Rebirth of T-rex

I believe it has been really a long while that this blog has been very quiet. I was asked when will a new post be posted. You might have guessed it, I was pretty busy for the past few weeks, handling existing project, new project, new assignments, new roles & responsibilities and also personal issues.

With the rapid growth of the company, I am lucky to be assigned as one of the product owner, thus, in charge of over looking the growth of a particular company's product, threating it as my own 'baby'. As myself is really new to the product assigned, I was busy gathering information from the architect, including obtaining source code, demo, documentation, even meeting my CTO and the architect to discuss it in details. Then, I prepared a first draft of a write up for the product strategy. After the first review, I will pump in more detail on planning to the document.

At the same time, I was busy working on the existing task, building new components to simulate the existing functionalities. I have learnt a lot from there but a bit slow, hope to improve the efficiency in this area. New task also came in, thus getting myself to involve in requirements definition meeting.

Last weekend was great as my girl friend came up to KL, I wouldn't want to reveal the details herel, but it was a booster for me during the 'drowning' period.

Anyway, this week is really hard to go through when the sudden news of my grandma shocked me on Tuesday noon. My grandma has been suffering from critical illness for a few months and has been struggling through it. When she was hospitalized end of last week, I started to sort out some of the tasks, completed a few, planning to visit her on this coming Friday. However, after my lunch on Tuesday, I got a call from my mom, informing me the death of my grandma, I was really shocked because on Sunday morning, my relatives who visited her said that she seems like normal. But, it really caught us in surprise.

After the call, all kind of mixture of thoughts went through my mind. Then, I submitted an emergency leave application and discussed with my colleagues and did a handover so that they can help me to rush up 1 urgent task.

My family and I departed at 10pm on Tuesday night. Then I drove till Bukit Gantang with a pit stop at Tapah's R & R. Later, my younger brother took over and drove us till my 2nd auntie's house. We paid our respect to my grandma and have a glance of her sleeping peacefully in the coffin.

Every night we recides prayers for her, serving relatives who came over to pay their respects, guard the nights. My grandma told us not to cry for her leaving. Though it's hard to accept that she left us, because it just seemed that 'I just met her recently and now she is away!' However, fact is fact, I just got to accept it, with our greatest heart, hope she will be enjoying in Heaven.