Archive for June, 2008

Apple arrives in Sydney

24Jun08

Apple Store Sydney, located at the corner of George and King Streets in the city centre, opened with much fanfare on 19 June 2008. Being a flagship Apple Retail Store, and the first in the southern hemisphere, it features a spectacular architectural design which makes extensive use of glass, most prominently in the façade and […]

Campos Obama Blend

17Jun08

This morning I dropped by Campos Coffee in Newtown, my favourite coffee bar in Sydney, and noticed that they’d come out with a new coffee blend… The Obama Blend!

Campos Superior Blend and The Obama Blend at Campos Coffee

It’s described as:
Great depth of character, strong, and eloquent. This very appealing blend unites coffees from Africa and […]

Strong foundations (of pharmacy)

09Jun08

This post is dedicated to my Bachelor of Pharmacy students, who I’ve taught in PHAR1811 Foundations of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney during first semester 2008. They have been an absolute pleasure to teach and I feel privileged to have played a part in helping to develop the next generation of Australian pharmacists.
Amongst the […]

Concord youth

04Jun08

Concord Repatriation General Hospital has a somewhat undeserved reputation for its geriatric patient demographics – these days any tertiary referral teaching hospital in Sydney has just as many geris as Concord. It is true however that Concord does not admit children, so it was quite refreshing for my group to see several younger patients during […]




 

Kieren Po is a hospital pharmacist in Sydney NSW, Australia; a medical student in the USydMP, and a tutor in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney. He is a photography and digital design enthusiast and currently Assistant Director of Publications of the Sydney University Medical Society.