Today!

Nothing much happened today. It is just another day. Another day of work and rest. Another day of my life. Came to the office at around 9.30, did some work straight away. I have a website project for one of our client due this Friday. I was trying to fix some bugs in the web application today, and was caught up in my work until lunch time. Managed to solve some difficult problems during that time ... I was singing "We are the champion" spontatenously because of that and kept singing the song for quite some time with a pretty loud voice .. *not that loud rite hans?* .. :) .. Everyone near me was sort of looking/listening at me, maybe thinking what is this guy so happy about? :) ... well, .... :) ...

Did not have rice for lunch today, just the cooked dishes from catering. That is because I could not find rice in my rice cooker this morning, so I ended up just bringing the dishes without the rice :( .. I thought it should be enough since I had coffee with lots of sugar just half-hour before lunch.

After lunch, me and hans went to bible means business (BMB) in the greenwood bar. The topic today was about the Stepford wifes. Learnt a lot today from what the speakers said, what God really design a marriage for. Still trying to digest his points as there were quite a number of them. Last week's topic was specifically directed towards the husband and this week the wife. Next week will be about parenting, how to become parents that God wants you to be. I can sense today that the speaker was a bit cautious about the whole issue since the idea of a wife submitting to husband in the context of marriage is highly unpopular these days ...

Quoting one thing that the speaker say: "a woman is to submit to a man in the context of marriage. Notice that it does not mean that women should submit to all men in other circumstances, not in workplace, not in the office, not in general sense." This brings back memory of my last bible study preparation with IPCYF bible study leaders about this topic. It is still not resolved yet though ...

After BMS, went back straight to the office .. still singing the song we are the champion .. It stucked on my head for some reason ... It stopped though, not long after that ... I continued the work until one of my work mate told me there is a problem with ACS system. One of our colleague changed something in the source code. It was a couple of line changes only, but the effect was huge. The letters generated by the system since 1/11/2004 are all corrupted .. woww!!!! My friend and I had to spend time to fix it ... It was around 4.30PM when he told me about the problem. We tried all we can to restore the corrupted documents. After long and hard hours (of debugging, coding, updating the exes, repositories, databases extraction), I thought we managed to fix the problem .. but after doing a couple of testing, it was obvious that the problem was only half-fixed ... It was 8PM already.. I was so hungry .. I didn't have rice for lunch .. I wanted to leave the office to get some snack, but the closest shop is not that close at all, and I was so eager to fix the problem ASAP. Everytime we thought we fixed it, there was still something left un-fixed ...

Fiuhh ... I tried to be patient ... and thank God I did ... Tried to calm my friend as he was pretty tired and nervous at that time .. I thought it's good that we are doing this together .. I wouldn't have stayed alone until 10PM with my stomach craving for food ... This friend of mine is a very persistent, hard-working guy ... I almost gave up when the clock reached 9.30PM ... But he just wanted to finish it tonight ... Well, I did not feeling good of leaving him with the problem alone .. So I stayed .. It was a good thing that I stayed ... In the end, we managed to fix the problem ... we tried all possible test cases to break it, but it seemed to work alright ... fiuuhhh .. at last ...

It was 10.05PM when I left the office, my stomach was really hurt ... I decided to stop at town hall and bought a KFC ... enjoyed it (as usual :)).. had 3 piece feed meal today .. I thought I deserved a good meal after all that .. hahahahahahha ....

Well that was pretty much my day in detail, how's yours?

**Every day is a good day because God is present no matter how bad your situation is, G'DAY**