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a day at the ER

I woke up to a phone call and on the line was Chanduru speaking frantically “Yus! Ervin accident!” and that line, made me jumped out of the bed and rushed myself to the University Hospital. On the way to the hospital, there was an accident that caused massive traffic jam along the Jalan Tun Razak, wasn’t really sure what but saw 2 brand new cars in a quite bad shape… I was praying that he’s not part of that accident.

While riding to work, he hit a car and smashed into the car through its rear window. The helmet saved his head from serious injury. He’s an active sportsperson so I guess that helped him to withstand pain and made the phone call for help before fainted.

When I reached the ER, he was being cleaned and stabilized by the staffs. He broke his bones – clavicle, ribs, fibula or maybe the tibia too. The face was full of cuts from the shattered glasses and there were blood everywhere. His mobile phones were covered with dried blood, Chanduru cleaned them. It was hard for me to stand by the stretcher and trying to stay calm. But Ervin was calm and alert of what’s going on. Chanduru and I arranged for a transfer to Pantai hospital as he requested but then later through persuasion of his mom, he agreed to remain at UH for immediate treatment. Dr Ng managed to get a space in UMSC to operate on his legs immediately so I guess he’ll be fine, it’s still within the 6 hours timeframe.

April immediately flew back from Singapore and got there just in time when he’s being prepared for the OT. The two is going to get married soon, and to see him in that condition was just… I don’t how how to describe it. We let April took over and head back to the office for a bit of rest. I was still on mild fever and flu, so it’s not a good idea to hang around the area for too long anyway.

It’s been a long day for all of us, especially Karen and Chanduru. I wish him all the best, hoping for a speedy recovery. Take care bro, get well soon.

the geek side of me

Right now… there are two things (other than my project deliverables) that drives me nuts.

The first one, is the mailserver that I manage as my pastime/part-time job and one that’s handling about 30,000 emails a day where more than half of them were confirmed as spams and deleted or quarantined. The rest passed through which some of them are still spam but spamassassin/spamd weren’t sure of it because of lack of Bayes signature so they were tagged as spam for the email reader to do the rest. This mailserver, has been driving me nuts lately but somehow it’s also a challenge for me to fix and keeps the geek side of me active and updated.

I sort of hate but like it.

The other, is iPhone programming where it’s extremely easy to start coding for it using the SDK provided but after a while and more and more functionality added, it’s getting trickier and complicated. Of course lah, it wouldn’t be difficult if I just want to write a simple Hello World app. This thingy, has been driving me nuts too lately, but in a good way where it starts to refresh my rusty side of the brain that handles computer programming tasks. I hope one day, it’ll be polished and up to date.

Both of the above has been taking my time lately from photography (and a lot of everything else that’s pastime). Both of them, are challenging to the core (well at least for me) and something that I’d like to keep on doing so I’d stay abreast with current technology.

What’s next? getting myself the Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone as Dhillon suggested :-)

What’s the plan? maybe write a really darn cool iPhone app that’ll get a lot of downloads.. hmm like, a billion times? ;-)