I can't possibly skip Tokyo Disneyland if I visit Tokyo can't I? And while at it I must visit Disneysea too! And that's exactly how we ended up in both Disney parks 2 years in a row. I absolutely love it! From Disney Ambassador Hotel, we need to take a shuttle bus to reach Disneyland, which we did promptly to best utilize our Happy Entry. The moment we were allowed into the parks, I was ecstatic.
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| Run Run Run! - A7RMk3 + FE24mm F1.4GM |
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| Let's Go! - 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+ |
November has been mostly quiet, more because I've chosen to really take things slow and just wind down. Work sucks as usual, I mean what's new right... The SAP integration's phase 2 will start next year and I've been arrowed to "drive" it. So this month I spent a lot of time contacting the regional teams to fix the key contacts from country level and arranging the meetings. Till today, only Japan still hasn't come to a decision yet, while my manager is already anxious and asking me to block the participants' calendar. 2 weeks ago we also suddenly encountered a platform level incident with Salesforce which resulted in some delays on my weekend. I mean.... it had to happen on a friday....
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| Just Another Rainy Day in Office - Galaxy S23+ |
October has been a plain sailing month, even to this date which is the last day of the month. Work was OK, I mean I'm still doing lousy stuff which won't give me any promotion and such, but I'm cleaning up 💩 from the SAP integration project, where scenarios and situations the analysts did not think of finally showed up as service tickets. These "cases" appear on the KPI dashboards, or in some cases are missing... So it's up to me to fix those. This month I also went to a Salesforce event in Raffles Hotel. It was the first time I attended such a glamorous vendor event. Prior to the start of the event I started feeling my panic attack returning. I guess it was because the place was rather dark, packed with so many people and loud sounds that almost triggerred another attack. Fortunately a staff ushered us to the front seat where I picked the corner most seat to get more space. I managed to get the panic attack under control.
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| Waiting For The Event to Start - 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+ |
