Physical All Done

The physical examinations were all done and now I was on my way back home, picking Irfan up in route. I actually have a lunch talk at 1 and at the rate I was going, I don't think that I would be able to make it back to Subang in time for that. In fact, I had taken early lunch with Anita before leaving KLCC.

As for the checkup itself, it went without a hitch. It was rather comprehensive, with blood, urine, X-ray and stress test. It was completed with a physical by one of the Physician there. It went on smoothly after he learned that I was a fellow Physician as well.

The place, Twin Towers Medical Center was a lot bigger than I expected. One of my friend, Azida work there a few days a week and Anita had been to visit her on a few occasions. It was my first time there and I was surprised. I could only imagine the amount the place had to pay for rental monthly. It must be a bomb. And the place was packed.

I managed to get to stage V on the treadmill, reaching the target heart rate. I felt OK afterwards, but a bit thirsty. I could do with a bit more of a regular exercise especially with my BMI now surprisingly above 25. Not by much, but I could do with shedding a kilo or two. Or five.

Rushing home now for a quick shower, then back to Subang for the afternoon clinic.

Bursting

Since I applied for a loan for the apartment, I was asked to attend a medical. And it was scheduled for this morning at one of the panel clinic. The one I picked was at Suria KLCC. It would involve a blood test, physical as well as exercise ECG. I hope I would be fit enough for the treadmill. Imagine if I were to vomit due to my ...... physical non-fitness.

For the blood test, I was asked fast overnight. I was allowed clear fluids, and I had been drinking since morning. I suspect that they would need a urine test as well. So, with the gallons of water I had been drinking, I needed to go the loo frequently. On the way to the clinic, traffic had not been kind. I had been stuck on the same spot for the last 20 minutes with my bladder almost bursting. Definitely my blood pressure would go up. No doubt about it. And the end was not in sight yet .......

Foto by Haris

Since beginning of the year, I had been doing beta testing for my blog engine, SquareSpace. It was mainly for the need iteration, SquareSpace version 6. Certainly it was a departure from the software behind harisrahman.com, which ran on version 5. I was offered to upgrade but decided otherwise. The current blog was already week customised, I couldn't be asked to spend the extra time doing the updating. The current routine works OK as far as I was concerned.

As a reward, I was given a free account. One of the thing I noticed about the new version was, it was platform agnostic. The website more or less looked the same no matter what device you use. It looked the same on the laptop, the iPad and even the iPhone. It also optimises itself for viewing on the Nexus 7. A sister website, fotobyharis.com was born.

The new version also has an excellent gallery feature for photographs. So, I decided to use that for a new gallery. I used to use another account for this but I found it to be rather cumbersome. With the new engine, I just upload it straight up and the website optimised itself. Less headache. I still use SmugMug for my repositories, and that would remain so for some time.

I actually starting to like the new version. It still took a bit of time to get used to things. Updating on the fly was still not possible as I used to do it. But the site definitely has potential .......

It Was Definitely Down

As I walked towards the car park on the way home just now, the couple of panels which the apparition appeared on had been replaced by dark panes. They had finally managed to bring the window panes down. I then noticed a sign for the public announcing that the windows were lowered this morning at about 10 am without incident. The panels were transported to the Catholic Church, Our Lady of Lourdes in Klang. I imagine the faithful would be congregating there soon ........

Is it Coming Down?

It was not really my business, but the parking lot being clogged up, and your patients wouldn't stop talking about it, one just couldn't help but to take notice. Rumour has it that the famed pane at my hospital's stairwell would finally be coming down today. And certainly the weather was nice enough for that.

The crowd as usual built up from early this morning, and I could see engineers going into the locked stairwell which I often used prior to this famous episode. No official word yet, but people were talking. Let's just hope that the operation went on without a hitch. Imagine the uproar if the pane were damaged, or worst even, dropped during the dismantling. I shudder to that thought ....