That's Why I'm a Pharmacist, Not a Lawyer!

Memorising pharmacy law has got to be the WORST compulsory learning exercise in my life as a pharmacist. I don't understand why they cannot simplify the actual Acts and Regulations and Schedules to sentences no longer than 10 words and that do not contain 'relating to' more than once. After all, as a health professional, I only need to know the gist of it right? Mind you I think it IS simplified, but not quite simple enough for me =(

What makes it worse is I cannot just understand it. I have to be able to regurgitate most of it word for word, because the pharmacy law exam in Singapore is SHORT-ANSWER!!! Oh the horror I experienced when I found out. Perhaps I am too accustomed to the ways of the Australians that I adamantly believe law for the layman should be examined via multiple-choice. So I have to resort to sheer memorising...or rather, my study method has always been RECITING. Yes I recite aloud what I have to remember, which eventually produces a husky voice for every exam period. 

This is one of the few things that has added to my contemplating if I should just pack up and go home to KL. After all, I'm still not getting what I left Australia for. Well, not as much as I'd like anyway. And I keep finding more and more things I need to do in order to get registered as a pharmacist here. Am I just after an 'ideal' that doesn't exist? Maybe it has come down to the fact that I just have to pull my weight to be content with what is GOOD in my current circumstance and not constantly harp on what is Not So Good. In any case, just because Not-So-Good things happen doesn't mean it isn't the 'right' place to be. Right?

Intent on sticking it out (I can be reasonably kiasu when I need to be), at least for the next 6 months!