The idea of putting something in hiam Ham (Jaba language) first occurred to me some decades back, actually in the early 1980's. This was shortly following the completion of my masters' degree in the nursing program at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, in 1980. I did not immediately respond to the urge, or challenge, as you might prefer to call it at that time for a variety of reasons, including the very fact that I had also embarked on a PhD program. I later on transferred to the PhD program at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1983.
