We are proud to present to you our year 4 Class Commencement Giving project 2010.

This year, we will be organising S3- Sentosa Siloso Sensation!

The details are as follows:

Venue: Siloso beach, Emerald Pavillion
Date: 6th Mar’10
Time: 9am -1pm

We will have a bunch of games and interactive fun installed, and after the event it will be free-and-easy. So, feel free to bring frisbee/volleyball etc.
Sign up today!

How to sign up?
For students, please go here. (Signing up is in groups of 5-6)
Please also download and print out this indemnity form, and fill it in for submission to us on the actual day; this is especially if you are below 21!

For staff, please go here to sign up. Registration is in groups of 2-3.

Sign ups will close on 25th April 2010 at 12 midnight! Results for the groupings will be announced on 4th May’10.

How to make a donation?
All staff and students, please make your contribution directly to Miss Chew Ying Ying by 25th April’10.

Students:
Yr 4s have donated a minimum sum of $10 per person
Yr 1-3s, please donate an amount as a class, this amount is representitive of your support to the cause.

Staff: $3 per graduating student, so that is $354.

(For those who want to, but are unable to attend. There is also an online donation portal available at this link.)

Everyone, thank you for your enthusiasm and generosity. Together, we can make things happen.

Yours,
Class Champions of Pharmacy class 2010
Ang Pei Jing, Raymond Liew, Adrian Wong

As this academic year comes to an end, we are proud to present you the 49th MRT’s last issue of Elixir.
In this issue, read all about past events that have been organized by the various committees of NUSPS. We bring you plenty of coverage on:
- Late 2009’s YEP and Xperience Pharmacy Camp
- Patient Counselling Event and Brown Bagging
- The newly initiated Sports Carnivals
- and our very own Health Bazaar, held in conjunction with World Tuberculosis Day

Since final exams are looming ahead, we’re sure most of you must be feeling the stress.?In this issue, we meet up with two of our professors who are NUS Pharmacy alumni for some golden advice on how to survive the course, as well as some anecdotes of what life as a student was like for them. We’ve also included some tips of how to destress–will you take our quiz to check your stress levels?

So do take a short break from your studying and look through Elixir to unwind. This time round, we have taken much effort to print Elixir out in a glossy new MAGAZINE FORMAT for keeping in the PS room! So if you’re in school by any chance, do drop by to take a look.

Don’t forget, all work and no play makes one a dull person!

Click on the image to access the download link of the newsletter!

Happy reading, and we wish you all the best in your end-of-year exams!

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With much love,
Belinda & the 49th Media Resource Team
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

(Study not just hard, but smart. Plan your time well, stick to your goals, and be as efficient as you can!
Don’t end up like studying at the rate of the construction of the Kent Ridge MRT station)

As the semester is nearing the end, exams are coming round the corner. We know that exam stress is overwhelming, so NUSPS Welfare has specially prepared exam packs for you guys! This time round, every cohort will be allocated a certain number of packs which will be given out on a first-come-first-serve basis.

To ensure fairness, everyone can only take their own share. No collection on behalf of friends can be made.

Do take note of the collection timing for each cohort:

Year 1s: Monday (29th March) – 12.15pm to 1pm
Year 2s: Monday (29th March) - 1.45pm to 2.15 pm
Year 3s: Friday (26th March) – 11am to 11.45am
Year 4s: Friday (26th March) – 1pm to 1.45 pm

Collection venue: PS room

All the best and good luck for exams, everyone!!!

Warmest regards,
Liew Xin Yi Cindy
49th Executive Committee
Welfare Director
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

KOI Bubble Tea will be sold by our very own Emed Committee during the upcoming Health Bazaar on the 22nd – 23rd of March.

Each medium size cup of either Bubble Milk Tea or Bubble Milk Green Tea will be sold at $3. If you make a purchase of a cup, you can adopt a Brown Bag for just an additional $1!

Each Brown Bag contains a Pill Box, Thermometer and Plasters, and the adopted bags will go to needy elderly recipients during the next Brown Bagging session to be carried out by the Emed Committee.

So why not contribute your part for the community while enjoying delicious KOI Bubble Tea at our bazaar? We hope to see you there!

The NUS Pharmaceutical Society is organising an annual bazaar (22-23rd March) at the Science Foyer!

Attractions!

Milo Truck, Auction for iTouch, KOI Bubble Tea, Games and MORE!

There will be a Auction conducted from 17th March to 19th March (Outside LT 25) and 22nd March to 23rd March (Outside LT 27).

Stand a chance to win an iTouch( 8GB 2nd GEN) worth SGD308 with the lowest single bid*!

For more information, please check out our booths from 17th March to 23rd March!

Winners will be contacted through phone and email.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Please refer to attached picture for illustration on the ‘lowest single bid’.

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

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

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.

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

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)