NThC 2008 Christmas party

We had our Christmas party at the UPMASA-PGH Science Hall Foyer. Thanks to Alex and Alison -- we had a good lunch... Plus Tina for the giveaways... Hopefully the bonuses reach them in time...

Dato and his Hi Chicks Routine

Laptops/Smartphone Awarded to DTTBs

Finally, we were able to award the Acer and Neo laptops and Nokia E61i to the doctors-to-the-barrios. These were made possible by UPMASA. More details to follow.

Neo 540SVB laptop

I bought a Neo Q-Note 540 SVB based on Doc Mana's blog about it running quite well with Ubuntu. It's not for me -- it's for a doctor-to-the-Barrio (so in the end, s/he may opt to run Vista on it [yikes!].)

Anyway, it's always good to offer options to the end users rather than just let them get a proprietary operating system that they can't seem to get out of.

Aug 15-18 Kuala Lumpur

Had a fun time with my sweetheart.
Aug 15: depart, dinner at a shabu-shabu at Times Square
Aug 16: first day of conference, had panel discussion, wifey writes a lot -- Lemon Square at Low Yat (spicy fried rice + lamb + Boaz siopao/siomai)
Aug 17: second day, had impromptu panel followed by my presentation on telehealth; Low Yat again! spicy chicken, bbq chicken + chicken soup
Aug 18: breakfast at airport of nasi lemak (chicken curry); dinner at mapayapa for jo's despedida

Aug 13

Good morning session with the doctors.

Afternoon session with ADB TA 4647...

Evening session with UPD Comp Sci

Aug 3: Revelations

Tough day.

Morning meeting with DepEd

Then MIU affairs before heading to Bayview for PHIC Benchmarking.

Sandra Famador offers help.

WHO needs help.

UP Diliman IE students barge in.

HH finally.

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August 1: Hanoi-Manila

Hanoi to Manila

Settled Eric's and Anton's hotel

Long trip back home. Great time with Patrick...

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July 4: Las Vegas to Philly

Whew. Expensive taxi (USD30!). But off to Philly through Chicago. Experienced my first thorough airport check-in security check-up. Good to have WiFI (USD 7) in O'Hare. Checked in at Courtyard Inn in Philly -- arriving 12 midnight.

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July 5: Philly to NLM

Took all day to travel from Philly to NLM. Left luggage in Union Station and then fixed all monetary affairs in NLM. Good to meet up with Dr F and Erick Ducut. Dinner with Eric and family. Great to be back in their home.

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July 6th: Hopkins Telemedicine

Eric drops me off at Vienna and I head on to Hopkins (nearly missed the train). Met up with Alex and Chri s in Baltimore. Then off to Metro Park station with Cip picking me up. Checkers for dinner.

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July 7: Six Flags

Peter Pan PIzza

Kingda Ka

Superman the Ride

The Great American Scream Machine

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July 8: Philippine Community Center

Attended mass with Cip then headed off for South Jersey Philippine Community center (205 South Whitehorse Pike, Stratford, NJ).

A few UPMASA people were there (Mike and Liz DL, Wee B, Chelle BJ, Paul F, et al).

Gace a talk. New insights: global health course for UPMASA.

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July 2 -- Big Day

Presented my JBP Chair. Attarcted a lot of attention. Thank you Lord!

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July 3 -- Walk, walk, walk

Haha. After the workshop with UPMASA, I spent the night breaking the casino bank (yes, I won 25 dollars), and walking around the strip from Wynn to Circus then back then again to Denny's but chickened out.

Finally got my steak at Terrace Pointe inside Wynn :(

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July 4 on air

Spent most of July 4th on the air -- that is on a plane. Left Vegas in the morning towards Chicago. After a four hour stopover, finally reached Philadelphia at 11PM. Yes, I missed the fireworks! :(

O'Hare had good wifi though...

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Halfway around the world

Jetlagged. Now in Candlewood Las Vegas trying to get some sleep. It's 5pm in Manila so what do we expect?

When I checked in, I learned about the terror plot in UK and Glasgow and the heightened alert in LAX. I hope it all settles down within the week because I'll be there soon...

Room has gigabit Internet! I can send video to the Orange Kubo Hotel.

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June 19, 2007

CHITS presentation to PHIC at Lagrosa.

technorati tags:phic, chits

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June 20, 2007

Big day today. Collaborative sessions with the ComMed group and the World Health Chart. There was a testimonial for Dr. Paolo Campos followed by the small group discussion on WHC and the first use of the mediawiki.

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June 21

Well today is Dennis Streveler's presentation to the UPM community. It was well attended with some interesting post-presentation questions. This was followed by the MSHI class and with some family affairs in between (Ate Girlie).

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