at all and the conclusion will be presented after a few months of trial on this machine.

† Life Is Like A Balloon †

Our life is just like a balloon. It is initially bonded to someone.


But when life comes to a part that you have to be released, you will eventually travel by your own.


You start off low, because you aren't sure about what you're going to do.


As life goes on, you learn, you see, you feel, you experience.


You go higher and higher and you see more of your life, more of this world.


And finally upon completion, you reach your destination.

† Cute Pepper Grinder †

This is not a toy but a pepper grinder. This simple and colorful pepper grinder is sold $90. Expensive isn't it? Other than the multi color grinder, it comes with two other colors which are black and white.

† China's 1World Nike Air Force 1 †

This Nike Air Force 1 is designed based on Yi Jian Lian, a NBA basketball player from China. The shoe features a clean leather upper with a dark colored sole. The upper itself is further broken down into a woven and croc leather parts with Yi Jian Lian’s personal logo seen on the heel tabs. One question is that are people going to wear this for basketball games because I would think its wasteful.

† Fruit Holder †

Joy de Vivre released this amazingly creative item designed by a Toronto designer named Terence Cooke. This fruit holder contains 169 pliable silicon fingers to hold the fruits and it can be considered as a modern bowl don't you think so?