http://homepage.mac.com/ipenguin/iblog ipenguin@mac.com © Jesse Sng Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:09:14 +0800 Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:09:25 +0800 iBlog 1.3.9 .Mac users can celebrate now that they have more disk space to use.

Just got the news from Apple that my .Mac account is now being increased from 100MB to 250MB of disk space and I can share it between email and iDisk storage.

Yeh!! That means that I can have more blogging space. Whoppee!!

]]> Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:09:11 +0800 Well the speed race is on right now and we have dual layer writing capability at 4X speed.

This baby comes from NEC and just when you are getting used to the idea of faster and faster DVD writers, now we have dual layer drives and the arms race for dual layer writing speed has just begun.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=725

]]> Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:14:51 +0800 Looks like the 6Ghz limit has been broken. But the innovation here has to do with Refridgeration technology, not chip technology…

A bunch of guys just broke the 6Ghz limit, using overclocking and lots of Liquid Nitrogen. 3.6Ghz Pentium IV (Prescott) are being overclocked.

Check out the Announcement Here...

Here's proof of speed:


Not sure if anyone has noticed but it seems like we haven't heard much from Intel in 2004 in the way of speed increases as they've started hitting the wall. That's sad because locally, all Dell is able to do it to permutate the configurations and pricing model and bring faster processors to a lower price point, however their product lineup is getting congested with most of their models hitting the wall at 3Ghz.

]]> Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:25:53 +0800 He's back home already!!

We went down to see him again. After talking to the nurse in the baby's ward for a while, we found out that the doctor's orders were for Daniel to be allowed to return home as soon as his bilirubin level is below 11mg.

That created a problem, because we were under the impression that all we could do was to make a routine visit. The phone call earlier on did not indicate that we could bring him home or else we would have been better prepared.

To take him home at that point meant taking him home naked other than his diapers!! We had to run around the hospital and finally found a gift shop that sold little baby clothing sets and got him something to wear. Needless to say, all that was a little oversized and the little hat that he had one threatened to cover his entire face.

Anyway, we weren't about to complain since we could bring him home. The girls are excited about Daniel being home again.

]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:16:03 +0800 Week before Amy was born: http://homepage.mac.com/ipenguin/before/
Week Amy was born: http://homepage.mac.com/ipenguin/week1/

Week before Amy was born: http://homepage.mac.com/ipenguin/before/
Week Amy was born: http://homepage.mac.com/ipenguin/week1/

This was Amy's original web page back in 2000 when I first started. It got too tedious to update after a while.

]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:38:26 +0800 Just returned from our visit to see Daniel at the hospital. He is doing well and was sleeping like (what else?) a baby.

Just returned from our visit to see Daniel at the hospital. He is doing well and was sleeping like (what else?) a baby.

He seems bigger already (despite being away from us for a day) and was very peacefully snoozing despite the fact that the girls were all jumping about and making lots of noise. Both Amy and Hannah wanted to take turns holding him in their arms.

He smelled nice, probably the Johnson's Baby Powder that they used on him. They will be doing another blood test tomorrow morning and Lord-willing, he'll be able to return home.

It's a strange feeling coming home and feeling as if you've left something behind....

]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:18:24 +0800 After 1 night in Neo-Natal ICU, Daniel is now down to 15.3.

After 1 night in Neo-Natal ICU, Daniel is now down to 15.3.

They've transferred him to a normal ward now and we are off to see him and to see if we are going to be able to have him bottle fed with mother's milk instead.

]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:59:26 +0800 Gotta get up early in the morning at 5.30am again to go down to Helping Hand. Not something that I enjoy doing personally, but the love of Christ compells me to do that for the boys.

Gotta get up early in the morning at 5.30am again to go down to Helping Hand. Not something that I enjoy doing personally, but the love of Christ compells me to do that for the boys. The grace of God has taught me much including how to love even those that society no longer wants to love and has abandoned.

Not with God, who came looking for lost and sinful man even while we were lost. So we must reach the unloveable, the untouchables of our world with the precious Gospel - out of love.

Not bragging about the time or the sacrifice (God forbid) but if that kind of extreme act will get the attention of someone who's still struggling with the bondage of drugs, then perhaps they will pay attention and know that I mean it for real when we go to the scriptures to talk about the Holiness of God and the sinfulness of man and God's awful Judgment to come on all sinners who refuse to repent.

None of them are going to listen until they know that I'm not doing this for myself, to gain brownie points or to try to work my way into Heaven. After all, I'm only just a sinner, saved by Grace as the song goes.

The good thing will be that I'll get to go to the hospital later tomorrow to visit Daniel and see how my little guy is holding out.

]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:13:45 +0800 We called over to the hospital and Baby Daniel's jaundice level is now down to 17. If it is able to continue going down like that, he'll probably be able to go back home soon.

Latest update:

We called over to the hospital and Baby Daniel's jaundice level is now down to 17. If it is able to continue going down like that, he'll probably be able to go back home soon.

Thanks for all the prayers. If sure feels awful to leave him there by himself.

]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:28:59 +0800 This has got to be the most difficult blog entry that I will have to make.

This has got to be the most difficult blog entry that I will have to make.

We brought Daniel down for his medical checkup this morning and the doctor decided that he needed to do a blood test. The tests found that Daniel has a very high Jaundice level at the moment (level 21, high is 20, very high is 25) and made the recommendation that he be warded immediately to the hospital for Photo theraphy under the ultra-violet lights.

There was a very heart-wrenching moment as we had to part with him at the hospital admissions and I reluctantly handed him back to Janice who brought him to the Neo-Natal ICU ward for babies. She immediately burst into tears at that point because Amy had been crying the moment she found out that we had to ward him.

It was very difficult to explain to Amy why we had to give him up to the care of not only the hospital staff, but also in the care of the Lord.

Moments like these remind us of how helpless we really are in this life, that we never had any control at all but rather our lives are entirely in the hands of a Sovereign, Almighty God.

We took Daniel out of the hospital and they had passed him with flying colours, but it took only a day for the jaundice to show up.

Irony is that we had been breastfeeding him more to ensure that he has more moisture and liquids to forestall the jaundice. However as it turns out, the combination of Daniel and his mom's blood types actually make it worse. Apparently this is a fairly well known issue, but it baffles me that the hospital did not anticipate this before discharging them.

In the case of Hannah, we had to keep her there for a few more days and Janice decided to stay around in hospital while still breastfeeding her.

Not that I don't trust the doctors and nursing staff, they are capable. But I trust my God more. It doesn't make it emotionally easier to part with your newly born child, but I know that at times like these, Daniel is entirely in the hands of our Great and Mighty God and that is what matters.

One thing the Lord has taught me is that in times like these, the Father wants to teach us how to trust Him and to learn to Pray. I know Daniel is in there for a reason. He is otherwise healthy, in far better condition than babies who have jaundice.

I took a shot of this from outside of the ICU. Could not bare to go back in there again, knowing that he is all hooked up to the instruments, sunning himself and lying on a hard plastic tray instead of a comfortable and familiar smelling bed.

]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:28:49 +0800

The girls are so cute, everyone of them are trying to be helpful and do what they can to help baby Daniel.

Hannah decided that Daniel was feeling cold ran to her room to pick up her favourite blanket and offered to wrap up Daniel in her favourite blankie. The mark of love is when you are willing to give up the things you love best for the one you love.

Do we love the things that the Lord has given us more than we love the One who has given us all things?

Do we love the things of the world more than we love the Lord? That makes us an enemy who stands against the One who has bled to buy us eternal Redemption, what a way to repay that love.

James 4:4

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:34:09 +0800

Seems like everyone is now telling me that Daniel looks like me.

Well, we'll see. That's what they said about Amy but she looked somewhat different from me later on. Truth to be told, he definitely has a "boy's face" compared to the more "feminine" features of our girls. But I guess the similarity probably has more to do with the chubby cheeks and small eyes that I have (wonder if that's a hint that I need to go on a diet...).

]]> Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:17:15 +0800 You can get more pictures of Daniel and the family at this location:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=3819095093

I will be updating this album in the next few days as we get more pictures.

]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:39:25 +0800

2 Corinthians 3:18
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

As I look at Daniel and observe the similarity of his eyes, nose etc I call to mind also what I read this morning, that we shall behold the Lord, looking as if into a mirror to see ourselves, we shall see Christ. This shall not happen other than by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit of God as we yield to Him in our lives.

It is amazing to think of how instead of merely growing up to look and resemble a parent or sibling, that all babies (who get saved later in life) will grow up to be changed into the Glory of the Saviour. God from His Judgment throne won't see them, but will see the image of His Glorious Son.

This isn't American Idol or Singapore Idol - the only Image God allows in the Bible is the Image of His Son. Be like Him! Walk, talk, live, breathe Christ. He is to be my life entirely (Col 3:3-4) because my life is hidden in Him so that the Father no longer sees me, but His beloved Christ.

]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:32:12 +0800 He still wasn't totally cleaned up yet, but 15 mins after arriving into the world and breathing air for the very first time, he was very tired and exhausted and wanted to sleep.

Finally, after much huffing and much puffing, little Daniel Sng was born at 10:20pm on 10th Sept 2004.

Baby Stats:
- Gender: Male
- Weight: 3.44kg (almost 7.5lbs)
- Forgot the length, but he's definitely a taller baby than both Amy and Hannah.


Daniel, immediately after birth.

It was more difficult for Janice this time around than with Hannah. I guess the key difference has to do with the size of Daniel, who was definitely much bigger and heavier. Both the girls (Amy and Hannah) were under 7 lbs and Daniel is about 0.4kg heavier than Amy.

Janice was happy but tired at the end of it. I didn't get to cut the umbilical cord this time around. Doc looked at me and decided not to ask me (I was watching him!) and then went ahead to cut the cord. Anyway, that's fine as I did cut it before and once is probably enough.

Daniel's the first of the Sng babies that I managed to actually see come out as the other times I was right by Janice's side and didn't get a chance to see a baby who's halfway out.


He still wasn't totally cleaned up yet, but 15 mins after arriving into the world and breathing air for the very first time, he was very tired and exhausted and wanted to sleep.

The Morning After

Some closeup shots of him after they've cleaned up him:




Don't ask me who he looks like, we aren't sure ourselves!

All I know is he seems to have the same kind of rounded head that his sisters have and has the same kind of little nose also. Like me, he was looking around at his new world with one eye opened and the other eye shut (same eye even).

This little guy is a very curious fellow. Keeps looking around and trying to see things that are beyond the range of his eyesight. His hearing seems to be fine also. Yeah, from the sounds of it - he has good lungs and is at least capable of being as loud as his two noisy big sisters.

The Whole Family


Here we are the morning after. Finally got some sleep and Jan's mom and dad brought Amy and Hannah over. They promptly jumped on the bed and wanted to stroke, kiss and smell the baby. We had a good time there on the bed reading stories as Jan had already preempted this and gave the girls new story books.

They are totally thrilled with the baby and are having lots of fun.

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