in 2 weeks time

well, i'll be unemployed. sounds terrible isn't it. it's more like a sabbatical for me. i'll take 2 months off before actively looking for job again.
lots of thing happened so i'll try to catch up on those times

In ICU

My FIL was admitted to KLGH thursday and was moved to icu yesterday evening. Visited him today and he seems to be in good spirit. Much better than the news which I got from mrs chief which was rather alarming.
Brought back some old memories. My dad was in icu for a while before he passed away.
Had a chat with a nurse there. sometimes nurses have wise words to say, must be coz they've seen how helpless one can be when all the power, money and contact in this world is of no help.
I find them to be very kind and helpful as well, going about their work with some v low tech.
Low tech coz in front of every icu patient there is a desk for doctors to review reports and scribble note on them. Charts of patient's readings are charted manually or printed and glued to the reports.
And all these next to some of the most sophisticated medical equipment I've ever seen.
I digress.... My FIL is not saved yet and friend from church have come to share the good news with him. His answer was no, but theres hope as he is allowing us to pray for him. A far cry from the days where mrs chief was chased out of the house for being a Christian.

walk the talk

it's easy until you have to walk it.
1Cor gives a whole chapter to it and yet many a times even when we know it, we do not do it for wanting to assert our rights.
all that we do will amount to nothing if it's not motivated by love.

Unpleasant phone call

 
Yesterday I got an unpleasant phone call
Nope, it's not a prank call or one of those sales calls. It's from office ( I can hear you say why didn't I think of that ). It the equipment I'm working on. There's been a hard disk failure. The main drive where all the work files are kept went down. They called to check if I've backed up everything. 
Well almost everything, I told them with a cold sweat running down my brow. About two months back the back up drive had failed and we were given a smaller backup disk. Due to space constrain, certain files were not backed up. I had to choose what I considered important. 
Needless to say I was negligent in this and did not chose some of the important files. Also the daily habit of backing up everything became backing up control files and later on, I'll do it tomorrow. What can possibly happen in 12 hours with computer switched off. 
Well, one of my colleague power it up and the disk will not come up. So after trying several time without success, he called me to let me know the bad news. 
There was still hope that it need it's rest just like us. Came into office early this morning, power up the computer and … the disk is still dead. As I write this now, my engineers are busy fixing / consolidating the remaining disk. 
Lessons learnt - 
Do your backup daily even when you don't feel like it. 
Back up everything when job is ongoing, you'll have time to clean up when the project's done. 
You are most probably not the only one who suffers the consequence of your slackness. Although you should be the one who suffers most. 
Routines are boring but it saves lives. 

night shift

i'm on night shift again. this was decided only yesterday. i'm ok with night shift, i'm a bit of a night person, just like my mom. my dad is a morning person but none of us (his children) is a morning person, which is quite strange.

mrs chief is a morning person and where i'm strugelling to wake up, she's already up and about and have done a couple of lots of things. at night i'll be wanting to discuss things with her and she'll be like, can we talk in the morning, my brain's gone to sleep and i'm on auto pilot mode.

opps i got distracted. when i'm on night shift,i do get to spend a bit of time with my children when they get back from school,which is good, plus there are less distractions at night.

well, back to work

it's raining in kl


i'm now back to editing and it's been a while now. am still enjoying it but cannot command as much as when was in admin. Editors or so call editors are now a dime a dozen. as long as you can use an editing software, you're an editor. 
as with all things there are good and bad. The good ? There are more editors out there. The bad ? There are more editors out there. 
This is where your interpersonal skill comes in. with so many editors in town, what makes you stand out from others ? my x director of operations told me long before, and I think it's true. I'm just not that kind of person. 
wanna know what he said ? well ? . . .  to be continued

just don't lie die

i was walking my son to school the other day and told him that i wanted to do paragliding and asked him what he thought of it. he asked me what it was and i explained that it was being on a parachute with a big fan on my back.
he thought for a while and said, ok, just don't die. ( that's what i heard ) Puzzled i asked him why did he said that. i know i'm mention this before but have not got round to doing it but this time it's for real.

just don't DIE, he stressed. ooooo... i heard wrongly the first time.

the things that they can think off.

i should really spend more time with them.