Remember: God's delays are not God's denials. God's timing is perfect. Patience is what we need in prayer.

When you are not right God says, "Grow."
The selfish person has to grow in unselfishness
The cautious person must grow courage The timid person must grow in confidence
The dominating person must grow in sensitivity
The critical person must grow in tolerance
The negative person must grow in positive attitude
The pleasure-seeking person must grow in compassion for suffering people.

When everything is alright God says, "Go."
Then miracles happen:
A hopeless alcoholic is set free
A drug addict finds release
A doubter becomes as a child in his belief
Diseased tissue responf to treatment, and healing begins
The door to your dream suddenly swings open and there stands God saying, "Go!"

by Dr Robert Schuller

1. Remove a tablet from the package
2. Pour yourself a glass of plain water (can be ommited depending on your swallowing skills)
3. Put the tablet in your mouth, specifically on the tongue
4. Swallow the tablet with/without the readied glass of water.
5. Did I say just swallow?

What did her friend say? Incubate it in water for a week?!?

For added chlorophyll issit?

Let's hope the preservative added is real strong and is in high concentration.

So here it is, lesson #101 on common sense:

1. Forget about listening to the pharmacist. Let's be fair. Let's say you are buying a computer and you know nuts about it. So who would you ask? Someone who know I presume. Perhaps the guy at the shop? It's the same here. At least the pharmacist can call up the distributor/manufacturer to clarify for you (because their license is at stake!). It's what they do other than standing behind the cashier.
2. Isn't it a hassle to have your product incubated for a week before you can take it? And I am amazed the company haven't "chap lap" or closed down yet. There are so many companies out there constantly trying to outdo each other by coming up with a product that is easier to use than the other. Take for instance, why do companies come up with a single daily dose formulation? Novopen? or even a 3-in-1 Nescafe or Quaker's Oats? Because you don't have to go toast your oats, cook it, mix milk, add sugar, add salt, or whatever before you realised that you are late for work already. We all learned this in marketing and business tip #123 la.. even a non-marketing student like me is exposed to this. Aiyo.
3. Think! Water. One week. Preservative. If a product to be taken by mouth is to be swimming in the water for a week, think what will grow? Fine, you say there are preservatives. Think again. How much preservative? How strong it is? And mind you, the water used now is not of pharmaceutical grade which means, it would have a high concentration of contaminants. So how much preservatives? (GMP rocks now!!!!)
4. You want to mix a one week old incubated water with your porridge?!? Err... How delicious.
5. If a product is meant to be swallowed whole with a gulp of water, just do it la. Why need to make it more difficult? Unless you got problems digesting the tablet which if so, you better go see a doc to have you guts checked out. I remembered an analogy my math teacher used to use. Imagine a spoon. Would you use the handle to eat? Lame I know. But the whole thing is lame as well!

Anyway, it's just funny and amusing. Haha. My highlight of the day!

Don't take me too seriously about lesson #101 of common sense because it's just common sense. At times, common sense doesn't work. The uncommon still exist. So there could be such a product but frankly, I think to soak/incubate a solid oral dosage form preparation in water for a week is erm.. weird. So I actually told her in the end that if she still can't make up her mind who to listen to, go ask another pharmacist whose pharmacy sells the product for a third party opinion since I have no idea what product she meant. All I know is that it is a tablet. For beauty purpose. Sounds like Bio-something-something. Anyone out there knows any beauty product that requires a week's incubation? *makes mental note to go Guardian*