Burning midnight oil

Here I am listening to my rather limited collection of mp3s while waiting for a migration process to complete. It's early in the morning. My eyes are tired. My spirit is low. I am at wit's end to think of solutions to make the migration complete faster for this project. Also numerous changes by the client and last minute things have become the norm here. I hate these buggers. Basket!!!

I don't know what to do. I don't know how long I'll last in this project. It's tiring. It's make me feel dis-spirted. Tiring.

Arrrgh.

But in every difficult times, there are opportunities. Funny, I don't see any except dead-ends.

Gah!!!!

V-Day

Valentine's day. Yup that was yesterday. Kinda happening at the hotel which I am staying in Karachi. Ballons in heart shapes. Food stuff in heart shapes. Happy Valentine's Day greetings everywhere. I guess V-day is just as commercialised as it is every where around the world.

Since I couldn't be back home with my partner, I decided to create a Valentine's Day note. Something like a Valentine card, except it is soft-copy. Comon guys, I am not going to find a post office just to send a card from Karachi. Instead, I whipped out my laptop, designed a document, with some lovely graphics. Exactly like a greeting card, except it is home-made. Cool ya! The contents of the note was what really matters. And I wrote with what I really wanted to say and convey my message clearly. Hmm..sounds very scholar like. Anyway, that's what I did. When the document is completed, I converted it to PDF. And emailed it to my partner. There you go, the only Valentine note which is one of the kind in the whole wide world.

Makes me feel good after that. Because I was never good in these things anyway.

Cheers.

To make things better

Ever wonder when things don't go as you have planned, what could you have done differently to avoid this? Lots of IFs actually and WHAT IFs. However, sometimes I would reflect and think of the various possibilities that things would have turned out. I have an old copy of a book entitied Scenario Planning - Managing for the Future y Gill Ringland. Scenario Planning was very successful during the 70s and during the 80s, it wasn't used successfully. Personally, I haven't finish reading the book. I've been having trouble trying to discipline myself to read this book since my part-time studies days. Still, it's a method of thinking of the future possible outcomes. Ok, I know it's out of context here before in this situation, things have already happened and it is time for reflection.

Still, when I reflect about what I could have done to avoid certain situations in work, it boils down to one thing. Hard work and perserverence. And also prioritizing and taking the possible free time to better prepare myself to face the challenges of the future. Why didn't I do it earlier? Maybe it was just to difficult then. But if I were to really begin little by little, the tasks becomes simpler as I get along and get better. The case of 'once bitten twice shy' but this ones seems to get bitten again and again. Dang!

Reflect and take action. That is what I must do. To get better and better each day.

Cheers.

I think the end is coming ...

because of the difficulties I am facing at work and at home. I am at lost at the moment. I am also feeling tired. Hmm..how come so many Is in my sentences.

Freaking tired that is. Nothing much to blog. Actually there are lots of things in my mind. However, there not much energy left. The feeling of distress.

At least tomorrow is a holiday here in Karachi.

Peace.

Poisoned...argh!

I got food poisoning. Knocked me like a bullet trained. On Sunday, I felt like puking. I was shivering eventhough I was burning from a fever. On Monday, I was down and out. The doctor came in the evening, after I've visited the toilet endless of times. The last resort was to call the local doctor. He prescribed some medication and I took them.

On Tuesday, I still didn't feel well. At the end of Tuesday, I decided not to take 1 of the medication the doctor prescribed. Dang! Must be that one.

Today, Thursday I feel better a bit. Recovering.

I don't want to fall sick here. Period.