Welcome one, welcome all! Sautern Enterprise has successfully completed its first assignment for at a property auctioning event this morning!
What are we doing now to celebrate our success? Well, Tommy and Chong Yang are asleep right now while I am updating this blog.
The reason for their impromptu siesta is due to the little known fact by anyone outside of the triumvirate that both of them only slept for two hours yesterday (technically it was 0600 hours today) trying to weed out all the bugs and complete our company's auctioning presentation program. Yup, both of them stayed up all through the morning while I enjoyed a good 6 hour rest... How unfair is that?
Seriously, I really do feel like I contribute the least of all out of the triumvirs.
Which is why I am updating this blog today, I suppose.
Anyway this was how I started the day:
I woke up at six and made my way to the company headquarters - Tommy's home. By coincidence, his mom was sending his sister to school so I walked right through the opening vacated by the gate. Unfortunately, the inner sanctum of the fortress was locked, so I stood there by the door giving embarrassing looks to Mrs Ooi and Miss Ooi until the latter summoned the maid to open the door.
I made my way to the hall outside Tommy's room and proceeded to alert him of my presence - by phone. What I said was: "Hello Tommy, I am at your door."
He however thought I was at the door outside his home, not his room - which he explained later.
After some time, we decided it was time to awaken Chong Yang too, fifteen minutes before our assignment begins at 9 a.m.
Here's the lowdown on what happened.
As soon as we got there, Chong Yang proceeded to weed out more bugs using the laptop. Attached the sound system the hotel staff kindly provided, and assigned our posts of the day.
Acquiring the Native American name:
The-One-Who Did-Not-Join-The-Other-Two-In-Working-All-Night-Long,
I self appointed myself to the post of soundman while the other two manned the laptop, hence, the auctioning program.
There I spent all morning, balancing out the background music with the auctioneer's microphone... Occasionally walking close to the auctioneer to remind him to state the bidder number as our program requires a bidder number to display the sold message - as the auctioneer requested.
After the long-drawn event, we printed a few hundred reports that were to be given to the auctioneers and bankers. We then tucked into a sumptuous lunch paid for by Mrs Ooi at a not so nearby restaurant.
Before you know it - Presto! We are back at headquarters.
All in all, it was a good day for us as nobody in Penang had ever used a dedicated auctioning software before. Naturally, we hope the Malaysian kiasu attitude among other auctioneers will surface soon...
UPDATE: I wish to apologize for leaving out the name of the hotel we went to, which was Cititel Hotel. Any misunderstanding as a result of this lapse in concentration is deeply regretted.
What are we doing now to celebrate our success? Well, Tommy and Chong Yang are asleep right now while I am updating this blog.
The reason for their impromptu siesta is due to the little known fact by anyone outside of the triumvirate that both of them only slept for two hours yesterday (technically it was 0600 hours today) trying to weed out all the bugs and complete our company's auctioning presentation program. Yup, both of them stayed up all through the morning while I enjoyed a good 6 hour rest... How unfair is that?
Seriously, I really do feel like I contribute the least of all out of the triumvirs.
Which is why I am updating this blog today, I suppose.
Anyway this was how I started the day:
I woke up at six and made my way to the company headquarters - Tommy's home. By coincidence, his mom was sending his sister to school so I walked right through the opening vacated by the gate. Unfortunately, the inner sanctum of the fortress was locked, so I stood there by the door giving embarrassing looks to Mrs Ooi and Miss Ooi until the latter summoned the maid to open the door.
I made my way to the hall outside Tommy's room and proceeded to alert him of my presence - by phone. What I said was: "Hello Tommy, I am at your door."
He however thought I was at the door outside his home, not his room - which he explained later.
After some time, we decided it was time to awaken Chong Yang too, fifteen minutes before our assignment begins at 9 a.m.
Here's the lowdown on what happened.
As soon as we got there, Chong Yang proceeded to weed out more bugs using the laptop. Attached the sound system the hotel staff kindly provided, and assigned our posts of the day.
Acquiring the Native American name:
The-One-Who Did-Not-Join-The-Other-Two-In-Working-All-Night-Long,
I self appointed myself to the post of soundman while the other two manned the laptop, hence, the auctioning program.
There I spent all morning, balancing out the background music with the auctioneer's microphone... Occasionally walking close to the auctioneer to remind him to state the bidder number as our program requires a bidder number to display the sold message - as the auctioneer requested.
After the long-drawn event, we printed a few hundred reports that were to be given to the auctioneers and bankers. We then tucked into a sumptuous lunch paid for by Mrs Ooi at a not so nearby restaurant.
Before you know it - Presto! We are back at headquarters.
All in all, it was a good day for us as nobody in Penang had ever used a dedicated auctioning software before. Naturally, we hope the Malaysian kiasu attitude among other auctioneers will surface soon...
UPDATE: I wish to apologize for leaving out the name of the hotel we went to, which was Cititel Hotel. Any misunderstanding as a result of this lapse in concentration is deeply regretted.
3 comments:
The auction was held in the hotel.
Although things went pretty well, I don't think people are really impressed with the presentation. So, we will try our best to improve it...
As for JP, your contribution to the company is profound and we appreciate it!
Really cool stuff you all are doing, nobody will deny that.
Thanks for the compliments.... Anyway theres a long road to go ( i'm anticipating it lolz ) I'll be even glad if comments are given so we could improve quantumly...
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