u've got mail...!

It's my habit of checking my laptop screen for emails before i start with anything else.  I did the same today; without even sitting and putting down my bag.  So, i have 3 mails in my Thunderbird - this one is especially for office's correspondences.  2 from the COO and 1 from MatBlurr.  My personal mails - yahoo especially, holds easily more than 20mails per day - mostly from the shopping2 thingy; which i would easily click and erase without even looking at them.


~ the COO mail :
1st email says : I did asked you what are the changes made by xxx 2 weeks ago did’nt I.
2nd email says : I have reviewed the revised xx and it find that the amendment is acceptable to us. Please make two prints and get xxx to sign.

It happened about 2 weeks ago.  Our client had sent an agreement - a revised agreement actually, because we've signed the earlier one and they gave a revised version after few days saying that they've realised some mistake on their part.  The revised version was supposed to be signed and returned to them during a meeting about 11 days ago.  Okay, my mistake was, i emailed the agreement to my head, assuming that he is the right person to go through the document.  I was told later that i should send the agreement to our COO - where he'll thoroughly scan the document & later get the CEO to sign.  So i did.  I emailed the COO 2 days after i received the agreement from the client - on the 8th of Nov; which was supposed to be the day of the meeting.  I appologised to the client, knowing that it was a mistake on my part.

Last friday (16th Nov), there was still no sign that the COO has look at the document.  I went to his room to gently remind him about the agreement.  He asked me what changes has the client made & wanted me to print it out and discuss it with him.  I told him that whatever changes they've made can be seen at the document itself - they have not 'accept'ed all the changes they've made, so anything they did can easily be traced by reading the document.  I left his office after that conversation for a friday 'spiritual enhancement class'.  I was a bit angin, his job is to go through the document, not to sign it anyway.  If i were to sit and discuss the agreement with him - i might as well do it myself.  I don't need him in the picture anymore.  Unless, he's the one signing the document, yes - i'll sit down and go through the agreement for him.  I don't understand reading legal text anyway, so if i were to go through the document - i'm gonna need a gugel translator next to me.

Yesterday (19th Nov), i sent an email to the COO, reminding him that the agreement was supposed to be returned to the client 10 days ago.  Well, i might not use a sopan2 word, but i know i wasn't rude or used harsh words.  It was just a reminder for him to read the document.  I guess he must've been very annoyed with my constant bugging; hence the 1st email was written in such manner.  But, '2 weeks ago'?? I think he must've lost his sense of time and space!


The 1st email was only sent to me alone. The 2nd one was sent 7 minutes later, cced to my head and CEO.  Hmmm...i wonder, it takes only 7 minutes to go through the documents? And you took dayyssss to do it?  So, i la yang nampak salah sebab tak discuss dengan dia sekarang? Because of me la benda tu lambat ye...? ish..ish...ishhh...


~ MatBlurr's mail :
MatBlurr is now in Bintulu.  He'll be stucked there until early next year for a project.  Since the team went there few weeks ago, i'll be receiving mails from them everyday.  The project manager will email their progress to me so that i'll know what's happening & report their progress to the client.  Since the PM is now in back in KL for a while, MatBlurr took the role & email to me, or rather the whole team to report their progress.

I have problem - not only now, but i always have problem reading his mails.  I won't get the info straight away.  I always have to read his email more than twice to really understand what he's trying to say.  I'm not saying that he has problem with his language.  I'm not a good writer anyway; but i'd prefer a straight forward email.  Just state whatever the main points are - forget the bombastic words or the lengthy sentences; it'll make me loose my focus.  By the time i finish reading the sentence, i have already forgotten whatever was written earlier.  Mana lagi nak faham ayat, nak grab info pun tak dapat.  I surrendered - forget the mail, and go on with my work.

I spoke to the PM later and he asked if i got any email from Bintulu.  Yes, i said; but i have problem understanding it.  And he laughed at my statement.