Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 11:23PM 
Looking after my 13 year-old car had been a drag lately. Last week, there was a coolant leak and we had to send the car back to the workshop. Minor repair but it still cost us a few bucks.
Seemed that the problem had been sorted, and hopefully it would be some time before the next trip to the garage!
Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 12:34PM 
So far I had only been in the room, apart from breakfast this morning. Been busy finishing off the slides and also catching up on some sleep.
Now that my session was done, I plan to have a visit into town right after lunch. Check out would be at 2 pm for me. Flight home 5.45 pm.
Anita had alerted me on what to get but I doubt if I could make it. Let's see ...
Kuching, Lecture, Malaysian Medical Association, Travel, talk in Conference, Diary, Travels Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 10:57PM 
I wrote this entry while I was in the air. MH 2522 to be exact, about to start dinner. The flight took off late however, boarding started late and the process of boarding was excruciating.
Many passengers carried more than they should as hand luggage. I carried one - none checked in and was struggling to find a spot to put it up. Too many plastic bags rather than proper bags!
Finally I just left my carry-on for the flight crew to sort out.
So, dinner and a bit of PlayStation. The flight should be around 90 minutes. Too short for a nap.
Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 3:50PM 
After a hectic week, and a hectic weekend. Just done with the boys concert - which I missed - and now on the ERL heading to KLIA to catch a flight to Kuching. A short overnight stay, to deliver a talk late tomorrow morning.
Had time to go through the slides but adjustments needed aplenty. Hopefully would be able to sort those out in time to board the flight. Reckon it would be full house.
Might be able to catch some sleep and some chill time at the hotel tonight. My return flight would be late afternoon, teaching KL by Maghrib.
KL Sentral, KLIA Express, Kuching, Travel in Diary, Travels Sunday, June 15, 2014 at 3:52PM 
After watching the Dutch getting the upper hand against Spain, I was full of optimism waiting for the England-Italy kick-off.
England wanted to inject pace to the game early doors, but Italy as the usually do, played at Pirlo-pace.
A dummy, a shimmy and a shot, and Italy was one nil up. England did not sit still and the old adage of teams being most vulnerable to concede when they had just scored applied here. Within a couple of minutes, Sturridge was at the end of Rooney's cross to bring the score level.
The scored stood tied until the break.
Then Italy got the upper hand. Ballotelli. Why always him?
England couldn't find a reply after this although I must say compared to the previous years, they played with more enthusiasm. They just lack the know-how at the final third. Their shoot-on-sight tactic did create a few problems for the Italian defence who were shaky at times, but they could do with a world-beating midfielder, somebody with a knack for the killer pass. Xabi Alonso, Xavi, Veron or even A Scholsey would do nicely.
Now to look forward to the next group game and come through from there ...