déjà vu?

Yesterday, we went in Metrobank (Head office in Buendia), had a demo with the VP and the rest of the executives there. We are about to introduce a new and enhanced version of Exim with them, that is after a long period of preparation for the upgraded one. We are already done upgrading their system here in our test environment, and it seems ok (hope so). Whew, it reminds me of the unnerving defense we had back in college. But it is I think more frightening in school than meeting with the big bosses in the market,hahaha. Or maybe it depends, yeah it depends, based from their stories the bank is actually a good affiliate of CS, not only in business side. Then, it should be from all the clients we have around the globe, Metrobank is the only client we have here in the country,hehe…No wonder, they even crack jokes during the demo, oh but that made me still.

Predicaments are always welcome in demo or when presenting products of such. And it happened, guess it’ll always be part of the list. I and Tata (along with our PSG Manager and PSG Consultant)were already starting to introduce the new version of Exim, talked about the new set of programs and such, and as we are about to open the program, tada! Connection failed (I remember this back in school, it’s the same old thing)…Our troubled eyes met, same thoughts are on our head. Everything was fine beforehand...thought so. We have checked the DSN tools, tested the meta and transaction database, and same failed connection showed. We have accessed the db server remotely for it was located, umm I dunno, nakailang elevator kasi kami, hehe, checked the db services if it was started, yet everything was set! We restarted the db server and that solved the problem, however another problem came, connection to Meta db was terminated. Whoa, this is my first time to do such demo in the real place,then my Buena mano were those errors..hehe… Nevertheless, the problems were resolved and finished the demo right away. Questions were raised and were answered rationally and I think we’ll going to pass this subject, no I mean this project (hehe). We came there I think at around 2 and finished the whole thing 5 at the most. Next episode will be to test its multi-entity feature from all branches/processing centers across the country. Just hope I could attend to our tests here, for I have another project left to be done, as my boss said key is time management, ummm can somebody tell me where can I buy self-management? (hehe, nyak)

Just remembered what my dad told me when I told him I was nervous for the demo, sabi nya: “Bakit naman, e tao rin naman sila, pareho lang kayo ng tina*** (hahahaha), atska mas alm mo yung product kaysa sa kanila”.. Umm, which is actually true, then add some spices like preparation, guts, attitude and just enjoy, sure shot yun! It’s all in the mind anyways! ;-) (naku, sana nga...hehe)