Day 17

DAY 17 - GOING TO THE BYE-OH PHARM~

Hello people!!!
So today was the common test day!
The paper was at 9:30am.
It was okay i guess...I JUST WANT A B+!!!!
I already did my best though.
Woke up even before the sun rises to study!!!

After lunch, we had a trip to a bio pharmacy !!
It's where they make medicine!
Unfortunately, they don't allow us to take pictures due to copyright.
thus, fewer pictures today :(
The journey took about an hour today.

We were seperated into groups of 10.
In order to keep the sterility , not many people can go in at the same time!
There are also steam coming out from the side of the factory.
This is to keep the temperature in the building cool so that it is suitable for the drugs made there.
And another thing i noticed is that there are not much flowers here too.
Pollens are considered a pollutant and might slip into the building.
The greenery around the building is very nice too!!!
There is a pond near the biofarm and some flowers too!
Its ironic that these greenery can be found near a factory.

a small patch of flowers i found!!!

And in every drug factory, sterillisation is important.
Our tour today is mainly about how they package the drugs and the methods of sterillisation .
Before we stepped in the building for the tour, we are required to wear the plastic to cover our shoes!

We look like we're wearing Alladin's shoes.
Joel's plastic wrap kept tearing when he was wearing it.
I guess he is the missing big foot which discovery channel has been trying to discover all these years.


After that, we were asked to put on lab coats and hair cap.
Again, this is to ensure that contamination level is low.
Once all of put on our lab coats and caps, we laughed.
Because all of us looked really ridiculously hideous.

Priscilla and me~
Nick is in the other room!!
You look like a baker from BreadTalk here.

Huiqi and Qurainah!!!
The other 2 bakers. HAHA

All of us look like we're wearing songkoks!

Through the tour, we were only shown one type of drug, which is a liquid that can act like platelets to stop excessive bleeding.
The first stop was a packaging room of a 300ml glass bottles.
Not really sure how they do it though because the guide was only showing us the bottle.
Next, we were taken to a room in which the liquid was filled in plastic bottles.
These plastic bottles are special!
They are very soft and bendable!
This is because this plastic is most suitable for autoclaving!!
and again, the bottles were sent for sterillisation.
The next place we went to had 100 particles per square.
This room is to check for contaminants and for the checker to give the drugs a pass!
However, the room wasn't in use today so we never had the chance to see them in action.
That is the end of the trip!
Through out the whole tour, Dr.tan was the one translating and explaining to us!
Dr.Tan's chinese is good!
Even Tricia said that she couldn't understand!!!!

Since today marks the end of common test!
I shall watch a movie tonight with my roomates!
That's all for today!!!!
再见你们！！！