My Life

Most of the times, for any decision that you had made or for anything that had happened, you will always hear possitive and negative voices around you. Somebody will give you encouragement, somebody may say something that will demoralize you regardless of intentionally or un-intentionally.

Regardless what, as long as you clearly understand the direction that you are heading, you know it is the correct path that you should take, it is the right decision, you should ignore those negative voices and just take it as a joke. Appreciate those possitive voices and continue to move forward.

In our daily life, there are just too many voices around us. We need to learn how to protect ourself and never ever let these “negative” voices beat you down

We live for ourselves, not for others. Agree?

This statement was mentioned by Sgp AMD MD today, in the Exempt Communication.

I were surprised… guess everyone was surprised too. Hmm…why? Probably it is because we have to “lelong” our product just like the fish monger “lelong” their fishes? hehe… give it a guess !

The statement is very true, not just for AMD product, it is applicable for every product.
-When the fish is very fresh, you can sell it as Sashimi.
-When the fish is fresh, you can steam it.
-When the fish is not that fresh, you can fry it.
-When the fish is not fresh at all, you can mince it and make it as fish ball.

What are the prices that you sell for each stage, from selling it as Sashimi-> steam fish-> fried fish -> fish ball? Very obvious, the price significantly drop for each stage.

As what I have learnt from Business Mgmt study previously, every product has its limited profitable window. Once the window is over, you will see the drop in the margin till the lowest point. Before the product hits the lowest point or when the margin is in declining trend, you need to get a new product release to boost the sales again.

So, what happened to AMD is…. we always miss the boat, we always miss the Profitable Window. We only sell it as steam or fried fish, or even fish ball sometimes. This makes our bussiness outlook so bad.

Hmm… we are hoping the sales to pickup again on Q3′08 and hope that the product can be sold as Sashimi or steam fish, not fish ball

AMD, Kambade !!!!! …. 

My ex-coursemate sent out an wedding invitation few days ago… see the 3 responses from my others ex-coursemates..

“Sorry, can’t attend. It is near to my wife’s delivery” - KokHow (1st response)
“Sorry, I can’t attend too. It is near to my wife’s delivery too” - HongLee (2nd response)
“Sorry, I can’t attend. It is near to my delivery” - ChaiSia (3rd response)

WOW !!!! ….. This year is going to be fun !! So many Rat Babies

On top of 3 babies above, will be BeeKheng’s baby (due on Aug) and my baby (due on Dec). Wow.. a total of 5 babies. I only have ~22 chinese ex-coursemates and the hit rate is ~25%… haha… if only counting girls, the hit rate is 50% !!!… 3 out of 6 girls are in pregnancy now

Yeah… it is the age where everyone starts talking about baby now…

We have to admit that we are getting older and older, and it is time to bring the new excitement to the family by having more family members

Date: April 20

Weeks of pregnancy: 7 weeks and 6 days.

Baby: 5 weeks ++ old
-Baby looks like more human now and her tail almost vanished.
-Her arms and legs have lengthened, and she has rudimentary hands and feet.
-Her heart has divided into the right and left chambers and is beating about 150 beats a minute, about twice the rate of an adult.
-Her live, kidneys, lungs intestines and internal sex organs are all nearing completion.

Mom: 51.5Kg (no difference)
-Mom’s condition: Much better, appetite improved a lot and feels hungry on every 2-3hrs. Still feel like vomit sometimes but the frequency of vomitting reduces from ~10 times per week to ~2 times per week. Feel very very tired most of the time and need to have plenty of sleep. Still quite choocy in food but much better compared to last week and start to have some meats, fishes and vege besides those high carbohidrat foods.

-I feel so relief with my condition this week

6 weeks + 6 days

Date: April 13, 2008

Baby: 4 weeks++ old
- Measures about 0.2cm to 0.4cm (from ref book), Actual measurement is 0.67cm (from ultra-sound scan)
  (Wow…. my baby is much bigger :P)

-Growth is very rapid this week. He now has a brain, his tiny heart no bigger than a poppy seed, but it is beating on its own.

-Other major organs, including the kidneys and liver, continue to develop. The neural tube, which connects the brain and spinal cord, closes. Baby’s head now begins to take shape.

-He has his own bloodstream, which has started to circulate blood.

Mom: 51.4kg (Weight gain: +0.6kg)
-Visited Gynae for 2nd time on April 11.
-Done 2nd ultra-sound scan, saw baby’s heart beating from the scanning screen and heard the heart beating sound. Felt so excited and touched when saw that

- Mom’s condition: not so good, tired with all the morning sick symptoms, totally lost appetite and sleep for whole day.

My morning sick started on week 5, it becomes more significant since yesterday

-My stomach has a lot of wind and bloated, make me feel uncomfortable after each meal.
-Vomit in the early of the morning but feels better after vomitting (continuous for 2 days already)
-Need to eat a lot of sour stuff, like sour plum, preserved orange peel, Lemon Juice to make me feel better
-Damm sleepy after lunch, no mood to work at all.
-Will suddenly feel very hungry and must immediately eat something (usually biscuits), else stomach feel very uncomfortable.
-Have to drink hot milo or eat some biscuits even before tooth brush in the morning. Else, unbearable hungry.
-More frequent toilet visit at night, sometimes have to eat some biscuits if feels hungry. There are 2 times where I munching the bread & biscuit while laying on my bed, with eyes closed.
-Need to take deeper breath, probably baby needs that for more blood circulation.
-Become sensitive and choocy in food, dislike chicken/meat, prefer vegetable, potatos. Usually before each meal, I will flush through the food picture in my mind and see which food that I can take. Food that I don’t like can make me feel like vomit even I just think of it.
-Need a lot of sleep.

If let me rate my current condition from 1 - 10 (good to worst), I will rate 5, considered average compared to the worst that I have seen

Week 5++
-Date: April 05

-Baby: 3 weeks ++ old
 *Measures about 1.25mm
 *Central nervous system begins to develop. Baby’s brain and spinal cord start to form.
 *Traces of the eyes and ears are discernible on the sides of her head, the liver and kidneys are beginning to develop, as are muscle and bone.
 *The walls of baby’s heart are now forming - it will begin to beat by the end of the week.

-Mom’s weight: 51kg (no change)
 *Condition: Easily full and hungry. Eat very little per meal as stomach feel not comfortable if follows normal portion, feel very full now but can feel very hungry in next few mins.
 * Mom starts to drink “hot milo” every morning before goes to work, else feel unbearable hungry.

Hup went to library and book shop. To my suprise, he was searching for books regarding foods for pregnancy. He bought a book called “Recipes for Pregnancy and Confinement”. He said, our moms not around, so, it is his responsiblity to take care of my meals and cook for me. I know he don’t like cooking but now, he is more than willing to learn cooking because of me & baby. I was so happy and touched

He started his 1st and 2nd dishes learning today.
Dish 1: Crispy Golden  Mushroom Deluxe, an appetizing dish (for 1 - 12 weeks of pregnancy)
Dish 2: Celery with Fish Fillet (salmon) ( for 1-12 weeks of pregnancy)

I was so satisfied with his first try, all are so nice. He likes the dishes that he cooked as well.

See… cooking is so simple

After we had our lunch, he continued with the housechores. There are few housechores that I can’t do now, as the baby is not very stable, like mop the floor, sweep the floor, hanging clothes to bamboo stick. So, he have to take over all these tasks from me

Oh my god…. The baby have so much influences and power even she/he is so so little in my stomach. Hahaha…. we feel the excitement with her/his arrival and looking forward her/his growth in my stomach, day by day, week by week, month by month….