I woke up earlier than usual, too many things on my mind. Packed yesterday’s dinner takeaway boxes into a plastic bag for lunch. Grabbed a box of SFP 1000BaseT to pass to the contractor. Rushed out to reach the customer site as I have a 9 am schedule conflict. I was too late, the bus had left, the next bus is <drum roll> my regular bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No choice. Walk faster to change buses and trains faster. Reached the customer site at 8.45 am. Passed over the SFPs and left. As I was walking out, I turned around and asked them to complete installing the SFPs in another DC first, then do the cable checking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All done at 9 am, and now I have to look for a quiet place for my kickoff meeting. As the users’ morning briefings are still ongoing, I can’t take over a meeting room. Next best choice: the rooftop garden on the 4th floor. 9.03 am, I made my apologies and started the kick-off meeting. Later on, one of the SME gave me a giant bomb to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the meeting, I discovered my lunch box had leaked the sauce out, and the plastic bag holding the lunch boxes had a hole. Luckily, it was just soya sauce but it made stained nearly everything. The stars were really aligned on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finished the meeting at 10 am, went downstairs to reheat my lunch. Brisk walk out while I am ordering a Grab ride to Father’s place to bring him for a medical checkup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 12.30 pm tests completed and now to wait for doctor’s review at 2.15pm, 2 hours to kill, need power for my laptop to update project schedule and do an escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, get some lunch; the food court was jam-packed. Father wasn’t keen on the crowd and preferred his biscuits. So we went to the cafe next to the driveway. There is a resting area with chairs and power points. After about half an hour, we left and went up Level 2. Surprisingly, the chairs outside the clinic have a power point. Note I am kind of obsessed with power points as my laptop has a weak battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The session with the doc was quick and it was all over in 15 minutes. Got the go ahead that we wanted. Settle payment via Medisave and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I reached home 4.30 pm and received a flurry of WhatsApp messages looking for my escalation email. <Sigh>. Continued working till evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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