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Finally. After exactly a full week of hard work, one part of the big project I am currently working on is reaching the end point.

Started from last Monday, the team which consists of me, my colleague – Hendry and the Boss himself, began our work to build the Agency Information File (AIF) management system, which system is similar to Multi-level Marketing, though AIF is more focused on Insurance business.

There are five main processes on this system, which are Registration (including for new agent, registry-process, agent-training and agent-benefits), Transactions (promote, demote, movement and termination), GWP and Fee Amount Processing, Inquiry and Reports.

Now here’s the thing. I and my colleague are still new to Visual Studio 2008. With such limited time, the Boss figured we needed to split the tasks. I got to make the Registration part and Hendry got the Transactions one. Meanwhile the Boss got the GWP and Fee Amount Processing part.

To be honest, for an instant time I felt kind of mad with my Boss. Because we had the schedule way before and yet, one week before the deadline we just started to build the application. Rushing is never good and it’s none of his fault, I know. Lots of clients just kept asking and asking him for “help” or some kind of “program-enhancements”, whose requests are very ridicilious most of the time.

For example : one of the clients asked my boss to rebuild the upload utility system, because the current one was too slow in verifying and processing the Excel data in a bulk number. My Boss agreed on it and it was supposed to be a six-months long project. But the client’s IT-director couldn’t (or wouldn’t) accept the “six-months”.

She asked it to be done by one week. Seven days. Did I mention about the part of the clients being so ridicilous?

Anyhow, in the end it was done within over than just seven days. See? From the very beginning, it was supposed to be a long-term project. A project which needs lots of testing and error-checking. The Boss knew it and like I said, it wasn’t really his fault, since he couldn’t let his employees handled the job by themselves. The truth is – it’s a long story, which will end to a fact that the company’s dependency to the Boss is very high. This is not good, I know. Even him told us so. That’s why I have been working so hard – so that someday I am able to become his personal right hand.

I couldn’t blame it on the others too, especially the ones who are still new to the company. They only have been working here for three months. Back then on my first three months, I barely could do of what they do now.

But what’s done is done. We started to build the AIF management system and it wasn’t any easy for either me or Hendry. We have been working overtime everyday starting that Monday, which also means last Wednesday, the day of the election, I also went to the office.

Surprisingly, I didn’t feel a bit of any kind of bad-moods-you-can-name-of. I really enjoyed myself working for this week. Really. Last Friday, I got myself home at midnight. Then I ate my late dinner, showered and continued to work again ‘till two in the morning. Seven hours later, I woke up, showered and went to the office and worked until six in the evening.

All I wanted to say, the hard work pays off well. Not just for the new knowledge I just obtained, but also the relationship itself between us, CARE’s employees and the Boss. I never thought of him sitting down on my chair and debugging on my laptop, to help me find out what’s wrong with the project I was building. I was flattered. Happy with the support he’d shown.

Anyways, I continued working on it until five in the morning last night and gave the final touch to the application just this noon. One final retouch on Hendry’s part (which is currently being tested and checked), and it will be all done. We are ready for the presentation on next Wednesday. There’s only one thing to do – to make a documentation and a powerpoint file for the presentation so everything will go smoother.

The fact that this project is currently the most important under-going project, made my Boss made a decision to put a new employee to our division. She is no new to the company. In fact, she have been working here for more than a year, only at different division. The thing is, that division has an application based on .NET and she was one of two employees on that division. In short, she has a lot of experience and knowledge of building applications with ASP .NET.

I was very excited to hear the news from him. Her attendance on the team will not just make everything easier, but also smoother and (hopefully) faster.

Asides from my current project – last Friday, I trapped myself inside the toilet after the door somehow locked itself up. For twentyish minutes, I was trapped. The funny thing is – the one who first noticed I was inside, was the Boss. After that, my colleagues came to the rescue. They tried to do their own Macgyver-thing, but failed. So they did the last resort – they broke the door down. Sadly, I forgot to bring my mobile phone with me, otherwise I’d take a video of it.

My Mom finally came back from her two-weeks tour to Middle-East Europe and brought me a Bacardi White and an Austrian white wine. I was so glad she’d finally came back, because when she’s not around, the foods are horrible. The moment I noticed her out from the immigration, I ran towards her and kissed her on the cheek. Despite of her temper, she’s still a female. And all-female love affections. She visited one of the places I badly want to visit – Prague. I saw the beauty of old architectures of Prague from her photos. Someday, someday I will make it. I will travel to Prague – not just Prague, but all-around Europe and the other continents.

That is all main events happened for the week (that I remember). Tomorrow is another new week and I will be ready for the upcoming events, especially the presentation.