Yesterday was quite hectic for me. Started the morning going through some points with my boss to bring into the meeting in Bangi. Wait, let me start from the beginning. On Monday, I was busy doing some work in the server room, with a few vendors. I was in there almost the whole day. We managed to finish the installation and testing around 4.15 pm. Then I went to my boss' personal assistant's place, can't remember why. Anyway, she looked up at me and said, "You know about the meeting, right, in Bangi? Has the boss mentioned it to you?". Then I said, "What meeting?". She answered, "You are suppose to represent the boss for the meeting, because he has another meeting at the same time". I was like, what?! So, she gave me the minutes for me to go through. Then I went into my boss' room to ask him a bit about the meeting. It was the next morning when I went into my boss' room again to ask him about the things I was to present at the meeting.
So, in the morning, went into my boss' room. After that a vendor came and presented a product to be used with web applications. It was too good to be true. But Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Amazon.com are using it. So, what they said must be true. I was quite impressed. And so was my boss, I think, because he wanted to try out the box for a month. After the brief discussion, I went straight to Bangi. There, met up with an old friend of mine who's currently doing masters in UKM. We updated each other on our mutual friends. It was nice. Then, had to excused myself to go to the meeting.
The meeting was ok. I had to report on the status of my department's latest project. And the feedback was ok. After around 1 1/2 hours later, the meeting was adjourned. Luckily it was a short meeting. I prefer short concise meetings, rather than long irrevelant meetings with no end in sight. The meetings I chair, especially with vendors, would last less than an hour. Which is what I like. Hehehe.
Last night, my mum's friend came to our house to beraya along with her children, their respective spouses, and their respective children. It was really good to see them again after all this while. The last time we saw them was at the youngest daughter's wedding. One of my mum's friend's grandson approached me timidly, pointed to the piano, and said, "Excuse me, abang, can you play that instrument?". When I answered in the positive, he then said, "Can you play something for me?". I was quite taken aback by this polite little boy. I smiled and said, "Sure thing, but let's eat first", because I was setting the table when he approached me. But in my mind I told myself I wasn't going to play anything for him, beacuse I haven't played in ages, and I'm quite shy in front of this crowd.
After dinner, the boy asked me a bit more about piano mechanics. And I explained the best I could. Then suddenly, some of them said they wanted to hear me play. I declined politely saying that I haven't played in ages. But then one of them said something which really broke my defences. The person said, "Please play for someone who's pregnant". She was referring to herself, of course. I don't know why, but I was quite touched by that statement. So in the end, I played. And of course, I was terrible. But that didn't stop them from exclaming who wonderful I played. I just smiled politely. Like the brother of the pregnant person said, "Don't worry if you make a mistake, we wouldn't know the difference".
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