In office, working...

Came back to office around 0330hrs, yet again another schedule maintenance work which can be done from remote access, but was told to be back in office anyway.

The other SA who was supposed to come back, couldn't, because he stays "over the other side of the bridge", so not convenient for him to come over at this hour. I really don't know how this thing is going to work out, by hook or by crook, he's will have to come back next time. I can't be always the one, I have helped him enough, taught him heaps of things, hopefully he will appreciate, and reciprocates.

Maybe 2 more hours to go, after that I can go home, back to my bed. Good.

What you wear shows how refined you are

People in this city just don't think wearing appropriate is important. Yes, it's warm and humid here, but wearing well at the right occasion, location and situation is important, it shows how mannered and refined you are. Come on, this is not a 3rd world city! Wearing slippers, flipflops and shorts for all occasions are just too "casual" and out of place.

The thing about wearing is that it doesn't just give you an opportunity to show off your new fashion wear, but also to show respect for others around you. For example, if in a business meeting, you are late, and came walking in with flipflops sandals, well, this is just not right. And yes, there are people who does that.

Busy again

I'm currently working on the "big" project. Our team of system admins have been working very hard, together with the vendors to setup the servers since they were delivered last week. We had been given a tight deadline to finish up with the setup by yesterday, and hand it over to the middleware and application teams to install and configure their applications, today.

Well, we still had some teething issues this morning, more about the network connectivities and servers boot up problems, so the handover was delayed.

The Solaris servers were using ZFS for OS, this is quite new to us, we have to learn it. It's going to be some tough learning experience, esp. for the junior system admins, but it's going to be worth it, I know, because I had went through it before.