the 1st half of the day was totally torture to my nerves.
because when i got to the office, nothing was working well. the system was not functioning correctly; engineers were struggling with some configuration issues while testing the production environment; Mr. N has released another flawed DLL, XC release was not delivered by our partner; AIC has again being the little-white-guy for interrupting with the team tasks... all in all, a mess, especially b/c it's right before i take off for my vacation.
i had stuggled to sort things out a bit. delegating issues to various people - asking qa to do overtime, blast aic for interrupting engineers w/o early request, etc. and i stayed way past 12:00, my supposed departure time from the office.
when i took off from the office, i was planning for the worst. thinking i might be seeing the flight leaving from the airport lobby. lucky me that the office is right off the express route of hwy 1. amazingly it only took me 20 min to get to nancan, but another 15 min on the local route to the parking garage.
my nerves didn't unwind fully until i actually checked into the hotel. right after i passed the custom, i could literally felt my nerves relaxed inch by inch. it's my longest ever vacation mode switching process.
my day turned brighter when we got a great deal on money exchange at the airport, and we also got an honest taxi driver who charged us only 90PS for the ride.
the moment i saw our hotel room, i knew my vacation has be WONDERFUL. we've got a great room with 2 queen size beds for only US$70. this hotel only rated 3 stars but it actually is more of a delicate little boutique hotel - a 4-story buildig off the Pasay avenue.
we spent the evening at the greenbelt 3... (more comments on the mall & food later)
the time at the mall was nice but not satisfying enough since we didn't get to know the area and enjoy the local flavors. we went out again at 11pm for snacks. it was much better after seeing some restaurants still open after 11pm. the day ended with a great sweet note - a banana/carrot cake at the park cafe to start my b-day celebration.
Time for bed.
because when i got to the office, nothing was working well. the system was not functioning correctly; engineers were struggling with some configuration issues while testing the production environment; Mr. N has released another flawed DLL, XC release was not delivered by our partner; AIC has again being the little-white-guy for interrupting with the team tasks... all in all, a mess, especially b/c it's right before i take off for my vacation.
i had stuggled to sort things out a bit. delegating issues to various people - asking qa to do overtime, blast aic for interrupting engineers w/o early request, etc. and i stayed way past 12:00, my supposed departure time from the office.
when i took off from the office, i was planning for the worst. thinking i might be seeing the flight leaving from the airport lobby. lucky me that the office is right off the express route of hwy 1. amazingly it only took me 20 min to get to nancan, but another 15 min on the local route to the parking garage.
my nerves didn't unwind fully until i actually checked into the hotel. right after i passed the custom, i could literally felt my nerves relaxed inch by inch. it's my longest ever vacation mode switching process.
my day turned brighter when we got a great deal on money exchange at the airport, and we also got an honest taxi driver who charged us only 90PS for the ride.
the moment i saw our hotel room, i knew my vacation has be WONDERFUL. we've got a great room with 2 queen size beds for only US$70. this hotel only rated 3 stars but it actually is more of a delicate little boutique hotel - a 4-story buildig off the Pasay avenue.
we spent the evening at the greenbelt 3... (more comments on the mall & food later)
the time at the mall was nice but not satisfying enough since we didn't get to know the area and enjoy the local flavors. we went out again at 11pm for snacks. it was much better after seeing some restaurants still open after 11pm. the day ended with a great sweet note - a banana/carrot cake at the park cafe to start my b-day celebration.
Time for bed.