Getting the cake.......

Sometimes its frustrating that due to my work, I have to miss a lot of things. For example, it was my Wife's Birthday and because I wanted to surprise her with a dinner at Victoria Station, the plan went wrong. Very very wrong.

First thing was, the urgent need to complete our job at the customer's place by today as tomorrow would be the time for him to "hand-over". As I was under pressure to complete my first two customer appointments, by the time I arrived, everything was still not ready. So, I have less than three hours to get everything done.

Luckily, all my crews were already about to finish installing the four external cameras. Which is no mean feat considering the lack of ladders to reach between the first floor and second floor. But what they did not do was to align the cameras. But in order to align the cameras, they would need to set up the DVR and the mnitor. And in order to set them up, they would have to converse with the customer, something which they were not too keen on. And so, the easiest was to wait for me to arrive. In other words, we lost about two hours. But first thing first, which is to set up the Door System again and to make sure all 24 doors are responding to the card system.

By the time I got the DVR set up, they were about to leave and hope to continue the next day. Oh no, I do not want that because this morning, I have already stated that today is the LAST day for us to set things up. And so, it must be done by TODAY. Taking matters into my own hands, I pulled a bluff stating that the customer will not let us go until we're done on the CCTV. And as for the customer, I pushed a Walkie-talkie to them so that they can confirm the camera alignment eventhough they are in a meeting. I know them and they would not notice anything only after the meeting and panic. And then they would call us back tonight which is not going to make any party happy.

And so, with a simple cable, I set the DVR and the temporary TV

I told them to hold onto each other's
belts and not the underwear when
they're out there. Kinda reinforces
the Buddy-buddy system.

This is me with the CCTV Tester MKII.
By now, after a few hours of Field Tests,
it seriously needs a strap. It was so heavy,
the cables couldn't even support it.

By the time I finished, it was too late for the Dinner
and it was minutes before the shop closes. This was
the nearest Cake shop I was pointed to, as doing a
U-turn to JayaJusco is not an option. Unfortunately,
the KFC next door got robbed and all Police and
victims and other busybodies jammed the road. I
then parked next to the Police cars and got into
the shop. If they want to question me, they can
do so AFTER I got the cake.

"Darling, can you get me a banana?", I asked
"OK" and she went down to get one.
"I couldn't find any bananas", she returned.
Oh well, I hid the cake in the fridge where there
were some bananas. By the time I wanted to
tell her, everyone in the house was tired and
already asleep. So, we get to eat the cake 24
hours later without much Ceremony, of course.
I chose Chocolate Banana as the other cakes
were so "predictable". The cheesecake were
tempting but there was not much deco on it.

And someone really enjoyed it
as they have been bugging her
ever since they saw the cake.

Then Mommy said, "I don't like banana!". Haiyo