Saturday Afternoon Meeting

Saturday afternoon and as usual, there would be some medical meeting or forums taking place in town. This weekend it was on an oral anticoagulation, a favourite topic of mine.

So, off I went to the swanky new hotel in town - Grand Hyatt. Since I only joined for the afternoon session, I was worried that the traffic would've been bad on a Saturday afternoon. I decided to park at KLCC instead and took the underground tunnel towards Aquaria. From there, Hyatt was only five minutes away.

It was a big place. And the lobby was unique. It was basically one huge empty space. The ballroom and a couple of restaurants were located down there, but the rest of the lobby was located on one od the upper floors. You just take a lift up there. And that was where the checking-in and the business end happens. The lobby at the ground floor was left bare and sparse. Which was a welcomes change.

The AV system was amazing from what I saw. Seating area for the conference was also very comfortable and the cocktail area just outside the ballroom was big and accommodating. Something you would expect from a high end business hotel.

The talk itself was not bad. Very well oraganised and very well-ran. But it ended quite late though. Almost 6pm. But that didn't stop me from joining the boys across town at Setapak for dinner straight after.

Saturday Blues

I just had a look at the lab blood taking area and the queue was scary. It looked like I won't be able to start the clinic any time soon.

So, for the past hour, I had been camping at the lounge, watching the same news on the TV. Rather hungry but too early for lunch. So. Nothing but waiting fir the results for the time being.

I have a lunch and afternoon meeting to attend to in town but was really not in the mood. Might go to the meeting aftergetting changed at home, and would be bringing my camera along. The meeting would be near KLCC, so I might go snapping pictures after that .......

Talk was Done

After a cumbersome couple of days getting my slides in order, the talk went without a hitch. It was held at Renaissance and the topic was "Current Coagulant Landscape".

My talk was before lunch, so I was able to sort out my rounds before going into town. Anita was kind enough to loan me her driver for today, so getting to and from the venue was without hassle. I was able to finish off my slides on the way in and blog on my way back to Subang. Unfortunately I had clinic this afternoon. I could've just cancel it and listen to the rest of the talk but it was too much of a hassle.

Tonight, I promised Irfan to take him to the mall. He wanted to play Animal Keiser again. I wasn't able to take him last night since I was busy with my slides. So, will be out again tonight.

Fire Talk

I couldn't believe that I actually followed some of my colleague and sat through a whole hour talk on fire safety at the hospital. One whole hour. And it turned out to be quite OK. Some of the Doctors even bought some fire extinguisher after that. The talk was THAT good I supposed.

And it helped that the speaker actually showed us some photos of actual fires and videos on how to use the available equipment. And some cool pictures on the explosion from the Empire Shopping Mall in Subang. Some behind the scene stuffs.

At least I know where to ensemble should there be fire.....

Saturday Came and Went

This would be the second talk I did this year. I used to do a lot more talks at conference during my time at Universiti Malaya. Now that I have moved on, the demand on my time was a bit different. But I still said yes every time I was approached. I had another three engagements on the cards by June. Most of them would be in town, the other in Penang in April.

But for the talk yesterday, the timing was a bit off. It was a post-call day, and initially, I planned to close my clinic that morning. I changed my mind a few weeks back and limited the clinic until 11. It turned out that I only managed to sort out my ward patients by 10.30. I could only finish the clinic at 12 noon. That was followed by some other review and referrals. I had to forget about making this a short morning.

I rushed to my apartment for a quick lunch, and then rushed to KL Sentral where the talk was being held. Made it there in plenty of time. I fuelled myself up with coffee, and went through with my session. The council meeting came next and by the time I reached home at 7, I was completely spent.

I ended up sleeping in front of the TV while waiting for United to play QPR last night - United won and went 15 points clear at the top. A long day indeed ....