Winning the Raffle(s) Prize

A couple of weeks ago I spent the week in Manila, working with my new Aussie colleagues on a project to increase local capacity for standards-based electronic medical records. I spent two days teaching about FHIR, and then we had a 2-day Connectathon. It was especially nice to see some people I first met 10 years ago when Apelon was working over there. We had the right idea back then, but we weren’t sufficiently deep-pocketed or clever enough at pulling money out of government coffers.

For mysterious reasons, I was upgraded from a really nice room to to a freakin’ palatial one at the Raffles hotel. I stepped out the dimensions (something I’ve gotten to practice on the pétanque field) and it was a good 800-900 square feet.

That was my view.

And there’s the rooftop pool… more than 25 metres, and never crowded.

Bliss.