music (playing piano, bass guitar, marimba, and dan tranh), hopefully finding a band to play with someday, karate, watching anime and k-drama.
Music
The Beatles, L'Arc~en~Ciel, No Doubt, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the pillows, Utada Hikaru, Black Eyed Peas,.... i keep things diverse :)
Movies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Sassy Girl, Crying out Love in the Center of the World, Office Space, South Park the Movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Star Wars, Disney/Pixar, FLCL, and Cat Soup
Television
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!!!! daily show, colbert report, friends reruns, iron chef, project runway, top model, top chef, heroes, grey's anatomy, desperate housewives, south park, futurama, bleach, FULL HOUSE (the k-drama), stairway to heaven....
Books
Journey to the West, The Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, and A Dream of Red Mansion. AND, of course, Harry Potter :D
Heroes
my mom cuz she was a superhuman student in vietnam and she worked so hard all her life for me and my bro... my dad cuz he's the world's most complete source of information, AND he still carries the spirit of the 60's... and my brother, because he's always better than me at everything and anything :)
University Of California-San Francisco
San Francisco,California
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Professional
Major: Pharmacy
Clubs: Phi Delta Chi (webmaster), Vietnamese Students Association (secretary), and American Pharmacists Association (just for the otc textbook, haha)
Greek:
Phi Delta Chi
2005 to 2009
California State University-Los Angeles
Los Angeles,California
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Biology
Minor: Music
Clubs: Early Entrance Program, Beta Beta Beta Biological Honors Society, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Golden Key Honor Society, General Education Honors Club, Circle K International (only 2 years), Chicanos Latinos for Creative Medicine (never officially joined, but I was there!!)
1999 to 2003
Desert Junior/senior High
Edwards,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Clubs: Intermediate Band, Mathletes, Environmental Club
About me: im a former child prodigy who is now becoming a lazy slacker grad student (D = Pharm D). how did i get so lazy over the years? lol, but who cares cuz when im a pharmacist, i'll be making LOTS AND LOTS OF $$$$$ HAHAHAHAHA :) am i the only pharmacy student who still plays video games?
dude i'm about to passed out, so friggin exhausting today. so i'm in the Medical ICU following the pulm and Critical care team. today, brand new team, no fellow, no regular CCU pharmacist, and 3 new admits. i didn't even eat lunch cuz i was watching the team placing an IJ and A line in a patient, which took forever. and vanco PK dosing up the yin yang!
we should totally meet up again when you are back. i miss our little VSA posse :D. i'm happy to hear compounding is chilled!
verena! HAPPY BELATED BARFDAY!!!! Yay I'm no longer breaking the law by letting you sip on my wine. tehehe. I miss you! Imma call Ngan and see when she's free so that may we can do lunch together? What days are you free next week? Would you rather me go to LA or you guys come to OC and check out Little Saigon???
vv! where did you find that videoo?! so random! she looks really pretty in that video. was it pretty recent tho? cuz the clothes were really old school.
YOU'RE COMING IN 3 WEEKS?! woo hooo. comecomecome! how long are you gonna stay??
um, we all have the same schedule verena so i will have a week off in like 3 weeks too. why don't YOU come to OC/SD. lol. yeah, i can come up to LA. you wanna plan what we're gonna do?
that's awesome that you see our classmates. i see eunice, lora and lena, shirley and kim. me and kala see each other every week cuz we try to meet up for yogurt and such. i work with the UCSD kids too. they're cool but a little too over-achieving for my taste. but you know me, i just try enough to get by. "we're here to pass not to excel" has always been my motto. LMAO.
hey verena. i got CCU next! eeeek! i'm so f*cked. i really really liked genmed, i want to do a second one but they won't let me. =( anyway, hows everything with you? do you even see any of our classmates?
okay next time you come down, bring it! im addicted...sorta. youtube doesn't have many subbed videos. i just like their songs so i listen to that. but they're like, all from hana yori dango. ha
p.s. now i want to watch paris by night and see for myself. haha
i'm on amb care and it fuckin sucks ass. O-M-G its so boring and mundane. i'm rotating around all the free clinics in SD, and the 'pharmacy' usually has about one drug for each disease state.
i have 'the mobile health clinic' every thursday, and they put the meds in one of those fucking tool storage wheely thingamajiggy. we hand write the label for every drug. can you believe this shit? oh and the student run clinic is a fuckin dump. and it smells like armpits! yuk!
tell me more about orthosurg. i heard they do speed surgery (kinda like speed dating, except they cut and sew ppl up in 20 secs)
oh man, 5:30 in the morning???? i heard they do speed rounding tho where they sew ppl up in like 2.3 seconds like a drive-by orthosurgery or something. LOL. i am a little bit sad to be off genmed, i loved my team and i miss bossing the med interns around. lol. i have amb care right now, just rotating around the different free clinics in SD. its hot, and most ppl seem not to wear deodorant so the clinics smell like armpits most of the time. =(
do you ever wonder how we ever got accepted to UCSF???? lol. i wonder that all the time, esp. when the doctors respect me so much more when they find out i'm from UCSF.... little do they know...... Muwahaha. http://grad-schools. usnews. rankingsandreviews. com/grad/pha/search/
oh and me and kala were gonna do a survey too... about physician's knowledge about the new '5th generation' cephalosporin (since that was my drug monograph when i was on ID and we thought we just BS something...) but now I think we're just gonna join up with one of the tox fellow and help them w/ their research project. you? how is gen med????? our last week! YAY YUH!
v.v are you delusional from working for too many hours?!?!? HAHAHHA
you're funny. V.V!! when are you coming back down??? we need to plan a special activity like bowling or something interactive instead of staying at my boring ol house and glued to the tv/computer. hahah let's go.
kiki goes on walks now btw! its really cute except she sniffs everything. it takes her forever... and there's mushrooms that grow there and im always scared shes gonna eat them.
hey verena. i know you are obsessed w/ SYTYCD, so i thought i tell you that twitch went to college w/ me. he's a good friend of my friend. he's really good if i have to say so myself.
hahah v.v!! you didn't know it was travis? i saw the commercials and i was like, dang travis has nice legs. hahah i know he was cool tho! his tricks are so tight.
hahah i know, the ribbon guy is SOOO goood. i don't know WHY they keep rejecting him. he totally deserves to at least make it to the next round. wtheckkk
OMG verena. sorry to hear you are not liking gen med! for me, i have a love/hate relationship with it. i've been such a cry baby lately. the first time i cried bc i felt bad bc 1 of my viet patients asked for my # so that she can call me when she has Qs and I told her i can't. and then i cried like a baby yest bc one of my pts died and he reminded me of my grandpa. and then today i cried bc one of my pts who was doing relatively well a couple days ago turned the corner and he might be d/c to comfort care. he could barely hold up a pen to sign the consent form for his paracentesis.
anyway, i feel so DUMB. its not even funny. today, one of the pharmacists was quizzing me on heparin (its nice if they tell you to review it first!!! but they never do) and the px vs tx doses. and i was like?????? i really HATE saying "I don't know, but I will look it up and get back to you." ARGGGH. Why am I so clueless????
I have to page the team too to see when we're rounding. and our rounds vary. i'm not even in charge of anything (admits, discharges etc). we just come early, pre-round by ourselves, and then round. afterwards, i go over notes w/ the res and enter them into our database. then i usu do vanco level or i have to present something to the res/preceptor.
hahaha i feel the same, every time someone has an abx, i always get excited too. pathetic i know. but at least ID is the one thing i'm fairly knowledgeable in. like the other day, the team didn't know if zosyn has good coverage vs anaerobes, and i was like, "Well actually....." LMAO
i was dying last week. i feel like i'm in medical school bc i always gotta look up all the diagnostic tests performed. and abbreviations drive me nuts! ercp/mrcp, vats, egd, tips, cvvhd, ards blah blah. english please!
they also make me do journal club, dx state presentation and an inservice. oh and do vanco level. i had to come in yesterday on my day off after working (paid work) to look over the new admits. how is your typical day like? i think we should have a phone date so that you can teach me something :D.
VBear! (that's my new nickname for you lol) what rotation are you on?? are you dying yet? cuz i am. damn, i gotta wake up at 5am now! sucks ass. and i still gotta take the bus but at least since it's so early in the morning, there's not alot of weird ppl. yesterday was my first day on gen med and i already had to translate for a patient. try saying hepatitis C, low platelet counts, and hepatic encephalopathy in vietnamese! LMAO. my team thinks i'm a god send but for all they knew, i was talking crap about them to the patient. LOL jk.
