In between

I was supposed to attend the PAssion run this morning. But it was a NO RUN!

It all started yesterday. Went ice skating. It was my first time on the ice. Although i do rollerblade, but I was shaky on the ice. It was nothing at first as i got used to the surface.

I was like on the last run already when i tripped. I went down, and just using my right arm to break my fall. It was quite an impact i guess. I felt my joints at the right shoulder pop slightly out of place , but I seem topull it back into position. My arm went abit numb. Had difficulties moving and limited range of the movement of my arms.

Had SH so worried, that she demand that i go see a physician straight away. So i went, so as to prevent incurring the wrath :>

Nothing serious the physician said. Abit of massage and off i went. Just a twisted shoulder she said

THis morning, i woke up. Feeling abit stiff at my shoulder. I got up and tried to jog a few yards. No good. With every step, the impact seem to jolt the right shoulder, causing some discomfort. And with 15km, it seems a long way of discomfort. So i decided not to go for the run.

Signed up for 3 runs, and only went once. Missed the previous one because I suffered from high fever on that actual day. Maybe such runs are not for me to sign up.

i was walking to another tower to deploy some codes, when i met a colleague who was on the way to the same place.

chatted with her while making our way there, making small talk mainly about the current project, which mainly was about how hectic this project is and all that and how we wished we were in the maintenance project.

I thought of how i felt when i was previously in a maintenance project. 3 months into the maintenance project, i felt bored. I was thankful it lasted only 3-4 months. wanted something more interesting. Now i am in a project with more stuff to catch up and learn, i actually wanna go back to a maintenance project. We really want to have best of both worlds always.

If only there is way to escape for about 2 weeks or so, that would be great. But I don’t think there is such luxury. Oh well, i can only just hang tough!

It is crunch time at work. 12-13hours daily, coming in on saturdays, sometimes sunday. This has been going on for about a month, all out of my own accord.

About 2-3 weeks ago, my team lead requested that the team stay till 7pm at least. Not too much of a request as it is just an additonal one hour after the offical 6pm. In addition to that, a request for a daily status report was put in few days after the former request to work till at least 7.

You could instantly see some unhappy faces and the furious typing among the team on the intranet messenging system.

Recently, the project management team decide to offically push for 9pm work days(or nite). No excuse for unhappy faces this time, now that it is an official request. But last friday, the team just freaked out. With the team lead out for meeting, almost all of them decided to leave at around 6.30. I cant really stop them as I had to leave at 7pm but with advance notice served.

Team lead came back to an empty room. Pissed off of course, got me to try to get people the people in the following day. Sent smses to all of them. Got no reply, which i expected.

This is going downhill, at a crucial time. 6 months ago, the team was getting along fine and all that. Lacking in motivation? Additional friction in stress periods?

We shall see. Just the last burst of fire, and we will be through!