The up and down week...

Well lots of things happened this week...

Let's start with Monday:

Went to school in the morning expecting the Vietnamese Police shooting squad ordered by my boss to have me shot for the results of the Audit report that was done on the IT department during my birthday week. Well it was not soo bad as I thought it was going to be. There was not squad and he did not have to say much at all. In fact said nothing at all. Life is normal.. Time to continue. Went to play street Hockey outside my building at the UNIS Gym. It was nice and my co-worker friend Justin was there as he got Canadian ties to Hockey. Went to Jafa afterwards and watch HNIC where Toronto played against Ottawa. Good to see Don Cherry unleash hell again.

Tuesday morning, I get an email message from Justin telling me that his wife is in the hospital after she fainted and could not see. After a series of medical tests, it was confirmed that his 24 year old wife suffered a celebral stroke which cause pressure and bleeding in her brain. She was operated on and medically induced into a coma. Not a good day for everyone in the IT department.

Wednesday morning, nothing changed much except many were asking where Justin was and what was going on. Life continues...

Thursday was a hectic day because I had to prepare documents and technical facts for the IT committee meeting we had in the late afternoon. Once again, I expected the shooting squad on standby for my execution as we discussed the Audit report in detail. Well luckily I survived the meeting without a single bullet being fired. Perhaps it had to do with a last minute phone call from the hospital with the operation update on Justin's wife.

A bomb went off in the IT department Friday morning when I discovered that the school's connection to the Internet was down as a result of construction or repairs by the state-owned telecommunications ministry. It went down at 1:00 AM and came back up and running after school at 3:45 PM. During this time, everyone was calling in and inquiring what is going on. I had to communicate this information with management which took additional time out of my workaholic day in addition to my day to day duties with the school.

Minh Nguyet and I decided to try and visit Justin's wife in the hospital but the visitation hours were limited and also the family wishes for privacy while she is heavily sedated in the ICU department at the French Hospital.