Monday, September 18, 2006 at 1:28 PM
the most hectic weekend
i had a really terrible and the most hectic and stressful weekend, for as long as i can remember.backtracking.. on thursday, i was late for work. to cover up, i went to toa payoh to make sure the set up for the bone scan activity was fine. i met up with keong for lunch at pastamania. after lunch, i took a cab back to the office.on friday.. i made another trip to toa payoh during lunch time. had my lunch before i went back to the office again. i had so much to do but so lil time. there are just too much for me to handle alone. while waiting for the promoters, who i tried to get to fill in the empty slots, i was busy editing, printing the documents and at the same time, preparing the collaterals to be send to our logistics people.the promoters came at 7+, i gave them a short training, taught them as detailed as i could remember. after they left, i was still struggling to get more people to fill in my remaining empty slots. i was the only one left in the office when my 2 colleagues left the office. i had actually called my boss to ask if he was coming back. i was too busy to get freak out when he said he wasnt coming back. 2 of my promoters came at 9+pm to get their pay. they accompanied me knowing that im all alone. one of my nurse also offered to call me after her shower when she heard over the line that i was alone in the office. its so warming. with all the help i could get, i was so glad i managed to get the people to work.together with my promoters, i left the office at 10+pm. i couldnt find my office keys so i went to my boss' office to search for an extra set. the only key i could get was the key to the glass door. i couldnt find the key to the main door. i thought it would be alright so i just close the main door. i went to join constance and wuyu at the coffeeshop. wuyu left shortly later while constance and i left at 12+am. i was so tired that i fell asleep in the living room.feeling dead, i woke up at 7am on saturday. left my place at 9am. got to the office and was disgusted to see shit.. and i meant real shit. apparently, some drunkard from the pub downstairs was so desperate to find a toilet and when he/she failed to, the beast just released it on the carpet within our office compound.i printed the checklist for the 4 bone scan activities. with the logistics guy, we went to our store. there was so many items that we were short of. i tried to call my boss. at first, his handphone was switched off. later, i got through but he refused to pick up. he probably wants me to handle it myself instead of depending on him. my client called at this very moment, with all the patience i have, i spoke to her politely and assured her that everything was fine, just that we were short of a sampling table. she started probing into the bone scans from tuesday to thursday and i got a tongue lashing from her. with all the pressure, stress coming to me and timing was running out, i broke down. i was helpless, i did all that i could to solve everything within my means and i had no more solutions. i msged my boss to call me. finally, he did. and by that time, he had heard everything from my client. he stepped in and got 2 more person to help. he knew i broke down when he saw my stoned face. i was travelling all around the entire time. and that was not it.i left my bag in my logistics guy's van together with my handphone. when i returned, i realised i had 54 missed calls, 19 messages. then i saw a msg that freaked me out totally. my client had msged me that she called 50 times and she was very pissed with me. i called my boss and he said my client was so angry, she cried. she refused to talk to me. that was it! because of my ineffiency, 4 more person had to get involved; my boss, val, 2 more of my boss' friends. now, my client refused to talk to me. i was really apologetic, i had never said so many sorries in a day. there was no excuses even though i was informed about the activities only on thursday night and the chances of getting manpower and logistics was already a challenge. i should have took the initiative to ask and follow up. val and i spent the rest of the day moving around, taking pictures and making sure everything goes smoothly. our boss came to pick us up at bukit merah. we had dinner at tampines mall before going to my client's place for a meeting.we sat at the void deck, heavy-hearted with our heads bending forward. she came down after a while, she looked weak and sickly, her eyes swollen, as if she had cried the whole day. her voice was quavering and she sounded like she was trying to hold back the tears while she talk. she didnt screamed, shouted or scolded us. she told me the important things that i have to take note and explained to us why we had to be punctual and the impact on the branding if we do not do a good job. then, she asked about the plans for the following day. the meeting ended at 11pm.sunday. i had plans to go to the office at 8.30am but i was too tired and my stomach wasnt feeling good. it hurt so bad last night when i showered, that i squat for awhile so the pain was more bearable. i took 2 pills and i thought it would be gone in the morning. i woke up at 9.30am. took a cab to bedok and met angela at 11.30am. we didnt had time for lunch so she bought some food to eat while walking at the same time. i had to make sure nothing goes wrong after all that has happened yesterday. i no longer feel the excitement to go for my lesson. my priority was on work. we took a cab to cdc. i had the worst lesson ever. lesson hadnt start and i dropped my bike when i tried to push it off the main stand. we practised the slope and i didnt do it correctly, not even once. at figure 8, i struggled to move up to gear 2 before the yellow line. my timing was far from passing.we went for lunch near my place. i spent the rest of the day doing nothing except playing games. at 7pm, very reluctantly, i left my place and took a cab to bukit merah. took the pictures i had to and left. keong gave me a lift home. on the way back, we went to 85 to get porridge, bak chor mee and desserts. havent had those in a long time.
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