Day 02: Late for work

28th May 2008

I underestimated the notorious Federal and LDP highway traffic congestion from my experience the previous day. Bad move. Left home at 0800 only to discover that the congestion can had a turn for the worse. The highway was so packed that I could have reached my workplace faster by walking backwards and blindfolded guided by a walking stick. A split second decision, I turned into Subang to take the NPE leading to LDP. Worst decision of my life. The traffic was just as bad. All hell was set loose when i discovered they blocked the road and an illegal turn was a no go zone with three traffic policemen on standby. Desperate, I decided to take an all or nothing gamble; make a U-turn which will burn probably an hour or use some random road I have never used or seen in my life. I had ten minutes before working hour starts. . .

I went for the road not taken holding on to my recent principle; 'All roads lead somewhere. . .'. Arrived thirteen minutes later. . . three minutes late.

• Look into Amin Rafie Project

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Amin Rafie Project

Took over all projects from Mr. Azman. Got straight to work on the Amin Rafie Project which will need me to handle cross section drawings and specifications. Workload was bearable once I browse through the plan and elevation drawings. However, things started to get tedious once I noticed several inconsistency between the plans and elevations; measurements were off and labels were wrong. The task then dragged on and on and on. Two hours before it was time to check out, Mr. Amir kindly told me that the formatting was wrong. Apparently, the previous architect did not follow the firm's standard format much to my horror. I had to redo what has been done. After the cross section and specifications were done I handed them over to Mr. Amir for inspection. He will go through on what I need to improve on tomorrow.

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The whole task on the Amin Rafie Project lasted throughout the whole day. During the course of which, Mr. Azhar came up to me to see how I was doing. He told me he wouldn't be around much because he would have to go out for a meeting. On the project I was doing, he told me he would want to show a 3D model of the building to the client instead of just drawings. I told him I could sketch up the building after I am done with the cross section and specifications. Hope that will be soon, 2D drawings are getting boring.

Soon Mr. Azhar left. A few hours later, Ms. Azlia came over to my booth and told me to stop working and relax. I returned a smile and said I just needed to get this done with. Lunch was interesting as my colleagues had a conversation about stone-age architects. The day ended with me staring at the screen almost the whole day I spent in the office.

PS: I took over Mr. Azman's booth, stationaries, files, computer, notes, books, works and. . . rubbish (not a very tidy person )

End of Day 02