So today my father and I accompanied my mother to kk hospital for her monthly checkup with her physician in palliative care. She was prescibed 15 painkiller patches. Unfortunately for us the pharmacy doesn’t stock the afore-mentioned drug thus we had to go to another pharmacy at the general hospital. An hour later, I was told at the new pharmacy that the physician had wrote ‘15′ instead of spelling out ‘fifteen’ and thus the prescription couldn’t be processed.

Lady in white over the counter said,
“I’m just following the law system.”

I replied,
“My mum needs her painkiller tonight, what am I supposed to do?”

At the end of the day, I left the place with 1 patch which is supposed to battle her pain until I get the mistake fixed.

Our physician wanted to, and had prescribed 15 patches.
The lady at the counter knew that we had been prescribed 15 patches.
My mother needs 15 patches. So what is stopping the prescription?

Just for the record, it is nobody’s fault. I understand it is absolute to adhere to the legal system for controlled drugs. But someone could have easily called to match the prescription with the doctor. Lot of time could be saved.

Lady in white over the counter said,
“It’s like issuing a cheque.”

Makes my blood boil.

The break is here, yay! And closing with a bang is, erm,  the opening reception tonight! The Best of ADM show has a reception this evening at 6pm at ADM NTU. Do come because there’s plenty to see!

From 25 - 29 April, we are having our first ‘Best of ADM Show’! Here’s the invite!

The opening reception will be on this coming Friday, 25 April at 6pm.

In a nutshell:

School of Art, Design and Media, NTU
81 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637458

25 - 29 April ‘08, 10am to 8pm
Screenings starts daily at 6pm

After he left, I felt like I had enough inspiration to last me quite a while :-)

It’s coming! Website: http://www.filmfest.org.sg/

I had this pet project which has been dwelling in my head since last year. You know, that kind of inspiration which I know has to be dealt with; otherwise it will just keep growing and never go away. It’s called ‘Hush Baby, hush’ and I am excited and scared the shit out of it because the stop motion bits is done and now the real work has just begun. It is about a baby in trauma (HA! like me!). I seriously need to do some comedies, but then again, you’ll never know what will come to mind next.

On other news, it’s animation night at *scape youth park next Wednesday! Admission is free and there will be food and drinks to munch and slurp during the event! There are other nightly screenings as well, just turn your head here.

Brief Tales
Date: 20 February 2008
Time: 7 - 9pm
Venue: *scape Youth Centre: The Lab, 113 Somerset Road
Free admission