3AM Strikes

Yesterday was a little busy for me. I had to really manage my time wisely. The work that I have became so freaking demanding of my time. It's not that I'm complaining about the whole thing being so difficult but in a way getting into my nerves because of the fact that it's so time consuming. With the kind of nonsensical build environment and the waiting and the stupid behavior it has. I wish I knew the hard rudiments of ant to at least remedy it but it's not the case.

Well I was tasked to raise the jcoverage of the whole branch and it's crazy. The idea of making things work blew me up. The idea of me having to read the codes of others and understand everything is crazy. I have to admit though that what really blew my mind up is the fact that they did not have sample data input and output which made it kind of difficult because I needed to reconstruct all of these data files based on their schema. I have managed to make the unit tests of some alien modules but not everything. Even if I will have to make a clone of myself to help me work it out, I'd still not finish it.

The odd thing is they were making tests but were incomplete. If they have identified that unit tests were part of their SDLC then they should have alloted time to have it as part of their actual process. Period!

What I have told myself was just cool off. Just do what you can do and ask some assistance to the people who knew better. I don't know what they were trying to ask of me all I know they gave me the responsibility so I have to make it work.

Well the day ended with some build failures and just comment them out to remedy them momentarily.

Olga, Agnes and I went to KFC to eat for our dinner. We were waiting for our condo lady to get our monthly rental. Well I sent an SMS that we were at Dela Rosa KFC waiting. It rained so hard so we needed to stay there a little bit. Our condo lady replied to me that she will just wait for us at Rufino Plaza and that we need not to rush. When we were done at KFC we headed to Rufino Plaza to meet Ms. Gemma and pay the rent. We then headed to Krispy Kreme but a little surprise as Olga and Agnes told me that they were going to check some condo units at Cityland Ayala so I went by myself to KK. It was actually the fist business meeting that I have with Arjay who was a classmate of mine in CIT. So much for that. I was there at KK and ordered ginger ale and new york cheesecake. Hmmm sounds gluttony! Well I love sweets and I can't help myself ....

I was actually having issues with my wireless connection. My wireless g network device seemed not to pick-up any wireless signal. Well I gave up. I thought the drivers of this broadcom thing was corrupted. Anyway after a few minutes, Olga and Agnes came to KK and told me that the rain soaked them - bubble thought hehehehhe that was it because you left me, toinks. Anyway Arjay came and we had business. He installed a virtual pc in my OS. It took around an hour to have it set. Arjay sort of explained things to me and it made me a little excited. Well KK will be closing so we finished the whole thing we could, and set out to call it a night. The group actually discussed some technical and personal stuff. It was fun and exciting!

We part ways and went home at around 11pm I guess. Because of the fact that my wireless connection didn't work left me a little fidget. So when we came home I went ahead looking for the driver of my wireless g device without even changing my clothes. I went to the ladies room to have a chit-chat. I took my laptop with me in their crib with the driver of course. I reinstalled the drivers and kablam to my surprise it worked. Guess what? It even detected some wireless signals. Hehehehehe evil grin. Actually prior to that we were talking about some of our personal lives, you know sharing what we have, where we came from, and things related to that. It sorted of made you feel connected to the people around you and made you feel somehow different too. It feels different and amazing to understanding their roots. I'm glad to have known them so much deeper and better. Well Mamul welcome to the house. Anyway there was an unsecured network meaning to say it does not have any security toinks, 64bit or 128 bit encryption, wep or wpa ecryption. So we got our connection for free and still have it right at this very moment while I am creating this blog. Hmmmm. We watched Charice over youtube and played it over and over again. We were looking for some of Charice's other videos and it was fun and ala Olga from her radio-listening-quotable-quotes and I quote, "it doesn't change the fact that you are cheating". We got a stolen wireless connection.

My eyes were getting tired and felt sour. Is there such a word for the eye when it's sleepy? Anyway it's already 3AM and so I packed my stuff and left for bed. Zzzzzzzz.

It's another freeday!

The tenacity of fun has always been spelled with the word Friday. You heard me perfectly right. Anyway the Friday I had was great. I took off from the office at around 7:10PM and headed to SM. I was with the impression that MJ was there already but she was still in a PUJ heading to the mall so in other word I came to KFC earlier. Usually we dined out at KFC because of the Caesar salad that I’m now loving and the hotshots meal that I will cut throat with; pretty obscene but hopefully not. I ordered the meals I have mentioned for myself and got a Go-go meal for MJ. Go-go meal is a chicken strip with lettuce, a slice or two of tomatoes, and mustard as a dressing. Well after some few minutes, MJ came to our rendezvous. She was in black tight tank top I guess =)) don’t curse me if I got it wrong anybody; and a pair of skinny jeans. I was particularly wearing a brown Bossini polo shirt and an already three days-old-without-wash, Levi’s jeans. We started to eat at around 8PM with the usual fun chit-chat. The talks were circling more on what has happened to us in around a week, be it bad and mean or happiness and surprise. I met at KFC some of my ASI mates. I saw Andy, Eloise, Dhunve and July. There was a business to talk about with some of these peers and some fun little talks. I asked Eloise of some Nihonggo reviewers and that she made a nod. I am so thankful of that Eloise-san; such a nice friend. I went back to MJ’s table and finished everything we ordered. After that, I went to Union Bank to get some cash. I withdraw a thousand or more but I can’t say how much. We then went to fourth floor where SM cinemas are located. We decided to watch Bourne Ultimatum. Just a spoiler, Jason Bourne aka Matt Damon is in search of his past long before, has come to know how he got into his current life as an operative of the CIA. He will not be killed in this movie so probably another Bourne movie might be on the road show. Anyway my rating for Bourne Ultimatum is an A. It’s a nice movie. Definitely not a trying hard action packed movie. The night was not so young when the movie ended. It was still 10:30PM. MJ has a night-out with her Etel pals and I was invited by her. There was a problem at that time whether she’d come or not. We walked out of the mall and walk through Andok’s and from their decided to go with the night and have fun at Paseo. My back pack was a little cumbersome since it has with it my company laptop. MJ and I decided to go back to my office to leave my bag for safe keeping. We rode 04L bound for Lahug and stopped at the engorge of IT Park. I2 was just a five-minute walk in a slow pace and it’s where our office is specifically at the south-east wing of 8^th floor. I saw Juvy an officemate of mine sitting on the side seats at the building’s entrance. MJ and I then proceeded to the eight floor and got inside the office. I took my ID and wallet out of my bag and got some coins from the front pocket. I hurriedly swiped my proximity card to get in and left the bag on a chair in my assigned cube. I quickly went to the pantry though dark since I didn’t bother to turn on the lights and got my self a drink of cool water from our dispenser. I then went out with MJ who I left at the receiving area – Michelle’s area. But before we got out of the building, the reception phone rang and I took the charge to answer it and surprisingly it was Jann our IT guy. Well he was looking for Juvy and at his end he kept on asking who I was. I believe he was in a disco house since the background music was really loud. He then managed to get what I was telling him. After such, we headed out of I2 and got a cab going to Paseo.

We came to Paseo and entered the disco, cigarette smoke, beer and music complex. It was really, really crowded but wasn’t a mob. People of all sorts were there I guess except those who have chosen not to be there. Wahahahahahaha! Anyway, we went to a table in front of an ethnic named bar. There were some of MJ’s friends in there already and they were Janice and Angel. They had a pitcher of Margarita. I took a gulp or two and after that we ordered red horse beer. The music in the complex got nicer which made me dance on my chair. I got a stick of Marlboro light and puff my first one on that night. Charisse and her pseudo guy came in and after some minutes Phil who also worked at Etel also came. The next batch of red horse beer came. I felt a little groggy already. I went to the CR to pee so many times because I am not used to drinking alcoholics. The music began running into my veins after nature’s call so we just heated it up and moved the chairs and dance the groove. We danced and jump and sang aloud so carelessly. I knew I was really drank during those time since I couldn’t even control myself much. I say what I felt like saying. I was also able to prove to myself that I can handle myself well when drunk and caused no trouble at all. There were some people on the other table and Angel invited them to dance with us. It was super fun dancing with people you don’t know. I didn’t even know their names but our group and theirs just moved our hips, tap the shoes and wave our hands – really the likes of a free being. We ordered another set of red horse beer and a pitcher of Margaritas now in orange flavor from the latter which was strawberry. I liked the orange flavor. Oh I had my second stick during that crazy early morning. The place began unpacking, and the fleet of people just dried up. It was already 3 AM. So the group decided to go out and headed off to Pump, another disco house and a wild one. We rode a cab and got in there after a few minutes. We paid a hundred each for the entrance. I then ordered an iced tea then dance again together some of my new friends. It was morning already, so we got out of the place and went to Chowking Fuente. Most of us ordered some hot noodles. After the noodles session, I got a better sense of myself already though I’ve noticed that I became so loud at times when drank. My body was really ripping off tired. I felt falling though a little sober. After some talks the group decided to part ways and headed home. I felt I needed to get my things so MJ and I decided to go back to my office and get my things. MJ decided to just wait for me at the building’s entrance and so I went ahead on my own. I needed to pretend and look fine so the guards won’t reprimand me. I got my things and then we had a few minutes walk going to Sta. Lucia realty to take a public utility jeepney. After the ride we took a tricycle going each of our houses.

I was totally dead when I got home. I mean I can hear my body shaking a little bit of the tiredness I felt from the craze. Well I had fun though doing it and am very open to proposals of getting another Friday for a night out. I then washed my face and changed my clothes then sleep until I can regain the vigor I needed for another night out on a Saturday.