Last week had been an eventful week for me.

The same could also be said for the past few weeks, actually. Many things have happened — I have had time to reflect on my life, my family, my work, the people around me, etc… I did some thinking, some talking (to family, friends and a few others), did some more thinking…

The baby is due soon — May. There are still so many things to get ready. And I personally feel I’ve not spent enough time with my wife and have not done my share of things for the baby — skipped the last two routine follow-ups with the specialists, etc…

So last week, I tendered my resignation…

This morning, we went to the crematorium to pick up grandpa’s ashes. It was an emotional affair for my relatives, especially my aunts. After going through the custom ceremonies (which included prayers, etc), we were off to Port Klang to scatter the ashes. We had done the same for our grandma.

We chartered a bus as there were about more than 20 of us. We arrived at Port Klang about half and hour later and proceeded to board the two boats that has been arranged for us. We were told there wasn’t any boat big enough for all of us. So we had to split into two boats. I was told to board the boat carrying grandpa’s ashes. In about 10 minutes, we were on the way out to the ’sea’…

Clockwise from Top Left: We arrived at Port Klang; Walking down to the jetty; On the way out the the ’sea’; That is grandpa in two bags having his last sun bath
Dad holding onto grandpaAbout 10 minutes later, we arrived at our destination. We were not really out in the sea but it was far out enough from the port. As the boat slowed down to a stop, we could feel the boat swaying left and right. It was a bit rough. Dad and my uncle got started. They slowly poured grandpa’s ashes and bone bits into the sea. All it all, it was another 10 minutes followed by a quick prayer. We then started to head back to the jetty.

Rest well, grandpa…On the way back, I noticed that the water was some how separated at one area… You can sea the water is greenish on one side and brownish on the other…

See the line? The water seems to be separated by that line - green on one side, brown on the otherSince we were in Klang, someone suggested we have the famous Klang Bah Kut Teh (pork ribs in herbal soup).

Dad just called a few minutes ago…

My grandpa had just passed away…

He had fallen down twice yesterday and had been admitted into the hospital. He was still unconscious then. This morning, my uncle (dad’s youngest brother) had told us that grandpa has some brokens bones but no surgery can be done as he’s old and weak.

The past few months has been a series of bad news for me…

It has been an ‘eventful’ week for us. Over the past few days, everything had been like a roller coaster ride for us. It gave us lots of scare. But I guess both of us have settled down and have a better understanding now.

Over the past week, we found out about 2 other people who had gone through what we are going through with our baby now. One is a colleague of mine who has a 7 year old daughter. According to my colleague, her 7 year old daughter turned out fine.
They had diagnosed her daughters condition only after she was delivered. Her daughter went for surgery on the third day and all’s well now. Another is my cousin’s cousin brother. According to my cousin, this cousin is now 21 years old and is doing National Service (this cousin of his lives in Singapore). My cousin told me everything should be OK for us as well.

All these have made us more calm now and as we go along, we will share what other things we find out about Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.

We still have many things to prepare for our baby. Since there is a warehouse sale in Setia Alam, both of us decided to check out the things available there. The morning was spend checking out Babyland in SS2 (just to compare prices). Then we went to Little Whiz’s warehouse sale in Setia Alam. There were quite number of things on sale - baby cot, breast pump, toys, baby chairs, etc… We stared at each other… Are all these necessary? I guess we didn’t do enough ‘research’ on what is necessity and what is luxury. If you ask the people at Little Whiz, they would of course tell you we need everything!

We also took the opportunity to check out our house. There’s nothing new from out last visit except that they have even locked up the houses now. So there’s no way we could go in and check out our unit. So we just took a photo from the outside.

We took photo of this unit as it has got flowers blooming on the tree outside

On our way home…

Car breaks down again… 6 times in 6 months

While waiting for the mechanic, Mrs Tai and myself checked out the Central Park. Luckily for us, the car broke down just in front of the park. But we didn’t explore the whole place. We just tried out some of the equipments nearby…

The ‘walker’ is very fun

We also managed to meet up with a forum member and Setia Alam resident while waiting. Kelvin was nice enough to drop by and keep us company. He even offered to help me get some mechanics from nearby but I told him that our mechanic is on his way over. Derrell and Su Fei also popped by to keep us company. They were on their way to their own home in Aman Perdana. I think they didn’t actually have any plans to go to Aman Perdana (they were at his parent’s place in Petaling Jaya) but when I told Derrell my car broke down, they decided to drop by. So nice of them… Kelvin, Derrell and Su Fei.

After about 2 hours of waiting, mechanic told me he lost his way and will arrange a tow truck instead. I told him that I’ll try to start my car again and then if still necessary, will call him back and ask him to send the tow truck over instead. Luckily, the car could start and we were on our way back to PJ again.

Got back to PJ and sent the car to workshop… Again. Very good record (being sarcastic here). See… And it’s just the first day of March!

Entering my 4th week in the new office. Still adjusting to the new environment. New colleagues, new systems, etc… There’s been a lot of things going on at the moment, which is why I’ve not been able to update this site and also by blog.

I’ve got some draft designs that I’m working. Looks like Wordpress it will be. Also, got a few things to sort out. I hope to have all these done up over the coming Raya holidays.

Still, do leave me a note or two via the chatbox (on the right). And visit my blog. I still try to post something at least once a week.

First of all… Thank you for dropping by www.adriantai.com. Some quick updates:

• We have just gotten back from our honeymoon.
• Our photographer have just given us the softcopies last night. We will be putting them up here soon enough (see below for additional info).
• This site will be moving to a new host (expected migration: 10th Dec 2006). This means this site will not be accesible for at least 12-48 hours. It should be up again latest by 12th Dec 2006.
• We need about 1 week after that to fiddle around with the new tools.
• You can expect photos to be available from 22nd Dec 2006 onwards… But don’t expect all to be uploaded at once. Must make my visitors return to this site…

In the meantime, do drop by my other sites - adriantai’s blogspot and Friends of Sek. Men. Seaport.
(Oh ya… There are some wedding photos and misc. updates littered all over these sites.)