Dave 18 Months

Updated: 20 April 2009

Dave is exactly 18 months today. So, what are the things that he has achieved so far? Not much though and I can't really make a comparison since he's the first.

Finally, I brought him to Dr. Johannes at Gleni International Hospital. The reason is because the time just suits me. I brought him after his class from Little Lamb and we reached the hospital at about 12 plus. It's more than half an hour journey due to the traffic. Our queue number is 40 and at that time it's only 25 (the queue number).

It's not fun to handle Dave alone in the waiting room. Finally at 2 o'clock, we went in and consult with the Doctor. As usual, the Doctor asked him to lie down and he cried. Remember the trauma that he had in the hospital the other time?

Well, then the Doctor checked the stomach and the anus. Dave has an acute constipation. Thus the doctor had this prescription Lactulax or lactulose. It's so called to make the feces softer? Everyday 10ml for a week, then reduce to 5ml for another week. If it's getting better than we can just stop the medicine.

Another thing is we have to control his diet. The doctor suggests the following things to be done:
1. Drink milk that you can get in any cold storage in the market, mall, or anywhere. Just like Ultra milk. Drink it every morning for 75 ml only.
2. Feed him with the fruits that full of fiber everyday, such as papaya, soursop, prune, jelly, etc.

Oh yah, the constipation is actually not a big idea. The thing that make it worse is, he's reluctant to poo coz it hurts everytime he poo. Thus, the feces is getting harder and then the same cycle repeat again and again.

So far, there are a few things that Dave loves to do or has achieved. He loves to clean up the floor by using his cloth or anything he can reach for. (He sees our maid clean up the home too much). He also loves to spray the water by using the hose. He can say mama, papa, nai-nai (grandmo from Mr. said), wet, duduk (sit in Indonesia), minum (drink in Indonesia), star, moon, cat, pig, car, book, blue, water, flower, two (he just miss one), bye-bye, bird, ear, nose, mouth, head, and so on... Oh yah, the favourite word... Bath...

Then he is able to complete the following word when we sing Twinkle twinkle Little Star... Star, Are, High, Sky....
and then One little two, little three, little Indian.... and he finishes the last part... "boy"...

Marketing & HRM

Back to school...
In order to be eligible to teach in the Institute, I need to have my Master degree. Thus, there are about 20 of us (lecturers) go back to school. It's quite convenience as we are having class only on Saturday and Sunday for every month. We had the classes in IT&B as the school invited the lecturers to come over for the lectures. A real executive class uh,....

Most of the classes are from 9-5 and I am doing double degree as in MBA from University of Wisconsin and MKom (Master in Computer) for local degree. Marketing and HRM were the subjects for last weekend. They are apparently quite interesting and those are my very new subjects, new information for me.

The pro is I can go back to school which is always my dream to further my study. The con is I have to leave Dave at home with Mr. I am really thankful for Mr.'s understanding. He took care of Dave for the whole day. Of course mother-in-law also plays important role in it also.

There is no real guidelines as in how long we can finish the subjects, however there are about 23 subjects to take from both overseas and local U....

Dave 17 Months +

For the first time Dave fell down terribly and hit his upper lip. Luckily his teeth are still fine. He fell down at the backyard while spinning around for a couple of times.

Day after he fell down. The lip is recovering...

Nowadays, he loves to move his body while listening to music or just make a spin for couple of times or take things from the floor and put them in the mouth.. can be anything.. paper.. ants.. (disgusting...?? yes...) How can I stop him from his last habit?

Life is Like a Crystal Ball...

I watched a movie starred by Andy Lau and Shu Qi that mentions life is like a crystal ball. It fell down from the sky and broke into pieces. Some people able to gather and fix most of the pieces. However, some people are able to collect some of the pieces.

How many pieces that we collect and stick together determine how complete our life. No matter how complete our life is, it can't be 100% as it is not possible for us to collect all pieces of the crystal ball.

We can just try to collect as many as possible and keep looking for the pieces.

Why Do You Want to Pursue MBA?

What can be more beneficial for the company than to employ a person with a strong background in both technology and business? By having a Bachelor degree in Business Computing alone is not going to boost my career prospects. As an individual that concerns with life development and career, I realize that I need to start my MBA as soon as possible. Especially in today business world that is so competitive and challenging.

One of the reasons of me pursuing MBA is to have a network. I believe that if I know how to build-up this relationship, they will be my life-time network. Besides that, by pursuing MBA, it means that I am escalating my knowledge. By hearing the highly-ambitious people sharing their vision and purpose of their lives might trigger me to upgrade my vision and purpose of life. An MBA will also increase my awareness on things, such as things that I need to know but I do not know that I need to know. Last but not least, pursue MBA from a reputable University, such as Concordia University, will give me a status in the society.

Whereas can I find a University that provides a clear vision, real-world experience, and responsive if it is not from the Concordia University? I believe that once I am graduated from the University, I can walk out the door and make an impact on my organization.

Risks of Having Chilren

Is that a must to have a child in every marriage life? In every marriage life, most of the couples would like to have at least one child.

Reasons are varied from inheritance to hope to belief. Inheritance maybe for those people who are wealthy enough that might need someone to inherit their wealth. Meanwhile, some people need children so that their children can take care of them when they get old. Others are for egoism reasons, as every marriage need to have children, if they don't have, then something is wrong.

Actually having children are a mixer of a little bit of risk, worry, and happy. Starts from pregnancy, delivery, and till the end of our day. During the pregnancy, we are already worried if the fetus is going to be complete, fine, healthy, etc. Same thing during the delivery time. Will be both baby and mother turns out to be alright.

Dave was hospitalized on Friday night as the fever reached 39 Celsius plus. He had the infusion which is a very sad thing to see. He was wrapped with blanket and there were 4 nurses needed to hold his hand during the infusion time. Meanwhile, me and Mr. held his feet and tried to calm him. He`s very strong. The sad thing was to see him crying while looking at me and asking for help.

He`s hospitalized for 3 days and 2 nights. The doctor said that fever normally caused by 2 things, which are virus and bacteria. Dave`s fever was caused by a very light virus. Respiratory virus. The doctor didn`t give any medicine. Only infusion. Anti-biotic is also not necessary as it's not caused by bacteria.

Honestly, it kinda makes me worry to give Dave a sibling. As worries will be there as long as we alive.

Dave is having fever again...

It's not even a month since Dave recovered from fever. Last night, at about 3 am, the fever reached 39 degree Celsius. Am a bit worried. So, I woke him up and gave him Tempra hope that the fever will get better. He woke up and continue to stay awake till 4 something...

First thing in the morning, I went to dr. Johan at jalan Bangka. The earliest doctor I can find and this will be the second time I visit him. Apparently, Dave has throat infection. That's the reason why the fever is still there all night long.

In Chinese, maybe we'll call this 'heat'... but then in medical term, they call this as infection.

If a child has fever, the time that we need to be caution is at around 6 pm and 2-3 am in the morning.