honfui_blog..

some photos update

2010-10-06T10:38:00.002+08:00

edi's first birthday

agu & monica

edi: "this is my mama"

photo updates.

2010-06-22T13:15:00.004+08:00

agu's birthday

2010-04-16T09:34:00.003+08:00

Happy (belated) birthday!

From mama, adi & papa.

agu's first outing trip and her friend

2010-03-16T08:18:00.004+08:00

her first independent outing..

with her niece

eddie's 1st CNY

2010-03-16T08:08:00.006+08:00

taken sometime ago...

2010-03-16T07:53:00.002+08:00

big family

2009-12-12T00:06:00.002+08:00

While waiting for data to come in on Friday night (00:07am now) I made this photo..

more ti ti's

2009-12-08T22:42:00.002+08:00

ti ti's 100th day birthday

2009-12-08T22:18:00.004+08:00

This was taken on his 100th day birthday..

agu again

2009-12-08T22:07:00.004+08:00

agu & mama

agu :)

agu & ati

2009-11-19T09:32:00.002+08:00

Just manage to touched one photo, much less than my expectation.

ati 2

2009-11-11T07:53:00.005+08:00

Upon popular request, more photos of ati ..

ati

2009-11-10T13:07:00.002+08:00

'Ati'; meet the world.
World; introduce to you 'ati'

'Ati' as we called him is our second child. He was born on 29th Aug 2009, weighted 3.2kg. He is about 2.5 months now. He can smile, saying 'a gu gu' and 'ati'. When he said 'a gu gu', the sister will answer. The sister is very gentle to him. Few occasions, we placed 'ati' on her lap - she would smiling wide. Initially 'agu' has strong jealousy for 'ati', when 'ati' was just home. It lasted about a couple of weeks.

Walking towards him, his eye will look at you, whatever direction you come from. When he is hungry, his milk cannot be late. He can cry very loud.

His 'atai' helping us to look after him during office hour.

agu's movie

2009-07-22T23:14:00.002+08:00

more photos

2009-07-21T22:38:00.003+08:00

agu

with mama

with her aunt and cousins

agu - more images

2009-07-20T22:26:00.004+08:00

More photos taken a while back ...

agu's birthday gift

2009-07-19T23:18:00.002+08:00

She got this "funny face" pillow for her cousin as her birthday gift.

agu's birthday

2009-07-19T23:15:00.002+08:00

Have not post any photo for many months. I will upload few of them now.
This is was taken when Agu turn two years old in March. We had a cake cutting for her. So her cousins and aunt came to celebrate with her..

ship-it!

2009-02-11T08:25:00.003+08:00

Packing.

I'm ready.

So sad.

agu's photo - ~ 2

2009-02-11T08:18:00.003+08:00

am i adorable?

size does matter..

"da da cry er!"

"hi!"

mei mei

2009-02-11T08:11:00.003+08:00

A year since last vomiting, she is healthy as other kid. She goes to school already. Photo below was taken on first day of Chinese New Year.

She smiles...

agu's photo

2008-10-06T13:50:00.002+08:00

naughty agu..

kl trip photo

2008-10-06T13:47:00.004+08:00

Went to KL on 19th Sep for a family (large group - 13 people) holiday. Visited my house, KL, Genting then Kuching before flew back to Miri on 25th Sep. Photo are uploaded to http://picasaweb.google.com/honfui/Kl#

agu's video - dancing

2008-09-09T10:05:00.002+08:00

follow the music..

agu's video - Pac-Man's ghost

2008-09-09T09:53:00.003+08:00

Pac-Man's ghost

agu's photo - 17th month

2008-09-08T16:07:00.003+08:00

meal time...

"ak.." wanted to get up after meal.

bad mood..

agu's photo - 15th month

2008-09-08T16:04:00.003+08:00

status

2008-08-08T16:46:00.002+08:00

Have not blog for many months now. Things are all OK.
My daughter is almost 17 months now. She is naughty, but I think that is OK and her rights.
She was sick two days ago. She is fine now. What can she do? She can run, jump onto sofa, nag me (after work) to bring her to her cousin's house across the street, holding spoon and try to feed herself, mumbling and call mama, papa, yiyi, ow ow (dog), che che, ko ko, tai tai, etc...

My wife is busy. Yesterday and today, she have Ministry of Education auditor coming to her college. She has completed lecture for MBA.

Work... today is my boss last day. He going back to Nigeria. I think I'm doing fine with my work, though lots of catch-up to do. I'm involve in programming more since I left IT beginning this year.

We planned to go to KL 3rd week next month, with my wife, baby, mama, etc.. for few days of holidays (Genting and my house in KL).

My niece has recovered from vomiting syndrome. She has been taking milk for couple of months now and has gained weight. No symptom at all. Could it be the homeopathy that cure her?

That's all for now..

agu's photo - 13th month

2008-04-23T07:42:00.002+08:00

agu's photo - 1 YEAR

2008-04-14T08:52:00.000+08:00

CNY 2008

2008-04-14T08:37:00.000+08:00

uwomoagu's photo or 1st cny

at sibu's airport to kuching

another naughty style

youngest bro's son.

at grandpa house

inside flight to sibu

nieces feeding her kfc

sister-in-law

agu's photo - 11th month

2008-04-14T08:30:00.000+08:00

some other long overdue photos...

agu's photo - 10th month

2008-04-14T08:13:00.000+08:00

Long over due photos...

I'm in Houston

2008-03-12T01:57:00.001+08:00

Posting this from Houston. I'm here since 08-March to attend P262 course in BTC. Rather cold outside ~ 15 deg C.

Mei Mei's Cyclical Vomiting

2008-01-28T09:21:00.002+08:00

She is my niece and she is 3 years old. She had Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome (CVS) (www.cvsa.org.uk/www.cvsaonline.org) since Aug 2006. She started vomiting in Aug 2006 for 3 times (2 weeks gap). She continued to vomit in Feb 2007 for every 2 weeks continuously until today.

In the beginning, she only vomits and had to be admitted for IV to avoid dehydration. No other noticeable symptom other than exhaustion and dehydration. But, more symptoms noticed recently. It started with character change, where she would become fussy. Our guess is her abdomen pain, but she never tells us. Few hours, up to 1/2 day later, she starts throw out everything in her stomach. When no food left in her stomach, she vomits dark red color substance and greenish substance, which could be dead blood and bile. In addition, she also vomits lots of phlegm. She is exhausted, crying and screaming. These lasted 3-4 days. Soon after the vomit is over, her urine has the oil like substance for the first 3-4 days.

Then she became an ordinary 3 years girl - playing, singing and fighting with her elder brother. That will be for 2 weeks until her next episode continues.

Her parent had been to various hospitals, in Miri, Sibu, Kuching and Kuala Lumpur for diagnosis and treatment. All tests failed to identify possible cause or problem. In the last visit, the doctors concluded her having CVS in their diagnosis report. They also resorted to Chinese medicine, which also did not improve the situation. In desperate, they resorted to Chinese and Malay shamans. All sort of things they did but still no sign of improvement.

I emailed paediatric expert in Singapore and CVS experts in UK and USA for advice.

The last vomit episodes started on 7th Jan. On 11th Jan, she consulted a homeopathy doctor. It was based on Michael's experience on www.cvsa.org.uk. She was not given phosphorous as in Michael's case, instead she was given homeopathy stomach ulcer tablets plus some diet change - no cow milk product, soft rice instead of porridge, not so much fruits, more rest and family consulting advise. It has been more than 2 weeks since, and she has not shown (hopefully forever) any sign of vomit.

I suspect she may has cow milk allergy - looking at the changes that led to her improvement. It is yet to be established. Nevertheless, I would give the credit to homeopathy for her improvement.

bath

2008-01-05T22:11:00.000+08:00

Shy on camera. Getting ready for the great bath of the day.

Into the water.

Candid camera.

photo - 9th month

2008-01-05T22:05:00.000+08:00

Just 9th month ... so slow.
She was holding a loaf of bread at the bakery shop..

2008

2008-01-02T14:51:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year 2008!

Petrophysics (PP) - this is what my new job is. Typing this from my new desk. It is on level 3. Got window to view outside, unlike previous location which was in the middle of the building, level 1. The window facing west. At this hour, it is glaring.

Moved things - ftp files and personal stuff. Have not done any real PP work yet.

A new year and a new job

2007-12-10T11:42:00.000+08:00

Late last year, I blogged about career change. The management approved it in January. After almost a year of departure preparation, it comes through finally. Replacement was hired. Coached him for 4 months. It will still take many more months to fine-tune his skill.

This is my last week in IT. I started my career in IT 10 years ago. It's superb to see how much IT has changed since. I really enjoyed working in IT world.

Next year - a new year and a new job. My job is as petrophysics (测井) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrophysics). I'm starting from scratch.

photo - 8th month

2007-12-10T11:31:00.000+08:00

with bit of "make-up"

no more...

Her Majesty wishes to see more...

photo - 7th month

2007-12-10T11:15:00.000+08:00

An outing day.

Getting into the car...

First time ate at restaurant...

At sister-in-law's bakery.

photo - 6th month

2007-12-10T11:08:00.000+08:00

photo - with grandpa and grandma

2007-12-10T10:57:00.000+08:00

These were taken on father's birthday's dinner.

photo - 5th month

2007-08-17T11:26:00.000+08:00

again... huge images!

photo - 4th month

2007-08-17T11:23:00.000+08:00

warning ... huge images!

photo - 3rd month

2007-08-17T11:12:00.000+08:00

already warned you... huge images!

photo - 2nd month.

2007-08-17T07:53:00.000+08:00

This is first month actually...

2 months.

10th Anniversary

2007-07-26T07:36:00.000+08:00

Today is 10th year anniversary for my wife and I.

moved into new house

2007-07-12T11:46:00.000+08:00

We moved into our new house last Sunday, July 8th.

1st wedding anniversary

2007-05-07T14:17:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary. How did we celebrate it?

In the morning, we planned to drive our baby to town for the first time since she was born. The sky was dark and rain threat was very real. So, the plan was cancelled. Instead my wife with her mother and sister-in-law (and kids) went to town for shopping. She spent RM750 on optical stuff. Luckily, I can claim optical expenses from company. So, I was alone at home with our daughter... and she gave me the best prize (first time!) :) Guest what was it.

In the afternoon, I thought we could have sometime for ourself. The septic tank overflowed! The septic tank was pumped 2 months ago (paid Rm350). So time to work again... drove all the cars out, opened all covers and started the detective work. The tank has 2 problems - 1. rain water can go into the tank and 2. the boiler from tank to drain was blocked. It was about 60 feet long boiler! Tried various tricks - all didn't work. In the end, we got 2 buckets and started taking *** out - bucket after bucket. I think we (my brother-in-law and myself) did about 2 hundred buckets. Cleared the boiler after the level in tank was low. It was another tricky task. We started at about 1.30pm and finished about 5.30pm. That was mine. For my wife - she did her hair that afternoon. Tiring and smelly afternoon.

After dinner, I went to our room to clear some stuffs. I was ironing my shirt when brother-in-law with his daughter knocked on door. I opened the door, saw his daughter's face turned pale and quiet. She is 2.5 years age, smart and very playfull. She would call me "Uncle" everytime we meet. She being too quiet is a bad sign - her sickness came back.

She for that past 2 months has been admitted to Miri GH for 3 times. The gap is exactly 2 weeks. Each time she had to spent 3-4 days in the hospital for dripping. Just dripping only. So far, doctors has failed to find the problem. The symptom is she would vomit and vomit for days (3-4).

This morning, she was admitted to hospital again for the forth time. All had sleepless night.

A 1 foot long black snake came into the garrage this morning. My mother-in-law scared of snake and supertitious about it.

Baby photo

2007-04-15T22:13:00.000+08:00

First www photo of my baby....

Gift for my baby

2007-04-13T00:07:00.000+08:00

My baby girl is celebrating her full-moon today. My wife and I would like to thanks friends, colleagues and relatives for sharing our joy - as can be seen the number of gifts that we received. Here are what they are...

Flower bouquet from Nawai.

Flower bouquet from IM&T colleagues.

Set of gift is from Richard, David, Daphne, Puteri, Daphne, Dennis, Choo, Ching Fang, Isma, Louis, Kho, Soo, Siew Choo and Anita.

Set of gift from Dennis, Kei Yik and Thomas. One of it was bought in KL by Thomas while he was there. So thoughtful.

Two pairs of shirts & pants bought by sister's in-law's sister-in-law.

From Shirley and family.

Hamper from my wife's student.

Gift from wife's colleague at RIAM Tech.

Gift from Haileen.

Jewelery from sister-in-law.

Backpack from niece and nephew, Ali & girlfriend, Soon and Apple.

From mother-in-law.

From mother-in-law.

These are the gifts that my digital camera can capture, such as chicken, pork and angpow. There are many other invaluable gifts that my mother-in-law, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law gave us.

"THANK YOU" to my friends, colleagues and relatives.

Meeting Ah Guan

2007-04-09T08:00:00.000+08:00

Meet Ah Guan, my coursemate in an event in Imperial Mall, Miri on 5th April. The last time we meet was in 1997 graduation convocation. His still look the same. So is his laughter and smile. He said the same to me. The difference in this meeting was we exchanged business card, wrote our mobile phone and new email on the business card.

He left Miri to Kuching the next morning.

From that meeting, I started exchanging e-mail with other long lost (10 years) coursemates, such as Beh in Penang.

My baby is born today

2007-03-15T14:41:00.000+08:00

I'm pleased to announced that my baby girl is born today. Her name is Lee Ru Yi.

Updates...

2007-03-01T13:41:00.000+08:00

It has been few months since the last post. My apology for neglecting this blog (and homepage too). Here are some updates..

1. Glad that the Proton Isware is finally sold. Sold to new staff for RM18K. Now, I drive Toyota Landcruiser II.
2. My baby coming very soon.
3. I'm moving to Petrophysics, but will happen only next year!

Proton Iswara for Sale

2006-09-20T13:26:00.000+08:00

I'm selling my Proton Iswara Aeroback. On the left is the advertisment that I put up on notice board in office and 2 grocery shops in town.

USB Disk PRO on Linux

2006-09-20T13:21:00.000+08:00

I bought a 2GB USB flash drive from Low Yatt Plaza, KL last week for RM130. Cheap huh! It is a PenDrive 2GB Mini, aka USB Disk Pro. The difference from normal USB Disk is that it has extra security features. On Windows, it works perfectly fine. But on Linux, it just refused to mount (tested on Ubuntu Edgy Knot 3). After googling for about 2 days, I found the added security causing the problem.

Alan from rowland.harvard.edu pointed to me that I need to disable the software lock based on this
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-users&m=115703329232288&w=2

Will test it tonight and post the result tomorrow.

Career change

2006-09-19T11:52:00.000+08:00

How many people changed careers throughout their career life? Should be lots of people experienced that. This group are the privileged people. I am in this dilemma now.... change is not favourable because risk is higher than status quo. But higher risk could mean higher return.

I changed few times so far. First time was from science stream in form 4 - 6 to economics in university. I knew nothing about economics, but did that for 6 years. Second time was when I started my career. Unthinkable to me that I would do dived into computer industry when I was computer phobia in form 6. Already in computer world for 9 years now.

This would be the third time. It is a change from computer industry to petrophysics. Err.. petrophysics? What the heck is that? The nearest definition I can find from wikipedia is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_Petrophysics

Wish me luck.

different working life

2006-06-20T19:58:00.000+08:00

in an old fashioned office environment, there is not much of concern about time of meeting or location of the meeting. always on the same time... and won't interrupt other's sleeps. better still, there always exists human touch in such meeting.. whether over the phone or sitting on the same table. you can punch your meeting mate. your mandarin or english is the same as mine... if mine is broken, his or hers will not be so much different.

today's business world expand around the globe. different language, culture, etc.. wrote essay based on this theme rather often in secondary school. now i faced this situation. it already 8pm. just came into office to attend meeting... via computers. do not know who's at the other side of the world.. how he/she look like.. old or young. i spoke english.. so were they... but sounds different.

ok.. meeting starts very soon.

Los Angeles

2006-05-17T05:25:00.000+08:00

this is not from LA... it is Taipei airport.

the famous hall of fame

the hotel where the movie "pretty women" was made

marilyn monroe's house ... without window

walt disney theatre

chinese theatre

manhattan beach

LA city

Away ....

2006-05-16T01:44:00.000+08:00

I was in Los Angeles, California since last Friday. LA is a big city with population of 9 million (KL has 3 million population). Don't want to miss the opportunity, I took a day LA tour to few big-name places, such as Hollywood and Beverly Hill. The weather is just nice - about 75 F (~ 24 C). Took some photos - will publish them. Flew to Houston yesterday (Sunday). The flight was delayed for 2 hours due to thunder storm and power failure at Houston airport.

My biological clock has not adjusted properly yet, even after 3 nights here - woke up at 3am (4pm M'sia) and stay awake until 6am. But get very sleepy at about 10am (11pm M'sia) - challenging! Another stuff that I found uncomfortable is "tips" - every services requires tips (~10% of the price).

OK.... class resumed again.

visa to US

2006-04-25T13:20:00.000+08:00

Just came to know that to get a visa to the States requires some efforts...
(1) valid passport (of course)
(2) employment letter
(3) invitation letter (if any)
(4) bank draft from RHB for USD100
(5) latest (< 2 months) 2x2 inches photo
(6) fill-up the online visa application (and print it)
(7) morning 8am-10am window to queue for the interview at the embassy
(8) next day's afternoon visa collection.

my wedding

2006-04-24T11:04:00.000+08:00

We're married on April 17th. Few photos to share ...

new homepage

2006-04-04T09:38:00.000+08:00

I got new homepage.. http://honfui.googlepages.com/. At this moment, only bookmark in there - just to claimed the prize offered by Google Page Creator. Hope to find idea to fill up my homepage. If you have any idea, please share with me.

Some ideas... I'm thinking of putting this blog on the right side of the page... haven't investigate how to do that.
Another idea is to link the web photo sharing tools like "flickr". Would be nice if Google has similiar thing. I find that Google's "picasa"/"hello" is not the same as "flickr"....

cartoon

2006-03-24T14:01:00.000+08:00

Having conference since Monday... the Global Technical Advisory Panel for XXXX stuff.
I drew this in the close-out .. :)

room arrangement

2006-03-14T14:04:00.000+08:00

I tried to arrange furnitures in my room, which is rather small.. 3m x 2.9m.

On top of the dressing table is air-cond unit.

very first blog

2006-03-10T15:25:00.000+08:00

err.. very first attempt to "blog".. cool.