The Planery

Right after lunch, I attended the celebrated Ham Weissmann Lecture, presented by Prof Alan Burnett of Cardiff. It was held at one if the Planery Halls. And it was a huge hall. Easily accommodating the 20000 delegates or so.

With such big group, the WiFi signal suffered. I wasn't even able to log onto one. Had to revert to my cellular signal, which thankfully was fast as well. So, let's enjoy the talk ....

More on the Atlanta trip here. 

Morning Sit

Reached work early to sort out patients from recent call. A few of them needed review this morning. Consequently I had to drive into Subang, then turn around to PJ to give a talk for a Pharmaceutical group.

I ended up waiting for the traffic to subside. The last things wanted would be to be stuck in traffic rushing from one place to another. So, time for some tea ...... and good morning .....

Slides Done

The sight which greeted me when I arrived home yesterday.Now that I had my slides prepared for the rest of the week, I was much more settled. I felt bloated when I woke up this morning with all the food. Anita went out with her friends this morning for breakfast after dropping the boys at school. As for me, I had a free morning.

I was quite keen to take my X100 for another spin. I was very impressed with the photos I took during my Penang trip last weekend and I could see myself enjoying using the camera even more. Once I was more familiar with the camera, I would write a more detailed review.

As for today, I was thinking of going over to Central Market for a spot of street photography. Weather permitting of course. I have lectures and work the rest of the week though, including the coming weekend. So, if I need to go for shoot, today would be the day.

Tandoori

I wasn't joking when I tweeter about making a crazily early start this morning. I was too tired to work on the slides for a tutorial for today and decided to retire early. I then woke up a little after 4 am to start working on them, took my shower around 5.30 and spent the time after that finishing things off.

I got them all done in the end but oh boy, was I tired? I will need to retire early again tonight I guess, probably making another early start again tomorrow. I got tons of stuff to do.

After a long morning, followed by MRCP meeting, I headed for my tutorial jut outside the campus. The tutorial ended until after 6 and I only reached home after 7.30, really starving. Luckily Puan Anita prepared some tandoori chicken for dinner. Love her!

KL Hilton Talk

You can tell I was hardly concentrating. I can assure you that the Windows computer was not mine. God forbid!Full day yesterday, but not as full as my colleagues from USM, Kubang Kerian, Abu Dzarr and Azlan. We had a round table discussion followed by a lecture and dinner by Prof Antonio Palumbo, a prominent Haematologist from Turin, Italy. He talked about multiple myeloma, and it was excellent. I summerised his lecture on my hematologiPPUM.com site. It was certainly great to be able to hear doyen speaking about their work, and Prof Palumbo was certainly up there. Azlan and Abu Dzarr actually took a 4pm flight from Kota Baharu, listened to the talk and had dinner, before flying home at 10.30 pm! Now, that was hectic!

Dato' Chang chairing the round table discussionFor the round table discussion, I was asked to prepare and discuss a case, which I duly obliged. I must say that I could have put more effort, but since the offer was at the last minute, I concentrated on getting the message right, without even using a powerpoint slide. Now that was bold, but it through OK. Stirred up some discussion. After about half an hour break, we proceeded on with the main lecture. The talk was held at the new level 7 convention floor at KL Hilton. I was more used to the level 6 facilities, and it looked like the suite there were just refurnished, with plush seatings and state of the art equipment. Well, close. It can’t be state of the art if they were still using Vista! The room used for the lecture was rather small though, too small for the crowd, which was bigger than expected. Even the venue for the dinner was too small. Luckily it was buffet. The majority of the crowd actually lingered in the foyer.

The actually dinner was an eclectic mix of Japanese and Western. The dish was nicer than the previous buffet I experience at the hotel. I still prefer the buffet at the main eatery there, which I think was on the fifth floor, New Recipe. The buffet there I would readily recommend. A bit dear, but you get what you paid for.

Another surprise on the night was the fact that it did not cost me a thing on exiting the car park. Usually at KL Sentral, the parking for conventions and meetings will set me back RM8, despite endorsement. Well done Mr Sponsor!