Singapura
I had a very interesting meeting in Singapore a few weeks ago. It was a long trip. I flew from São Paulo to Doha, in Qatar, a 14 hours direct flight. I waited there for three hours and then took another plane to Singapore, a 7 ½ hours flight. Of course I had a severe jet lag; local time in Singapore is 11 hours ahead of that of São Paulo. Consequently I was very sleepy in the afternoons, but I had a couple of days to get adjusted, so I was not sleepy on the day of the meeting. This was a Steering Committee meeting, a group of people whose task was to supervise a medical research. There were two people from Holland, one from Switzerland, two from England, one from Russia, two from Singapore. A professor from India could not come but we could hear him and talk to him through a telephone conference. We convened from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with a brief interval for lunch. We did not know each other; we met at a dinner on the eve of the meeting. As each of us returned to our normal