Today is the second days our team to be on site at new client office. Well, in term of infrastructure and facilities given, this new place is much better than my previous project office site. We are given internet access, a fan, a room with small table solely for 4 laptops occupancy and also air cond but the room itself is quite big for 4 person including more than 10 chairs inside(haha), a pantry with a coffee maker machine which can make 8 different types of drinks(Fu-yoh). Can't complaint much except for the expensive parking rate available.

 

I am not sure if I am too demanding....................

 

Internet connection WAS a luxury in PREVIOUS project site, sitting inside the vendor room means total disconnected with outside world. No emails, no instant messenger, no Googling and life was very difficult for me because I cannot reply or send any mails to anyone except before I go to office or after work at home, everything were delayed and clients blamed me for not responding to them in time. NOW, this new client's office, I can check my mails, reply mails, send emails and the PROBLEM is ........... I cannot feel the concentration on my work except reading and replying emails and answering other client's phone calls during working hours. I told my boss, we should be able to concentrate and delivere in faster speed if we are on site, but honestly speaking, there is no different in working speed as compare with last week sitting in the my office..........

 

My previous project(the longest in the history) team member left Malaysia for 3 weeks because of his Visa renewal and I have to take over his jobs to support the UAT testing. Of all the date and time available since January 2007, everything was delay with unknown timeline given despite of numerous demanding from us on timeline for resource management purposes. Now the client insist of finishing the UAT and demanding for all the attention to be given to them.  They even further demand for network instructure changes which my boss had been pushing them for more than 6 months ago and they choose this time when my boss was away for his 1 week business trip to complete the setup. The client insist me on 'deliver' the request to my boss via email / instant messenger/ SMS or whatever communication to make sure he revert to their requests.

 

Does anyone respect us for the past 1 year ? or they just think we are the vendor and they deserved to be serve and treated as a King? We had been doing almost everything to make sure the project go smoothly, we request and pushing for timeline, we proposed win-win solution (of course as a vendor we win-lesser), we highlighted forseen problems and provide solutions to make sure things are done................but no one ever take us seriously until now when their most capable in charge person is resigning by end of this month end and everyone wants to complete this and that within this week. It is just a total MESS of life. 

 

I do wish to be disconnected from the world starting from tomorrow during working hour, no one can call me or SMS me or send me any emails, in order to exchange for a little bit of peaceful-ness to complete what I am suppose to do............GRRRR...........

It had been more than 1 month I never blog. Anyway, blogging is not a habit for me. Once I watched a HongKong drama, the actoress said this, "people writing diary is because they are not happy" and i do agree with it.

 

Diary is the place to "express" feeling and it used to be private but now blogging is so common and stories are being shared. I have 1 ex-colleague who blogs every single happy events and places he been to....his blog = happy and interesting and full of food.....yum yum.......Another colleague of mine, he will blog when he feels the world is not so favour to him......but his latest blog shows that he is very touchesssss with his birthday cum allumi celebration. haha.....

 

Anyway, life continue and begin to feel the busy-ness coming nearer and nearer. Bad experiences had 2 effects, ie: it makes me grow up and also make me loss confidence. Cut the long story short, another similar project is going on now, with different environment and team members. Last year, we started the previous project with full of guts and courage. Nothing seems to stop or halted us from any "road blocks" and we had reached so far until today.  No one except the team members which we named ourselves with Star Wars characters remember the 'courages" we had last year.  The team motto was "May the Force be with us!!".

 

Bearing so much of bad experinces, I tried to take all the precaution of not to repeat the same mistakes this time, the more I remind myself, the more I feel timid. Sometime, this new client asked, "why you need this information for your system?". I do not really sure what to answer, but the reason for the request is because last time we never ask for it and we landed into deep trouble. Experince taught me to be more careful and comprehensive this time, but I doubt it really need to be in this way because this new client is having different perspective onto the new system that we are developing now and I feel the pressure as well.

 

May the force be with me all the time!!!! Santa Clause is coming to town next month and I gotto be good to receive his Christmas present.