Blog of the Day

well it’s been exactly one month of me working now. lots of people had blogged on their first day, or first week of working, but i chose to blog after the first month instead. no reason in particular, really.

so what exactly happened? it’s simple. i got an offer letter saying that i got a job in National Pharmaceutical Control Bureau (NPCB) in PJ and i was so very much thankful for that. it’s very much near to everyone that i love, but then i started to get worried about what’s the job like.

so i went on googling for hours. to find as much information as possible, just to get myself mentally prepared for the job. and so, i ended up in sites like pharmacist’s blogs ( who did their training in NPCB ) and also googlemap ( because i simply have no sense of direction and absolutely no idea how to get there ).

it occurs to me that it’d be helpful for other pharmacists who will be trained at NPCB to have a rough idea about NPCB because the blogs that i read weren’t that helpful sangat la. and so, let me tell you a bit of NPCB. well, ade 5 major departments in it, they call them as ‘Pusat’. so ade 5 Pusat, abbreviated as PKK, PPO, PPPP, PPP, and PKP (aka GMP). so the first P is of course, pusat and the next would be like, kawalan kualiti, pembangunan organisasi, pasca something2 ( haha i don’t even know the whole name), pendaftaran produk, and good manufacturing practice. so each PRP will be rotated in each pusat, with one of them being the major pusat. so we’ll have one month in each pusat, and 5 months in the major pusat. for me, i’ll be in PPP for 5 months, tapi tu pun the last 5 months of being PRP la.

and you’d probably wondering, that’d be only 5+1+1+1+1 = 9 months only. well, there’ll be 3 months in hospital and 2 weeks in enforcement. yep, enforcement and NPCB are totally 2 different things. NPCB is only regulatory kind of thing but in enforcement they said that you actually get to raid shops and stuff. we’ll see.

so, enough of the rotation already. how’s work? well, in this first month, i was in PKK, and under PKK there was like 6 or 7 units more, so i was placed under GC (general chemistry). what i did was not pharmacist’s actual work, but i got to do experiments involving quality control of drugs and learnt lots of new technical things. in GC, basically all we play with is spectrometry, so i got to learn in infrared and ultraviolet. my daily ‘toys’ were methanol and chloroform and ether, to name a few.

so the hardest part of it was getting to know new people, and trying to know how they work, and tyring hard to cope with them, and then leran new things and then leave the whole department just to start over in new department. and then get to know new things again, and the cycle begins. well i guess that’s the whole idea of training, isn’t it?

dan sesungguhnye saye bersyukur sgt dapat kat NPCB, walopun hari2 jammed pun takpe la, saye redha. this whole new world of going to work and the idea of me earning my own money keeps me excited. looking forward to the next department. until next entry then, tata!