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Sweating It Out!

For the past few weeks, things had been moving fast and furious...

At the work front, it is the most dreadful part of my work - deployment. After the initial hiccup, deployment work had been smooth so far. I can afford to pace myself to divide the work into a few days and go home on time. Previous years, I had to work till late nights to rush things out. Perhaps, the experience from hacking everything out alone and all that late nights (sometimes early morning...) overtime had helped. My record last year was working from 7.30am till 5am, and coming back again at 9am and working till... never mind... Ha ha...

I was once again, "courageous" enough to sort out the server-end of things at site, while my team mates tried their best to finish a swee-swee front-end back in office. This is important as the lesser the bugs from the front-end, the easier the user-support. Afterall, users usually only notice the problems in the front-end. I appreciate their effort and doing a wonderful job back in the office, it beats having to debug later at site!

There seemed to be a "list of tasks" in my mind that I had unknowingly finished. Come to think of it, developing a complex system suddenly seemed easier than trying to deploy it at the actual production environment. There are plenty of unknown problems that may crop up, which need to be resolved in a short time. But with experience and help from my friendly colleagues, I can make less mistakes and minimise the problems. Time to document down "that list"?

Hope that things will continue to be smooth for the next few weeks... -fingers crossed-

Meanwhile, I still managed to find time to sweat it out for my flat and it feels good!

Last Saturday, after receiving the delivery of the lighting, we painstakingly cleaned and covered the door way in more than an hour. This was to prevent the sand from scratching the floor tiles. Using masking tape and cardboard, we made sure that every inch of the door way was covered. We were very satisfied with ourselves! However, in less than a minute of the job "well-done", some workers arrived at our door. They were there to clear the debris and clean the floor. The first thing they did was to tear away the cardboard at the door way! Can you imagine how our jaws dropped when we saw that? The foreman even joked that it was good exercise for us... :p

This afternoon, we took half a day's leave to receive the delivery of toilet accessories (toilet bowls, basins, taps, glass shelves, pop-up wastes, etc.). After which, we swept and cleaned the floor again. This time, it was for the whole house. The floor was covered with sawdust from the polishing of the parquet floor in the morning. I was on all fours, wiping every inch of the floor tiles (with water and perspiration...), while dear wife mopped with MagicClean. Those pesky stains from the masking tape were so difficult to remove. Once again, we had to sweat it out...

Perhaps, a few more times of cleaning will make up for the gym sessions which I had missed these couple of weeks. ;-p

There are really many nitty-gritty details to take care of when renovating the house. Constant inspection is required to ensure that everything is done according to requirement and in good quality. I guess there are many similarity to software project management. :-p Just that now, I am the project sponsor ($$$), the project manager, the user, and even the "sub-contractor" in some sense... I am thankful that dear wife and my in-laws are taking good care of these tasks, while I only need to do some planning, make some decisions, and sweat it out occasionally. Thank you very much!

Our home is slowly taking shape... Photos of the place on my blog, this weekend!

Comments

Stephen Lee said…
For those pesky masking tape stains, you need GOO-GONE ! CAn get from most hardware shop. Really good and have lemon smell :)

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