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Greeting My Boss With Whips, Chains, and Machine Gun

I found it so hard to get up this morning.  Lucky I still managed to call up Doug in his hotel and informed him Sophie’s contact number and the address.  Phew!  Really wanted to take a decent breakfast (after living in a lower life standard for such a long weekend) but I did not have the time.  In fact I was 15 minutes late.

The joke today was the SIR 505 that William and Sophie has been arguing for so long (at least 4 months) and William finally admitted that this is a bug.  So I spent two days in designing this new spot advice and in the end, after telling the Function Team that they need to test it thoroughly, i.e. all cases, they freaked out and placed the SIR to the lowest priority.

Anyway, managed to get Claude and Mohamed to involve this Spot SIR.  Should be fun, I hope.

Doug came in SocGen for a meeting and it was kind of a different mood throughout the whole SocGen Team. T hey all know that my boss was coming in and everybody was a bit tensed up.  They thought Doug would discuss about the invoices.  We joked that Sophie has got the whips and chains ready with Aurore carrying a machine gun.  But no, he talked about cemetery and how was La Defense being named.  Bizarre!  At the end of the meeting,  I showed him the coffee room and while having a coffee, he told me that if his boss knows about the real situation, his boss would definitely cancel the contract.  He is a peaceful guy I suppose and he wants a good relationship.

The Aerosmith album which was due to be out today, not today. Damn!

And I went out and had dinner with the BNP team.  How boring.  Really boring.  Cheap food and what a waste of my precious time.

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5 Hotel Staff Greeted Me Goodnight

Today was Friday and I felt like working on Saturday.  I was so tired and I promised myself to sleep early today.  I am so proud of my typing as I am now getting used to the French Keyboard and it is so pleasant so use.  My observation is that everything is mindset.  And as you are used to it, you will feel very comfortable with it.  Don’t you agree?

Everybody was so tired today.  But in general the mood was good.  I was especially in a jolly mood (not thinking about weekend helped).  I cracked a lot of happy moments today, don’t know why.

One of the topic from Nick was the difference with the French and English women.  And we talked a bit about the definition of romance.

Michel’s 5 SIR has been finished.  What a tough week with all the reversals.  But he was happy and I was happy.  As for Willie, he was really very hard to talk to but I tried to be very patience.  But I think I have failed badly.  Really feel guilty.  Got to do better next week.

Somehow, me and Michel found that the New Sophie (still don’t know her name) is kind of more pleasant and approachable as compare to Sophie.  And the new guy Laurant as well.  But according to Aurore the other night, the Function Team always like that.  When they first joined, they are fine and after a few months, well …

Went all the way to see my “relative” again in order to get the bank address.  Although I hate to go all the way to Saint Mande, I always feel good after seeing them. Somewhere, someone is proud of me as they have seen me “grow”.

First, a group of black guys walked into the train talking to me in French, I just smiled.  Second a musician walked in and sang “Let It Be”.  When I walked out of the station, I saw Sophie’s Boss.  Then I walked into the Hotel, 5 staff greeted me goodnight.  What a night!

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Just Not My Day

Didn’t have a good sleep to start with, the day was not as good as it was supposed to by.  After all, it was Monday.  Sophie’s successor has finally arrived, not at all as attractive as Sophie.  Don’t think the New Sophie will be able to move the Technical Team to do whatever she wants.

Really fed up with Willie, he was so slow that I really couldn’t stand him.  And he just didn’t like to ask and pretended that he understood every single words I said.  I bet he didn’t.  And Michel was suffering with my Reversal Advice SIR.  He wanted a big SIR, I gave him one.  Now, he knows how tough life can be.  Ha!  But it is fun working with Michel.

Had a phone call with JP. Can’t believe that she doubts my faithfulness.  Set aside I doubt hers.

What a lousy day.

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I’m an Idiot

Yesterday I felt like a superhuman, today I felt like an idiot.  Well, I think I still have a lot to learn in real working life.

Aurore and Noubi was not with me the whole day as they had a demo to do with the Spanish.  Sophie was sick so I was pretty freed of distraction.  Had a nice phone call with my girlfriend and the Florist drove me insane. I still couldn’t get hold of them.

Stayed late quite a fair bit with Mohamed and Wilfrid (French) and finally found that they run a wrong version of VTF, as I had suspected.

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Business Lunch

Nothing can stop me.  My VISION knowledge seems to have increased quite a fair bit and I am afraid on nothing.  Today, I showed Mohamed how to debug one of the SIR and surely he was impressed.

Lunch time, I joined the MUE team (20 people) and had a FF 120 lunch.  Probably one of the best lunch I had so far in Paris.  Opposite me sat Nicolas, who is willing to converse in English.  Beside me were two French ladies, who was also willing to converse in English.  In fact, the one next to me has been to UK (LSE) for 1 year and she loved everything except France.  Weird, isn’t it?  I thought French are always very proud of their culture.

Basically, the MUE team consists of all the technical people on the 7th floor and the “INTL” on the 8th floor.  In fact the funny thing is, INTL dressed a lot smarter and most of them are lady.

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Stressed with Work

Erm, what happened today? Well, I remembered beginning with the day with a very positive attitude and somehow, after lunch, I was very stressed up with the Collateral Module and the Interest Accrued (yes, doesn’t work again) plus the Profitability Programs.  Wow, just all at one go and made me really mad.

And I had to rush off for a hair cut appointment.  Have to say one of the best haircut I ever had. What to say, French are artistic.

And I had to sort out my receipts.  Really painful.  In conclusion, I am not good at accounting at all.

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Prepare for Departure

Ever since I have the notebook, I have lost a seat in the office.  Last time, I was used to occupy one place (3 computers) claiming that they were for VTF Support.  Now that I have a notebook, I suddenly became homeless.

Today, in terms of personal administration, I was quite successful.  Have extended my temporary increased in credit limit.  Got my visa.  Sorted out my flights (SIN-PAR, PAR-US, SIN-HK).  Meet up with Edwin Lee but forgot to pass him the Eiffel Tower miniature.  Met up with my girlfriend and had a dinner in Planet Hollywood.  One thing not perfect was that I could not find the digital to analog phone line converter.  I have tried my best and if in the end I cannot dial to Lotus Notes, I resign to fate.

Another example of “Actively pursue what I want”.  I wanted upstairs (Planet Hollywood) and if I did not ask for it, most probably I would not get it.

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Feeling the Blahs

Not a very exciting day.  Work was, as usual, boring.  Trying to do some green books, but there are always a lot of disturbance in the office.  People would just ask you some stupid questions or ask you to do some stupid things or ask you to join him or her for a cup of coffee.  I really wish I could be left alone and quietly do the green books.

Funny that I do not wish to do any VISION related jobs later on in my life.  I have this deep feeling that (although I do not want to admit) too many people has gone ahead of me.  At the end of the day, maybe I have been doing VISION for one and a half years and more, I know nothing about Version 5.  And I have to learn all from start.  I just want to get out.  What I scared of is that I will be asked to maintain all the new systems all over the world.

Wanted to join BCM for a show “The Thing You Do” in the new cinema at Shaw Tower.  Sad to say JP was very tired.  So I ended up spending my Friday night with Sam and his wife.  Somehow the bedroom set that Sam ordered was damaged and has to be manufactured again.  Of course, they will not accept a bedroom set after their marriage day hence they have to choose another set.  In the end, they have found one but Sam did not like the handles and his wife did not like the size of the wardrobe.  She said it was too small.  Anyway, we had a dinner somewhere and I accompanied them to buy a wok in NTUC.

Came home for the show, “A Few Good Man”.  And that is it.  Write some mails and go to sleep.