Quick Breather

It had a few days since I last had the chance to blog. I had been busy with work mainly. I had three calls in between my return from Fraser's Hill and Christmas. I was now on the second and it had been a busy one.

At the moment, I was waiting for patients to be transferred to the ward. Finally I had some time to sit at the lounge and catch something on TV.

Full clinic tomorrow followed by Idlan's khatam on Sunday. Anita had been occupied with that and she was getting some help from my in-law's maid. It looked like I wouldn't be much of a help since I'll probably be sleeping tomorrow.

Better enjoy the movie while I've got the chance.

Congested

It looked like business was picking up at our MediPlex building next door. The drawback to that was the number of advertisement and bunting to entice us timers as they enter the carpark.

It looked that it was getting rather out of hand. The lift lobby looked congested with all those signs. We are slowly turning into a shopping centre at this rate...

The Annual Dinner

No, this isn't the usual formal annual dinner where everybody must attend and pretend to enjoy themselves. Where the Boss would give a speech and awards given to the best employee and the managers patting themselves on their collective backs saying how good they have done in the past year.

This was a ritual. Every Ramadan the Bosses from the Oncology team would organise a berbuka puasa event for the nurses and staffs of the Oncology team, and this year it was held last night. Last year, the hosts, Dr Matin Mellor and Dr Ahmad Kamal had it at Sime Darby Convention Centre, and even though the food was great, the grappling to get to the food and the fact that the venue were slow to prepare the dishes left a sour taste to the mouth quite literally.

This year it was more organised. And the fact that the venue, Holiday Villa was just around the corner from the hospital helped quite a bit. No more parking a mike away from the hall this time around. And if you felt like it, there was always the option walking to the hotel.

The venue was bigger than I thought. We were tabled at Victoria Hall, right at the very end but the food was aplenty and there was hardly any queue most of the time. The selection was also pretty decent as most of the Ramadan Buffet I attended before only paid a courtesy attention to the actual food. There were mainly local and Indian affair although there was a bit of Japanese, a grill and some pasta. Enough to keep everybody interested. But the Malay desserts were smashing.

The place was rather crowded however and it was not designed for privacy. No real room for chit chat across table. The place was too crowded to mingle around as well. Food, a bit of chit chat and we were done. Not before a group photo though. And as usual, I bought Puan Anita with me.

Wierd Signage

I noticed that rather wierd signage at our new MediPlex building. It was meant to indicate the toilet. And from the looks of things the patron was rather desperate to get to the toilet to do their business, even putting their hands to the groin..... Not sure I've seen this before.

Work Has Started

It looked like I would be negotiating an obstacle course in the coming weeks on my route from the car park to my ward.

The work on the first floor of the MediPlex had already started rolling. They were putting up the dividers and before long, there would be drilling and dust. At least they had started after quite a long delay.

I wonder what would come up there later?