Oranges and Apples

Today would maybe be the last day I’ll be onsite with my current team. Don’t really know when I’ll be coming back to this project site. What do I feel? Right now, just the dull ache of fatigue creeping around my consciousness. Maybe when I have rested enough then I’ll be able to appreciate just what I left behind.

I’m guessing it’s gonna be bitter sweet with a dash of relieve thrown in for good measure. Somehow though, I have this strange feeling that I’ll still be coming back to the project, just not on a regular basis. So it is then, into the Chinese New Year week.

I’m looking forward to the break and to spend more time with my wife, catch up on friends and visit my in-law’s entire clan and gorge myself on beautiful Penang food. It is what’s after the break that I dread. Another round of clashing and crisis management in a problematic project and that, you can tell, I am not looking forward to at all.

But gloom aside; I’m jumping for joy that I’ll be on the plane back to KLIA tonight! To bad you can’t see me click my heels. I used to annoy my future wife to no end when I used to that in college. It’s a so Fred Astaire moment when snow is falling all around you and the ground is a lush white field of soft powder that it makes you want to just jump and click your heels. Just beware of the black-ice on landing as you could end up being a masochistic contortionist instead.

So right now, I’m past caring about the users and their lackadaisical attitudes. They can hang themselves right now for all I care (metaphorically speaking of course…I have nothing against them as people and would never wish to see harm come to them :-D. It’s the devil in their work attitudes). I’m going home. Back home. Home sweet home.

The dratty part is I have a project status meeting tomorrow morning. My boss says it’ll take about 2 hours at most so I’m hoping for the best. Sigh…But at least I’m home. Yay!

P.S. I just fell in love all over again with the PowerBook G4. It’s a dang sight cheaper than a Win OS laptop and comes pack with some pretty good bells and whistles. The few times I had the pleasure of using it, it handled like a dream. Plus I can do everything on the PowerBook that I do now on my current laptop, with the help of some nifty emulation software and other Office for Mac tools of course. I fully blame Messy Christian for this boyaintthatcooligottahaveit moment.

However, seeing that I still have a fully functioning laptop (on company’s tabs of course) I don’t see any reason to get this yet so….Down boy…down….

Hmmmm….my trusty phone’s dying on me. Lessee what the catalog stork brought in…I can just hear dear cracking her knuckles right now…