Tuesday was a busy day prepping for the Healthcare IT Singapore Symposium, which ran Wednesday and Thursday. I delivered my ‘keynote’ session entitled “Transforming patient care through user-centric mobility initiatives” on Wednesday morning… believe me, I didn’t pick the title! Today we met with a couple of hospital CEO/CIO’s before wrapping up our day.
One of the teams we met were working out of a marvelous old building while their new hospital is being built. The locals call this style of building a ‘shop house’ because people used to run a shop out of the ground floor and live above it.
For dinner, Rob and I went to the Newton Circus Hawker Centre where we met up another of our Healthcare team, Tim van der Werff from NZ.
There were probably 50 or more stalls like the ones shown here. Rob and Tim ordered Garlic Prawns and Rice from this stall, along with some Tiger Beer… a local favourite.
The individual stall owners (hawkers) try to entice you to take their menus to a table to ‘mark’ you as theirs so others won’t try to lure you to a different stall. Once you’re used to what’s going on, it’s not intrusive… just adds character.
Their stall was mostly fishy… yeck… so I went to the Beef Noodle stall. They also served Rojak… a ‘tasty local infused salad consisting of fruits, fried dough fritters, turnips, bean sprouts, cucumbers topped off with prawn paste and crushed peanuts. The gravy has a unique flavour that will entice one’s appetite for more‘. I did not partake!
I had Black Pepper Beef with steamed rice and it was better food than the very expensive dinner at the the Chinese Restaurant last night.
Two hard working HP Healthcare dudes… me and my cohort Rob!
Well… that’s it from Singapore… we leave for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia tomorrow morning.
Missing you all!