Tower Of Babel

Yeah, it has been a while since I wrote suppem down. All of two posts for the month of March…and today is the 13th! Time is flying fe real. Well, as planned, I did trek to MoBay on Saturday….wasn’t too bad as I was driven by a drug rep. bredrin….from the company that sponsored the event I was giving my talk at. Nice to drive to ‘country’ and be able to tek een all the scenery while on the way…that includes mountains, rivers etc as well as any reasonable looking lasses that may happen to have come into my field of vision on the way. The rep. and I had some good chat while driving and stopped to refuel (our bellies) at a fast food chicken place in Discovery Bay. The name of the place slips me now. But the chicken was pretty good…and at any rate two big man did well raw (hungry)…so almost any food would do! Boxed the food off in about fifteen minutes, let off some liquid in the men’s room and we continued on our way. Overall the drive to MoBay took about three and a half hours with stops included.

We checked in at the Sunset Beach Resort (what used to be called Seawind Towers) in Montego Freeport. It was an alright (not great) hotel, but as I was really only overnighting there and had all of one meal (breakfast on Sunday morning) on the property, maybe I shouldn’t cast judgement. Nuff tourists did on de scene.

I actually reached my room after seven in the night and linked an Eye Doc sistren of mine from medical school who lives in our second city. Had Chinese food for dinner and made it back to the hotel after midnite…pretty tired. Basically I started to review my presentation and the next thing I knew I woke up later to switch the lamp at the bedside off.

Slept until about 5:30 AM when I went out on the balcony on my room which had a lovely view of the sea from the seventh floor. Continued to review the presentation out there until a bit after six. Hey, the gentle breeze coming off the blue grey (at that time of early morning) ocean was irie…nice change from the usual. Anyway, I was slated to speak at about 9:30 and the talk was held at the Holiday Inn, so I needed to do the usual stuff and hold a fresh before donning the garb I took to give the talk and having a light breakfast.

Wow!! Or more like ‘RAAAS’ is what struck me when I entered the room where I was to give the talk. The place did big….whole heap o seat. Anyhow, myself and the othe speaker (who happened to be one of my lecturers when I was a medical student) chatted for a bit and as the attendees arrived, we greeted some of them. Start was a bit late as pharmacists from all over the island were being transported to the venue by tour bus. The bus from Kingston, which had the most attendees, was late and so we held on for them for about half an hour.

Anyway, I was a bit intimidated by the size of the audience initially (there were about 300 people there)…..but after the first few minutes, and an ice breaking joke or two (yes, I’ve done standup comedy before….of course with varying degrees of success) I realized that I was cool. Took them through the talk and actually did end up taking 58 minutes of the hour which I was given. Spoke to them about various fungal infections of the skin and their treatment. I not blowing my own trumpet, but yes, I got nuff commendations after. Having delivered, and answering the questions that were hurled in my direction like easily bowled cricket balls, I could now relax. A drink was in order. Headed to the bar for a rum and returned to hear the other speaker. At the end of the proceedings, the thank you’s were given and I got a likkle token…as well as cheque for my efforts….dat rahtid inna de bank already.

Had lunch and then my Eye Doc sistren shuttled me to the airport to catch my Air J flight back to Kingston. It was delayed…cho. Anyhow, made it home at about 7:15…pretty tired. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to tek een any R&R in MoBay. I think another trip to our second city is due soon.

Back here at the grind, and am on call Monday to Thursday this week. Yup, it is a pretty trivial and personal stuff sorta post. But me nuh have nutten else fe chat about. How was your weekend?

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