as we stand in youth by the starry stream.
But a greater thing is to fight life through,
and say at the end the dream is true."
I was in department so large i would have taken 5 minutes to walk around it. But yet it was empty at the same time, many seats unoccupied, which seemed foreign to me as I was used to seeing each seats occupied at Turf Club. That was how it all began. In the morning, Joyce Tan passed me a lousy Toshiba Laptop and in the afternoon i was off to MND with William, Miranda and Geok Hwee. I found myself trying to understand the Leave requirement studies and at the same time trying to figure how the day will end. That day i left MND at about 10pm, after having helped William (Ng) fixing some diagrams on the Functional Specs. It was a tremendous change for me compared to Turf Club where i read Manuals after manuals for a few days straight.
A few days later i had my own team. I have Leonard (Leong) as my team lead and Ben Hoh as my teammate. In the beginning i felt good in the team because everything was new and both men seemed good to work with (individually). Later down the road, the 2 of them didnt quite meet eye to eye either with work or the attitude towards life in general. Leonard was more practical while Ben always tries to make complex things look simple.
Later on we had another teammate called Fritz, who is a mild mannered gentleman who later got bullied when he went to another team.
After the original team was 'disbanded', I went to the team of a few quite brilliant teammates and TL. I had the honour of working with Davinder. He showed me qualities that he had and i knew that he is destined for greater things in life (and yes he has left for his MBA). At the same time, i had my TL called CJ. He is one of the best TL i think anyone could have. There is a chinese saying that a mountain could not hold 2 tigers. Internally both could also not see eye to eye and ultimately they were 'separated'. My team mate was Boon Guan whom he passed the Exit module to me at that time.
The toughest days in this team was probably a week or 2 before roll-out, which CJ and I had some sticks from the user regarding the Security Authorisation templates. There are many discrepancies. The positive out of this was that CJ and I worked hard at night and on weekends to resolve these issues.
Then PM2S went Live. I remembered the inauguration day where we were at MND, but we could not touch the food until the VIPS and Users have started. I felt rather disgusted but then afterall they are responsible for our Bonus, what to do? *sighz*.
What followed was so-called 'war-room' support, in which some of us are stationed at MND to answer problems associated with the system. It was quite fun to me, having colleague sitting all around the table and busy with each of our work.
Finally the Application Support team was chosen. It began with 6 with GArry Ng as the PM. But soon enough it was apparent that the 6-men team with a new manager to PM2S is not going to keep the project alive. Even though the REAL reason of Garry leaving may never be known to us 'members', given the limited manpower and time to adapt to the monster size pm2s, either he had to go or asked to go. I would rather it was the first reason. But who planned the 6 man team in the first place i ponder. The bottom line for me is that he makes a good PM, at least for the members as he could click with us and still stayed in touch till today.
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