South of the border, West of the Sun

August 15, 2004 - 12.59am
"I'm sleepy. No, I don't mean the dwarf. I mean, I'm sleepy. Real sleepy. If you haven't guessed it already, I'm in the office at the moment. Work as usual. This evening, to prepare myself for tonight, I slept for almost an hour. That was at home. I was extremely tired today. And I don't know why. Well, lets recap, shall we. In the morning, we had a meeting which lasted until lunch time. But I was dragged away from the meeting to attend to a vendor trying to troubleshoot one of the servers in the server room. We did that till after one, then we proceeded to have lunch. After that, we continued till about almost three. Then, I continued with my normal office work. And at the same time trying to inform users and colleagues about tonight's exercise. "
- This was last week's entry, but since I didn't publish it then, I will publish it together with today's entry.

My brother gave me a book to read on Sunday. I finished it yesterday. It was brilliant. The book, South of the border, West of the Sun was written by none other than the great Haruki Murakami. The book is about a man... nuff said. Hehehe. Well, anyway, as I was reading the book, I can't help imagining the same scenario applying to me. I mean, I could actually put faces I knew on the characters. It was an odd feeling, thinking about that. Hmmm.... I think I might actually read it again.... and again... and again... hehehe...

After the meeting at Colmar Tropicale, I went to Amcorp Tower to attend an Oracle training. It was Fundamentals 2. I've gone through Oracle - Introduction to SQL, then Oracle - Fundamentals 1. Now I'm left with Oracle Performance Tuning. I find it interesting, actually. Oracle, I mean. This month has been quite hectic for me. Because, we have training every week. From morning till evening, then at night, I would go to the office to do some office work. In fact, last night, I was at the office till around 1am. After which I drove home, slept, then woke up a few hours later to attend the training I am undergoing now.

At this moment, I am currently in UKM, taking a crash course on Java with my colleagues. UKM, it does bring back memories. I bumped into some lecturers, and staff here. And some of them still remember me. And that's a nice feeling. To come back to the uni you've gone to a few years later, and still be remembered by the people there. :)