After more than 24 hours labouring, 4 days and 3 nights in hospital; Carol and I are going back home with our son, Colton at 3:00pm today. In Saskatchewan, a new born baby must be registered the name before they can be released. Here is the Chinese Name (Long Heem) which is the middle name too. So, the full name is “Colton Long Heem Chan”.
More pictures have been uploaded to http://carolhung.com/gallery.
This is just repost my last thought on my previous job in Point2 Technologies Inc. In general, I described it by following Point2’s 4 core values:
Exceed expectation at every opportunity
In last 5 years and 10 months, Point2 had given me many opportunities; when I was hired, I never planned to have a chance to learn team and management skills. I never planned to be the technical team lead. With such a unique company culture, you can always exceed expectation as long as you believe in yourself. It was amazing working in heavy equipment team in the last 2 months; it was great success to see acquiring 7 new subscriptions in a month, like a magic. That was the opportunity for me to see how efficient a small team operates together. So I believe you will be able to take advantage of every opportunity in [anytime], [anywhere] and [any size]; it depends on whether you want to exceed your own expectation.
Value the Team above all else
During the job interview in the last few weeks (for my current new job), one thing I’m proud to show to the potential employer is the Point2 technical team picture which was taken in last Sept (2006), about 30 technical people. I put it in my pocket in case I’m asked for a question like “How big is your team?”. As a bonus, it also gives me a lot of confident during the interview. By showing this picture, it already says thousand words as well as demonstrating how great the team which has been built by the team (in particular, from an agile development point of view) and Point2.
Thrill in assertive risk taking and visionary innovation
When I decided to move on for a new career, one of the biggest risks is not sure that I’ll be able to find the same good teammates and company culture as Point2. When time goes longer, human normally feels comfortable and protected in the same enviornment and people. On the other hand, it will take a lot of brave to jump out of your comfort zone. One of my little tip for easily jumping out of this comfort zone is be creative and innovative for your future, this will help to see more interesting and successful future.
Fanatically pursue excellence
I always think about “What’s next?” for my personal life as well as my career. I’m lucky to say that because of my motivation to be excellence (although not always success), I’m able to find what my passion on technology and career. Database and performance is really something I had been working in the last 4 years from time to time. When I saw the posting of my next job, I can visualize what the work is about and how I can handle different tasks and can do it better. What I really mean is to develop a way to visualize what the situation is about will help you purse excellence successfully.
This 4 core values are really what I had learn from my previous company in 5 years and 10 months and I’m able to carry them and use them through out the rest of my career, may be another 20-30+ . :>
Cheers!
| “We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.” | |
| — Buddha | |
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This is my story with babies. The first time I met Colton was last year in September. After about a year, Colton and his family moved in Vancouver. I played with Colton very happily. Sometimes when he can’t see me he will cry. When he does see me, he wants to play with me. Once he wouldn’t nap because he wants to play with me so badly. Having a baby can be fun and hard at the same time! Adios!
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Clinton (Colton’s cousin)
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What do all of these terms mean? Since Sept, after living in Vancouver, I have been taking public transit to work. In about 45 mins each way, I have been looking for way to best use of the time or enjoy my own time. Before I changed to my new 3G Pocketpc phone, I downloaded the music, video and podcast into the mini-SD card to listen which is not bad. However, sometime you have to remember and wait to copy to SD, so is not very much convenient. Lucky me, hee hee, I lost my cell phone; so you know, I upgraded to a pocketpc phone which runs on EVDO 3G cellular network. The speed is awesome and range 400-700 kbps. So, I thought how I can test the download speed is really good. The answer is streaming video, even streaming your favourite TV show from home. That why I purchase the slingbox which allows you to stream TV signal without hooking up to your home computer. You really can’t believe how great the streaming quality is. Now, I can watch TV anywhere (Placeshift), anytime (Timeshift) with my digitial video recorder at home. This week I like to listen podcast again, particular about technology and parenting and find out there is more podcast streaming service (mobilecast or cellcast). this means I can listen to show whenever I want and I don’t need to download before I start my trip everyday. This is very cool! I will tell you more about my mobilecast/cellcast experience later. Have a great mobile + casting day!
More links
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/11/25/the-coming-age-of-the-cellcast-or-mobilcast/
Learn MoreMany friends and relatives have been asking this question a lot. Sorry about that we didn’t have time and chance to make up our final decision. However, we do have it now. Our princess is named “Carina Chan” which means “Beloved, Dear one“. We still don’t have her middle name yet because we intend to use her chinese name as the middle name. If you don’t remember, Colton middle name is “Long Heem” means shiny and humble. Other names in our last round, Cadence, Colleen, Corina, Colgate and Cola. They last two are just for fun. but I did have one moment very like Cola, Coke Cola Chan. Hee Hee.
So, finally our daughter has a name, Carina Chan.
Cheers!
Learn MoreAfter 5 days and 5 nights in hospital, we went home around 5:00pm today. Everyone is happy, especially Carol because she sicked of the food from hospital eventually. BB already has 2 feedings and is sleeping very well since around 9:00pm which she had almost 60 ml of milk. Nurse said she should have 40ml right now, but no harm to drink more. We also had been teaching brother Colton what is a baby and he was holding a mini milk bottle to her sister mouth. It was so cute and warm. However, he still want to suck the mini milk bottle. :>
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| 15964 | Our first family picture with BB.. and Carol started to breast feeding her alterating with bottom milk. If things go on plan, we can go home together on Monday sometime. Carol also start to have her apertite and enjoy every food, including service by hospital. BB also sucks very well too. |
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Originally uploaded by chrischankit.
Our little princess is finally wearing her first outfit provided by hospital.
From the queen, Carol.
Baby and Carol are getting better. We all had a few hours good sleep. I even had my own bed. Hopefully, we can hold the baby soon. Nurses said had to wait 24-48 hours and will be in hospital for 3-4 days for mom to recovery and monitor the baby.
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Nurse said she like to sleep in her tummy. Good job!
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Cchan 2.0 has bornOriginally uploaded by chrischankit.
Wow, within 5 hrs, our 2nd baby was born on 1:30am Oct 27, 2006 . It is a month early and was a c section born. weight 6.75 lbs. More photos later.