Iceberg

It's 4am. I have a 730 am Air Asia flight to Bandung for an offsite ISAC-M planning meet. It's great to be part of this group. But this flight is gonna kill me. My eyeballs are bigger than those Japanese cartoon girls. Worst, yesterday, my home had a water cut so I smell. It's times like this it's better to blogg now when you're in a foul mood, the things i say seem tastier...

Yesterday was a pretty ok day. I was in Bank X to present on a particular solution. They were quite impressed. They asked us to look at some other things. I got good vibes on this.

Bank X was quite cool. They have a posh makan area where it was WiFi enabled. Allowed me to check latest soccer news whilst waiting for the presentation to start.

Towards the end of the day, I got quite a few frantic calls from my colleagues at that Cyberjaya project I'm on. Some shit has happened. The racism issue apparently spilled over big time and the client apparently told our management that "if you want more work, you need to get rid of so and so".

So I get frantic calls to start moving in and taking over. Damn... and my original role was just to review their architecture. Shit happens.

Not the first time I get called on to save the world. The last time I put my underwear on the outside was during the dot com ages. Some partner promised a client that "we can launch a full click and mortar bank in 100 days". The project manager on day 40 got fired because he kept telling this partner that it could not be done. So I donned my cape and flew in.

Another world saving occassion was when I was put on this project where we built this trade finance application and it was just spitting out too many bugs, client not happy, threated to sue. I came on board, cleaned it up (as much as i could lah), rolled it out to the client in Paris. OK.. so I got a free trip. But man it was tense. Lawsuit was ever present if we did not roll out. Our bug count after we rolled out? 7000.

There are just too many of these disaster situations to relate. I just wished I had Jessica Alba with me on this project. At least she can put up that force field when shit comes my way. Of course, she also has nice curves.