it has been a while

It has been a while since I've posted some sense in my blog. Somehow I have not had any reason to post any though a lot of things have changed and even things are changing right now. First of which is my transfer to a new role:

It's not a promotion. One of the managers asked me if I was interested to transfer to her department. "Hell ye!," I thought. It's just a lateral transfer from my currently business-sided role to a more technical role. There are perks of course! First is, hopefully, my salary will be aligned (in due time). Second, I will be exposed to something new and something that really is, well, techie. But of course I also have my personal reasons, of which I really don't want to post here because of, again, personal reasons.

So anyway, the reason I'm writing now is that I'm just reminiscing on all the shit that I've been through in my current department. Dugo't pawis. Sweat and blood. And one of those memorable events was when I was making an application from scratch for 3 freaking months. I was the PM, developer, tester, rollout manager and trainer all at the same time. It was hell! Me and my idea caused me months of decent sleep... and all that to save the company 1 million pesos instead of paying it to a vendor. 'Tangina talaga! But at the end of it all, getting to see other people use your application and knowing it serves its purpose, was worth the effort...

Almost two years later, it's time to say good-bye. It was time for an upgrade! Right now, I'm rolling out the web version of the application, which I also PM-ed. One of the things I have to do is modify the old application and add forms to post important announcements, like the existence of a new web version... and why it's better... and why the old app must be retired...

... and having to open that old source code stored idly, untouched and unnoticed for more than a year and here I am modifying its contents for its inevitable demise... is just so sad!!! This was my baby! It's going to die!!!

Boohoo... okay stop it... pero putangina naman! Kahit man lang 10% ng nung 1-M na naka-budget sa project binigay nyo sakin! Punyemas!

Hehe, of course everyone knows my company can't do that. Just airing it out again para lang sa wala.

Peace.

...So! On to the Second change of many in my life... 'til next time na lang... :D