Full Moon

Tze Young's one month old yesterday!

Woot!

Less words, more photos!

[2 days] home with brother Hsiang

[4 days] rehospitalised, so not a happy bunny

[7 days] the two kings

[8 days] chilling with Toby the train

[9 days] having a sweet dream

[16 days] hi hi

[17 days]

Hsiang: "I shall teach you how to be a king"

Young: "I'm listening"

[26 days] thanks for all the ang pao and gifts

[27 days] we are all smiles and peaceful

[30 days] we are dead serious

[31 days] left to right: mama, king#2, king#1, slave

I am simply too transparent, wifey knew exactly what I was planning to do and stopped me from doing it a few days before Young turned one month old.

Oh well, doesn't change the fact that I understand how much she sacrifices for our children, and the one month old milestone is to me, a celebration and appreciation for my wifey, not for the baby.

Anyway, I shall end this entry with Young in his birthday suit...

oi, it's charged per view!

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday Scribble Pad! (this blog ler)

Two years of consistently torturing misguided readers with eleven entries per month, except November since November is the slacker month so I get to slack and write only four entries. And as we all know (or should know for those who don't), four is the answer to everything in the universe, on top of being the bestest number. =)

Visit counts seemed to picked up over the last year, not sure if it's more misguided people stumbled upon this blog or someone being too free and kept hitting the refresh button. It's at 13300 when I last checked, it was at 4746 same time yesteryear. Oh well, I am sticking with the explanation of bored person hitting the refresh button.

Comment is still next to non-existence, no surprise there.

Contents are the same old same old crap that only misguided people would find interesting, smart people would go read Nelson's. =)

That's all regarding the blog, now I will make a few announcements:

1. I am 32 today, old fart! =P

2. I don't like to be in the limelight, me is shy one lar

3. while I love to celebrate other people's birthdays, I don't like to celebrate my own (see 2), so please don't (32 liao lar, you think still 13 meh?)

4. I do appreciate friends remembering it's my birthday and send me birthday greetings on the day, whichever way of communicating that is fine and that's really all I want

5. I am lactose intolerance so I don't really like cake

6. I am slow so I don't like last minute changes

7. I am straight talking and tactless so yea, I do mean what I say, i.e. yes is yes, no is no, like is like, don't like is don't like. No hidden meaning or agenda and likewise I prefer to deal with straight talking people

8. seriously, stop using me as scapegoat already! Or at least own up to it and cough up the payment when I caught you doing =\

Thanks to all who remember and all the birthday wishes.

Thanks for organising the lunch but I will be evil and nasty towards you for a while so you will stop doing that next year. =)

给孩子的话

孩子

爸爸没有妈妈的耐心

也不常常有时间陪你们

但为人父母，就该教你们做人之道

爸爸喜欢书写，所以爸爸会将些有用的东西写下来

当你们识字懂事时再给你们看

爸爸没有课程表，也没有一定的公式

只是想到什么就写什么

如果有些东西重复了又重复

你们要见谅，爸爸的记性是很差的

你们要乖乖的听话

爸爸妈妈是不会害你们的

记得你要他人怎么对你

你就该怎么对他人

长大了要做个有责任感的好人

不要抽烟喝酒，做自毁的傻事

要帮助比自己弱小的人

要有颗谦虚好学的心

跟妈妈学交际之道，不要像爸爸这样呆呆的

对待女孩要像爸爸对妈妈一样

千万不要欺负别人的女儿

切记，真正的男人是不打女人的

要为自己的言行举止负责任

做事要敢做敢当

犯错了要马上认错，企求原谅

认错后要悔改，不要再犯同样的错

当你们不再需要我们的扶持时

展开翅膀尽情去飞翔，去飘扬

爸爸妈妈会让你们做自己的选择

也会尊重和支持你们的决定

要牢记着，爸爸妈妈是爱你们的

Random Thoughts

A tad busy these few days, wanted to write something but could never get a stretch of time long enough for me to sit down and write. Besides that, mind's always somewhere else, like on caring for Young, dealing with Hsiang, helping out wifey, and on work.

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Tze Young

Young's been frequenting the hospital almost every other day, and two days consecutive yesterday and today. Jaundice, under weight, rashes. Be healthy little one, papa and mama are worried.

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Personality from Blogging

A few days ago I was thinking while taking shower about writing an entry, my thought process went like this:

Let me write something funny.

Hmm...

Okay, let me write something nice.

Hmm...

Let me write something evil then. Oooh, there is that...

Then I realised the implication: me is evil!

I feel so proud of myself, muahahahaha! =P

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Busy Cat Walking

The unexpected early arrival of Young threw my work schedule off course as I took many days off. I am now rushing to complete a cat walk modelling job by the end of October.

Me is so out of time. >.<

Good thing is, I am throwing myself back into work with enthusiasm again and the negative bout seemed to be over, hoorah!

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How Far in Advance?

Received two birthday wishes today, talk about greetings in advance!

It is nice to know that there are people more blur than me, hehehe.

I thanked them, though I am still going to hang on to my last week of being 31 years old, thank you very much.

Me still 31 years old, really! =)

Humbling Experience

When Chin Chin handed me a red packet saying it's a gift from the colleagues for the newborn Young Young, I thanked her and thought nothing of it.

She commented that I seemed to be rather popular, for many had contributed to the gift. I think I probably laughed at that, "popular" and "CK" do not go together, okay? So, I asked for the list of names and Chin Chin informed me it's within the ang pao, I thanked her again for being so thorough and thought nothing of it.

As I was heading to a meeting then, and was keeping my stuff in the cabinet, Chin Chin advised me to keep the ang pao safe, "there's a lot of money in it," she said. I locked it in my cabinet and thought nothing of it.

You have to understand, I honestly cannot link myself with popular. I am a boring person (really one!), while I understand networking is important, I am no good at it. I was thinking around 10 being my circle of friends among my colleagues, so when Chin Chin said "many" I was thinking around 15 to 20.

I was in for a surprise when I finally opened the red packet when I got home. I am not here to brag so I will not disclose the actual number of colleagues that had contributed to the gift. I can only tell you it honestly exceeded my expectation and I am truely shocked.

I know I am a nice person, well, generally... Okay okay, I am evil in a nice way. But I honestly do not think so many would care or bother with me having a second child, since our department is having a productive year with many babies popping left and right.

I think it must have been Chin Chin pulling strings, maybe she point a gun to people's head or something. No matter how she did it, this is really a humbling experience for me.

Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart.

You know, Young has more money now than my whole childhood years combined, he is just one week's old! Good grief.

I owe you one Chin Chin, in fact, I owe you two since there's that lab stuff as well. =)

Young

Many have asked about Tze Young's name in Mandarin, truth is I wanted to include that in the previous entry but Microsoft Pinyin IME doesn't have the Chinese character in its vocabulary. So here it is, photo from the good old hardcopy dictionary.

Oh, before that, in case there are people who are uncertain with the pronunciation of the baby's name, well, it's young as in: "I am old but you are young". Not 'yong'.

Surname. A "mouth" on top of a "sky", not sure if it means we Goh talk so loud the whole world can hear or we are so hungry we eat everything under the sky? =P

This is the Mandarin character designated for male children of Young's generation in my Goh family. So Hsiang also has this character in his name. It means wisdom, intelligence.

This is the character for which the Mandarin pronunciation is 'young', it means flying, gliding. And this is Young's name. =) In fact, it has similar meaning to Hsiang's name in Mandarin, so I guess our sons will fly away from us as soon as they are old enough. =P

Worries and Woes

Due to jaundice, His Royal Highness King Baby Young readmitted to the hospital two days after being discharged from birth. We were told that newborn from mother who is of O+ blood type has a higher chance of getting jaundice.

Initially we thought Young would be discharged today since his bilirubin level (actually I am not sure what stuff they test, I just assume it's bilirubin) dropped dramatically yesterday, but it raised slightly today. Doctor said perhaps he has reached the limit of UV light treatment and will have to depend on his lever function now. We will wait another day and see how's the level.

The thing with Young being hospitalised is that I have to chauffeur wifey to and fro hospital every few hours since we insist on breast feeding. We saved all the expressed milk for the night to cut down on the night time hospital trips.

Even so, I think the parking cashers of all shifts are probably saying "this guy again" whenever they see me. I have honestly lost count of the number of times I have been to GMC these few days.

Being a light sleeper and a worrier, with only an hour or two of peace and quiet in bewteen stuff like drive to hospital, store expressed milk in the fridge, attend to wifey's need, et cetera, pretty much means I don't get any quality sleep at all. I am a walking zombie, I believe it's the Red Bull that kept me going. Good thing the confinement lady has arrived today, hopefully I will be able to ditch most of the work to her.

I burned another day of my annual leave quota for tomorrow, since the chauffer duty remains. It's either I drive or my wifey drives herself to and fro the hospital. Not really a choice given it hasn't been a week since she delivered Young.

The biggest headache and heartache remains with His Royal Highness King Toddler Hsiang. He is getting ridiculously difficult and disobedient. If he kept this up I would be bursting a blood vessel or two pretty soon. So unreasonable he is and frustrated I am that I am starting to think about stuff in the line of cage, lock, sound proof, instant sleep zapper, human remote control that can pause and mute...

Family matters aside, I am also worried about my work. Last week was supposed to be my solid week of numerical simulations, I have insufficient time to properly sleep as it is, let alone work. So I have done nothing and I have no idea what to write in this month's report.

Bummer.