A day in the shoes of Chern

March 9th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Life, Photography

@ 2006-03-09 13:52

8:30 Woken by the buzzing of the Nokia phone. It never stops.
9:16 Struggle down form the loft and into the washroom. Brush teeth and wash face in a rash. Time is late will be late. We are going to meet the clients so I wear my suit on the put my leather shoes on. Look into the mirror, handsome guy!
9:40 Already too late for office, even the company adopts flexible schedule flexible work hours. So take a taxi to office.

9:45 Arrive at the office building. A line of clocks on the wall of the hall displays different times of the world. Take lift to floor 7. Forget to bring the employee card. So break into the electronic door electronic door by force. Say hello to colleagues. Too late and embarrassed. Check the inbox – a blur of company announcements and Google alerts, among then a good joke on Women’s day: every day is men’s day except women’s day. Also a letter from the boss sits opposite, asks me to revise the proposal and contract according to the client’s comments.

10:00 Busy in a mess to get the work done by 11:30, since we are going to leave for another client then. Field a stream of calls to QC dept. to clarify some questions.

11:30 Work has just completed, but quality is not guaranteed. Boss is still busy preparing docs for the client we’re going to meet, have no time to dinner. So, I go to the cafeteria down the building and bring up two bento.

12:00 Launch finished. Pile of docs to be print out. In a hurry again.

12:30 The client is far at Anting, the auto city. But we have just come out of the building. Get a taxi and head off to Anting for the meeting. The heads of their other dept. will be also present. We are plan to nail many thing done. The go-ahead is to conduct according to the nailed decisions.

13:00 Anting, a desolated place. Even the birds don’t want to dwell Finally get to the client’s factory. Meet them and discussion begin.

18:00 Meeting ends and most of things are decided, a recap is going to summary the meeting. It’s hard to find a taxi at such a deserted place at such a time. But we see one hundreds meters away. Take it back to home and pays 70yuan more than I paid when come here! Seems be cheated.

19:40 Arrive at home. Help Urecca cook supper: curry chicken + vegetable + rice + a slide of pizza left yesterday.

22:30 Begin work on the recap.

23:00 Finish recap and begin blogging.