the life and times of jason phoon

Let me tell you about my day.

I came to the office and it stinked of crap. My boss gave me a look and then looked towards the aquarium. The water was murky and I could see some stuff floating. Shit, I forgot to turn on the water filter yesterday! You see, I wanted to feed the fishes, but the food was pushed around the water by the flow from the filter, so I turned off the filter temporarily. Okay, so it wasn’t so temporary.

One of the fishes was swimming sideways and one terrapin was floating in the water. It wasn’t long before the little fish stopped swimming. Due to my carelessness, I’ve killed them both.

I thought it was a little too much trouble, having project deadlines and all. So it put them in a little box and threw them in the dustbin. That left me with a bad feeling for about an hour or so, but I soon got over it. You see, you kinda get used to these things when you’ve had 3 terrapins die already. The first one that died, I contemplated a burial, the second one we suggested a cremation. In the end, we just couldn’t be arsed, so the dustbins it. For the third one that died, we even joked about playing golf with it, much to the dismay of others in the office.

But anyways, I spent the next half an hour changing the water in the aquarium. After that, my day was a blur of endless emergencies that I had to deal with as a project manager. My basic job description is that I take all this crap from the clients (or the boss), and then funnel (delegate) them to the programmer or designer. That’s the basic idea anyways, but it is much more chaotic than that. I’m also a programmer, which makes my life doubly hard, but hey, its always chaotic in a startup company right ?

Later on in the day, things slowed down a little. I thought I could relax a little, but then a new emergency came up. One of our clients old websites was hacked by some porn script. I’ve seen this kinda hack before, as my blog was once a victim to this crap. Fortunately, the content of the website was left intact, and not filled with porn and all. Then the doorbell rang:

Oh look! An interview. This time its for my friend, who might be our potential copywriter. Anyways, this wasn’t an interview per se, because I didn’t talk much. I don’t know, conflict of interest, I suppose? I let my boss do the talking for this interview, and it went pretty well. Would be cool to get her in, then I don’t have to chase my boss for content all the time.

Anyways, back to the hacked website thingie. I just restored the backup and the website was fixed! Jason saves the day!

Went for a swim in the gym to keep fit and sane, but then they told me I haven’t paid this month. Stupid auto-pay wasn’t working, and then I tried to swipe my card but it doesn’t work as well. Stupid Maybank debit card. URGH.

Went home, cooked some instant noodles for dinner, and then my brother thrashed me in Street Fighter IV. Also trying to catch up on my backlog of Time magazines (they’re arriving faster than I can read them)

My life is great.