MUahahhahaaaa bye bye xphone IIm. Hello dopod s300 Today, I officially retired my old phone in favor for a newer better phone. Its still a windows mobile phone but its powered by the latest version of the OS. I’m kinda happy with it. It was a gd buy $178 for the phone which also comes with a 512mb micro sd card. Hehh.. I could have gotten it cheaper, at 78 bucks but since my contract was only at 14 mths, I had to pay an extra 100 bucks. Still its a worth while buy since it was 468 bucks just the previous week

I’m kinda happy that the new OS solved many of the limitations of the previous one. You can finally empty the sms folder w/o having to use third party software. I’m kinda wondering why this was not included in the older OS since its the qunitessential function of sms crazy singaporean The phone also has a higher resolution. The photo contacts is inbuilt and intergrated into the phone book. More memory and better memory management. The ability to search for contact when sending mms and not having to scroll down through all the contacts list. Nicer design of the phone.. Better quality camera. I’m happy with it Kick ass phone. Now to find a seller for my older phone… hehh..

MUahahahaaha finally… my monitor and docking station has finally arrived. Its really huge. 19″ lcd. My work environment now is sooooo cool. Nice laptop docked in the docking station, which is connected to a huge 19″ lcd scree, and a keyboard and mouse Seems to be attracting lots of stares and comments. Muahhahaa awesome.

No more squinting at the small laptop monitor. I can even see the text on my new monitar a couple of meeters away. It is thaaaat HUGE! Only cons is that my table is kinda full now but who cares. Wheee… Now to make fun of marvin with his fake docking station. Should have seen the look on his face when my monitor arrive. Hahahaha priceless

Today marks the 2nd day of the fasting month. Its considered a holy month for all muslims around the world, where we are required to fast from dusk to dawn. No food or water. Really a gd test of discpline This year is extra significant for me cos the last 2 years of the fasting month, I was all alone in Melbourne. It sure sux though, when you have to break fast alone.

Peeople around me were amazed at how I can go w/o food and water for bout 14 hrs. I really can’t explain it myself, except that eventually, you get use to it Helps you save money too. Hahaa.. Anyway, I just wanna wish all muslims out there a happy ramadhan. Hari raya is coming soon. yay!!!

Moon cake festival. This is one of the few times where chinese garden is actually lively. Usually a dark dreary place, it has been transformed to be a colorful park filled with lanterns. Theme of this year is world attraction. Lanterns set up as replica to different landmarks of the world

Last time I came here was maybe 4-6 yrs ago, with Syerida. Haiz… Anyway, I met up with Diovie and some of her friends to have a walk around chinese garden. Entrance was kinda pricey though. 8 bucks per pax. 5 of us in total == 40 bucks gone. Hahhaa.. Diovie looking as sweet as ever She came with Jeff, Donnah and Camille. I’ve never really talked much to them before eventhough they sit in the cube just infront of mine. Guess we didn’t really have a chance to chat since we never worked on any projects together before. Jeff, was a visitor from Philipines and boy is he funny… cam whore?? AHhahaaa

Most of the time, I can’t understand what they were saying among each other. Tagalog… hmmmmm.. I got to learn at least some of it.. Took many pictures here and there. I hope I at least get a gd shot in there By the time we walked the entire park, it was after 11. Tiring but fun Such a pity I didn’t manage to get a lantern. I had my lighter ready too. lol..

That means its time to go back to work the next day. Haiz… why cant we have a 3 day weekend. My weekend is gone before I can even enjoy it Sat is usually spent resting at home which leaves me with only 1 day, Sunday to go out etc.. Only thing I did today was went to east coast to skate. Just nice too cos as soon as I finished skating, it started to rain. hahahaa

Been pretty busy this week. Started to play badminton with some of my colleagues on wednesday. Its really fun Played with Edmund, Su Zen, Ai’er, Derick, Hong Chuan and Henry. Su zen was kind enuf to drive some of us to the courts, in Depot Rd. HP building as well. 2 bucks per hr court rental.. now that’s really cheap. Went to Holland for dinner after that with Su Zen and gang. She drove us again. Only realised then that all of them are from the Payroll team. No wonder they bond so well. Seems like I’m the odd one out.

Work has been pretty interesting too. On tuesday, the Business Objects production servers went down. Muahahaha it was sooooo chaotic that day. It started with a call reporting that the Global Payroll application was down. Minutes later another call reporting that the Expense Management app was down too. And before I knew it, a few more calls to report that multiple apps world wide was down… Darn! I recycled the Weblogics Console, load balancer, Business Objects processes, etc… Nothing works. By then, users from India and Australia were already calling me directly on my phone asking me for updates to the situation Eventually had to call Hadley, my team lead from US. After a while of poking around the system, we found out the break was in the Windows terminal which they used as a load balancer. It was somehow rejecting all SSL connection requests. DAMN!!! Reconfigured the system to bypass all SSL connections and now it work. Next few days was spent trying to figure out what happened and what we found out was some bugger accidentally deleted all the SSL certs. Had to regenerate the keys and installed the cert again and only got everything to work again on Fri. Dumb ass.. if I found out the guy who deleted all my certs.. grrrrrrr…

Another Issue keeping me busy was the failure of the HR production database. Man… I have so many batch jobs depending on this db but somehow, it hanged and the DBAs had to bounce the db. They killed all the db sessions which caused 20 plus batch jobs to fail. Haiz.. more work for me trying to recover all these errors Thank god Steven from US, was there to help me out

Hell of a busy week.. lets hope next week will be smother….