So of those pre-review activities - a lot of observation, a lot of findings.

But all I can say is that these people should have come years ago, not before the aud it.

What they are doing now seems like they're helping us.

But in reality, it merely looks like they're doing damage control.

You wouldn't wanna know how much stresses I've been going thru in the past one month.

Apart from the first 4 months of stresses I had experienced when I started this job - this past one month, and I guess, the coming 2 months' stresses will be mega.

Whatever it is, work is work.

I'm glad that there is life after work - though it isn't long, but I still appreciate the moment that I have, i.e. to chat with someone that I feel... interesting.

The honeymoon is over.

Kantoi everywhere.

Hard time is coming.

I see storm & thunder

I see uncertainties.

Thanks for having strict and rigid processes.

I love you :-)

Anyone who works in the same client site with me would agree on this - if you ever get the 'ramp car park' it feels like winning the lottery.

And I had that feeling yesterday ;)

I called up my ex-client to wish him a Happy Chinese New Year (it's not over yet, it's the last day today, just FYI)

We had some chat.

He retired last year but apparently, a workaholic like him, I guess, made him back to work in another company after half year of rest.

Two things I realised:
1) It's good to have a partner, you'll feel really bored as you get older.
2) Don't get yourself becoming a workaholic - you'll really feel the void when you retire, that's when you'll
i) Get back to work again (it's become habitual already)
ii) Stayed feeling void till you start to show the old man's symptom

Btw, I have to admit, he was a very good manager or, you can say, worker :P

Oh do I have to plan for my retirement already? haha

Had a presentation just now - the 1 year old baby that I wrote was finally 'exposed'.

With just one aim only - to improve the process and make the effort recognised :-)

Paradise Hotel, looks nice only in this picture, to be frank :P


So we had team lunch earlier this Decemeber (10/12/2009)

This time it's somewhere near our work place so we had our lunch at a more relaxed mood.

Their Thai food is ok but it's the team gathering that counts.

Managed to complete the tool on time (last week, actually)

And managed to send out the invitation for some introduction thingy.

Having said that, my first week of year 2010 would be very busy already.

And I thank year 2009 to make me a more matured employee.

And the manager too, for giving me the freedom to do things our own way.

(OK, it's a polite way to say I'm quite a disciplined employee, too.. hahaha perasan-ing)

Thanks!

Isn't it fun to do something that you did last time?

I guess I'm just hyper-nerd, sometimes.

Or you may argue that it's 'all the time'

At least, something done before the year end, finally.

I'm on leave today, but yet, I worked in the past 2 hours.

In fact, I love to work - to clear some long overdue backlogs.

Seeing my pending tasks list finally all checked/struck, I'm happy.

In fact, in this week, I had even clear the backlog as old as 3 months -_-.

But actually, there are two major tasks that are yet to be done:

1) Documentation - f*** it cos no one cares but put it in this way, I'm still gonna get it done in the next 3 months - cos my manager wants it to be done (even so, nobody quite care - strange)
2) The little-programming-for-the-monitoring-purposes - This month is the deadline (my own deadline, cos nobody is aware about the project - a surprise plan, actually :P), of course :) I'm gonna deliver it and hopefully our team can get some long overdue compliment/appreciation - for our contribution.

With that, I shall mark the 2009 closure with no regrets.

So that's the word that was thrown to our team, by another team, when we discussed with them nicely.

The reason why we held a meeting is to make everybody understand an issue, reach a concurrence so that a solution can be found.

No matter how you want to blame others, it will still lead to one final question "What's the solution for this problem?"

I, who chaired the meeting, didn't quite see that particular team, provided solution to the problem.

But again, I believe most of the organisation will have this kind of people/team.

And they are the one that make life more interesting.

When I say 'interesting', I really mean it. :)

It's been a long time since I didn't need to work till 12AM+

So, finally, it happened this week.

It's tiring.

Good news is that now that I have VPN access, I can work from home, and sleep straight after the work.

Forgetting about traveling home, late night shower or even bothering to blow dry my hair.

Bad news is, I have no reason not to work from home.

This post is dedicated to the new electronic shop in town.

But I'm not ranting. No :)

I think the workload will be extremely a lot for the next two months.

Not to mention about the possible audit.

But from the monstrous workload that I'm facing, I actually found two things that are interesting:

1) Programming (yet to complete after 1 and half year of slacking)
2) Documentation (which most people find it extreeemely boring to do)

Yes. I'm a boring person.

I think this statement is very applicable to the company that I work with.

Not only artifact is important, but there are a lot of processes to adhere to.

But after all these years, there's something good about it too - or maybe, it's more of a western culture that, for everything there must be an evidence.

And with documentation, you can easily handover your job or train up a backup to support you.

Stress is when you are not on top of the game,
And hence you have no idea of what's the direction to take,
Nor knowing what outcome it could be,
Because you don't have control over it.

I once heard it sometimes ago.

And I found it quite relevant to me, lately.

I've been doing a small programming project, writing a tool to do monitoring.

So 7 months ago (yah), I made change to the application design.

Instead of gradually release the new function phase by phase, I jumped from version 0.71 to 0.9.(it has 3 new functions in total)

Result?

It didn't work and I spent about an hour each month (hahaha, apparently, it's not an important project) but still failed to race the bug.

So yesterday, I had decided to use back the version 0.71 code, and start again.

Conclusion:
2 days (about 8 hours) of coding,
Spent 6 hours of debugging(in six months),
Back to square one.

Therefore, it's always good to do it right at the first time, i.e. one step at a time.

Half year's gone.

It's time to execute whatever that's undone, planned earlier this year.

Bad news: 1/2 of the year is gone, bye bye, you can't get it back.
Good news: 1/2 of year is still available.

May the force be with me? LOL

I once heard this statement from the trainer, during project management training.

After almost 2 years, I recalled this statement - and finally found that it's right.

Back then, I thought that the trainer was joking.

So, technical issue, is only an issue to the project, when:

1) If it's not identified
2) If the person who identify it didn't communicate out to resolve the issue.

It's more like a human factor, after all (which problem isn't really contributed by human, after all?)

Well, talked to one of my colleague about this fella who was once in my project team, who also gave me some hard time here and here

Conclusion is - he is a big time asshole.

When he can't meet the deadline that he committed, he'll find a victim.

And yes, the victim will be a last minute notified victim.

Glad that I'm not alone - I always thought I was having delusional disorder, for being taichi-ed, blamed for late delivery, blamed for weak team corporation with his team, etc.

I felt I'm quite lucky in a way.

I thought of moving to country like Singapore last year, during the good time.

And now, rumour has it that the IT industry in that country isn't doing really well.

I'm quite sure that if I would have move to that country, I'll be even more suffering that I could have imagine.

So, I must appreciate what I have. Really.