Day Trip to Johor Bahru

Had an early start today. Cought a glimpse of the football score before leaving for KLIA. Damn Liverpool leading Real Madrid 3-0. It ended up 4 nil. They are playing United this weekend, and for sure they will get a stuffing. Left for KLIA finally at around 5.30.

Took slightly longer than expected on the empty morning traffic, taking an whole hour. Finally settled in and waited for Zack. He had made an online check-in last night and bringing over the printed boarding pass. Boarded the flight for 7.25. Luckily so as we found out later on that the 10ish flight was cancelled. Seems to be a regular occurrence on MAS now in their plan to cut operating cost. Reached Senai Airport a little after 8.15 and went ahead to have breakfast.

Found out that Dato' Chang was around to do his hospital visit. The CME started around 1.15, with only 20 MOs attending. Chang pointed out that the attendance could have been better with more support from hospital management. Reminds me of my previous talk in Hospital Melaka where around 60 people attended. Rushed to the airport to make the 3.50 flight, in time to hit the KL rush hour on the drive back home.

In the lecture, I touched on definition of febrile neutropenia and approach on the empirical management when it comes to initiating antimicrobials. Went through the IDSA guideline, then pointed the resistance pattern in UMMC. The Q&A was interesting, but hopefully the message was clear enough.

Score being settled

Spent the whole day synchronising my blogs and creating some workflow going. Also had to transfer a large chink of my photo files between my drives, both in the clouds and on the ground. The internet connection has not been kind due t the bad weather today. It has been mostly raining.

Will be back to work tomorrow, then off to JB to give a Febrile Neutropenia update there.

H

Purchasing a domain

Decided to plunge in and register myself a private domain name. Should be up and running by tomorrow and the site will run from www.harisrahman.com

Wish me luck

H

You have to start somewhere

Hi all,

I'm due to start my sabbatical in the coming weeks, and part of the plan is to blog. A kind of journal, but about my field, Haematology and chemotherapy. Not just another journal but one that is in Malay. My supposed mother tongue. Malaysians are very good at complaining especially in blogs. This is going to be different. Might turn out to to be some sort of a wiki one day. A place for local Malaysians just been diagnosed with leukaemia and lymphoma to read up about their fears and uncertainty ..... in Malay.

Step one, get a personal website. Once it's up and running, maybe rename it into something that the patient can relate to. Something like kemoterapi.com ... kinda boring ... but as I said .... you have to start somewhere.

H