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Went to work slightly late because I decide to laze on the bed for slightly longer than usual and thus, left the room slightly late. When I reached the bus stop, the bus was slightly late and when I reach the main road to catch the public bus, I was late. Since I didn't want to wait too long for the next bus to come, I decided to take another route. So there was I, waiting at another bus. Good thing the bus came promptly. But the bus driver seems to be driving slightly slower than usual and as I got to the next bus stop, I realised that my route is a little faulty. So I had to traverse the whole of Holland Village to get to the other end to catch another bus to work. So there I was, spending precious 10 minutes walking from one end of Holland V to another. But it was good exercise nonetheless. Thank goodness for the good pair of shoes I bought from *cough*Bata*cough*. Heh.

Preceptor was unusually busy this morning as well. So I amused myself with rearranging shelves and refilling empty shelves. A baby peed in her nappy and it leaked! So I had to double up as a cleaner and help clean up. Haha. Then I resumed the inventory work which took me about 30 minutes to complete keying in the data. Thereafter I went around the store to pretend to be helpful again. Heehee. Preceptor probably sensed that I had nothing to do and he assigned me to the surgicals (aka first aid) section to rearrange everything. Meaning, I had to clean out the whole display and reorganise the whole thing again. Didn't really require much brainwork, but it definitely need creativity to be able to put everything you want on a shelf. So there was I, happily removing everything (those self-adhesive-gel-type of bandages and gauze pads and alcohol swabs and loads of sterile cotton balls) and rearraging them. So now the leftmost shelf has all kinds of bandages grouped together, followed by different types of tapes to hold those bandages together. Makes sense doesn't it. Previously the tapes and bandages are placed on totally different ends of the display. Then all the insulin syringes and needles are all moved "downstairs". Moved stuff here and there. It took me almost the whole morning. Supposed to complete it by 11-ish, but because there were so much interference from customers looking for stuff, I had to abandon my mission for a while. Heh. So my whole morning was gone rearranging stuff.

Had a good lunch...only 3 dollars! Haha. I am so thankful for this Indon auntie that comes along EVERYDAY at LUNCH time and DINNER time to deliver our meals! I remember I jokingly told someone that I should start making friends with the Indon maids who frequent the shop and then get them to cook meals for me. Haha. My "joke" came true partially. Except that this kind lady isn't a maid. She's a rich old lady with a bigbig heart and I love talking to her. She's already 68 but she looks like she's just approaching 60. Very cheerful lady.

Oh. And after lunch, I resumed the inventory counting. This was when I almost went bonkers. I don't mind counting tablets...ONLY if they come in strips or blisters. NOT when they are loose. And if the bottle originally contains 1000 tablets and some of it has been dispensed, it's no fun at all. my highest record so far is 739 tablets. I was going mad counting those coffee0coloured tablets. At least they are still of a reasonable size. The smallest tablet I have seen and counted has a diameter of approxiamtely 2mm. Get that, it's 2mm. Diameter eh. Good thing there's only 120 of those tablets to count. Haha. And it kinda struck me that in no circumstance I should lose any of those tablets. Cos they are expensive things. Some tablets has a unit price of a few dollars! Imagine you have to take it 3 times a day, for a period of a month. A tablet of Drug X costs $2.45. So there you go, a month's supply will cost you $220.50 already. And imagine you need to be on this drug for long term, i.e., years and years and years. For one year, it will be $2646 on medicines alone. So, think about this. Watch your diet and lifestyle carefully. Because if you can make a lot a lot of money now at the expense of your health, it will eventually end up as your medical bill.