December has mostly been "Out of Office" for me; I took a total of 3 weeks off, which is practically my whole leave quota for the year. The pace has slowed down a lot for sure which is a very welcome change, although I can't say the same for Kuta Kute in Batam.
After I returned from our Japan holiday this year, we had a team lunch at M Hotel City Centre. My lady boss arranged a Nonya buffet lunch for the team which turned out quite nice.
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| At M Hotel Looking at The Lobby - Galaxy S23+ |
The kids' mid-year break kicked into full swing this month. It was a time to slow the pace down a bit, although for Lindsay this period meant she has to catch up on her work as PSLE prelims will start on the 3rd week of July, which is not that far away.
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| Beautiful Sunset in Harbourbay - Galaxy S23+ |
May has been an awful month where work is concerned. The SAP integration project went Live on 26th May, however I had overlooked one issue related to displaying the dispute intent on the chat menu and another issue on an onboarding setup for China.
What upset me most was that the manager just took me off the onboarding process and asked the obnoxious asshole to take over, I felt like I haven't been given the chance to fix my mistakes. I was extremely upset, even coming to the verge of wanting to cry. As that asshole took over the onboarding activities, he started asking questions that made me feel like I haven't done my work. Well.... The miss on displaying the intent on chat menu was because he said we just need 1 user story and the different teams will work from that user story. Guess what... the other team didn't come in at all. I had asked if I need to create another ticket and he said "No", so I had assumed that the other team would come in by themselves. Man... it was such a big mistake to just trust him, although I was also at fault for not performing the check on Live environment. To make things worse, the China team came with a last minute request on Friday to update the queue setup for the web channel. I was so pissed off, they didn't respond to my inquiries timely, so I fixed the onboarding setup for them, and then at the eleventh hour they mentioned it is not what they want.
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| Unceremoniously Taken Off The Project |
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| Picking Up Good Food - Galaxy S23+ |
December has been somewhat peaceful, considering I spent more than half of the month away from work. And boy.... how I wish I could just win the lottery so that I can quit my friggin' job (I really hate my senseless workaholic team mates, shifty global service department and self serving product owner). Travelling made me realize there are so many wonderful things out there to see and experience, instead of just being desk bound and work to fulfil someone else's agenda. A true leader is someone who makes people working under him/her feel empowered and become prosperous, instead of just having them execute the boss' own designs.
The highlight of the month is of course, my Japan trip. This year we started from Tokyo, then made our way through 4 cities in Hokkaido (Hakodate, Otaru, Furano & Sapporo). I'll be writing on that trip in a separate post.
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| Checking Out Shimbashi On Our 1st Night - Galaxy S23+ |
So the friggin' SAP integration project went live this month, I didn't give a 💩 and took a day off during the prep week which was during the kids' term break since I refused to do anything further related to that project, not the hypercare, not the sprint grooming, etc. My BAU is more than enough to occupy me and the lack of work life balance as well as consideration disgusted me enough to pay no heed to this fu💀ked up project.
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| Friday Morning Ferry Trip to Batam - Galaxy S23+ |
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| View From My Parents' House - Galaxy S23+ |
April has mostly been difficult. I think the biggest thing that happened this month is that the missus got let go by her company just this Monday. It took a while for her to process the news and I did my best to comfort her. Just earlier this afternoon we went to her office to clean up her cubicle.
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| Me and Lindsay Cleaning The Missus' Cubicle - iPhone 13 |
Yes... This has been an extremely wicked month where work is concerned. This particular "team mate" of mine is really an asshole, and that's putting it mildly. There was an instance when the overwhelming colleague (who made me got my chest tightness in our meeting last month) reached out from a JIRA story complaining about a feature that was supposed to have been deployed on the previous week but was nowhere to be found. And this "team mate" of mine left a scorching remarks in the JIRA thread that really made my blood boil. Turned out, the enhancement was overwritten by a deployment that made it gone missing.
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| What An Asshole - Galaxy S23+ |
September has been plain sailing so far, with some health problems every now and then. I'm still reminiscing about my trip to Batam earlier this month, there are times when I wish I could be transported back there in an instant. Harbour Bay has certainly become more charming now.
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| Charming Harbour Bay - Galaxy S23+ |
March has been pretty much the same except for some eventful happenings at home. Work has been very tough too as usual, with it's own share of dramas. One major story we worked on had some features rolled back even after UAT as the local users thought the feature could possibly spam the customers. Well... just give them what they want.
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| Early Friday Meeting - Galaxy Note 9 |
Today's the last day of December; 2022 will end in about three and a half hours. Work has been crazy busy as usual. I wish I can do less work so that I have more time to think. I've been wanting to explore how to use App Sheets and be able to create my own apps. But I just haven't got the chance to do so just yet, even yesterday night I was still submitting tickets for new user ID creations.
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| Work Never Ends - Galaxy Note 9 |
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| On-board Horizon Ferry - Canon G9XMk2 |
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| Already Queuing to Board The Ferry, 20 Minutes Before Departure - RX100 Mk 3 |
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| Sunset in Harbourbay |
