Idlan Is 10

Idlan was born 10 years ago this weekend. It was the same weekend that Michael Schumacher won the Monaco, and Cristiano Ronaldo scored in the FA Cup final against Millwall to secure the last FA Cup win for United until today. All that happened while Anita was in labour.

Ten years on, Idlan celebrated his birthday with a party at his class, which coincided with Teacher's Day activity at his school. Anita organised the cakes and other titbits, cooked macaroni and cheese for the party and Irfan joined his brother when they had the cake-cutting during class break.

As usual, Anita went all out on the goodie bags which she prepared herself. She must've stayed up all night to sort those out looking at the elaborate preparation she did ....

I asked Idlan about his party after school. He said the party was brilliant. Well, it was all worth it ...

Old Skool

Quite literally, I went old school this evening after arriving home. On the table was the school magazine from Loughborough. It was a special edition with feature on career in Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinarian.

Unfortunately I didn't get the invitation to write in. A few of the student from my batch - A level 1992 - were featured. All of them were Consultants now from around the UK. Quite an interesting read actually.

van Gaal, No Hal

Finally, the best kept secret in football was out in the open. United had announced who tier next manager was to fill the hood after the sacking of David Moyes. It was none other than Louis van Gaal.

The interesting things were the timing of the announcement and the appointment of Ryan Giggs as his number two. The timing was spot on and with Giggs on board, the transition from the "Ferguson Way" would be easier to take.

In terms of getting results, van Gaal is right up there with the best. At the same time, people had been telling stories about his temperament. Maybe a bit of Rottweiler was what United needed at the moment, to kick things forward.

Either way, he was not able to stamp his brand until the World Cup in Brazil wrapped up. Giggs would have to organise the pre-season before the start of 2014-15. Let's wait and watch.

Big Minus

I love my Monday and Wednesday mornings drive to Park City. A welcomed change from the hustle and bustle of Subang. Things appeared pretty cool over there. Nice scenery. And nice place to chill at the mess.

But the main drawback was the cellphone coverage. They had been abysmal. For all three telcos - trust me, I had SIMs for all three!

My main phone was still on Celcom network. In the last few visits it had failed me big time. Maxis used to be great. I could even get LTE in my clinic room. Lately, it was down to EDGE if I was lucky.

This morning, there was no signal on Celcom. I had to entertain plenty of missed calls the moment the signals kicked in. Sigh!

The hospital management better look into this as the main method of contacting us were still through our cellphones.

Lift Issue

During ward round this morning, one of my patient complained that he had to use the stairs - to the fifth floor - since the lifts were down.

The worry was, none of the lift were in order - except maybe the service lifts for emergency - so what happened if there is a mad rush or emergency? Apparently the lifts were down for maintenance. Sunday being the least busy day it made sense. But not if you switch off all the lifts at the same time ...