Working On A Sunday!

What an absolutely mad week it's been for me. This is the first time in god knows how long that I actually haven't checked my blog for 3 whole days. For me that's like a miracle! I actually had to work today, a Saturday, can you believe that? And you wanna know what's even more worse? I have to work tomorrow too.

I'm totally exhausted from all the running around from one end of the world to the other and any sane person would be in bed right now sleeping blissfully but I just couldn't ignore my blog any longer. I haven't even gotten round to answering my comments from my previous post yet and I don't like leaving comments unanswered for more than a day.

Ever since I started blogging, I've always answered each and every one of my comments (I've even answered spam comments ... LOL!). My policy is, if you took the time and trouble to leave me a comment, I'll take the time and trouble to reply. And hence I feel bad for not replying some of your comments until today. I'll get around to it right after this post :D And worse yet, I haven't even blog hopped in days! I'm sure some of you have probably even discovered some new technological breakthrough or something ... hehehe ...

The thing is I knew this was going to be a pretty busy week but I didn't expect it to be a horrendously busy week with everyone wanting all their things done at the same time. Sometimes I wonder if these clients think that we only handle their account and no one else's.

We don't really have many accounts with us. We have a couple of anchor clients and we're pretty happy with the workload they give. Normally we don't get jobs or projects that clashes with each other. But this week alone, both our main anchor clients, a financial institution and a government ministry decided that they need things done and insist on seeing me at the exact same time!

The worse thing is my work is done yet. Like I said, I have to work tomorrow and I have to be in Putrajaya, our administrative capital to install and modify some stuff for a gallery we did for them that is going to be the centre of attraction for their event on Monday. And the best part is I wasn't even informed by them that the event was on Monday. I was only aware of it on Wednesday and even then they couldn't give me the information I needed to get their work done for them.

Me: 'You mean the event this Monday, ah?'

Client: 'Ya, you know la, always last minute.'

Me: 'But today is Wednesday and I don't have info from you to get things done!'

Client: 'When is your cutoff time to get info from us?'

Me: 'Urrmm, by 5pm today!'

Client: 'Ok, I email to you tomorrow.'

Me: 'Urmmm, no, no, must be by 5pm today.'

Client: 'Ok, tomorrow first thing in the morning I email to you.'

Me: 'No, no, today! As in by 5pm. TODAY!'

Client: 'Ok, ok, by tonight I email to you.'

That was when I wanted to strangle them. I wanted to ask him which part of 5pm today didn't he understand! God, clients can be so daft and irritating at times and I think I pamper them just a wee bit too much sometimes. They actually only gave me the info on Friday and that is why I had to work today and tomorrow, a SUNDAY, just to struggle to get their stuff ready.

I still have loads and loads and loads of work still waiting for me in the office next week and the week hasn't even started ... sigghhhhhh ... I really, really could do with a lot more help. I'm getting too old for this already. I should just sit in the office and let someone else do all the running around but I'm a hands-on kinda person and besides I don't really have anyone else to help me out. So, I'll just have to suffer until then.

I'm really drained and can hardly keep my eyes open. My back hurts from all the work I did today and like I said earlier, I should be in bed. But the pull was too strong. Wifey is fast asleep already. She's been a little under the weather and we actually decided to sleep early today. We even gave Grey's Anatomy a miss and came up to sleep at 9.30 pm. Yes, it kinda early I know, but we were both tired. But the moment I stepped into the room I heard my PC calling out,

'Nicholassssss, Nicholassssss, you've been neglecting meeeee ...'

And I just had to log on and see what's happening around the blogsphere. I guess the sleep can wait for just a few minutes more ... LOL! I've also got a couple of assignments that was on the verge of expiring and I just couldn't let good money go down the drain now could I? Besides how hard could it be to write about farmhouse sinks? Damned hard I would say ... LOL! Ok, I think I should head to bed already. I'm beginning to write utter nonsense.

Hope you guys are having a way better weekend than I am and I'll drop by your blogs tomorrow, k? I'm just too drained out to blog hop tonight. I'd probably fall asleep at the keyboard soon. I'm going to hit the hay and dream of lazing around by the beach sipping some iced cool lemonade surrounded by a horde of bikini clad women or something (ok honey, maybe no bikini clad women ... LOL!). Happy weekend folks :D
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