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I caught up with folks of my other new company for lunch. It was quite ironic as they were telling me that one of the first projects I would be handling was a new core system replacement. Yes.. another one. Let me see, when I first joined the firm, I was on this death march project where we wrote from scratch a custom retail banking system. It was leading edge at that time.. Windows 3.1, Tuxedo, Oracle, a custom built architecture.. damn cool shit.

After that project, it was one core system replacement after another.. this is probably my 5th or 6th.. Anyway, back to the lunch thing, they were telling me that there is an ongoing evaluation between 2 "vendors" right now in terms of selecting a vendor to perform business requirements across 16 countries. And the ironic thing is one of the contenders is the current firm I'm working for! Worst still, the proposal my firm wrote was quite pathetic! Sigh...

Anyway, back at the project, the room I was seated in became the subject of a potential renovation to turn it into an operations room. The client project director was there when one of the renovators said
"here, we can place the console"
the client said
"console, for what?"
"running batch"
"what's batch?"
:))

Other developments include the portal project I'm pursuing, we just got selected into the finals to present to upper management after Merdeka.

Also, I got yet another SMS from an ex colleague asking me "do you want to lead the EeDeEs data centre in Cyberjaya". Here we go again...