Yep, its my birthday today. However, the day remains relatively normal and ordinary. I intend to go to the cathedral today at lunch time to offer prayers of thanks and light some candles.

This is my first birthday with my wife and our baby. Despite the absence of fancy food and otherwise useless material gifts, this birthday is the most special by far for very obvious reasons. I think it’s really true that as a man ages, his outlooks tend to widen most specially when it comes to matters of family. I could still remember during my previous birthdays that I would either go and buy something for myself, go splurge on the latest food cravings, or perhaps watch a movie, or buy something for my pc. I haven’t even thought of anything for my self today. Instead of buying something for my self, I’ll buy something for my baby. Things like baby vitamins, milk, more diapers, baby food, a simple present for my wife (say chocolates?), or what have you. But I will not definitely buy something for my self.

Guess I’ve gotten over my selfish pride? I dunno. However, I’ve definitely grown ‘wiser’. Have I aged? Definitely not. I’m still the same person, but wiser…

Happy New Year to all!

It’s been a few weeks since I have made another post. However, I’ve been really busy with so much things to do plus me and my wife are still trying to get used to family life . I forgot to write about my wife’s giving birth to our new bouncing baby girl - Rorie Kyne. I’ll put the details in here later.

Anyways, some little updates and/or news about me while offline. Hmmm dunno where to start, but here goes.

1. Applied as a Novell Suse Linux Tech Support/Trainer for a local computer distributor. (good as hired. Pay is not lucrative though but good learning environment. I can do R&D for Suse which is cool!).

2. Applied for Network Admin for a manufacturing group. (still need to hear from them for my final interview)

3. Doing a project for E-Soft Sdn. Bhd. Malaysia.They asked me to do designs for their product box and cdrom face/cd cover. (work in progress)

4. A Malaysian print firm (owned by the father of a close friend of mine) wants me to go over and help them design the King’s Book. YES, you’ve read it right! They want me to help design the yearly book report of activities and accomplishments of the reigning King of Malaysia - “Yang Dipertuan Agong”. (I still have to say yes on this. But my wife begs to differ. Oh well.)

5. A friend is asking me to market some of their custom-developed software. They’ve developed accounting/finance, school, inventory/ERP, and various other systems. They don’t have branding yet though, but will see what we can do.

6. Fixed some little quirks in the CSS layout and added some links to this blog. Will add more later. And some more articles. Will add late-breaking tech news (when I see cooler ones!)

Other than these things, pretty much nothing to put. Oh, I might be joining Deviant Art, but I dunno if I really have to. There are a lot of impressive artists over there . Nice place to learn too.

CIAO!

It kinda got me when I first learned I developed asthma. It was about 4 years ago, I got bronchitis and I dunno where the hell did that damn bronchitis came from. Maybe pollution, maybe the food, who knows. The doc told me that time it’s because of pollution and lack of exercise. Yeah right! And I’m supposed to be Samson.

Prior to having asthma, I’m active in basketball. But when I started fiddling with the computer, trying to finish school, that’s when I started to get symptoms of lung weakness. Coughs and colds came too often. What do you know! The Doc told me I got acute rhinitis too! Sheesh! Like, why don’t you just throw everything at me Doc! I gave him a break, trust me.

Well, where was I? Oh yeah, lung weakness. Everything became worse when I started to work. Working day starts at 9am and ends up well into 10 or 11pm. Then at home, rest never really came. Got things to fiddle with, so the clock ticks and before I knew it, its 5am. Sleep is until 7:30am. Do the math.

That means, lack of sleep, no exercise, and a dash of stress. Perfect formula for asthma. Couple that with the proverbial pollution from our fine, fine city thank you! I end up landing in a hospital room almost every 6 months for 3 years. Do I own the freakin’ hospital? Hell, no! Even the meds are a pain in the butt. Costing 1000 or more shmoolas! And I got no choice but to buy or else I’d be digging my grave pretty early. No way Jose!

I guess I pretty much wised up since then. But not everything’s changed. Some things still remain the same. Not much exercise but hell, if a man’s gotta go, then he’s gotta go. But I pretty much got a lot of rest lately. If I were you, better wise up too.

If you want to know more about asthma, better visit The Lung Association’s website about asthma. You’ll thank me for it.

Asthma Introduction: Management, Medication, Exercise, Nutrition - The Lung Association