During early August, I didn't want the days to pass as I was still not prepared for this big event, but time still flew by at the speed of light anyway. At the end of last month, I attended the International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP). I would've felt super excited if I just had to simply attend it, but I wasn't finish yet. I also presented a 2-minutes talk on my poster and that was a different kind of excitement.
Because of that I don't call this a vacation, it's just a short break off lab work. Our flight was in the afternoon, and I was still doing some lab work in the morning before rushing back home to do last minute packing. Lol. Only at the airport, I tried to throw all my lab work to the back of my head and stress more on my poster that will be seen by people from all over the world. x.x
We arrived at Perth after 4 hours flight. Once we've checked in, we went straight out for early dinner as all of us were starving like mad. Sadly, the city looked really dead on a Saturday night. We've walked for more than half an hour in the city still couldn't find a place to settle our dinner. So we ended up in a British pub. I nearly couldn't get in because of my look and I left my passport in my bag. Swt. But glad that the person still let me in. Lol.
Next day, I had bioinformatics workshop during the day with another friend at Murdoch University. The presenter was so so so good at explaining bioinformatics. Ahh... Our lives would have been so much better if we had this workshop at the start of Honours. After that, we headed back to the exhibition building to get ourselves registered.
This was my first time attending a conference and I didn't know what to expect, so I just observed as I go. There were many animal health companies had their booths set up throughout the conference. I was surprised when my friend told me there's a Malaysian booth too, so I went there and checked it out. It's set up by the Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (MSPTM). After a can't-go-longer-than-5-minutes chat with the person, all I got to know was they are organising a congress in KL and if I want to know more, I have to go to their website. I was like... err.... ok. @@"
My pretty lanyard. Glad that they printed my full name. If it's only 'Siew Loh' I would be so grumpy everytime I look at it. Lol.
The stage decorations were pretty awesome. Kudos to the designers!
Me with my bright red poster. The blue one beside belongs to my friend. We coincidentally have our posters next to each other. I didn't like this spot or this side of the foyer. There were lesser people passing by this area and the way they arranged the poster numbers and groups was very confusing. Many people had problems searching for a particular poster.You have to find the group first before you look for the poster number, and even locating the group was hard with just a small piece of paper with the group name stuck on a non-conspicuous spot on the board. Swt.
We also had a short trip to Perth Zoo as the Australian Society for Parasitology AGM was held in the zoo. After the AGM, we only had 30 or 45 minutes to quickly explore the zoo. That was so not enough.
Love this tree kangaroo scratching his body. So cute!
I haven't seen a hyena before. So I must post this up. Lol.
We still managed to walk through half of the zoo and I'd think that Melbourne Zoo is much nicer than Perth Zoo, and bigger too I reckon.
More photos coming up and I shall leave them for the next post. =D
