Off to KL

I leave for KL tomorrow morning for a three day conference on Religion and Social Justice. A former dean suggested it to me as a good way to meet people, and it seemed interesting and relevant. Here is the program http://www.usm.my/cenpris/seminar/ To prepare I have charged my camera battery, packed my cell phone charger, and my PC charger. I feel like a budding technician when I travel. I spend more time figuring what equipment and chargers I need than what clothes I will wear.

Today after Bahasa Malaysian a young man stopped me to ask if he had ever seen me in Medan (Sumatra). I had to tell him if so he was very young, that I was last there in 1984. He said that he had noticed that I knew a lot of Indonesian words. Which I do, but they often getting in the way of speaking Malaysian - enough different words, meanings, and pronunciations to addle my language impaired brain.

We had a meeting about my research project this morning - I hope that it gets off the ground early next week. If everything is on my side I may identify other research contacts in KL or on my way.