Indonesia Day 3

I didn't sleep well AGAIN despite I worked till past midnight this morning. A lot of issues, matters and problems raised during the meeting. Participants are supposed to come up with suggestions or recommendations.

I called Isa before she left for her school. That extremely short call using my mobile didn't come cheap too.

Heavy showers and thunderstorms affected this venue in the afternoon since I arrived. Besides listening to presentations, I took the chance to listen to the rain splashing on the window panes too.

Claudia from Argentina did an impressive presentation. Her main language is spanish but her slides for presentation are in English. As she looked at her slides, she spoke in spanish. Non-speaking spanish participants have to rely on the translation. Another gentleman from Russia did a similar thing except he spoke Russian.

The lunch break and 2 coffee breaks are getting shorter because everybody is spending their time on networking, exchanging ideas & challenges faced, views regarding the presentations, proposing solutions or recommendations in small groups etc.

Latin American countries and northern European countries are doing very well as compared to us in the southeast Asian. They set up a working group among their community to share their training programmes, training resources etc. I think why this is not happening to southeast Asian, in particular Asean countries?

After the second coffee break, we broke up into smaller groups to discuss on the draft documentations before they will be finalised. As usual, more problems were raised and the discussion got even more lengthy and mind-draining.

The session ended at 5pm but it was raining heavily that we could not return to our rooms. So we stayed behind for more discussions.

The dinner served today was surprisingly appetising to me. Maybe because I didn't have a good lunch as I was in a hurry to finish it before talking to Dr Timothy on the products and resources he has developed. I was amazed by what he could offer. The most important is FOC and am pretty sure my office will take up his offer.

Dinner was white rice, minced beef, veg & fried chicken. There was no soup but fu yong egg offered. I think this dinner was even better than yesterday's official dinner. There was a band playing music in the dining area. As usual, once I finished my meal, I left to return to my room.

With so much info and materials, I do not know how to start writing my training report.