Late Nights

It had been a busy couple of days and last night, I only got back home around 10 pm. It was nice to meet up with colleagues after a while, catching up on the gossips and all. As for today, few complications in the ward needing sorting out.

Last night, I was at a meeting discussing the upcoming society meeting in Penang late April. This was followed by a lecture given by a Professor from Athens, giving up updates on latest treatment for myeloma. Something I heard when I was in Atlanta in December, but the opportunity to ask question was priceless.

Then came dinner. And this was when the gossips came in. A few memorable stories I must say ......

Meet up at G Tower

I didn't even know that the G Tower, right opposite Ampang Park, next to the Tabung Haji building was actually a conference center and hotel. I thought it was more o an office building of sort.

Yesterday was the first time I set foot there. A nice but small hotel, but the conference facilities were OK. There were only three floors of accommodation, suitable for those coming for an overnight meeting from out of town. The catering was also pretty standard.

I had a small conference there, followed later in the afternoon by my council meeting. Getting there was pretty straight forward from Subang, although I was not able to join before lunch due to work commitments. I took the NPE, then turning towards SMART tunnel, and when I emerged on the Jalan Tun Razak exit, I was almost there already. Took me user 30 minutes even in the rain, and Saturday afternoon traffic.

Well, I was bored .....We had an update session on Haematology, and it was a joint meeting between the clinician and Haemato-Pathologist. Very interesting session although I found myself hard to concentrate late on a Saturday afternoon. But the suggestion of building a centralised Lymphoma Pathology Center brought me out of my slumber ..... For which I would reserve my thoughts for the time being.

Anyway, just to mention that G Tower was a nice venue. That's all.

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. :)

Checking in

My flight into Kuching last night was delayed quite a bit and I ended up checking into Pullman Kuching just before midnight. The hotel was one of the new kid on the block. The lobby was spacious but ether empty. You can still smell the coating on the walls, it was so new.

Close to midnight, I just headed straight for the shower and unpacked. I was too tired to wait for the Barca-Real Champs League semi-final match. I fell asleep while doing done reading, and woke up after 7 this morning.

Another shower, and then breakfast. Since I was on the Executive Floor, breakfast was just a floor up at the Lounge. It was quite at the time I showed up and the spread there I was sure was a lot less than at the main kitchen, but minus the crowd of course.

I had a quick wonder around the exec lounge, there was free Internet station, some massage chair, plenty of coffee and drinks, spacious sofa with the TV showing CNN - the typical business types hanging around there. I wished there was a small gym here rather than having to head downstairs for the treadmill.

30 minutes passed before I headed back to the room. I still had some reading to do and some stuff to prepare, so better start cracking. My first engagement would be straight after lunch for the patient support group talk. Will blog about that later.

All set

Anita was kind enough to do the packing for me last night. I was busy preparing the materials for the weekend meetings in Kuching. I would be taking a flight late this evening and would be leaving UMMC right after the Day Care. If everything going according to plan, I would be able to have a few hours at the airport to do some work as I was sure I would be tied up otherwise.

I would have to take the cleaning solutions for my cameras to Kuching as I did not manage to get everything ready. Initially I wanted to bring a couple if bodies with me, but after trying to fit everything into the camera bag, I settled for just the 7D, with a couple of lenses, the 17-55 and 50 prime. It should be able to cover most things. And of course the flashgun, a couple set of rechargeables and some extra memory card. I would be bringing the charges over as well of course.