The First Sarawak FMS Conference

Alhamdulillah the first Sarawak FMS Conference was successfully organised on the 11^th of November with the Sanofi Aventis as the main sponsor. The fact that there were only three of us who were the participants as well as the speakers was indeed interesting. Sibu has been given an honor to become a host. The guest speaker that day was Dr. William Chung, a nephrologists from Normah Medical Centre. He is a Chinese American based in the Mayo clinic and currently working as a contract nephrologist in the private medical centre. Since there was only a small group of us at the meeting it has became an informal discussion and everybody was in relaxing mood. After been occupied with series of lectures and discussion since afternoon, we have our dinner in one of the Melanau restoran. The Melanau cuisine offered a variety of sea food ranging from the famous umai, sago snack, asam pedas and fried ikan kurau in sweat and sour sauce. Later that evening we went for a night tour along the riverside. Everyone was taken aback to observe the tremendous changes Sibu has gone through…from literally a plain, dull ‘cowboy’ town into a modern and contemporary municipality. We were spellbound by the spectacular view of Wisma Sanyan; the tallest building in Sarawak standing bold as the epitome of this hardworking Foochow community. After all the eats and visits were done we went back to wind down in our private corner before catching an early morning flights the next day back to our own destination.