Royce chocolate to kick off

MK brought a box of Royce chocolate to bribe his 2 new inexperience manager. Despite being present in office, he set his email to out of office. So for the first time i had to go into the defect meeting alone. The Royce chocolate was chocking in me.

MK followed me into the defect meeting. CY from IL was there. Like me, he's a first timer to attend such meetings without MK. With the quiet exsitence of MK, we dialed in to the conference call and Mic was already in the conference. We introduced ourselves and he wasn't too happy cos MK and Ad from OP wasn't around. Maybe innocent is really a blessing. We had a chicken and duck talk. Soon after the meeting, he called me and wanted some information that was already send out previosly in the morning. He kind of raised his voice saying that the information wasn't send out this. Good thing i had the email opened and as he was scolding etc. I told him to turn to that section. And there it was, the information that he required. Pain in the ass.

He requested support for today's SIT testing. So i agreed. However, the support was to drop the application in case JMS goes down. So i forcefully asked him to provide the request no. before the end of the day in SG time. But i guessed he told the drop coordinator to do it for him cos he needs to go drinking. Ha ha..anyway. MK said that he will go back to help me do the drop. So nice of him.

So that's my first time experiencing heat.

The Journey Begins

When opportunity knocks, it knock once only. Either grab it or it's gone. So i grab the opportunity. Accepting this opportunity will mean endless day and nights. There's a list of things in my wish list waiting to be tried with regards to my career. Merely one year into this job, i started off doing system testing, moving on the BAUs (Business as Usual) config. I requested to move into the CR team. So i got my request and worked under a super inexperience coordinator. I didn't like her style so i gave my best attitude ever.

I moved out of her team soon after and went into this release - Release 4.2. Big release i will say. MK is the coordinator for this release and i assisted in the config area as i have been liasing with the config team across the ocean. The team size of 4 was tough. We had only 2 weeks of build time. I'm impress by myself to pick up so much knowledge of the system during this time. But i'm still at not up on the mountain top yet. Still a long time to go.

So, another release is coming up and MK has to go over for the F&D phase. Leaving Cin and me as the more experience ones. However, Cin contract is soon ending and i guess if she's signing, she will move on to the next release to do IA or F&D as the phase is huge. Thus, leaving me as the most experience. So the opp knocks and i accepted the challenge - to be the coordinator of SIT/UAT/PT.

Role - Something which i will want to try. Lots of management work to do. Preparing implementation plans, coordinate testing, going through the list of defects by the dedicated testing team. Assigning out the defects to my repective team mates. Writing performance test script to be loaded in mercury. But i guess the toughest part is to gain respect and well like by my team mates.

I forsee myself working extremely late. But i want to use this chance to prove myself and as well challange myself in this new role. I'm slowing moving. I'm glad that after this try, more of my wish list will come true. However, each item on my wish list has a price to pay. For the past few months, i was so busy. I neglected my friends and most impt my little boy.