Day + 210 : Happy Birthday to Jin Han

I am fine today.

Yesterday we celebrated my nephew, Kua Jin Han's Birthday. Ah Boy is form 4 this year, and will sit for SPM next year. I believe he will do well. I told my kids to call him Jin Han instead of Ah Boy, as too many Ah Boy in the street.

My son, Jin Hao like to play with Jin Han, he always ask if Ah Boy is coming to our house during weekend. Jin Hao had inherited a lot of toys from Ah Boy.

Day +230 : 100%

I am fine today.

Yesterday , Jin Hao's school having the Parent -meet- Teacher day . I was there to understand how Jin Hao perform in the last few months. Jin Hao perform pretty well in the fist term examination. He scored 100% for English, Bahasa, Numbers, 96% for Chinese and B for writting. His form teacher, Teacher Yee Leng said Jin Hao show great improvement. I promised Jin Hao if he passed the examination, will bring him to Mc Donald to have burger and french fried. WELL DONE ! Jin Hao.

Day 207 : Follow Up

I am fine today.

Follow-up at SJMC on 26 May 09
My Blood Count Today:

Readings in square bracket [] are result from previous test.
Red Blood Count (HB) = 11.6[12.4] (Normal 13-18)

Platelet = 159[178] (Normal 150-450)

White Blood Count (WBC) = 4.7[4.7] (Normal 4 - 11)

All the blood count considered OK. For the HB, as the donor is from female, it is OK as long as HB above 11.5. The most important things is , physically I feel comfortable. Don't too particular about the figure.

The result of the transplant is a change of blood to my sister's in my body and since our immune system is provided by the blood as one of its functions, effectively, I got a brand new immune system. But the new immune system is not exactly the same as my sister's, so it may fails to recognize some of my organs and starts to attack them. This is what we called graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

The main challenge after the bone marrow transplant is the management of GVHD. Whenever there is sign of GVHD, the patients' immune system have to be suppressed through certain medication to avoid organ damages. On the other hand, suppressing the immune system too much defeat the purposes of transplant as the immune system might become too weak to clear the remaining cancer cells in the body. Therefore, this is a game of balance. A good haematologist must be a good game player in this field.

I am "fortunate" enough to have GVHD, therefore, my immune system needs to be suppressed by taking immunosuppressive drugs such as Prednisolon (steroid) and Ciclosporin. With this, I found a very good and friendly reason to turn down any products that offer a boost to immune system.

Day +206 : Pot Luck Dinner - Part 2

I am fine. Today is my routine follow up at SJMC.

Continue the pot luck dinner story..... We have Teck Ann, Kah Ban, Stanley, Yee Hong, Boon Tiam, Hiap Soon, Nelson, Chen Yoong and my two sisters joining the party. About 31 people attending the dinner. I did organised the similar party at my house few years ago.

As usual, Stanley is our camera man. We must thanks him , he got everybody a printed family photo.

The gentlemen enjoy the most is a bottle of Martell Gordon Blue. Our Camera Man need to sleep for a while before able to drive back.

This is first time Yee Hong's husband Anthony, Kah Ban , Stanley and Nelson attended our pot luck gathering. I hope everyone is enjoying the food and the chit chat. We probably will organise another gathering by end of year, would like them to join us.

There are plenty of food served, due to my mouth ulcer, I only choose the non-fried food. I enjoy spaghetti and the plum cake very much.

Day +205 : Happy Birthday to AH Tee

Today is AH Tee's Birthday,

all that brings You happiness....

all that brings You cheer....

That is what we wish for You today and all through the year !

Our Office held a simple birthday celebration for AH Tee and Alex Woo ( 24 May).

AH Tee is my supervisor, I learn a lot from him. He had produced three Sales Master in Grace.

Day +204 : Pot Luck Dinner - Part 1

Yesterday, we are having a pot luck dinner party at Fong Ming 's house. Many delicacies were served. We have fried rice, fried meehoon, satay, spagetti, keropok, yam cake, plum cake, mix vegetable, nugget, aiscream, curry chicken , sausages, pizza, watermelon, loh han Guo plus a botol of Martell's Gordon Blue drink (The only item that we able to empty it )

Day +205 : SKA 89 -94 gathering

Finally we managed to have a gathering for SKA 89 -94 at Bandar Puteri Puchong yesterday. Although we only have 9 people turn up, this is a great successful, as we have few attempts to orangise such gathering in the last few years, but just can't make it. Tyson said he ended having a dinner at Mamak stall due to insufficient of member turn up.

We are having a dinner at Restaurant Zen ( 真不同）, we have Soon Poh, Tyson ( Boon Tiam), Kin Siong, See Toh, Suet Sen, Jee Yih, Lai Kok Land, Ti Lian Tong attended the gathering. Finally our past President Lee Suet Sen join us.






Photo : Lai Jee Yih and Lai Kok Land. I have not met Lai Kok Land after graduation. He own's a consultant firm



Photo : See Toh, Kin Siong and Soon Poh

Photo : There are too many stories to tell, we are laughing too much. We started at 7.30pm and leave by 10pm

Day +203 : Contact List

I am fine today.

Tayson ( Boon Tiam) has compile a phone list for our SKA 89 -94, but we don't have the e-mail address. For SKA 94 who have visited my blog, pls SMS your e-mail address to Tayson

Day +202 : Where Are You, U Mate

I am fine today.

Chee Khoon drop a note on my blog wishing me get well. His blog is very impressive, mentioning places he have visited. Chee Khoon is really enjoying the life, we should learn this definitely.

Chee Khoon 's blog http://ckgoplaces.blogspot.com/ (I am a simple person who enjoys the good things in life: travel, photography, music, food, movies and reading. I would like to share my part of life through my lenses. I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I have experienced it. Thanks for dropping by drop by )

Boon Tiam and Soon Poh is organising a small gathering at Bandar Puteri Puchong this coming Friday, So far we have confirmation from Lai Jee Yih, Kin Siong, Boon Cheng. Chee Siew Pin can't make it as he is travelling to Thailand. They are my U Mate in UTM. We used to have a society " ZERO POINT ". Mean we start from zero....... I remember the President is Lee Suet Sen.


Photo : Our Practical at UPM, KL



Photo : Desaru Trip by motorbike



Photo : Waiting for lecturer




Photo : Soon Poh and Kin Siong

Photo : Our Class Tall Man - Saw How Teong/me/ Ah Long

Photo : A Trip to UM, KL

Photo : Orientation Week with freshy

Photo : Why so few student in the class ?

Photo : Land Surveying Practical at UPM, KL

Photo : Group assignment discussion at library

Photo : Photo taken at Train-the only transport back to our hometown in East Coast -

Photo : SKA 94

Photo : My roommate - Chai Yoke Fong. I did not get the opportunity to visit him, so hope to see him in near future.

Photo : Train Station at Johor Bahru