Hi Everyone!

Hope you?re having a great Lunar New Year and recess week!

This is a message from NUSPS International Relations Committee.

During the period from June to September, we will be having some exchange students coming to Singapore for their work attachment and we are sourcing for possible accommodation plans for them. As of now, we have students from Poland, Canada, India, Hungary and Germany.

Will you be interested in opening your home to accommodate our foreign friends?

The students will be staying in Singapore for approximately 1 – 3 months.

They would be willing to pay for accommodation at approximately $250 per month.

It will be a good experience to host someone from another country, get to know them, the practice of pharmacy in their home country and most importantly, make a new friend!

If you are interested in hosting an overseas friend or have any other related queries, do contact us at nuspsirc@gmail.com

Do include details such as your 1) Name 2) Email 3) Home Address 4) Contact Number 5) Period of availability 5) Rent that you intend to charge

Thanks!

Fabian Aw
Pharmacy Year1

Hi everyone,

Please read through the following information if you are interested in going for IPSF/APPS.

For IPSF/APPS Registration
Note that the two programmes have very different sign-up methods, so don’t confuse them

To sign up for APPS
1. Register yourself on the APPS website on your own. You may register starting from the 1st of February.
2. Email Valerie (vp@nusps.org) your full name, matric number, handphone number, email address, your passport number AND your nationality. Please do not forget any of the above criteria as they are needed for verification purposes.
3. She will send your CP confirmation letter to APPS directly on your behalf. For people who have registered with her thus far, she has already completed your CP letters–however you have to email her again when you have registered manually on the website (see point 1)

To sign up for IPSF
1. Email Valerie that you’re interested in IPSF. Include your full name, matriculation number, handphone number and email address. If you are not Singaporean, please also indicate your nationality.
2. Please do not register at the website until you’ve received a CP confirmation letter from Valerie. She will try to send your letter to your indicated email address within a week or two of your email to her. If you have not received the CP letter after 2 weeks from when you first registered with her, do check back with her by emailing her.
3. Once you have received your CP confirmation letter, you can register yourself on the IPSF website. Do also double-check that the details of your CP letter are correct, and let Valerie know if there are any issues with it.

Regarding cost and payment of IPSF/APPS
1. Air-tickets for APPS (Korea) will cost about $900+/-. Flight is by Korea Airlines. For IPSF (Slovenia), cost of tickets are about $2000.
For APPS, mass-booking is a viable option due to the large signup rate so far. For IPSF, it’s unlikely mass-booking will occur unless there are about 40 people going.
2. For payment, please remember to include your interbank transfer fee together with the symposium fee when you are paying. Otherwise, you will have to pay it when you’re there.

Other details
There won’t be interviews conducted for both APPS/IPSF.

If you register by the 1st registration period (ends on 31st march for both) there shouldn’t be any reason for you not to be able to go. However please do not register too near the deadline because you still have to settle payment and other details BEFORE the deadline.

Some of you have been asking about the number of people who signed up for each event. For APPS there is about 30 people, with more each day. For IPSF, there are fewer–only about 10 so far.

Do not worry about the number of people going–everyone should be able to go for it, as mentioned.

For any other details or queries, do contact Valerie (vp@nusps.org), VP and CP of IPSF.

Hi Pharmers,

The Medical Faculty will be putting up a musical in feb entitled Operation Theatre 3: The Elusive Promise, put up by medicine and nursing students.The details of the ticketing are as follows:

Operation Theatre 3: The Elusive Promise

ACJC CPA Theatre, 5th-6th Feb 2010.
5th Feb: 7.30pm
6th Feb: 2.30pm, 7.30pm

Tickets at $15 (early bird) and $20, free seating.

Email ot3ticketing@gmail.com with your name, year, contact number, number of tickets & date/time of performance.

Ticketing booths every Thursday outside the MedSoc Lounge.

For more info please contact Wingyee at 97590428. Please do show support for our future colleagues of the medical fraternity. Thank you!

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Warmest regards,
Tan Wei Zhe Edwin
President
49th Executive Committee
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

Hello dearest Pharmily,

Have you often felt frustration in trying to find photos/videos of yourself from NUSPS events that you have attended?
Do you hate sieving through the countless NUS emails just for the information relevant to us in PHARMACY?
Have you ever wanted to get to know other people from Pharmacy better, be it your classmates, juniors or seniors? Or even our staff?

Wouldn’t you like a one-stop place for all the photos, videos, media and updates you ever wanted?

The 49th MRT is proud to bring to you our creation: THE FACEBOOK PROJECT.
All you need to do is to become a “fan” of our FACEBOOK PAGE, NUS Pharmily!

Do spread the word and encourage everyone you know to get on FB!

With love,
The NUSPS 49th Media Resource Team
(MRT projects take much time and effort to construct, but they’ll always be for your convenience and greater accessibility)

Hi to one and all!

Pharmacy Graduation Night 2010 Committee is doing fundraising for our Year 4 Graduation night!

This time we are selling bookmarks designed by our very own Year 4 student Ang Peijing!

Each bookmark represents a different aspect of Pharmacy, and our dear artisit has contributed 5 different designs!

Do take a look at the designs either attached to this email or in your yahoo groups!

Each bookmark would be?retailing at?$2 per piece!!! We do hope that you would?purchase the bookmarks in support of our graduation night and in the appreciation of our artist for her wonderful artwork!

The bookmarks would be?colored and laminated to ensure it remains a keepsake for times to come…long after you graduate!!! ?:)

We would be?collecting orders this week, the Graduation Night Committee is would be looking forward to your support!!!

Koh Li-yong Jasmine
National University of Singapore Pharmaceutical Society

Hello fellow pharmacists!
When was the last time you played captain’s ball? Or when was the last time you even exercised?? Here is your chance to do both!! The NUS Pharmaceutical Welfare committee sees ALL of your needs and has decided to organize a sports carnival on 21st of January. 4 30pm at the outdoor multipurpose courts where you get to play captain’s ball!!

So come down and play ball with us and stand a chance to win fabulous prizes of ice cream vouchers for the top 3 teams! The best thing is the winning team will get to play with our very own professors! So don’t wait and register with us now in your teams of 8, including at least 2 girls, and email us at nusps.sportscarnival@gmail.com!!!

Download the registration form here.
Warmest Regards,
Welfare Committee
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

Dear fellow classmates,

Tired of going round searching for your perfect resume photo? Fret not!

Pharmacy D&D Committee 2010 will be offering professional photography services from 5th to 7th January 2010 in the NUSPS room beside LT 20!

Professional photography equipment and photographer would be made available to take presentable and professional shots for your Curriculum vitae (CV), resume, passport photo, or just a nice personal shot!

Please make an appointment with us before coming down!

Early bird prices will be fixed at:

$4 – For softcopy only

$5 - For one set of 6 (*to confirm with the printer setup) passport size photos

$6 – For both hard and softcopy

Early bird registration will end on 31 December 2009. So email us at resumephotos10@gmail.com or contact Yan Ting at 963212727 to make your appointment or for any queries!

PS: Please bring along an approriate set of attire for the photoshoot.

Thank you!
Love,
Pharmacy D&D ‘10

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note: the NUSPS MRT is aware that the contact number provided to us has a typo because of an extra numeral. We are waiting to obtain the correct number. Before that, do take the inconvenience of emailing the D&D committee instead. (:

Dear fellow Pharmers,

Here’s the latest issue of ELIXIR!
In this issue, read all about events such as

1. Freshmen Orientation Camp & Week
Did you hear about how FOC ended prematurely because of H1N1? Still, most would agree that the fun and friendships made during the camp were worth the 7-day quarantine.
Read all about how the freshies were warmly introduced to the Pharmily.

2. RAG & FLAG
We fought hard and long to keep Rag an event of ours. And we definitely didn’t disappoint! See the photos of our spectacular presentation that easily rivalled the other competing faculties.

3. IPSF, YEP and others
Our events aren’t all just kept here, in school. Read more about our students who have gone or are going overseas, and their experiences.

We’ve also included lots of other juicy tidbits related to Pharmacy. For instance, do you know what the NUSPS logo stands for? Or how long it takes for a new drug to enter the market?

Why not take a read to find out!

So do take a short break from your studying and look through Elixir to unwind! )

Click on the image to access the newsletter!
This opens the document in a new browser window.

Alternatively, you may also download the file from here. We advise you to do this instead of viewing the online version as this file host has a larger bandwidth. Apologies for any inconvenience caused!

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With Warmest Regards,
Belinda & the 49th Media Resource Team
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

(We bring you news faster than the construction of the Kent Ridge MRT station. Really.)

Dear Pharmers,

Have you ever think about competing with the other students from the medical societies in sporting games? Do you find that there needs to be more friendly competitions between the various student societies? Now here’s your chance!

The 61st Medical Society has warmly extended invitations to all the 4 major Allied-Health student societies (Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing and Duke-NUS) to take part in their Annual Intra-Year Games. We are invited to take part in the following friendly games:

Floorball (Men & Women) – 25 October (Sunday), 11 am – 7 pm
Venue: MPSH 6, NUS Sports and Recreation Centre
- 5 on court, no goalie, men shoot with board obscuring goal cage. 2 halves of 7 mins.

Captain’s Ball (Mixed) – 7 November (Saturday), 9 am – 1 pm
Venue: Outdoor Multipurpose Courts, NUS Sports and Recreation Centre
- 6 on court, at least 2 from either gender.

As such, I hope to see students from across all 4 years to come and participate in these games. There will be 2 teams of floorball (men & women) as well as 1 team of captain’s ball.?Please express your interest by registering with the Welfare Head, Cindy at xinyimeimei89@yahoo.com. The registration will end on 21st October (coming wednesday). I look forward to your arduous support for this event and feel free to?contact me at nuspspres@gmail.com for any queries. Thank you!

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Warmest regards,
Tan Wei Zhe Edwin
President
49th Executive Committee
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

Dear Students,

Volunteer fund collectors are needed for the victims of Typhoon Ketsana and Padang Earthquake.
In support of these disaster-relief efforts by Singapore Red Cross, NUS Student Union (NUSSU) and Graduate Students’ Society (GSS) are raising funds within the NUS campus for two weeks. Booths will be set up at places with high human traffic in NUS to collect donations from the NUS community. The fundraising will be conducted in NUS from Monday, 19th to Friday, 23rd October, 11am to 3pm every day.
How can you help?

You can help by manning booths and reaching out to the NUS community to donate generously to the cause.

There are 2 timeslots, 10.30am-1pm and 12.30pm-3pm.

The booths will be set up at the following locations:

1. Engineering Canteen
2. Engineering LT6
3. Science LT27
4. Science Foyer LT26
5. Central Library Walkway
6. Central Forum
7. Business Canteen
8. Arts Walkway
9. Arts Canteen

Please register?here by Friday 16 Oct, 10am.

For further clarifications and enquiries, feel free to email us at help.asian.disaster.victims@gmail.com. Your efforts will be meaningful to those affected by the recent disasters and we would greatly appreciate your help and support.

On behalf of NUSSU/GSS
Sincerely,
Thank You.