What a Day
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Hokay, here’s the first part of this post, “New Trainee, Pt 2″.
So there was a new trainee at our department. Yes, the “poking fun” continued. Andrew said, “Yalo, I notice when he explain things to her, very detailed wan..”. Sigh.. you know, I just can’t stand people who memorize programming. I can tell’ya, she’s the kind who’s debugging technique is to “tembak aje”. Sometimes, by a stroke of luck, she can figure out something. I don’t know how much of understand she has, but then again, since she’ve “figured” it out, so no point going on explaining.. nanti people say I long winded..
I don’t wanna go lunch with her anymore. Kinda paiseh. Y’know, when you first meet someone, sure got plenty to chat about mah.. but give it some time, nothing much left to talk about lor.. If I eat wit the guys, I can just eat in peace (meaning silently).. but with her, feel sorry if just keep quite only.. like boring the hell outta her.. ugh..
Besides, if I really had a crush on her, I’d have her phone number and MSN by now.. which I don’t..
Ah, here comes the second part of this post..
Today, the end-user of the systems that we develop was doing elaborate testing before signing it off. So it wasn’t surprising the user called up with a whole bunch of issues. Heck, some of it were even discussed earlier. There was some problem with the validation mechanisms, so Esther asked me to look into it. I’m guessing she was probably the one who wrote the JavaScript validation, as she was so keen to find out what the heck was wrong with it. She asked me to see see what’s wrong, but since it was ages since I did anything that required lots of JavaScript, I was kinda blur. Worse off, it was related with converting mm/dd/yyyy formats to dd/mm/yyyy. As there was 1 more thing I needed to attend to, it was definitely a stressful moment. So sometimes I kinda wish I could handle stress as good as them..
She had to call up the user to clarify what the heck they actually want. To tell you the truth, I was kinda irritated at that moment. She ask me to see what’s wrong, but then she was sitting at my computer, trying to fix the bug. I only got a few looks at the code, which she kept changing. So I got pretty damn frustrated when I couldn’t understand what the code was doing..
Long story short, I only left office at 8:30. The real surprise of the day was she actually said “thanks“.. I appreciated it as it wasn’t the kind you’d quickly say out of habit. It’s the kind that you can actually feel. It was totally uncalled for too, since it was the darned user who was to blame.. bloody hell, go home lah! It’s a friggin Friday for cryin’ out loud..
So to Esther, who probably won’t be reading this, “don’t mention it“, and may you find the love of your life soon.. tick tock tick tock.. =P
