Well, haven't really had time to catch up of sleep. Ten-years ago, I would have easily recovered from a month of 16-hour work days in 48 hours. Now it's much tougher. I guess there's a lot more responsibility on my shoulders now, from the burden at work (they don't pay you to do nothing) and of course, my responsibility to my lovely wife but also not neglecting church ministries and family and friends too. Right now, our humble lil' home is a construction zone and managing that as an extra responsibility doesn't help. I really can't wait to move out of our box in the sky to my new old home and have a pair of tail-wagging furry friends greet me when I pull into the driveway.

Edit: sorry, draft status prevented this from showing...

Spent over half a day at a government agency attending their massive (in terms of price) tender briefing session, popped a few questions and then back home for lunch before going back to the office. My head hurts.

Was back at KL Convention Center with its horrible, really limited parking space. First photo-journalist experience since I wasn't saddled with booth duty today. It was just to get photos of His Excellency, the Ambassador from Netherlands who will be visiting our booth with the Dutch Business council and a bunch of VIPs. First disaster was the batteries in my flash weren't charged. Yes, I forgot but I was also rushing out a proposal due next Tuesday. Backup batteries also failed (more later). So resorted to my IS lens, ISO 800 and occasionally, on-camera flash! Terrible! Finish shooting at 3:45pm, rush over to Bon Cafe's booth, get a triple shot latte with hazelnut syrup, download 1.2Gb of photos, select 10 best ones, post-process in Photoshop CS, download to a thumbdrive and off I go to get them printed. This is 2007! Why is the official media booth requiring prints! Are they stuck in 1997?! Anyways, got that all done by 4:31pm, get the heck out of the convention center, smack into a rain induced jam at Jalan Sultan Ismail but managed to get home by 5:15pm. Whew! What a day!



Once home, I decided to condition the dead Sanyo batteries on my Maha C-204W charger but after an hour, something decided to blow up. Charger's now dead plus I probably won't kill my other Maha charger so the batteries went into the trash. Hmm, maybe I'd stick with PowerEX 2700s instead of Sanyo's from now on.

No matter how fast, how high, how smart... you're still a RAT in the RAT RACE...

2006 AQ - Barely hit 10% of 3.2M... (All quarters)
2007 Q1 - Barely hit 57% of Q1 target and that's from 2006!
2007 Q2 - Barely hit 25% of Q2 target

Sigh...

Notebook display: 1024x768, Kick-ass Dell 2405FPW: 1920x1200. Total pages displayed: 3!

With an upcoming proposal and time spent at a partner's office... At least they have Starbucks!

Where else to work when you're at the customer site and you need a change of scene?

Was at another auto manufacturer for another presentation and meeting.
They are related to another previous manufacturer I visited but the facilities and office was worlds apart.