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I'm counting down to the end of my preceptorship. Not because I am eager for it to end, but rather, I'm quite reluctant to go. I have spent the past 6 weeks learning and absorbing at the pace I'm comfortable at. And I have the capacity and curiousity to learn more without the rigidness of a syllabus to clamp me down.

This is the first time I have been so happy ever since I stepped into uni. I am just afraid that when school reopens, the mundane routine will set in and I'll get disillusioned once again. This preceptorship programme has been an eye-opening experience. Initially I was a little apprehensive about becoming more cynical when I leave, but to the contrary, I am more optimistic about this profession. I guess I must thank my preceptor for the wisdom he imparts to me. Frankly, my level of knowledge about drugs and their dosages etc will not be as high as my other classmates, but I do know the reason why I am in pharmacy and why things are done in certain ways. My preceptor is very good, because he teaches me the HOWs, he also teaches me the WHYs. And being able to understand the WHYs would make the HOWs make sense.

I know I have totally abandoned the other blog meant for the record of this preceptorship. Somehow, I feel more at ease blogging about my feelings in my "homeground".

Today, I had the privilege to attend a training session with the pre-reggers. It was a last-minute invitation by my preceptor to attend the session. I wouldn't say that it was fun or interesting (in fact, it was sooooo dry I almost wanted to die), but I do realise the importance of community pharmacist in detecting the first signs of an epidemic *touchwood*. They were discussing about cold, cough and flu (simple stuff) but went on to see how malaria, dengue or even mycoplasma infections could be disguised and diagnosed as a common cold, flu or cough. Kinda scary...

Then when we were back in the store, my preceptor went through with me on the "little" antibiotics (an-tie-biotics for you American speakers, heehee) project. He said that my piece of work was the best he has seen so far, but there is definitely room for improvement as my level of knowledge on antibiotics is still quite rudimentary. He made me do this so that it can help me later in future when I go out to practice. And I think he is quite excited over my BIG plan on going overseas as well. He always manages to squeeze in a casual question about my status. Haha...

Oh my, there I go again. Babbling on and on and on and on about my preceptor. I think that he's just so cool lah! Really. And I just cannot stop talking about him. But I must! In case my baby gets too jealous of a man 12 years older than him. Heehee.