Yesterday Was A Long Day Indeed

Ok, things were really getting up to speed yesterday. The office had some sort of big presentation at Hard Rock Cafe, and i was supposed to present! I managed to weasel myself out of it, blaming not enough background knowledge, not enough preparation, so my boss to the chair, but i had to prepare the presentation anyway. Before our presentation though, there was a presentation from the international HQ about our new products for Q4, much to the oohs and aahs of the press and audience invited.



Before that even happened, though, i had to rush preparing the Powerpoint presentation (again, with almost no background knowledge) and managed to form up a presentation just in time when we had to the HRC (the presentations were scheduled for 2.30 pm). There was the usual rush of preparing the venue, and i did a bit of running around the Plaza Indonesia complex looking for an RCA cable (as HRC did not provide) to hook up withe HQ guys' Powerbook. Eventually we jerry-rigged everything, and had Regi operate the laptop from the second floor, close to the projector, and me operate my laptop during my boss' presentation (although with a lot of glitches as well..)



Afterwards we met some people for business talks or just plain socializing, and ended up leaving the EX area at about 8.30 pm, heading back to the office. I logged in for a few minutes, then went home...



Before turning in, I watched THX 1138, one of the DVDs i bought in Bandung... imagine George Orwell's 1984 with more of a sedative twist rather than facism. This particular movie was the first movie George Lucas made, even before American Graffiti, and it involved names like Robert Duvall (i most remember him as one of the opponent lawyers of the Grace Inc opposite personal injury lawyer played by John Travolta... titled A Civil Action) and Francis Ford Coppola as executive producer; not to mention music by Lalo Schifrin (the man behind the theme of Mission: Impossible).



Let's just say, the movie, other than pretty interesting, keeping in mind that it was made tens of years ago (with added visual embellishments that have become the hallmark of George Lucas' recent movies, including the much-disputed release of the Star Wars trilogy DVDs), it also sort of forced you to acknowledge that "C'mon, you have a much, much, better life than these guys". On the other hand, strip away the analogies, intended or not, and... maybe real life is not so far from THX 1138.