Solutions.....

It seems that the 12-12 would be implemented definitely and K had insisted that it should be 8-8 but Lem was reluctant  to accept the deal. He would reach home by 9+ and his wify had objected to the idea, it is true tgat if he taken up a clinic job, the salary  would much be the same as he had a 25% cut of working time with joinning of our new colleague. Not sure yet but it would be back to square minus one if we loss him.....

Just another trip up north.....

It was supposed to be a family camping trip up north, however 8 had to come up alone....well Yun is having her Saturday class and she has benn insisting of attending all of the class since her tripped over last summer....well good for her as she is now more concerned about her grades...
I have planned to spoke around whole day at the annual meeting of the internal medicine society and the rest of the family will have a good round at one the largest book store....kids come first and I am currently alone on the hsr touring back to south. A marvelous experience but yet tiresome....

new scheme of 14->12 and x24

It had been a disturbing week…Boss had found K and told him about his two wishes about our roster next months. As K wishes to earn extra by covering the ward; K had been responsible for our roster since months ago. Our roster would usually be settled before mid of the months. The 2 wishes were: 12 hrs shift and no back to back shift(12+12 = 24 hrs shift).

K had reshuffled the roster after the talk with boss. Lem and I were not satisfied with the roster and we had deep discussion later. Boss excuse was relatively weak – no more making up…but yet we are not the only unit that does so…

After some discussion and we had managed to persuade the admin that we kept the December roster….But yet the future roster would have to commit to the 2 requirements.

Pros – I got to eat my dinner in the house and look at both of the kiddo homework before I come to work...

Cons – 1 additional shift per months(14->15 shifts)

The acts did however pissed me off and I decided to plan a trip back to Malaysia during the CNY. I did express my concern and told that there would be no 24 hrs shift for me in the future no matter what is the situation...

There were so many speculations about the changes and I would not want to point any finger at the moment….

Farm....

 My favorite fruit.....pineapple... time to harvest ? unknown.....

 The banana and Jagung... mango is out as I don't use anything ending with "-cide"...

Pisang emas...

Sugar cane...
Chinese Toon(香椿)....
Dioscorea opposita (山藥)...

 Vege under the cover...

 Serai and Pandan...

Aloe vera...

Annual event...

Getting up earlier had not been a critical task for me, not due to my night shift work, but due to aging....But yet I enjoy the morning atmosphere, refreshing, and the mind is more sharp and free to accept new things, it was one of the good things which my dad taught us during my teens.
In the past attending meeting up north is a pain for a southerner like me, the high speed rail has however changed the scenario. The formation of one day life rim has eased the life of many...
FMA is holding its annual meeting today and I am on my way....I would joined one or two talks and took a trip back....but still the is a list to do for me on the way back.....

New kid on the block...

Our new guys had come to Lem for orientation 2 days ago. Luckily, he was not the guy who came earlier this year. According to Lem, he is a nice young chap. He was shown the roster (yeah yeah, didn’t even get my last month salary yet and our roster for next month is out, just to facilitate K to arrange his ward roster) and had no problem with it…

Well, so far so good… life should be better next months.

don't know what they are thinking....

I was managing Ving's FB album and came across this post by one of my friend's daughter....
I was shocked when I found that she was posted in a photo with a newborn. I did a thorough reading over her post and found that she had been pregnant and given birth to a baby few days ago....
I was surprised that she had hidden it so good; we had gone to a camping trips 4 months ago and I did not noticed that she was pregnant. 
I was more shock that when I found out (over the fb )that she had another friend who was also a 31 weeker...
OMG, they are only 18 and not married... it really give me a chill over my back, I had to pray very hard that it would never happened to Yun...

price of reluctant...

It was Friday morning, as I slowly taxied Fefe to the main gate to pick up Yun and Xian, I had noticed that Fefe had slant over the driver side with an unusual angle. A bad feeling had flashed over my mind and my heart sunk to the deepest trench of the manila sea when I saw the flat tyre, "Not again..." 

I glide Fefe aside allowing Ving to drive Yun and Xian to school. There was this tyre shop 300m from my house but there is no way I could drive to the shop with the flat tyre, the drive would definitely damage the tyre. I decided to replace the flat one with the spare one….

It was my second tyre change in 12 months. Not an easy task as the Fefe was LSUV(L = large)…. The last tyre change was a stressful event for me but I had no choice.

I struggled to jack the car up and completed the tyre change when Ving return. There was a few near fainting occasion when I tried to look under the car to locate the proper position of the jack, as I am still suffering from the not that Benign PPV....Thanks to the LORD, the spare tyre had 28 PSI left and I was able to drive to the nearby tyre shop for the repair.

I left house at 8:30am after spending RM20 for the tyre repair, I managed to reach the land of lion at 9:20am. During the drive, I told myself, "Enough is enough" and I had decided to dip myself back to the world of TPMS.

The Zs had come with an indirect TPMS and it had saves my ass a few times…however I was reluctant to get myself a TPMS as I thought a tyre pressure gauge and an electrical pump would do the job. But I was wrong as I am not that kind of person who is prompt to utilize the gauge from time to time.

I did a survey over the TPMS product prior to the change to the current Michelin tyres but later forget about the issue.

I had been there before, I remembered those day when I given up with mobile interneting and I had lived with it for almost 2 year before I hit the rock during our round the island trip...

With my painful finger, I had ordered a pair of TPMS (for both of the car) over the net during the consultation in the clinic.

I got the TPMS at 3pm today and I spent a good one hour with Xian installing the gadgets.

Out of my expectation, the newly install tyres of Ving’s Sisi are not properly inflated. They were not only over inflated but the difference of PSI over the tyre with the highest and lowest PSI was more than 5PSI. It took me sometime to deflate the tyre to the recommended figure.

The similar event was noted in Fefe as I had to deflate and inflate some of the tyres to make the figure look good. It looks like I had to rely on myself in the future...

I had read over the net and found that a most tyre vendor had recommended that the tyre pressure should followed the recommendation of the car factory but yet there are a lots of the forumer over the net that spread around opinions that the tyre pressure should be set at 80% of the maximum pressure set by the tyre vendor.  

I choose to believe the tyre vendor…..

I hope that I would not have to take out the spare tyre again in the near future….

graduate course - back to school...

I had been thinking of furthering my study since few years ago. So many thoughts and I had never materialized any of it…unstable roster, growing up problem to tackle and so and so and so…

Few months ago, our elder from the church had forward an email to me regarding an out of campus graduate course which is going to be held in our church. Unlike most of the weekend graduate course which run over Saturday and Sunday, it is held on Friday afternoon. I was reluctant to take it as I read it very late and had not time to discuss with anyone. The graduate course is a M.Min (Master of Ministry) course despite of the M.Theology course which I am more interested in as it is meant for pastor/Reverend rather than ordinary church member like me.

However 1 day before the closure of the registration, I met my church elder and he had asked me if I am interested and I had told him that if he would write me the recommendation letter than I would gladly enroll in the course. The elder told me that he would glad to do so, he thought that our church members should have the chance to upgrade ourselves. I grinned and told him that I had read Matthew 28:19 and thanked him for offering me the chance to learn.

I sent in the application on that day but was still very confuse about my decision. I had a very close conversation with the LORD and I am clear about the path set for me.

The course did not affect my work so far but yet there are lots of reading that should be done...

I had completed the first 3 credits (out of 45) and on the way of writing my 1st homework which is due 20 days later....

BPPV - aint benign at all....

The past 1 week was a real torment… It all started since my influenza immunization jab last Tuesday after my night shift….Everything was smooth until Wednesday morning 5am when I regained my conscious with my eyes set at closing mode. I had experienced this spinning sensation when I tried to lay on my right side. I had this sudden onset of spinning sensation. The sensation had become worsen within seconds and I had to adjust my position…. Minutes later, I started to realize that I am in deep sxxt of mud as the vertigo I was experiencing was posture-related. I had sat up and there was this mild nausea sensation and dizziness which persisted for a good 15mins. A short test of moving my head left and right with various tilting angle had confirmed my doubt - It was apparent that I had BPPV (Benign positional peripheral vertigo) which is not benign at all….
I had struggled to work on Wednesday - > took a careful drive ->keeping my head straight and not to turn left and right.
I managed to survived the call by trying my best to keep my head straight.
The challenge came when I tried to get some sleep after I hit home -> I was unable to lay flat and I had to sleep on the sofa in semi upright position (for the next few days).
I had to slow down my movement, action for the next few days. It was a long weekend off for me and I was able to take a good rest despite my imbalance problem.
Apart from taking some metoclopromade and cephadol on an irregular basis, I had tried Epley’s maneuver a few times and it did not improved my discomfort dramatically but I was lucky that I had not throw up at the worst moment.
I had gone back to work on Monday with residual symptom….over the days, my symptom had gradually improved and I still experienced spinning sensation on a certain angle of head tilting, I considered myself being healed.
But yet I had learnt to stop and think before I moved on ( I had tried to teach the kid similar event lately…), for the past few days, the LORD had wanted me to slow down, and also be a straight person – honest and compliance to the rules, correlating to what my professor of  bible expository had taught me lately……