Last day of 2004

Events for the day

Well, the last day of the year, 31 Dec 2004, was quite uneventful. I had to go to Panasonic Tuas to catch up on our defects management status. The weekly project meeting was also quite ok, not too tense. Ban Leong did not attend because he was helping Bernard on the JPB proposal.

We also received the PO from GLS for the WebSphere Application Server. It was quite a tough negotiation, nevertheless, we also PO'ed to Azure for fulfillment. Apparently Azure decided to give us only60 days credit with post-dated cheque. This was because their margins were too thin to give us 90 days credit.

Irene spent the day with the kids because Jacobs had a holiday. Unfortunately, Comex and Panasonic worked whole day today. Irene and kids went to attend the family communion at church at around 4pm.

As for me, the team had our long check point meeting from 5.30pm till 7pm. After that I took a cab and rushed to our carecell dinner at Cindy's and Richard's. Along the way, it was also work, work, work. Had to call Hasri and Amin about the scaling down of the hardware configuration for the JPB project. Basically I had to reduce the database servers from V880 to V440 but with faster CPU.

The evening with the carecell was also quite normal. Almost everyone turned up ... except Alice Yeap. We shared our testimonies for 2004, after which Patrick went through the carecell prayer book and gave thanks to God for all the answered prayers. While some people attended watch night service, the Yeos went home tired. We really needed a rest.

About People

Veera had a call from Kutra. Kutra has finally decided to send his son to US to live with his sister-in-law. I guess this was best for all because he wasn't sure his parents or in-laws were able to look after his son. The funeral rites will be performed on 9 Jan, so I guess he will return to office sometime after that.

Closing Remarks

Well, that was an uneventful close of 2004. God bless everyone.