cuak... panic...

Hari ni two things happened...

First was during lunch time. Before that there was a discussion on the outline for two speeches which are going to be delivered to the same crowd on the same day. Difference? Satu pagi satu malam. So can't possibly talk about the same thing.

Anyway... lepas dah discuss I sat down with NN to work out the mindmap using the free (and now I realise also unreliable) Freemind software. Was supposed to go out for lunch to celebrate HA's birthday today but ramai can't make it. Nonetheless, I had used that excuse to get out of an official lunch, hehe (agaknya karma kut...).

Since we're having a discussion with Deputy Big Boss #2 at 2pm, my boss asked us to clean up the mindmap based on the inputs from the discussion. Spent a good 1/2 hour working out the flow, content. Once satisfied I went cari lunch. Wanting to be more environmentally friendly, I brought a tipu-ware to tapau food.

Tengah makan my char kuey teow sambil baca paper NN came to me asking for my notes. "Ambik lah.. it's on my table" I told her. Then she broke the news, "The file tadi corrupt, cannot open. Nak kena buat balik". The time was 1.40pm.

File corrupted... blue screen... hard disk crash... are words that you never want to hear. That's technology... they enable you to work more efficiently and they can also create hellish situation.
"I rasa nak nangis" NN said.
Surprisingly I didn't feel anything. Well... I just went, duh! and that was about it. I told her "Kejap... let me finish this and I'll come help you". Makan my last bite, left the tipu-ware on my table and went to her workstation.

Walaupun baru je lepas discuss I couldn't remember what we had written for speech #1. Sebab isi speech #2 pun lebih kurang and I got confused. Aiyaa... at times like this pulak the mind goes on a 1km/hour speed. NN was obviously panicked... I could see that she was struggling to recall what we had put down. I told her what I could remember while she typed. I think better while I type so I offered to type while she tried to recover the file. By some miracle she found the coded version of the file... penuh dengan syntax etc but we can still work out the points that we had discussed. Thank God!! So I pun salin je lah...

Sambil tengah buat the new mindmap tu, my boss came over, "Eh jom... it's 2pm". Told him that we had to redo because the file got corrupted and I just ignored him and typed away ;) I can be that way sometimes... Not everything was recovered but the bulk of it were there. So we finished it in 3 minutes, printed 4 copies and went to our boss.

"Jom... dah siap dah" I told him. Quickly recounted what we had on paper sambil jalan menuju lift. But when we sampai kat tingkat teratas tu, Deputy Big Boss #2 punya secretary told us "Kena postpone to next Monday lah... he's having another discussion". Cheh! Buat penat je... On the ride down in the lift, my boss pun made the same comment. He had rushed back from the official lunch in order to catch the discussion.
"Kalau I accident tadi penat je..." he said.
I silap dengar ..."Huh? You accident?" I said.
"Tak... KALAU I accident tadi... Sekali tak jadi pun the discussion"
Although he's irked, dia selamba je. My boss dah masak dalam hal menangani pihak atasan ni.

The second incident happened about 7 hours later. I was still in office, clearing a memo when I received a call. There was a crisis at home. I left the office immediately after. When I reached home, the crisis has not been resolved. I asked questions... got unsatisfying answers... probed some more... nothing like this has ever happened. Again, to my surprise, I was not in panic mode. More of concern... anger. Almost one hour later, the crisis reda.

That's life... penuh dugaan.