My baby's first tooth

It is exited that my baby has his first tooth. It is not one but two teeth at once at his five and a half month old. Yeah. I remembered my older son had his first tooth at four month and roll over at three month.

He roll over at four and a half month.

Sep 26

One more day goes by and we don’t have production issue. Yeah. I hope we never do because now my Mom went back to Vietnam and I have to take care of two kids on some nights when my husband has to work. 

I have three pieces of chicken wings left from the night before, a piece of steak and some shrimps which I need to cook because it was un-freeze the night before. It was planned for last night but my husband bought a big pizza home from pizza hut. It was good. I was planned to have pizza on Friday but my husband broke my plan. Now I don’t know what we are going to eat on Friday night. Darn.

My baby is getting better. Last night he just woke up once at 12 pm to drink 4oz of milk, then he slept until morning time. So that was good. It means his body can hold the food and hopefully pretty soon he will sleep through the night.

Today I planned to give both of them bath the same time, they both love it, and it is easier for me too J

Sep 25

Now I need to incorporate what I have learned for the day into my writing. This will help me memorize them longer.

Last night I complained my husband about his attitude to the family, I went home from work with two kids and he was still sleeping. That made me not happy but he woke up 20 minutes later and said he was tired because he had been working 12 hours/day for three days. So I just went to cook our dinner – fried chicken wings and macaroni and cheese – dinner was ready at about 7 o’clock and we have our dinner. My oldest son loves macaroni and cheese so he does not want anyone eat it. Every time we tried to get that food, he would say “you get too much, just get a little OK?” it is funny.  After dinner, my husband cleaned up the kitchen, I gave baby a spunk bath then just rest for the night.

I am not sure why our baby just does not sleep throughout the night. He keeps waking up and wants pacifier. I can see my husband really work hard to keep him quiet so I can sleep. I really appreciate that and may be because I complained about him before that. He said if he does not check on baby, I will get mad. It is funny and it made me feel bad so I think I should reconsider my attitude instead of him, refrain complaining and be happy with what I am having.

I had good news from my college friend yesterday said that she is going to get married on 12-30-2012. I am sure she is happy because she is 34, and you know how that goes when you are 34 and still single. Just remind me about my single life when I was 29, I was feeling so lonely. I love my life now compare to that time. I have a small and happy family with two boys. 

Friday Sep 21

Friday night and I stay home by myself with two kids because my husband has to work this weekend. Baby has high fever today and I had to off work early to pick him from daycare. I brought him home and gave him one dose of infant Tylenol, he is OK after that even fever still comes back but I think he is just having a flu. I hope he feels good tomorrow.

I have lost my interest at work since I have found out how much my colleague makes compare to me. I was hoped that I can join Kenaxa with a higher pay but unfortunately I failed the last interview with VP. it is crazy. I was very disappointed. How do people can ask for high pay and I can not? even I do a good job just as them. I think my biggest problem is my communication skills. I cant even tell them what I am responsible for at work. I just know "involved in development, design, coding and testing", while I do a lot more things like on call for production supports. Lead the team in migrate to integrate with core API, lead in implementing performance testing. Anyway, I am working hard everyday now on my English and hope to overcome my issue. And I should think of a positive way, may be God wants me to stay at my current job because it is better for me.    

Thursday Sep 20

Last night we went to Logan Roast house for dinner. I ordered five pieces of wings because they had promotion for 50 cent/each if you order from 3 – 6 pm, salmon, steamed broccoli and macaroni and cheese. My older son only had some breads and macaroni and cheese. My husband had chicken, salad, and baked potato. We finished dinner and came home around 7pm. So it takes just the same time as if we make food and eat at home. My husband likes that place, so we go from time to time.

Tuesday Sep 18

This morning is as regular; my husband came home around 7 in the morning. I told him our little one has low temperature last night. But he was OK in the morning; we thought that he is teething. Poor baby!

 My husband needs to work five days this week, so I have to take care of our two boys three week nights by myself which I am not happy. I feel stress sometime when it comes to week like this. If I don’t have to work overtime, I have no problem. Just I never know when production issues come and I have to work late. Then I don’t know what I am going to tell my boss because I can’t work with two kids like that.

Anyway, the situation was improved compare to before he had to work in North Florida and just came home once a week. I think I should be happy for that instead of complaining. I know things will get better from time to time. I just need to preserve. And I believe God is blessing us.

Idea at work to optimize one store procedure

What is the goal we are trying to optimize here?  Are we expecting the average time to run this store procedure is under 1s? 

I have an idea to optimize this store procedure.Here is the input it needs to calculate availability:

+ Operation hours

+ Calendar hours

+Holidays

+ Scheduled limit days for services, service group

+ Existing appointments

And the way we store our data is that if the branch inherits operation hours/calendar hours/holidays from its parent. We only store data for its parent. That’s why we need lot of recursive queries to get data for specific branch. 

In reality, I think we rarely change operation hours/calendar hours/holidays for a branch, so we can create a separate thread which is run every 15 minutes to calculate all the above data for all the branches and populate into one table. 

So it is time to get availability timeslot, we can query data from that table and merge with existing appointments to get the final timeslots. With this way, we can reduce tremendous amount of calculation we need to do in that store procedure. I believe this approach will speed up the performance.

Monday Sep 17

I dropped my kids at daycare this morning. I saw a women who also has two kids. one few months old and one look like younger than my older son. On the way out, I saw her write check to pay for daycare and the amount only $300 while I am paying #325/week. I wonder how that happens? how can she get that price?

Today is not a bad day, not too busy, so I have some time to learn English and write something here.

Only the daycare called and said that my little one might has ringworm which is contagious. But I explained to them that he had rash on his face since he was born. We told the doctor and they recommend to keep putting lotion on him. It 's gone one week ago but I dont know why it comes back a little spot again. I hope he did not get ringworm.

I called my husband to see if he can get some medicine over the counter for him at CVS but he said he does not have enough time to get it. Oh well, let's hope he is OK.

8:13 PM. Just finished a busy evening and have some time again here.

It made me feel upset when I just got home and saw my messed up house, dishes on the sink, darn. And my little baby was hungry. I had to feed him right away. He ate good today. one jar of pear and two spoons of rice cereal. The I made my older son some pasta left over from yesterday. He loves pasta, so he ate 3 bowls :). I cooked myself a bowl of "Bun mam", that is my favorite food in Vietnam.

Few recruiters contact me today for job. I dont know what I should do. I like my current job, but I am worried they will close this office because less and less people left. Today I heard travel team said they laid off three employees. So that's not good. But what can I do? I just dont like find job while I am working and then I dont like losing job, then have to take whatever job I can get. I can't find job too far from the daycare either because I don't want to change my sons' daycare. May God bless me so I will have my job for long time.

Why do I want a blog?

I am watching a movie on Vietnamese channel. In that movie, one of the character has been using blog to write all her daily thoughts. I have a terrible writing skills. And I am learning everyday to improve it. So I think opening a blog is a good idea, so I can write my daily activities as a way to practice my writing everyday.