Training sessions

Today's slightly peculiar as I don't have to make my way down to the store. All I had to do was to go to a training centre and listen to a few talks organised by some vendors.

Personally, I think the talks are quite interesting. But I got bored very quickly as it felt like a verylong advertisement. The fun part was when they whipped out many products and allowed us to try. There were some whitening "scrub", some bust-firming mask, whitening serum and so on. There's even a peculiar type of tea we got to try. It is supposed to block out the glucose receptors on the tongue as well as in the intestines. That way, we don't taste the glucose/sugar (hence honey will be a tasteless goo) and they don't get absorbed into the body. The whole purpose of this tea is to help lower blood sugar levels. Primarily to complement a diabetic, but it could also help an individual with high blood sugar level. Of course, the desirable side effect would be a loss of weight (of course lah, how to have appetite when everything becomes tasteless after the drink!). All of us tried the tea and true enough, taking the sugar afterwards felt like eating sand. It was TASTELESS. Ugh. Not something I want to torture myself with though. Anyway, I personally think this product is a little dubious. Maybe it's alright to take it for better health, but it cannot substitue medications.

After the talk, my classmate and I went to Toa Payoh to attend some training for a health screening this Saturday. Learnt how to use the blood pressure meter (a very simple device) and some administrative stuff. I'm looking forward to this Saturday. I'm only hoping that the response would be good. :)

Made my way back to the pharmacy even though there's only 40 minutes more till 9pm. I guess I should at least show my face to my preceptor. Heh. he was in a bad mood yesterday (I think) or maybe because I was in a bad mood too. I dunno lah.

Anyway, I need to go complete some assignment now. Goodnight.