Of wearing a different hat....

I have a confession to make....

I never really worked my ass off as hard as I've worked since last Monday till Wednesday.

For the past 5 years, I have been lucky where I didn't need to put in a 100% in order to accomplish a task. Even working under the Beast was not as challenging and demanding as my current task.

What happened was that my boss and I are currently working on a mega project for the company. This project is really huge that they had made us signed a confidentiality undertaking agreement that is governed by the OSA.

The highlight of the project was suppose to be this week, where the supplier of the equipment for the project is visiting us all the way from the European country. Due to the complexity of the project, we had been anticipating the suppliers' visit and had arranged for all our consultants to meet in order to address all our major concerns and any other grey areas that we had encountered after going through the legal agreement. Hence, we have been brainstorming and had organised our thoughts in order to ensure that the suppliers' visit will enable us to proceed to the next stage of the project.

However, I had received a very troubled sms at 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning from my boss (the project director) saying that her mom had been admitted to the ICU due to cardiac arrest. Tuesday was suppose to be the big meeting day. And she was suppose to chair the meeting!!

That particular sms was the starting point of a series of hectic couple of days for me. I went from being the project team member to the deputy project director in a split second. I had to actually handle my own task PLUS my boss's tasks concurrently. And I can tell you that it is definitely not fun when you are being pulled in every single direction all at the same time.

On the bright side, I had managed to brushed up on my communication skill, especially when they made me chaired the meeting, where I was the only female (not to mention the youngest) in a room of 14 gentlemen. I would have never dreamed to be able to chair a meeting (for a multi-million ringgit project) at this stage of my life. So, pardon me if I am actually feeling a wee bit proud of myself right now... hehehe...

The only time when I got a little bit worried was when I had to take the guests out for dinner and lunch the next day. Being the only representative from the company meant that I was going to have to pay for the meals. It's not that I can't swipe my card in order to pay for the meals. It's just that I don't think that my card can sustain the huge damage that it is going to cause to cover the dinner @ Wasabi, Mandarin Oriental for 8 pax and the lunch @ Tamarind Springs for 12 pax. Luckily, I had managed to convinced Uncle Singh to join us on behalf of my boss and he had paid for everything. If not, I would not be able to go on my Bandung/Jakarta shopping spree soon.

I really hope that my boss's mom will recover soon. I don't think I can handle the pressure, where everyone is actually asking me for the green light to proceed with to the next stage. I don't think that I am ready to make such HUGE decision on my own without her guidance.



Belated Gong Xi Fa Chai to all my Chinese friends out there!




binx: i don't wanna grow up!