I've been swamped by work these past days. I was doing 3 urgent tasks at the same time; one is related to the major project, second is an enhancement ticket, and third is a production issue caused by my previous install. The latter one has already been finished yesterday. The second one is almost done and will be installed on 1st week of April right after the freeze period. And the first one is still on-going. That’s one of the reasons why I feel ecstatic.

Finally, my friend Eric from UK was back in KL early this morning! FYI, he's the one who introduced me to KL's night life! He texted me and invited me to hang out one of these days… Sure dude! Let's meet on Tuesday night! See you there... just one of the reasons why I feel ecstatic.

Early this week I received a package from my friend Steve all the way from Spain! By the way, he is Neil's special friend *wink *wink. Dude, thanks for the DVD! Gracias! It was awesome! I am speechless hahahaha. Gosh, I wish I can see them for real! haha... another reason to feel ecstatic.

The other day was my friend Martin's birthday. Happy birthday dude! I hope you celebrated it with a blast! We haven't talked much lately because he's always busy or maybe he really doesn't want to talk to me much... but! I was able to talk to him last night... just another reason why I feel ecstatic.

Then yesterday afternoon, my manager called me for a meeting together with 2 of my regular officemates. He then officially informed us that 3 of us are chosen to handle one of the major projects of Maybank to date. We will be responsible in overseeing the project, doing the impact analysis, designs, and programming. In lieu with that, he verbally told me that they will be renewing my contract which happens to end on May 29 because the project estimated timeline will last for about 12-14 months. He wants me to be there with the project from start 'til end. Now, this great news makes me feel more ecstatic!

I've been waiting for this opportunity in my career life here in KL. Since I came here, most of my tasks were petty. I never had a chance to work in a major projects or enhancements nor had a task that touches our system’s modules (Cardlink). All of my tasks were in-house enhancements. Because of that, I somehow lost my drive to work and find it already plateau for me. But just in time, He gave me what I've been praying for! I will be involving in a MAJOR project that will test whatever skills I have right now hahaha. I can’t hide the excitement in me because I know I will learn A LOT from this...

However, my manager already cautioned us that this project ain't easy to deal with as it's a very high profile project. He also forewarned us that the assigned PM (project manager) is a deadhead and very hard PM to work with. He also mentioned that the upper management has so much expectation on us and he just hopes that we can live up on their expectations (so do I). Despite of the nerve-wracking and intimidating expectation setting/meeting, I am still so excited and really looking forward working on this project... can't wait to start the work proper!!!

Thank God for all the Blessings!

Date Scribed: March 24, 2007