Filed under: Shout
Dear all who I know always pray,
I received a shocking news from my parents yesterday (they are in China, brought my grandma visiting the family root). My dad got a heart attack, and he’s now in Hospital. He can move, eat, speak etc, but he has to come to total rest, as the doctor diagnozed that it is not his heart that has problem, but it is Thrombosis. Wiki: (Thrombosis is the formation of a clot or thrombus inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. High altitude has also been known to induce thrombosis).
This morning he seemed stable but at night his heart went unstable again. It is still a critical time for at least few weeks, because any wrong moves can cause the blood clot blocking the vessel again. The doctor is giving him some medication to break these clots. Apparently there are a lot of them, and we think maybe it’s because of the multiple flights he took from Ambon – Surabaya – Singapore – China.
Please support in prayer, so that he can go through this smoothly. Please also pray for smooth run with immigration, as they have to extend their visa, and China immigration is really tough now (my Visa was just rejected this morning). Also pray for my mom, as she’s a fragile lady, she easily breakes down, pray for strength and wisdom in making decisions in regards of hospital treatment and immigration. Really appreciate your prayers, I’m going to keep you updated. Thanks.
Glory to the Lord, who shows how fragile man is, and praise to Him who reaches us though we are weak.
Filed under: Mind Cloud
I’m working on a project that is quite important now. Come to think about it, if I fail, my client will look very bad in front of his boss, up to the point where his career can be in danger. This is for a big event, a global event, and I’m workin gon animation for the “Launch” sequence. It is for the time when the Director of this giant company stands on the stage, trigger the launch sequence and my animation should be the big bang boom giving the wow and great feel to all the audience, giving proud to the boss, and giving good name to my client.
… and I received the news that my dad was having heart attack, in China, a foreign land in the midst of strangers. From what mom said, it sounds not so serious, but still I worry like crazy. My mind is having storm now, trying to focus on the job.
You know they always say,… be a professional, focus on work when you are at work, and commit family time and you are at home. Thing is, how balance is a balanced family-work time? Can I just not care about the work? OK, at the moment I don’t have to fly to China, I don’t have to do anything, except praying of course. But let’s say.. what if worse comes?
Let’s say you are handling a super important work, and no one else can do it, due to skill and familiarity, on a very tight deadline (I’ve been working until 10pm for almost a week), and something bad happens to your family. Let’s say (God forbid) your parent is very sick and you have to leave the country. Now, would it mean that you are not professional if you throw the work aside and commit all your time and mind to family? Let’s say you will have to take the risk that your client will be so unhappy, he’s going down because of this, and not only that, your company will suffer great loss too obviously (add to that; this is long term big client, 90% work comes from them), you might even put your career at risk… will you do that? Will you be at your parent’s side? Well… maybe you can say it’s company’s weakness, that they depend on man too much rather than depend on good system. You might blame the lack of resources or bad planning. Whatever it is, the lives of people is at risk, the company’s main income is at risk and you will drag some people down too. Will you rather be labelled ‘professional’ with reason of ‘I will go as soon as I finish this’ for the name of responsibility?
I will not.
How I wish I can talk to my dad now.
Filed under: Shout
Parents and Grandma are in China in search of family root, meeting Grandma’s sibling and visiting my grandparents’ home towns (it was villages). Mom called last night to tell that Dad got heart attack. According to her he’s OK no, stable in hospital. She said “He just needs rest”, and knowing mom, I don’t like this. She often tries to cover things so we don’t worry. I’m worried for sure.. many things run wild in my mind. On top of that, it’s hard to contact them, I can only wait for mom to call or SMS. Stubborn, they didn’t want to get local number, assumed that they would only stay for few days. Plan changes now obviously. How about ticket extension? their visa? money? how is dad, really ?
This is really breaking news. It breaks me.
