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Today doesnt start too well and doesnt end better...

I went to the office late and was trying to tease my lead, Terrance, with a "Morning Boss", without noticing Jack (the REAL boss) was just beside him (I sneak up from behind). It was kinda of an arkward situation when Jack turned around to face me while I was facing (and obviously directing at) Terrance... anyway I throw a lousy and lame finisher, "Bosses"

Whatever, the day continues as usual and Sunny was back to help me out at ICA. All was peaceful and calm, and we are discussing if we will be knocking off early like yesterday (where we are offsite) after setting a network Printer for some laptops.

Then situation arise when it is almost time for punch out. We were called to 5th story of the building to install CIRIS for an officer's laptop (Angela) and the proper setup. It all sounds SOOOOO simple... till we reached the site and received a big news with a BIG BANG...

It seems that last week, when we, the FM team, were assigned to a particular level, the one at 5th storey did not quite do his job... all except one PC was setup properly that allows proper online MS WORD display with the new barcode encoding; the rest are semi-done and not properly setup.

Sounds bad? Things are worst then we thought. There are a total of 107 PCs and some 40 of them requires fresh installation of CIRIS... setting adjustment took me ard 5 mins while a fresh installation takes 15~25 mins. And some PC settings are inconsistent, some do not have Certificate import, some has no ActiveX, some has no Icon shortcuts, and even the most basic setting of assigning Rights to domain users are missing for 1 of the PC (and I had to spend some 30 minutes to figure out the cause).

Time running out, so I taught Sunny the way I did my OM (output management - display MS WORD on the intranet webpage) on the 6th storey. I simple do the setting but only verify the first 3 PC with both the admin and user account, if all pass, I will assume all PC will work with admin verification. I then leave the PC on with CIRIS login page in my admin account, and request the SCS guys to do the verification (for me ~ but I think its their software side issue anyway), then bluff them that a restart or shut down is necessary to "capture" the settings (hence logging off my admin account for me). Sunny was amaze =D since it speed things up 10 times faster (from 12 mins to less than 1 min per PC).

Then I receive a call from Terrance that he is calling it a day to prepare for the BIG day tomorrow. Now this sets me thinking. I decided to play a small drama since there seems to have some other 20+ staffs (from SCS and ICA) at the office awaiting our setting, and a sudden declaration of "byebye" will definately set me ablaze with their focus anger...

Hence, I call up Sunny and told him that Terrance had gone home and (here where the drama started) we had been instructed to only finish up the backend PC, and leaving those that require fresh installation for tomorrow. (THERE ARE NO WAY TO FINISH ALL in a single night with only 2 poor chaps). I added that tomorrow our management will deploy a full team to work on the remaining PCs - I decided to call up Jack for reinforcement later... with the clock at 9.30pm, I only focus on getting home and have my bath and dinner. This assurance worked as Angela then promptly brief her staff that there may be some adjustment to be made for tomorrow operations for CIRIS installation. Thank You Mum. ~it seems to me Angela is also dying to return home after I told her a single fresh installation will take around 15~25 minutes.

After finally finishing the "priority" PCs, we call Jack up for reinforcement and tomorrow directions. LOL, it seems Jack is abit pissed off since he seems to be in red with his NPP, NPC and hospital CIRIS setups. Anyway, he also instructed (directly) me to report directly to Terrance because he is not within ICA boundary.

Both of us worked till 2200 before we grab our long deserved dinner (or supper) at nearby coffeeshop. (My stomach has been grumbing for the past 2 hours)... we had a good talk about tomorrow "happenings" and had lots of laugh, and Sunny even suspect Terrance will be "smoke out" tomorrow since he earlier mentioned he had too many days of leave and MC not yet cleared... whatever, we also discuss the preparation work, for the war to be fought tomorrow, on Friday, the 13th July 2007 (auspicious date huh).