Sunday, January 26, 2003
Implementation Day.
That would make a good movie title.
Anyway, woke up at 6 but went right back to sleep until I received an SMS from Nor. "Could you come to the office around 830 please?". Like I can reply back with a NO.
Dragged myself out of the house, and while I was turning into the PIE Nor called and said that CAES job abend so Lip Meng had to come back to resolve it first and then she will have to re-run the data conversion program. So she said I can come back in 2-3 hours. Fuck lah.. I am already driving there. So I went to the gym instead. Didnt know that it is still infested with gym freaks on Sunday mornings. Even the 9am bodypump class was full. Since I came at 915 and I dont want to enter a class halfway, I ran instead. And Nor and Dilip called 4 times when I was running into my 4th km. When I finished I took a quick shower and rushed to work. Realised while driving that Jing Liang only added in HDBWAST01 in the firewall rules... what about HDBWASP01! No wonder Nor is having problems... so I paged for Jing Liang and he reached the office about the same time as me. Well this is an understatement, but the problems went on and on. Lip Meng tried like 3 times to get his CAES ACjob right. Then it was the MQ problem, Geok Hoon came back and did something and it was ok at about 2, then hit a RACF ID problem, it couldnt logon to CICS. Had to call Wee Hing back. Apparently Nor applied for the ID waaaay before the implementation date, since it was not used for more than 90 days, it got revoked. At that time Boon Nam came back to the office cos maybe he got fedup that Nor called his hp countless time to make decisions, but he was kind enough to bring some KFC snacks and drinks for us. Finally all went well about 6pm.
I went to Suntec City and grabbed some Chicken Floss and Fish Floss buns for the family and met Mervin and Audrey. She's a nice girl. Looked like a seconday school punk to me. Kinda cool and laidback. I desperately wanted my Starhub mobile no 98508873 which came out on the papers today so we drove to Tampines Mall to get it. But dammit, the guy at the shop said that all the nos were gone on Saturday morning right after the paper was published. Damn damn damn. I really wanted that no. 8873. My birthdate.
After that Mervin and I went to the Delifrance there and we had dinner. Discussed a lot of things. One thing I told him about was why Audrey hates me. (Poh's wife Audrey. Not Mervin's colleague Audrey whom I met earlier. In case you get confused :p) That's something I cant write here. What I can say is that we saw this 2 young girls who were asking a Delifrance staff whether they can move the tables and chair outside and they were talking in these fake British stiff upper lips accent. You know, like.. err.. you know.. like the Queen's English. Mervin commented "Tarts", I said "Tartlets" (cos we were having them), and he taught me a new word.. "Prissy". As in.. "those prissy tarts!". It means.. to be exaggerratingly proper, extremely fastidious or easily disgusted. Like they were too proper to even touch a toilet bowl handle or something. You know... Never mind.
Well I just read Mervin's diary entry. He said something in response to my entry last night. I think this whole thing has been way overblown. I would like to keep all my friends. If they need to be advised, I will tell them in due time when they can listen. And if they are making the effort to improve, help them along. In the meantime, I hope he do not bring their reputation down by focusing on details. Why dont we all just get along.. In case he didnt notice, I am 30 already. Goodness. 30. Well, in 7 months time anyway. Goodness Gracious Me. THIRTY. That's scary.
