At the Clinic

Since returning from Kuching, Irfan has been having high temperature. Despite seeing our local GP - unfortunately Dr Lim has been away - his fever was still there. He had been coughing all night, but can't shake off his phlegm. He vomited a couple of times and this morning, I planned to take him to see his Paediatrician at Pantai.

Since arriving at Pantai, he has been running around non-stop. His fever came down. Typical. We were worried if he would get admitted like last time when he developed bronchitis. Hopefully a change of antibiotics should do it this time.

Longer than Expected

One of the things that irks me when it comes to photo editing was getting the colour balance right. I have done editing before when the batch came out with a tint. Unfortunately without a calibrated screen, you can easily get the colour wrong. Well, at least to me. Since this was the first time I have used my iMac for any sort of batch editing, I had to spend some extra time tweaking the colour. I think I was getting there until I notices this horrible cyan tint on the final jpg.

So, some of the colours had been reeked and I just left the system on to upload some of the photos up to my SmugMug account. I reckoned, I would have close to 400 photos in the end. Since I would be on leave still tomorrow, I should be able to upload all the photos by then, provided my broadband connection would behave itself. It should be ready by lunchtime if there was no distraction.

Some ole ole

From Sarawak, I brought back a boxful of terubuk masin, a delicacy from Kuching as well as some cookies and kek lapis. For it to stay fresh, I had to pass some of them to my Mum as soon as I reached KL. Since Monday was a public holiday, we went out for a family lunch. My sister, Julia brought Mum over to The Curve and we had lunch at Marche.

Julia initially stopped for a quick shop at IKEA, and despite reaching IKANO before 11.30, there was already a queue leading into the IKEA carpark. We decided to do the sensible thing and parked over at The Curve side. Plenty of spaces still available.

IKEA was packed. The cashier queue were easily ten layers deep and it was not even midday. The queue at the cafeteria was also ridiculously long, and the children were getting right grumpy. For lunch, we went for Marche instead, for a nice relaxing meal. I was a good boy and did not have any steak. I had some rosti and salad instead - well I'd better be after the sumptuous seafood dinners in Kuching.

Heading Back to KL

Finally arrived at KLIA. Managed to get the stuffs from my wife's cousin as planned. Just also found out that Irfan has been running high fever. He was complaining of a toothache since yesterday and from this morning been having runny nose. Maybe would have to take him to see the Doctors later.

The flight home was smooth. Had a long conversation with a colleague about things, making the journey pass by really fast. The was a big game coming up later this evening. United playing Arsenal away at the Emirates. Should be a compelling game if I manage to stay awake.

Update on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:34PM by Haris Abdul Rahman

Well. Really tired and now occupied by watching the big game. The editing would have to wait until tomorrow. Sorry!

Photos for Download

All together I had snapped more than 1000 frames in the last few days around the event. All the photos has been transferred into my backup harddrive now and will be processed as soon as I return to KL. It should appear on this website some time tomorrow. I would be creating a pane on the top of the page for easy navigation.

All the photos should be free for download. You would be transferred to my photo site once you select the photos you would like to download. All the best. I hope you have enjoyed the Kuching meeting as much as I did. I will also make my slides available for download - the key once of course - not the Premier League table or William and Kate's wedding photos. :)