what an exhausting 5-day i'm having!
department of pharmaceutical services, moh brunei was conducting a workshop on the rational use of antimicrobial agents which was held in radisson hotel from 5th-9th december 2011.
a total of 60 participants from brunei, loa PDR, indonesia, malaysia and the philippines were selected coming from different fields. we have a room filled with doctors, pharmacists, microbiologists and infection control personnel.
5th december 2011
...we were divided into 8 groups and i'm in group 4 =) ...
6th december 2011
...welcoming dinner cum opening ceremony...
...with 3 bruneians participants on my left, 3 indonesian participants infront of me, 2 philippino participants on my right and 1 participant from jpmc...
7th december 2011
...photo session before the workshop resumes after lunch...
8th december 2011
...participants from group 4 (excluding dr nimfa)...
...dr irene farinas from the philippines...
...dr nimfa putong from the philippines...
9th december 2011
...dr irene presenting her follow up plans...
...left to right: prof kafle, budiono santoso and dr luke mathew...
...me, daniel and dk zarina..
... dr luke mathew delivering a speech on behalf of the bruneian participants...
...director of pharmaceutical services delivering her speech...
...with 1/4 of the participants and the invited speakers...
initially, when my name was selected for this workshop, i was like...yuck!! mainly because i'm not an "office person". i don't like sitting in a room for hours, doing reports, typing into the computer. i'm more like an active person. i like to move around and not stay at one place for hours.
seminars, workshops, meeting as such is not my cup of tea, shall i say, so i was not that enthusiastic to attend this workshop. furthermore it started at 8am and end at 5pm! but as the day passed and as we learnt more and more into the topics presented by the WHO consultants, i changed my mind.. yes! i did! shocking, i know! lol!! we even had a field trip =D
the workshop was very informative, educational and the most important thing is that it an interactive workshop. every participants/groups shared their own experiences and gave their feedbacks.
the indonesian participants left early on today's last workshop as they have to catch their noon flight so i didn't manage to take pictures with them whilst the loa and malaysian paticipants are so shy that i too become shy to ask for photo session with them lol!
physically, i'm not that tired but this workshop mentally exhaust me - a lot of thinking, absorbing new information and now, reports and follow up to be done... yikesss!
