Insane week

Sorry for the lack of posts.. Last week has been an insane week, infact one of the more insanely frantic weeks i've had so far.

Lets see...starting from the week before.

Friday evening.

I got a call from a new would be client that was referred by my army buddy. I must say that I'm happy through networking sessions that people do remember me and what I do. So anyhoo.

I got a call from this company asking me to do up some 3d visualisation so that they can tender for a job. Given the insanely time line of 4 days, I knew that this would be an uphill challenge. seeing as the contractor for the job didn't want to meet me over the weekend to pass me the samples. In the end, I just said yes. My principle is to say yes first and worry about how its being done later. Funny but true. I learnt this phrase from singapore's youngest millionaire.

So later on monday. Met up with the contractor, got the samples. got a kinda shocked at his request to have 2 alternative samples for each toilet...but figured might as well get it done anyway.. started doing up the 3d models. Got it all set up by end of the night at 5am. Deadline. 2 days away.

Sent the models over for confirmation to the contractor but cannot wait for his reply until morning otherwise I won't make the deadline. Decided to proceed to render. In doing so. I got another shock of my life. My most powerful computer. decided to give out on me. everytime i started doing some work. It would hang. I have it happen before but it has gotten from bad to worse and at a time like this. It was not helping at all.

had to decide to find ways and means to get it done. In the end of it all. I had to count on several other computers to get it done. literally about 5 computers.. managed to get it done by deadline time. but after that discovered that the some of the color combinations were wrong. hence I had to redo 90% of them. deadline...10 hrs away. Decided then that current software was not doing any good. decided to swap to a faster one but lesser quality.

spent the entire night redoing it. and later on submitted it to the client. Later on in that night, I had to prepare for another client presentation which I have put off for the past couple of weeks. Spend the night doing that and did a fantastic presentation the next day. I'm glad that over the past week, I've had the support from my gf to always be there, pick me up, buy food and all. Thank you very much! I appreaciate it.

Sat & sun was spend relaxing, catch up with some friends. having a chalet and pigging out at the bbq pit. It was good. Just looking forward to the days when all days can be like this weekend.

Note to self: Work hard. It can happen! 5 years!