Troubled Travels 2013 - Tokyo

After San Francisco, we flew back across the Pacific to Tokyo. As with San Francisco, I opted to spend a few days in Tokyo rather than transit straight away to Singapore.

After so many weeks of turmoil, after a week of confinement immediately after the operation, things seemed a little more stable, if only for a while. My eye was improving, and the effects of the operation wearing off, so this was a time of a lot of hope and optimism. It was good while it lasted.

We stayed at the Intercontinental at Tokyo Bay. These are some of the views I had...

I managed to go to a Cat Cafe...

And watch the Robot Show at Kabuki-Cho... It was very entertaining. Neon lights and robots flashing past.... It's called the Robot Show so I'm obliged to show some Robots...

But mostly my eyes, the good and the bad one, were on other attractions.....

That was a good period of time, one which I have seen little of since...

Troubled Travels 2013 - San Fransisco

It is so odd that I got to travel and visit places which I had always heard of but never thought I would be going any time soon after I was diagnosed with cancer.

This is San Fransisco, where I spent a night and a morning on the way back from Cleveland. I stayed at a place near Chinatown. As you can see, I hardly had time to roam the place. Plus, I was still wearing a patch over my eye.

Troubled Travels 2013 - Cleveland

For those of you who have not read earlier parts of my blog, there was a tumor found at the back of my eye, discovered after an operation to re-attach my retina. The doctors in Singapore did not really know what it was, until a visiting professor from the US diagnosed it as a melanoma. It being a very rare condition for Asians, treatment was only available in the States. And that was where I went for my operation. It's called plaque, or brachytherapy, where they irradiate the tumor for a few days by attaching a radioactive plaque over the tumor and then removing it a few days later. So that was 3 operations in the space of one and a half months for me.

These are some shots of Cleveland. These were before the operation.

This is the Cleveland Clinic where I had the operation. It's a nice place to recuperate.

Recent Past - MBA Europe Trip - Belgium- Ghent

I went to Ghent....



And that's it for the MBA trip....

Recent Past - MBA Europe Trip - Belgium- Brussels

It's amazing.... The last time I stopped short half-way talking about "The recent past" being my MBA trip, it was 7 months or so ago. It is no longer recent. So many things have happened. For consistency though, I will label these posts on the MBA trip last year as such. And I will rush through....

I was in Brussels....