I had stuffed myself with work for the past few weeks and this explain why the blog is so outdated. Well, the project that I was undertaking between my last blog entry and now is implementing a new Customer Management System (CRM) which my company has gotten it off the shelves.
The product came with 15 days trial but it was not enough to test all the features. Our first customer was dated back about 8 years ago and the total number of customer has increased few folds.
Migrating the information and customization from the old system which was built in house is really NOT as easy task. The project started around November '09 and it is still not yet completed as of now. As we are changing over to an off the shelves software, there are limitations on the software and we need to change some of our work procedure to adapt to the new system. The new software incorporate the billing system and this add the stress on the data migration as it involved money. Any error during the data migration might cause the company to lose money, annoy the client by sending repeated invalid payment reminder, client miss the invoice hence causes the product to expire. In short, a minor mistake on the billing system migration might lead to a FUBAR situation.
Anyway, the implementation task is about 90% complete and there are still a bit of customization need to be carried out before I could sign off the job.
Ohh yea, I'm on holiday now and typing this blog entry on board Airbus A330 (2nd biggest plane in AirAsia fleet after A340 which they fly to London). It is a 5 hours journey and I have nothing to do except sitting duck over here. The destination that I am heading to now is Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan. The journey was rocky due to bad weather and one of my mate threw up just before the plane landed (the turbulence was really bad). We could not even see the ground from the aisle of the plane until it reaches a very low altitude (<500m).>
We have not planned anything much except the airport shuttle service to our hotel. It would be a free and easy cum backpacking trip (I just got a new backpack). It is winter over in Taiwan now and the temperature ranges from 13-20 degree celcius. Honestly, I am not prepared for the weather as I only brought a thin cotton jacket along only. Hopefully the jacket which is my best buddy during my Data Center operation could warm me up later. The average temperature in the Data Center is around 18 degree celcius and the jacket could warm me up nicely. Hopefully it can do the same job at 13 degree celcius.
This holiday might not be the best as my mind is still at work now. We have just gotten few medium size business deals and I am on holiday now :( I should be in the office coordinating the job and deliver the results to the client. I should not be worried that much as I have a team of capable colleagues to handle the job. It would be nice if the client could confirm on the deal earlier or later but not when I'm on holiday.
