The month of June was pretty flat
as in there wasn't any
super dupery mad rush
Things are getting more stable
I am used to waking up at 6
so that I can get off by 6
to go for my daily evening jog
I mean a walk / grocery /
pharmacy shopping session
well who else are like me
taking a walk in a
shopping district cum tourist attraction
within 100m there you are
you accidentally pick up an ice cream
on your way back
It's like so frequent that
I avoid going to that
(One and only) shopping on a weekend
because I have been there like almost
every single day during weekdays
not to mention
occasional weekday's brunch
at the same area too
and dropping by Cotton On
after the brunch
Having drafted the above for June
back on Monday
never expect the month to
take such a drastic turn
Wednesday was a public holiday
as a matter of fact
i am used to working on such day
yet it was an exceptionally busy one
juggling among a few projects
from really small quantity to large
and i was down with
fever and sore throat
towards late afternoon
when i thought I could finally
take a nap as work progress was
actually quite manage-able by then
got an email for a back-up task
had previously got head up and
agreed to take this up
but i never expect it to be
as complicated and as many emails
back-up in the sense that
the office which usually assigns task
was closed during the holiday
so i was supposed to deal with
another segment of the chain
i.e. getting quite a few emails
and not really knowing about
obtaining and delivering the files
it was very time consuming
given the other few pending deadlines
extremely draining
given the fever / sore throat / etc
to make matter worst
my home internet was down after 7PM
so i submitted one of my main work
via hotpot connection and
got done with it thinking that
the long day was finally over
in fact i started at 4 AM
i vomited having tried to
have something for dinner
off to bed and got another email
from the other side, the one
which was giving me some issues that
they actually didn’t get any files
the one i uploaded
i made another attempt
my home connection was still down
after two hours
and this time round
hotspot was suddenly not working
and i was actually feeling cold
literally covered in blanket
the option of heading to a cafe was
definitely out
but they were waiting for my files
so i was dragged out of bed
and walked out in the rain
borrowing Wi-Fi from a hotel lobby
to send the files over
thought that was it
a bad day was finally over
the week wrapped up
not good neither
got email from client
about quality issue
“taking off sentence or phrase”
was one of a requests in the comment
i doubt i can work further as
several jobs down the road
the same “paraphrasing” issue
was mentioned and emphasized
felt down not really because of
the potential loss in business but
was quite a nice friend back then
and the worst case of the week
it struck towards the end of the week
5 something in the evening
i was helping my mom with pastry
hands were occupied and
phone was away from the table
when i checked my phone
around 6 PM
i actually missed an email
which came in at 5:44
and saw it 2 hours later
along with another email which came in
280 USD flew out of the window
for a task of non-rushing deadline and
non-complicated content as
it was already assigned to someone else
and it actually sheds a
really bad image of
not replying to emails on time
deadlines juggling is fine
working on a public holiday is fine
fever + sore throat
handling loads emails for a single task
sudden Wi-Fi + mobile connection failure
helpless negative feedback
and best of all
wrapping it up with
missing an extremely important email
i have been extremely careful with email
succumbing to turning on data
even if I go for my evening jog
and i actually missed the email when
i was actually at home!!