2 Weeks in Living Hell

2 weeks in living hell, a metaphor i used on the dead line i have to complete a conversion project from a USD400K worth of ATE machine to a 10-years-ago ATE machine worth less than half the initial one. Perhaps i have to make it clear that usually a project fits very well into a time frame of 6 to 8 weeks. And now all 8 weeks worth of workload cramped into 2. That is what i meant.

But i have to give credit to my boss because without him, i WILL still be in the office now. If not because of him, i WILL still be stucked with the same stupid problem i had from last week. If not because of him, i WILL not be in living hell for 2 weeks, but maybe longer than that. Although i hate him most of the time, this is the very few moment that i have to thank him, and feel very grateful that he is around.

It's Thursday already, i'm still not quite done, and i'm still making changes to the schematic at this point, changing resources i want to use on the device pins. That is not a good thing, because that only means i have not finalize my hardware design, and the PCB layout is not done too. Tomorrow is my deadline, and i will need to answer to the higher management & the sales team on the outcome. Apart from that, i've not tested out the dual site program yet. Although the dual site program is simply a duplication of the single site program using different tester resources, but still with this device, i don't think it is going to give it to me easy.

That's almost all about my work in brief. i don't like to talk about work after working hour or when i'm not in the office.

Today is pay-day. Thank goodness. I've been negative RM500++ for the past month, thanks to Australian index fund & repairing my car air-conditioning system. So this month i'm starting the month with the amount of my pay less income tax & EPF less car loan, insurance, last month's over-expenditure less road tax & car insurance less giving parents pocket money less streamyx bill less maxis bill less petrol less credit card debt.......

Voila, i'm almost zero before a week of the new month has arrived.