Friday, August 20, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
TODAY.... INSIGNIFICANT, SO SHUT UP!!!
Before I can even start writing anything here, there is already this loud "SHUT UP!!! NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TODAY" ringing in my ears. Yes, today is 12 Aug 2010, the most insignificant day in my life............ and I will shut up after next three paragraphs.
So, it is not about today. It is about yesterday...... 11 Aug 2010, also known as 1 Ramadan 1431. It was the first day of 30-days fasting for the Muslims. Fasting is very significant event in the UAE. Employers are told to give the workers only 6 hours per day work instead of the normal of 8 hours per day. Yet, when I went rounding my site at 10.00am yesterday, I found only 3 workers working on site. There were supposed to be more than 40 workers on site, so where were the rest? This was only the first day of fasting month, and was I supposed to shut up? Was it not significant?
Yea, it is not today. It is the next 142 days. Why? Because today is the 858th day I am in UAE and 142 days later, I will be 1000 days in UAE. Wow!!! Don't know what to say...... Not in my wildest imagination as I embarked into my first flight on 7 Apr 2008, that I will see my 1000th day here. I was told the project period was 10 months. At the very most, it will take up to a year. Yet it is only 142 days away to the 1000th day. Well, maybe I will not hit 1000th day as the work needs not more than 100 days to complete. But then in UAE, almost all projects are slow and nobody actually really knows. And it really doesn't matter right now whether it is 900 days or 1000 days as it is way too far from initial expectation. The good questions suddenly emerge in my mind : Who is to be blamed for this delay? The workers? The weather? The system? Or could it be me? Maybe, I should just shut up.
One more day, which is also not today. It is very easy to guess. It is tomorrow, 13 Aug 2010. No reward for correct guessing. It is my birthday, my 45th birthday. So Happy Birthday to me....... shut up lah. Happy 45th Birthday....... SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
So, it is not about today. It is about yesterday...... 11 Aug 2010, also known as 1 Ramadan 1431. It was the first day of 30-days fasting for the Muslims. Fasting is very significant event in the UAE. Employers are told to give the workers only 6 hours per day work instead of the normal of 8 hours per day. Yet, when I went rounding my site at 10.00am yesterday, I found only 3 workers working on site. There were supposed to be more than 40 workers on site, so where were the rest? This was only the first day of fasting month, and was I supposed to shut up? Was it not significant?
Yea, it is not today. It is the next 142 days. Why? Because today is the 858th day I am in UAE and 142 days later, I will be 1000 days in UAE. Wow!!! Don't know what to say...... Not in my wildest imagination as I embarked into my first flight on 7 Apr 2008, that I will see my 1000th day here. I was told the project period was 10 months. At the very most, it will take up to a year. Yet it is only 142 days away to the 1000th day. Well, maybe I will not hit 1000th day as the work needs not more than 100 days to complete. But then in UAE, almost all projects are slow and nobody actually really knows. And it really doesn't matter right now whether it is 900 days or 1000 days as it is way too far from initial expectation. The good questions suddenly emerge in my mind : Who is to be blamed for this delay? The workers? The weather? The system? Or could it be me? Maybe, I should just shut up.
One more day, which is also not today. It is very easy to guess. It is tomorrow, 13 Aug 2010. No reward for correct guessing. It is my birthday, my 45th birthday. So Happy Birthday to me....... shut up lah. Happy 45th Birthday....... SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
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