It's Saturday and the project had gained two days as of this AM which is pretty phenomenal considering we were 7 days behind last Monday. There are a lot of good people on this project and an outstanding project manager.
My team's involvement was to perform several critical tasks next Tuesday. Because we are so far ahead we ended up being ready to do them today. The first task was projected for 2 hours and was completed in about 6 minutes. The second task was projected to start tonight and run into the early morning. We all went back to our hotels at 12:30 to rest. We got the call to come in at 4:30 PM. Fifteen minutes later (I was already in a taxi) we got another call saying don't bother. Our initial collective thought was that the team had found problems and was delaying our step.
Au Contrair - they had reviewed their output and our input and Everything was green at the outset - we had no adjustments to make, don't bother coming in.
We have now gained 3 days - yippee.
Enough about work.
Observations of Singapore
NO bugs, mosquitos, flies. I have seen two large bees.
Very few birds. No Pigeons in the park.
In general, the flowers are very small although the foliage is very lush.
No chipmunks, squirrels etc that are normally found in city parks. Also no rats.
I found out from some of the locals that these are all connected. There was a lot of Malaria and Dengue fever in 1965 when Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia (different story). The government went on an eradication program to get rid of all disease sourced from wildlife and essentially fumigated the city. Even today there are special police to sniff out homes and businesses that have standing water pools that are not changed out every couple days. The fine for having such is $1000.
When any particular insect makes an outbreak they send in an army of exterminators that use an environmentally safe, water soluble substance to eradicate the pest. Just this last week, there was an annoying fly that resulted in the spraying of all the banks of Bedak Reservoir in the city's east end.
They mean it.
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