I wasn't able to post anything yesterday because something came up, which I will share later. I was thinking to post a blog while at work, but I just couldn't do such because of all the stress and anger that I was feeling last night. Anyway, it doesn't matter if I wasn't able to post yesterday, because here I am, for another round of Lyndon Speaks.
I guess that our day at the office started with a sign that something not-so-good will happen later that day. Yesterday was the time for filling up the Overtime sheet of our team for the last half of September. Japes, Julius, JP, and I filled up our excess times on the Excel sheet. Japes and Julius even had their overtime last Monday offset for yesterday for them to go home early. I, too, did that. But little did we know what will happen that evening. Lunch came and we (Leah, Niña, Japes, Archie, and me) had what was left of the lunch that we had last Thursday. The viands were still great and we all had a great chat while eating on the round table. Afternoon came and me and my CMAP brothers (Wow! Bago na naman tawagan namin nila Japes, JP at Julius! So cheesy.. hahaha) attended our different meetings. After our respective meetings, the bad news was brought up by Mai. She informed us that we need to have another overtime for the testing of the merge of the projects. The plan was for us to work today (Saturday), but Julius and Japes would not be able to come. We then decided to extend work yesterday. Cheena informed us that the build will be dropped at 9:00PM. While waiting, Japes played Tennis on my PSP, Julius was surfing the net, JP was nowhere to be found, and I was still verifying the issue to be dropped on U.S. Staging. hehehe. At around 8:00PM (I guess), Cheena informed us that the build will be delayed since there were problems encountered in the merging of the projects. Japes continued playing, Julius and I bought dinner, and JP was still nowhere to be found. hehehe. Mai left the office to work from home and Leah stayed. 10:00PM came and still the build wasn't dropped. JP went back at the office and we played Naruto on our PSPs, Japes was on his desk, and Julius was taking a nap. The four of us also had chats while waiting. At 11:30PM, Mai started a conference and told Japes to go home. Mai asked me to help the CMAP guys in validating the modules assigned to Japes. We said our goodbyes to our little brother, Japes (hahahah), and reminded him not to sleep on the bus on his way home (An incident happened before when the pocket of his pants was ripped off while he was sleeping on the bus.).. For the record, I received a text message from Japes (10 minutes after he left) saying: "thanks! starbucks n lng sa monday! ;)".. hahaha. I'll be expecting that!!! I replied to him and reminded him, once more, not to sleep on the bus. Midnight came, and still no build was dropped. To take ourselves away from sleep, JP and I had numerous chats about uncountable topics. Julius had a sleep on the couch, while Cheena, Archie and the rest prepared the package. The build was dropped at 2:00AM. While JP was deploying the build, we were informed that the build can be dropped on Monday. That was when I felt mad. We were rendering so much time to be able to deploy the build and we found out that it can be dropped on a Monday. I'll not say who's fault it was, but I guess everyone who had the overtime know who's to blame. hahahahha. A phrase to best describe what had transpired: "INSANE BULL CRAP!!!". hahahha. We all left the office at 4:00AM and ate our breakfast at Jollibee.
What a day! Stressful, disappointing, but ironically, it was also fun! Fun in the sense that we had spent time with each other and had some enjoyable moments with one another even at the center of a problem. That's what you call a well-spent overtime with friends! hahahaha..
I hope that something will be done regarding what had just transpired. No! I KNOW that something WILL BE DONE! hahahha.
I guess that would be all for now! Thanks to my CMAP brothers (my older brothers - JP and Julius, and our youngest - Japes.. hahaha.. Nakakasuka sa ka-kornyhan!). Thanks also to Leah, Cheena, Archie, Mai and the rest for the great late evening and early morning we had.
Again, watch out for the new version of Lyndon Speaks coming really soon. For now, I need to get some well-deserved sleep!
'til then!
Time on!
~Lyndon Jason
